Posted on 01/04/2011 7:51:13 AM PST by Trafalgar123
Congratulations to everyone at American Thinker! AT is seven glorious years old today, so I'm blowing up lots of red, white, and blue balloons.
AT has become my indispensable one-stop shop for common sense in a gaga world. I need my daily fix more than I need my morning coffee, because I was starving without it. Here's why.
In the months after 9/11, I found myself going almost insane with hunger. My whole body craved food in an extraordinarily vivid way. "Eat! Eat while you can!" it shrieked at me, 24/7. "War is coming, and you may never see food again!"
But even greater than my belly hunger was my brain hunger. I devoured every fact I could find about the mysterious slaughter that had swooped into our lives from the clear blue sky.
In my information hunger, I wolfed down the New York Times, including, of course, the editorials. Ha! For those of you who don't remember what America's paper of record was like in those historic years, here's a quick reminder: "Bush...squandered good will...unilateral...good will squandered...Bush... squandered...unilateral..."
One day, I was reading Thomas Friedman's latest sludge when I hit my last-straw "unilateral." I remember throwing the paper across the room in frustration. By then, I knew enough to realize that Friedman was flat-out lying when he claimed that our military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq were unilateral. But what galled me more than Friedman's mendacity was his soulless stupidity: Even if his lie were true, what difference did it make if our military operations were unilateral, if they were the right thing to do?
We were living in deadly serious times, and the news was being delivered to us by sneering nitwits. I felt as if I were literally starving for adult discourse.
Then I discovered American Thinker.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The American Thinker has been a great addition to conservative thought. When William Buckley launched National Review in the 1955, he noted the great arroyo on the right for intellectual conservative publications. Today, thanks to trailblazers like Bill Buckley, there is a great vibrancy of robust debate on the right. Also worth noting is that The American Thinker is one of Rush’s favorite sites.
and thank goodness for the internet too.
American Thinker posts cogent, articulate, insightful work every day, by a host of conservative writers who carry the torch of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, William Buckley, and Ronald Reagan.
American Thinker and Canadian Free Press are outstanding.
Thank goodness and Albore.
Happy Birthday indeed, and many more!
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