American Thinker

During his first term, President Trump amassed a remarkable record of achievements. In so doing, he also infuriated the swamp because he demonstrated how much better off Americans were without the swamp’s constant intrusions into…

For almost two decades, Iraq was at the center of U.S. foreign policy, absorbing huge sums and costing thousands of American lives. Now, just a few years later, it risks fading into geopolitical obscurity—forgotten by the U.S. public and by…

When people ask me, “How are you?” I answer, “Dazed, confused, and prone to wandering.” This flippant response is a way to avoid the common but meaningless “Fine” with a similarly unserious but likely humorous rejoinder. Unfortunately, as I…

In the 1960s when my husband and I first worked in Washington, D.C., according to the Office of Personnel Management, there were about 1,808,000 (which includes military; non-Department of Defense was 761,000) federal…

John Eastman should be a household name among conservatives, along with anyone else who believes authoritarianism can exist not just in the past or in faraway parts of the world, but in modern “liberal democracies” as well.For those…

It has been half a century since Howard Jarvis launched the first property tax revolt with Prop 13 in California. Since then, forty-six states and the District of Columbia have enacted some form of property tax limitation. Some of these…

Recently the LA Times claimed that an ICE raid operation in the City of Our Lady of Angels is imminent. The article cited sensitive internal government documents to prove that "federal law enforcement…

Americans are justifiably outraged and disgusted with the recent revelations of how our tax dollars have been wasted through various agencies. Our new EPA chief Lee Zeldin compared the waste in his agency to "throwing gold bars off the deck…

If an obscure nonprofit received hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, trained thousands of journalists, influenced media outlets worldwide, and quietly scrubbed its leadership and key records from the internet—wouldn’t you want to…

Political backlash and public outcry have prompted a compromise between Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s Republican legislators on Florida’s immigration policy, following a prolonged dispute over how to handle illegal…