Enemy of the Week
Peacekeeping on Thin Ice
2.15.02
This week Enemy Central discovers a chicken in every plot.
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Friday, February 15, 2002
Washington Prowler
Leahy’s Rejected Deal
The Prowler | 2.15.02
Plus: Al Gore’s e-mail offensive. Also: GOP fights for better seats at baseball games.
The Virginian
Tinkletown
Dave Shiflett | 2.15.02
A spate of new movies with Southern settings has some Southrons smelling a herd of rats galloping in their direction.
The Current Crisis
More Bad Clinton Ink
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.15.02
It all goes back to the Buddy Affair.
Reader Mail
Man’s Search for Meaning
2.15.02
More reactions and welcomes to The American Prowler. Plus your thoughts on the meaning of marriage, geography, Janet Reno, blogging, and Joe Conason.
Movie Takes
Iris
James Bowman | 2.15.02
The writer Iris Murdoch worked all her life to say something that people would remember, yet now seems more likely to be remembered for getting Alzheimer’s disease and sinking into inarticulacy.
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Editor’s Desk
Buckrakers McAuliffe and Reich
Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.14.02
Democrats come in all shapes and sizes — and some even make money (relatively) honestly.
Political Hay
Envirostupidity
2.14.02
President Bush today is unveiling a plan to fight global warming. It’s a bad plan by both conservative and liberal standards — and bad politics.
Washington Prowler
Tom Ridge’s Insecurities
The Prowler | 2.14.02
Plus: Pulling the rug out from under the Clintons. Also: Another CNN cancellation.
To Be Absolutely Frank
St. Valentine’s Day Diary
Francis X. Rocca | 2.14.02
The third-century martyr’s feast happens this year to come the day after Ash Wednesday, which for many Christians ought to rule out celebrating with champagne or Swiss chocolate.
The Current Crisis
Enron as Underdog
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.14.02
Is there not anyone out there among America’s famously outspoken pundits willing to utter a kind word for Enron? Whatever happened to our columnists’ vaunted iconoclasm?
Movie Takes
Storytelling
James Bowman | 2.14.02
Todd Solondz’s new film is wittier, funnier, and even more accomplished technically than his previous effort, but once again the sense of moral and spiritual desolation behind its entertaining puppetry is something that you would have to be very arty, ver
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Editor’s Desk
Is the Web Driving Us Nuts?
Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.13.02
Is it better to watch Aaron Brown, or read a blogger?
Washington Prowler
Daschle in a Panic
The Prowler | 2.13.02
While Democrats fret about another Bush surge, the president prepares to leave them even more befuddled. Plus: McCain’s last hurrah?
Loose Canons
Whole Lotta Transformin’ Goin’ On
Jed Babbin | 2.13.02
When Donald Rumsfeld began planning the transformation of the military, he excluded the Pentagon’s top generals and admirals from the project. Opposition grew, and drafts of political obits were being circulated. Then he became Secretary of War.
Political Hay
Dances With Wolves
2.13.02
Might there be tort reform in our lifetime? Under George W. Bush prospects have improved substantially — and pay special attention to the progress of H.R. 2341, which targets the egregious practice of forum shopping.
Special Report
The Seamless Argument
2.13.02
Justice Scalia’s remarks about the death penalty are consistent with the constructionist position that judges shouldn’t legislate from the bench, but only uphold the law. Does this put him in opposition to the Catholic Church?
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Editor’s Desk
Royal Pains
Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.12.02
A Washington inquisition, the death of a princess, and other morality plays.
At Large
Skateboarding in the Snow
John Corry | 2.12.02
This is not your father’s Winter Olympics. It may not even be your older brother’s.
Washington Prowler
Mixed Messages
The Prowler | 2.12.02
Rubin in demand. Tenet looks ahead — but not back. McAuliffe suddenly nervous.
Another Perspective
What Would Have Worked
Reid Collins | 2.12.02
Guns? People carrying guns on airplanes? Allowed to by the federal government? Yes.
The Investor
Villains vs. Victims at Enron
Michael Craig | 2.12.02
Enron investors — even (and especially) its employees — have to take some responsibility for their plight, even if it doesn’t balance the massive sympathy show in Washington.
The Current Crisis
Wreckless Riordan
George Neumayr | 2.12.02
Richard Riordan is emerging as the Jim Jeffords of the Pacific Coast — a stick of dynamite underneath the California Republican Party.
Monday, February 11, 2002
Editor’s Desk
Unpin the Donkey
Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.11.02
Or how to assign all blame to ”Republican values.”
Washington Prowler
George W. Bush’s Thursday Night Call
2.11.02
Plus, Clinton Goes South: Is there a Heritage USA in his future?
Lifestyles Left and Right
Fishing Expeditions
2.11.02
What do Karl Marx, Bill Clinton, Enron’s management, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service have in common?
Buy the Book
The Demolition of Franklin Roosevelt
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.11.02
Thomas Fleming’s history of FDR and the New Dealers’ erratic execution of World War II exposes the assembled world-savers as more inept, brutal, and devious than college students have been taught these past fifty odd years.
Reader Mail
Reader Reactions: Anyone Still Hate Us?
2.11.02
The American Prowler’s approval rating now rivals President Bush’s. Read what readers, old and new, think about our new product and the happy days that are here again.
Movie Takes
Beijing Bicycle
James Bowman | 2.11.02
Remakes are almost always a bad idea, but this new remake of Bicycle Thief (1948), Vittorio De Sica’s great classic of Italian neo-realism, turns out to be a triumph.
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