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Friday, June 17, 2005

The Nation's Pulse

Blind, Deaf, and Dumb

George Neumayr | 6.17.05 @ 12:09AM

If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor.

Special Report

With Friends Like These

Paul Sperry | 6.17.05 @ 12:08AM

Why is America counting almost exclusively on Pakistan's military to hunt down its Enemy No. 1 and destroy his new terrorist hatcheries?

At Large

From Russia With Love

Eleanor Stables | 6.17.05 @ 12:07AM

The country now has more orphans -- 700,000 -- than the Soviet Union did following World War II, but a campaign has begun to find them homes.

The Public Policy

Report on a Deluded Mind

David Hogberg | 6.17.05 @ 12:07AM

America's leading champion of socialized health care stops at nothing to twist logic and numbers into his own special brand of incoherence.

Another Perspective

Organ Sharing: Some Thoughts

Lawrence Henry | 6.17.05 @ 12:07AM

Why is America's organ-donor pool so small?

Reader Mail

Critical Reading

6.17.05 @ 12:01AM

Defending the Human Events list, Deanic discourse, and learning to love the nuclear reactor. Plus: Killers on T-shirts and today's Pham Xuan An.

Thursday, June 16, 2005

The Current Crisis

The Paranoid Style

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 6.16.05 @ 12:11AM

Next to conspiracists like Dick Durbin, Howard Dean looks sentient.

At Large

Blind Dates in Jerusalem

P. David Hornik | 6.16.05 @ 12:10AM

Would the conversation be any different in anti-religious right Manhattan?

Special Report

The Poor's Mosquito Net

Doug Bandow | 6.16.05 @ 12:09AM

Wealthy governments have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the developing world. The results are pathetic.

Another Perspective

The Liberty Reader

Ralph R. Reiland | 6.16.05 @ 12:08AM

Human Events' list of destructive books contains some surprising choices.

TAS Live

A Civil War Between the Greens

Tom Bethell | 6.16.05 @ 12:06AM

Bats (nature) vs. Wind Turbines (solar power) -- the battle rages on.

Reader Mail

Better All the Time

6.16.05 @ 12:05AM

EU failures, Tyrant XP, conscripts vs. volunteers, and the hated MSM. Plus: Commies in their own jails and the great WMD chase.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

At Large

Down Baghdad Boulevard

John Connly Walsh | 6.15.05 @ 12:09AM

Letters from the Iraqi street.

Special Report

Benedict 1, Europe 0

George Neumayr | 6.15.05 @ 12:08AM

A Brave New World referendum fails in Italy as Europe's secularists, busy opening their public squares to imams, close them to priests -- and Oriana Fallaci.

Media Matters

Tear Down That Firewall

Tom Elliott | 6.15.05 @ 12:08AM

For tyrants, the proliferation of new media is becoming their worst nightmare.

Among the Intellectualoids

Che Day

Andrew Cline | 6.15.05 @ 12:06AM

Let's dishonor his memory by paying respects to the people who deserve to replace him among the pantheon of liberal heroes.

Reader Mail

NIMBY Recruitment

6.15.05 @ 12:01AM

Military pay and respect, moral unequivalence, and RINO hunting in Virginia. Plus: McQueen again, Ben, and much more.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Washington Prowler

Grassley, Lott & Scruggs

The Prowler | 6.14.05 @ 1:09AM

A law firm? No, just the GOP Senate Finance chairman making life sweeter for Trent Lott and Lott's trial-lawyer brother-in-law.

Political Hay

CAFTA Is About Security

James Poulos | 6.14.05 @ 12:07AM

The cost of making order out of chaos in Latin America is as high as the stakes -- and it isn't measured in dollars.

Campaign Crawlers

Potts Shots

David Holman | 6.14.05 @ 12:07AM

Virginia's primary means little for the gubernatorial candidates, but the race still offers the entertaining antics of a "maverick."

Among the Intellectualoids

Moral Equivalence Rides Again

Brandon Crocker | 6.14.05 @ 12:06AM

Left-wing modernity at its most consistent.

Another Perspective

You and What Army?

Christopher Preble | 6.14.05 @ 12:06AM

Behind those unmet recruitment goals -- an open secret.

Reader Mail

Keep Plugging, Ben

6.14.05 @ 12:01AM

Recruitment's down, but morale's up, Syria has the WMD, and Christians and Jews are together again. Plus: trial lawyers and medical costs. Also, in defense of Thomas Bass. And much more.

Monday, June 13, 2005

Washington Prowler

Jerked Around

The Prowler | 6.13.05 @ 12:09AM

How Howie discombobulates Dems. Plus: Boxer's negative file on Cox.

The Nation's Pulse

Recruitment Improvement

Ben Stein | 6.13.05 @ 12:08AM

Must the media depict our military as criminal, stupid, and a deathtrap?

Loose Canons

Not Missing: Moved

Jed Babbin | 6.13.05 @ 12:07AM

Saddam's WMD are missing only because we haven't looked for them in the right places.

Special Report

Thinking About Pentecost

Jay D. Homnick | 6.13.05 @ 12:06AM

On this one holiday you have to study.

Movie Takes

The Honeymooners

James Bowman | 6.13.05 @ 12:02AM

There's no reason to remake something you don't understand in the first place.

Reader Mail

McQueen for a Day

6.13.05 @ 12:01AM

He was some Proper Stranger. Plus: Many thank you notes to Ben Stein ... and Howie Dean. And much more.

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