The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

A Sorry Lott

12.13.02 @ 5:04PM

Apologies all around, except from Jimminy Carter.

topics: Hollywood, Israel, NATO

Special Report

The Icon in Winter

Judd Magilnick | 12.13.02 @ 12:05AM

Was Dragnet's Jack Webb the first victim of Political Correctness? Lunch at the Cock and Bull on December 13, 1982.

topics: Trade, Television, Business, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Law, Military, NATO

Washington Prowler

The Black Caucus Is Back!

The Prowler | 12.13.02 @ 12:04AM

Lott and Pelosi alike are feeling its presence. ALSO: Giving up on Gore in the Grassroots -- while Daschle heads for Iowa and beefs up his staff.

topics: Business, NATO

To Be Absolutely Frank

Name Droppings

Francis X. Rocca | 12.13.02 @ 12:03AM

If you didn't pay for it, Senator, why was it named after you?

topics: Law, Iraq, NATO

The Current Crisis

Digging Jerusalem

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.13.02 @ 12:02AM

Religion dominates here, sometimes in ways that might persuade even the most obdurate non-believer to give God a second look.

topics: Religion, Islam, Books, Law, Russia, Israel, Oil

Reader Mail

Up, Up, and Away

12.13.02 @ 12:01AM

Flying right in our bankrupt skies. Also: Lott gets no lift. Plus more.

topics: Transportation, Education, Business, Religion, Islam, Books, Law, Unions

Washington Prowler

The Whistling Dixiecrat

The Prowler | 12.12.02 @ 12:06AM

New GOP rumblings about Trent Lott. Plus: The GOP's absentee margin.

topics: Business, NATO

At Large

Make Way for the War

John Corry | 12.12.02 @ 12:05AM

Indeed even the New York Times seems resigned to its inevitability.

topics: Television, Military, Iraq, Nuclear Weapons

Live From New York

Pariah Republicans

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 12.12.02 @ 12:04AM

Why would most Jewish people prefer being attacked by a mob of contaminated turtles than be caught voting for a Republican?

topics: Hillary Clinton, Law, Israel, NATO

Special Report

Faith in Violence

George Neumayr | 12.12.02 @ 12:03AM

Many Muslims define Islam as violent and insist that militant Islam is orthodox Islam. Are they wrong?

topics: Religion, Catholicism, Islam, Law, Africa

Movie Takes

Dis Equilibrium

James Bowman | 12.12.02 @ 12:02AM

Cool violence, all because a ruthless right-wing government outlawed feeling and being nice to pets.

Reader Mail

All Over the Lott

12.12.02 @ 12:01AM

How deep the doo-doo? Plus more ...

topics: Television, NATO, Africa

Washington Prowler

Lott in Deepest Doo-Doo

The Prowler | 12.11.02 @ 12:05AM

Democrats on the Hill are hardly the only ones who want him out. Also: Lieberman watches Al squirm. Plus: Moderates ignore Pelosi.

topics: Taxes, Nancy Pelosi

The Investor

Eat the Friendly Skies

Michael Craig | 12.11.02 @ 12:04AM

Some hard-to-swallow facts about the bankruptcy of United Airlines.

topics: Trade, Business, Movies, Law, Oil

The Current Crisis

Gentleman Sharon

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.11.02 @ 12:03AM

The 74-year-old Prime Minister of Israel is built like some sort of heavily armored mobile weapon.

topics: Taxes, Education, Television, Business, Military, Israel

Movie Takes

Empire and the Giuliani Dictatorship

James Bowman | 12.11.02 @ 12:02AM

A Puerto Rican charmer should have stayed a drug dealer and not got mixed up with those crooks on Wall Street.

Reader Mail

From Iraq to Conason

12.11.02 @ 12:01AM

Saddam holds on to his breaches. Does Josh Marshall deserve a Conason Prize? Plus more.

topics: Iraq

Loose Canons

The Whores of UNMOVIC

Jed Babbin | 12.10.02 @ 12:05AM

Saddam is playing for time, and thanks to Hans Blix he appears to be succeeding. The President made a big mistake by not declaring immediately that Saddam's ''disclosure report'' is a lie.

topics: Military, Iraq, Oil

Editor's Desk

The Conason Prize

Wlady Pleszczynski | 12.10.02 @ 12:04AM

On the trail of a lefty scribe eager to do his best to serve the interests of liberal pols besieged by the conservative media monolith.

topics: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream Media, Energy

Washington Prowler

Frosty Toward Frost

The Prowler | 12.10.02 @ 12:03AM

Nancy Pelosi needs his help but isn't man enough to ask for it.

topics: Nancy Pelosi

Special Report

We Have Met the Wealthy, and They Are Us

Lawrence Henry | 12.10.02 @ 12:02AM

And if not us, then the millionaires next door who work hard, live modestly, and invest in the American dream.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Business, Pakistan

Reader Mail

When Push Comes to SUV

12.10.02 @ 12:01AM

Ben Stein's road map to highway happiness, plus more.

topics: Sports, Environment, Law, Socialism, Energy

Special Report

The Big Not-So-Easy

Reid Collins | 12.9.02 @ 12:04AM

Two American myths died over the weekend: Bigfoot, and the invincibility of President Bush's political powers of persuasion.

topics: Trade, Catholicism, Abortion, Environment, Iraq, NATO, Oil

Washington Prowler

Recovery Zones

The Prowler | 12.9.02 @ 12:03AM

Bad turnout and Landrieu still wins? Also: What Lindsey-O'Neill knew. Plus: Edward to burn candles at both ends of table tonight.

topics: Law

Lifestyles Left and Right

Deck the Halls With -- Broomsticks

12.9.02 @ 12:02AM

Witch is your religious preference?

topics: Television, Business, Religion, Constitution, Law

Political Hay

The New Censorship

George Neumayr | 12.9.02 @ 12:01AM

Liberals now recognize that free speech absolutism is a poor guardian of their power.

topics: Bill Clinton