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Friday, October 14, 2005

Special Report

A Miers Constitutional

John Tabin | 10.14.05 @ 1:09AM

Should she be stopped?

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

The Public Policy

The Road to Hell

Peter Hannaford | 10.14.05 @ 12:07AM

The President's panel on federal tax reform is wrong. Steve Forbes is right.

topics: Taxes, Health Care, Books, Russia, NATO

Political Hay

Musings on SCOTUS and Harriet Miers

Lawrence Henry | 10.14.05 @ 12:07AM

One surprise too many -- though it can be managed.

topics: Education, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, NATO, Conservatism

Another Perspective

One Nobel, But Plenty of Prizes

James Poulos | 10.14.05 @ 12:06AM

The modern mania of "sending a message" severs worth from deeds and makes group feeling itself into an achievement.

topics: Bill Clinton, Satire, Abortion, Military, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Energy, Oil

TAS Live

Silly Scenes of Pinter

Stuart Reid | 10.14.05 @ 12:05AM

Harold Pinter, this year's just-announced Nobel Laureate for literature, loves the stage and hates America. From the April 1997 American Spectator.

topics: Television, Business, Books, Law

Reader Mail

The New Inclusiveness

10.14.05 @ 12:01AM

Tyrrell and the anti-Harriets: not boring at all. Plus: Potter classes and rushing to Rowling defense. Also: Remembering the McCarthy terror, and much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Bill Clinton, Business, Environment, Global Warming, Books, Hollywood, Movies, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Africa, Socialism, Immigration, Nuclear Weapons, Energy, Oil, Medicare

Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Current Crisis

Include Me Out

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.13.05 @ 12:08AM

Critics of the Miers nomination are starting to lose it.

topics: Bill Clinton, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

At Large

The Referendum Shutdown

John Connly Walsh | 10.13.05 @ 12:08AM

Iraq is observing a four-day weekend in order to secure a safe vote on its promising Constitution.

topics: Constitution, Military, Iraq

Special Report

Exposing Exxon

David Hogberg | 10.13.05 @ 12:06AM

Environmentalists try to finger the hypocrisy behind anti-global warming studies, when their own integrity is far more in question.

topics: Environment, Global Warming, Energy, Oil

Another Perspective

Child-on-Child Crime

David Haddon | 10.13.05 @ 12:05AM

The greatest Harry Potter mystery of all is why moral gatekeepers don't see what Rowling is up to.

topics: Religion, Books, Law, Military

Eminentoes

Award Inflation

Michael Fumento | 10.13.05 @ 12:04AM

Harvard honors Hollywood's favorite paralegal.

topics: Environment, Hollywood, Law, Oil

Reader Mail

The Tide Turns

10.13.05 @ 12:00AM

Miers overkill? Have conservatives become what they despise? Plus more, including nuke power and losing it at the movies.

topics: Federal Budget, Entitlements, Islam, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Founding Fathers, Iran, Russia, NATO, Communism, Immigration, Energy, Oil

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Political Hay

Propositions From Arnold

Peter Hannaford | 10.12.05 @ 12:07AM

The Terminator may do some terminating after all.

topics: Television, NATO, Unions

TAS Live

More Nukes!

Tom Bethell | 10.12.05 @ 12:07AM

Enviromentalists -- of all people -- are having second thoughts about their opposition to nuclear power.

topics: John McCain, Environment, Global Warming, Books, Hollywood, NATO, Energy, Oil

Another Perspective

SCOTUS Honor

Jay D. Homnick | 10.12.05 @ 12:06AM

About the Miers debate: both sides are right. Now what do we do?

topics: Constitution, Supreme Court, Israel, Oil

Media Matters

Wishful Tinkering

Lisa Fabrizio | 10.12.05 @ 12:05AM

Conservative discontents have liberals vainly hoping for a return to power.

topics: Mainstream Media, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Immigration, Energy

Movie Takes

Good Night and Good Luck

James Bowman | 10.12.05 @ 12:01AM

George Clooney doesn't dare to tell the truth.

topics: Television, Hollywood, Military, NATO, Oil

Reader Mail

In Dogged Pursuit

10.12.05 @ 12:01AM

Searching for the real Harriet Miers. Also: On Saddam's trial. Serenity seekers. Lessons in Aramaic. Plus much more.

topics: Foreign Policy, Television, Islam, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, Pakistan, United Nations, NATO, Communism, Fascism, Conservatism

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Special Report

Where's the Burger?

George Neumayr | 10.11.05 @ 12:11AM

Harriet Miers admires at least one Warren court.

topics: Abortion, Constitution, Founding Fathers

Political Hay

The Conservative Problem with Harriet Miers

Andrew Cline | 10.11.05 @ 12:07AM

There is a difference between being politically conservative and being legally conservative.

topics: Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Founding Fathers, Conservatism

Another Perspective

Know Nothing, Do Nothing

Christopher Orlet | 10.11.05 @ 12:07AM

Saddam's trial should snap antiwar advocates out of their daydreams.

topics: Mainstream Media, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons

Another Perspective

The Constitution Is Enlightenment Enough

Brandon Crocker | 10.11.05 @ 12:07AM

You don't think Harriet Miers will be an improvement on Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

topics: Islam, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, NATO

The Nation's Pulse

Spaceships and Small Governments

Peter Suderman | 10.11.05 @ 12:05AM

If Star Trek was cloyingly liberal, its big-screen offshoot Serenity is wonderfully libertarian.

topics: Education, Law, Energy, Oil

Reader Mail

In Souter's Shadow

10.11.05 @ 12:01AM

Lightning strikes twice? Plus: Blair weather friends. More Rudy reactions. Winning by losing? Much more on the Mufti McCarrick. And a lot else.

topics: Religion, Islam, Abortion, Global Warming, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, NATO, Oil

Monday, October 10, 2005

Washington Prowler

The Winning Card

The Prowler | 10.10.05 @ 12:10AM

Bush chief of staff triumphs in Supreme Court sweepstakes.

topics: Supreme Court

Loose Canons

Next Sunday in Iraq

Jed Babbin | 10.10.05 @ 12:08AM

With Apologies to Woody Hayes, this is one long pass that has to be thrown.

topics: Islam, Books, Constitution, Founding Fathers, Military, Iraq, Iran, Oil

The Public Policy

Blair Plays Fair

Patrick J. Michaels | 10.10.05 @ 12:07AM

It's remarkable how close Tony Blair's position on climate change now is to George W. Bush's.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Bill Clinton, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Energy, Oil

Buy the Book

An Army of One

William Tucker | 10.10.05 @ 12:04AM

The book on Rudy Giuliani.

topics: Bill Clinton, Television, Business, Abortion, Books, Law, Unions

Movie Takes

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

James Bowman | 10.10.05 @ 12:02AM

Brilliantly funny.

topics: Business, Hollywood, Law

Reader Mail

Doozie and Harriet

10.10.05 @ 12:01AM

Nomination hearings continue. Also: The Rudy in our future. Allah and the Cardinal. Democrat revival. Diesel mixes. American Stein. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Hillary Clinton, Social Security, Religion, Islam, Abortion, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, Israel, NATO, Conservatism, Immigration, Medicare

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