The American Spectator

Political Hay

Going Ape in Politics

Quin Hillyer | 3.24.06 @ 12:08AM

Banana, anyone? A peace offering to Humorless Lefties who can't get beyond the conservatives-are-cavemen paradigm.

topics: Trade, Bill Clinton, Economics, Environment

Special Report

World Baseball

Lawrence Henry | 3.24.06 @ 12:07AM

You may not know who won the just concluded World Baseball Classic. Sorry, ESPN, it wasn't Cuba.

topics: Sports

Special Report

Strategic Compassion in Darfur

Daniel Allott | 3.24.06 @ 12:06AM

The Bush Administration gets its geopolitical and humanitarian priorities in order.

topics: Foreign Policy, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, United Nations, NATO, Africa

The Public Policy

Paris General

David Hogberg | 3.24.06 @ 12:06AM

Forget Canada. The socialized health-care set now wants the U.S. to model itself on France.

topics: Health Care, Law, Medicare

TAS Live

Second Chances at Life

Mark Yost | 3.24.06 @ 12:06AM

The untold revolution in combat medicine.

topics: Transportation, Mainstream Media, Television, Sports, Environment, Military, Iraq, Russia, Israel

Reader Mail

Human and Divine

3.24.06 @ 12:01AM

Monogamy and its constructs. Plus: Tony, Jack, smoke, Mrs. Gunn, and more.

topics: Economics, Religion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, Oil

Special Report

Some Thoughts on Jack Abramoff

Morton C. Blackwell | 3.23.06 @ 12:09AM

A leading conservative Republican tells the whole story.

topics: Education, Business, Movies

The Current Crisis

Message to Tony Blair

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 3.23.06 @ 12:08AM

Don't let the wobblies get you down.

topics: Islam, Military, Iraq, Socialism

The Nation's Pulse

Polygamy and Me

William Tucker | 3.23.06 @ 12:07AM

Hollywood is now presenting polygamists as "just plain folks" -- but for all its discontents only monogamy can give us civilization.

topics: Africa

Buy the Book

Relentless Partisanship

Conrad Black | 3.23.06 @ 12:05AM

Sean Wilentz is a great historian and perhaps an even greater Democrat.

Movie Takes

Thank You for Smoking

James Bowman | 3.23.06 @ 12:02AM

It gets you hooked and craving for more.

topics: Trade, Satire, Environment, Hollywood, Law, NATO

Reader Mail

Bales of Hay

3.23.06 @ 12:01AM

Worth more that those Washington Democrats. Also: Trusting Jed Babbin. Man talk. Falling Domino's. And more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Trade, Business, Social Security, Religion, Islam, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, North Korea, Oil

Among the Intellectualoids

Manliness and the Mindless

James Bowman | 3.22.06 @ 12:08AM

It will take more than spitballs to bring down the marvelous Professor Mansfield.

topics: Mainstream Media, Books, Military, Iraq

Another Perspective

To Hell and Back With Them Hawks

John Tabin | 3.22.06 @ 12:08AM

Rich Lowry and Jed Babbin reconsidered.

topics: Foreign Policy, Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran

Special Report

The Fathered Civilization: Conservative Winners

James Poulos | 3.22.06 @ 12:07AM

Concerning cultured people, patriarchy is about quality as well as quantity.

topics: Foreign Policy

Political Hay

March Madness

Lisa Fabrizio | 3.22.06 @ 12:06AM

Neopatriotic Democrats find themselves unseeded.

topics: Transportation, Harry Reid, Mainstream Media, Military

At Large

The Myth of Water Privatization Failures

Fredrik Segerfeldt | 3.22.06 @ 12:06AM

Today is World Water Day -- which many negligent Third World governments don't deserve to celebrate.

topics: Business

Reader Mail

Solid Verification

3.22.06 @ 12:01AM

Nothing but true intelligence under stress. The Pentagon responds (a little late). Plus: Sr. Bill Richardson. Belzer out of the park. DNC consultants in Beijing? Endgame conservatives step up their game. Plus much more.

topics: Education, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Social Security, Religion, Islam, Environment, Books, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, North Korea, Socialism

Campaign Crawlers

Doing the Hispanic Hustle

Shawn Macomber | 3.21.06 @ 12:09AM

Bill Richardson could have a future -- once we all learn Spanish.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Immigration

At Large

Reactionary Riots

D. Kelly Jones | 3.21.06 @ 12:08AM

Students in France don't give a fig for the plight of the country's unintegrated and unemployable underclass.

topics: Education, Trade, Business, Entitlements, Social Security, Law, Unions

Special Report

The Chinese Lecture on Human Rights

Robert T. McLean | 3.21.06 @ 12:07AM

Communist China issues a report criticizing America's human rights record.

topics: Abortion, Law, Military, Iraq

Among the Intellectualoids

Belzer's Morons

Doug Powers | 3.21.06 @ 12:05AM

Usually the left is a little more tactful in camouflaging its real view of our troops.

topics: Law, Military

Reader Mail

Endgame Beginnings

3.21.06 @ 12:02AM

Where do we go from here? Reactions to Jed Babbin's "Endgame Conservatives."

topics: Health Care, Entitlements, Religion, Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Oil

Reader Mail

St. Katherine Harris

3.21.06 @ 12:01AM

Keeping the faith with a Republican hero. Plus: Shaky Dems. Gas taxes are a gas. Ben Stein, now in permanent Internet orbit. And much more.

topics: Taxes, Mainstream Media, Business, Islam, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Israel, NATO, Energy, Oil

Washington Prowler

Defiantly Shaky

The Prowler | 3.20.06 @ 12:08AM

Democrats know where they do and don't stand -- simultaneously.

topics: Trade, Harry Reid, NATO

Loose Canons

Endgame Conservatives

Jed Babbin | 3.20.06 @ 12:08AM

Democracy should not be our casus belli.

topics: Foreign Policy, Religion, Islam, Books, Military, Iraq, Iran, Africa, Nuclear Weapons, Oil

Campaign Crawlers

Red Faces in a Red State

Larry Thornberry | 3.20.06 @ 12:07AM

And lots of red lipstick: Katherine Harris refinances her Senate campaign.

topics: Television, Business, Law, NATO

The Nation's Pulse

Domino's Effect

Christopher Orlet | 3.20.06 @ 12:06AM

The media pillage "Catholic Town."

topics: Taxes, Catholicism, Abortion, Environment, Constitution, Law

Another Perspective

Shirt Story

Jay D. Homnick | 3.20.06 @ 12:05AM

Sitting fat in a Palestinian prison.

topics: Law, Israel

Reader Mail

Thin Sheepskin

3.20.06 @ 12:01AM

Wyoming's Annie gets her guns. They shoot blanks. Plus: Ratting on malls. Morals Republicans. Transitioning print. And much more, including more on Ben Stein's Oscars -- lefties fight back.

topics: Taxes, Education, Trade, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Business, Abortion, Environment, Hollywood, Movies, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, NATO, Energy, Oil