The American Spectator

Editor's Desk

Hugs and Kisses

Wlady Pleszczynski | 7.16.04 @ 12:10AM

What’s really going on with the two Johns.

Another Perspective

Settling the Argument: A Beginning

Reid Collins | 7.16.04 @ 12:09AM

A satellite launched yesterday from Vanderberg AFB will help prove once and for all whether we’re causing global warming.

topics: Global Warming, Movies

Campaign Crawlers

Tough Guys

Shawn Macomber | 7.16.04 @ 12:09AM

It's not going to be a Democratic convention in Boston, but the second coming of Muscle Beach.

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

Media Matters

Looking Aslant at the News Biz

Lawrence Henry | 7.16.04 @ 12:06AM

There’s a reason why the left media gets "Outfoxed" -- it has everything to do with how you market news.

topics: Trade, Business, Abortion, Military, Iraq, Oil

Special Report

When It Rains

Dave Stevens | 7.16.04 @ 12:05AM

A dispatch from the eye of the Storm of the Century.

topics: Books, Oil

Reader Mail

Doing the Right Thing

7.16.04 @ 12:01AM

When to go ahead, when to hold back. Attending to Cheney; not attending the convention. Plus much more.

topics: John McCain, Bill Clinton, Economics, Islam, Constitution, Iraq, NATO

Washington Prowler

Hillary Silenced

The Prowler | 7.15.04 @ 12:09AM

Though not if she has anything to say about it. Anyway, it's all Bill's fault. Plus: A Senate Republican in decline.

topics: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Alaska

Political Hay

Goodbye, Crooked Grin?

Paul Beston | 7.15.04 @ 12:08AM

If Dick Cheney goes, stoicism will go with him.

topics: Bill Clinton, Television, Business, Energy

Special Report

Ditka Goes on DL

John Tabin | 7.15.04 @ 12:07AM

Deepening Republican blues in the Land of Lincoln.

The Current Crisis

Who's to Run the CIA?

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 7.15.04 @ 12:06AM

Two men in particular should head the president’s list.

topics: Law, Iraq, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Big Tent Blues

Shawn Macomber | 7.15.04 @ 12:05AM

The Bush convention's conservative lockout is a victory for the Democrats' forces of hate.

topics: Education, John McCain, Social Security, NATO, Conservatism

Reader Mail

Talking Back

7.15.04 @ 12:01AM

Michael Fumento’s Raptor in flight. Pacific Islam. Political illegitimates. Justice Kennedy. Heedless Wertheimer. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Business, Islam, Abortion, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia

Special Report

When Good Deeds Get Punished

Peter Flaherty | 7.14.04 @ 12:08AM

Thanks to Fred Wertheimer’s anti-DeLay obsession, cancer-stricken and foster children will get less help. By his logic, today there’d be no March of Dimes.

topics: Business, Law

Campaign Crawlers

Send in Jimmy Carter

Shawn Macomber | 7.14.04 @ 12:06AM

Some Democrats are calling for the U.N. to oversee elections this fall -- in the U.S.

topics: Television, Law, Supreme Court, Military, United Nations

Political Hay

Kennedy's Benchmarks

Mark M. Trapp | 7.14.04 @ 12:04AM

The making of a judicial legislator who once shunned "judge-made constitutional law."

topics: Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court

Another Perspective

To the Bottom of the Ocean

Neil Hrab | 7.14.04 @ 12:03AM

Is where the Senate should send the Law of the Sea Treaty.

topics: Business, Law, Military, Iraq, United Nations, Oil

Reader Mail

Common and Uncommon

7.14.04 @ 12:01AM

Ron Jr. Tom Sowell. Carbon Dioxide. Pat Roberts. Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Business, Environment, Iraq, NATO, Conservatism, Nuclear Weapons, Oil

Special Report

Ron Reagan's Stem Sell

George Neumayr | 7.13.04 @ 12:07AM

Junior behaves as if he were still in Hugh Hefner’s orbit.

topics: Abortion, Constitution

Campaign Crawlers

Florida Felons for Kerry

Larry Thornberry | 7.13.04 @ 12:06AM

It's getting hard to keep track of some just-released Democratic chads.

topics: Law

TAS Live

The Economist

Tom Bethell | 7.13.04 @ 12:05AM

Born in North Carolina in 1930, Thomas Sowell came along "just before racial quotas made the achievements of blacks look suspect."

topics: Education, Economics, Books, Law, Energy, Oil

Lifestyles Left and Right

Picking on Greenhouse Gassers

Eric Peters | 7.13.04 @ 12:05AM

A new offensive in the McCain-Lieberman war on the SUV.

topics: Taxes, Global Warming, NATO, Energy

Political Hay

Persistence Pays Off

Paul M. Weyrich | 7.13.04 @ 12:04AM

Sen. Pat Roberts' achievement -- even Jay Rockefeller went along.

topics: Iraq, NATO

Reader Mail

The Cheney Wars

7.13.04 @ 12:01AM

Dump Tucker, not Cheney, some say. And does it have to be McCain? Plus: Islam’s deafening silence. Soft-headed America. Kansas in August. Valentine to Sandpoint. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Television, Business, Religion, Islam, NATO, Oil

Washington Prowler

Kerry's Intelligence Deficiency

The Prowler | 7.12.04 @ 12:09AM

It's self-imposed. Plus:Conan the Campaigner

topics: Iraq, NATO

Loose Canons

Contempt of Court

Jed Babbin | 7.12.04 @ 12:08AM

The International Court of Justice gangs up on Israel again, U.N.-style.

topics: Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, Israel, European Union

Political Hay

Edwards Courts the Wrong America

Jacob Laksin | 7.12.04 @ 12:07AM

Outside Democratic precincts, the American Dream is alive and well.

topics: Taxes, Health Care, Law, NATO, Oil

Another Perspective

Dump Cheney?

William Tucker | 7.12.04 @ 12:05AM

Is there a case for replacing him?

topics: John McCain, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Africa, Oil

Media Matters

Kansas Kondescension

Mark Goldblatt | 7.12.04 @ 12:03AM

Thomas Frank, America’s know-it-all, needs help himself.

topics: Taxes, Economics, Entitlements, Abortion, Hollywood

Reader Mail

Retired Reserve

7.12.04 @ 12:01AM

Who is subject to recall? NATO shares the blame. Letter from Istanbul. National insecurity. Grounding the Raptor. Plus much more.

topics: Religion, Islam, Abortion, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO