American Thinker

In the 1950s the Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, informally referred to as the Reece Committee because Brazilla Carroll Reece was its chairman, delved into the activities of the Ford…

George Orwell, that idealistic socialist disillusioned by the Soviet “Workers’ Paradise” (what the great Ronald Reagan called the Evil Empire), took special note of how communists perverted language. Famous, in 1984, the motto was “War is…

This presidential election, Donald Trump unified the most diverse coalition the Republican party has seen in modern political history. In the end, he won primarily on the economy and immigration. The…

Jeff Younger and his sons are suffering an evil of unfathomable proportions at the hands of crooked government officials. All who hear of the case — the court-ordered castration of a young boy and the criminalization of his…

There have been 45 men who have been president of the United States. Over the decades there has been voluminous speculation over who were the worst. That distinction now belongs to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Obama was the most…

“Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.” Blogger Sean Medlock (a.k.a. Jim Treacher) posted that jibe on Twitter back in 2014, and not much has changed…

I once saw a celebrated American author give a class of literature majors one of the best lessons they could learn. He was speaking about the English language when he noticed that all of the students were busy taking notes rather…

During the Biden administration, the FBI and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) brazenly pushed the boundaries of privacy and the Constitution to infringe upon the rights of Americans. Much of…

When does Barack Obama ask Susan Rice to petition Joe Biden for a presidential pardon for himself? With the pardon frenzy buzzing around the Biden camp, a trial balloon for an Obama pardon has already begun drifting toward the Oval…

In the 1995 film version of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the noble Col. Brandon refers to Mr. Willoughby as “the worst of libertines,” a word not much used today but common in Austen’s time. A libertine was an…