Was Barack Obama offered a tenured position at the University of Chicago Law School? Why don't law professors there remember such an offer? More

The newspaper industry apparently has a death wish. More

As Barack Obama's search for a running mate enters the final stages, it is becoming more and more clear that whatever shot Hillary Clinton had of joining the ticket, it is now a vritual certainty that Obama will choose someone else. More

How can we go back to the days when talk radio was virtually banned due to requirements under the Fairness Doctrine? More

No one seems to know where we can find Obama's thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament. More

On July 12th of this year, just two and a half weeks ago, noted economist and Messiah Barack Obama stated to an adoring crowd in San Diego that the country is in a recession. More

It appears we can add automobile fuel efficiency and oilfield recovery forecasting to the already extensive Areas of Obama's Sudden Expertise list. More

In August of 2006, Barack Obama journeyed to his ancestral village in Kenya in order to discover his roots and visit family members. He made a promise and broke it. More

In a welcome reversal of history, where coffee houses were associated with Beatnicks and then with Millenials, there is now a coffee shop opens for us conservatives. More

Doug Ross has been chronicling the Barack Obama story in comic book format. A new issue is out today. More

Obama's link to the wild west. More

John Edwards allegedly has been funneling $15,000 a month in hush money/child support to his mistress Rielle Hunter. Has he paid a gift tax and avoided money laundering pitfalls? More

Barack Obama made clear his attitude toward Likud. Now Israel must choose a new prime minister. More

While the foodie trend is to demand we eat only local produce -- wherever we live and no matter how impractical that may be -- the latest trend is even more preposterous. More

We tried shaming the Pakistani government a few years ago by doing this exact same thing; More

Roughly a week has passed since the National Enquirer revealed what it alleged to be evidence of John Edwards and his love child. More

Did Obama really say that in a meeting of House Democrats? More

Moody's Investor's Services, the bond rating agency, has notified the New York Times Company that its bond rating may decline More

Is this the beginning of a drive for reparations? More

The candidate who must not be laughed at endures some outrageous satire at The People's Cube, an anti-communist website published in Russia. More

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a talk on Tuesday afternoon to a largely (90%) female -- and probably Democratic -- audience of admirers in New York. More

As a vet I know how these visits go;/ They are contrived for the politicians,/ Who posture, pose for network shows,/ In controlled choreographed conditions. More

More on what Obama was like while at the University of Chicago More

Obama's hiring by the University of Chicago - given his total lack of scholarly credentials - is puzzling More

No sooner did "The Operative Word is Hubris" appear in yesterday's AT than yet more evidence turned up confirming Barack Obama's status as a millennial-era version of the ancient Greek victim of runaway pride. More

Republican Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. There's still time to get in front of this. More

Despite his desire to be off-limits for satire, the RNC does an amazingly good job of light-heartedly mocking Obama while delvering an serious message. The Stupid Party finally gets something right! More

With apologies to Darrel Huff and his famous book of the same title, today's papers provide a wonderful demonstration of how the mainstream press - in this case, The New York Times, can use real statistics to justify politically spun conclusions. More

We have more details on how Congressman Robert Wexler -- for whom no liberal spending program is too much -- has gamed the tax system for his benefit: More

The Israeli defense officials who are saying that recent talks between Iran and the US are nothing more than a smokescreen by America to legitimize an attack later have no evidence for their speculation: More

Liberal economist Dean Baker at the American Prospect points out the obvious. More

Today's absolutely must-read article is an editorial in Investor's Business Daily laying out the powerful case that Barack Obama is in fact a socialist whose agenda in his first term alone would radically reshape the economy. More

Majority Leader Harry Reid is feeling the heat on the offshore drilling issue More

Live at 7:00 PM central time. More

As a running mate, Pawlenty would be a "safe" choice More

Looks like Obama traveled all that way for nothing. More

Ms. Gorelick certainly has a selective memory when it comes to her time in the Clinton Justice Department. More

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attempted to bring up for a vote what was being referred to as the "Tomnibus" bill -- an omnibus spending bill More

Maariv, the Israeli newspaper that was criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Western Wall (the "Wailing Wall"), now claims the note was leaked to it by the Obama campaign. More

From the depths of liberal Hollywood, Academy Award winning actor Jon Voigt expresses thoughts not too common from that part of the country, that industry in a Washington Times Op Ed More

Well, it seems like some Texans -- anticipating the prospect of an Obama presidency -- are stocking up on firearms. More

Last year we predicted that some Taliban tribes would split from al Qaeda and jockey for position to align with the Pakistan government. It's happening. More

The Associated Press frames a story about a shooter to make it look like he must be a conservative More

John Edwards has a new infomercial being broadcast on PBS's "NOW"! Sponsored unwittingly by taxpayers, it was taped before the scandal over his alleged "love child" broke More

AJ Strata faithfully watches what happens across the Pakistan border in the lawless Waziristan where Bin Laden is believed to be hiding. More

Obama might not have any preconditions but the Iranians aren't that stupid More

After spending millions of dollars in key battleground states this summer, it appears that Barack Obama has not improved his numbers in any substantial way More

Something useful is getting done in Berkeley, despite the bets efforts of the Banana crowd (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone). More

Two articles in the last week indicate just how far some attitudes about education have shifted away from something students work for and toward it being a birthright, an entitlement. More

Despite their worries about unseemly displays of affection for a politician whose campaign they must cover, the minority journalists assembled at the "Unity" convention in Chicago managed to behave themselves better than in earlier sessions. More

Their organization has been smashed but al-Qeada proved today that they are still capable of mounting a coordianted suicide attack on Iraqi civilians. More

Banning racial preferences could turn into a winning issue for McCain More

Mass hangings put on for the titilation and pleasure of the Iranian people. More

Odd, that as Europe's left is having a hard time staying alive, much of this country seems enamored of the most radically leftist candidate ever. More

Perhaps if their editors got out among ordinary Americans they would realize how stupid this evasion of the obvious makes them look. More

The not-quite-yet chosen one addresses a meeting of minority journalists today, and the scribes are worried about unseemly displays of affection and enthusiasm. More

A survey of UK university students reveals some disturbing information about the attitudes of the Muslim subgroup, compared to their non-Muslim counterparts. More

Hopeful signs that Mugabe's days are numbered. More

I guess it's ok for taxpayers to foot the bill when he's running for president. More

For your reading pleasure this morning, I thought I would include something of my own creation. A "Top Ten" of things that really creep me out about Obama. More

In a Chicago Sun-Times piece published today, Rabbi Arnold Wolf again praises Barack Obama and vouches for him when it comes to his foreign policy and views towards Israel. More

If you believe Obama's promise to bring change, consider Obama's visit to a school in Kogelo. Kenya in 2006 and what he promised locals. More

A poem best appreciated when humming the tune of the popular Civil War song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again," or the Irish folk classic, "Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye." More

That phrase is used to describe Valerie Jarrett, the as-yet little known key adviser to Barack Obama. More

I nearly dropped my bowl of Rice Krispies when I saw this article this morning. More

As a counter to Barack Obama's call to tear down walls, it would help to review what a Marine recently wrote: More

In the eighth year of the third millennium, near the time the earth's Great Cooling began, a London town crier called Gerard the Baker heralded the coming of the Child who was the Anointed One. More

My friend PUK is angry that I haven't made note of the big lose Labour just suffered. More

Since Mr. Eurobama is so popular on the other side of the Pond, and since he is clearly the Euros' pick in our Presidential contest, I'm just wondering whether we are still going to be stuck paying his salary and for all of the hoopla he seems to garner wherever he goes. More

Journalists and leftists love to hate Rush Limbaugh, all the while consumed with envy of his success More

It seems that John McCain may finally be abandoning his "take it easy on Barack" approach to campaigning More

The Times vs. Common Decency More

I am tempted to start a regular weekly blog post featuring the funniest "news" report on Obama that shows the reporter in the tank for the candidate. More

Vice President of what? More

I was talking with my nephew who is now old enough to drive and is selecting his first personal vehicle. Reviewing his options, I asked if he had considered the Smart Car or any of the other micro-mini-sub-compacts. More

A stray cat had kittens in our yard. My wife attempted to barricade the kittens in a contained area to protect them from predators. More

What do you call it when someone spews ideological garbage? More

AT contributor William Tate is appearing today on the nationally syndicated Roger Hedgcock Show, starting at 1 PM EDT, 10AM PDT. Listen here on the web. More

Worst-named convention ever.Mark Fitzgerald of Editor & Publisher attended the so called "Unity ‘08" convention of the various minority journalists' groups. And the fellow he was interviewing started getting physically attacked by opponents. Dozens of police cars descended on... More

If Africans are going to ignore the problem of Zimbabwe, the doesn't mean the rest of the world has to stand still and do nothing. More

While the New York Times continues on its self-destructive path, the role of the grown-up liberal in the media business now belongs solely to the Washington Post. More

This one is definitely a keeper. More

Barack Obama gave us more than some magnificent photo-ops when he spoke in Berlin yesterday. By trying to look presidential, he revealed more then he intended to about his operating style More

Susan Estrich ran the Dukakis campaign in 1988 and knows a thing or two about the press and politics. More

Of all the cynical, hypocritical moves made by the Obama campaign, these strain the imagination. More

Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) shows Republicans the path to defeating the Democrats in November by verbally thrasing Robert Wexler (D-MD) & Chris Mathews ( D-MSNBC) in a televised discussion yesterday. More

Obama's somewhat vapid, cliche ridden speech in Germany yesterday included a curious references to "new walls" erected to "divide us from one another:" More

In Berlin, Obama was just making up facts! His fiction about Belfast is even worse than hi story about Airlift flights turning back. More

Mine eyes have seen the stories from Obama's media horde;/ They are trampling out what sanity their liberal brains once stored. More

An odd thing happened on Barack's trip to Baghdad. A lot of Americans realized we are winning the war on terror. More

Barack Obama today stated in Berlin that "many planes were forced to turn back" from the Berlin Airlift because of the bleak German weather. Great imagery, but contrafactual. More

Condoleezza Rice's article today at Real Clear Politics arguing for ratification of the United-States-Colombia Free Trade Pact is a pleasant surprise. More

Democratic congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy sent a look-alike to a rural parade. More

Obama gave his long awaited speech in Berlin today. It was much ado about nothing. With classic Obama arrogance, he appropriated Ronald Reagan's rhetoric More

I guess unless he can use troops as props in his little propaganda shows, they mean nothing to him. More

Like maybe, that little event, incidental to most of us, called an election? More

Obstructionism by Democrats - the party of voting rights. More

Obama - all things to all people. And that includes all committees - even if he's not a member. More

More twaddle from a man who claims to "support" the state of Israel More

Certain precincts of the left are upset that conservative bloggers notice the creepy resemblance between Obama propaganda art and that of assorted demagogues. Now that he is in Berlin... More

"It's not going to be a political speech," we are assured." Really? More

Standard and Poor's says it may cut its rating on the NYT to "junk" status. But the news gets worse. More

"When will they start laughing at him?" is still the biggest question about Obama in Europe. More

At least one mainstream media cartoonist is using the funnies to spin political history away from the facts. More

One of Barack Obama's strongest Congressional supporters may not even be a resident of the district he has represented in Congress. More

Steve Glbert catches Obama rewriting (without acknowledging he's done so) his pledge on dealing with Iran. More

Ever since Bob Novak wrote a column saying that the McCain campaign would make a decision this week on the Vice Presidential running mate, speculation has been building. More

I wouldn't doubt that they have a secret handshake. More

Yes, but he's innocent - so he says: More

Senator Obama seems to be engaging in the same type of moral relativism that is at the heart of the failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. More

The House may be voting on the trillion $ bailout of Freddie and Fannie without any hearings -- and the bill is super porked up. More

Sometimes you wonder why John McCain is even bothering to run. More

The op-ed the New York Times thinks you didn't deserve to see. More

The scientific and mathematical details of Viscount Monckton's paper may be beyond the layman; however this paragraph near the end stands out and is comprehendible to all More

William Tate will be the Guest of Greg Allen on The Right Balance talk show today at 11:30AM Eastern to discuss his article Big Media Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is. A web feed is a avialble. More

With the major media in full swoon mode -- every network anchor covering the Obama trip, and only one reporter following John McCain to New Hampshire Monday night, the polls should be moving strongly for Obama. More

"The World's Most Interesting Man" on with AT's Rick Moran tonight. More

Guess where 5 luxury cars were stashed? Isn't this a big clue about WMD? More

A controversial disclaimer the American Physical Society added days after publication to a scientific paper they had solicited from Christopher Monckton was toned down sometime yesterday. More

Barack Obama has now gone where no Democrat has gone before. More

Nobody's saying he's unpatriotic, but what kind of man uses his own symbol instead of the flag on the tail of his official campaign plane? More

Advertising Age profiles the New York Times today and reveals that the newspaper is planning to beef up its business coverage More

Maybe Obama should keep his wife under lock and key until the election. More

The fine mind of Shelby Steele explains why Jesse Jackson hates Barack Obama. It is a must-read. More

Politico is reporting this but I'm not believing it. More

NY Times political blogger Kate Phillips reports on the behind the scenes arrogant thinking of the NY Times' editors who rejected Senator John McCain's potential Op-Ed. More

Will the Supreme Court admit it made an error in a major case? The state of Louisiana has filed a motion for rehearing that will test the question. More

Aren't leaders supposed to actually lead? More

Obama's and McCain's fund-raising efforts are running close in a key border area in and around McAllen, Texas, an area rich in Hispanic voters. More

What happens when your congressman is pro-Israel and thinks Hamas is a terrorist organization? More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Mubadala Development, one of the most active of Abu Dhabi's investment firms, is staking $8 billion on an investment in General Electric. More

Kyle-Anne Siver will appear on the nationally syndicated Michael Medved show, and Bob Weir on the Ron Smith Show in Baltimore. Times and links available. More

Somewhere during this campaign the old news media reached the tipping point and their bias meter slid into the red zone. More

The Drudge Report and Fox News are reporting today that the New York Times has denied an opinion piece from Senator John McCain after publishing Senator Barack Obama's op-ed last week. More

Steve Gilbert reminds us what Hillary said about Obama and Afghanistan. Strangely enough, the public record is hard to find. More

The candidate says he "never" has doubts about his foreign policy experience. This startling admission is worth pondering. More

With the practical collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac upon us, a good measure of the political bias of the media is who they're claiming is responsible. More

Maliki continues to stir the pot in this country. More

It seemed like such a good idea to the liberals in Seattle.... More

It appears that Team Obama didn't want to offend any Muslim sensibilities on his trip to the Middle East. More

The media has gone from being merely biased to advancing false propaganda on behalf of the Obama campaign. More

Obama and the "Butterfly Effect" More

Sometimes a comment on TV rises to the level of an aphorism. More

Surprise! MSM not as clever as they think. More

One thing that had not come up in all the words that have spilled over the satire is that the Obama camp's indignation is based on a completely false premise. More

Senator Barack Obama is beginning his glory tour of Europe and the Mideast, two areas of the world that would be natural for him to visit More

AT frequent contributor Andrew Bostom will be the guest today on the Dennis Prager Show. An internet feed is available. More

Yet another instance of an amateur walking into problems in dealing with international relations. More

Just when our national humor crisis seemed to be at its lowest point.... More

Something was missing from today's Meet the Press, besides Tim Russert's affability: hard questions. More

Get out your handkerchiefs. Poor Michelle Obama apparently is now the emblem of the victimization of all black women. A media campaign is underway More

Common sense not entirely dead on the Continent More

Media canonizes Obama. All that's missing is the halo. More

You might have read recently about baby penguins dying in Rio de Janeiro. Even before the facts are in, the liberal media knows what to blame. More

Question for Democrats: Should we forget all your previous stupidity on Iraq and now call you geniuses? More

Paralles between JFK and Obama may be less apt than they would be for another Kennedy. More

A Democrat writes us about a letter from his party that disturbs him greatly. More

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley has penned a letter to the President of the American Physical Society demanding that an offensive disclaimer to one of his papers be removed from the APS website or justified to his satisfaction. More

Is McCain moving in Romney's direction for Veep? More

Ever wonder (in your worst nightmares) what it might be like to live in a totalitarian state like China? More

On Sunday, July 13, a remote combat outpost near the village of Wanat in Afghanistan's rugged Kunar province on the Pakistan border was nearly overrun by a combined force of some 200 Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. More

Are the signs of increased violence in Pakistan/Afghanistan a sign hat AQ is on its last legs, and that they have lost their grip in the Arab world? More

The world readies itself for Obamania. More

While the library and public policy institute's eventual at SMU was a foregone conclusion, this vote is a further repudiation of the bankrupt arguments that have been trotted out by opponents of the library. More

The nation is worried. Comedians from New York to LA are trying to figure out if they are allowed to make jokes about Barack Obama. More

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told a German newsmagazine that he supported the idea of American troops leaving Iraq within the 16 month time frame proposed by Barack Obama. More

After reading the article on Barack Obama's foreign policy team in the New York Times this morning, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. 300 foreign policy advisors? More

It appears that Osama Bin Laden's driver and bodyguard, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, will go on trial as scheduled on Monday. More

Foolish foodies want to politicize food production. Their efforts include a program to boycott food not grown locally. More

Say WHAT? More

While it seems that his preposterously narcissistic notion of a speech before the Brandenburg Gate has been scotched by German authorities, no alternate venue has been named. More

And now let's take an inconvenient truth tour of the home Al Gore returns to after a long, hard day on the do as I say not what I do lecture/media circuit More

In a series of recent stories that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats in both the Senate and the House discuss pressuring lobbyists who donate to the GOP. More

Charles Krauthammer has an excellent column on Barack Obama today in which he exposes the candidate's extraordinary narcissism. More

If even he notices, why doesn't the entire world? More

Amber Lee Ettinger, better known as the Obama girl, attended the left wing convention Netroots Nation meeting in Austin, TX. More

Deathly news for the religion of Global Warming. Looks like at least one prominent scientific group has changed its mind about the irrefutability of evidence regarding man made climate change. More

Deathly news for the religion of Global Warming. Looks like at least one prominent scientific group has changed its mind about the irrefutability of evidence regarding man made climate change. More

Obama's coronotion tour through the Middle East will feature some well known attendants. More

Barack Obama has never been President, but he plays one on TV. More

Americans for Prosperity catch on video Gore's supporters arriving in cabs for his speech on global warming in which he calls for higher gas taxes and greater use of public transportation. More

AT's editor and publisher Thomas Lifson takes on the deteriorating business conditions at the New York Times in an article published on Pajamas Media today. More

The staggering implications of another embarrassing Obama statement would remain unexplored, with the public record obscured, were it not for internet journalists. More

It is unknown if the dead bodies of two Israeli soldiers were mutilated before or after their deaths. More

I decided to take a glimpse at "Barack Obama's Plan for Lifetime Success Through Education." What I read there was more than a little disturbing More

Now that Obama has eschewed federal financing of his campaign, he is entirely beholden to his supporters for money to run his campaign. More

What do Islamic radicals think when Western-style governments show their soft side? Just look at the reaction to the recent prisoner and body swap between Israel and Hezb'allah. More

Liberal media outlets are anxious to deny that Barack Obama has a problem with support from Jewish voters. Polling data debunks their debunking. More

Israel's uneven "swap" with terror group Hezbollah -- five imprisoned terrorists for two dead Israeli solidiers -- provoked gloating and celebrations among Hezbollah yesterday. It obviously will invite more terrorism against Israel More

Barack Obama is a world class runner -- for his next political office. Doesn't leave much time for actually serving in office, though. Check out the track record. More

Rich Baehr gives us a report from the campaign's front lines. More

This article (in the New York Times, no less) makes clear that bias is effecting the campaign of Barack Obama More

Eager to disassociate himself-at least optically-from the far left activists of his party, presumptive Democratic nominee stiffs the annual convention of Netroots Nation. In contrast to past behavior, he is choosing to sit out this year's convention. More

McCain spent about half of his speech yesterday to the N.A.A.C.P. outlining his education plans for America, an approach much different than the plan proposed by Senator Obama. More

A revolution may be occurring in big city schools. What will Barack Obama have to say about this? More

I suppose I should by now be inured to the news the academics, NGOs and scientific organizations are often agenda-driven propagandists and not truth seekers, but this report cinches it: More

Gallup is reporting that their latest Congressional Approval poll has resulted in the lowest approval rating for Congress ever recorded: 14%. More

Four out 40 (10%) of the president's nominees for Brigadier General are Special Forces officers, which is a much higher than normal proportion. More

A common response of the Democrats when confronted with citizens advocating for increased offshore drilling is that the results are "years off into the future" More

Rick Richman masterfully dissects the evasions of Barack Obama on an undivided Jerusalem. More

It's been a while since I've had much good to say about President Bush so here you go all you Bush fans. More

That's the highest monthly increase in three years. Inflation for the last 12 months stands at 5% which is the highest since 1991. More

Is the scientific debate over on global warming? Not according to the American Physical Society* in this year's July's issue of Physics and Society . More

Don't look now but Pakistan is apparently about to be in for a very rude awakening. More

It appears that our efforts to control C02 emissions may be misguided, as the real culprit in global warming could be cows. The More

Obama won't debate John McCain in free-form Townhall settings, so he is jetting off to Europe, where millions of liberal suckers will fall down, kiss the ground, and worship him. More

Is it possible that Obama's recent spate of flip flops has so damaged his reputation as a man of principle that the voters now see him as something less than a savior of America? More

There are some dark clouds in Obama land today More

And which candidate benefits by this small move by the administration toward negotiations? More

Senator Lieberman 's critique of Obama's pre-fact finding tour statement on Iraq is on the mark: More

American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the highly regarded Washington think tank has named Arthur Brooks as it's eleventh president. More

If you think that Muslims burning the Danish Mohammed Cartoons don't have a sense of humor, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Just wait til the Political Correct Commissars catch you laughing at Barack Obama. More

Unbelievable but true. More

This Washington Post-ABC News poll shows surprising support for John McCain's Iraq policy of removing our troops based on conditions on the ground and not as a result of a hard and fast timetable that Barack Obama favors More

Here is a link to an excellent summary of two important articles from the Global Warming "Denier" camp More

The story behind Obama's editorial (My Plan For Iraq") just keeps on getting better and better. More

Obama's got the cash and the enthusiasm to dwarf the GOP efforts at GOTV More

Tony Snow died young, left behind a family, and at the height of his earning potential, took a comparatively low-paying job in the White House. As a result, his children's financial future is by no means assured, especially their college educations. More

Tossing the entire left wing of the party off the bus. More

Sooner or later people are going to recognize the exquisite sensitivity of the Obama campaign to ridicule as weakness. More

The Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza writes about a very effective ad campaign started by Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota that may hold promise not just for Coleman (who faces a well-funded, if controversial, opponent-comedian Al Franken) but for all Republican candidates. More

What's he going to do if he gets elected and the cartoonists have a field day as they do with every president? More

Classic about face from a serial flip flopper. More

Barack Obama has an op-ed in this morning's New York Times: My Plan for Iraq. It's just priceless. I thank him for timing it to accompany my article today, "Iraq and the Surrounding Region, As Obama Wanted It." More

Just drill, baby... More

The late Michael Debakey, one of the 20th century's most famous medical pioneers, ended up in the United States courtesy of jihad in his family's native Lebanon. More

Don't blame this on the commies because the rules banning posters and banners with a political or religious message were promulgated by the super-annuated mummies that make up the International Olympic Committee More

This New York Sun editorial today "Obama and the AFT" is an eye opener regarding the candidate's hypocritical stance on school vouchers. More

Newsweek swallows the revisionist history lock, stock, and both barrels More

I just learned the astonishing fact that Tenth-Century Pope Sylvester II personally introduced into Western Europe both Arabic (Hindi) numerals and the abacus. More

CNBC is suggesting that Senator Schumer's unprecedented role in breaking Indymac, a Pasadena bank, was part of a coordinated scheme with The Center for Responsible Lending More

Times have changed. And army deserters are on notice. More

Some entertaining nonsense from a leading Democrat. More

A heat wave is now scorching California and Texas -- giving global warming advocates yet more ammunition to support their contention of impending climatic catastrophe. Yet 72 years ago today -- on July 13, 1936 -- America also was swooning under a heat wave. But this time it was not in California... More

Ryan Lizza writes a New Yorker article entitled "Making it: How Chicago shaped Obama." If you ask me, Barack Obama does not come off well here. More

The TimesOnline is reporting that the federal government is preparing to inject a combined $15 billion transfusion of liqiudity into Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to keep the two "government sponsored enterprises" from going under. More

A subscriber who renewed his subscription to a newspaper, only to read about major staff cutbacks in the newsroom after the check was cashed, is suing the paper More

Via American Thinker Political Correspondent Rich Baehr, we get an interesting update on the race as well as a look at how the odds for GOP Vice Presidential nominee are shaping up. More

A tribute to a great American from our poet laureate Russ Vaughn. More

Buying access isn't a crime - but it should be. More

With violence down to levels not seen since the beginning of the war, the Pentagon is considering the withdrawal of additional American forces from Iraq More

AT's indefatigable chief political correspondent Richard Baehr spoke with the Cleveland Jewish News for an interview, which can be read here. More

This week's Idiotic Race Sensitivity Award goes to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. More

It appears that the North Koreans have agreed to allow intrusive inspections of its plutonium creating sites to assure the international community that they are being dismantled. More

"Sammi", the coauthor of our book Both In One Trench: Saddam's Secret Terror Documents is coming out of the shadows to do a book signing: More

John Fund has a very good piece in today's Wall Street Journal detailing how the far left mobilized to snatch the nomination from Hillary for Obama and how they plan to operate to achieve an Obama victory in the general election. More

The new Newsweek poll that came out yesterday showed Obama's numbers dropping like a stone. More

Cynthia McKinney is running for the Green party nomination. She's "better" than Nader -- younger, more radical, more hostile to Israel and the US. And she's a twofer-- a black woman. More

This may be a first in the history of the United States Senate. More

There is something odd about this: here is a Texas oil man, complete with the Texas Twang, telling us we can't drill our way out of this one. More

Author and AT frequent contributor Andrew G. Bostom will appear on C-SPAN 2 twice tomorrow (Sunday) to discuss his new book The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism More

Former White House Press Secretary for President Bush Tony Snow died early this morning, a victim of a reoccuring cancer that may have dimmed his health but never his spirit. More

Want to see an Al Jazeera interviewer walk into a human buzz-saw of an interviewee? Disucssing the most sensitive topics? Fasten your seat belt. More

The Jerusalem Post reports that sources in the Iraqi Defense Ministry told a local network that Israel's air force is flying into Iraqi air space and using US bases there. More

NRO's Jim Geraghty delivers another example of Barack Obama's glib political opportunism and inability to follow through and deliver hope or change, More

It can be argued that Barack Obama won his Senate seat in 2004 on the back of his opposition's divorce files. He seems to be using the same appraoch with McCain. More

Rasmussen polling reveals a significant shift in last week toward McCain, and that is just one three good signs. More

All signs from the Obama campaign point to a significant slowdown in fundraising both on the web and from "bundlers." More

How do journalism schools manage to keep training youngsters for an industry where employment is collapsing? More

Another oddity of the Obama campaign: the candidate hadn't really bothered to visit very much of America, prior to deciding to become its leader. More

A great new 8th Circuit en banc (rehearing by the full court) opinion was delivered yesterday. More

It would be the mother of all bailouts if it came to pass More

We welcome a new website (and artist) to the Obama comedy community More

In case you hadn't noticed, there is a full fledged, trans-atlantic kerfluffle going on over Barack Obama's request to deliver a major address at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate More

Ah! The benefits of being a powerful Congressmen from a safe district. More

McCain kicks Gramm off the bus - and for good reason. More

We're hip, we're cool and oh so arty;/ We're Democrats, the smarter party. We're sophisticated unlike you;/ We understand merci beaucoup. More

After recently adding Fox News to the Media Dishonesty Matters list, two more entries should be added. More

There are still many Democrats urging Obama to take her and by doing so, heal the party. More

First Hillary becomes the great white hope of Appalachia, now the American wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild calls Obama an elitist. More

Of all the low down, sneaky, dishonest political tricks, this one takes the cake. More

The incident reveals the fear that Jackson and other racialists like Al Sharpton feel with regard to Obama and the threat he poses to their little civil rights empires. More

T. Boone Pickens, the legendary Texas oilman, has been on a bit of a media blitz over the past few days, promoting wind-power, of all things. More

The power of blogs once again shines the light of truth on those who would seek to put one over on us. More

At last AT is able to offer readers posters and other new merchandise of the highest quality. More

Wexler is carrying water for Obama's Iran appeasement policy More

Judicial Watch has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the below-average interest rate Barack and Michelle Obama received on their Hyde Park mansion in Chicago. Guess who broke the story? More

Brilliant pandering by Obama to the Hispanic community. More

While the Global Poverty Act of 2007 could come up for a vote in the Senate at any time, the good news is that its huge potential price tag would require, it seems, further legislative action if it passes the Senate in its current form More

In what amounts to another rebuke for the Air Force, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is taking over the process of buying a new fleet of aerial tankers More

Why is a would-be chief executive officer surprised so often by events? More

Liberals can now relax. Fox News can now be added to my Media Dishonesty Matters list of 101 incidents. More

Virtually announcing to the world that the New York Times Company is in the process destroying shareholder value, Lehman Brothers evidently sees acceleration in corporate decline. More

Despite urging from the candidate himself, Barack Obama's big campaign donors are not rushing to help Hillary Clinton retire her $20 million debt: More

Now that Barack Obama is tacking to the center in his general election strategy, the true believers are getting disillusioned, and they have the ability to organize -- courtesy of the campaign's own website. More

Are you listening, Barack? More

American Thinker has long noted that many leading Democrats seem to have a special warm spot for Hugo Chavez, the increasingly dictatorial President of Venezuala. More

Much of the most promising American oil lands have been declared off limits for oil drilling and production for many years. This has cost us all lots of money More

Totalitarians don't seem to have this problem. More

Bill Clinton hit the sewer smearing McCain and other service people who were prisoners of war. More

The European lefts knows how to pick the objects of its derision carefully. More

Kudos to Captain Shannon Lippert of the United States Air Force More

Richard Baehr wiill be the guest on The Rick Moran Show tonight between 7 and 8 PM Central. More

Banning guns does not eliminate the impulse to violence that animates some people. More

In order to save money, a rural school district in Minnesota has opted for a four day school week, running Tuesday to Friday. Now comes the hard part. More

Feasting on 19 course dinners while discussing the world wide food crisis might seem a little hypocritical to some. More

This headline from Bloomberg, picked up by Drudge, says all any voter needs to know about post racial, post-ideology Sen Barack Obama (D-IL). More

They are reacting to several recent studies which have shown bio-fuels contributing to the current world food crisis More

Doug Ross has told in pictures the shocking story of Barack Obama's ties to Tony Rezko and his indifference to the victims of Rezko's housing. A must-see. More

The nightmare scenario of the Obama campaign involves Hillary Clinton giving a cracking good speech the first or second night of the convention and then stampeding some Obama delegates to vote for her on the first ballot. More

New plans call for Obama to accept the Dems' nod, not at the Pepsi Center where the rest of the convention will occur, but at a football stadium whose naming rights are owned by Invesco, Ltd. More

Someone, someday in the major media is going to wake up and take a good long look at Barack Obama's campaign and notice something very strange; it is staffed from top to bottom with Chicagoans More

It's amusing to see how politically correct newspapers invariably tiptoe around certain aspects of certain gay lifestyles. More

Remember the name "Leon Klinghoffer?" He was a wheelchair bound American Jew on a cruise ship called the Achille Lauro when it was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists back in 1985 More

The MSM continues gliding over the more controversial aspects of Obama's life, pretending they don't exist or just ignoring them. More

Barack Obama once again demonstrates both profound ignorance and naivete about the basics of running the American government. More

A small ray of hope in a city and profession with precious little. More

It is good to be reminded at times of the human cost of our effort in Iraq. And that cost is born by our nation's finest - and the scars are not always visible. More

Demands for "tolerance" in the name of multiculturalism apply only to wealthy, predominantly white countries. And within them, only to whites. More

In a sign that Arab countries may be starting to legitimize the Iraqi government, the United Arab Emirites has forgiven the entire $7 billion debt that Iraq owes the country: More

Yes, I realize using a Nazi analogy is probably crossing a line somewhere but really, how else can you describe a candidate for President who eschews the forms and traditions of our democracy to substitute the imagry of totalitarian rallies of the past? More

Dr. Tim Ball, a Canadian climatologist, debunks the desperate attempts of global warmists to assign blame for bad weather to rising atmospheric CO2 More

This piece in today's New York Times on Obama's "experience" as a community organizer in Chicago back in the 1980's is indicative of Obama's penchant for talking big with little to back it up: More

It seems that despite the media-targeted love-fest in Unity, New Hampshire a week and a half ago, the Hillary-Obama marriage of convenience hasn't really taken off. More

In the deadliest attack since the Taliban fell, 40 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in front of the Indian embassy: More

A nationwide 55 MPH speed limit is once again threatened. Think it will save lives? Think again. More

The Times deliberately "outs" the interrogator of Khalid Shaik Mohammed despite his pleas and the pleas of the CIA not to name him. More

Now that the truth about Iraq's WMD programs has come out, it is time to revisit the Joseph Wilson/Valerie Plame case. More

Celebrate diversity! Except, of course, when cultural food traditions run into the nanny state's desire to control what you eat. More

The G-8 Summit gets underway tomorrow in a little Japanese resort town of Toyako More

Barack "Backtrack" Obama is "puzzled" by the reaction in the press to his two completely opposite statements he made last Thursday on Iraq More

You stay classy, Bill Jeff: More

What is the best, least interruptive way of showing our young warriors gratitude for their service? Here's a suggestion that should catch on like wildfire. More

In a joint US-Iraqi operation that began in May in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul directed at al-Qaeda's last redoubt, the Times OnLine reports that the Iraqis have achieved a spectacular success More

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown won't be there. Neither will Germany's Angela Merkel More

Senator Jesse Helms might well be the most mis-understood, mis-cast and "mis-appreciated" figure in American politics today. More

A supposedly confidential World Bank report is said to blame biofuels demand for forcing world food prices up 75%. More

This story in today's Washington Post is an incredible indictment of not just Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the tactics he used to steal the election, but it also should bring shame to the African leaders who continue to back his rule More

Mega-bucks for the Democratic candidate in the offing. More

For convention planners from both parties, there is a unique problem they must deal with that is similar for both sides but carries different challenges as well. More

Obama worship jumps the Atlantic. More

The Democratic race for president may have ended a month ago but there are clear signs among the rank and file that all is not well with former Hillary Clinton supporters. More

This is a fascinating story when you consider that it probably would never happen in most Blue states, at least I don't think it would. More

So far, British intelligence is denying that their chief, Alex Allan, who chairs the Joint Intelligence Committee, is the victim of an assassination attempt More

This is an issue that isn't going away for the Obama campaign and unless they address it in an effort to put it to bed, it will become one of those "distractions" the candidate really hates: More

Britain's most senior judge has endorsed the use of sharia law in the UK. More

Obama's doing somersaults on all his positions including Iraq and the inimitable Iowahawk does his take on it More

Former North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms passed away early this morning. More

The daring rescue by the Colombian army of 3 Americans along with 11 members of the Colombian military and ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is being praised from one end of the western world to the other: More

A shocker from the paper that has all but promoted the candidacy of Barack Obama. They find some major league faults with the new Barack Obama. More

From the history of this glorious 4th of July holiday to a catalogue of Notable Occurrences, chronologies of celebrations & musical events, and orations, addresses & sermons from the 1877 centennial, and more More

Yankee Doodle, are you still there?/ The fog around you is dense. More

More verse about the liberal who thinks he is so very smart. More

Would you accept a dinner invitation from Bernadine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers? Check out what your hostess said about dining etiquette More

I am not sure quite how to interpret the following news item. For me, the Fourth of July requires firing up the barbecue grill, for I consider genuine barbecue part of our national culinary heritage. More

Ed Morrissey has a great post up at Hot Air about Obama's advisors giving three different answers to the question of where the candidate stands on Iraq in a matter of days. More

Historian Thomas Madden has a tonic of a piece in the Wall Street Journal today, criticizing all those books that have been published the last few years on how America is in decline or even dying. More

Normally the weekly German news magazine toes an anti-American editorial line, but evidently it has enough integrity to admit that the facts on the ground in Baghdad show amazing progress. More

A rescue plan that will make a great Hollywood script with Angelina Jolie no doubt already lining up to play the part of Ingrid Betancourt. More

Word comes that the candidate has fired his campaign manager and replaced him with a seasoned pro: More

The New York Times is upset that a McCain victory would have all sorts of dastardly implications for a "far right" Supreme Court. More

Two blogs we highly regard - Powerline and Jewish Current Issues (JCI) - highlight today the budding career of a young Republican who has made quite a splash in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio; Josh Mandel. More

There she goes again. Hillary Clinton is once again rewriting her history (herstory for the feminists) by removing from her website all those nasty things she said about Barack Obama during the primary. More

The FBI is investigating what appears to be corrupt practices by Detroit pols on a sludge contract. More

You don't have to be a political rocket scientist to see that the McCain campaign has gotten off to something of a rough start More

The US will introduce a UN Security Council resolution condemning recent events in Zimbabwe More

A blogger caught Justice Kennedy having made the biggest error in modern Supreme Court history that I can recall. More

No doubt that by sundown, this murderer will be lionized as a martyr by Palestinians from the West Bank to Gaza: More

When I hear people on the Left say we must "talk" with our mortal enemies I am reminded of the original movie, "The Thing From another World," from 1951. More

Want proof? Here's a Pew Survey on attitudes toward the energy crisis More

The Washington Post today reports on Barack and Michelle Obama's favorable mortgage terms obtained from Northern Trust in Chicago More

The Tawafaq Front - a coalition of Sunni parties in Iraq - has agreed to return to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. More

Uncle Jimbo at the Milblog Blackfive has an answer to those on the left who don't believe that John McCain's captivity gives him any special experience that is transferrable to the presidency: More

Obama campaigner Wesley Clark raised the issue of qualifications for office. Fine. More

Global Warmists are once again observing cyclical changes and declaring them "proof" of the dire effects of global warming. More

From the "I'll believe it when I see it" Department... More

Bobby Jindal finally did the right thing. He admitted he made a mistake More

Living down to his motto as the candidate of change, Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL) has changed his mind again. More

Yesterday's refusal to indict Joe Horn who shot and killed two men who were burglarizing his neighbor's home akin to the Second Amendment. More

Hizzoner the mayor and the Trib both must have taken silly pills this week. More

Making one's way across the country via airplane can be a hectic experience. But one experience makes up for it. More

In case you missed it, General Wesley Clark made an exclusive appearance on ABC's Good Morning America today to reiterate his statements about John McCain. He did not back down at all but rather he defended his statements. More

It is almost an iron law of the MSM that the race and immigration status of criminals will not be identified if they are members of racial minorities or not in the country legally. More

Obama's exploitation of the flag pin to innoculate himself against criticism won't convince anyone of his patriotism. More

Wes Clark should feel right at home among other anti-Israeli Obama advisers. More