Category: The American Thinker

There’s no doubt that Christmas is, for America, the most thoroughly celebrated holiday of the year. We close our schools for a couple of weeks. We spend an astounding amount of money on gifts that we wrap with elaborate paper...

I have seventeen entries in my cell phone directory of people who are dead. Sixteen men and one woman. My oldest and best friend Mike, gone too soon and in the midst of a dispute we never quite settled, then his wife Nancy, just...

Last week brought another balance-the-budget charade to the American people, ending with another fiscal SNAFU – Situation Normal, All…yeah, you know.  It’s a form of glorious national codependency where the American people blame...

It is arguably the most iconic image from the American Revolution.  You can find drawings, paintings, and sculptures commemorating its significance in town halls, courthouses, libraries, churches, and veterans’ associations...

The Christmas Holiday season gives each of us an opportunity to reflect on the year gone by, our successes or failures, along with our joys or sorrows. Recently, in her weekly column for Townhall.com, conservative and political...

The United States has arguably the best and most experienced combat air forces on the planet. The US has four of them, in fact: The US Air Force, as well as air forces serving the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps. The US Navy...

Just like the Israelites in the book of Exodus (shemōt), on November 6th, the Democrat party entered The Wilderness. What does this mean for the party, for its intended programs, and more importantly, its self-esteem and ability...

Recently, I was asked what I thought was the seminal event in the first quarter of the 21st Century. The past twenty-five years, beginning in January of 2000, have been fraught with wars, terrorism, religious persecution,...

In 1634 the Dutch became enamored of tulips. So much so that many neglected their ordinary affairs in order to pursue the tulip trade. Soon, tulip sales were posted on the Stock Exchange of Amsterdam. People bought tulip bulbs...

What do capitalism, socialism and democracy all have in common? According to Joseph Schumpeter, one of the most prominent 20th century Austrian economists of his time, they all benefitted to a degree from what he termed...

If you want to understand the hypocrisy of globalist leftism, there is perhaps no better example than the vastly different media responses to recent events in South Korea and Romania.The failed coup in South Korea got a lot of...

America is just coming-to after a near-death experience.  We came within a hair’s breadth of ceasing to be America. If November 5th hadn’t been so decisive, we’d still be counting (and manufacturing) votes. If Trump hadn’t been...