The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

A Few Preliminary Inquiries

2.8.02 @ 5:49PM

Enemy Central resumes its searches for the politically charged rogues and roguettes in our midst.

topics: Business, Law, Supreme Court

The Virginian

Check, Please

Dave Shiflett | 2.8.02 @ 11:19AM

One greets the launch of a new publication with an open heart and extended palm. Such is certainly the case regarding the long-awaited Prowler.

topics: Law, Oil

Washington Prowler

The Anti-Reagan Four

The Prowler | 2.8.02 @ 12:25AM

What's wrong with these people? Plus, Janet Reno remains testy, and an emerging sister act in Southern California.

topics: Israel, NATO

Movie Takes

A Sizzling Macbeth

James Bowman | 2.8.02 @ 12:12AM

Scotland, PA does for Shakespeare what Clueless did for Jane Austen.

Editor's Desk

David and Dan

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.7.02 @ 4:37PM

Luckily, not every political columnist comes off as mushy as David Broder.

topics: Taxes, Education, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Books, Energy

To Be Absolutely Frank

Nationalism Right, Left, and Center

Francis X. Rocca | 2.7.02 @ 11:56AM

Jörg Haider is back in the news, in today's ''New York Times'' no less. And what is Austria's best-known (living) right-wing demagogue up to now? More praise for the Third Reich, perhaps?

topics: Taxes, Environment, European Union, Fascism, Energy

Washington Prowler

The President's Scorecard

The Prowler | 2.7.02 @ 12:48AM

Plus, New York's seething senators. Cashing in on Sheila Jackson Lee.

topics: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, NATO

The Current Crisis

The Post-Enron War on Soft Money

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.7.02 @ 12:32AM

Alas 'tis true -- campaign finance reform is again in danger of being passed in Congress where our elected representatives admit that they cannot be trusted with the money they raise.

Buy the Book

Mobocracy: Not What the Founders Wanted

2.7.02 @ 12:19AM

Matthew Robinson demonstrates how media coverage can bias polling results, and how polls are abused by journalists, pundits, and politicians to advance agendas and to attack opponents.

topics: Books, Founding Fathers

Editor's Desk

Weddings and Birthdays

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.6.02 @ 3:21PM

What's in a wedding picture? Does Andrew Sullivan still care? Plus guess who's birthday some of us remembered?

topics: Iran

Washington Prowler

Cheers and Jeers and No More Tax Cuts

The Prowler | 2.6.02 @ 1:08AM

Reading Clinton right and Daschle wrong. Is there a Russ in our future? Israel's reservoir of Good Bill. Plus more Supreme jitters.

topics: Television, Supreme Court, Israel, NATO

Live From New York

The Pope and Jewish Lawyers

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 2.6.02 @ 12:59AM

Last week during an annual meeting with Vatican magistrates the Pope delivered a papal bombshell. He said lawyers ''should always decline to use their professions for an end that is contrary to justice, like divorce...''

topics: Business, Law

Loose Canons

Axis of Evil, Chapter 1: Why Not Iraq?

Jed Babbin | 2.6.02 @ 12:56AM

With Afghanistan almost over, it's not unreasonable to ask, why aren't we bombing Iraq? The answer is that we're not capable of doing what we did in 1991, and our so-called Arab allies -- that is, the Saudis -- won't cooperate.

topics: Environment, Military, Iraq, Iran, Oil

Editor's Desk

Ambrose and Goodwin One Last Time

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.5.02 @ 4:22PM

No one likes to get caught, but some handle it better than others, especially if George McGovern is on their side.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Environment, Books, Military

Washington Prowler

Idealists and Opportunists

The Prowler | 2.5.02 @ 1:11AM

You decide which statesmen and politicians belong under which category. Bill Clinton, for example. Or Paul Wolfowitz. Plus Nancy Pelosi and Katherine Harris.

topics: Trade, Bill Clinton, Iraq, Israel, Unions

Another Perspective

We Are At War

Reid Collins | 2.5.02 @ 12:46AM

But what does that mean? And what is President Bush's State of the Union Doctrine all about?

topics: Television, Religion, Islam, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Iran, North Korea

At Large

Davos Diary

John Corry | 2.5.02 @ 12:00AM

So many dignitaries and famous people, so many captains of industry, heads of state and assorted politicians. Exactly how many, however, nobody knows, but there are at least 2,500 and probably more, and the number depends on who is counting.

topics: Movies, Law, European Union, NATO, Africa

Editor's Desk

Opening Day Titters

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.4.02 @ 2:21PM

Is that Al Gore breathing down our necks? We only don't have eyes for Greta. Plus more in this daily roundup.

topics: Bill Clinton, Sports, Law, Military

Washington Prowler

Questions, Questions

The Prowler | 2.4.02 @ 12:49AM

Money, television, audits and life in the fast lane -- in other words, just your typical news day.

topics: Bill Clinton, Books, NATO

Loose Canons

One Hostage's Life

Jed Babbin | 2.4.02 @ 12:17AM

One of the ugliest aspects of a war with terrorists is hostage-taking. It was inevitable that our war would, at some point, include the taking of Americans as hostages.

topics: Business, Law, Israel, Pakistan

Movie Takes

Who Do They Think They're Kidding?

James Bowman | 2.4.02 @ 12:02AM

Our movie critic reviews Birthday Girl, starring Nikoletka Kidmanova.

Lifestyles Left and Right

The Culture War: Report From the Front Lines

2.4.02 @ 12:00AM

Last time we looked, the Vatican -- to put it delicately -- frowned on abortion. This fact has apparently escaped the attention of the faculty at one of the nation's major Catholic universities, Villanova, near Philadelphia.

topics: Education, Abortion, Books, Law