The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

Donniebrooks

The Prowler | 1.14.05 @ 1:09AM

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

topics: Harry Reid, NATO

Enemy of the Week

It's Crying Time Again

Enemy Central | 1.14.05 @ 12:08AM

Some good folks will never leave us.

topics: Bill Clinton, Abortion, Movies, Iraq, NATO, Conservatism

Political Hay

Thanks, Armstrong

Shawn Macomber | 1.14.05 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Taxes, Education, Television, Social Security, Environment, Law, Immigration, Alaska, Oil, Medicare

Campaign Crawlers

Howard Dean's Shrill Shill

Patrick Hynes | 1.14.05 @ 12:05AM

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

topics: Iraq

At Large

Brutal Dictator Kitsch

Timothy P. Carney | 1.14.05 @ 12:04AM

Prince Harry should have worn a Stalin shirt.

topics: Communism

Reader Mail

Appeasement Today

1.14.05 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Education, Trade, Business, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Israel, Oil

Special Report

Touring the Al Gore Presidential Library and Museum

Leonard Albin | 1.13.05 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: Education, Global Warming, Books, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, NATO, Oil

Buy the Book

The Clinton Dossier

George Neumayr | 1.13.05 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Bill Clinton, Law

The Current Crisis

Rogues Retire

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 1.13.05 @ 12:06AM

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

topics: Oil

TAS Live

Nobel Farce

Tom Bethell | 1.13.05 @ 12:03AM

The Peace Prize cranks in our midst.

topics: Environment, Law, Israel, Africa, Nuclear Weapons

Movie Takes

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

James Bowman | 1.13.05 @ 12:02AM

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 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Sports, Law, Military, Iraq, Africa, North Korea

Special Report

When Is Speeding Appropriate?

Eric Peters | 1.12.05 @ 12:09AM

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

topics: Business, Environment, Law

Political Hay

Fingering Armstrong's Handouts

Jay D. Homnick | 1.12.05 @ 12:08AM

The Republican lobby in monied Washington badly needs airing.

topics: Education

Buy the Book

Korea Showdown

Shawn Macomber | 1.12.05 @ 12:06AM

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

topics: Military, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Communism

At Large

The Wages of Appeasement

P. David Hornik | 1.12.05 @ 12:05AM

One act that history does not ultimately tolerate or forgive.

topics: Israel

Movie Takes

The Merchant of Venice

James Bowman | 1.12.05 @ 12:02AM

Once again Shakespeare is "our contemporary," poor guy.

Reader Mail

Watch Your Tongue

1.12.05 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Television, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Oil

Media Matters

Carry On, Dan

George Neumayr | 1.11.05 @ 12:10PM

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

topics: John McCain, Law

Political Hay

AARP's Selfish Gamble

David Hogberg | 1.11.05 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Taxes, Social Security, Law

Special Report

Grammar for Smarties

Christopher Orlet | 1.11.05 @ 12:05AM

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

topics: Education, Business, Books, Constitution, Law, Oil

Political Hay

Left Funk

Ralph R. Reiland | 1.11.05 @ 12:04AM

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

topics: Foreign Policy, Social Security, Islam, Abortion

Reader Mail

The New Orthodoxy

1.11.05 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Law, Russia, North Korea, Oil

Loose Canons

Democracy in Babylon?

Jed Babbin | 1.10.05 @ 12:08AM

Maybe, but not anytime soon.

topics: Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran

TAS Live

Mummy Wrap

George Neumayr | 1.10.05 @ 12:07AM

The Spectator interviews Tom Wolfe.

topics: Trade, Television, Satire, Religion, Books, Russia, Israel

Another Perspective

Orthodox in the City

Shawn Macomber | 1.10.05 @ 12:06AM

On the occasion of my first second Christmas.

topics: Television, Russia

Political Hay

The Day the Wheels Came Off

Patrick Hynes | 1.10.05 @ 12:05AM

One of the sorriest displays in congressional history.

topics: Law, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Report From Washington-Florida

Heather Roscoe | 1.10.05 @ 12:03AM

No one is calling Sam Reed Katherine Harris.

topics: Business, Law, Supreme Court, NATO, Oil

Reader Mail

Chump Change

1.10.05 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Mainstream Media, Business, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq