MSNBC reports that former CIA Director George Tenet was seriously concerned about Al Qaeda efforts to smuggle "a small nuke into the United States in 2001." More

The bees are dying! The bees are dying! Yes, for all you eco-horror fans, it's the latest thing anxiety to hug to your bosom. More

American Thinker was slurred by a professor at Kenyon College, in an opinion piece in the student newspaper, The Collegian, and we use this space to respond. More

In the bogus case against Paul Wolfowitz in the media, much has been made of the settlement offered Ms. Riza More

Afraid to say anything negative about anyone or anything, even if it's the truth, because you just don't feel like giving that undynamic duo of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton another reason for publicity? More

The New York Times reports on its front page today about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his "spiritual mentor." More

In a review of George Tenet's book "At the Center of the Storm", Michiko Kakutani reveals Tenet's claim that the Administration --or at least the neocons in it--were determined to get Saddam even before the facts were in. More

Sweetness & Light details the planning and promotional work that went into this weekend's World-Wide Impeachment effort. It fizzled More

Terrorists couldn't have picked a better spot. The San Francisco Bay Area faces months of horrible traffic disruption thanks to the explosion of a gasoline tanker truck More

Colbert King faults Paul Wolfowitz for the antics and unfairness of others. By the way, what qualified Colbert King to ever have been on the Board of the World Bank? More

There should be nothing surprising - and therefore there is noting demonic - about Moslem notion of waging holy war "until all mankind is reduced to the authority of Islam More

Today Bloomberg reports: World Bank employees who lead the agency's drive to battle corruption in poor nations urged ``clear and decisive actions'' to decide the future of President Paul Wolfowitz. More

It is a disgrace that a wonderful site (American Thinker) and a good and thoughtful writer (Patrick Poole) are so wrong on Albania More

A recent article in the Chicago Tribune looked into Senator Obama's charitable giving. More

Those pesky chemical agents that the left says that Saddam never had just keep turning up all over Iraq. More

Germany's socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder made a point of attacking America in order to garner votes, and it worked for him. The lesson has not been lost on Ségolène Royal More

There are some grouches who complain that the UN is a useless, anti American, anti Israel, anti everything we hold dear black hole money pit that does nothing. More

Why does Surrender Harry Reid in particular and the Democrat leadership in general want to, well, surrender in Iraq? More

Benny Avni of the New York Sun knows how to write a lede. For example, "Saudi Arabia, which does not allow women to drive or vote, says it has achieved 'equality between the sexes.'" More

Our left-leaning guest poet His Smartness, Liberali Maximallus, the creation of G.W. Gorge, offers his thoughts on what he wants out of the 2008 election More

Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey, military news commentator and Adjunct Professor at West Point, recently returned from Iraq after meetings with military and political leaders, and has reported his findings. More

Speaking in front of a Jewish group, Hillary is now threatening Iran, according to the Jerusalem Post: More

The New York Times reports that "Paul D. Wolfowitz accused the bank's board on Wednesday of treating him 'shabbily and unfairly,' More

Though it is certainly none of their business, the EU Parliament has called for Wolfowitz to resign as President of the World Bank. More

A number of companies are now offering consumers carbon offset options. Delta Airlines, for example, is taking advantage of the celebrity cachet of carbon offsets to offer them for a fee to passengers who want to mimic the private jetsters Gore and Heinz-Kerry More

Newsmax is reporting that an intelligence office provided substantial exculpatory evidence in the Haditha case, evidence he says the NCIS sat on, evidence that supports the defendants' version of the facts More

After a battle lasting almost 24 hours, we have regained control of the domain http://www.americanthinker.com/, which was stripped from us unexpectedly yesterday. The details are complex More

Some readers have had or will have difficulty reaching our website over the next few days. Our control over our domain has been affected by the error of another company. We are working to fully resolve the problem. Please bear with us, and rest assured we will return to publication. More

Canadian Libs were caught red-handed stealing conservative personnel files, and then tried unsuccessfully to bully the publisher of the Western Standard, the newspaper reporting the theft. More

What about "Rosie to Sheryl Crow: 'Have You Seen My Ass?'..."? or... More

John Rosenthal, writing in World Politics Watch, debunks a recent study from Germany's prestigious Bertelsmann Foundation claiming that German antisemitism is on the decline. More

Due to the inability of the prosecution so far to come up with a means of presenting its case that passes both constitutional and judicial muster, the case against two former AIPAC officials is likely to be postponed from its initial June 4 trial date. More

If you want a clear, simple lesson on how to waste taxpayer money, here it is. To encourage federal workers to use mass transit, they were given subsidized mass transit passes. More

Writing in the subscription-only Political Diary at Opinionjournal.com, John Fund recounts a moment from the weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner that suggests our own J. Peter Mulhern is once again way ahead of the pack. More

James Pinkerton, Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor, picks up on James Lewis' coverage of the English Department at Virginia Tech, and its possible influence on the hatreds of Cho. More

To the consternation of the lefty Think Progress, David Broder has joined the chorus of those suggesting it's time for Reid to be bounced: More

Another prestigious prize (this time the Pulitzer), another disgrace ( sloppy reporting to advance a political agenda). More

On this, Israel's 59th Independence Day, Steven Plaut, Professor of Economics at the University of Haifa, presents 35 hard truths about the Middle East. More

While Democrats are touting their plans to cut funds to Iraq, Iran is reported to be offering bribes to Iraqi parliamentarians. Evidently the Iranians realize we haven't quite yet lost, as Harry Reid contends. More

Spc. Micheaux Sanders is one of the heroes of Iraq, and Investors Business Daily paints a portrait of the warrior and his valor, and gives us insight into the challenges our troops face in Baghdad. More

John Edwards, man of the people, turns out to be also a man of the hedge funds. More

The New York Sun's Ben Avni details real nepotism in the World Bank, about which there has been no commotion as compared to the Wolfowitz case More

No one fair observer can deny that our President is a honorable man who has tried to appoint honest people to positions in his Administration and who has done his best to run the government with integrity. More

Melanie Phillips has gone over the top! Or at least that's what anti-Zionist Jews are saying in Britain. She titled a recent column "Jews for genocide" More

Despite having megaphoned distortions of what happened at the World Bank for over a week after the exculpatory documents were made public, the editors of the Washington Post finally seems to be backing off and supporting Wolfowitz: More

"Gongos" are overseas analogues of American groups with monikers that include words like "citizens", responsibility", people", "integrity" and "justice." More

Today's Sunday Times (UK) quotes "foreign diplomats and a Western official" as saying that Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad is "increasingly divorced from reality" More

Senator, I thank you for your simple and eloquent words in regard to the actions of Senator Reid in declaring the Iraq war "lost". I ask you to be of further service in two ways More

One of the defense counsel in the Haditha case notes the number of men given immunity and suggests this signals a problem with the prosecution case. More

Too late to preclude the damage done to the Agency and others by the indiscriminate blabbing by Plame's old buddies, the CIA finally is getting serious about controlling the public statements of ex-agents More

Yes, I know. Tens of thousands of ordinary college students are lonely, full of rage, lost and frustrated. A few percent are psychotically disturbed, and some of them can kill. Still, I wonder --- was Cho taught to hate? More

Charles Krauthammer may soon need a new secretary to respond to reader e-mail. As I learned this week, when one writes a critical article about Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the furies descend on you. More

Al Gore and the other thought leaders (Cameron Diaz) keep telling us the ice caps are melting and lower Manhattan will be under 20 feet of water before we know it. More

Maybe with Earth Day on Sunday, the New York Times editors took Friday off and let the staff of NY Sun run the paper More

Europe has certainly gained a lot of experience with fences over the millennia, so learn about a couple more. More

I've wondered who'd do the evil deed; Not surprisingly, it's Harry Reid. More

There seems to be just one template for the media in covering tragedies like that which just occurred at Virginia Tech: Discussion of further regulation of guns and so much coverage of the perpetrator that copycats are sure to be impressed. More

The following announcement did not appear on Comedy Central's news show; this is really happening. More

I deeply grieve over the loss of this hero. It sickens me that people in my country pity the evil person who murdered 32 lives Monday at VT More

We have had our run-ins with the British-based magazine The Economist before. More

A New York Times editorial attacks "male justices" of the SCOTUS and expresses unseemly rage More

The string of bad business news for the New York Times Company and its shareholders grows longer and longer with each passing quarter. More

Mexico has found an ally in the European Union's Javier Solana in their campaign to prevent the US from building a border fence. A remarkable coup, given that the EU has its own fence as part of a plan to maintain control over immigration from Africa. More

Iran exonerates six who killed in Islam's name: International Court of Justice, UN Human Rights Commission, George Soros -- where are you? More

Yes, there apparently are two Americas; one is the lavish lifestyle of the Democrats who are willing to tax others so they too can live the Democratic way while the other is low keyed and unassuming, earlier known as cloth coat Republicans More

Tom Gross of the National Review's Media Matters blog, brings to our attention a vile article from Counterpunch. More

John Edwards likes to speak about "two Americas." But is he really speaking about the vast, troubling and widening gap between the well-groomed and poorly-groomed? More

Reasons allow us to make sense out of our world. Understanding is the human species' mode of adaptation. So it should come as no surprise that only hours after the Virginia Tech shooting, we as a society started looking for reasons. More

British conservative Daniel Hannan writes that the superfatted EU "Constitution" is back, under a different name after the French and Dutch voters rejected it. More

The Supreme Court's partial birth abortion opinion rejects a facial challenge to the statute but leaves open the possibility of challenges in the future by particular mothers who claim a health necessity for such an abortion. More

Andrew Young: Carter buddy, Arafat friend, antisemite and now PROFITEER. More

Senator Barrack Obama raised some eyebrows several weeks back when he worked a terrorist angle into a familiar campaign stump speech More

Christopher Harmon has written the must-read of the month "The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist". More

At last! Some sensible limitation on Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. More

The Democratic congressman offers an endorsement to Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton: More

Tuesday, two more men, this time in Detroit, were charged with spying for Saddam's Iraqi intelligence services More

Barack Obama apparently believes that the mass murder of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech is on a par with the violence represented by outsourcing of American jobs. More

It's a cold April morning, students shaking off sleep, Head toward their classrooms, destinies to keep. More

AT readers were informed in February that President Bush directed the establishment of the US African Command (AFRICOM). The new HQ will streamline operational functions for an area that previously was assigned to three separate commands More

Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international law and diplomacy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, has an opinion piece in today's Los Angeles Times worth reading More

As Holocaust memorials were held earlier this week, a rueful news story emerged of an Israeli poll revealing that a huge 37% of young people there think a new Holocaust is possible More

For quite some time our press has been filled with stories of a Marine Massacre in Haditha, so imagine my surprise when the first I read of this was from a publication in South Africa More

Chris Hitchens comes to the defense of Wolfowitz and Riza More

Three retired generals are said to have turned down an offer to become what the authors called the "Czar" for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq More

EUReferendum has more details on the UK journalists' union and its vote against Israeli products. More

It's a good thing Nancy Pelosi is such a foreign policy genius. Her road to peace via Damascus is heading for the Golan Heights and threatening violence. More

Detailed data has been released on first quarter contributions to Clinton and Obama. Dick Morris goes for the meaningful minutiae, explaining Obama's strengthening hand. More

The Jerusalem Post offers information we haven't seen anywhere in the United States media, on a heroic professor from Israel who died protecting his students from the gunman at Virginia Tech. More

On 2 April, 2007 I warned that if Congress did not pass funding by the 15th of April that the Army would have to start cutting back operations. Now Reuters is reporting that the cutbacks are starting. More

"In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', and legendary, radio hosts named Don Imus after his... More

Today, the nation's capital celebrates "Emancipation Day" -- commemorating the Republican Party's abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia More

At long last a blow for rationality and against pc induced dhimmitude: The operator of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday approved tougher penalties for cabdrivers who refuse service to travelers carrying alcohol More

Christopher Hitchens is such a thoughtful analyst, it's always worth your while to read him and consider his views. He has a surprising take on the forthcoming French elections More

The Muslim Brotherhood is the historical fount of modern Islamofascism. Today it is a network of organizations in 70 some nations More

Reading this New York Times review of a new play about the Holocaust, I am faced with the question: what moral universe does the NYT live in? More

As matters stand now, it looks like Obama will be the Democrats' nominee. He has already pulled within 2-3% of Hillary on a Rasmussen poll and 4% on a CNN poll, More

"Nouri stands up to Tehran" One of the byproducts of the "surge" in Iraq is a strengthening of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's hand in dealing with Tehran. Amir Taheri writes More

The law of unintended consequences strikes again. A Sweden-born, wealthy British resident shoveled out less than 8% of his fortune to buy a Brazilian forest. Banishing all lumbering he intends to preserve it. More

All Hail! All Hail! The arbiter is in the house! Imus grovels gravely for words he did espouse. More

While I generally support what Kyle-Anne Shiver writes in When Women Cry Wolf About Rape, I would like to offer some comments that go just a bit further. More

A Norwegian of Somali origin, known widely in Norway as a critic of female circumcision and the imams supporting it, was beaten senseless. More

Merv at Prairie Pundit points to a coming trial in Texas of a woman on chargesof mannslaughter for falsely crying rape. More

A reader we shall identify as "Don" writes More

That's the title of a document written by Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the massive German publishing house Axel Springer (AG) and published in Germany's largest newspaper Die Welt. More

The British reporters union just voted to boycott Israel. The boycott is intended to de-legitimize Israel's right to exist in peace and freedom. More

After cozying up to rappers who use far worse language than Imus used and never criticizing them, Obama weighed in late with the usual blathering cheap shot More

It is time to demand an Internal Revenue Service investigation of tax exempt "charities" whose agenda is anti-American More

Is this a great country, or what? A churlish shock jock makes some callous, insensitive remarks on his radio/TV show and he's reduced to a pathetic, smoldering pile of human rubble. More

This Sunday is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) for victims of the Shoah (Holocaust) in commemoration of the deliberate slaughter of six million Jews. More

Conservative British commentator Ian Dale writes on his blog: "A poll out this morning shows that if there were a general election today only 7 per cent of doctors would vote Labour (the British socialist party). More

AP has a flattering story about the first 100 days of Nancy Pelosi's term as Speaker of the House More

Fox News has done a far better job investigating the allegations against Paul Wolfowitz than any other news outlet and--no surprise to media watchers--this is another manufactured hit job. More

Rumors that New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt during last night's crash that left him critically injured have been confirmed. More

Rami Abdulraheem, the Palestinian refugee whose letter we published has, via AT, been in touch with the website Zionism on the Web. Zionists and Palestinians in dialogue! More

According to the tearful plea from Oxfam - a poverty and "injustice" advocacy group - international aid should be given to Palestinians no matter what. More

The Governor of New Jersey exempting himself from seat belt laws recalls the in many ways similar situation after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 More

Talk is inspiring. Talk is fun. How can anywhere anyone Turn away and seek to deny A winning smile and a popping eye? More

Either I made a mistake reading the movie schedule earlier this week, or the Sundance Channel has re-scheduled its showing of the film Red Lights, which I see as an allegory about French fear of the violent Muslim young male population. More

Take a stab. His political affiliation appears nowhere in the story More

Bookworm filets Terry Moran's controversial ABC News blog post sneering at the Duke 3. She boils down his argument to its pure essence More

The media in general, like much of the Duke faculty, saw white frat boys and just knew what happened. Two of the worst examples were Nancy Grace of Headline News and Duff Wilson of the New York Times. More

Several of the panelists on ABC's program The View have stated on-air that the Duke lacrosse team members who were just exonerated of rape were "probably guilty of something". More

"Psymon" writes: I get a lot out of most of the writings at American Thinker, but the article "What are they Smoking" by Bruce Hanson is pure bunkum. More

It seems that Islamists are trying to get women broadcasters off Saudi television --- or at least, women's faces. It's ok if they look like black tents on the screen. More

The Iraqi Parliament building was hit by a suicide bomber on Thursday. Here are a few comments based on the AP report and my almost daily visits to that same building in the summer of 2003. More

The Chicago Tribune continues to investigate Barrack Obama's background More

E.J. Dionne pens an approving essay about Democrats who boycott Fox News for its sin of not being as liberal as the rest of the television news industry. More

Several developments have occurred in the Iraq narrative in the last few days: More

As an inventor with a few patents to my name, I wrestle with chemistry and physics in attempts to improve on industrial processes and measurement techniques. More

You probably haven't heard that the budget deficit is down sharply, and that federal tax revenues are soaring in the wake of the Bush tax cuts More

For those who are wondering what happened to British grit and courage, Michael Yon has one of his extraordinary "hot combat" reports from Iraq. More

Norman Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, is much-read and admired in Arab and leftist circles. This year he faces a tenure decision More

From page 343: "one of the things you do get a strong sense of is that Israel at this point possesses such superior military forces, that they don't really have enormous vulnerability in a conventional sense. More

From the PR Newswire: Unprecedented Offer for New Book: 'Best Speeches of Barack Obama' More

Robert Novak reports in detail that the CIA doesn't seem to know even now what Plame's status was at the agency. How dumb is that? More

Speaker Pelosi claimed that her trip to Syria would "establish facts, to hopefully build the confidence" between the U.S. and Syria. Everyone in the Department of State, Defense, and CIA should take note of the 'no-confidence vote' More

Now that Imus has lost his MSNBC show while black broadcasters use similar and worse terminology on the public airwaves, we have an explicit double standard forming. More

The illustration which graces our editorial cartoon space today and tomorrow comes from the multi-talented G. Andrew Duthie More

Democrat Congessman Ike Skelton, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has announced that the designation "The Global War on Terrorism" is to be banished. More

In what appears to be a case of outrageous censorship by publicly-funded PBS, a documentary film has been prevented from airing. More

One of the things that totally mystifies us supporters of the Bush Administration is its absolute, total, continuous, inexplicable refusal to make its case in the public forum. More

Cassandra, the wife of a Marine has a marvelous blog always worth reading. Yesterday she reported on the growing anger of military families at the Democrat funding and withdrawal timeline games More

The New York Times has finally quoted Richard Baehr, American Thinker's chief political correspondent. More

Where are the transcripts of the dialogue between House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad? More

On Sunday, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero of the Joint Staff assessed the security situation in Baghdad in light of ongoing operations. It contains positives you won't read about in the MSM. More

No sooner did Ahmadinejud proudly announced that Iran can now enrich uranium on an industrial scale, than the political commentators displayed their gymnastic agility by promptly getting on all fours and sticking their heads in the sand. More

Richard Baehr will be interviewed by a Philadelphia radio station on Wednesday, April 11th at 12:10 eastern time. More

2 A.M. Sleepless in Los Angeles. There are so many helicopters buzzing in this place it sounds like a war zone. Endlessly they are circling More

Perhaps the investigation into his own record by the Clinton library staff is responsible, perhaps Hillary knows he's a liability, or perhaps it's just that the White House isn't big enough More

Even by modern tabloid standards the outrage over Mr. Imus' thoughtless comments is remarkable. More

Maybe it is just me, but I feel almost punched in the gut reading the story of Marines in dress uniform being kicked out of a Target store because they were suspected of recruiting More

My favorite European website EU Referendum was the first to register profound disgust at the permission given the 15 captured Brits to sell their stories More

Dr. Laurie Mylroie has given me permission to share with American Thinker readers her important analysis of a recent article on the source of the U.S. anthrax attacks More

Hugh Hewitt delivers a well-deserved slap-down to a New York Times op-ed on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Mitt Romney More

Robert Novak has a long history of antipathy toward Israel. But his column today stretches to make an absurd point: that Israel is responsible for the plight of Palestinian Christians. More

Here is the Nathan Hale article Rush is reading on air. More

The power calculus of nations is played out on a multi-dimensional chessboard, where the ability to constrain your rival's access to neighbors counts as a partial choke hold. More

Senators Hagel and Durbin are to push a bill that ties climate to national security and impose demands on the CIA and Pentagon to devote resources to this issue. More

The website BizzyBlog does a rough calculation of the actual price being paid for the newspapers owned by the Tribune Company More

One of the dirtiest of the dirty little secrets of media reporting of the war on terror is that the local left in countries like Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan has turned against the American left, and is beginning to make common cause with America. More

Monday, April 9, 2007 will mark the 4th anniversary of the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime. For many in Iraq and around the world, it will be a time for reflection on the early days after liberation in 2003 and on what has transpired since then. More

Reader Sue K. made a superb point about the visit of the French warship Prairial to San Francisco More

As a Catholic, I viewed the NYT Easter Sunday Magazine cover story on Pope Benedict XVI with trepidation. More

Stefania Lapenna wrote in her recent article The Ancient Persian Empire that we in the West suffer from "ignorance, as well as the lack of a deep knowledge of Iran's history, society and culture." Some of her points are well-taken. Some are exaggerated. Some are simply mistaken. More

I wanted to forward my thoughts to Ray Robinson regarding his article "America's Broken-Down Media" I hope the writer of the original Time article understands that he is denigrating and discounting the leadership provided by the NCO's and Officers that a privileged to lead young soldiers into combat. More

We noted with great displeasure last week the decision by at least some UK schools to stop teaching about Holocaust and other sensitive topics like the Crusades because it might contradict what the students learn at home More

David Brooks is one of the few moderate columnists that the NYT has in its roster. Today, he makes the startling observation that the work of Walt and Mearsheimer and other foes of the "Israel lobby" has served to reinforce the worst instincts of Arab elites: More

While Airbus struggles with the financial and technological consequences of its A380 superjumbo program, the company also faces potentially serious trouble with its next-largest airliner, the four-engine wide body A340-600. More

There are a number of varieties of Japanese commercial television programming that seem almost unthinkable on an American screen. More

While Mike Dukakis might not have realized how silly he was going to look in a helmet when he climbed into that tank, it is hard for me to imagine that the usually stylish Speaker was unaware that few women have ever looked like anything other than servile frumps in head scarves More

A lovely young woman who identifies herself only as "Cynthia" has done a terrific video fisking of Sean Penn's recent rant More

Did you know that if a fifty-year-old man only marries a nine-year-old girl one time he's not really a pedophile? Yup, that's the reasoning of a Dutch court More

I appreciate Stephen Warshawsky's criticism of Giuliani's Abortion Folly on constitutional grounds. However, this focus on the constitutional issues overlooks more fundamental issues. More

San Francisco is hosting a French warship over the holiday weekend. More

So, the kiddies are bored and just too old at the thought of the usual Easter egg hunt? Well, have some so called anti war, human rights activists have just the solution. More

Robert F. Turner is a heavyweight* in the world of law and diplomacy, and he thinks Nancy Pelosi may have committed a felony violation of the Logan Act in her trip to Damascus. More

Believe it or not, the specter of media overreaction to this morning's IPCC Working Group 2 Summary for Policymakers was actually dreaded by one of the committee's leaders. More

There it goes again: The New York Times characterizes felon voting laws as Jim Crow-era. More

The death of Britain as a serious nation is symbolized, not so much by the sad behavior of 15 clueless kids kidnapped by the Khomeini fanatics, but by no less than Admiral Sir Alan West More

Vote for Hillary and it'll be Jerry Springer everyday. More

I recently happened across two paragraphs from Gabor Boritt's wonderful study on Lincoln's Gettysburg address in The Gettysburg Gospel. More

Emilio Dabaul, an Arab-American with relatives in Syria, writes a superb rebuke to Nancy Pelosi on the website of the American Congress for Truth. More

Doom and gloom be damned: The U.S. economy added a stronger-than-expected 180,000 new jobs in March More

At first glance, the home page for the "Iraq Veterans Memorial" looks like a genuinely respectful site honoring the troops. More

The Associated Press (via the Times-Picayune) reports that another chlorine truck bomb has been detonated in Iraq; this time in Ramadi. More

Nancy, with the headscarf and the smile Walking a dhimmi mile On the Road to Damascus. More

Flailing about with helpless arm, Tilting at anyone he can alarm, This long-faced lugubriousnist supreme, Still trying to live his impossible dream More

One of many reasons I rarely drive across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco is the existence of Critical Mass, a group which stages monthly mass bicycle rides through the streets, forcing all other traffic to stop More

Ynet News went right ahead and published the politically incorrect headline: "Terrorists endorse Pelosi's 'good policy of dialogue'. More

Saddam Hussein's intelligence service operated in the United States, probably far more effectively than our CIA did in Iraq. More

We just received the following email from a self-identified Palestinian living in London. I have no way of verifying his identity, but the emailer provided a street address and a telephone number More

Nancy Pelosi went to Syria, not as a private citizen, but on our payroll in her official capacity as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives More

Democrats, led by John Kerry, are having a continuing hissy fit over President Bush's recess appointment of Sam Fox, a wealthy GOP donor, as his ambassador to Belgium. More

The governments of Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement to finance a major rail project that is viewed as the "New Silk Road" since it establishes a rail line of commerce between Europe and central Asia, one not under direct Russian control. More

Yesterday's article today "Ban the Bulb?" resulted in an outpouring of interesting reader mail, which has continued today, including a long response by Duane Truitt More

The man who instituted the criminal case against the two AIPAC attorneys,Paul McNulty, finds himself in the cross fire respecting the fired US Attorneys. More

In one of the most preposterously self-referential moves, Senator Kerry had succeeded in bottling up the President's nominee, Sam Fox, as Ambassador to Belgium More

The New York Times has published an article on the New Jersey pension fund fiasco without ever identifying Democrats as having been in charge. More

A blog item last year noted North Korea's long standing operation to counterfeit U.S. currency. It seems that our friends at the UN knew about the operation for more than a decade and kept their mouths shut. More

The April edition of Commentary magazine has a most interesting article on counterinsurgency, discussing the French experience in Algeria and the strategy developed by a French colonel, David Galula. More

Barack Obama has released his first quarter fundraising totals, and the data are even more impressive than they appeared Monday. More

Dubai's leaders, who paid a fortune to Bill Clinton for speeches, are facing charges of boy-enslavement. More

Greens are crowing over the Supreme Court's move to throw itself into the global warming debate in Monday's Massachusetts v. EPA decision. They may live to regret it. More

In September of last year, I asked the Department of Justice to look into several actions of Patrick Fitzgerald in connection with the Libby case suggesting that on their face this conduct seemed unethical. More

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards just admitted that he snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. It is the ultimate sign of cultural primitivism More

Take me back to dear old Gitmo Where once I had it better than I knew. My head is full of lice. A shower would be nice. More

Gerd Schroeder, a Major in the United States Army and American Thinker contributor, will be interviewed today (Wednesday, April 4) on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headline News. More

It's amazing what Superwoman can do. One day you're inaugurated as Speaker of the House, next day you launch One Hundred Days of History-Making Legislation; then you find yourself face-to-face with world leaders like Bashir Al-Assad, the Lion of Syria. More

A blog item in American Thinker has made headlines in Zimbabwe, the once-prosperous African nation led by extreme leftist Robert Mugabe More

What is that stench wafts 'neath the nose? Is it ABC's Wild Irish Rose? More

Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich wants to raise taxes. Big time. No less than $7 billion, ostensibly to fund education and health care. More

The Washington Post gives front page treatment today to a propagandistic "news" article by Peter Eisner on the forged letter that is falsely claimed to have played a leading role in leading the United States into war with Iraq. More

For all the troubles of Airbus, the French do trains very well indeed. A specially-outfitted TGV train set has broken the world speed record for railroads, reaching 357.2 miles per hour More

It seems that since General David Petraeus has taken command of the Coalition forces in Iraq, the official state of denial about Iraq's WMD from both MNF-I Headquarters and the Pentagon has been lifted More

I don't know whether to guffaw or vomit. More

In the politically correct world of sensitivity to certain favored minorities (and by definition callousness to others, minority or not) truth is often the first virtue to go More

Apple and EMI announced today that they will begin offering their entire catalog via Apple's iTunes in May. More

I have to disagree with Mr. Lewis' assessment in "As long as you're hated it's better to be feared" that "what they [the mullahs] have over us is sheer pig-headed fanaticism." More

Janet Ellen Levy, whose April Fools' Day satire "Send me to GITMO!" ran on American Thinker yesterday, has a serious article today on Front Page Magazine reporting on her trip there. More

Since the 1960s, Quebec has seemed a rather tragic place to me, one that has lost much of the magic it once enjoyed. More

The headlines may proclaim that Hillary Clinton set a record for fund-raising in the first quarter of the year, but go beneath the raw data and a different victor emerges More

That's the editorial advice of the Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times, with regard to the resurrected Saudi peace plan. More

While America is preoccupied with the war on terror, concentrating intelligence and counter-intelligence resources on Islamic targets, China remains actively engaged in stealing defense secrets More

Joseph Massad is a member in good standing of the Columbia University Middle Eastern Studies faculty. Just for April Fools' Day fun, we took one of his intemperate essays on Israel (from al Ahram no less) and substituted Turkish everywhere he had Zionist or Jewish, and wrote Kurds, Armenians and Greeks when he had Palestinians More

Almost unbelievably (it is April Fools' Day, after all), the New York Times has dug up and provided op-ed space to Alan Cowell, an "expert" who agrees with Iran that the UK violated its territorial waters. More

British schools are avoiding "controversial" subjects like the Holocaust, the Crusades, and the salve trade because they might contradict what children learn in their homes More

Now that King County, Washington has officially re-attributed its name to Martin Luther King, because the original honoree was a slaveholder, others have some suggestions. More

His name is Claus Christian Malzahn, and he writes for Der Spiegel (of all publications!). Read this. More

In my home state of Washington, the County Council of King County (Seattle and surroundings) has just changed the name of the County to Martin Luther King County More

Putting two children in a car and blowing them up. Driving a car into a group of boys playing soccer and blowing them up. The sacrifice of children. Who does this sound like? More