The following comes to us from a GOP campaign worker in a heavily-contested battleground state. More

Back in the USSR, they sent dissidents to psychiatric confinement; in ultra-blue Marin County, they suspend them from school and send them for "psychological evaluation." More

The Obama campaign has booted three right-leaning newspapers off their plane. All three endorsed John McCain for president. More

Even when making more than $250,000, he gave away less than 1 percent to charity until he became a millionaire More

The latest whitewash of members of the ring of rogues around Barack Obama is delivered by the New York Times this morning. More

Obama's promises are like quicksand - they always seem to shift just as you think you have him pegged. More

The pitfalls of Obama's cult of personality More

Florida--the miracle state, where senior citizens go to retire and live forever. More

For months, many in the media have been insinuating that if whites do not vote for Barack Obama, or if Obama loses, it must be because white Americans are racist. More

There isn't a redder state in America than Idaho. That hasn't stopped the Democrats from breaking the law. More

Joe Wurzelbacher will help carry McCain to the Presidency, just as Hal Halvorsen helped carry President Truman to his successful 1948 reelection. More

What is on that tape of Rashid Khalidi's going away party? More

This is not good news for the economy, the country, or the candidacy of John McCain : More

What was so interesting about Joe the Plumber? His political party maybe? More

J. Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy reports on another constituency for Obama. More

ACORN used Obama and DNC donor lists to solicit for their own organization. More

Democrat turnout is high in Florida's early voting, but look at how many of them are voting for McCain, accoprding to an LAT/Bloomberg report. More

A promise is a promise. More

I have believed all throughout this campaign, and still do, that if Barack Obama goes into the final weekend leading by less than 5%, he's finished More

Investors Business Daily devotes its entire front page and two editorial pages to reprinting an American Thinker column today. More

House Democrats have once again slipped up by allowing us a glimpse of the brave new world of Obamanomics and complete Democratic control of Congress. More

It seems that Obama has more relatives in need than his shanty-living half-brother in Kenya. More

Money ties between the Obama campaign and ACORN have come to light. More

The trend is McCain's friend if you analyze the latest Rasmussen results. More

This is a dangerous move with a lot of downside potential. More

Iran is looking to become an imperial, aggressive power in the region. More

Some brave IAEA officials dared to disagree with Mohammed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning official, and will present a report to the IAEA board on some new findings in Syria. More

Hopeless about his changes. More

Will Americans really elect a president at such a perilous time, who seems to be clueless about foreign affairs, especially with regard to Israel and the Middle East? More

Follow the money - unless it leads somewhere you don't want it to go. More

The Obama-Biden definition of those greedy people who have the audacity to earn so much that they must be taxed is rapidly shifting downward. More

It helps the media to have friendly faces who have access to personal records - even if they're Obama supporters. More

A possible context for Joe Biden's words comes from an unexpected quarter. More

There is a person very close to me who I thought would vote for Barack Obama. She votes in Missouri, a state that is important in this election. More

Lt Col Allen West, an African American Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 22d Congressional District, must be gaining on Democrat Ron Klein. More

In the long term, the damage done by an Obama administration and a Democrat controlled congress will not be economic. It would be constitutional damage, judicial damage, moral damage. More

Rich Baehr is back in the second chair for "The Rick Moran Show" More

Warren Throckmorton has noticed something odd and invites us to connect the dots: More

For the third time in a row Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden's thin skin and arrogance have been exposed by a woman. More

Could the Bradley Effect be amplified by kids at home who would nag the parents if they told a pollster that they support McCain? More

A painful lesson for Syria in the art of being a good neighbor. More

Obama's dream of having the courts redistribute wealth could become a nightmare reality. More

Former Nebraska governor and US Senator Bob Kerrey holds Barack Obama (whom he supports) accountable for his obvious hypocrisy on campaign finance reform. More

It looks as if some of the messiah's Euro-buddies aren't all that impressed with The One's foreign policy. More

So far as I can tell, no one has ever figured out how to simultaneously grow an economy and reduce the gap between rich and poor. More

Politico reports that the Senate might play a game of musical chairmanships should Barack Obama become President. More

It's right on Amazon -- the new book by Weatherman bomb throwers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who sponsored Barack Obama's political coming-out party in Chicago leftwing politics. And no, it's not something Ayers and Dohrn wrote when Obama was eight years old. It's a book that is timed to come... More

According to Rasmussen, half of all voters believe that the William Ayers issue has harmed the campaign... the McCain campaign. More

Tough questions mean no further access. Only lapdogs get access. More

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, locked in a tight re-election race, was convicted of 7 counts of making false statements to the FBI regarding the non payment of improvements on his house More

Paulson is reportedly considering the expansion of bailout funds to insurance companies, automotive companies, securities dealers, and U.S. subsidies of foreign companies. More

Using tactics that would get any maker of sugary cereal in trouble, the Obama campaign shamelessly targets immature minds. More

Do you want to hear more of Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama's real political ideas and thoughts before he became Obamessiah? More

Josh Gerstein, formerly with the NY Sun , has a new blog, and begins with an interesting update on the AIPAC case. More

Ohio state rep Josh Mandel is being attacked for his religion. More

Not much good news from the brain behind supply side economics. More

A few extra dollars in the pocket of the American consumer may not make a happy voter but a less agitated one. More

All I can say is "Wow." More

Tax paying for thee, not for me. More

Did well connected Democrats conspire with Haitian dictator Aristide to rip off Haiti? Mary Anastasia O'Grady has an intriguing report in the Wall Street Journal More

This report of death threats against a pollster finding positive data for McCain is disturbing, if true. More

If recent trends continue Hollywood may be looking for a government handout. More

US forces have apparently attacked terrorist forces within Syria, pursuing them following their activites inside Iraq. More

I just watched again this speech given by Ronald Reagan in 1964 on behalf of Barry Goldwater about a week before that election. It is amazing how relevant it is today. More

I am not only a lifelong Democrat, I am a former party activist--precinct delegate, state platform committee, county party committee, etc. And I'm voting for McCain. More

The Newark Star-Ledger reportedly plans to reduce its newsroom staff by half More

One of Obama's media sheep gets taken down by a real journalist. More

Susanna Chung Forest, the designer of Hillary Clinton's pantsuits, has inadvertently solved the mystery of why Democrats are mocking Republicans for spending $150,000 on clothing and accessories for Governor Sarah Palin. More

Maybe he wants to beat Obama to the punch. More

A "circular firing squad?" Or a vital debate about the future of conservatism? More

Your assignment today is to read this brilliant article by Mark Levin writing at The Corner More

Obama's Chicago is murder capital of the country. And he did precious little to help prevent that from happening. More

Gateway Pundit avers that Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times confirmed to him in a telephone call that his newspaper has a videotape of Barack Obama at an event with Rashid Khalidi at which Israel-bashing takes place. More

There's a good reason why the normally left Minnesota paper endorses the Republican senatorial incumbent. More

The guy is kind of sure of himself, don't ya think? More

The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Philip Berg's lawsuit to compel the production of the Obama birth certificate has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick . More

Gaffetastic! More

There are "lifelong" Republicans and then there are the liars. Why do the latter seem to end up on television? More

It looks like not everything about Joe was "available on the internet" More

Robert Malley will almost certainly end up being a key advisor on the Middle East for a President Obama. More

Add another "Republican" to the list of Obama voters. This one was Charles Fried, Reagan's Solicitor General, Harvard Law professor and supporter of John McCain until at least last January. More

A serious sickness infects a part of the American left, which seems to gain satisfaction from violent fantasies about its opponents. More

Barack Obama today received the blessing from one of the more important nutcases in the Iranian government. More

Don't say Republicans didn't warn you. More

At least they haven't killed any Americans today. More

The Republican Party has decided to not help re-elect a 100% American Conservative Union Congresswoman. More

Too bad John McCain hasn't used the declining share prices and junk bond status of the NYT in his campaign, especially after that trash piece about Cindy McCain last weekend. More

A book by Obama advisor Daniel Kurtzer offers clues to how Obama might negotiate. More

A 1995 radio interview with Barack Obama contains some interesting verbiage on the subject of race and salvation. Listen for yourself here. More

Did Joe Biden alert us to an impending international crisis, or did we just dream that? More

"Garbage-in, garbage-out" finds a new meaning, as the decline of its journalistic practice is now matched by the New York Times Company's financial status. More

So now the Times has to own up to the fact that its dismissive attitude towards criticism of ACORN was wrong. More

Methinks they doth protest too much. More

So did "Nodda Realperson, John Galt, and a probably a few million others fakes. More

The Court of Appeals in New York has upheld the eviction of Bianca Jagger , a foreigner who visits the U.S. on a tourist visa, from the 20 year tenancy of a rent stabilized apartment More

John McCain must have realized he was creeping up in the polls again, because he's quickly putting a stop to that. More

The death spiral accelerates, as NYTCo earnings fell by 51.4% in the third quarter. As AT predicted would happen after it was raised, the company now recognizes it is unable to sustain its dividend. More

The Obama campaign site appears to have been deliberately set up to accept donations from those who are not legally qualified to make them. More

That was the plan of the Weather Underground after taking power. The same Weather Underground headed by Barack Obama's friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. More

The brilliant scholar and American Thinker contributor supplies a lesson to the left in 'nuance.' More

Welcome news from a very troubled part of the world. More

The cable network swears it's non-partisan. Must've had their fingers crossed on that one. More

In his own words: he's a revolutionary communist. And he has never regretted his actrions or changed his views. More

The deliberate attempt by liberals to sabotage our intelligence efforts has cost thousands of lives. More

Politico reports that the good news for John McCain is that he's now receiving as much attention from the national media as his Democratic rival. The bad news is that it's all negative. More

A novel excuse by a high level Democrat who couldn't file his tax returns. More

The Hill.com introduced what could become a key media motif in the week before the election: If you vote against Obama, you could cause a riot. More

James Simpson, author of the influential article Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis, will be the guest at 7 PM Eastern time on the Dave Glover show, 97.1 FM in St. Louis. An internet feed is available. More

The author of the famous "Lexington" column in The Economist has some interesting advice for John McCain. More

Bruce Heiden, professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University, makes the fascinating claim in his website "The Postliberal" that Barack Obama agrees with my assertion that he did not actually write his own memoir. More

I think some people are going to riot even if Obama wins. More

An editorial columnist for the Kansas City Star shows us what would likely become the default defense against criticism leveled at a President Obama's administration. It'll be about racism. More

John Berlau's appearance today on Your World with Neil Cavuto has been postponed, owing to coverage of the 500 point decline in the DJIA. More

Two terrorist sympathizers and the presidential candidate. Nothing to see here...move along... More

This looks to me like an ACORN effort to pawn off countless incidents of wrongdoing as the result of just sloppy work or the misdeeds of a handful of officers. More

Who says journalists don't investigate any more? The AP is getting to the bottom of Sarah Palin's children traveling with her on state business. More

Girding his loins for a final push in 3 key states More

The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama on hotair.com. More

It isn't only Israeli Jews who would feel the hostility from advisors in an Obama Administration. More

Everyone who is planning to vote Democrat in order to punish Republicans for the economic meltdown needs to watch this video clip. More

Greasing the vote in Philadelphia. More

The mainstream media has been nagging Sarah Palin to apologize for stating that people in North Carolina are patriotic. But they have said little about Democrat Congressman John Murtha calling the people of western Pennsylvania "racists" and "rednecks." More

Pay to play, that is being required to pony up a campaign contribution in order to get access to political power, has been the Chicago way of politics for decades. More

A little love note to Palin from our friends on the left. More

Media says about 10,000 attended the event in Mesa County, Colorado. This account from Hillary's people has it about right ... somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 More

Last Sunday, when Joe Biden predicted that a President Obama would soon be tested by one of our enemies he displayed dated crisis management notions. More

Maybe all of the news about the recently passed bailout bill isn't bad. Senator Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) was able to sneak wording into prior legislation that will make it difficult for the Democrats to smuggle the bailout money to groups like ACORN. More

Robbing Peter to pay Paul - except Peter is already in the hole. More

The "Corrections" column of the New York Times today contains an extraordinary admission that one of its writers deliberately misrepresented a study and misquoted a source. More

A journalist writes about how the press has squandered its credibility, first over Iraq and now with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac as it hypes the prospects of Barak Obama. More

Quin Hillyer of the DC Examiner is asking whether we have public servants or stealth political partisans inside the Department of Justice. "In all, DOJ lawyers and staff in the metro area have donated at least $150,000 to Obama. " More

Do you think Obama is having second thoughts about having chosen this dunce? More

Nothing like uplifting rhetoric to counter those "mean" Republicans More

Every breaking story about the economy is just chock full of bad news. Or should I say bad speculations? When it comes to real data, the bad news would rather play hide and seek. More

I'm voting Democrat because like most Americans I trust lawyers more than anyone else; I think only lawyers should run the government, and all the Democrat Leaders are lawyers More

Perhaps they should pay as much attention to Ayers as they do McCain's health. More

The results of the Military Times 2008 Election Poll of the professional core (careerists) of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines are fascinating. Check out the demographic breakdown. More

Catholics (but not the Church itself) have responded with a request to the devout to email and circulate a video that captures both their faith -- and their belief in America. More

After reading about the numerous and widespread accusations of voter fraud being engaged by ACORN in this election I started thinking if Obama does manage to pull this off it still isn't quite over. More

Secrecy News has an update on the interminable and meritless case against two former AIPAC officials:...in an August 20 response (pdf) that was redacted and unsealed last week, the defense not only denied guilt but also said it would prove that no crime had been committed:"Defendants will... More

Not only is ACORN exploiting us by its outrageous practices abetting vote fraud and mortgage manipulation, but it appears it exploits its very own workers. More

How stupid is Joe Biden? At least Sarah Palin never made a campaign commercial for her opponent. More

Patrick Flynn's poster mocking the famous Obama "Hope" poster with the face of Joe and the word "Pipe" is now available on Café Press, with all profits sent directly to Joe. More

Barack Obama intends to immediately impose draconian measures (using the EPA) on the American economy in a Don Quixotian effort to fix the fiction of man made global warming. More

Amazingly the NYT acknowledges how great and varied a role Clinton appointee Henry Cisneros played in America's housing disaster. More

A shady land deal just got a lot shadier. More

Has anybody noticed that the "Eleventh Commandment" has dropped out of public discourse in recent months? More

The failures in the financial crisis had little to do with capitalism and everything to do with government intervention in the markets. More

One side has money to pay for help, while the other needs volunteers. More

A poll counts heads. One way of doing that is to call people up and ask them about their political views. Another way is to see who shows up at rallies. More

Democrats are in for the fight of their lives if they seek to make good on their promise to reinstitute a Fairness Doctrine. More

He can't even smear Republicans, so inept he is. More

In a clear sign of desperation, the Obama campaign has called a halt to all debates before Jewish groups with representatives of the Republican Jewish Coalition. More

He certainly wouldn't be the first. More

AT contributor Humberto Fontova will be a guest ont he KSFO Morning Show on San Francisco's KSFO radio at 8 AM Pacific, 11 AM Eastern time, to discuss Fidel Castro's endorsement of Obama. An internet feed is available. More

Today on NBC's Meet the Press, Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama and walked off his long patrol with the political party that made his career. More

Senator Chuck Schumer took a highly unusual step of publicly criticizing a bank, sparking a run on it, just as big Democrat hedge fund donors were examining assets of the bank in hopes of buying them on the cheap should the bank fail. More

Nothing more than a creepy coincidence, of course, but the famous Obama hand salute does have an interesting precursor. More

Although Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama is no surprise, it does have some impact on the election. Now it's Lieberman's turn to match that impact. More

No one is surprised. No one cares. More

More evidence that the Democratic candidate for President is a liar. More

"Weird" goings on in Lake County, IL with voter registrations. More

Obama's fundraising numbers boggle the imagination More

There could be worse choices - but it's hard to think of any at the moment. More

An Illinois high school elects a Down Syndrome student as Homecoming Queen More

Barack Obama voted three times against the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (IBAIPA). He has claimed over and over again that the reason he voted against IBAIPA was because the bill was unnecessary. He is lying. More

Perhaps Palin's being set up as the "fall girl." Should McCain lose, who will be to blame? The consrefative pundits who told us McCain could win will need a scapegoat. More

It is nothing short of stunning this election year to read and listen to some of our most noted national conservatives demonstrate no practical understanding of conservative America. More

The conservatism schism is in full bloom. More

The current Presidential election is the first one in which two non-incumbents face each other under the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform law, technically known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.How well it is working is largely summed up in the International Herald Tribune .Barack Obama... More

Thugocracy describes what's been happening to an average, 35-year old American citizen named Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who lives in Holland, Ohio. More

It is unfortunate that the real, complex reasons for this crisis have been lost in the simple minded sophistry offered up by the Democrats and the Obama campaign. More

This is the title of an AP "news" article: Poll: Voters souring on McCain, Obama stays steady. More

A classic move right out of the Chicago political handbook. More

An oxymoron to be sure More

This is the quote of the day. More

Ohio Republicans aren't giving up. More

Kathryn Jean Lopez has, in a few hundred words posted on Friday's NRO, succeeded in saying more about Palin and her effect on current politics than any other commentator associated with the Manhattan conservative bunker crowd. More

As an indepent (sic), I am appauled (sic) what you truly represent. I used to think the democrats were the real enemy, but I finally woke up to reality. You are the worse of the 2 evils, period! More

The Telegraph reports that the much heralded shlep to Florida by grandchildren to persuade their grandparents to vote for Obama was a bust. More

Next he'll accuse Joe of "clinging" to his wrench. More

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifrer Brunner and ACORN have been handed a stunning victory by the US Supreme Court. More

General Jim Jones would be a bad choice as advisor More

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, you did us all a great service. Because of this brave act I now know how much you made in 2006, that you are divorced, you wouldn't have been all that affected by Obama's tax plan, you're not a papered plumber in Ohio, and you're 34. More

The New York Times has a predictable editorial in this morning's edition. According to NYT, Acorn is nothing but the voter registration branch of the Salvation Army. And John McCain is doing his damndest to keep poor people from voting. More

They can scream at the US and call us names but when push comes to shove and their economies are at stake, suddenly abiding by Kyoto just doesn't seem like such a good idea after all. More

Fresh from calling his western Pennsylvania constituents racists and issuing a stuttering non-apology, Representative John Murtha (D-PA) cancelled a debate with his Republican opponent, retired Army Lt. Col. Bill Russell. More

The Washington Post endorses Obama in a rather half-hearted and apologetic fashion. More

One would hope Rep. Waxman might investigate people besides his political enemies. More

The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, VA reveals a fascinating contrast between the Obama and McCain campaigns - one costs the host city money, while the other doesn't. More

If you exhale, you may be breaking the law... More

The Associated Press (AP) is being dumped by the Tribune Company. More

I'd like to think there are tens of millions of Joe the Plumbers out there -- men and woman -- dreaming about working their tails off, of working for themselves. . More

This afternoon ABC's Charlie Gibson reported on his hourly radio news report the results of his network diggin' dirt on Joe the Plumber. More

CBS Channel 2 TV in Chicago has reported on the Obama Campaign's plans to host a huge victory party in Chicago's Grant Park on election-day evening. This could be a problem. More

KIRO in Seattle reports that 24,000 illegal felons will probably be sent out ballots even though they are ineligible to vote. In fact, some have already voted this year More

An excellent counterpoint to the Thomas Frank piece yesterday. More

Well, isn't this a surprise: Representative John P. Murtha (D-PA) apologized for labeling his fellow Pennsylvanians--just the western ones of course--racists. But, no surprise, then he called them racists again. More

Does Joe have cause for alarm? More

When a politician says they're going to raise your taxes, what they really mean is they're going to raise tax rates. Lost on the minds of Democrats and Barack Obama is the fact that an increase in federal tax rates does not necessarily mean an increase in federal tax revenues. More

An ordinary guy from Ohio just might prove to be a game changer. More

The root of substance is the Latin substantia, which means exactly as it is constructed: "that which stands beneath the surface," i.e., the essence of a person or thing. More

When you're down in the polls, asking your supporters not to give up is good politics. More

Secret Service: No one shouted 'Kill him" at McCain PA rally More

Obama lead down to 4: 50-46. 8 point lead a week ago. Among those certain: a tie 41-41. More

If you did not see Diane Sawyer interview Joe the Plumber (7:15 am central), you need to watch it here. More

Ohio's court ruling may prevent massive voter fraud -- and the court's ruling is vitally important to ensure the integrity of the vote. More

Although Ohio's Secretary of State Brunner said she'd abide by the Sixth Circuit's ruling that she was not complying with the law in refusing to advise country poll offices of problems in new registrations (200,000 of them are facially defective),Ohio has filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court More

Thoughts on the debate. More

Our Thinkers have their say tonight on the debate. More

The Obama Campaign has released its talking points for tonight's debate. They blend misdirection, obfuscation and fuzzy math. More

Join AT pundits and the great commenters for the third presidential debate. More

"I sat on the other side of the glass and realized...this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and its time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy...." More

As if we don't have enough problems already... More

The New York Times tries to whitewash Democratic responsibility for the housing disaster in today's editorial "Misplaced Blame" by holding that the Community Reinvestment Act is blameless for the problems that beset America. More

An unfortunate coincidence for Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist who married the daughter of a billionaire real estate developer. More

Legitimate concerns about the policies and character of Barack Obama are being caricatured as examples of persecution via "guilt by association" More

Wow. Just, wow. More

The group Let Freedom Ring has posted a one minute ad questioning Obama's plans and qualifications. It strikes me as very effective More

The man who wrote the book "What's the Matter with Kansas" has one of the most nauseating defenses of Bill Ayers I've ever read in the Wall Steet Journal today More

Even with the CBS/NYT latest poll preposterously proclaiming a 13% lead for Obama, John McCain can still end up the hero of this prolonged passion play. More

An agreement on the status of forces (SOF) in Iraq has been reached in draft form between the US and Iraqi governments: More

It looks like ACORN and the Ohio Secretary of State will not be able to guarantee a fixed election after all More

The latest on polls and analysis from three of the best. More

In academic leftist circles, it has become a badge of honor to proclaim support for unrepentant terror bomber Bill Ayers. More

Freddie Krueger might be an improvement over Obama More

One last chance to get the connection before the voters. More

Love is a many splendored thing... More

Can you get "partially pregnant?" More

Jesse Jackson thinks he knows what Obama has in mind. More

Can't we let the old bigot lie in peace? More

Stanley Kurtz's examination of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge provides us evidence of the sort of educational policies Barack Obama funded when handing out scores of millions of charitable dollars More

Tell me again exactly who is casting a vote based on race. More

An 8th grade literature class in Racine, WI is already using a new textbook which carries a fifteen page section ("Out of Many, One") solely about Obama. There are no pages dedicated to other contemporary U.S. politicians. More

SDS radicals meet big city machine politics, and produce a leading presidential candidate and financial chaos. More

A plumber asks Barack Obama about higher taxes, and the candidate responds that it's good to spread the wealth around. Watch it and see. More

We've seen considerable left wing hyperventilation over an alleged "mob" mentality at McCain-Palin rallies. It is worthwhile taking a look at this five minute video. More

James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal's opinionjournal.com site today criticizes my blog post of three days ago. More

For all those who refused to vote for the Republicans in 2006 and turned Congress over to the Democrats because of the trumped up Foley "scandal", here's some news: More

Stocks up - for the moment. But what of tomorrow when the credit markets open? And what price have we paid? More

Hugo Chavez has ruined the Venezuelan oil industry. More

One of the oldest tricks in politics -- at least on the left -- is to accuse your enemy of that which you are most guilty. More

Turkey's violation of Iraqi territorial sovereignty causes few ripples in Baghdad. More

This trend may or may not mean much, but Obama's numbers appear to have peaked a few days back. More

AT contributor Steven M. Warshawsky will be the guest on the KSFO Morning Show at 11:05 AM Eastern Time, 8:05 AM Pacific, discussing his recent article on polling. An internet feed is available More

If the Bill Ayers controversy involving Barack Obama harks back to events before you were born, you may wonder what all the noise surrounding his affiliation with Bill Ayers and his wife is about. More

Reducing her policy to "drill, baby, drill" may make her ignorant opponents feel better but it is far from the truth. More

Must be a new category: the prize for "Distinguished Hate Speech" More

Iran has its own ideas about preconditions. Will Obama accept? More

The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States recorded its largest drop ever. More

Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, has unleashed the vicious attack on John McCain and Sarah Palin that we have been anticipating of late. More

The AP runs an article about Bureau of Land Management agents held hostage by Mexian pot farmers using public lands. The article is outrageous, referring to a marijuana "garden" More

A vital meeting in Washington that all hope will help calm the markets. More

One more radical the press can ignore. More

Are Hollywood liberals patriotic? More

As the markets take a breather this weekend, let's look at what happened over the seven business days after the Senate's bailout vote, that is, from the close of October 1 to the close of October 10. More

A little problem with enemy identification, no doubt. More

More talent for our professional sports teams and freedom and opportunity for the Cubans. More

Watch it. He can try to to explain it away, but how persuasive can he be? More

Michael Barone, renowned as a level-headed and fair conservative, joins AT in worrying about the prospect of an Obama administration silencing its critics. More

Bush's legacy tops national security. More

O.J Simpson's attorneys are planning to appeal the verdict that found their client guilty of all 12 charges based on jury bias. More

How about a retraction guys? More

based upon what we know and what we can surmise regarding how much Obama has raised and spent, it would appear that there is a good chance Obama went for an early knockout of McCain More

I regret to report that there are no Republicans or conservatives left in the executive branch of the United States government: More

Think about it. This actually makes sense. More

A partisan witch hunt? Or a sober investigation into wrongdoing by Governor Palin? More

Is the United States bankrupt yet? If not, where will we manage to get another trillion dollars? I report the numbers, you decide. More

Convicted Chicago political operator Antoin "Tony" Rezko is talking to prosecutors about what he knows as far as corruption in Illinois and Chicago politics. More

The Rensselaer County Board of Elections has sent out absentee ballots with the Democratic candidate for president's name spelled Osama. More

A threat? We post, you decide. More

The American Spectator documents huge vote registration fraud in Pennsylvania: More

Rick Moran defines the 'angry mob' meme, and the double standard at work in media coverage of rallies today in a superb AT blog. Saboteurs are at work, and we have proof. The french call them agents provocateurs. More

The walls come a tumblin' down. More

Barack Obama wants the United States to replace its current electric power generation capability with Green Power (e.g. wind) in 10 years. Where is the money going to come from? More

Quoting the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland at a GOP rally means you are unhinged. More

The Times: "Nothing to see here...move along now... More

The Wall Street Journal has a laugh out loud piece that reveals the "magic" in many of Obama's proposals More

Intrepid bloggers at Sweetness & Light, Gateway Pundit and Riehl World View have documented the lies that the Obama campaign is publishing on its "Fight the Smears" website. More

You know what they say about "assume," Senator (something about making an "ass" of "you and me"). More

Investor's Business Daily publishes a landmark editorial explaining in detail why we should be very concerned about the long association between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. More

ACORN is rapidly becoming a major issue, with the Republican base outraged over the voter registration fraud investigations in ten states. An online petition has been created More

Ohio's Secretary of State, the partisan Democrat Jennifer Brunner, is breaking the law by failing to give local officials the opportunity to check newly-registered voters against outside databases. More

Complete with fancy production values like a camera mounted on a crane, The leader of the Nation of Islam refers to Barrack Obama as "the messiah." See it yourself. More

Jack Cashill's "Who Wrote Dreams of My Father" raises a question that may not be that hard to answer. More

Look who's feeling no pain in the aftermath of the crisis he helped create. When you've got it, flaunt it, baby. More

The fraud is so widespread, the Feds may get involved More

Biden's diplomacy during the Salt II talks proves he is unfit to serve as Vice President More

Political free speech faces the specter of a real threat should Barack Obama win the election. More

What is it with the legacy media? Don't they know when to let up? It's like a pit-bull with a rabbit. More

Live on the Lee Rodgers Show. More

It ain't over till it's over. More

Nothing really new in the National Intelligence Estimate but it will paint a grim picture of the situation More

Senator Obama piously proposed a law in 2006 to outlaw the sort of intimidation his own campaign has been practicing this year. More

What must McCain do to counter? More

Cutting out every single tax break they can get their hands on, including your 401(k) More

Another piece in the puzzle of Barack Obama has been revealed, greatly strengthening the picture of a man groomed by an older generation of radical leftists for insertion into the American political process More

The facially preposterous claim by Obama's campaign that he did not know of Ayers' past raises an interesting question for the perky one. More

McCain didn't lose - but he didn't win either. More

The difference between liberals and conservatives More

ACORN up to their old tricks. More

What Obama/Ayers are proposing is nothing less than changing the way teachers teach and relate to our children. More

Nauseating sycophants in the fashion press. More

Israeli's recall their dead. Arabs celebrate their "victory" More

Markets did an incredible about face -- futures substantially up, of course. More

One quick exchange happened during yesterday's presidential debate wherein Senator Barak Obama revealed his understanding of the nation's economy. Many missed it. More

Further thoughts on the town hall presidential debate. More

Join us for instant reactions to the town hall forum meeting of Barack Obama and John McCain. More

Fasten your seatbealts! More

Ayers' brand of educational humbug was spread the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, chaired by Barack Obama. More

Why do Barack Obama and Joe Biden claim credit for the work of others so often? More

Is there an effort underway to sabatoge the numbers for the new conservative themed film "An American Carol?" More

When Judge Alito was being considered for the Supreme Court Senator Kennedy expressed concern that Judge Alito might have had some association with a group called CAP (Concerned Alumni of Princeton) More

Evidence has been found of the contempt with which the elite left regards those whom they manipulate to gain power for themselves and their puppets. More

Jennifer Rubin spells it out for you. More

The Los Angeles Times, already significantly downsized, is planning to cut up to another 75 editorial positions. More

Will the Democrats ever tire of playing the race card? More

Rachel Bird married Gideon Codding in church last month, but discovered that "Party A" or "Party B" have replaced "bride" and "groom" on California marriage licenses. More

Simple, basic corruption - enriching those closest to you. More

Apparently the Spanish birth rate is low that the country desperately needs new babies to continue. Really desperately. More

NBC has pulled the video of the Saturday Night Live skit satirizing the role of George Soros and the Sandlers in the collapse of Wachovia Bank off the internet and is deleting comments on its message boards asking about it. More

The American media largely ignores a brave and honest Democrat telling the truth about the financial crisis. It takes Dominic Lawson of the left-leaning UK Independent to tell the truth: More

It is refreshing to see Sarah Palin going after Obama's radical, America-hating intimates. This is Obama's most vulnerable point. More

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, prosecutors have formally requested an indefinite delay in sentencing convicted-felon Anthony Rezko so they may question him concerning political corruption in Illinois. More

Henry Waxman waxed righteously indignant, as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee grilled Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers. Kind of funny if you follow the money. More

Any guesses where Al Gore points the blame for the June floods and tornadoes that ravaged Iowa? Yep! More

The Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives is grilling financial company executives this week What have they been up to for the past year? More

The shocking video of uniformed youngsters marching and chanting about Obama we blogged yesterday turns out to have been organized during school hours by a middle school teacher at a (taxpayer funded) charter school in Kansas City. More

This is not very good news but the fact is, for Afghanistan to progress, they must stop the bloodshed: More

Thankfully, our politicians passed the bailout. They ignored the ignorant voters and those "free market" Republican ideologues in the House. Look at the results More

William Ayers, dismissed by Barack Obama as a "guy in my neighborhood", was sought out as a speaker on "juvenile justice" at a program apparently put together by Michelle Obama 11 years ago today. More

Look out Tina Fey! Here comes Sarah Palin. More

The Sunshine state loves Sarah More

A New York Times article today tries to spread the blame for the current financial crisis equally among Wall Street, Congress and the "White House". This blurring of responsibility is shameful. More

The story behind the Wachovia bailout. More

When the Iranian Oil Minister speaks, we better hope that no one in the Democrat Congress is listening. More

Patterico deftly skewers the ridiculous claims of racism made when Obama is criticized More

Left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz reveals that a pro-Obama PAC deceived Israeli officials into issuing flattering comments about the candidate without revealing that it was to be used on political advertising. More

Barack Obama's original political sponsor Wiliam Ayers has ties to the Hugo Chavez regime that apparently continue today. More

A veteran CIA covert ops guys writes of Valerie Plame's real job at the CIA. More

Since last November, we've tracked presidential campaign fund-raising efforts in and around the heavily-Hispanic, Texas border town of McAllen, Texas. The money trends there have shifted in the last two months. More

Doug Ross of Director Blue notes at least four top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization have signed on as members of a "grassroots effort" to support the election of Barack Obama. More

First came the disturbing video of very young children singing the praises of Obama. Now comes equally or more disturbing video of older children, this time in uniforms More

A financially sophisticated friend highly recommends the Fox News special called "Saving the Economy", which will be rebroadcast tonight at 10PM Eastern, and again at 1 AM Eastern. More

Sarah Palin was campaigning yesterday in Southern California and drew enormous, highly enthusiastic crowds. Two AT correspondents provide exclusive pictures that you will not find in the MSM. More

A new video of Power reminds us of why she would be a diaster in an Obama Administration. More

A podcast is now available of the debate between AT's chief political correspondent and Ira Foreman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council. More

Is it "negative campaigning" if you state the facts? More

Not only Sarah Palin, but Michigan GOP leaders don't want the McCain campaign to abandon the state. More

Statistics show African Americans are the most racist group in America. Who do they support? More

Barney Frank's conflict of interest at Fannie Mae: His male lover More

Neither McCain nor Palin stepped up to explain the difference between Deregulation (which is a good thing) and the fact that, in a deregulated environment, the government's appropriate role is as a policeman. More

Political analyst William Bradley, writing in the Huffington Post, has penned an interesting - and I believe spot on - analysis of how John McCain can overcome his recent difficulties and win the race. More

Ed Lasky pens a letter urging John McCain to fight for the presidency. More

Today the NYT carries a report by Scott Shane which purports to demonstrate that contrary to the work of unnamed bloggers (ahem), the Ayers/Obama contact was minimal. More

Another radical Obama association exposed. More

Showing some independence, Sarah Palin publicly disagrees with the McCain campaign team about pulling out of Michigan. More

A couple of weeks ago, I was pleased to be interviewed by Rauli Virtanen, a noted Finnish journalist with quite a career. . He was filming a documentary on Barack Obama which will run on European television two days before the election. More

Nine years ago, Steven Holmes of the New York Times wrote admiringly of the way Bill Clinton and the Democrats could claim credit for "Eas[ing] Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending." More

American Thinker is performing some system maintenance and software upgrades tonight and Saturday. More

Anyone see a pattern here? More

California, blessed with incredible beauty, perfect weather, fabulous soils, plenty of coast line and even much of the world's high tech and entertainment revenue, has managed to run out of money and wants a bailout. More

Maybe someone should bring this up the next time Biden questions a Supreme Court nominee. More

When are we going to see some perp walks? More

Where's the "fairness" about which Biden talked last night? More

Lee Cary offers some advice to the McCain campaign: name key members of his future administration now, particularly those who will handle financial affairs. More

It is refreshing to hear of at least one news organization taking seriously the code of ethics about which most journalists prattle incessantly More

How can we trust Paul son to design a bailout for the economy when he seems to have engineered such a bad deal for the rescue of Wachovia? More

Did he really say that the US kicked Hezb'allah out of Lebanon? More

Well, at least we think he told the truth when he said his name was "Joe Biden." More

Joe's biggeset whopper of the night. More

Remind me why protest groups who interfere with the running of the US government deserve taxpayer dollars, More

AT writers will be live blogging tonight's debate. Join the fun. More

Just how much in donations from foreign countries is pouring into the Obama campaign coffers is a question one FEC auditor would like to have answered. More

In advance of her performance at tonight's debate, Gwen Ifill has already tipped her hand respecting her animus toward Sarah Palin. From an actual transcript of her PBS show Washington Week: More

A move guaranteed to further outrage helpless liberal feminists and others threatened by Governor Sarah Palin. More

This is either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. More

How to live very, very well while reporting a modest income. The old Soviets knew the trick, and so does Joe Biden. More

In the tank for Obama or just trying to sell magazines? More

We have to use the defibulator to re-start the economic heart muscle makes sense. With the patient alive, we can then go back and change the diet and unclog the arteries later. More

The electoral default mode in the current circumstances is a McCain defeat. McCain must wrench the game from its present course More

Why do we have a Republican Party? More

To listen to the MSM, you would think Sarah Palin will come out on stage tonight in St. Louis wearing overalls and sporting a piece of straw shooting out of her ears. More

A British power company is urging children to spy on their parents and record their "climate crimes" in a "challenge diary." More

What they mean by "grassroots" in Hollywood More

Is Hollywood going to get pork? After all, the entertainment industry is a huge source of money for Democratic candidates and for the party More

Monologue by a demagogue met with obeisance and ineffectual commentary -- if not silence by his interlocutors. A genocidal dictator does not respond well to talk therapy. More

The mentality of surrendering civilization to evil continues to metastasize in the United Kingdom. More

Powerline has a compelling blog on the many fraudulent contributions for Obama--including from overseas. One example: Mr. Good Will More

Gwen Ifill has compromised herself and her employer, the publicly-funded PBS by failing to disclose an obvious conflict of interest. More

The continuing financial crisis and doubts about Sarah Palin's qualifications have combined to make this the week from hell for John McCain and the national polls. More

Jonah Goldberg has a superior article in today's New York Post where he views the current crisis on Capitol Hill as a "pox on both your houses." More

Democrats heap blame where it doesn't belong, and Bill Clinton (!) is calling them out on it. More

Obama admits he can't talk to Republicans. More

Since Nancy Pelosi injected religion into abortion politics by making erroneous remarks about Catholic teaching, the Church continues to respond -- sharply. More

Exploiting our own resources prevents other nations from exploiting their workers More

This video is the third popular video that cast an unflattering light on Barack Obama and Democrats in general to be yanked in the past couple days. More

Women did not have to pay for rape kits in Wasilla. More

You won't believe what former Democrat member of the House of Representatives and current presidential candidate of the Looney Tunes Party Cynthia McKinney is alleging. More