The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

The Sniff of Rats

5.17.02 @ 3:55PM

Can't say we didn't have advance warning.

topics: Health Care, Movies, Law, Israel

The Virginian

Revival Fever

Dave Shiflett | 5.17.02 @ 12:06AM

The only hope we have for some true left-wing barking is the much-discussed Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour.

topics: Television, Business, Environment, Oil

Washington Prowler

Payback Time

The Prowler | 5.17.02 @ 12:05AM

McCain's defector could cost the GOP the Senate. Plus: House underground costs revisited.

topics: John McCain, NATO

Special Report

The Fires Next Time

Bill Croke | 5.17.02 @ 12:04AM

Out west, the fires of 2002 have already scorched 500,000 acres. This summer will be one of closed national forests and smoldering subdivisions -- and probably further expansion into the Stupid Zones.

topics: Environment

Another Perspective

Mahony's New Secrets

George Neumayr | 5.17.02 @ 12:03AM

The ''respectable'' Times drops an unexpected bomb on a shifty cardinal it used to protect.

topics: Religion, Law

Political Hay

And When Did He Know It?

Reid Collins | 5.17.02 @ 12:02AM

In the wake of 9/11, President Bush must ultimately be knocked down too, Daschle & Co. have decided.

topics: Trade, Business, Law, Pakistan, NATO, Africa

Movie Takes

About a Boy Is a Laff Riot

James Bowman | 5.17.02 @ 12:01AM

But like its authors' earlier American Pie, this Hugh Grant film only goes wrong when it tries to be too serious.

Washington Prowler

Democrat Dirty Tricks

The Prowler | 5.16.02 @ 12:53AM

One of them comes back to haunt a leading House liberal. But who gave him the okay? Also: Deciding Bush's travels will cost him.

topics: John Boehner, Bill Clinton, Law

The Current Crisis

PLO Revelry in Bethlehem

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 5.16.02 @ 12:04AM

Or rather, debauchery, as we now know thanks to reporting by the Good Times of Washington.

topics: Religion, Islam, Law, Israel, Oil

Special Report

Assassination by a Green

5.16.02 @ 12:03AM

Pim Fortuyn could detect the creep of a foreign brand of intolerance, but he didn't sense the danger posed by politically charged eco-terrorists.

topics: Islam, Environment, Law, European Union, Immigration

The Current Crisis

Tax and Spin, Cut and Run

George Neumayr | 5.16.02 @ 12:02AM

Faced with enormous budget deficit of his own doing, California Gov. Gray Davis is living the liberal dream, raising taxes on the rich and poor and cutting programs for the nonvoting poor.

topics: Taxes, Education, Environment, Energy

Reader Mail

Profiles in Entourage

5.16.02 @ 12:01AM

Readers peel away at Russert, Edwards, Chomsky and other hot potatoes.

topics: Business, Books, Hollywood, Iraq, Iran, Israel

To Be Absolutely Frank

Blacking Out João Varela

Francis X. Rocca | 5.15.02 @ 9:34AM

Why has the American press ignorned the ethnicity of Pim Fortuyn's number-two man?

topics: Business, Constitution, Africa, Immigration

Washington Prowler

Lemon Pledges

The Prowler | 5.15.02 @ 12:04AM

The Clinton Library is finding many promised payments to be overdue -- and 5¢-a-day fines won't make up the shortfall.

topics: Bill Clinton, Business, Africa

Editor's Desk

John Jimmy Edwards Carter

Wlady Pleszczynski | 5.15.02 @ 12:03AM

You'd think that Christopher Hitchens would have his number.

topics: Law, North Korea

Live From New York

American Jews and Israel

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 5.15.02 @ 12:02AM

Would it be too much to back those at home who back the Jewish homeland?

topics: Business, Law, Military, Israel, NATO

Loose Canons

Why I Hate Hollywood

Jed Babbin | 5.15.02 @ 12:01AM

Or at least a certain big-shot screenwriter and the fellow he's chosen to be his muse.

topics: Education, Television, Hollywood, Movies, Israel, Energy

Political Hay

Get a Grip

Lawrence Henry | 5.14.02 @ 12:04AM

There is more to Bush's foreign policy than meets the carping conservative's eye -- much more.

topics: Foreign Policy, Military, Iraq, Iran, Oil

Washington Prowler

Florida-Tennessee

The Prowler | 5.14.02 @ 12:03AM

No, not the Gators vs. the Volunteers. Just more statewide political messes. In one, a real people's president stumps for Janet Reno. In the other, the GOP risks losing a key Senate seat.

topics: NATO

At Large

Let's Bash the Usual Suspects

John Corry | 5.14.02 @ 12:02AM

If liberals didn't run amok, there'd be no need for a vast right-wing conspiracy.

topics: Education, Abortion, Law, NATO

Sports Arena

The Beautiful Game

5.14.02 @ 12:01AM

The U.S. starts a real run for soccer's World Cup.

topics: Sports

Washington Prowler

Sweating the Dems

The Prowler | 5.13.02 @ 1:10AM

Daschle, Gore, Clinton, Oprah and the most faithful one of all, Peter Jennings.

topics: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Environment, NATO

Lifestyles Left and Right

Schools on the Mend

5.13.02 @ 12:03AM

One report after another suggests that common sense is returning to education.

topics: Education, Business, Religion, Books, Unions

Political Hay

Governor Shakedown

George Neumayr | 5.13.02 @ 12:02AM

Gray Davis makes Al Gore look like a piker.

topics: Business, Law

Movie Takes

We Can Work It Out

James Bowman | 5.13.02 @ 12:01AM

Unfaithful is shockingly unfaithful to the French masterpiece it's based on. It's probably even unfaithful to Fatal Attraction.