The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

The Russians Are Coming and Going

2.22.02 @ 8:55PM

Which doesn't mean they're going to win in this competition either. Our judges cannot be bought (at least not in rubles).

topics: Education, Business, Law, Russia

The Current Crisis

Stomping on Barbarians

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.22.02 @ 1:31PM

The barbarism committed against the Wall Street Journal's Danny Pearl would not have surprised Admiral Sir John Fisher.

topics: Books

Washington Prowler

John Edwards Goes to Canosa

The Prowler | 2.22.02 @ 12:05AM

It's not nice to lose trial lawyer money. Plus: Gephardt samples the left coast. Hillary's bad air day.

topics: Trade, Environment, Law, NATO

The Virginian

The Other Side

Dave Shiflett | 2.22.02 @ 12:04AM

In Georgia, several hundred bodies have been discovered rotting on the grounds of a crematorium.

topics: Hollywood, Law

Sports Arena

The Boxer Rebellion

2.22.02 @ 12:03AM

America just says no to Mike Tyson.

topics: Sports, Law

Special Report

Government Cheese

2.22.02 @ 12:02AM

If a welfare recipient uses his government check to purchase cheese, does it matter what kind he buys? Couldn't the same argument be applied to how school vouchers are spent? The Supreme Court will decide.

topics: Education, Religion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Unions

Movie Takes

Hart's War

James Bowman | 2.22.02 @ 12:01AM

Instead of getting the lesson in honor we have been promised we get yet another history lesson about how bad Nazis and Southern racists were.

To Be Absolutely Frank

Love Is All You See

Francis X. Rocca | 2.21.02 @ 9:31AM

Washington and Hollywood players are masters of mutual adoration and servility.

Washington Prowler

Scoundrel Time

The Prowler | 2.21.02 @ 12:04AM

Robert Altman should have kept his word. NPR goes the way of East Germany. The White House reaches out to whom?!

topics: Education, Hollywood, Supreme Court

Editor's Desk

Cold Games

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.21.02 @ 12:03AM

An Olympic parody. What is world war? Bush goes to Korea.

topics: Sports, Law, Russia, North Korea, Communism

The Current Crisis

Chicken Celebrity

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.21.02 @ 12:02AM

It is not just that after years of run-ins with the law -- usually involving the abuse of women -- Mike Tyson remains in the public eye, free to erupt at any time. It is that there are at least three other famous men in the same very public situation.

topics: Business, Law

Another Perspective

Sexual Credits

George Neumayr | 2.21.02 @ 12:01AM

The University of California's pursuit of egalitarianism over excellence has reached a new level of lunacy.

topics: Education, Environment, Law

Washington Prowler

Playing the Percentages

The Prowler | 2.20.02 @ 12:05AM

Was Zogby fair to Bush? Is Lott fair to Bush? Is Clinton fair to Gephardt?

topics: Bill Clinton, Business, Law, NATO

Loose Canons

Hellfire, No Brimstone

Jed Babbin | 2.20.02 @ 12:04AM

The CIA's new combat mission: An idea whose time has come?

topics: Business, Law, Military

Live From New York

Jews and Cars

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 2.20.02 @ 12:03AM

Why is General Motors following in the footsteps of Henry Ford?

topics: Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Oil

Political Hay

General Condom

George Neumayr | 2.20.02 @ 12:02AM

What did Colin Powell mean when he said everyone should ''forget about conservative ideas''?

topics: Foreign Policy, Abortion, Military

Reader Mail

Our First Hate Mail

2.20.02 @ 12:01AM

But reinforcements from WorldNetDaily save the day. Plus: Clinton, Hollywood, Bono and the GOP, Ben Stein v. Stanford Law, and more.

topics: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Hollywood, Law, NATO, Africa

Special Report

For the Love of Money

Ben Stein | 2.19.02 @ 12:05AM

Ben Stein says: There is a way to control the Enrons and Global Crossings of this world: Let them worry about Bill Lerach.

topics: Trade, Business, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Israel

Washington Prowler

Tom DeLay Is Back

The Prowler | 2.19.02 @ 12:04AM

Why is he unhappy with the White House? Also: Lining up to oust Lott. Plus: Gary Condit says it with flowers.

topics: Environment, NATO, Energy

Editor's Desk

Shifts in Corporate Scandal Coverage

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.19.02 @ 12:03AM

Is it too late for Terry McAuliffe to request a pardon from his former boss? Or at least claim executive privilege? What was a Bermuda-based company doing signing deals with the U.S. government? Global Crossing comes into its own.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Energy

Political Hay

The Dogs of Reform

2.19.02 @ 12:02AM

Shays-Meehan is as unconstitutional as it is cynical. Before signing campaign finance reform, the President will need to recall he took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.

topics: John McCain, Environment, Constitution, Supreme Court, NATO, Alaska, Oil, Unions

At Large

The New Cold War Olympics

John Corry | 2.19.02 @ 12:01AM

Old Cold War warriors knew rapprochement would not last, and it turns out they were right. You may especially count Donald Rumsfeld among them.

topics: Military, Russia, NATO

Washington Prowler

Hollywood Mocks Clinton

The Prowler | 2.18.02 @ 12:04AM

U2, Kevin Spacey? Plus: Bono rocks the GOP. Gephardt goes cash crazy. Rosty Rahm's bicoastal friends.

topics: Trade, Bill Clinton, Hollywood, NATO, Africa

Lifestyles Left and Right

Who Says Insiders Can't Be Saints?

2.18.02 @ 12:03AM

To listen to some Democrats, they're essentially accusing Bush Republicans of favoring corporate donors exactly the way Democrats have for years.

topics: Trade, Law, NATO, Energy

Reader Mail

Pet Names

2.18.02 @ 12:02AM

Political animal lovers respond to RET's call. Plus more good ink about TAP, the Clintons, the South, and Ms. Temptation, a.k.a. as Greta Van Susteren.

topics: John McCain, Joe Biden, NATO

Movie Takes

Last Orders

James Bowman | 2.18.02 @ 12:01AM

This actor's movie by Fred Schepisi gives us a lovely, deeply affecting portrait of ordinary people in the vanishing cockney subculture of East London.