The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

Sacrificial Lambs

6.21.02 @ 5:12PM

Looking ahead and not seeing anything we like.

topics: Islam, Hollywood, Israel

Another Perspective

The Daddy Trap

Ben Stein | 6.21.02 @ 12:04AM

Ben Stein's summer report from lonely Malibu.

topics: Oil

Washington Prowler

Raising Bush

The Prowler | 6.21.02 @ 12:03AM

Tom Daschle's emergency powers. Also: Democrats rediscover busing.

topics: NATO

The Virginian

Hot Enough for You, Einstein?

Dave Shiflett | 6.21.02 @ 12:02AM

Global warming served on the rocks, as we head for a long, cool one.

topics: Islam, Global Warming

Reader Mail

Chances Are

6.21.02 @ 12:01AM

That Republicans will win, Democrats lose, Stephanopoulos and the Saudis come through, and Watergate be forgotten.

topics: Education, Business, Abortion, Military, Iraq

To Be Absolutely Frank

Marriage Material

Francis X. Rocca | 6.20.02 @ 9:17AM

Choosing anniversary gifts means considering the intangibles.

Washington Prowler

Texas Two-Stepping Ahead

The Prowler | 6.20.02 @ 2:03AM

George W. Bush's successor learned from a master, as Ron Kirk is finding out. Plus: Al Gore lite.

topics: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, NATO

Editor's Desk

George, Andrew, and William Jefferson

Wlady Pleszczynski | 6.20.02 @ 1:51AM

Of these, Stephanopoulos is the one to watch.

topics: Bill Clinton, Television

The Current Crisis

Ordinary Heroes

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.20.02 @ 12:02AM

The last great figures of a momentous era in American history are passing on.

topics: NATO

Another Perspective

Mundy, Mundy

George Neumayr | 6.20.02 @ 12:01AM

Religion without belief has become a way of life -- but even that is too much religion for some of our media.

topics: Religion, Catholicism, Hollywood

Washington Prowler

Face Slappers

The Prowler | 6.19.02 @ 1:08AM

Mrs. Tom Daschle's breaks her word. Democrats in full retreat. Kerry covers Clinton.

topics: Bill Clinton, NATO

At Large

Carter Pro and Con

John Corry | 6.19.02 @ 1:04AM

Has Stephen Carter written the worst book of the year? Or the best? A review of the reviewers -- one of whom may be worth heeding.

topics: Bill Clinton, Business, Abortion, Books, Law, Supreme Court, Africa

Live From New York

Uncivil Liberties

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 6.19.02 @ 12:02AM

If you are looking for terrorists, common sense suggests going to where they hang out, not to places where they are unlikely to be found.

topics: Trade, Television, Military, Iraq, Iran

Special Report

Greenpeace Means Less Peace

6.19.02 @ 12:01AM

National security concerns are not behind this group's plan to post a color map on the Internet showing how a terrorist attack on a chemical bleach plant could unleash a lethal cloud of chlorine vapor over New York City.

topics: Trade, Environment, Law

Washington Prowler

Deals and Squeals

The Prowler | 6.18.02 @ 12:04AM

Tom Daschle plays nice. J.C. Watts gets huffy. John Edwards is corn prone.

topics: Foreign Policy, Business

Loose Canons

A Most Dispensable Ally

Jed Babbin | 6.18.02 @ 12:03AM

We have no Saudi friends -- because friends do not hold some 46 American citizens hostage.

topics: Religion, Islam, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Africa, Oil

The Current Crisis

Gray Matter

George Neumayr | 6.18.02 @ 12:02AM

There is something wrong when a Democrat can no longer denounce his conservative opponent as an extremist.

topics: Business, Africa, Conservatism, Oil

Special Report

Souls and CEOs

Reid Collins | 6.18.02 @ 12:01AM

If the damage has been done, what are the chances for recovery? Reflections on Andersen and the American bishops.

topics: Business, Law

Washington Prowler

The Senate in Jeopardy

The Prowler | 6.17.02 @ 12:09AM

It's not Republicans who are worried, but the DNC's Terry McAuliffe -- who thinks he'll find other consolations.

topics: NATO

Lifestyles Left and Right

The Pandora's Box Factor

6.17.02 @ 12:04AM

A Democrat who had everything going for him is now positioned to lose in a heavily Democratic state.

topics: Taxes, Education, Trade, Business, Abortion, Constitution, NATO

Special Report

The Great American Outlaw

Bill Croke | 6.17.02 @ 12:03AM

Did the legendary bandit Butch Cassidy die in a shootout in San Vincente, Bolivia, in November, 1908, or live to a ripe old age in the Pacific Northwest until circa 1940?

topics: Television, Law

Movie Takes

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

James Bowman | 6.17.02 @ 12:02AM

Hollywood really ought to give William Blake more credit as one of the earliest exponents of the idea of the Church as moral oppressor and manufactory of sexual guilt.

Reader Mail

Menaces, Loons, and Blowouts

6.17.02 @ 12:01AM

From fathers and writers to bishops and ayatollahs...

topics: Education, Trade, Islam, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel