The American Spectator

Special Report

Good Morning, 2006

Ben Stein | 12.30.05 @ 12:10AM

With gratitude to those who make our happiness possible.

topics: Law, Iraq

Enemy of the Week

Enemy of the Year

Enemy Central | 12.30.05 @ 12:09AM

Enemy Central sends out its posse.

topics: Mainstream Media, Television, Law, Iraq, NATO

Political Hay

Stoic of the Year

Paul Beston | 12.30.05 @ 12:08AM

President Bush, faults and all, is made of steely stuff.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq

Another Perspective

Prognostications 2006

John Tabin | 12.30.05 @ 12:07AM

Domestically, Democrats can dream. Abroad, the Mullah state could prove a nightmare.

topics: Supreme Court, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, NATO, Africa, Immigration

The Nation's Pulse

Conservatism in Crisis?

David Hogberg | 12.30.05 @ 12:07AM

A successful political movement has its ups and downs.

topics: Transportation, Bill Clinton, Social Security, Medicaid, Constitution, Supreme Court, Iraq, Conservatism, Energy, Oil

Loose Canons

A Very Unmerry New Year to You

Jed Babbin | 12.30.05 @ 12:06AM

And to hell with 2006.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Television, Global Warming, Books, Law, Iraq, NATO

Movie Takes

Munich

James Bowman | 12.30.05 @ 12:02AM

Mr. Spielberg knows how to film, but not how to think.

topics: Television, Hollywood, Movies, Military, Israel, Africa

Reader Mail

Misunderestimations

12.30.05 @ 12:01AM

And other Democratic predilections. Plus: Booming the Boomers -- who brought them up? Patriotic urges. Granville Sewell and Nobel Prize. And much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Nancy Pelosi, Business, Social Security, Medicaid, Sports, Hollywood, Movies, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Socialism, Oil, Unions, Medicare

The Current Crisis

Dingy Democrats

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.29.05 @ 12:08AM

Do they have a future?

topics: Foreign Policy, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, NATO

Political Hay

A Piece of the Action

David Boaz | 12.29.05 @ 12:07AM

Have you ever wished you could profit from all the lobbying and influence peddling going on in Washington?

topics: Health Care, Business, Environment, NATO, Oil, Unions

Another Perspective

An I to the Future

Jay D. Homnick | 12.29.05 @ 12:06AM

Fanatics dream of impeachment -- a word that need not be repeated.

Special Report

The Meaning -- and Demeaning -- of Patriotism

Herbert London | 12.29.05 @ 12:06AM

In the U.S. and elsewhere -- at least outside the Muslim world -- patriotic attachments are under siege.

topics: Education, Trade, Environment, Constitution, Law, Founding Fathers, Israel, Africa, Oil

Movie Takes

The White Countess

James Bowman | 12.29.05 @ 12:02AM

If you hate Merchant-Ivory, then this film you'll really hate.

topics: Trade, Business, Movies, Russia

Reader Mail

Treaty or Trick

12.29.05 @ 12:01AM

Polarized bears run amok thanks to the Kyoto Protocol. Also: Thermo-responses to evolution's thermodynamics. Generation pap. Climbing latters. And more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Bill Clinton, Economics, Social Security, Religion, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Iraq, United Nations, NATO, Socialism, Communism, Energy, Oil, Medicare

The Nation's Pulse

Screwing It Up, One More Time

Lawrence Henry | 12.28.05 @ 12:08AM

The Boomers at 60 -- more untrustworthy than ever.

topics: Business

At Large

Woe Unto Kyoto

Michael Fumento | 12.28.05 @ 12:07AM

Time to bury Kyoto and move on.

topics: Environment, Global Warming, United Nations, European Union, NATO

Another Perspective

Our Sad State of Affairs

Ralph R. Reiland | 12.28.05 @ 12:06AM

Summing up some major highlights of fiscally reckless 2005.

topics: Bill Clinton, Military, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Medicare

Special Report

Evolution's Thermodynamic Failure

Granville Sewell | 12.28.05 @ 12:05AM

The theory of creation of species through natural selection violates the second law of thermodynamics.

topics: Environment, Books, Law, Energy

Movie Takes

Fun With Dick and Jane

James Bowman | 12.28.05 @ 12:02AM

Welcome to the new Hollywood genre of paranoid comedy.

topics: Business, Hollywood, Movies

Reader Mail

Fairytale Season

12.28.05 @ 12:01AM

Songs of Christmas. The politics of morality and religion. Designs on intelligence. Plus much more.

topics: Economics, Social Security, Religion, Abortion, Hollywood, Movies, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Immigration