The American Spectator

Special Report

The Gray Zone

Shawn Macomber | 2.10.06 @ 12:10AM

Deciphering the true state of U.S. military morale in Iraq in a partisan standoff.

topics: Islam, Iraq

Editor's Desk

Political Deaths

Wlady Pleszczynski | 2.10.06 @ 12:08AM

Who gets mourned, and why, and who does not.

topics: Sports, Israel

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To the Shores of Tripoli

Brandon Crocker | 2.10.06 @ 12:06AM

The biography of an unlikely hero during America's first foreign war.

topics: Education, Military, Africa

TAS Live

Clean Hands

Hans Sauber | 2.10.06 @ 12:05AM

What is a germophobe to do?

topics: Business, Religion, Environment, Oil

Political Hay

Rock the Vote Crumbles

Doug Powers | 2.10.06 @ 12:04AM

The party's over for one of the Democrats' fabled phony fronts.

topics: Business, Movies, Law

Reader Mail

Here Come the Judges

2.10.06 @ 12:01AM

Mark Judge held in contempt (on most counts). Also: Boys will be bad boys. Little men on campus. Plus much more.

topics: Religion, Islam, Books, Movies, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Energy, Oil, Unions

The Current Crisis

Angry Young Men

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.9.06 @ 12:08AM

The noise they make is the death rattle of a dead culture.

topics: Religion, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Winter Wonderland

Jay D. Homnick | 2.9.06 @ 12:08AM

Life can be a beach.

topics: Iraq, Israel

Another Perspective

Right-Wingtips Revisited

Mark Judge | 2.9.06 @ 12:07AM

So now American Thinking Conservatives are saying there's no such thing as objective beauty?

topics: Trade, Abortion, Books, Conservatism, Alaska, Oil

Campus Scenes

Bashing Men on Campus

John Zmirak | 2.9.06 @ 12:05AM

Teaching them who's boss in a feminized world.

topics: Education, Sports, Environment, Books, Law, Africa

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Dialysis Analysis

Richard Kirk | 2.9.06 @ 12:05AM

Exposing the myths that undermine the War on Terror.

topics: Trade, Iraq, Russia

Reader Mail

Mockers of Religion

2.9.06 @ 12:01AM

Are the rioters religious? Is Islam a religion of peace. Also: Chicken pressies. Dr. Clinton. New Directions. Plus more.

topics: Education, Health Care, Mainstream Media, Business, Religion, Islam, Abortion, Hollywood, Movies, Constitution, Military, Iraq, Russia, Israel, NATO, Socialism, Conservatism, Immigration, Oil, Unions

Special Report

The Politics of Religious Mockery

Patrick Hynes | 2.8.06 @ 12:09AM

Modern-day liberalism, sure enough, always figures in the mix.

topics: Religion, Islam, Law, NATO

Political Hay

Hillary Health Care Redux

Robert M. Goldberg | 2.8.06 @ 12:08AM

Head for the hills -- Dr. Clinton wants to operate tomorrow morning!

topics: Trade, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Medicaid, Medicare

Another Perspective

The Raw Deal

Lisa Fabrizio | 2.8.06 @ 12:07AM

Next to FDR's efforts to expand executive power and pack the courts, G.W. Bush is a piker.

topics: Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

Media Matters

Fear and Cowering in the Press

Christopher Orlet | 2.8.06 @ 12:07AM

Must American media behave like scared kittens?

topics: Religion, Islam, Environment, Israel

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Rebel With a Cause

Stephen M. Klugewicz | 2.8.06 @ 12:04AM

Fred Barnes has written a consequential book about the consequential president who thumbs his nose at Washington.

Reader Mail

Flagstaff Bob

2.8.06 @ 12:01AM

Pity the intruder who sides with Saddam. Plus: politico-religious zealotry. A Contract With Republicans. Reeling From Reiland. And much more.

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Bill Clinton, Religion, Islam, Law, Iraq, Israel, NATO, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Conservatism, Oil

Special Report

Zealots Then, Zealots Now

Steven Usdin | 2.7.06 @ 12:08AM

What the Rosenberg spies can teach us about today's terrorists.

topics: Religion, Islam, Military, Iraq, Russia, Communism, Fascism, Oil

Political Hay

New Leader -- How About a New Direction?

Paul Chesser | 2.7.06 @ 12:07AM

Congressional Republicans need more than a facelift.

topics: Transportation, Education, John Boehner, Business, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Immigration

Campaign Crawlers

Too Close to Call

Pete Peterson | 2.7.06 @ 12:06AM

In Costa Rica, political division is normal. We may know in a day or two who won on Sunday.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Business, Unions

Special Report

A Tale of Two Cartoons

Jay D. Homnick | 2.7.06 @ 12:06AM

One thing is certain: the rioters on the Arab street consider themselves battle-hardened.

topics: Television, Religion, Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Oil

Another Perspective

A Pattern of Blindness

Ralph R. Reiland | 2.7.06 @ 12:05AM

The Bush years remind us over and over that government -- when it matters most --doesn't work.

topics: Trade, Islam, Law

Reader Mail

A Hanging Jury

2.7.06 @ 12:01AM

NSA leakers get plugged. A CNN.com user shouts "Liar!" Plus more.

topics: John Boehner, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Iran, NATO

Loose Canons

Getting With the NSA Program

Jed Babbin | 2.6.06 @ 12:08PM

Democrats today will pound away at Attorney General Gonzales. Don't they care that the war on terror is their war too?

topics: Books, Constitution, Law, Iraq, NATO

Washington Prowler

On a Jay Walk

The Prowler | 2.6.06 @ 12:09AM

Will AG Gonzales suggest who leaked? Also: Jim Ryun as stalking horse. John Boehner cracks the whips.

topics: John Boehner, Law, NATO

Another Perspective

The Real Super Bowl -- and the Real Apocalypse

Judd Magilnick | 2.6.06 @ 12:08AM

Cleatmarks of the Messiah, from the Kraft Family Stadium.

topics: Television, Sports, Israel

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Phonies & Freeloaders

Christopher Orlet | 2.6.06 @ 12:06AM

The American Empire will end with a whine, not with a bang.

topics: Foreign Policy, Social Security, Sports, Iraq, Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Oil, Medicare

TAS Live

Right Abolitionism

Michael J. Horowitz | 2.6.06 @ 12:05AM

The Bush administration has defended female dignity like no administration before it -- yet another reason the left disdains this presidency.

topics: Trade, Abortion, Books, Hollywood, Law, Russia, Israel, Africa, Unions

Reader Mail

Restroom Studies

2.6.06 @ 12:01AM

Accelerated anthropology at Yale. Plus: Sheepish Hollywood. And more.

topics: Education, Business, Hollywood, Movies, Law, Africa, Oil