The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

Frog Eat Frog

5.31.02 @ 3:07PM

Excuse our French, in other words.

topics: Education, Television, Environment, NATO, Oil

To Be Absolutely Frank

Comics Without Honor

Francis X. Rocca | 5.31.02 @ 12:04AM

Every American should be told that this summer the Laurel and Hardy Museum will hold its grand opening in Harlem, Georgia.

topics: Television, Hollywood, Movies

Washington Prowler

Running and Hiding

The Prowler | 5.31.02 @ 12:03AM

Social Security insecurities. A Clinton recovery. Democrat last hurrahs.

topics: Business, Social Security

Sports Arena

Pumped Up

5.31.02 @ 12:02AM

Steroids inject a little controversy into Major League Baseball. How long before Arnold Schwarzenegger is named commissioner?

topics: Trade, Sports, Books, Oil

Another Perspective

The Mother of All Grizzlies

Bill Croke | 5.31.02 @ 12:01AM

They're not called Ursus arctos horribilis for nothing.

topics: Television, Environment, Law

Buy the Book

What Is Wrong and Right With the FBI

Lawrence Henry | 5.30.02 @ 12:44AM

A special review of Christopher Whitcomb's Cold Zero: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team.

topics: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Business, Abortion, Environment, Constitution, Law, Military

Washington Prowler

Protections and Projections

The Prowler | 5.30.02 @ 12:39AM

Post-Enron men. The tax simplifier. New Democrat numbers.

topics: Law, NATO

Editor's Desk

Bush League Politics

Wlady Pleszczynski | 5.30.02 @ 12:21AM

How low can you go is not an ideal guiding principle.

topics: Social Security

The Current Crisis

Hate Thy Media Neighbor

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 5.30.02 @ 12:03AM

Is it self-hatred that keeps journalists at each others' throats?

Movie Takes

Enough Already

James Bowman | 5.30.02 @ 12:02AM

More proof, if proof were needed, that feminist empowerment fantasies can be dangerous to women.

Reader Mail

Correcting the Record

5.30.02 @ 12:01AM

Leahy can't be proud of his, but Nat Hentoff sure can. Also: Kashmir showdown and more.

topics: Abortion, Military, Pakistan

At Large

Nieman Harvard

John Corry | 5.29.02 @ 1:19AM

It wasn't always about toeing the liberal line.

topics: Foreign Policy, Education, Economics, Environment, Constitution, Law, Russia, Africa, Energy

Washington Prowler

Building and Tearing Down

The Prowler | 5.29.02 @ 1:09AM

A top Republican's upper hand. A top Democrat's broken dream.

topics: John McCain, Television, Business

Live From New York

Bye, Baby, Goodbye

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 5.29.02 @ 12:14AM

Yasser is finished, and everybody knows it. So why pretend otherwise?

topics: Law, Israel

Movie Takes

The Importance of Being Earnest

James Bowman | 5.29.02 @ 12:08AM

Nobody could be in favor of Victorian hypocrisy anymore. So why do we continue to bash it -- and congratulate ourselves for being superior?

Washington Prowler

J. Edgar Mueller

The Prowler | 5.28.02 @ 12:08AM

Even some Republican senators seem to have had it with President Bush's FBI director. Also: Why did Democrats -- for now -- not reject a ''controversial'' Bush judicial nominee?

topics: Joe Biden, NATO

Loose Canons

Order of Battle in Kashmir

Jed Babbin | 5.28.02 @ 12:03AM

If we are to stop India and Pakistan from going to war, we first have to know how this coming war may be fought.

topics: Islam, Military, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons

Lifestyles Left and Right

All Aboard for Reparations

5.28.02 @ 12:02AM

Slavery was an international operation, going back several millennia. The opportunity for lucrative shakedowns are thus limitless.

topics: Trade, Law, Israel, Africa, Energy

Reader Mail

Happy Daze

5.28.02 @ 12:01AM

Prescriptions, descriptions, conniptions and free kicks.

topics: Health Care, Bill Clinton, Business, Sports, Law, Military, Israel, Oil

Special Report

Decoration Day

5.27.02 @ 1:32AM

Memorial Day reconsidered -- and remembered.

topics: Business, Constitution