Category: The American Thinker

Teaching is an art as much as it may be a science.  I liken it to conducting an orchestra.  Just as the conductor leads his orchestra, the teacher guides his class.  The conductor ensures that each musician is playing at the...

A recent post-election doomsday headline reads, “Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net.” The following are quotes from the litany of dire predictions that Trump will destroy the Medicaid safety net....

During his November 1 Friday mosque sermon at the North Hudson Islamic Center in New Jersey, CAIR official Ayman Aishat made a seemingly starting claim: We live in America, the United States of America. Brothers and sisters,...

In the wake of the Democratic wipeout November 5 and the tapping of Tom Homan as President Trump’s “border czar,” Democratic governors are busy trying to build a new “blue wall” to shield illegal aliens from promised immigration...

From running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination himself, former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has proven himself a Trump loyalist who commands the president-elect’s trust.  Announcing Burgum’s appointment at his...

If you know anything about Washington, D.C., you know that lying and backstabbing are routine. Your enemies lie, and, often, your friends lie — or those you assume are friends. In Washington, hidden motives are a given....

Benedict Arnold was a well-respected and courageous officer in the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He fought in half a dozen battles and was central to winning the critical Battle of Saratoga in 1777,...

I’m not much of a spontaneous laugher, but the explosion of videos with people doing the “Trump Dance” just cracks me up.  When President Trump started showing off a few of his signature moves during the 2020 campaign, I thought...

Two former college coaches who never received their due, passed away last week. Although they didn’t bring championship banners to their esteemed schools they were nevertheless positive influences on and off the football...

While we celebrate our great election victory, we must remember that the real work only now begins. The Republic has been saved, but only if we break from the mistakes of the past. We cannot expect to finish saving the country...

We Americans have three political tendencies. First, there is “struggle.” Just before the election Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said: If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over. Interesting how, in...

I vividly recall walking through the corridors of Saddam Hussein’s palace in the Green Zone in Baghdad in 2006.  I was there as part of a team helping to develop a strategy to reinvigorate Iraqi businesses that had been...