Age of Obama

Defining and Defeating the Al Qaeda Narrative

The late, great linguist and rhetorician George Orwell of "1984" and "Animal Farm" fame would surely have agreed with what US Marine Corps General James Mattis (then head of the Joint Forces Command at Norfolk) meant three years ago when he sharply condemned al Qaeda-style Terrorism as "tyranny in false religious garb."

The Two Vietnam Wars

On Friday of last week, much of the establishment media reminded us of the awful 35th anniversary of the so-called "End of the Vietnam War" -- on April 30, 1975. This is only partly true, and now we need to know what the late commentator Paul Harvey would correctly call "the rest of the story."

From Kennedy’s Age of "CAMELOT" to Obama’s Age of "SCAMALOT"

For almost half a century, the romantic and noble legacy label of John and Jackie Kennedy's "Camelot" years in the White House has been an integral part of our political lexicon -- and a major asset to the once liberal, now mostly left-illiberal, Democratic National Party.

OUTFORCING of Jobs, DOWNFORCING of Energy Supplies -- Obama's "Great LEAHP Backward"

President's Barack Obama's much-ballyhooed White House "summit" on jobs in December 2009 seemed at the time (and still does) to fly into the teeth of his own major proposals on energy, on the environment and on healthcare -- all of which are huge job-killers.

Telltale Proofs of Obama's "Progressive" Socialism (or is it his "Socialist Progressivism" ???)

At a time when President Barack Obama and his self-defined "Progressives" are subtly denying that they are "Socialists," and when Republicans are debating whether or not to condemn them openly and proactively as the latter, it is essential that we clearly define both of these major socio-political labels as essentially one and the same.

Castro, Chavez, A'jad and the "Cubazuelan Empire"

A major AmericanThinker.com posting on August 23, 2009 -- followed by a widespread embrace of that essay all across the Internet -- is adding a valuable new truth-in-language term to the political lexicon of environmental and energy issues now before the Congress.

Semantic Engineering Needed to Strengthen the Lexicon

Lee Cary's highly detailed November 15, 2009 article -- "The AT Readers' Complete Lexicon of Political Speech" -- describes quite accurately the distorted and deceptive meanings that the radical Left is routinely giving to a long list of common words and phrases in our political discourse.

The Branch Carbonian Cult

The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Movement has taken on the worrisome attributes of a pseudo-religious cult, which operates far more on the basis of an apocalyptic "belief" system than on objective climate science.