The American Spectator

Special Report

The Really Free Safety

Reid Collins | 4.23.04 @ 11:17AM

From our postings of July 3, 2002: Pat Tillman is someone to think about this July 4th.

Special Report

The NFL's Lonely Hero

Paul Beston | 4.23.04 @ 11:15AM

From December 4, 2003: Pat Tillman, 75th Ranger Regiment, fights on.

Another Perspective

Two Cheers for the Ninth Circuit

RiShawn Biddle | 4.23.04 @ 12:08AM

The notorious bleeding hearts of this Federal appeals court know how to make tort reformers happy.

topics: Business, Books, Constitution, Law, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Republican House Liberal

David Hogberg | 4.23.04 @ 12:07AM

The wet ways of a GOP congressman in a Democratic district.

topics: Taxes, Iraq, Medicare

At Large

Sweet Thunder, Sweet Lorraine

Lawrence Henry | 4.23.04 @ 12:06AM

You probably know her songwriting already.

topics: Education

Political Hay

Flawed Condoms

Paul M. Weyrich | 4.23.04 @ 12:06AM

The porn industry’s decision to shut down production for 60 days could not have come at a more appropriate time -- STD Awareness Month.

topics: Law

Media Matters

Number One With a Bullet

Theodora Blanchfield | 4.23.04 @ 12:05AM

Why New Jerseyans love The Sopranos.

topics: Television, Business, Law, Oil

Reader Mail

Among the Mountebanks

4.23.04 @ 12:01AM

Good writing. Iran and U.S. withdrawal. Specter’s greatest single accomplishment ever. Those bad bishops. Bovine breath. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Health Care, Religion, Catholicism, Abortion, Environment, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, NATO, Africa, Immigration, Oil, Unions

Campaign Crawlers

Sitting Pretty Ugly

Timothy P. Carney | 4.22.04 @ 12:09AM

Gerrymandering makes the political world stand still.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Constitution, Law

At Large

Peace of the High Places

P. David Hornik | 4.22.04 @ 12:07AM

A first visit to the Temple Mount.

topics: Religion, Israel, Oil

Special Report

Bovine Intervention

Eric Peters | 4.22.04 @ 12:07AM

Can a flatulence tax prevent global warming?

topics: Environment, Global Warming, European Union

The Current Crisis

A Post-Pulitzer Coogler

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 4.22.04 @ 12:06AM

Announcing the runaway winner of the J.Gordon Coogler Award for the Worst Book of the Year.

topics: Oil

TAS Live

All Ears

Jeffrey Gedmin | 4.22.04 @ 12:04AM

Spying at the U.N.? Europe is shocked!

topics: Trade, Business, Books, Law, Iraq, Russia, Israel

Movie Takes

I'm Not Scared

James Bowman | 4.22.04 @ 12:02AM

A gripping and well-made Italian film about a boy and a kidnapping.

Campaign Crawlers

Wrong Man for the Job

Shawn Macomber | 4.21.04 @ 12:09AM

President Bush argues that Pennsylvania conservatives should cast a clothespin vote for Arlen Soros Specter.

topics: Taxes, Television, Abortion, NATO, Unions

Political Hay

The New Saintliness

George Neumayr | 4.21.04 @ 12:08AM

Reaffirm your Catholicism by renewing your vows to "choice" and hitting the abortion industry up for campaign donations.

topics: Television, Abortion, Law, Supreme Court, Oil

Another Perspective

Memento to the President

William Tucker | 4.21.04 @ 12:06AM

And how come we don’t send men to the moon anymore, either?

topics: Trade, Constitution

Special Report

Abandoned Brothers

Don Bendell | 4.21.04 @ 12:05AM

What’s John Kerry ever done for his fellow Vietnam vets?

topics: Military, NATO

Reader Mail

Who's the Boss?

4.21.04 @ 12:01AM

Unfriendly persuasion in Iraq. If not democracy, what? Powell pounders. Anti-terrorist expertise. Col. Tom Hanks. Plus much more.

topics: Bill Clinton, Islam, Environment, Constitution, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel

Special Report

Friends Like These

Doug Bandow | 4.20.04 @ 12:08AM

When the U.S. needed support from the very Iraqis on whose behalf American soldiers were dying, there was none.

topics: Constitution, Military, Iraq, Pakistan

Another Perspective

My 9/11 Commission

Paul Beston | 4.20.04 @ 12:07AM

We could have done so much better.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Business, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, Communism

Loose Canons

Numbers

Jed Babbin | 4.20.04 @ 12:06AM

Are our troops over-extended in Iraq? Do we to recruit more, maybe even restore the draft?

topics: Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO

Political Hay

Anatomy of a Mugging

Meghan Keane | 4.20.04 @ 12:05AM

How a Democrat governor turned the tables on Republicans in a GOP-dominated state.

topics: Taxes, Business, NATO

Movie Takes

The Ladykillers

James Bowman | 4.20.04 @ 12:02AM

If you prefer Prof. Tom Hanks to Sir Alec Guinness, suit yourself.

Washington Prowler

Daschle Desperation

The Prowler | 4.19.04 @ 12:08AM

The vulnerable minority leader turns to his David Broder. Plus: Stringing Kerry along.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Law, Iraq, NATO

Media Matters

Commiserating With Colin Powell

George Neumayr | 4.19.04 @ 12:07AM

Mike and Bob powwow about how awful it is to work for wackos.

topics: Religion, Constitution, Iraq

Political Hay

Surprised Again

Geoffrey Norman | 4.19.04 @ 12:06AM

How the 9/11 commission is setting the U.S. up for what it was supposed to prevent.

topics: Television, Law, Iraq, North Korea, Oil

Another Perspective

It's Not the Stupid Economy

Reid Collins | 4.19.04 @ 12:06AM

The politics of Bush-Sharon.

topics: Military, Iraq, Israel, Immigration

At Large

Al Perkins Lives!

Bill Croke | 4.19.04 @ 12:05AM

He's a player, always has been. Now meet him in person.

Reader Mail

Gorelick Stays

4.19.04 @ 12:01AM

Resignation resisted. Also: What was McCarrick thinking? The Keillor vote. Plus much more.

topics: Education, Trade, Bill Clinton, Religion, Abortion, Global Warming, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Russia, NATO, Oil