The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

Terminator Limits

8.8.03 @ 5:13PM

Democrats sure could use a friend like Kurt Waldheim.

topics: Bill Clinton, Law, Iraq, NATO

To Be Absolutely Frank

The Yanks Aren't Coming

Francis X. Rocca | 8.8.03 @ 12:03AM

Not this summer, anyway. But sooner or later they'll be back Over There.

topics: Islam, Protestantism

Political Hay

Bush in Deep Doo-Doo -- Not!

David Hogberg | 8.8.03 @ 12:02AM

After a not so hot summer, is the President's re-election in jeopardy?

topics: Joe Biden, Iraq, Medicare

Live From New York

Stand Up for Bob Hope

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 8.8.03 @ 12:01AM

Some serious thoughts about a funny subject.

topics: Movies

Political Hay

Here's Arnold!

George Neumayr | 8.7.03 @ 12:05AM

Perhaps we can measure the decline of our democracy by the progressively silly settings in which our politicians announce their candidacies.

topics: Taxes, Business, Abortion, Movies, Law, Conservatism

Washington Prowler

Nice Labor If You Can Get It

The Prowler | 8.7.03 @ 12:04AM

AFL-CIO backs unnamed Democrat for president, scares off Feinstein, is wowed by Clinton, and prepares a supplemental shake down of members.

topics: Iraq, Unions

Campus Scenes

Left Fields

8.7.03 @ 12:03AM

The right is no match for purveyors of ''sensitivity guidelines'' -- Diane Ravitch's Language Police

topics: Education, Business, Religion, Catholicism, Islam, Books, Law, Africa, Socialism, Communism

The Current Crisis

Look Back in Anger

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.7.03 @ 12:02AM

Dean Democrats are a spiffy collection of angry young persons.

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Bill Clinton, Television, Law, Iraq, NATO

Media Matters

Davis Without Blinders

8.6.03 @ 12:04AM

It's one thing to argue voters had their chance to remove Gray Davis last fall -- but quite another to paint him as an innocent victim of forces beyond his control.

topics: Education, Energy

Political Hay

Beyond Delusion

George Neumayr | 8.6.03 @ 12:03AM

Gray Davis's new taste for crossdressing reveals his naked desperation.

topics: Abortion, Law

Another Perspective

Potty Sits and Clueless Cody

Lawrence Henry | 8.6.03 @ 12:02AM

The routines of pressing domesticity.

topics: Business

Reader Mail

On Political Location

8.6.03 @ 12:01AM

Reports from Cape Cod, South Carolina, Alabama, Washington State/state, Alaska, and the Fatlands. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Education, Trade, Health Care, Business, Books, Law, Supreme Court, Alaska, Unions

Media Matters

Internet Howie

Tracy Robinson | 8.5.03 @ 12:19AM

In the case of Howard Dean, the political press is again having a hard time distinguishing Internet truth from illusion.

topics: John McCain, Iraq

Loose Canons

Betting on the RSGs

Jed Babbin | 8.5.03 @ 12:06AM

Who would you wager on to apply awesome brain power to devise new ways to predict terrorism: Sen. Byron Dorgan or DARPA?

topics: Trade, Television, NATO, Africa

Washington Prowler

Senate Goes South

The Prowler | 8.5.03 @ 12:03AM

Democrats poised to lose big in the Carolinas.

topics: Trade, NATO, Alaska

Movie Takes

The Magdalene Sisters

James Bowman | 8.5.03 @ 12:01AM

Movie nuns who are nothing like the ones in The Bells of St. Mary's.

Washington Prowler

Dean Under Seal

The Prowler | 8.4.03 @ 12:04AM

Howie preemptively evades embarrassment. Plus: Senatorita Sanchez. Also: DeLay right as usual.

topics: Taxes, NATO

Media Matters

Reform Uniformity

James Bowman | 8.4.03 @ 12:03AM

It is in the nature of the Manhattan media culture to be blind to its own political uniformity -- hence the effort to discover the nonliberal in Howard Dean.

topics: John McCain, Business, Environment, Iraq, Oil, Unions

Latte Nation

Occupation Hazards

Jeremy Lott | 8.4.03 @ 12:02AM

The high price of success in postwar Iraq.

topics: Law, Military, Iraq

Reader Mail

The More Things Change

8.4.03 @ 12:01AM

The more they change for the worse: The N.Y. Times, Ed Harris, Holy Cities, the easily offended liberal reader, and much more, including the View from New Stuttgart.

topics: Taxes, Satire, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, Military, Israel, Energy, Oil

Reader Mail

The More Things Change

8.3.03 @ 9:01PM

The more they change for the worse: The N.Y. Times, Ed Harris, Holy Cities, the easily offended liberal reader, and much more, including the View from New Stuttgart.

topics: Taxes, Satire, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, Military, Israel, Energy, Oil