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Friday, February 15, 2002

Enemy of the Week

Peacekeeping on Thin Ice

2.15.02 @ 2:37PM

This week Enemy Central discovers a chicken in every plot.

Washington Prowler

Leahy's Rejected Deal

The Prowler | 2.15.02 @ 12:57AM

Plus: Al Gore's e-mail offensive. Also: GOP fights for better seats at baseball games.

The Virginian

Tinkletown

Dave Shiflett | 2.15.02 @ 12:10AM

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 @ 12:05AM

It all goes back to the Buddy Affair.

Reader Mail

Man's Search for Meaning

2.15.02 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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 @ 5:29PM

Democrats come in all shapes and sizes -- and some even make money (relatively) honestly.

Political Hay

Envirostupidity

2.14.02 @ 2:02PM

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 @ 12:05AM

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 @ 12:03AM

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 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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 @ 6:26PM

Is it better to watch Aaron Brown, or read a blogger?

Washington Prowler

Daschle in a Panic

The Prowler | 2.13.02 @ 1:17AM

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 @ 12:03AM

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 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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 @ 6:25PM

A Washington inquisition, the death of a princess, and other morality plays.

At Large

Skateboarding in the Snow

John Corry | 2.12.02 @ 11:27AM

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 @ 12:18AM

Rubin in demand. Tenet looks ahead -- but not back. McAuliffe suddenly nervous.

Another Perspective

What Would Have Worked

Reid Collins | 2.12.02 @ 12:06AM

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 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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 @ 5:41PM

Or how to assign all blame to ''Republican values.''

Washington Prowler

George W. Bush's Thursday Night Call

2.11.02 @ 12:55AM

Plus, Clinton Goes South: Is there a Heritage USA in his future?

Lifestyles Left and Right

Fishing Expeditions

2.11.02 @ 12:38AM

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 @ 12:32AM

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 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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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