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Start your day with a heartwarming story about a police officer’s extraordinary act - 5/24/25 by Andrea Widburg May 24, 2025 by Andrea Widburg This story, with its bizarre headline at the Daily Mail, compelled me to read it, and I’m glad I did, as it reminds us about both love and the brain’s resilience.  More
Minneapolis' consent decree suicide - 5/24/25 by Mike McDaniel May 24, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It’s likely the Bondi DOJ will withdraw the consent decree, but equally likely those elected to protect Minneapolis, will continue to destroy it. More
Why I carry a handgun, and you should too - 5/24/25 by Mike McDaniel May 24, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Foremost, I am an American; I am a free man; it is my tradition and heritage. More
Golf: The tyranny of excellence - 5/24/25 by Noel S. Williams May 24, 2025 by Noel S. Williams The mental rigors are enough to drive one to distraction. More
The mainstream media drags American Thinker into their fake news pile-on against President Trump - 5/23/25 by Monica Showalter May 23, 2025 by Monica Showalter Trump was presenting a whole article discussing South African killings, not a photo contained within it. And you wonder why the press is so discredited with the public. More
Finding clarity in a polarized age - 5/23/25 by Kevin Finn May 23, 2025 by Kevin Finn Our world has gotten very loud. We need clear thinking and honest conversations to move forward. More
Deranged, and dumb: Progressive pro-aborts want Adriana Smith dead, citing the wrong law, just so her baby doesn’t get a chance at life - 5/23/25 by Olivia Murray May 23, 2025 by Olivia Murray A story out of Georgia shows you just how far they’ll go just to taste the blood of the innocent. More
Men, women, and the consequences of immorality - 5/23/25 by Robert Arvay May 23, 2025 by Robert Arvay Most people seem intuitively to believe that there really is such a thing as morality. Recent history bears this out, too, in a damning way. More
Violent leftists strike again - 5/23/25 by J.B. Shurk May 23, 2025 by J.B. Shurk And, as usual, the leftist propaganda media cover for them. More
How do you solve a problem like Iran? - 5/23/25 by Andrea Widburg May 23, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Joe Biden dumped a terrible, existential problem in Donald Trump’s lap, and Trump may (I hope) be trying an out-of-the-box approach to address it. More
Anti-semitism's ugly ringing reverberations - 5/23/25 by Monica Showalter May 23, 2025 by Monica Showalter The brazen murder of a young Jewish couple can only be the work of a freak who has been steeped in antisemitism. Where does that come from? More
Democrats’ double deception - 5/23/25 by James Zumwalt May 23, 2025 by James Zumwalt How much further will the Party’s favorability tumble once the public fully understands the deceit of Biden’s prostate cancer revelation? More
Why is the federal government still spying on us? - 5/23/25 by Susan Quinn May 23, 2025 by Susan Quinn The “Quiet Skies” program has been a verifiable failure—so why is it still operational? More
Cheers to Norm - 5/23/25 by Eric Utter May 23, 2025 by Eric Utter George Wendt, who played the character 'Norm Peterson' on the popular T.V. series Cheers, passed away recently. RIP More
Father of accused killer of Israeli diplomats is closely acquainted with Illinois Democrat - 5/23/25 by Olivia Murray May 23, 2025 by Olivia Murray And, that Illinois Democrat is quite the domestic terrorist himself. More
Will Clean Energy ever grow up? - 5/23/25 by Bill Ponton May 23, 2025 by Bill Ponton I’m reminded of Milton Friedman’s “infant industry argument” and wondering: Isn’t it time for “clean energy” to move out of its parents’ basement? More
A circuit judge bites back at the Supreme Court - 5/23/25 by James A. George May 23, 2025 by James A. George ‘We seem to have forgotten that this is a district court — not a Denny’s.’ More
Which immigrants get the shaft in Starmer’s UK? - 5/23/25 by S.R. Piccoli May 23, 2025 by S.R. Piccoli A big recent agreement between the U.K. and the E.U. showcases the serious problems plaguiing Albion. More
If the autopen could talk... - 5/23/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 23, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Who knew that we'd be talking so much about an autopen?  More
At least for now, Trump’s DHS blocks Harvard’s international student money mill - 5/22/25 by Andrea Widburg May 22, 2025 by Andrea Widburg On the available facts, the Trump administration is correct that Harvard is abusing its legal privileges and must be brought to account. More
Leftists blatantly lied about Biden’s decline. Why should we trust them ever again? - 5/22/25 by D. Parker May 22, 2025 by D. Parker It was more important for them that they keep a death grip on power. More
The media pounces on a small Trump error to distract from the bigger truth about South Africa - 5/22/25 by Andrea Widburg May 22, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Or, how I unwittingly became involved in an international news cycle. More
Will Elias Rodriguez now join the Murderers’ Fundraising Derby? - 5/22/25 by Stu Tarlowe May 22, 2025 by Stu Tarlowe And could he be a Luigi Mangione copycat? More
Pope Leo XIV picks his first bishops, and for San Diego, he picked a winner - 5/22/25 by Monica Showalter May 22, 2025 by Monica Showalter The new pope gets off to a great start. More
Ramaphosa, the commie-capitalist knows, but he doesn’t know - 5/22/25 by Jonathan Gault May 22, 2025 by Jonathan Gault Sometimes, there’s nothing plausible about the “deniability.” More
New study: Creating ‘renewable’ energy does not compel less ‘fossil fuel’ use - 5/22/25 by Olivia Murray May 22, 2025 by Olivia Murray Penn State researchers discover…that conservatives were right all along. More
Ken Paxton’s thunderous charge to oust John Cornyn - 5/22/25 by Amil Imani May 22, 2025 by Amil Imani Cornyn’s campaign is a desperate, flailing mess, and Paxton is a juggernaut. More
Toxic femininity: Foreign-born Muslim women in Germany are far more violent than German men - 5/22/25 by Olivia Murray May 22, 2025 by Olivia Murray Let’s play a new “(wo)man or bear” game…. More
Greenie Oregon is at the bottom of the barrel in green energy production - 5/22/25 by John Woods May 22, 2025 by John Woods What it shows is that green energy is a scam. More
The Chagos Affair: A treaty halted, a government exposed - 5/22/25 by Bepi Pezzulli May 22, 2025 by Bepi Pezzulli An emergency order from a British court now forces the government to answer in public for what it tried to deliver in private. More
Republican Holdouts on the Big, Beautiful Bill: Politics at its worst - 5/22/25 by Chris Talgo May 22, 2025 by Chris Talgo Several Republican members of the House of Representatives have said they would vote against the bill as it is currently written. More
Who are we protecting? - 5/22/25 by George W. Shuster May 22, 2025 by George W. Shuster It was not American workers.  More
Boycott all nasty American food because of Trump - 5/22/25 by Michele San Pietro May 22, 2025 by Michele San Pietro If you look at social networks, you will find quite a lot of invitations to boycott “nasty American food” because of Donald Trump.  More
RIP Jake - 5/22/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 22, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Megyn Kelly tears into Jake Tapper on his complicity in the Biden decline scandal, and leaves a trail of blood. More
Trump brings the receipts to South Africa's president on white-farmer killings going on in South Africa - 5/21/25 by Monica Showalter May 21, 2025 by Monica Showalter The South African president wasn't ready for Trump. More
Migrant hell: In France, 80% of French women want the army to protect them from migrant criminals --poll - 5/21/25 by Monica Showalter May 21, 2025 by Monica Showalter The migrants are dealing drugs and are out of control. More
Hamas brass says the quiet part out loud: Rising death toll of his own people is just a ‘material calculation’ and a ‘price that must be paid’ - 5/21/25 by Olivia Murray May 21, 2025 by Olivia Murray Quite the “genocidal” admission. More
Sarah Brenner, the No. 2 at the FDA, refused the COVID vax - 5/21/25 by Benjamin Rushe May 21, 2025 by Benjamin Rushe And why didn’t she share that fact, along with her reasoning, with others at the start of the vaccine regime? More
Buckling under to the Green New Deal - 5/21/25 by Bill Ponton May 21, 2025 by Bill Ponton The Republicans got roped into a deal that keeps the IRA (a.k.a. Green New Deal) intact. More
Creepy illegal alien in his mid-20s poses as a high school student for more than a year, finds placement with local family - 5/21/25 by Olivia Murray May 21, 2025 by Olivia Murray Another lurking danger in the public school system: Your daughter’s classmate could be a Venezuelan criminal on the lam. More
Free speech on campus or not? - 5/21/25 by Walter E. Block May 21, 2025 by Walter E. Block Leftist media throw a fit to defend free speech when it suits their interests. The rest of the time... More
The States — What should be a laboratory of democracy - 5/21/25 by Earick Ward May 21, 2025 by Earick Ward By enabling the federal government to continue to subsidize state choices, the people of blue states are unfazed by the expense, while the rest of us foot the bill. More
Transplant Democrats: Vote in the state you left! - 5/21/25 by Rick Swenson May 21, 2025 by Rick Swenson Here’s a modest proposal to prevent newcomers from making their new homes just like the leftist hell-holes they fled. More
Trump's second-term economy defies the doubters - 5/21/25 by Joseph Ford Cotto May 21, 2025 by Joseph Ford Cotto Trump's polling numbers and economic indicators show a consistent pattern of winning. More
Putin’s cold and dark soul - 5/21/25 by Peter Olsson, M.D. May 21, 2025 by Peter Olsson, M.D. A case of Malignant Narcissistic Personality with global implications. More
‘Player of the Match’ - 5/21/25 by Noel S. Williams May 21, 2025 by Noel S. Williams The PC police state in England. More
Dereliction of duty at the highest level - 5/21/25 by Tony Lentini May 21, 2025 by Tony Lentini Biden’s cabinet surely witnessed what we all saw through what they insisted were our lying eyes.  More
Toys should be exempted from tariffs - 5/21/25 by Dale Erquiaga May 21, 2025 by Dale Erquiaga Industries like toys, which have long been seen as “essential,” should not be subjected to any tariffs.  More
Maybe we need to create another West Virginia - 5/21/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 21, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Virginia is starting to look a lot like Oregon or Washington: one blue urban area surrounded by a bunch of red counties unhappy with the direction of the state government. More
Illegals driving Southern California's restaurants out of business - 5/20/25 by Monica Showalter May 20, 2025 by Monica Showalter So much for the lefty narrative that illegals are afraid to go to work. More
The future for Gaza - 5/20/25 by Bill Ponton May 20, 2025 by Bill Ponton It is time to think out of the box about answers to this conflict and ignore the academics who are stuck in the oppressor-oppressed mindset. More
Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill retains hundreds of billions (maybe trillions?) in ‘Green New Deal’ spending - 5/20/25 by Olivia Murray May 20, 2025 by Olivia Murray Congressional Republicans are the absolute worst. More
Who was running the autopen that ran the White House? - 5/20/25 by Noel S. Williams May 20, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Inspecting the physical state of the autopen should be one investigative avenue in answering one of the ineluctable questions in the biggest political scandal in recent American history. More
WaPo staff member talks America’s downgraded credit rating hoping public will blame Trump - 5/20/25 by Jack Hellner May 20, 2025 by Jack Hellner Pathetic, stupid, and biased: Just an average day for a WaPo journalist. More
For Israel, enemies abound - 5/20/25 by Lynne Lechter May 20, 2025 by Lynne Lechter Who do Canada, France, and the United Kingdom think they are? They have some gall to tell Israel when to stop the war. They talk of consequences.  More
The calls for Biden amnesty - 5/20/25 by Blaine L. Pardoe May 20, 2025 by Blaine L. Pardoe Most people see this for what it is, a way to extend their own misdeeds and possibly, criminal actions. More
Kash and Bongino losing trust over Epstein - 5/20/25 by Todd Baumann May 20, 2025 by Todd Baumann Trust in government institutions is at an all-time low, and for good reasons. The Epstein case may be the single greatest example. More
DOJ indicts Mexican national for material support of cartel’s terrorist activities - 5/20/25 by Wendi Strauch Mahoney May 20, 2025 by Wendi Strauch Mahoney Human-smuggling, gun-smuggling, drugs, and more... More
What if the shoe were on the other foot? - 5/20/25 by Stu Tarlowe May 20, 2025 by Stu Tarlowe If the cancer diagnosis were Trump’s, the Left would be having a gloat-fest! More
Jeffrey Epstein and trust in the government - 5/20/25 by Dawn Merrill May 20, 2025 by Dawn Merrill It is time to put faith in our government and move on from the Epstein cause of death. More
Are we ever safe? - 5/20/25 by Jack Tierney May 20, 2025 by Jack Tierney The second Trump Administration is promoting a “Golden Dome” to be placed over the country, but what has history shown us about reliance on defensive technology? More
Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities - 5/20/25 by Robyn Dolgin May 20, 2025 by Robyn Dolgin President Donald Trump is a world-class fighter in taking on the most nasty and vile comments from celebrities. More
Impeach Jill for being a lousy wife - 5/20/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 20, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. It's hard to believe that this is how little the Biden family valued Joe. More
Pete Hegseth pushes back against the media, but he sidesteps the real issue - 5/19/25 by Andrea Widburg May 19, 2025 by Andrea Widburg There is probably no person more reviled in the Trump administration, outside of Trump himself, than Pete Hegseth, and it’s worth exploring why. More
Anybody notice 60 Minutes's curiously rightward lurch? - 5/19/25 by Monica Showalter May 19, 2025 by Monica Showalter A leopard has changed its spots, overnight. More
Oklahoma public schools to teach about the 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ using real data, and leftists are losing it - 5/19/25 by Olivia Murray May 19, 2025 by Olivia Murray How dare school teachers introduce indisputable information and ask students to draw their own conclusions! More
The border wall is going up, and all of a sudden, the open borders crowd is concerned about the environment again - 5/19/25 by Monica Showalter May 19, 2025 by Monica Showalter Lefty environmental hypocrisy at its finest. More
Growth of wind ‘farms’ put Golden Eagle on ‘path to possible extinction’ - 5/19/25 by Olivia Murray May 19, 2025 by Olivia Murray Just a thought: Maybe if the environment and nature matter, we reconsider the towering slaughter machines killing all our birds? More
Journalism had a good week. Journalism had a bad week. - 5/19/25 by Noel S. Williams May 19, 2025 by Noel S. Williams To understand this, you need to understand the difference between a good horse and a bad reporter. More
Comey’s virtue signaling gets him in trouble - 5/19/25 by Lewis Dovland May 19, 2025 by Lewis Dovland His “beach shells” meme shows a deeper psychology present in smug leftism. More
The media all knew about Biden’s lack of mental acuity, since at least 2020 - 5/19/25 by Jack Hellner May 19, 2025 by Jack Hellner But now, they’re working extremely hard to deflect any and all responsibility, pretending the administration tricked them. More
Hillary Clinton disdains American fertility - 5/19/25 by Eric Utter May 19, 2025 by Eric Utter The former first lady thinks immigrants should do that job. More
Biden, prostate cancer, and an obligatory conspiracy theory - 5/19/25 by Ned Barnett May 19, 2025 by Ned Barnett Who dropped the ball on his diagnosis? More
Joe Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant - 5/19/25 by Noel S. Williams May 19, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Indecent and self-serving better describes the ailing Joe Biden. More
Puppet abuse - 5/19/25 by Pete McArdle May 19, 2025 by Pete McArdle The Democrat/RINO machine was willing to force an increasingly senile octogenarian with advancing cancer back into the Oval Office for the sad, diminishing remainder of his life, all to install an unelectable Kamala. More
Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis - 5/19/25 by M. Walter May 19, 2025 by M. Walter It’s perfectly natural to want your tormentor to go away, and for literally millions of us, that’s what Joe Biden represents. More
The role that hubris plays - 5/19/25 by Bill Ponton May 19, 2025 by Bill Ponton Lost in the exhilaration of flight, we have normalized actions that no other society in history have condoned. More
Taxing remittances? - 5/19/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 19, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Mexico is not happy that the U.S. is considering a tax on remittances. More
Pope Leo XIV gives his MAGA brother a great big hug - 5/18/25 by Monica Showalter May 18, 2025 by Monica Showalter The brother had worried his little brother who was elected pope wouldn't ever speak to him again.. But surprise, the pope gave him a great big hug. He even broke protocol to do it. More
The unique linguistic efficiency in expressing Jew-slaughter - 5/18/25 by Milli Sands May 18, 2025 by Milli Sands There is no other race for which there is a single word for its mass extermination. More
The miracle of Israel’s second-place win at the Eurovision contest *UPDATED* - 5/18/25 by Andrea Widburg May 18, 2025 by Andrea Widburg As in America, the elite’s values are entirely different from those of ordinary individuals—and ordinary people made a statement by supporting Israel’s singer. More
After woman is savagely mauled by a bear in the Sierras, environmental wackos argue bears wouldn't dream of doing such a thing - 5/18/25 by Monica Showalter May 18, 2025 by Monica Showalter The bear ripped the bars off a home's windows, punched in the glass, jumped in, and attacked a woman in her kitchen. But don't try to present those facts to a so-called conservationist. More
The left’s latest attack on Matt Walsh reveals a party trapped in the mid-20th century - 5/18/25 by Andrea Widburg May 18, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The contention that he kept a swastika on his X feed is ludicrous on its face, but it tells us a great deal about the time warp in which leftists live. More
Bruce Springsteen trashes America - 5/18/25 by Susan Quinn May 18, 2025 by Susan Quinn Rather than looking cool, he managed to convey ignorance, anti-Americanism, and ingratitude. More
When the mountain roared - 5/18/25 by Kevin Finn May 18, 2025 by Kevin Finn Forty years ago today, Americans were reminded of Nature’s extraordinary power.  More
Democrats nothing more than contrarians to Trump - 5/18/25 by Eric Utter May 18, 2025 by Eric Utter Some Democrats hate President Trump so much they are opposed to his effort to lower prescription drug prices. More
After 1,000 posts, here's to you, American Thinker readers - 5/18/25 by Eric Utter May 18, 2025 by Eric Utter AT contributor Eric Utter appreciates American Thinker's intelligent readers.   More
Washington State races California in gun ban lunacy - 5/18/25 by Mike McDaniel May 18, 2025 by Mike McDaniel And though magazines are an inherent part of any multi-shot firearm, the Washington Supreme Court bizarrely contends that they are historically analogous to cartridge boxes.  More
How can we secure our economic rights? - 5/18/25 by Barry W. Poulson May 18, 2025 by Barry W. Poulson With an economic constitution, elected officials could be held accountable for any abuse of power that violates our economic liberties. More
The scourge of tooth/gun violence - 5/18/25 by Mike McDaniel May 18, 2025 by Mike McDaniel The only real crime involved is whatever taxpayer funds were used to come to this Butterfield Effect conclusion. More
Artificial intelligence and Marxist control - 5/18/25 by Kathleen Dynan May 18, 2025 by Kathleen Dynan A.I. has the same potential to control an individual’s mind as Marxism controls an individual’s life. More
What the left doesn’t want you to know about the 2nd Amendment - 5/18/25 by D. Parker May 18, 2025 by D. Parker A Babylon Bee video destroys gun-grabber ghoul myths, while SNL inadvertently makes the 2nd Amendment cool. More
A confused man named Joe - 5/18/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 18, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Rather than focusing on Biden, we must focus on his enablers, including in the media. More
MAHA: The new pope is a fitness enthusiast - 5/17/25 by Monica Showalter May 17, 2025 by Monica Showalter Goes to the gym just like anyone else -- and doesn't wear his cassock. More
The fact that Axios released the audio from the Biden-Hur interview suggests something disturbing - 5/17/25 by Andrea Widburg May 17, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Maybe I’ve just got a tinfoil hat on, but I think the media may have given the game away with the revelation about these tapes. More
Moody's downgrades the U.S. for the first time on spending concerns - 5/17/25 by Monica Showalter May 17, 2025 by Monica Showalter Another gift left to us by big-spending Joe Biden. More
With the latest Epstein revelations, the circus comes to town - 5/17/25 by Terry Paulding May 17, 2025 by Terry Paulding There’s a lot of noise and hoopla, but no substance, as we’re once again left feeling as if the American media have neither interest nor ability to expose the truth. More
For James Comey, there should be a higher loyalty standard - 5/17/25 by M. Walter May 17, 2025 by M. Walter Given how famously self-righteous Comey has always been, he should be held to the highest possible standards when his conduct is being investigated. More
Iran and Trump - 5/17/25 by Molly Slag May 17, 2025 by Molly Slag How do you strike a deal with an enemy that’s dedicated to your destruction and considers cheating to be a religious imperative? More
Taking down civilization - 5/17/25 by Richard Jack Rail May 17, 2025 by Richard Jack Rail California reflects the left’s belief that the systems that free people worked hard to build will magically continue despite statist incompetence and ignorance. More
Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy - 5/17/25 by Amil Imani May 17, 2025 by Amil Imani What's with this actor's extended hate against President Trump? More
86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to - 5/17/25 by Eric Utter May 17, 2025 by Eric Utter Was Comey's clarion call to killers a wake-up call to us from God? More
The Supreme Court is already packed - 5/17/25 by Matthew G. Andersson May 17, 2025 by Matthew G. Andersson On the matter of illegal immigrants, the absence of judicial knowledge is striking. More
The first chattel slave holder was black - 5/17/25 by Paul Dowling May 17, 2025 by Paul Dowling Democrats who howl for reparations are way oversimplifying a nuanced point of history. More
Noble and free speech at Yale - 5/17/25 by Mike McDaniel May 17, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Her prosecution was an attempt by a corrupt university, police department and prosecutor to end the threat she and Buckley represent to an anti-American University.  More
Is there an American Gun Culture? - 5/17/25 by Mike McDaniel May 17, 2025 by Mike McDaniel The Second Amendment exists not for sport or self-defense, but to protect the rest of the Constitution against would-be tyrants. More
The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will bring big benefits for blue-collar workers - 5/17/25 by Chris Talgo May 17, 2025 by Chris Talgo Despite all these provisions that will boost workers’ take-home pay and create new manufacturing jobs, almost every Democrat continues to portray Trump's bill as nothing more than a tax cut for the rich. More
The boy who cried 'fascism' - 5/17/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 17, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. The boys and girls who cry wolf today, are the ones yelling racism and fascism or whatever other ism they are peddling. More
So where are the Democrats who condemn James Comey's implicit call to kill the president? - 5/16/25 by Monica Showalter May 16, 2025 by Monica Showalter Their buddies in the press are trying to spin the matter as conservative hysteria, too. More
Britain’s National Health Service will continue to encourage ‘trans toddlers’ - 5/16/25 by Andrea Widburg May 16, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The NHS’s study revealing the “trans” canard carries no weight when the activists start to scream. More
Diversity? - 5/16/25 by Eric Utter May 16, 2025 by Eric Utter "Diversity” is nothing but a totalitarian joke. More
German court caters to accused murderer from Afghanistan and removes his female interpreter because he can’t stand to be near a woman - 5/16/25 by Olivia Murray May 16, 2025 by Olivia Murray Germany continues with its slow suicide. More
Whether at home or abroad, the correlation between illegal immigrants and crime - 5/16/25 by Andrea Widburg May 16, 2025 by Andrea Widburg From Denver to the Canary Islands, a pattern emerges: when illegal immigrants from violent nations arrive, crime increases; when they depart, crime decreases. More
James Comey, the arrogant, self-appointed elitist and unrepentant promoter of assassination - 5/16/25 by Patricia McCarthy May 16, 2025 by Patricia McCarthy We all learned in 2016 that then-FBI director James Comey believed himself to be above the law.  More
Kevin O’Leary sounds the alarm on tyrannical new provisions in Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill - 5/16/25 by Olivia Murray May 16, 2025 by Olivia Murray With “friends” like Republicans, who needs Democrats? More
How to explain people who keep voting Democrat? - 5/16/25 by John Woods May 16, 2025 by John Woods How do you account for people who keep voting to tax themselves out of existence? More
Congress must stop California’s hidden food tax - 5/16/25 by Will Coggin May 16, 2025 by Will Coggin The mandates of Prop 12 have been foisted upon farmers in Iowa, North Carolina, Indiana, and the other 46 states; what happened to those states’ “states rights”? More
The best possible campaign slogan Democrats can get - 5/16/25 by Earick Ward May 16, 2025 by Earick Ward What do Democrats stand for? And how can they leverage it to get back into power? More
Will robots create the workplace utopia you’ve been wishing for? - 5/16/25 by Raushan Gross May 16, 2025 by Raushan Gross Data suggest that employees want to work less. They may get their wish, good and hard. More
Tax reform isn’t inevitable -- it’s earned - 5/16/25 by Caleb Smith May 16, 2025 by Caleb Smith Will all Republicans stand up on Capitol Hill, or fall victim to inaction yet again? More
Kamala Harris’s ultimate political failure - 5/16/25 by Peter Olsson May 16, 2025 by Peter Olsson Adding to Kamala Harris's lengthy list of political failures.  More
Close to you - 5/16/25 by J.B. Pensyltucky May 16, 2025 by J.B. Pensyltucky An old song on a pleasant afternoon. More
Ursula Get Your Gun - 5/16/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 16, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. No one is going to defend you for free if you are not willing to fight for yourself. More
Did James Comey really issue a veiled death threat to President Trump? - 5/15/25 by Monica Showalter May 15, 2025 by Monica Showalter The Secret Service is investigating. More
An ‘only in California’ class war heats up over bike lanes on a major bridge *UPDATE* - 5/15/25 by Andrea Widburg May 15, 2025 by Andrea Widburg A sop to the leisured and environmental classes has sparked an uprising of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Wokester junk food magnate turns congressional hearing into his clown show - 5/15/25 by Monica Showalter May 15, 2025 by Monica Showalter Ben and Jerry's founder, Ben Cohen, made an overaged jackass of himself at a congressional hearing featuring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. More
Republicans betray gun owners again, but there’s an easy workaround - 5/15/25 by Olivia Murray May 15, 2025 by Olivia Murray Work smarter, not harder. More
Illegal alien teen who killed a young woman while joyriding in stolen vehicle gets community service and must promise to attend school - 5/15/25 by Olivia Murray May 15, 2025 by Olivia Murray This doesn’t even count as a slap on the wrist. More
After allegedly helping an illegal alien escape from ICE, she wants a pass because she’s a judge - 5/15/25 by Andrea Widburg May 15, 2025 by Andrea Widburg In my San Francisco-based experience, leftist judges don’t know the law or apply the law; they use the law to achieve their political ends. More
Trump doesn’t need a Nobel Peace Prize - 5/15/25 by Noel S. Williams May 15, 2025 by Noel S. Williams Trump deserves more than sullied recognition... he deserves a spot on Mt. Rushmore. More
The culture of a free people - 5/15/25 by Rick McDowell May 15, 2025 by Rick McDowell America has always depended on shared ideas: liberty, merit, opportunity. But now those ideas are being turned upside-down. More
Trump’s Middle East Triumph: Prosperity over proxy wars - 5/15/25 by Joseph Ford Cotto May 15, 2025 by Joseph Ford Cotto President Trump’s visit to Riyadh may prove to be one of the most consequential foreign policy moments of his presidency. More
The subversion blueprint - 5/15/25 by Kevin Finn May 15, 2025 by Kevin Finn Are we being actively undermined by a foreign power? Or is something else going on? More
Women have been lied to about the abortion pill - 5/15/25 by Susan Quinn May 15, 2025 by Susan Quinn A comprehensive new study is out, and the progressive left is NOT happy. More
The IRS would be less disliked if it were genuinely accountable - 5/15/25 by Andrea Widburg May 15, 2025 by Andrea Widburg No business treating its customers as the IRS treats taxpayers would last long. Only a government monopoly with guns can do this kind of thing. More
A ‘wind lull’ across Germany is costing millions - 5/15/25 by Olivia Murray May 15, 2025 by Olivia Murray But “experts” say there’s no cause for “climate change” alarm, because this also happened 50 years ago. More
Ayanna Pressley and Cory Booker submit new reparations proposal - 5/15/25 by Bill Ponton May 15, 2025 by Bill Ponton A half century of “racial healing” has done nothing to improve the lot of anyone but the princely class to which Pressley and Cory belong. More
Imagine no recession—it’s easy if you try! - 5/15/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 15, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Recession predictions all but disappear. More
Stupiditywatch: Rep. Shri Thanegar forces Trump impeachment vote, and even Dems are disgusted -- 'what a dumbs***' - 5/14/25 by Monica Showalter May 14, 2025 by Monica Showalter Multiple Democrats are spewing their signature profanity over this. More
European democracy is dying - 5/14/25 by Jonathan Schiff May 14, 2025 by Jonathan Schiff The German intelligence agency’s attempt to label the AfD as extremists is yet another example of the EU moving steadily toward tyranny. More
Why the GOP won’t get dirty—even when the Left plays filthy - 5/14/25 by Mark Alesse May 14, 2025 by Mark Alesse Because most of them aren’t Donald Trump. More
All of a sudden, California's Gov. Gavin Newsom scales back his free health care rides for illegals - 5/14/25 by Monica Showalter May 14, 2025 by Monica Showalter By coincidence, his announcement comes just as the federal government launched a proble m, More
The many faces of the Left - 5/14/25 by J.A. Frascino May 14, 2025 by J.A. Frascino The Left cannot be understood as a homogeneous entity. More
With each passing day, the Democrats are proving they hate America - 5/14/25 by Patricia McCarthy May 14, 2025 by Patricia McCarthy Their insane stances on immigration, transgenders in girls' sports, and a host of other issues can only be explained as hatred for the people of this country. More
Out of chaos—a new world order - 5/14/25 by Allan J. Feifer May 14, 2025 by Allan J. Feifer Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia reveals a world vision that operates on shared prosperity, not the leftist and realpolitik shibboleths of failed post-war policies. More
The speech that made us Americans - 5/14/25 by Jackie Cushman May 14, 2025 by Jackie Cushman It’s easy to look back and think independence was inevitable for America. But really, the Declaration was almost shut down before it could be sent. More
A Democrat crime problem - 5/14/25 by John Woods May 14, 2025 by John Woods When will we acknowledge that the remedy is jail time? More
Colorado’s gender confusion - 5/14/25 by Leslie Corbly May 14, 2025 by Leslie Corbly The Supreme Court is reviewing a Colorado law that regulates mental health practitioners by banning conversion therapy.  More
Oldies but not goodies - 5/14/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 14, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. This is what happens when people are looking for excuses explaining the 2024 election results.  More
The Democrat party offers nothing good to its voters or to America - 5/14/25 by M.B. Mathews May 14, 2025 by M.B. Mathews Democrats seem hellbent on making life difficult for their constituents. More
Climate dogma and the ignorance of experts - 5/14/25 by Vijay Jayaraj May 14, 2025 by Vijay Jayaraj Climate science is not a monolith of precision. Despite the confident pronouncements of international panels, the mechanisms that govern temperature shifts are riddled with unknowns. More
In the aftermath of the Spanish blackout - 5/14/25 by Bill Ponton May 14, 2025 by Bill Ponton The Spanish grid is about to get a LOT more expensive. More
Tariffs and Taiwan - 5/14/25 by Michael Lynch May 14, 2025 by Michael Lynch One should never feel confident in judging the motives of President Trump in any policy initiative. More
In New Haven, it’s not free speech if you hurt someone’s feelings - 5/13/25 by Andrea Widburg May 13, 2025 by Andrea Widburg A New Haven woman was criminally charged when she was wrongly identified as a woman who used a racial pejorative against a parking lot attendant. More
Trump's underlying message to South Africa's government: You're a fourth-world dump - 5/13/25 by Monica Showalter May 13, 2025 by Monica Showalter Trump's acceptance of white South African farmers is a way of telling the puffed-up satraps of South Africa's failing democracy that they're not in the big leagues. More
Trump’s ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ will get its day in Congress - 5/13/25 by Andrea Widburg May 13, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Congress has before it a tax reform package that will cement Trump’s first-term tax cuts and benefit ordinary Americans in other ways. Let us hope they act wisely. More
A new book purports to reveal Biden’s physical and mental infirmities - 5/13/25 by Andrea Widburg May 13, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Considering that it was obvious to every sentient being for the entirety of Biden’s presidency, this is less of a revelation and more of a “slipping late into the parade.” More
Karmelo Anthony will get to graduate, despite being under house arrest while awaiting trial for a murder charge - 5/13/25 by Olivia Murray May 13, 2025 by Olivia Murray But tell me again how blacks are oppressed by the system. More
‘Humanitarian’ left refuses to help 49 Afrikaner asylees, proving (again) the real purpose of ‘refugee’ campaigns is to topple the West - 5/13/25 by Olivia Murray May 13, 2025 by Olivia Murray I’m not splitting the atom by announcing what we already know, but this definitely needs mentioning. More
Add reining in totalitarian regulations to Trump’s awesome executive orders - 5/13/25 by Andrea Widburg May 13, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Everything Trump is doing benefits ordinary American people, rather than the in-the-know, wealthy, leftist elites or the 35 million or so illegal aliens in America. More
Episcopal Church scraps decades-long agreement to resettle refugees—because they don’t want to help white Afrikaners - 5/13/25 by Olivia Murray May 13, 2025 by Olivia Murray A stunning display of anti-white racism cloaked as “morality.” More
U.S.-China trade dispute: Ding, ding, end of round one - 5/13/25 by Noel S. Williams May 13, 2025 by Noel S. Williams And here’s how referee Schumer mistakenly scores it. More
Democrats: Millions of illegal aliens are good, handful of South African refugees are bad - 5/13/25 by Eric Utter May 13, 2025 by Eric Utter With comical hypocrisy, a CNN panel predictably declared that being “victims of crime” does not “entitle” white South Africans to asylum in the United States. And that was just to start. More
Is China fully collapsing? - 5/13/25 by Susan Quinn May 13, 2025 by Susan Quinn The Chinese system is on the verge of a “broad-based social collape” that will undermine the CCP’s rule. More
After Biden’s border crisis, Trump revives American sovereignty - 5/13/25 by Dale Wilcox May 13, 2025 by Dale Wilcox President Donald Trump has been in office for just over 100 days, but it didn’t even take him that long to fulfill his core campaign promise of ending Joe Biden’s self-inflicted border crisis. More
Time to end judicial immunity - 5/13/25 by Alice Giordano May 13, 2025 by Alice Giordano Lawfare judges will never be brought to heel until we curtail this absurd perk of the job. More
Judicial paternity tests - 5/13/25 by John M. Grondelski May 13, 2025 by John M. Grondelski The least we should be able to do, especially when single judges decide to impose their views of the law on the country as a whole, is acknowledge their presidential paternity. More
The wise Latina’s not very wise remarks - 5/13/25 by Silvio Canto, Jr. May 13, 2025 by Silvio Canto, Jr. Sonia Sotomayor makes her affection for the resistance known. More
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Start your day with a heartwarming story about a police officer’s extraordinary act - 5/24/25 by Andrea Widburg May 24, 2025 by Andrea Widburg This story, with its bizarre headline at the Daily Mail, compelled me to read it, and I’m glad I did, as it reminds us about both love and the brain’s resilience.  More
Minneapolis' consent decree suicide - 5/24/25 by Mike McDaniel May 24, 2025 by Mike McDaniel It’s likely the Bondi DOJ will withdraw the consent decree, but equally likely those elected to protect Minneapolis, will continue to destroy it. More
Why I carry a handgun, and you should too - 5/24/25 by Mike McDaniel May 24, 2025 by Mike McDaniel Foremost, I am an American; I am a free man; it is my tradition and heritage. More
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The mainstream media drags American Thinker into their fake news pile-on against President Trump - 5/23/25 by Monica Showalter May 23, 2025 by Monica Showalter Trump was presenting a whole article discussing South African killings, not a photo contained within it. And you wonder why the press is so discredited with the public. More
Finding clarity in a polarized age - 5/23/25 by Kevin Finn May 23, 2025 by Kevin Finn Our world has gotten very loud. We need clear thinking and honest conversations to move forward. More
Deranged, and dumb: Progressive pro-aborts want Adriana Smith dead, citing the wrong law, just so her baby doesn’t get a chance at life - 5/23/25 by Olivia Murray May 23, 2025 by Olivia Murray A story out of Georgia shows you just how far they’ll go just to taste the blood of the innocent. More
Men, women, and the consequences of immorality - 5/23/25 by Robert Arvay May 23, 2025 by Robert Arvay Most people seem intuitively to believe that there really is such a thing as morality. Recent history bears this out, too, in a damning way. More
Violent leftists strike again - 5/23/25 by J.B. Shurk May 23, 2025 by J.B. Shurk And, as usual, the leftist propaganda media cover for them. More
How do you solve a problem like Iran? - 5/23/25 by Andrea Widburg May 23, 2025 by Andrea Widburg Joe Biden dumped a terrible, existential problem in Donald Trump’s lap, and Trump may (I hope) be trying an out-of-the-box approach to address it. More
Anti-semitism's ugly ringing reverberations - 5/23/25 by Monica Showalter May 23, 2025 by Monica Showalter The brazen murder of a young Jewish couple can only be the work of a freak who has been steeped in antisemitism. Where does that come from? More
Democrats’ double deception - 5/23/25 by James Zumwalt May 23, 2025 by James Zumwalt How much further will the Party’s favorability tumble once the public fully understands the deceit of Biden’s prostate cancer revelation? More
Why is the federal government still spying on us? - 5/23/25 by Susan Quinn May 23, 2025 by Susan Quinn The “Quiet Skies” program has been a verifiable failure—so why is it still operational? More
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Father of accused killer of Israeli diplomats is closely acquainted with Illinois Democrat - 5/23/25 by Olivia Murray May 23, 2025 by Olivia Murray And, that Illinois Democrat is quite the domestic terrorist himself. More
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