The American Spectator

Special Report

Get Off His Back (Updated)

Ben Stein | 9.2.05 @ 11:59PM

SPECIAL WEEKEND POSTING: A few truths about George Bush, New Orleans, and the media. UPDATED -- "More Mysteries of Katrina" -- Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005, 2:13 p.m.

topics: Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Global Warming, Law, Iraq, Energy

Another Perspective

High Water, High Tide

Paul Beston | 9.2.05 @ 1:53AM

New Orleans may or may not return, but order had better, and soon.

topics: Television, Military, Oil

Special Report

Masques of Death

George Neumayr | 9.2.05 @ 12:12AM

A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.

topics: Business, Law

Editor's Desk

Missed Anniversaries

Wlady Pleszczynski | 9.2.05 @ 12:08AM

History can only be remembered after it's been made.

topics: Law, Communism

The Nation's Pulse

In the Matter of the Boston "R"

Lawrence Henry | 9.2.05 @ 12:07AM

What it's like to be stuck between a rock and a hahd place.

topics: Law

Political Hay

Pennsylvania's Republican Wars

David Holman | 9.2.05 @ 12:07AM

State GOP salary enhancers are going after conservative activists who have their number.

topics: Constitution, Law, Conservatism

At Large

The Iron Fog

Ronan Thomas | 9.2.05 @ 12:04AM

Communism continues to enjoy forgiveness and forgetting.

topics: Trade, Vladimir Putin, Hollywood, Law, Russia, Communism, Fascism, Nuclear Weapons

Reader Mail

Katrina Media

9.2.05 @ 12:01AM

Moribund coverage. Pumping gas prices. Also: Chicken squawks. Deregulating Lou Dobbs. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Trade, Economics, Business, Environment, Law, Military, Iraq, Immigration

Special Report

Biloxi Blows

Jay D. Homnick | 9.1.05 @ 12:14AM

A true story about those who should have left, but did not.

topics: Television, Law

Loose Canons

Joint Task Force Katrina

Jed Babbin | 9.1.05 @ 12:09AM

The Big Dogs come running.

topics: Television, Business, Books, Law, Military

Another Perspective

Looters?

Reid Collins | 9.1.05 @ 12:08AM

Let the good times roll with the tides.

topics: Oil

The Current Crisis

Our Fragmented Friends

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.1.05 @ 12:07AM

Democrats need to learn to get along.

topics: Taxes, Environment, NATO

Political Hay

Challenging the Chickenhawk Epithet

Andrew Cline | 9.1.05 @ 12:05AM

Here's how to throw back liberal grenades.

topics: Taxes, Television, Abortion, Law, Military, Iraq

The Public Policy

D-Day for the Death Tax

Rod D. Martin | 9.1.05 @ 12:05AM

In a few days, America's most notorious tax could bite the dust.

topics: Taxes, Vladimir Putin, Business, Law, Russia, NATO, Socialism

Reader Mail

Revenge of the Methodists

9.1.05 @ 12:01AM

Inclusiveness, not God, grows membership. Also: the Spectator Rifle Club, Lou's blue, Dubya's dandy, Iowa lessons, and much more!

topics: Trade, Television, Economics, Constitution, Law, Immigration, Energy

Political Hay

The Quagmire Quagmire

Philip Klein | 8.31.05 @ 12:09AM

With the 2006 elections looming, dumbfounded Democrats are having trouble responding to Iraq.

topics: Mainstream Media, Constitution, Military, Iraq

The Public Policy

The Abortifacient Aisle

George Neumayr | 8.31.05 @ 12:08AM

Hillary Clinton favors a heedless and streamlining FDA as long as the drugs in question are life-ending rather than life-saving.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Abortion

Special Report

You Are the Target

Christopher Orlet | 8.31.05 @ 12:07AM

In the surreal world of Political Islam civilians are soldiers and vice-versa.

topics: Religion, Islam, Books, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Communism

Media Matters

Clueless Lou

Charles Simpson | 8.31.05 @ 12:04AM

On CNN, the least-trusted name is Lou Dobbs.

topics: Trade, Business, Law, NATO

Buy the Book

No Strings Attached

Alfred S. Regnery | 8.31.05 @ 12:04AM

Antonio Stradivari crafted instruments on loan from God.

topics: Books, Russia

Reader Mail

Vouch Potatoes

8.31.05 @ 12:01AM

Neighborhood nervousness in Ohio. Plus: Leading in Iraq. Dr. Death With Dignity. Exercised. And much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream Media, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, Conservatism

At Large

Iraq in Late Summer

John Connly Walsh | 8.30.05 @ 12:08AM

Two examples of can-do leadership on the ground.

topics: Law, Iraq, Energy

Special Report

Right to Life Retrospect

Margaret Moen | 8.30.05 @ 12:07AM

It could be worse, as shown by the example of Dr. Walter Sackett.

topics: Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Vouchers Hit the Burbs

Marie Gryphon | 8.30.05 @ 12:06AM

The idea that Ohioans most feared is turning out to be exactly what they most needed.

topics: Education, Law, Unions

TAS Live

Taking Names

Jay D. Homnick | 8.30.05 @ 12:05AM

The A, B, and C's of naming a hurricane.

topics: Energy, Oil

Buy the Book

In a League of His Own

James P. Lucier | 8.30.05 @ 12:04AM

Forrest McDonald, a great American historian, has written a great American memoir.

Reader Mail

An Embarrassment of Riches

8.30.05 @ 12:01AM

Cindy continues to deliver! Also, San Francisco sinks, going UNder, Buffett can't tough it, actions and reactions, and more!

topics: Bill Clinton, Business, Environment, Military, Iraq, Iran, Conservatism

Loose Canons

UNdermining Democracy

Jed Babbin | 8.29.05 @ 12:10AM

Support for terrorism and Old Globaloney in preparation for the UN reform summit.

topics: Joe Biden, Business, Islam, Global Warming, Books, Constitution, Law, Russia, NATO, Oil

Another Perspective

A City of Infamy

Lisa Fabrizio | 8.29.05 @ 12:07AM

What compelled San Francisco to sink the USS Iowa?

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Military, Iraq, Communism

TAS Live

Bearish on Buffett

Brian Wesbury | 8.29.05 @ 12:06AM

Warren Buffett's anti-American investment sentiment has cost his shareholders dearly.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Business, Environment, Constitution, Communism

Buy the Book

Service with a Smile

Harvey Klehr | 8.29.05 @ 12:05AM

Everything you always wanted to know about Joseph Stalin -- and were too afraid to ask.

topics: Education, Books, Military, Russia, Socialism

Eminentoes

The Best of Cindy Sheehan

Mark Goldblatt | 8.29.05 @ 12:04AM

Proverbs for the dimwitted from a true moral authority.

topics: Mainstream Media, Law, Iraq, Israel, Oil

Reader Mail

The Wall Street Turtle?

8.29.05 @ 12:01AM

Is the Journal worth reading? Also: Wanted: Children, Sheehan’s show, Bush’s biceps, assemblies of the better-informed, hackery, and much more!

topics: Foreign Policy, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Business, Abortion, Law, Iraq