The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

Shouts and Twists

Enemy Central | 1.23.04 @ 6:38PM

How's Howie? John? Wes? John? Plus a Mysterious Moll.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Abortion, Law, Conservatism, Unions

New Hampshire Under Siege

Reporting the Debate

Shawn Macomber | 1.23.04 @ 2:21AM

Stick seven Dems in a room together and what do you get? Other than yawns, that is.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Television, Environment, Books, NATO

Special Report

The Unnewsworthy Thousands

George Neumayr | 1.23.04 @ 12:06AM

Once they were recognized as pro-life marchers. Today it's "abortion demonstrators" -- if they're mentioned at all.

topics: Television, Catholicism, Abortion, Constitution, NATO

Another Perspective

Homage to the Count

P. David Hornik | 1.23.04 @ 12:05AM

Count Basie sounds as nuanced in Jerusalem as he did in Kansas City.

topics: Constitution

At Large

Breeding More Explosions

Ralph R. Reiland | 1.23.04 @ 12:04AM

Personal responsibility takes on new, absurd meaning.

topics: Trade, Business, Law, Israel

Special Report

Where There's Smoke, There's Congress

Lawrence Henry | 1.23.04 @ 12:03AM

Act immediately to save a prize mail order business from the Nanny State’s taxing grasp.

topics: Taxes, Economics, Business, Books, Law

Reader Mail

Winter Takes All

1.23.04 @ 12:02AM

Ice Pick Kerry. Dean’s RN’s. SOTU media. Cell drivers. Belgium’s Noam Chomsky. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Economics, Business, Satire, Islam, Books, Law, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Israel, NATO, Africa, Fascism, Oil

Washington Prowler

Uncivil Behavior

The Prowler | 1.22.04 @ 12:08AM

Sharing the dirt on Dean. Big Labor post-Gephardt. Raggedy Dean. Rank Clark.

topics: Trade, Television, Military, NATO, Unions

New Hampshire Under Siege

Cold Kerry

Shawn Macomber | 1.22.04 @ 12:06AM

An alarming case of trotting megalomania.

topics: Television, NATO, Oil

Campaign Crawlers

Able Was I Ere I Saw Iowa

Reid Collins | 1.22.04 @ 12:05AM

How the primaries rewrite history.

topics: Television

At Large

Homecoming

Bill Croke | 1.22.04 @ 12:04AM

You can go home again -- but are you willing to recycle?

topics: Taxes, Law

The Current Crisis

Democratic Dudgeon

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 1.22.04 @ 12:03AM

When George W. Bush breathes, Democrats charge he’s depriving them of air.

topics: Trade, Business, Sports, Global Warming, Iraq, Africa

Movie Takes

Along Comes Polly

James Bowman | 1.22.04 @ 12:02AM

Ben Stiller’s comic talents almost save this often gross effort.

Editor's Desk

Bush in Charge

Wlady Pleszczynski | 1.21.04 @ 1:14AM

A political president, wholly in command, cruising toward re-election. That’s what his State of the Union conveyed.

topics: Foreign Policy, Iraq, NATO, Medicare

Political Hay

Leaving Things Unsaid

John Tabin | 1.21.04 @ 1:08AM

The president last night gave no relief to anyone worried about runaway government spending.

topics: Foreign Policy, Medicare

New Hampshire Under Siege

Dean Country

Shawn Macomber | 1.21.04 @ 12:07AM

Licking his open wounds, the former frontrunner delivers a preemptive State of the Union Address, this time with an indoor voice. Plus: Republicans all wet.

topics: Television, Iraq, NATO

Another Perspective

Hang Up and Drive!

Eric Peters | 1.21.04 @ 12:06AM

Cell phone users should stay off the road.

topics: Environment, Oil

Media Matters

The Latest Temptation of Frank Rich

George Neumayr | 1.21.04 @ 12:05AM

The once powerful critic has become a liberal busybody of comic proportions.

topics: Hollywood

Reader Mail

Left in the Cold

1.21.04 @ 12:01AM

Dean done, how come? Massachusetts’ long weekend. Founding Bork. NRDC’s apple victims. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Television, Business, Sports, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Founding Fathers, Iraq

New Hampshire Under Siege

Rumbles in the Granite State

Shawn Macomber | 1.20.04 @ 9:45AM

The disheveled Dems all flew in in the wee hours of the morning. It's going to be a long, cold, brutal week.

topics: Military, Unions

Campaign Crawlers

A Night at the Caucus

David Hogberg | 1.20.04 @ 1:21AM

Live from the International Room at Iowa Wesleyan College.

topics: Iraq

Washington Prowler

Friends

The Prowler | 1.20.04 @ 12:09AM

Kerry’s "surprise" reunion. Jimmy Carter rolled by Bill Clinton. Dennis Kucinich’s sudden popularity.

topics: Hollywood, NATO

Another Perspective

Cold Day

Lawrence Henry | 1.20.04 @ 12:05AM

When turning up the heat doesn't do the trick.

topics: Television, Oil

Buy the Book

Bork's Law

Tracy Robinson | 1.20.04 @ 12:05AM

It’s American -- not a confection of liberal rulings based on anti-democratic world opinion.

topics: Foreign Policy, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Israel, United Nations

Special Report

Less Guns, More Crime

Gene Healy | 1.20.04 @ 12:04AM

The law says disarm everyone except the criminal -- in the most dangerous city in America.

topics: Constitution, Law

Loose Canons

One Finger or Two?

Jed Babbin | 1.19.04 @ 12:06AM

Dowd, Dean, Bremer-Annan, Brazil -- and Hillary. Pick your favorites.

topics: Trade, Sports, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, NATO, Immigration, Oil

Campaign Crawlers

Wising Up to Dean

David Hogberg | 1.19.04 @ 12:05AM

He's fading because he can only talk down to union rank-and-file.

topics: Education, Military, Iraq, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Unions

Special Report

An Apple a Day

Neil Hrab | 1.19.04 @ 12:04AM

Could make your kids die of cancer, said an enviro group fifteen years ago. It started a bad trend.

topics: Trade, Environment, Books, Law, Oil

New Hampshire Under Siege

Dude, Where's My Candidate?

Shawn Macomber | 1.19.04 @ 12:03AM

On the stump with Michael Moore and Wesley "Outcast" Clark.

topics: Trade, Iraq, NATO

Reader Mail

Smell Tests

1.19.04 @ 12:01AM

Did Dean or didn’t he? Space costs. The CIA’s Mrs. Wilson. Academic Gore. Plus much more.

topics: Economics, Abortion, Law, Military, Socialism, Communism