The media are almost unanimous: Palin was a stupid choice. Considering the history of the MSM, this seems prima facie evidence that it was, in fact, a brilliant choice. More

Bookworm anticipates the criticism coming Sarah Palin's way over abortion, and does some thinking. Liberals expect to win, but she thinks the Democrats may come out on the losing end More

The Republican Party has a long and growing list of broken promises. Are John McCain and Sarah Palin going to bring the Party back to fiscal conservatism? More

The best side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's and Sarah Palin's relevant experience and background so far is found at justsaynodeal.com. It is a mordantly funny read too. More

Like it or not, John' McCain's age, and worse, the fact that he looks old is a factor in this Presidential campaign. More

Hats off to Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune for exposing blatant mainstream media propagandizing about Joe Biden's supposed blue collar roots. More

The tort lawyers have a great friend in Joe Biden and his running mate, and there is a smelly "intersection of interests" among them. More

The Democrats have apparently found religion with Hurricane Gustav More

I was there on the levee in New Orleans when George H.W. Bush rode the Delta Queen into New Orleans in August 1988 to announce his surprising choice of Dan Quayle. More

Predictably, the smear comes from Daily Kos More

Peggy Noonan lets loose with hilarious straight talk on Obama and has her co-panelists doubled over with laughter. Except Andrea Mitchell... More

Michael Moore showed us once again how the left has hijacked a natural disaster and turned it into a political football. More

Sarah Palin shines, and ignites the comedic passions of Late, Late night comedian Craig Ferguson. More

The political flamethrowers have been unleashed on Governor Sarah Palin. More

Sarah Palin spoke to Maria Bartiromo of CNBC about the North Slope and ANWR, and Alaska's readiness to unlock its reserves. You can watch it on video podcast here. More

A report on what they are saying about Sarah Palin at the closed hillaryclintonforum.com site. More

Best of all, it appears genuine and believable. Let the captions begin More

If Sarah Palin gets the VP nod from McCain, there are some risks involved of course, but there is a big upside to this pick. More

Honestly, I can't say I'm surprised, as I told someone just a week ago that she could be the choice. The question is, is she a good choice? More

Last night, John McCain put on ads congratulating Barack Obama for his achievement. The day Joe Biden was picked, John McCain called him to congratulate him. That is class. More

It's here already. Watch it now More

Investor's Business Daily has had its eye on Sarah Palin for quite some time. They offer some first rate journalism on the woman of the hour. More

A lady will ride the elephant/ Into St. Paul next week/ At the side of our Republican candidate./ At last she's "the one we seek". More

Some downside but overall a very good pick by McCain More

Looks like the BBC is going to set up shop in America, producing dramas. Could they be attracted by the prospect of an Obama presidency? More

McCain campaign considering the political costs of having a party when so many would be in need. More

The obnoxious, smelly tree sitters in Berkeley, who are trying to stop construction of a training facility for athletes, lost in court, and now are seeking an appeal More

Obama's "showmanship"reveals a stunning truth about the candidate and more importantly, his supporters More

When Ron Dellums was elected mayor of Oakland, California, I knew that the city was heading for trouble. More

Our "journalists" on the job. More

Live flight tracking. Don't you love the internet? More

Clarice Feldman examines what we are learning and what we already know about the hundred million dollar project headed by William Ayers and Barack Obama. More

Doug Ross heard Richard Baehr give a lecture, and was impressed enough to write up his notes. More

He put on a great show. He talked tough last night. But to get the nomination, he talked weak. He ran like Carter and now he expects us to think he will govern as Reagan. More

We almost saw Joe Biden. His security-laden entourage drove by us. More

Thank God for Jimmy Carter. On the day of the most important speech of his party's 2008 Presidential nominee Barack Obama's life, the former President decides to insert himself into the national conversation. More

In the third Silly Season of the Third Millennium, the Clan of Donkeys met near the Mountains of Rock to choose their champion for the race where the winner would be crowned Potus of the 57 States. More

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (Cleveland, Ohio) is investigating 75,000 voter registrations - many found to have been fraudulent - submitted by ACORN More

The last time I witnessed an abrupt 180 degree even approaching the magnitude of last night's from Bill Clinton was when Frank Pentangeli suddenly recanted all previous accusations against Michael Corleone at a Senate Committee hearing. More

Why the faux Greek Temple at Obama's mass rally at the Invesco Park, you ask? Actually, it's probably not his God Complex. It's just the basic stagecraft of visual illusion. More

'Exciting' and 'McCain' in the same sentence? A first. More

Well surprise, surprise.  Get a load of this "The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product, or GDP, increased at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter. The revised reading was much better than the government's initial estimate of a 1.9 percent pace... More

It may have appeared all sweetness and light at last night's session of the Democratic Convention, but as Stephen Green of Vodkapundit fame points out, Bill Clinton couldn't resist getting in a few digs at Obama More

Russia finally stumbled into disapproval of its invasion of Georgia that mattered... More

George Will has a warning for Obama before he "feeds rhetorical fishes and loaves to the multitudes in the football stadium tonight." More

Is the Obama campaign beginning to panic? More

The left doesn't want to win arguments with its opponents, it wants to silence them. More evidence comes from our mailbag. A letter and a response. More

Obama wants to bring big change to America if he's elected. More

AT's Richard Baehr will join Dennis Miller in studio on his nationally-syndicated talk show Thursday, as the show visits Chicago. More

Forget about sending birthday cards to your friends in Saudi Arabia. Mother's Day too. More

What recession? Economy grows much more than expected. 'Experts' surprised again. More

The Obama campaign has tonight again demonstrated that it will try to silence voices with which it does not agree. This should chill all Americans More

Found art at the Democratic National Convention. A picture sometimes is worth more than a thousand words. More

Those eager to learn what Stanley Kurtz has learned going through the Annenberg archives should listen to WGN radio tonight on the air or on the internet, from 9 to 11 PM CDT More

As things stand today, the campaign of still prospective Democratic nominee Barack Obama may well go down in History as one of the worst ever waged. More

Something more than "a neighbor of mine." More

I know. I know. He is speaking Thursday night at the DNC. What I mean is, where are his troops on the streets of Denver? More

There's no denying his resentment of Obama's cavalier handling of Mrs. Senator Clinton. More

The editor-at-large of newspaper industry trade publication Editor & Publisher upbraids reporters at the political conventions for failing to stand when the National Anthem is played More

David Freddoso of NRO and best selling author of the book The Case Against Barack Obama has an article today that shows how Obama's "ingenius lack of specificity" helps him in obscuring his true positions on the issues. More

This ought to cause a few sleepless nights among policymakers in Washington. More

There aren't many of them but less than 2 out three conservative Democrats - 63% - are now supporting Barack Obama for president More

The blogosphere is an endless source of creativity. More

Brazen lies told by a man responsible for at least 3 deaths and who Obama calls "mainstream" More

The MSM has yet to notice the firestorm ignited when the self professsed ardent practicing Catholic Nancy Pelosi's told Tom Brokaw on last Sunday's Meet the Press that Church teaching is undecided on when life begins. More

The world's last bastion of the failed Stalinist ideology, Cuba, has yet again arrested the outspoken musician Gorki Aguilar. More

One of the speakers at the DNC on Monday night was Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, whose speaking slot raised a few eyebrows. More

Did I just hear Cardinal Egan change the abortion debate? More

Reuters previews the finale of the Democrat convention, something like Greek theater at Invesco Field: More

They scurried across the lawn at Denver's Civic Center. Most carried signs. Some banged on drums. Most of them were women ... and a lot of them were angry. More

"Official Obama stores" dot the sidewalks in Denver. See who's bujying what. More

On Monday afternoon, I was part of a panel on the Jewish vote in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention. More

AT's Ed Lasky spekas with Jamaican radio and then joins Rick Moran with best selling author David Freddoso. Both shows available on the internet. More

The Democrats thought they had a great moment last night; the specter of a long time Republican moderate Jim Leach abandoning his party and coming out four square for Obama. More

James Carville thinks so. More

CQPolitics.com launched a strike of their own against the convention week attacks that the Democrats are launching against John McCain More

Democrats press forward with plans to virtually ensure that unions take over at every major company in America. More

Something less than serious but more than harebrained. More

The Russians have moved well beyond the purview of the cease-fire agreement and are moving into new territory. More

An enemy of much that we hold dear but a giant of history nonetheless. More

She is called the Angel of Iran, because she lived her short life angelically. The demonic Islamist Mullahs, true to their nature, couldn't bear an angel in their midst. More

Obama tries a good old fashioned political kneecapping More

AT's news editor Ed Lasky will be analyzing the election campaign today on Jamaican radio from 7:35 to 8 PM EDT. An Internet feed is available. More

The most visible and vocal protestors demonstrating at the Democratic National Convention are the advocates for the unborn. Virtually ignored by the media, they are everywhere, and in the faces of delegates. More

Once again, the Democrats are in the process of behaving like children come convention time. More

This man is a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. There is something very wrong with this picture. More

Joe Biden is supposed to add foreign policy credibility to the Obama ticket. But Senator Biden has been consistently wrong on at least one crucial national security issue More

It is unwritten law in Chicago politics that nobody wants nobody nobody sent. Thus it is no surprise that Joe Biden and Barack Obama have friends in common in the Daley Machine. More

Points of views vary regarding military withdrawal from Georgia. Russian government states it is in compliance, while Georgia and the US do not concur. More

Obama and Biden: The blind leading the blind on foreign policy More

Cue the violins... More

Politico is reporting this morning that aides for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still resentful of each other and that the choice of Joe Biden as running mate hasn't helped matters any. More

Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones was a primary sponsor of Barack Obama's rise. More

Frank Luntz focus group of undecideds shows Obama has real problems More

According to this AP report, Senator Biden gave only $1,025.00 out of his $298,000 in earned income last year. That's 1/3 of one percent of his income. More

This "Man of the People" once in the pocket of More

A couple of "Bidenisms" that will no doubt be repeated during the campaign. More

Obama's pal and educational grant dispensing partner, former Weatherman Bill Ayres, plays a key role in the radicalization of public education More

The Democratic National Convention started Sunday not with a bang, but a whimper. More

Obama hands the nomination for president to his running mate. More

More and more signs (quite literally) point to Barack Obama as a man with an outsize ego. More

Not likely but stranger things have happened in politics. More

If Dick Cheney added gravitas to George W. Bush's candidacy, Obama's limping selection of the irascible Senator Joe Biden of Delaware promises to be more likely to provide comicus, or comic relief. More

Clarice Feldman lays out the reasons why the William Ayers/Annenberg Challenge story will seriously damage the candidacy of The One. More

Andrew Bacevich's writes a somewhat disturbing op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times More

The Chicago Jewish News runs a lengthy article about Barack Obama and Jews: those who support him, those who oppose him, and the role that Jews have played in his rise. AT is cited extensively. More

Rasmussen polled Democrats about the choice of Joe Biden as running mate and found rather tepid support for the Delaware senator. More

Closer scrutiny of the important people (that is, the people Obama himself identified as important) in Barack Obama's life is proving to yield what can only be called an "ick factor." More

A "Simple and Truthful" Platform = Landslide Victory this November. More

Senator O recently told us how much he admired China's infrastructure -- based on those TV pics during the Olympics. He's out of touch. More

Did Obama twist the knife in Hillary's vitals just a bit with his early morning announcement? More

Go here to see when Bobby Jindal is scheduled to speak at convention. Isn't that interesting? More

As Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition explains, the addition of Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket should worry those who are concerned about American policy towards Iran: More

Never mind plagiarizing a speech 20 years ago, what about law school? More

Gaffe prone Biden and his Indian American slur. More

Obama picked a Chevy Impala, standard issue V-8, 2 speed powerglide, four door , single tone gray, AM/FM radio with no CD player, More

The Web of Deception website uncovers a very odd situation regarding Washington, DC property owned by the Speaker and her husband: More

Dan Riehl thinks Obama may have lost the election with his stupid remarks about China's airports, railways and port facilities being "vastly superior" to our own. More

While many in the international community huffed and puffed in righteous indignation when the state of Texas executed an illegal alien murderer, Iran continues its mass hanging spree. More

During the Democratic primary campaign, Joe Biden said some things about Barack Obama that will probably be excellent fodder for McCain campaign ads. More

Under this title Noemie Emery explains the effect of the Iraq war on the candidates and offers this suggestion for a McCain ad: More

In choosing Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, Barack Obama has acknowledged his own shortcomings while recognizing that the election he and his people thought a cakewalk a few months ago is now a battle royale More

AP is reporting the University of Illinois Chicago has relented and the CAC records in its possession will be released and made available to the public Tuesday. More

So what's a nation like Russia to do, when historically, the desire for warm water ports is a critical necessity? More

With all that money rolling in, it is to be expected that some of it is being used in a way that either skirts the letter of the law or breaks it. More

I guess we really shouldn't be surprised that Barack Obama sees no difference between our toppling of Saddam Hussein and Russia's invasion of Georgia. More

Michelle Obama's employer, University of Chicago Medical Center, gave a $650,000 contract to Blackwell Consulting. Blackwell Sr. described the genesis of his contract as "really fuzzy." More

Reading the tea leaves is not much help these days. More

Can these Obama campaign guys really be that stupid? More

Will a President Obama be influenced by the radical ideas concerning education propounded and promoted by William Ayers? More

All the money in the world won't help you if you don't know what you're doing. More

In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," billionaire Warren Buffett suggested that donors to the John Edwards for President Campaign might consider filing a class action lawsuit. More

Last week, Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was sounding tough on Russia.It didn't last. More

When he had a chance to bring people together on the expensive school reform effort he headed, Barack Obama was AWOL. More

The Obama campaign team had a week or two to get some traction with a VP pick before their convention, but for some reason they held off. More

Therer's nothing funny about blatant media bias. More

You can tell how panicky some Democrats are getting because a few pundits are now openly calling for Obama to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate. More

The United States and Iraq have agreed on a draft timetable to withdraw troops first from cities and towns by next summer and then from the country as a whole by 2011: More

Liberal financier and backer of far left groups like Moveon.org George Soros has been caught in one of those "Do as I say not as I do" moments. More

For those of us who continue to be suspicious of what Barack Obama is not telling us about himself, those suspicions were heightened Sunday. More

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama's only claim to administrative leaders ship (as covered today by Thomas Lifson), was evaluated by the esteemed Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and independent expert outside body. More

It's called "street money" and it is a practice that most big city Democratic machines use to scare up votes on election day. More

What's considered a "disproportionate use of force?" Apparently, the Russian government thinks it knows More

And he may get to vote -- legally. Unbvelievable! More

Jill Stanek could very well be Obama's Swift Boat Veteran. Her recounting of how Obama coldly disregarded her heartfelt testimony regarding the issue of these induced labor abortions and the horrifying consequences is chilling and available on YouTube. More

This AP headlines says it all: "Democrats to review nominating process" More

AT editor Thomas Lifson will appear on two radio programs tonight discussing his article today on Obama's Lost Years at the Annenberg Challenge. More

American Thinker's Chief Political Correspondent Richard Baehr has been invited to participate on a panel at the Democratic National Convention. More

Britain's Channel 4 ran an exceptionally thorough feature on Obama's Chicago roots that you can view online. More

A not unexpected development but one sure to get Democrats angry. More

The New York Times is hyping a sensational announcement by Mayor Bloomberg to site windmills across New York city on buildings, bridges and other locations on land and sea More

Some "journalists of color" are livid over the Chicago Tribune's recent layoffs, claiming members of their racial and ethnic group were disproportionately targeted. More

The youngest of Obama's half siblings, the 26 year old George Hussein Onyango Obana, is living in a hut in Huruma, a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi. More

Massive amounts of charritable money were spent by the Annenberg Challenge under Barack Obama's leadership, and acomplished nothing. Usually it takes the UN to squander such sums without any positive results. More

A Denver TV station ferreted out this story of how Obama's Invesco Field acceptance speech is being used as a fundraiser - without the knowledge of most of his supporters. More

Georgia is in trouble and only now are we evaluating the U.S.-Georgia association. More

Two days after the Russians agreed to remove their troops from Georgian territory, there is little sign of movement from the Russian military More

There's no other way to put it; John McCain's support has increased over the last fortnight while Barack Obama's has decreased More

The Los Angeles Times is playing defense for Obama, explaining away his sharp decline in their own poll by blaming McCain's "attacks." More

In Texas, two Republican legislators are taking up the "forgotten" issue in the presidential election - illegal immigration. More

One thing made clear by the Saddleback broadcast was Barack Obama's utter lack of spontaneity. More

When my 7-year-old son heard on the radio about a Russian invasion and bombing of Georgia, he was very concerned -- until I assured him that his grandparents in Atlanta were just fine. More

Succumbing to threats, the publisher Random House yanked a planned book release "The Jewel of Medina," More

AT contributor Henry Wickham will be a guest on the Ron Smith Show today at 4:15 PM EDT, on Baltimore's WBAL AM. An internet feed is available More

The first Barack Obama presidential suite opens before he is even nominated. More

The a new kind of politician is playing one of the oldest games in politics: handing out street money. Catherine Lucey of the Philadelphia Daily News reports: According to U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, the local Democratic Party chairman, Sen. Barack Obama's general-election presidential campaign in... More

Occasionally the discipline of Sociology redeems itself, as with a new study that confirms attending church is really good for your kids, and explains why in terms even an atheist can understand. More

American Thinker Associate Editor Rick Moran and AT's Political Correspondent Rich Baehr will team up once again for another edition of The Rick Moran Show on Blog Talk Radio. More

Stunning news that seems to be reported in the Russian media but not our own. More

Michael Phelps is coming home from Beijing a rich man. He will be paying a lot of taxes, but Barack Obama thinks they are not enough. More

Gee...Could all those "experts" be wrong? More

The once Messianic Obama is now having a hard time not stumbling over his own rapidly falling halo. More

The high price of fuel is beginning to really hurt wholesale prices as the index shot up another 1.2% last month which pencils out to a rate of 9.8% over the last year: More

Russia has moved with great speed to solidity its presence in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia More

Revelations are still coming out that makes the Obama campaign's complaint that John McCain "cheated" look even more like the infantile schoolyard whining of a loser. More

Russia swears its military is leaving Georgia but there are signs that they are settling in for a nice long stay: More

The Quinnipiac Poll out today shows Obama leading McCain by just 5 points at 47-42. That compares to a 50-41 margin Obama led in the same poll last month. More

The media has gone berserk the last 12 hours or so as scoops from both camps reveal that the candidates are preparing to announce their running mates. More

Barack Obama seems to think he can recover some of the ground he lost at the Saddleback Forum by seizing on John McCain's joking reference to $5 million a year as rich. More

These days, it seems that celebrities of all stripes - singers, actors, and so on - have bought into the idea that being proud to be an American is less than hip. More

This is getting curiouser and curiouser... More

One might ask what took them so long More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com charts oil and gas prices, showing a pattern that looks very much like a speculative bubble. More

Last week, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko issued new restrictions on Russia's use of the Sevastopol port facilities, Now, following the Russian threat to Poland, it is going even further. More

Some Wyoming based Christian missionaries got a taste of China's idea of freedom of religion at airport customs More

Former Sen. Tom Daschle appeared on ABC's This Week and revealed the Democrats' mindset on Russia. More

The heir to the British throne claims that genetically modified crops are a disaster. Now a cabinet minister has asked him in effect to put up or shut up. More

Giving credit where credit is due, the European wire services AFP and Reuters as well as the BBC, Times of London, and even the Guardian have been giving extraordinarily good coverage on the entire Russian-Georgia conflict. More

Readers are deserting print editions, and internet readership is not going to make up for the loss, reports the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. More

Nowhere in this story about the "cone of silence" at the Saddleback Forum does Elizabeth Bumiller let the reader know that McCain was in the car for half an hour and in the cone of silence for half an hour after he arrived. More

It had been expected for days but evidently, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation over national television has brought about a profound sense of relief that he will leave peacefully: More

On a per-capita basis, Australia wins far more Olympic medals than any other large country. Why? More

AT frequent contributor will be on the radio tonight with Rick Amato (of the Washington Times and Townhall). Time: 10:15 P.M. EDT. An internet feed is available. More

AT contributor Steven Warshawsky will be a guest this morning on the KSFO morning show in San Francisco. The inteview will begin at 8:05 AM PDT. More

For whatever reason, Big Mac shed most of his Maverick stripes last night at the Saddleback Civil Forum More

In no particular order: More

I was finally able to indulge one of my guilty pleasures: reading a summer novel, a political thriller, no less. I made a great choice. More

One of the least-explored mysteries of Barack Obama's career is his involvement (aloing with Bill Ayers) in the failed Annenberg Challenge program the hoped to change the Chicago Public Schools More

You can tell Barack Obama knows he has a problem when he starts lying about his record, and the lie is readily disprovable. More

The Justice Department has sent target letters to 6 employees of the security firm Blackwater in connection with the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in a market last September: More

A carefully planned spectacle masks a very poor nation in which the government is running scared as voices of dissent are starting to be heard via the Internet More

It's cool to be patriotic. More

Republicans see through Pelosi's transparent ploy. More

Arctic ice is refusing to cooperate with the global warming agenda. More

Efforts to stop Russia from cavorting around the Georgia countryside in armored columns, terrorizing the people and making Tbilisi nervous have become almost comical More

It's going to be interesting to watch the old media spin Rick Warren's Saddleback Forum More

While the McCain campaign revels in a reasonably clear win, the Obama campaign enjoys the fact that their candidate quoted scripture in a church without saying GD America More

"There's no creature as intolerant as a Hollywood liberal," contends Emmy Award winning screenwriter Robert J. Avrech. More

New Jersey State Assemblyman Michael Doherty has earned a place in the history books. So far as I know, he is the first politician to call openly for repeal of economically harmful legislation deriving from the global warming scare. More

Another move to reassert worldwide great power status. More

Anyone out there gathering examples of the total stupidity of the American political process as it stands right now, please bookmark this post More

AT's Lee Cary is back from vacation, and offers an action-packed paragraph full of interesting observations. More

It looks like if the GOP is going to get a vote on offshore drilling, they are going to have to swallow hard and help fund alternative energy as well More

Not wanting to be smeared doesn't mean you can make stuff up to defend yourself. More

The admission that Obama's mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, an identified CPUSA member, can only add to growing public concern about Obama's relationship with a Communist pawn of Moscow More

What makes these statements by Howard Dean so uproariously funny is that he apparently forgets that the entire leadership of his party is white More

Robert Stacy McCain sees trouble ahead for Obama when he announces his VP choice and it isn't Hillary. More

Who should be called a "Palestinian"? More

We'd guess this was not what he hoped for. More

The Compassionate Leader Fourm that Barack Obama will be appearing in front of at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church will formualte questions developed by a group called Faith in Public Life More

Jewish voters are already voting with their pocketbooks, and the signs are discouraging for Obama. More

These illustrations are very revealing about the enormous scale of ANWR versus the miniscule area proposed for oil-drilling: More

Russia's actions in Georgia will result in our allies, especially those in the Russian power sphere that Putin is trying to re-establish, quickly moving towards closer relations with us on all levels More

Lesson one: Don't make the Clintons angry More

The Associated Press, which insists that internet journalists must not quote it, has two good reasons not be quoted today, made obvious by enterprising internet journalists. More

Funny how a little aggression from Moscow works wonders on concentrating the minds of those Polish negotiators: More

The Pakistani government wants him gone - one way or another. More

McCain talks faith in a fascinating interview with the Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckman More

Some religious symbols are more dangerous than others More

Along with death and taxes, the only other constant in life is change. More

Kyle-Anne Shiver will be a guest on the KSFO Morning Show with Lee Rodgers today, at 8 AM Pacific Daylight time. More

Three years ago this month, American freelance journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered in Basra, Iraq, a port city then under British military control. More

Stablized housing prices in the first half of the year should help ease the global financial crisis. More

The cyber attack is one of the tools Russia pulled from the "Making War" goody bag. More

A new Ohio law permits voters to register on election day and vote via absentee ballot. No ID will be required. More

Not matter what you think of Karl Rove, you must acknowledge that he is one of the better political strategists around today. More

"Russia: Again Savior of Peace and Life." So stated a recent headline from Pravda regarding the impending war with Georgia. More

Will McCain tempt fate - and the wrath of evangelicals - by choosing a pro-choice candidate? More

Even after the Russian's rolled over the Georgian army, landing a strangle hold on Europe's oil and gas, the EU, characteristically divided, remained powerless More

Democrats are trying hard to give the warm and fuzzies to voters who find abortion abhorrent. More

Some day when the history of our times is written, futire historians may very well marvel at the utter stupidity and wide-eyed naivete of the west when facing aggression. More

Joe Lieberman's days as a committee chairman are numbered. More

OSS heroes to finally get the recognition they deserve. More

Will Obama's next flip flop be on affirmative action? More

And you expected what? More

Obama will pull a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of involvement in his campaign of 527's. More

Russia is complaining that its invasion of Georgia is being unfairly portrayed in the news media More

Important Wall Street voices want the struggling company to cut the dividend received by wealthy members of the Sulzberger clan. But so far, the company's financial pain has not affected the royalty, only the peasants. More

Barack Obama may have thrown his pastor Jeremiah Wright under the bus, but he will embrace Leah Daughtry, Wright's female liberation theology doppelganger, at the Democratic National convention. More

Hey there's little Georgie boy,/ Barack's new pretty campaign toy. More

This is pretty incredible - even for the New York Times. More

According to the senior American terrorism analyst, al-Qaeda has fully rebuilt its safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan and has recruited "dozens" of western looking operatives to strike inside the United States. More

What we are witnessing this year is the climactic and final battle for control of the Democratic Party. It started in 1940 with the nomination of Henry Wallace as FDR's VP More

Right at the end of New York magazine's cover story on Obama and race, a bit of news I hadn't yet heard More

AT chief political correspondent Richard Baehr joins Rick Moran on his eponymous radio show on BlogTalkRadio tonight. More

Bookworm examines a press account of the personal offices created by Barack Obama and John McCain, and sees telling evidence of their respective characters. More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distrcit of Columbia Circuit today sustained the lower court's dismissal of their civil suit against Libby, Rove, Cheney and Armitage. More

Obama ties to sprinkle a few Republicans about him to burnish his credibility -- which these days needs a lot of burnishing. But look what kind of Repubican is attracted to his cause. More

Two days ago, what could the Ukraine do but threaten Russia with the denial of port faculties: More

George Clooney isn't a foreign policy expert but he's played one in the movies. More

Amazing what can happen when you stand up and do the right thing. More

If the NYT is going to publish a foolish editorial on a major subject, it is probably not a good idea to publish an adjacent sensible op-ed on the same subject. More

Ralph Peters has written far and away the clearest and most honest account of Russian actions in brutally invading the democratic Republic of Georgia. More

From our "We'll believe it when we see it" files... More

With all his fancy advisors the vacationing Obama suggested the Russian invasion of Georgia should be decided by the UN More

Barack Obama took a couple minutues off of his Hawaiian idyll to offer a sound bite on the crisis in Georgia, and claims to have warned us... More

Last year Nancy Pelosi's bought stock in the IPO of T. Boone Picken's Clean Energy Fuels Corp., CLNE, This business is seeking billions in both federal and California funds. More

The New York Sun ran an editorial today that lauds the promptness and the wisdom of John McCain's response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. More

If the left wants the right to stop drawing analogies to Munich during every crisis, perhaps they should start acting more like Churchill and less like Chamberlain. More

How pretty would Obama be sitting now? More

The Edwards affair news drop, on the same Friday night as the Olympic opening ceremonies, seemed designed to prevent mass collateral damage, if not to Edwards, than to the greater Democratic Party. More

M. Simon reviews European housing markets;the slumping mortgage markets, the war in Georgia, the US economy and concludes:"The future is so bright I have to wear shades" More

Politico's Glen Thrush has written an excellent piece on Obama's "Summer Stall" in the polls More

The Obama campaign is using a clever but devious bit of technology to reveal his vice presidential pick. More

This former US resident and pro-western leader who sent 2,000 troops to help out in Iraq (now home thanks to a US military airlift over the weekend) has penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal asking for help in his confrontation with Russia: More

Georgia helping US and Iraqis in Iraq helped cause Russian invasion of Georgia, according to the New York Times. More

Two great sites to help us understand what is going on in the Caucasus More

Over at the lefty Huffington Post, John Edwards' confession of being a cheat has, interestingly, provoked fury among some of the gal pundits. More

Despite pleas for a cease fire from most of the world and Georgia herself, Russian troops have begun what it appears to be a drive to capture the vital rail and highway nexus in the towm of Gori More

Evidence accumulates favoring the possibility of a Hillary coup at the Denver convention, and it is being noticed among the sharper observers of politics. More

As the media continues to avert its eyes from the Edwards' scandal, bloggers continue to tell us interesting things about the Democrat's fair haired boy and what was going on in Edwards' camp under the radar. More

As the Democrats are about to gather in Denver, the famed Climate Impacts Center in neighboring Boulder is being shut down by its parent organization, the National Center for Atmospheric Research More

The US and Iraq are moving toward an agreement that would establish a "very clear" timeline for pulling out our troops. This according to the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari:In an interview with Reuters, Zebari said the agreement, including the timeline, was "very close"... More

Will John McCain announce at the convention that if elected, he will not run in 2012? More

Despite the One World One dream Olympic theme, the Iranians have not forsaken their dream of one world without Israel. More

Of all places, the Huffington Post is debunking John Edwards' claims during his ABC TV interview - the one he says will be his final word of the subject of his "affair" More

With the Pakistani coalition government ready to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf, the army has taken it upon themselves to defuse the volatile situation by asking their former Commander in Chief to resign: More

An unprecedented number of Hollywood personalities and rock stars are being lined up to pay tribute to the Messiah at the upcoming Democrat convention in Denver. Not all Democrats are impressed, however. More

A recent popular novel portrays threats to the GOP Convention in St. Paul. Locals are right now focused on a muirder elsewhere. More

StrategyPage.Com weighs in with an excellent article on the conflict in Georgia More

Nate Silver at the excellent election blog 538 has an interesting Op-Ed in the New York Post that makes the case that the key to an Obama victory may very well be the under 30 vote More

Putin squares off against Georgia in a test of wills. More

Your tax dollars are at work brainwashing young children on the evils of oil drilling. You can see it for yourself. More

Assad playing "hide the nukes" from inspectors. More

'Name that Party' and some good old fashioned Times bias. More

The SEIU has become one of the most powerful forces on the political level under its President Andrew Stern, who takes a large chunk of union dues and uses it to support Democratic candidates -- especially Barack Obama. More

Nancy Pelosi faces an unwelcome challenge from the left, as Cindy Sheehan qualifies for the November ballot for the California 8th District House seat held by the Speaker. More

Despite the fact that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a dyed in the wool free market conservative, events over the last year has forced the Treasury Department to intervene in financial markets to a degree never before seen in American history. More

John Edwards may be a fool for love but he's no fool as a lawyer. More

McCain still thinks taking Lieberman is a good idea. More

Remember that 3 A.M. phone call Hillary used to advertise about? More

AT contributor Andrew Bostom's latest book receives a very positive review from Bruce Thronton, writing in the estimable City Journal. More

I've lost my heart to Karl Rove./ The Architect is a dream./ His mind clicks along with computeresque ease/ But his eye holds an impudent gleam. More

Barack Obama and the MSM -- especially the NYT -- will suffer significant collateral damage from the Edwards fallout. More

Look into their personal lives to keep them from donating money? Sounds like something gangsters would do. More

In the days of Stalin and Mao, school children were encouraged to rat out their parents for politically incorrect thoughts expressed at home. Now it is the turn of the greenies in Europe to ape the totalitarians. More

More evidence of the Obama bubble bursting: the thin-skinned candidate is the target of no less than a Mad Magazine cover. More

Mayor of Detroit who Obama praised for "bring[ing] about the kind of renaissance that all of us anticipate' didn't count on that renaissance including a little time spent in the dungeon More

Apparently a NYT columnist is in denial over the fact that the spot market oil price has dropped 20% in three weeks since President Bush removed the Executive Branch's ban on offshore drilling. More

Victor Davis Hanson hits another grand slam in today's column in the Washington Times on Barack Obama. More

The war on standards accelerates in the English speaking world. Who needs to agree on spelling anymore? More

According to the BBC, The first military tribunal trial for a Gitmo detainee constitutes a 'dramatic snub'. Huh? More

Boy, the nerve of those Texans! Last night they executed an illegal immigrant here. More

An "investigative" journalism website with ties to George Soros comes out against tapping resources in the Northeast. More

Memphis, Tennessee had a primary yesterday and the real winner was a post racial, post religious, post ethnic election. More

During the opening ceremony extravaganza of the 2008 Beijing Olympics--and the games themselves--let's remember another group of athletes who will not be allowed to participate. More

It appears that the new Pakistani government is eager to run full speed toward the gasoline dump with a lit match. More

A lot of heat, not much light shed on Anthrax case. More

The Abilene Paradox, a particular type of pathological groupthink, occurs when group members unanimously agree in their hearts to proposition A, but vote publicly with unanimity against it. More

Why this is coming out now in Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation is a mystery More

A video clip taken from Obama's Dreams from My Father Book Signing, on New York on 11/23/2004 is burning up the internet. More

Despite what is reported as "intense pressure" from the United States, the Iraqi parliament has adjourned for the month without passing an enabling law that would allow for provincial elections in the fall. More

Three weeks away from the Democratic convention in Denver and Barack Obama still has no idea what to do with Hillary Clinton More

Two excellent articles today deal with the sad fate of Lebanon now that Hezb'allah is full in control More

I believe that Barack Obama may be overlooking the VP choice who would best augment his own weaknesses, More

There's another fascinating op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning by Karl Rove on the next steps that John McCain should take in his battle against Barack Obama More

The FBI has laid out its evidence in the case against army scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins, and I have resolved the worries I expressed in an AT article. More

Once again, brilliant minds have arrived at an earthshaking discovery simultaneously. More

A new report for members of Congress from the Congressional Research Service provides some astounding statistics More

Pity the poor New York Times Company! More

That Mexico's violence and dysfunction is increasingly becoming part of America's social fabric was highlighted by two recent events in Texas More

The man who would be president? More

If you don't think Obama feels the pressure, check out his interview with the Las Vegas Sun's Jon Ralston: More

The Natural Resources Defense Council demonstrates a remarkable lack of self-awareness More

Barack Obama's Muslim Affairs adviser, Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, has resigned after an internet newsletter wrote about his stint on the board of an Islamic investment fund and his involvement in various Islamic groups. More

A new kind of politician, a new kind of politics More

Barack Obama has been skillful at trying to deflect attention from slices of his life that may embarrass him or cause political problems More

Rap singer Kayne West will enlighten and elevate the Democratic National Convention with his artistry. More

We're glad to see Al Gore practicing what he preaches - sort of. More

The BBC reports that "Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed." More

Eric Cantor (R-VA) is sponsoring a website where you can sign a petition to urge Speaker Pelosi to call Congress back in session More

Betrayal on the battlefield? And by our closest ally? More

We've been told over and over again that this is the "year of the Democrat" Maybe not. More

Two former Chicagoans - Moran and Rogers - talking about Obama More

GOP heavyweight politico Alex Castellanos weighs in at, of all places, Huffington Post today with a searing post about why Obama can't win. More

A film reviewer in Variety worries that a new comic documentary intended to support global warming theory may end up inspiring doubt and further controversy. More

Israelis active in the diamond industry in West Africa are reported to be considering evacuating, thanks to the threat they and their families feel from Hezb'allah More

If you read Obama's speech on energy, you know it's not much of a plan. More

Will voters elect a man they think sees America a unfair and discriminatory? More

My sin of driving a high performance car has been absolved by Barack Obama. More

Now this is a barometer... More

A great gimmick but something else is needed. More

Exposing Obama can be fun and profitable - and a helluva good read too. More

Publishing grisly photos of dead mobsters is just not the kind of thing Ivy League editors at the NYT would do. But dead Marines are another story. More

As I write this, House Republican members are carrying on about gas prices again in the darkened House chamber. More

Bookworm, the Marin County mom who lives a secret life as a conservative blogger in one of the bluest spots in America, writes about the abuse endured by conservatives in deep blue parts of America, More

CBS News highlights the interior of the renovated Obama campaign plane, features a picture of the rather startling large seat labeled "President" reserved for the candidate. More

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a great con game going with pet owners who, for one reason or another are forced to give up their pets for adoption. More

Rep. John Murtha's disgrace in denouncing the Marines of the Haditha incident as "cold blooded killers" is not going to fade away gently into the night. More

The guy who cries wolf will end up with no one believing him. More

Fatah members seeking safety in Israel? Now there's a switch. More

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. It is a testament to the banality of our times that most people probably do not know what that means. More

What on earth does the Speaker mean? More

Was Berlin the apogee of Obama's ability to draw a crowd? Apparently lacking a top name rock band to draw bodies, an Obama-fest in Central Park has drawn a very sparse crowd. More

Richard Cohen denudes Barack Obama of his glorious obamessiah veneer. More

Animal "rights" activists appear to have firebombed the home of a molecular biologist in Santa Cruz. California. The terrorists are trying to force a halt to scientific research that involves death and discomfort for animals. More

It is a frightening idea that this fellow was let anywhere near a weapons lab More

It has been a concern among pollsters ever since Obama became a candidate; what percentage of voters are lying when they say they will vote for him? More

A story by Chuck Raasch of Gannett News Service found on the website of the Detroit Free Press is but the latest example of the old media's slow recognition that their guy is slipping. More

Barack Obama, perhaps thinking that no one has noticed, keeps hoping that John McCain will tell the world that Obama's black. More

Jeffrey Kuhner of the Washington Times has a particularly incisive op-ed in today's edition More

How about a Jewish Congressman from Virginia with impeccable conservative credentials More

As it turns out, the messiah doesn't "welcome" any kind of a debate outside the three that are scheduled for this fall: More

As Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats jetted out of town negligently neglecting to deal with the urgent energy situation I'm reminded of the unseemly scandal over her use of military jets More

Crackdown on Chinese dissidents to shut them up during the Olympic games. More

A close-up look at Barack Obama's years in the Illinois State Senate reveals someone different from the post-racial Barack Obama we thought we knew. More

A successful operation that aids Iraqi reconciliation. More

Deaths of US soldiers from combat are the lowest ever: More

What I wouldn't give to be Barack Obama for a day. More

CBS News is reporting - with a lot of caveats - that there is a possibility al-Qaeda's #2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be criticially injured or dead. More

If a person didn't know better, he might think raising the minimum wage increased the unemployment rate. More

I was astounded to hear my North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler pat himself and the Democrat Congress on the back today for standing up to the big oil interests and their obscene profits. More

The McCain campaign's new commercial out today is devastating. When people start laughing at your pretensions, how do you recover? More

A letter to the editor aught fire on the internet because it makes such sense. Bad news for the OIbama campaign. More

Even though it is a totally useless gesture, it cheered my heart when I read this piece More

I'm surprised he didn't hurl a lightening bolt and smite them. More

No such thing as 'partial censorship' More

Not a catastrophe and there were some silver linings in the dark clouds on unemployment. More

He who must not be laughed at has some more satire to complain about. More

This will not help relations between India and Pakistan - two nuclear powers already engaged in a low level war over the ownership of Kashmir: More

The UK's official media regulator Ofcom has levied a record fine (£400,000/$790,000) against the British Broadcasting Corporation for deliberate deception. More

A journalist handcuffed and led away by U.S. military forces in Baghdad's Green Zone. A man who has been bringing us "news" from the war zone. More

Rush seems to be talking just to me./ At least, that's how I feel each day, noon 'til three. More

A well researched and thoughtful approach to solving the problem of high gas prices postulated below by the future savior of mankind. More

I'll suffer no challenge from any Republican fool,/ For I'm Madame Speaker with divine right to rule More

An extraordinarily troubling case. More