The American Spectator

Special Report

Insecure Arguments

David Hogberg | 2.4.05 @ 12:09AM

Opponents of Social Security reform are engaging in scare tactics. Here’s knocking them down, one by one.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Bill Clinton, Social Security, Medicare

Another Perspective

How I Met the Holocaust

Lawrence Henry | 2.4.05 @ 12:07AM

Remembering survivors who could not forget.

topics: Trade, Business, Law, Oil

Political Hay

What I Should Have Said With the Merlot in Hand

Patrick O'Hannigan | 2.4.05 @ 12:06AM

How to engage the Left about George W. Bush and the spread of freedom.

topics: Foreign Policy, Business, Islam, Law, Iraq, United Nations, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

Blogs on a Roll

Patrick Hynes | 2.4.05 @ 12:06AM

They’re not just for trashing the Old Media anymore. Political campaigns can no longer be conducted without them.

topics: Bill Clinton, Environment, NATO

Latte Nation

Unsafe at Any High Speed

Eric Peters | 2.4.05 @ 12:06AM

SUVs are rolling over because they’re being driven too fast.

topics: Sports, Law

Reader Mail

It Gets Worse

2.4.05 @ 12:01AM

Who missed out as Worst Book Coogler? Plus: Speech, speech. Everywhere, Russia. Tort reform dissent. Plus more.

topics: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Federal Budget, Books, Constitution, Law, Military, Iran, Russia, North Korea

Special Report

Three Speeches

John Tabin | 2.3.05 @ 1:59AM

Two of them last night were awesome.

topics: Foreign Policy, Bill Clinton, Social Security, Iraq, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Energy

Political Hay

Democrats in Bush's Shadow

George Neumayr | 2.3.05 @ 12:44AM

The President proposes, the Democrats groundhog the spotlight.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Military, Iraq, NATO

The Current Crisis

Jon Coogler Stewart

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.3.05 @ 12:06AM

The runaway winner of the treasured Worst Book of the Year award.

topics: Television, Satire, Books, NATO

Special Report

Hero Insurance

Jay D. Homnick | 2.3.05 @ 12:05AM

There is a better way to provide death benefits to the survivors of American soldiers killed in action.

topics: Social Security, Military

Another Perspective

Found in Translation

Julia Gorin | 2.3.05 @ 12:04AM

Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton’s Supreme Allied Commander during the 1999 Kosovo campaign, refights a disgraceful war.

topics: Trade, Bill Clinton, Islam, Iraq, NATO

Reader Mail

Matters of Life

2.3.05 @ 12:01AM

Biden his time. Rolling Stone's Bible. Reconstruction. Million Dollar Murder. Plus more.

topics: Foreign Policy, Joe Biden, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, Oil

Special Report

Apocalypse Now

Shawn Macomber | 2.2.05 @ 12:08AM

Get ready for a nuclear Iran and a Russia that’s busily helping it get that way.

topics: Vladimir Putin, Business, Islam, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Israel, Energy, Oil

Washington Prowler

Innocents Abroad

The Prowler | 2.2.05 @ 12:07AM

Don’t send Joe Biden to do Condi Rice’s job. Plus: Frost is off the pumpkin.

topics: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Islam, Law, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

Another Perspective

The Lessons of Reconstruction

Andrew Cline | 2.2.05 @ 12:06AM

Iraq and America’s post-Civil War South have much in common.

topics: Constitution, Military, Iraq, NATO

Media Matters

Where Would Jesus Advertise?

Christopher Orlet | 2.2.05 @ 12:05AM

Bible, Church advertisements have no place in today’s media.

topics: Economics, Business

At Large

When Genocide Is Not Genocide

Steven Martinovich | 2.2.05 @ 12:04AM

Once again the U.N. declines to call things by their real name.

topics: Religion, United Nations, Africa

At Large

The Other Elections

P. David Hornik | 2.1.05 @ 12:09AM

Some prove to be overtly anti-American and anti-Semitic. Then what?

topics: Islam, Iraq, Iran, Israel

Special Report

Hollywood Homicide

George Neumayr | 2.1.05 @ 12:07AM

The Oscars are set to honor a violent film that culminates in murder.

topics: Catholicism, Hollywood, Movies

Another Perspective

Taming the Male Strom

Jay D. Homnick | 2.1.05 @ 12:05AM

Essie Mae Williams was not unfortunate to have had Strom Thurmond for a father.

topics: NATO

Latte Nation

Snubbing Che

Mark Goldblatt | 2.1.05 @ 12:03AM

Robert Redford’s revolutionary hero dissed -- a disturbing footnote.

topics: Satire, Africa

Movie Takes

Lost Embrace

James Bowman | 2.1.05 @ 12:02AM

A heartwarming tale of exile, loss, and reconciliation.

Reader Mail

Happy Days Are Here Again

2.1.05 @ 12:01AM

Reactions to free Iraq, dreary Kerry, Happy Feder’s Bush enterprise, and surragacy options. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Business, Environment, Hollywood, Law, Iraq, Oil

Loose Canons

Iraq's Election Day

Jed Babbin | 1.31.05 @ 12:09AM

Yesterday Iraqis exercised one of the most basic rights of a free people.

topics: Religion, Islam, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Iran, NATO

Political Hay

Bad Kerry Day

Shawn Macomber | 1.31.05 @ 12:08AM

He’s happy Saddam is gone, but not so happy Bush didn’t drown.

topics: Islam, Iraq, NATO

Enemy of the Week

A Boxer's Dozen

Enemy Central | 1.31.05 @ 12:07AM

They’re not the only ones competing in the most contested race since the Kentucky Derby.

topics: Bill Clinton, Military, Iraq, NATO, Oil

Special Report

Liberal Marx-Speak

James Bowman | 1.31.05 @ 12:06AM

It makes more sense to call Democrats communists than Republicans fascist, no?

topics: NATO, Fascism

Another Perspective

Suddenly Last Summers

Ralph R. Reiland | 1.31.05 @ 12:04AM

His mouth was even bigger in the mid-1990s. So why didn’t he get in trouble then?

topics: John Boehner, Economics, Business, Law

Reader Mail

Massachusetts Dreamin'

1.31.05 @ 12:01AM

Opportunity costs in regulated America. Plus: The matter with Peggy Noonan. Oscar knights. Plus much more.

topics: Transportation, Business, Abortion, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Movies, Law, NATO, Immigration