American Thinker

Newscaster Lesley Stahl claims she “doesn’t know what to do” about the embarrassing demise of the legacy media.She was lamenting to her colleague, Peggy Noonan, that “we are at the point where even the president,” then corrected herself…

As Barack Obama slowly fades from the landscape, let’s consider how he has helped to destroy Western civilization, especially the United States of America. He did this via his fealty to Iran, which allowed unchecked, deadly drug trafficking…

If we don’t want to see the annual 1500-page Christmas “continuing resolutions,” Republicans might take a lesson from the Polish Left about making a statement about what you stand for. In 2016, they occupied Parliament for 26 days over…

Ali ThenAli was from my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and I remember him well. At age 18, Cassius Clay, as he was known then, won the gold medal as a light heavyweight in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, making us proud. Cassius started his…

It turns out, no matter your party affiliation, it may have been good for America that Trump lost in 2020.Had Trump won in 2020, his second term would have probably looked a lot like his first term. The Democrats would have fixated on him…

Ali ThenAli was from my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky and I remember him well. At age 18, Cassius Clay, as he was known then, won the gold medal as a light heavyweight in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, making us proud. Cassius started…

After the Napoleonic Wars, Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz wrote his seminal treatise, On War. Published in 1832, On War was not immediately recognized as the authoritative work it is today. Rather, in the…

Joe Biden's federal international dole-out grants are, we hope, going to crash and burn after January 2025.Hallelujah. Remember Ronald Reagan to the rescue? Back then, I was directing federal grants for a bloated, multi-county…

It was galling, to say the least, to see President Joe Biden, taking credit for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Biden (and his administration) did everything he could to preserve Assad by restraining Israel and…

There is a tremendous ambiguity around what the United States is doing in and about the current war in Ukraine. Even the least involved and roughly informed know this is true. Where is the money going? Why have no legitimate efforts…