The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

"F Troop"

Enemy Central | 12.12.03 @ 8:43PM

We'll always have Paris ... Hilton.

topics: Vladimir Putin, Iraq

At Large

Soft-Brained Supremes

George Neumayr | 12.12.03 @ 12:06AM

We do need to get money out of politics -- the taxpayer’s.

topics: Education, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Alaska

Media Matters

Shifting Alliances on Tort Reform

William Tucker | 12.12.03 @ 12:06AM

What’s going on? Are liberals and conservatives changing partners?

topics: Business, Law, Oil

Special Report

Shut Up, They Explained

Paul J. Cella III | 12.12.03 @ 12:05AM

Congress, the president, and the courts team up to gag freedom of speech.

topics: Constitution, Law, Supreme Court

Political Hay

Raging Bully

Shawn Macomber | 12.12.03 @ 12:04AM

Blasted are the Democratic meek when James Carville comes to preach.

topics: Bill Clinton, Books, Iraq

Reader Mail

German Drive

12.12.03 @ 12:01AM

On the road to American inferiority. A Titanic Master and Commander. Fighting Frist. Krazy Kerry. And more.

topics: Entitlements, Sports, Islam, Abortion, Movies, Constitution, Law, Military, NATO, Conservatism, Energy

The Current Crisis

Robert Bartley, RIP

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.11.03 @ 12:09AM

The Wall Street Journal's editor emeritus was that rare public intellectual who arrived at his eminence not by self-promotion but by the quality of his work.

topics: Foreign Policy, Bill Clinton, Television, Economics, Business, Law, Military, Communism

Political Hay

Al in the Balance

Paul Beston | 12.11.03 @ 12:07AM

For Al Gore, the real quagmire isn’t Iraq, but his position in the Democratic Party.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Environment, Iraq

At Large

Elvis Has Left the Building

Brian Doherty | 12.11.03 @ 12:04AM

The Secret Service declines to save Eminem from himself.

Buy the Book

Conscientious Objector

Shawn Macomber | 12.11.03 @ 12:03AM

Sen. Zell Miller has found his audience.

topics: Education, Health Care, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, NATO

Movie Takes

Big Fish

James Bowman | 12.11.03 @ 12:02AM

Tim Burton’s addiction to the fantastical is not improved by its encounter with the Southern Gothic.

Special Report

Freedom Is in the Air (cough)

Gene Healy | 12.10.03 @ 12:08AM

Washington, D.C., of all places, discovers its inner Ayn Rand to defeat a slide into Bloombergism.

topics: Business, Environment, Law

At Large

Presidential Moral Leadership

George Neumayr | 12.10.03 @ 12:06AM

Did Ronald Reagan fail to provide it on AIDS?

topics: Immigration

Another Perspective

Unsafe at Any Speed

Eric Peters | 12.10.03 @ 12:05AM

As any German would tell you, American drivers are simply incompetent.

topics: Environment, Law, NATO, Energy

Political Hay

Hats Off to Senator Frist

Paul M. Weyrich | 12.10.03 @ 12:03AM

The Senate majority leader has been the most effective Republican leader since Everett Dirksen.

topics: Taxes, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Military, NATO

Reader Mail

Taking Issue

12.10.03 @ 12:01AM

ACLU to do. Kerry’s finale. Patrick O’Brian. Cold on Iraq. Plus more.

topics: Business, Islam, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Oil

Washington Prowler

What Got Into Gore

The Prowler | 12.9.03 @ 12:08AM

Is Howie Dean resilient enough to withstand Al’s endorsement?

topics: Bill Clinton, Unions

Media Matters

A Mouse Stampedes the Elephants

Lawrence Henry | 12.9.03 @ 12:05AM

In this game of whisper-whisper, the two principal business news sources, Dow-Jones and Reuters, were equally at fault.

topics: Education, Trade, Business, Law

Special Report

Dear Nadine ...

Doug Bandow | 12.9.03 @ 12:05AM

Nadine Strossen's ACLU wants new members, which it won't attract so long as its first instinct is to side with the State against the underdog.

topics: Education, Religion, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Military

Political Hay

Kerry Jumps Off the Deep End

Brandon Crocker | 12.9.03 @ 12:03AM

It’s finally happened. Howard Dean has driven John Kerry insane.

topics: Foreign Policy, Mainstream Media, Islam, Constitution, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, United Nations, NATO, Oil

Movie Takes

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

James Bowman | 12.9.03 @ 12:01AM

A thrilling adaptation of the work of popular historical novelist Patrick O’Brian.

Special Report

Midland Ministers to the World

George Neumayr | 12.8.03 @ 12:07AM

Just as it shaped his character, President Bush’s hometown is shaping events in far away Sudan. A Special Report from the December 2003/January 2004 issue of The American Spectator.

topics: Education, Business, Religion, Military, Iraq, NATO, Alaska, Oil

Washington Prowler

Who's Afraid of Howard Dean?

The Prowler | 12.8.03 @ 12:06AM

Hillary turns down the chance of a lifetime. PLUS: Who Howie’s not afraid of.

topics: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Military, Iraq, NATO

Loose Canons

Cordon and Search

Jed Babbin | 12.8.03 @ 12:05AM

For months, we have relied too much on winning hearts and minds in Iraq.Now we just need to focus on winning.

topics: Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Oil

Media Matters

Here's Looking at Your Kid

Reid Collins | 12.8.03 @ 12:03AM

Marriage goes undefended, as time goes by.

topics: Education, Television, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Dressed to Kill

Andrew Simmons | 12.8.03 @ 12:02AM

Who to root for in Tuesday’s mayoral elections: a loopy San Francisco Green, or the entire Democratic establishment?

topics: Education, Business, Sports, Law, Africa, Conservatism, Oil

Reader Mail

Making One's Presence Forgotten

12.8.03 @ 12:01AM

Winners, losers, heroes, bums, mixed couples, and what about JFK?

topics: Business, Islam, Law, Israel, Africa