It will be an all-Palin, all the time show. More

I'm going to go out on a limb and make an economic prediction: if there is no bailout, the economy will keep muddling along without even entering a formal recession. More

Warmist hysteria continues to escalate, as more drastic measures are proposed in tandem with hyperbolic predictions of doom. Big Brother will soon control what you eat if the hysterics get their way. More

It is somewhat odd that we did not read about the role of the African-American community and the Congressional Black Caucus in the failure of the Bailout Bill. More

In a step that at the moment appears to have uncertain consequences, the US military is handing control of the 100,000 Sunni "Awakening Council" militias to the Shia dominated Iraqi government. More

When I grew up in Milwaukee it was a model of civic probity. In recent years it has become a site of blatant election fraud. Yesterday, there was an effort to punish some of it: More

The author of Sunday's blockbuster AT article Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis will be a guest on the Sandy Rios Show on Chicago's WYYL radio at 5:06 PM EDT. An internet audio feed is available More

There is something very sad about the death of a newspaper. More

George Stephanopoulos reports on the ABC blog Political Radar that Congress is looking at 4 different options on how to proceed: More

New York Times journalist Larry Rohter-already well-known for his pro-Obama agenda -scripts yet another attack on John McCain More

A pleas to John McCain's best friend in Congress to reconsider the bailout. More

You Tube and Warner Music Group today pulled a highly popular video that very succinctly and clearly spelled out the roots of the current economic crisis. More

The House of Representative has rejected the bailout bill pushed by Secretary of the Treasury (and former Goldman Sachs chief) Henry Paulson, the House Democratic leadership, and President Bush. More

Well, I guess you can say anything you want once you don't have to pay for it politically. More

Since the extinction of the USSR as an international entity, separatists and separatist ideas have been, basically, running amok. More

Instant bailout: pick a number, any large number. Use your lucky number if you'd like, add a few zeroes and voila! that's how much you need for the bailout, for the economy to be just dandy again More

Rasmussen has had the most consistent numbers. Are they right? More

Voters in Austria have increased their support for "far right" parties in Sunday's general election there. More

One of Barack Obama's most famous supporters is a fully certified, 100%, dyed in the wool lunatic. More

William Kristol has a great op ed in today's New York Times that takes an unblinking look at the state of the race and what John McCain must do to get back in the race and eventually prevail. More

This kind of cynicism belongs in the Hall of Fame of Shame. More

Why it is important for the American public to be concerned about Obama's Chicago political roots. More

Decide for yourself whether or not you think "Wall Street" is being rescued with the proposed bailout plan. Or might it have more to do with the foreign creditors who so graciously financed our economic expansion of the last couple of decades? More

An eleven-minute video that gives historical perspective to the current financial crisis is now available. More

Nancy Pelosi has a draft financial rescue plan this Sunday morning. It's scarier than anything else you'll see this Halloween season. More

Sarah Barracuda could win this election on Thursday night for the Republicans. All she needs is the courage to tell the truth on the mortgage scam in her debate with human gaffe machine Joe Biden More

Does life imitate art? You be the judge. More

Obama up 6 in Rassmussen; up 5 in Gallup More

Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), Republican vice presidential nominee, understands foreign affairs much better than the Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama More

You too can learn the Alinsky techniques of community organizing by signing up for Camp Obama. More

Thugs attempt to slience a brave man. More

Obama could have sent his empty suit to the debate and still "won" in the polls:" More

File this one under "If John McCain had pulled something like this the media would have..." More

No matter where you come down on this bailout, you are going to have to deal with the fact that the federal government is, to a large extent, taking over a big chunk of the financial services industry in America. More

This incredible video showing how the Republicans in Congress tried hard to regulate better Fannie Mae and how the Democrats fought that tooth and nail More

Like me the WSJ thinks it's outrageous that the Democrats are trying to find money in the bailout to keep their friends in ACORN well nourished: More

You meet some interesting characters at a presidential debate party in one of the swankiest parts of Los Angeles. PUMAs, for example. More

During the Clinton Administration, the New York Times celebrated the disastrous loosening of credit standards that got Fannie Mae in trouble. Brainless liberalism on display. More

We love it when our critics demonstrate their level of intelligence and their commitment to open dialogue. More

Very strange things are going on at KMOV-TV in St. Louis, a CBS affiliate owned and operated by the network itself. More

How quickly Americans forget the difficult and bloody lessons of the past! Human culture, prior to the invention of mass media, remembered the lessons of war via song ("Mine eyes of seen the glory...."). More

This is pretty amazing bias - even for CNN. More

Star succumbs to cancer and leaves behind a magnificent legacy. Updated with link to pictures of Newman as college thespian and a video about his college years. More

Let's see if I have this straight: Obama just said in last night's debate that Al Qaeda is in sixty countries, sixty countries, folks, count 'em. But, as he said earlier, not in Iraq More

Henry Kissinger is none too pleased that Barack Obama seems to have misstated the former Secretary of State's position on Iran. More

Is there nothing real at all in that empty suit? More

The media is scoring this one as a win for Obama. (Surprised? Not.) More

The Saudis fear the rise of Iranian dominance. More

We'll be live blogging the presidential debate: More

These political geniuses just don't get that anyone accusing a candidate of "injecting presidential politics" is, in fact, "injecting presidential politics!" More

Kathleen Parker writing in the National Review has taken a brave but stupid stand in favor of asking Sarah Palin to withdraw from the race. More

Despite the fact there is no agreement on a Wall Street bailout, John McCain will go to Mississippi tonight and participate in the presidential debate More

The most alarming thing about the current situation is that with all of this talk about a "deal in place", the public has not been allowed to see the specifics of any of it. More

A recent advertisement by the Al Gore backed we-can-solve-it-dot-organization closes with the claim that it has been "approved" by "the American people." No, it hasn't. Count me out. I demand it. More

A remarkable study in the self-absorption so common on the left has been published by blogger and author Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez, who bought a nice home in Scottsdale, AZ that is now worth less than she owes on her mortgage More

File this one under "Things the liberal media does that makes them look petty and stupid." More

Reports continue that as in previous elections ACORNS's fraudulent voter registrations continue unabated: More

The man who created the concept of "community organizer" left a legacy of notable aphorisms. More

Investigative reporters from Chicago's Sun Times continue to examine the record of former Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. A new story emerged there yesterday More

Democratic leaders have stepped back from supporting a non-binding resolution on Iran. More

Will someone please help me understand Senator Barack Obama's statement that "I'm sure they'll call me if they need my help?" Who you gonna call? More

Incomprehensible behavior from Jews who should know better. More

Palin's parents went to New York City to help after 9/11. More

Despite his decades in broadcasting, David Letterman seems unaware there is an important difference between CBS News and CBS Entertainment Divisons. More

Did anyone else happen to find it strange that Bill Clinton twice the other night in his interview with Greta Van Susteren made reference to the campaign being over? More

Prominent among the 150 or so Americans who think President Ahmadinejad of Iran is the cat's meow was one of Barack Obama's big fundraisers. More

Great idea. Too bad it's illegal. More

This is a big stretch - even for Howard Dean. More

The irony in Senator Barack Obama's comment about a president needing to be able to do two things at once passed without notice. It revealed the focus of Obama's life -- himself. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light points out the utter hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton on the current mortgage crisis More

Early returns on public support for McCain's gamble are not very good. More

One of the most imporant advances for Iraqi democracy - a new election law - is buried by the Times More

The root of the current financial crisis is all those bad mortgages written to people who couldn't afford them. And why were so many bad loans made? Because the federal government pushed for it, in the name of expanding home ownership. More

Obama may be wondering whose side Bill Clinton is on More

Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-Fl), a man impeached, convicted and removed from office as a federal judge for corruption and perjury, had this to say at a panel of African-American and Jewish Democrats: More

Campbell Brown of CNN unleashes her sarcasm over the McCain campaign's limiting press coverage of Sarah Palin's meetings with world leaders at the UN. More

If you ever believed the myth of female weakness and victimhood, consider the Greek Furies. More

This is pretty brazen even for a Democrat. More

The President with the 26% approval ratings who has almost disappeared from the national scene in the past year reappeared tonight under unhappy circumstances. More

Al Gore must know he is losing the argument over global warming, for he is now urging civil disobedience (i.e., taking the law into one's own hands) More

A bold move that could pay big dividends. More

Allah calls him 'the little terrorist." We might call him something unprintable. More

A prominent insider, MIT Meteorology Professor Richard S. Lindzen, confirms how Al Gore and his minions used Stalinist tactics to subvert, suborn and corrupt a whole branch of science, citing chapter and ver More

AT's chief poltical correspondent will be a guest on the Mark Reardon Show on KMOX radio, St. Louis, starting at 3:15 PM CDT today. The show can be heard on the web More

Kurtz digging for answers about Obama-Ayers. More

There's plenty in Biden's record for Palin to rock Joe's world on debate night More

Obama has not been forthright in explaining why he--with no background for the position--was picked to head the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. More

I'm the one person in the world who explained and then predicted the magnitude and timing of the U.S. real estate bubble on the exact month of the peak in a professional economics journal More

What is thought of as a convenience could be unconstitutional More

Global warming alarmists face yet another challenge to their predictions of an inferno of doom. The solar wind is losing power More

It would be electoral malpractice for the McCain campaign and its supporters to let Joe Biden's remarkable demonstration of cluelessness go unremarked. More

Barack Obama, going all out to try to garner votes among pro-Israel Americans, flip-flops again on Iran More

The list of leaders Sarah Palin met with yesterday in New York tells an interesting story. More

Not the crime but the cover-up, as Woodward and Bernstein liked to say. More

Famous for his "drunkblogging" the political debates, VodkaPundit's Stephen Green will appear tonight on The Rick Moran Show. More

When conservative pundits go native in DC, the results aren't pretty. More

The Grey Lady has no shame. More

Caroline Glick has an outstanding piece in today's Jerusalem Post excoriating those Jewish organizations which chose abortion over Israel in demanding that Palin not be allowed to address the anti-Iran rally. More

Independent Sector, a supposedly nonpartisan nonprofit organization helping other nonprofits be ethical, has been on the Fannie Mae take. More

This could be a significant development in a very close race. More

Fact Check.Org has caught the Obama campaign in another lie about John McCain's position on the issues. More

Straight from Barack Obama, a recommendation about who has been consistent on reform: John McCain. More

There's no other way to describe a rally where 2-4,000 people show up when in past years, the numbers exceeded 25,000. More

Accountability is a difficult concept for some. The Berkeley tree sitters who have no respect for property rights seem to think that free speech means no consequences. More

Are we really going to do it - elect someone who views our children as soldiers in a revolution? More

Obama has many advantages that might give him a decided advantage in early voting states. More

The Pelosi Dems in the House have passed a bill claiming to open the US Continental Shelf to perfectly safe oil exploration and drilling, but actually locking it up for another decade or two. More

The interview has been postponed owing to the host's illness. More

The stigma once attached to unwed motherhood has gone the way of the dodo, as the pro-life movement embraces those who decide not to abort their children. More

In Green Bay, Barack Obama drew 4000 fewer participants than McCain/Palin drew a week earlier in the same area. More

Why would someone involved in keeping nonprofits ethical give the appearance of being involved in political partisanship? More

The Democrats want you to believe that the Iraq War turned the world -- especially the Muslim world -- against us because we toppled an evil killer of Muslims. More

"Not ready to lead" More

Maybe those kids who get most of their news from Stewart's show should try the Cartoon Network. More

I bet you didn't know that calling a candidate "inexperienced" makes you a racist. More

The organized Jewish community attempts suicide. More

Anne E. Kornblut and Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post examine the number of ex-Bush people in the McCain camp, and conclude: "No parallel exists on the Democratic side...." More

MSNBC reports on the former Hillary staffers now supporting McCain and making strong arguments against The One. More

Palin shows she understands the Iranian threat better than most Democrats. More

The Jawa Report observes -- in a lengthy, well-documented article -- that at least one of the viral videos carrying a proven false rumor about Palin (that she belonged to an Alaskan separatist movement) was professionally prepared by a p.r. firm linked to the Obama campaign More

Yesterday the Washington Post ran an Oliphant cartoon, insulting to Pentecostals (and Palin). Some time ago the paper refused to print the Mohammed cartoons and offered an interesting standard. More

Democrats get a lot of money from an industry I plan to start calling "Big Mouth": lawyers, actors, entertainers, advertisers, consultants, etc.. More

The former paper of record acknowledges that things have changed dramatically in Iraq in the last two years, and all for the better. More

There is no "syndrome" to describe how deranged this is. More

The polls tighten as the Obama bounce once again fades. More

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that NBC would air a skit on their hit show Saturday Night Live that savages John McCain while be factually challenged More

In an otherwise interesting article on the American electorate's post-war preference for center-right presidential candidates, Newsweek's Jonathan Darman offers a solecism More

The New York Times published an editorial "The Right to Smear" praising a federal judge in Virginia who has blocked a group from running ads on Barack Obama's positions on abortion. More

While the New York papers are talking about Congressman Charles Rangel's rent controlled apartments voters in Florida are talking about how Democrat Tim Mahoney, the man who replaced Mark Foley, claims to be living in a barn. More

American Thinker justly can claim credit for legislation to protect Californians against at least one petty tyranny. SB 1491 in on the Governor's desk awaiting signature. More

The worldwide left is clearly alarmed that Barack Obama's campaign appeared derailed by Sarah Palin's emergence as a cultural icon representing all that they despise. More

The culture war in the US may be more decisive than any other war our country is involved in. More

Islamabad was rocked by a huge truck bomb today that killed at least 40 people and injured scores more. More

Obama has surged ahead but the race is still tight. More

The new Obama ad that attacks John McCain on social security is brazen lie. More

Compare the way a lefty reporter was arrested at the RNC with police behavior in a communist country. Where's the outrage? More

Latest dispatch from the ''You-First'' department that unsheathes the cutting edge of socialized medical care cost containment. More

Isnt it odd that while the Iraqis are now handing female police officers guns our own media detests Palin because of her "gun-toting" ways? More

Most conservatives are perfectly willing to laugh at jokes about Republicans. But when a heavy dose of disdain is mixed in, the humor fades. More

TGDaily, a tech site, explains how the suspected Palin email hacker, 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, was caught. He used a proxy server supposed to anonymize his identity, but the owner... More

In one of his usual rapier-tipped analyses, Steve Gilbert debunks the AP article suggesting racists may cost Obama the election: More

There has been very little news coverage about the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, especially when compared to the saturation coverage that followed Katrina. More

The TVA, our FDR-era experiment in socialism, may soon need its debt ceiling expanded. More

Antimaw protestors appropriate the names or images of American soldiers who have died in service without explicit permission from -- or tacit approval of -- the families of those soldiers. This got personal for me yesterday. More

What follows is definitive proof that much of America is poised to elect a divisive, juvenile, and deceitful candidate for president More

Why on earth would a United States Senator fabricate an embellishment and claim that it was a drunk driver's fault, when the record clearly indicates it was not? More

Sometimes it is one decision at one moment that determines the game, and one decision at one moment that shapes history. The presidents of major Jewish organizations had that moment More

In ultra-liberal Austin, TX, McCain supporters have a problem with their lawn signs being vandalized. More

In 2008 the Washington Post reported (and its principal source was clearly Franklin Raines) that Raines was offering financial advice to Obama More

Our tax dollars are at work bashing Sarah Palin in state-funded higher education. More

Let's not forget Gawker which first published Palin's hacked emails More

Doug Ross has created a wonderful graphics series, a parody of the game of Monopoly he calls Obamonopoly, so anyone can understand the Obama/Fannie Mae/ACORN connections More

The Republican party is making a comeback in the polls More

The Detroit News has the answer: More

The Associated Press (AP) continues its arrogance in the Sarah Palin e mail hacking case More

Rangel parked a car in the House garage for years without paying the $290 a month fee. More

Jill Greenberg gets her just deserts. More

No official confirmation yet, but it appears that the suspected email hacker is David Kernell, son of a Democrat member of the Tennessee state legislature. More

No Hillary. No Palin. No Democrats. No guts. More

Don't you dare question their patriotism. More

As the Federal government considers significant new mandates on an already struggling automobile industry, problems loom. More

Joe Biden has given us a perfect illustration of how liberals see your money More

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has narrowly won election as Kadmima party head thus setting the stage for her ascension to the office of Prime Minister once she forms a coalition. More

Barack Obama is once again in the lead as this tight, unpredictable race for the president enters its final weeks. More

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman John Conyers' (D-NY) violation of the Congressional rules (and tax law) continues More

Barack Obama continues to dial up his trash talk, offering more evidence of his proclivity to use such language when under stress. More

This is one more sign of the disgraceful fall of the New York Times which has become just an adjunct of the Democratic Party. More

The decline in advertising revenues at the NYT accelerates again, and now the largest newspaper in New Jersey, the Star-Ledger of Newark, is threatening to shut down next January More

Could the woman, who a few short months ago was fiercely battling to take the most powerful position in the world, succumb to juvenile vanity? More

Check out this video with president of Fannie Mae discussing the close relations between the institution and the Black Caucus. There is no doubt that Fannie and Freddie are Democrat-dominated institutions.Hat tip: Milton More

If you're reading this article online, you probably do know about astroturfing, but your friends who are less computer savvy do not More

A group calling itself "anonymous" (sound familiar?) hacked into Sarah Palin's private Yahoo email account and posted excerpts online. More

A reader notices AT's associate editor's good call. More

North Korea is testing an engine that would be used on their long range missiles which could concievably hit cities on the US west coast: More

You don't have to be an economist to see that the Russian economy is in trouble, especially when the Kremlin shuts down both of its leading stock markets: More

Here is Carol Marin's take in the Chicago Sun-Times on the status of ethics reform in the new home of the national Democratic Party, Illinois, under the control of Barack Obama's mentor Emil Jones More

For some Hillary supporters, there's just no going home: More

Over 1,000 fake voter registration cards have been turned in in New Mexico and 6,000 cards remain to be examined. More

A nice plan - if a president has the determination to make it happen. More

Initial press reports indicate the United States Embassy attack in Sanaaa, Yemen was led by 6 individuals -- one using a suicide belt while other used Rocket Propelled Grenades More

Nearly 3 million names in a database that can be activated not only to raise money but go after Obama critics as well. More

The morning after Barack Obama raised $9 million from Hollywood swells at a Barbra Streisand fundraiser (@$28,500 a plate) is probably the best moment to review McCain's Revenge on Streisand. More

Guess which party? More

Every once in a while a blunt truth is spoken by CNN political analysts. Such a moment occurred yesterday More

I dream that at the opening of the first Presidential debate, John McCain turns and says directly to his opponent: More

Philly Daily News writer wants you to know you're a racist. More

The dynamic duo is back on the air looking at the presidential race. More

Thousands of callers deluge the Milt Rosenberg Show to try and stifle free speech. More

The press is missing in action when it comes to Obama-Biden's lies about what McCain said. More

Yesterday, 26 NATO ambassadors traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia's capital city, for a conference, even though last week, Russian's envoy said cancel and rethink what you are doing. More

John McCain was interviewed this morning on CNBC's Sqawk Box program about the Wall Street crisis. His "bipartisanship" has gone too far. More

M. Simon traces the funds Fannie Mae pumped into vote fraud specialists ACORN, and explains how that organization pressed for the grant of mortgages to unqualified buyers, leading to the subprime mortgage mess and Fannie Mae collapse. More

Taking a short break from politics, this is the weirdest space news I've ever read. More

CNN's Political Ticker reports that Obama is now using his teleprompter even for campaign rallies, as in this one held in a bull ring (how appropriate is that!) yesterday in Pueblo, CO. More

Does this remind anyone of the Edgar Allen Poe short story The Masque of the Red Death? More

Obama voted with the Democratic majority a whopping 96% of the time. More

Life imitates art. More

Can you believe the latest scandal over Sarah Palin? She installed a tanning bed in the governor's mansion and -- what's worse -- she paid for the contraption with her own money! More

The MSM is literally covering its coverage of Sarah Palin. More

Doug Ross reviews the remarkable record of Democrat fixer Jamie Gorelick in two of the major disasters of this era of American history. More

Gallup reports that the number of Americans who have no confidence in the media is at an all time high. More

At yesteday's SYLVANIA 300 NASCAR race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH., John McCain was fabulous. More

They are like a pack of slathering hounds ... aren't they? ... the mainstream media in its pursuit to tree Sarah Palin on some obscure issue. The More

Joe "Gaffe a minute" Biden has done it again. More

Buried all the way on page C4 of the Metro section the Washington Post reported yesterday on a rally Saturday. More

Once the emptiness of Obama's "Hope and Change" campaign was realized by the voters, the Democratic candidate for president had precious little substance to fall back on. More

Did the candidate violate the Logan Act? More

The Republican National Committee has nearly 6 times the amount of money on hand at the end of August as their Democratic party counterparts: More

He tax returns are hopelessly wrong, and he takes "ultimate responsibility" but blames his staff for the work he "delegated." More

This is an incredible story that pulls back the curtain on the media in a way that has never been done before. More

The Obama campaign and its media friends prefer to send his role in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge fiasco down the memory hole. It was not always so, and a newly-discovered video proves it. More

McCain may have an opportunity to show his leadership. More

Aided and abetted by his allies in the media and elsewhere, Obama is claiming that the McCain camp is lying about his bill to bring sex education to kindergartners. Really? More

Watching The View discuss politics is like watching the Mad Hatter's tea party. More

The National Review website has posted an extraordinarily profound interview with the novelist and writer Andrew Klavan where he discusses America's cultural war. More

A claimed witness with an alternative version of Barack Obama's "Wall Street" job after Columbia University has emerged. More

Lawrence Goldyn, Barack Obama's mentor during his freshman and sophomore years at Occidental College, speaks out about the young Obama in an interview More

Three scandals and you're out? More

Alaska "is essentially a welfare state taking money from the federal government," the fiercely partisan Paul Begala fumed on CNN More

Could it be that the McCain-Palin ticket is seeing a "Charlie Gibson bounce" in their poll numbers? Perhaps. More

An injustice is being righted. Or maybe not. More

As we head toward another election, ACORN is doing what it does best: handing in phony voter registrations and facilitating election fraud. More

Is this the best the New York Times can do in a hit piece? More

Who really cares about those less fortunate than they? More

Sometimes the people who write the law believe that they are above it. Case in point, Democrat Congressman Charles Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee More

Now that we've had full field MRIs of Palin, her family and their pets, perhaps the media could focus on the many missing aspects of Obama's bio. More

Charlie Gibson of ABC News applied very different standards to asking questions of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. A side-by-side comparison reveals laughable bias. More

Minnesota, largely written off by the GOP as hopelessly liberal, now is a dead heat between McCain and Obama, according to a new poll. More

This is a problem that has been simmering for years and is the next big challenge for the Iraqi government. More

They're the new terrorist kids on the block and they call themselves "Indian Mujaheddin." More

Bob Herbert of the New York Times castigates the "dimwittedness" of Palin supporters while flaunting his own laziness, ignorance, and/or dishonesty. More

Crunch time for Lehman Bros while the other big banks on Wall Street weigh their options More

Finally taking off the gloves in Pakistan while virtually ignoring their government. More

As it turns out, the Bush Doctrine (as enunciated by Charlie Gibson) has several aliases: the US Constitution, Public Law 107-40, and the Kerry Doctrine. More

What about all that rhetoric about helping little people? More

So many words that might be used to describe Barack Obama are being shouted down as being "racist". More

Freedom to believe, or even not to believe, is so protected by our Constitution, so integrated into our culture that luckily we don't, for the most part, even think about it. More

Michael Barone describes how John McCain has gotten a strategically superior position to the Obama campaign, and the cluelessness of Obama about this situation. More

The recent exchange between Sarah Palin and Charles Gibson on the topic of the Bush Doctrine has incited a spirited discussion in the MSM and the blogosphere about what exactly the "Bush Doctrine" means. More

As a recovering Baptist, I understand the look people like Sarah Palin receive because they are Pentecostal Christians. There were occasions when I to gave people that look, back when I believed the gifts of the Spirit were not meant for today. More

Those nice Minnesotans (and I have never met one that was not nice) will respond to this commercial. More

The Obama campaign's new ad mocking John McCain for not using email fails to recognize that because of the torture he endured as a prisoner of war, he is unable to use a typewriter keyboard. More

You gotta hand it to the global warming crowd. They have mind-bending gall. More

To her political enemies, Sarah Palin must be destroyed, even if it means humiliating her children by exposing their faults to a worldwide audience. More

By releasing an ad mocking John McCain's lack of IT skills, Barack Obama has offended millions of America's senior citizens who have never quite made the leap to the computer age. More

With Jewish voters no longer solidly in the Democratic camp, Richard Baehr is beginning a series of debates with leading Democratic Jewish figures Sunday night in suburban Chicago. More

Some surprising facts about the way Palin kept her religion out of policymaking. More

Even the mainstream media is noticing that this is the 4th or 5th time that Barack Obama has declared he is going to "fight back" against those mean, nasty Republicans. More

Yes, there really is an official Pagans for Obama group at the mybarackobama.com website. And tonight they plan a "magickal working." More

They aren't very subtle about it, are they? More

The Times TV columnist should stick to writing reviews of the latest "Survivor" series. More

Gallup reports a huge shift which may mean the end of the Democrats' control of the House of Representatives. More

Can't act, can't sing, can't dance. But she almost won the movie award for Best Jiggling. More

Enough enriched uranium to make 5-6 nuclear bombs has 'disappeared' from the Iranian enrichment plant at Isfahan. More

The One hangs with some of the richest people on the planet. More

Andrew Bolt of the Melbourne, Australia Herald-Sun does a masterful job pointing out the way major media are hyping scare headlines about Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson. More

The Sarah Surge is the second "Surge" that John McCain has correctly conceived of. More

For a campaign ostensibly offering a fresh and new voice, the Obama bunch certainly does a lot of borrowing of others' intellectual property. More

In last night's event at Columbia University, Judy Woodruff peddled some old tripe about the military being largely composed of poor and minorities. Not so and it's about time more "informed" people knew More

Now that even Obama has admitted that the surge in Iraq is a success, it is perhaps worth recalling just how alone - except for McCain - Bush was politically when he made that decision in January 2007. More

Much of the confusion about the substance of the Bush doctrine results from conflating the means of enforcing the Bush doctrine with the doctrine itself. More

Where were you on 9/11? More

The great and present danger now concerning the Canadian medical establishment apparently is not the cost of health care, but how Sara Palin's choice not to abort a Down syndrome baby will affect Canadian abortions. More

Need more proof that climate alarmism breeds insanity? More

Look who Obama was trying to give millions in taxpayer subsidies to. More

Why in heaven's name is Barack Obama going after Sarah Palin in the first place? Shouldn't he be targeting John McCain and George Bush instead? More

The smelly tree-worshipping protestors thwarting development of athletic facilities at the University of California have been skillfully plucked from their treetop aerie. More

A unique forum for a singular moment in the campaign. More

Barack Obama apparently wishes his two autobiographies to be the definitive record of his past. He has blocked efforts by others who wish to independently examine his past. More

It certainly looks like Democratic foot and mouth disease runs in families. More

Curious changes in the last week. More

How does being governor of Alaska stack up experience wise to, let's say, community organizing? More

Obama's Muslim Outreach Coordinator, Mazen Asbahi, resigned in August after only ten days in his position, when it was revealed that he had ties to groups associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. More

The New York Times has a new investor. More

While discarding Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has been cozying up to another problematic minister. More

Senator Joe Biden is now saying out loud what everybody is thinking: "Hillary Clinton might have been a better pick than me." More

It's hard to determine whether the ignorance, the childish reasoning or the arrogance was the most stunning aspect of actor Matt Damon's video about Sarah Palin that surfaced this week. More

In Virginia yesterday, Obama says religious beliefs shouldn't be examined. I can understand why. More

One can take the conclusions reached in this study on the effects of globalization and climate change several ways. More

Two authoritative sources are out with predictions of cooling. More

Remember when Hillary took Obama apart in the debate and he then made a speech where it was claimed he made a very rude gesture in reference to her? More

The New York Times destroys the jobs of 550 union members, replacing them with non-union labor. And not for the first time is the very wealthy Pinch Sulzberger squeezing money out of workers who weren't born to a hereditary fortune. More

Camille Paglia's take on Sarah Palin in Salon is generating lots of comment. More

There is yet another reason to vote the McCain/Palin ticket. More

If one needed any more convincing that Barack Obama is not the man to lead America, this Jonathan Freedman article in the left wing Guardian will do the trick. More

Barack Obama has again tried to remake history. More

The context gives their candidate some plausible deniability in that he can claim he was talking about the fake "change" offered by McCain-Palin. More

How much did Sarah Palin's convention jab at community organizers hurt community organizers and their supporters? More

No "blank checks" for Iraq? How about social programs? More

Code words and hidden references apparently only exist when people criticize The One. But who will buy this line? More

Here are a series of videos by Democrats who charge the caucus primaries were marked by violations of the rules and the elemental principles of a fair election. More

Barack Obama is trying a modified limited hangout strategy in handling his long history with William Ayers. More

Snidely Whiplashes, whiskers a twirl,/ Villainous mobs of media hacks,/ Frantically seek to tie down our girl,/ To their snobby elite railroad tracks; More

Obama claims that Vietnam was over an there was nothing going on when he says he had to have registered with the Selective Service in 1979. He's wrong. More

Barack Obama's proclivity to use trash talk when under stress, noted earlier on the American Thinker, continues More

Now we know how Senator Biden was able to afford to commute home every night on Amtrak. More

Please ensure that as many people in the great country of the United States sees this: More

Biden's gift of gab a boon to Republicans. More

How come the old big media has ignored Barack Obama's association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)? More

One of the loudest voice in denouncing "torture at Gitmo" now denies that John McCain suffered any discomfort at the Hanoi Hilton. More

The attacks on John McCain's Vice-Presidential running mate Sarah Palin are starting to get sillier and sillier More

As a prosecutor, I was impressed with Bill O'Reilly's interview of Obama relative to the surge. To put it bluntly, he put Obama in a box. More

Vital sea lanes close to home now face a Russian naval presence, with the potential to interfere with oil tanker traffic. More

Tonight's Rick Moran Show will feature a special roundtable discussion on Sarah Palin with almost the entire American Thinker editorial brain trust as guests. More

The entire National Broadcasting Corporation will have to be reconstructed before the hoped for (and needed) trend becomes an actual effort by the network to provide political coverage that remotely resembles "objective." More

Does Barack Obama suffer from multiple personality syndrome? More

Barack Obama's campaign has been over-spending, and is going back to donors for more. This is a preview of what taxpayers could expect in an Obama Administration, except that contributioons won't be voluntary. More

Let the "Swiftboating" begin! More

Not taking Hillary as Veep may turn out to be the biggest blunder in the history of American politics. More

Don't you love it when leftist unions accuse their own membership of being racists? More

Talk is cheap. Look at the vote in Congress when there was an opportunity to send the pork funding to help Katrina victims instead. More

The Annenberg Foundation's FactCheck.org group has been shooting down rumors about Palin spread by Obama supporters. More

No big surprise. More

Grown ups are always having to step in and clean up the messes left by the children. Such is the case all too often in our government. More

It's time to go on Obama Trash Talk Watch. He's demonstrated a proclivity toward using such language when under stress. More

Yet another prominent political figure joined the" Barack Obama is a Muslim" vicious smear campaign. More

Obama must be talking to himself about now... More

Could we be seeing the beginning of a trend? More

A good start to the week for McCain. More

Sunday Biden says life begins at conception. Over the weekend Obama said he'll not rescind the Bush tax cuts if the economy remained in trouble. Earlier on O'Reilly he said the surge did work. More

Obama and the United Nations: Kindred Spirits More

As a liberal-leaning Independent, I laugh at the recent cries by pundits and naysayers who question McCain's judgment in choosing Palin. McCain's judgment? What about Obama's judgment? More

When the media camped out in front of Senator Joe Biden's house on the day it was announced that he would be Barack Obama's running mate I wondered how did he afford his "family compound"? More

For the French, it's see no evil, hear no evil when it comes to attacks on Jews by Muslims More

Among the messes President Clinton made for President Bush to clean up, we can now add Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the housing loan crisis. More

If Nancy Pelosi was trying to make a point when she turned off the lights and microphones in The House and all the Democrats left town last month, it looks like the point made was the worst unemployment rate since 2001. More

The One concedes that raising taxes while the economy is in a delicate condition could harm growth. But you have to wade through his vague prose to find it. More

Look at who is spreading the vicious rumor that Barack Obama is of the Muslim faith. I trust the campaign will condemn this bigot and see to it that he is driven from the public stage. More

After shrinking the width of its print edition by 1.5 inches a year ago, the New York Times has announced it will be printing fewer sections More

If ever there was evidence that in order for John McCain to win this election he must make it about national security it is this recent survey done by the Democratic pollsters The Third Way: More

Michelle Malkin debunks a list of books Sarah Palin supposedly tried to ban in 1996. More

Nick Cohen writing in The Guardian has some words of wisdom for his friends on the left regarding attacks on Sarah Palin: More

Kyle-Anne Shiver focuses her magnifying glass on the press and its treatment of Sarah More

How did Sarah Palin celebrate her victory in the Alaska governor's race? More

The GOP base, tired of the smears and outright falsehoods against Sarah Palin being advanced by the press, have taken to razzing the media at campaign events: More

Where does one go with such a transparent pander? With such loopy logic? More

The devil for Obama in this poll is in the details. More

Remember the dust-up before the conventions about how many houses the McCain family owned? More

While the Democrat elite and their lackeys in the elite MSM media salivate at the thought of interviewing Governor Palin, they seem to forget that she has been interviewed often by the national press and has done very well. More

The left has gone hebephrenic. This term, new to me, captures much of what we see on cable news. More

Frank Rich, the drama critic turned political pundit, has a bad case of PDS today in the New York Times. More

It's time to go on Obama Trash Talk Watch. He's demonstrated a proclivity toward using such language when under stress. More

Actions do speak louder than words. Democrats tossed 12,000 American flags in the garbage following their convention. More

This is clearly the must-watch video of the day. If you click it, stay the entire two minutes. I promise you the time is well-spent. More

The Democrats, supported by their allies in the old big media, never tired of highlighting Vice President Dick Cheney's absence of military service. What about Joe Biden? More

Charles Rangel writes the tax laws as head of the House Ways and Means Committee. But niceties like actually paying the taxes and reporting significant gifts are apparently for Republicans and the little people. More

The left and the media are in a self-destructrive frenzy. More

McCain's acceptance speech Thursday night was in part a sermon on human redemption. M. Simon makes the case. More

Eyewitness to history. More

The deployment of female surrogates to counter Palin shows Obama's fear of the Alaskan governor's appeal. More

What exactly has Barack Obama done for his constituents when it comes to jobs? More

The national press corps is beginning to get a taste of the anger they have created among a large percentage of the American public over their treatment of Sarah Palin. More

Thomas Sowell thoughtfully loks at the issue of "experience". More

As they say in Chicago "Move along, nothing to see here. Move along!" More

Iowahawk has the definitive defense of community organizers which includes useful information like this: More

In response to Rudy Giuliani's and Sarah Palin's convention jibes at The O's experiences as a community organizer, the Obama campaign is issuing statements of outrage More

Last night, September 4, on CNN's Larry King Live Show, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced a startling scientific discovery More

Oprah Winfrey and her TV staff are reportedly in turmoil over whether or not to invite Sarah Palin. The wrong decision would change the nature of her brand, transforming her into a perceived partisan and an implicit antagonist of a large segment of her female audience. More

The numbers tell the story: "An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period." More

Failure to report an income stream from luxury vacation rental property overeseas for 20 years? Hey, it could happen to anyone. Middle America is sure to understand. More

How badly did Jann Wenner's Us Weekly misjudge his readers? Badly enough that the magazine may be on the rocks for its unfair treatment of Sarah Palin More

The three adult children who took turns disrupting John McCain's acceptance speech last night are now being heralded as heroes by some left wing blogs. More

The agenda journalism of the New York Times spins Barack Obama's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor More

The media would have you believe that Sarah Palin went negative, unlike the sunny unifier Barack OBama. It just ain't so. More

The party's over. The balloons have fallen. I spoke on Al Jazeera. And the anarchists are all safely home in bed (after a good week of mayhem) More

There are substantial elements of conservatism who have lost the thread. This is no longer simply another campaign, to be parsed and analyzed like any other campaign. The assault on the Palin family has transformed it into a moral confrontation. More

Okommissars dour crave total power,/ An iron hand to rule this nation,/ Not to debate but incarcerate/ Those guilty of deviation. More

Okay, now I must admit that I've seen it all. Today, I received this from those folks at Media Matters, who now have the task of protecting the back of one Barack Obama More

Thomas Lifson, publisher and editor of American Thinker, emailed me Wednesday morning and asked me if I wanted to appear on Al Jazeera TV. More

Having failed in their attempts to label Sarah Palin a Nazi sympathizer, lefties are now working to safeguard their crucial Jewish voting block by fabricating a Jeremiah Wrightish problem for the Republican VP candidate. More

Some in the media are sulking over the public backlash to their outrageous treatment of Sarah Palin her in the first few days of her national role. More

Throwing everything at Palin hoping something sticks More

We have heard quite a lot over the past year about Barack Obama's fundraising prowess. But the good times may be over. More

Do you remember when "change" meant "get out of Iraq"? More

Who was that protester who stormed the stage last night? A mega-bundler for Barack Obama from the group Code Pink. More

In ultra-liberal Austin, Texas, an Obama-style high school program has been unveiled: It pays poorly performing students $6-a-hour to get free after-school tutoring! More

The New York Sun advises readers it may have to cease publication by the end of September unless it secures additional financing. More

A new television ad attacking John McCain as unfit for the presidency because of his POW experience once again demonstrates the thick-headedness of the left. More

The smug laughter among liberal elites at Sarah Palin is quieting down, replaced by low moaning. More

Conventional wisdom has it that nobody ever votes for a vice presidential pick. It may be wrong this year. More

AT's correspondent in St. Paul Larrey Anderson will be a guest panelist on al Jazeera television's worldwide English language service, following the Sarah Palin speech tonight. It can be seen on cable and satellite television and on the web. More

Biden lashed out at those who would impugn his Israel credentials, saying, "I take a backseat to no one -- including AIPAC -- when it comes to supporting Israel." More

Anarchists have set the terms for transportation of delegates and media at the Republican National Convention. The buses carrying the RNC delegates to and from the Xcel Energy Center are being rerouted off of the freeways "for security reasons." More

Churning the waters, trying to create a movement in the press to dump Palin More

After a rather subdued first night, the Grand Old Party sent out a couple of warhorses to rally the troops and ratchet up the enthusiasm level to prepare the ground for Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech tonight. More

Why doesn't the media turn their attention to the lack of vetting of Senator Biden? More

Obama hopes to bring the lessons of the failed lefty boondoggle he ran knwon as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to your schools if elected: More

The Democrats seem to be stuck in a 1950's time-warp where mothers must necessarily stay home (perhaps to live off welfare checks?), all children must be perfect (or hidden from society), and unplanned pregnancies must be quickly and quietly terminated. More

Congressman Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's surrogate spokesman to the Jews, distorts the truth when it suits him -- as he did when he slurred Sarah Palin as being a Pat Buchanan supporter. More

Barack Obama continues to embarrass himself with serious misreading of the law and the Constitution. More

The Governor's speech tonight is the biggest of her career. What will or should she say? More

Our on-site correspondent rates the speakers on Day One of the RNC, as seen from the cheap seats. More

Christopher Orr pens a great piece in The New Republic: "The case against the case against Palin." More

AT editor Thomas Lifson will be a guest on KSFO radio's Morning Show with Lee Rodgers at 8:05 AM PDT Wednesday. The show can be heard on the internet More

Secrecy News reports that the prosecution is trying to prevent a key government witness from testifying on behalf of the defendants in the AIPAC case More

Joe Lieberman's was by far the best speech I've yet seen in both conventions. More

The Palin is anti-Israel smear campaign actually began just hours after Friday's Veep announcement. More

Next to the far-left protestors' stage (located conveniently in front of the state capitol in St. Paul) is an anti-war memorial. Pairs of boots have been carefully arranged on the grass. More

One thing seems certain: the far-left has been pandered to and pampered by the local authorities at both the political conventions. More

Could the Palin candidacy be instigating a split in the ordinarily-monolithic liberal mainstream media? More

The left blogosphere is outraged! Do they think the left is exempt from the duty to obey police officers in the performance of their security duties? More

You just can't keep a bad reverend down. More

An investigation by US military and state department officials has found that the death toll from an attack last month that has soured relations with the Afghan government is far less than either Kabul or the United Nations has claimed. More

While you might have been pre-occupied with Labor Day celebrations or political conventions, there have been a few other things going on in the world. Things just seem to be going our way. More

It is rare that we are witnesses to the kind of smear campaign launched against Sarah Palin by Democrats, the left, and the media. More

Supporters of Israel, already smarting from Barack Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, and Zbigniew Brzezinski (among others), are beginning to breathe sighs of relief about Sarah Palin's joining John McCain on the GOP ticket. More

Even though there are thousands of people still dealing with the aftermath of hurricane Gustav, the Republicans have decided to go ahead with a full convention schedule while reminding the country of the victims of the storm: More

An interesting contrast: More

The left, driven mad by McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, has already tried a number of Sarah Palin smears, with more to follow. The conservative blogosphere is keeping track. More

She's running against old Scranton Joe,/ Whose blue-collar pedigree we all know,/ Because mainstream media says it's true,/ Though facts don't quite support that view. More

Contrary to all the pictures -- which I admit, make it look just as if Governor Palin is a woman -- I need to raise this urgent question for our friends on the Left. More

After the Clan of Donkeys picked their champions in the race for Potus and Potus, Jr., the Clan of Elephants gathered for the same reason. More

"You would rather have McCain and his 'white trash' VP who can't even properly rear her own children" More

Sarah Palin can argue for energy development very effectively. She is immune from criticism for being a tool of Big Oil More

Why did not The One stand on the shore and command the hurricane to turn about? More

Will there be any public celebration in St. Paul? More

The far-left is making its presence known here at the RNC in St. Paul. Smoke bombs thrown, protestors linking themselves together.... The anarchists are at it. Exclusive photos! More

Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter Bristol is pregnant. Now, what to do to combat the sure-to-appear catcalls about Palin being a believer in abstinence and a devout Christian? More

Haartez, the left wing Israeli newspaper, quotes Joe Biden as telling Israeli leaders in effect to like it or lump it when it comes to Iran getting nukes More

While the media heaps guilt upon the GOP for weather events, it is worthwhile remembering the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave which took 600 -- 700 lives. What did Barack Obama do or even say? More

Republicans are acting as if everything that went wrong in Louisiana when Katrina hit is their entire fault. More

Mobs riot, burn stores and cars, threaten lives... oh, wait a minute. These are Christians, not members of the Religion of Peace. More

A disturbing incident in Pakistan concerning "traditional", pre-colonial, state-sanctioned Islamic barbarity toward women More

As Gustav makes its final approach to the gulf, the political ramifications shift with every wobble of the storm itself. More

Alan Colmes, it appears is an expert on obstetrics. Missing but captured by Wizbang from his website is his blog indicating Palin's last child suffered from poor pre-natal care by his mother More

Barack Obama is beginning a walk back on his preposterously untrue former claims that Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood More

The best defense is a good offense. More