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Friday, January 14, 2005

Washington Prowler

Donniebrooks

The Prowler | 1.14.05

The fights for DNC chairman. Plus: The Casey against Santorum.

Enemy of the Week

It’s Crying Time Again

Enemy Central | 1.14.05

Some good folks will never leave us.

Political Hay

Thanks, Armstrong

Shawn Macomber | 1.14.05

Liberal interest groups will rue the day the Williams scandal broke to expose the extent of their work as paid government propagandists.

Campaign Crawlers

Howard Dean’s Shrill Shill

Patrick Hynes | 1.14.05

The Daily Kos of doing business could cost Howie the DNC chairmanship.

At Large

Brutal Dictator Kitsch

Timothy P. Carney | 1.14.05

Prince Harry should have worn a Stalin shirt.

Reader Mail

Appeasement Today

1.14.05

Who isn’t guilty? Plus: New traffic bulletins. Moyers’ magic. Clinton still frightens. And more.

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Special Report

Touring the Al Gore Presidential Library and Museum

Leonard Albin | 1.13.05

Why didn’t Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Carter attend its opening?

Buy the Book

The Clinton Dossier

George Neumayr | 1.13.05

An FBI insider opens his files to historians of the Ozark President.

The Current Crisis

Rogues Retire

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 1.13.05

Can there be life as we know it without Messrs. Moyers and Rather?

TAS Live

Nobel Farce

Tom Bethell | 1.13.05

The Peace Prize cranks in our midst.

Movie Takes

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

James Bowman | 1.13.05

Starring Sean Penn, naturally, as the would-be assassin. Just think of the outcry that would greet any cinematic attempt to glorify Lee Harvey Oswald.

Reader Mail

On the Road Again

1.13.05

Speed limits and reader gridlock. Plus: A bad case of linguaphilia. Also: Iraq (boo). Korea (boo).

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Special Report

When Is Speeding Appropriate?

Eric Peters | 1.12.05

Only when police aren’t in a tax-collecting mood, evidently.

Political Hay

Fingering Armstrong’s Handouts

Jay D. Homnick | 1.12.05

The Republican lobby in monied Washington badly needs airing.

Buy the Book

Korea Showdown

Shawn Macomber | 1.12.05

Why, exactly, are we still on the Korean Peninsula?

At Large

The Wages of Appeasement

P. David Hornik | 1.12.05

One act that history does not ultimately tolerate or forgive.

Movie Takes

The Merchant of Venice

James Bowman | 1.12.05

Once again Shakespeare is “our contemporary,” poor guy.

Reader Mail

Watch Your Tongue

1.12.05

English for Luddites. Plus: Slamming Rathergate. Democrats have a nice day. Washington botch.

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Media Matters

Carry On, Dan

George Neumayr | 1.11.05

CBS’s blue-ribbon panel on journalistic fraud at the network has extended rather than ended the fraud.

Washington Prowler

60 Minute Men

The Prowler | 1.11.05

What happened to the earlier drafts? Plus: Protecting the Clintons from David Rosen. Also: Tim Roemer’s Southern strategy.

Political Hay

AARP’s Selfish Gamble

David Hogberg | 1.11.05

The retiree lobby doesn’t want Social Security privatized, yet what is one of the major services it provides?

Special Report

Grammar for Smarties

Christopher Orlet | 1.11.05

The popularity of “Why Oh Why” books prove we’re serious about the care of our language.

Political Hay

Left Funk

Ralph R. Reiland | 1.11.05

Not even the Healthy Marriage Initiative is likely to improve progressives’ “relationship skills.”

Reader Mail

The New Orthodoxy

1.11.05

Go Gregorian. Four-hour masses. Trusting Sam Reed. Skyscraping the bottom. Nickel hoarding. Plus more.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Loose Canons

Democracy in Babylon?

Jed Babbin | 1.10.05

Maybe, but not anytime soon.

TAS Live

Mummy Wrap

George Neumayr | 1.10.05

The Spectator interviews Tom Wolfe.

Another Perspective

Orthodox in the City

Shawn Macomber | 1.10.05

On the occasion of my first second Christmas.

Political Hay

The Day the Wheels Came Off

Patrick Hynes | 1.10.05

One of the sorriest displays in congressional history.

Campaign Crawlers

Report From Washington-Florida

Heather Roscoe | 1.10.05

No one is calling Sam Reed Katherine Harris.

Reader Mail

Chump Change

1.10.05

The missing American nickel. Plus: Skyscraping. Torture niceties. NPR and Neumayr. Stern dismissal. Plus more.

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