The American Spectator

Political Hay

Conservatives for Privacy

Doug Bandow | 5.12.06 @ 12:08AM

As a fascinating recent debate suggests, defending the right to privacy is one way to thwart liberal panaceas.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Economics, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Energy, Oil

Another Perspective

The Real Cost of Driving

Lawrence Henry | 5.12.06 @ 12:07AM

A 1992 V-8 Cadillac proves cheaper to obtain and maintain than your trendy new hybrid.

topics: Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Mississippi 1964 Reunion

William Tucker | 5.12.06 @ 12:07AM

Things are so different now that it can be disorienting.

topics: Education, Law, Oil

At Large

My Mother's Child

Happy Feder | 5.12.06 @ 12:06AM

In lieu of flowers this Sunday.

topics: Books

In Memoriam

Remembering George Roche

Mark G. Michaelsen | 5.12.06 @ 12:06AM

The former president of Hillsdale College died last Friday. He was 71.

topics: Education, Television, Books, Law

The Public Policy

You Never Can Tell

Ralph R. Reiland | 5.12.06 @ 12:06AM

Smart people often make very bad predictions -- here are some of their all-time lulus.

topics: Television, Economics, Business, Hollywood, Military, Energy, Oil

Reader Mail

The Great Imponderable

5.12.06 @ 12:01AM

"What is wrong with some Republicans in Congress?" Also: Honorary Bush hater Mahmood Ahmadinejad. In good Company. Levee protection for the Army Corps. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Trade, Economics, Business, Abortion, Environment, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Oil

Washington Prowler

Qualifying Wallace

The Prowler | 5.11.06 @ 10:02AM

The neo-borking of qualified judicial nominees continues -- will Republicans resist?

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

The Current Crisis

Wild on the Supply-Side

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 5.11.06 @ 12:08AM

Once again tax cuts create greater wealth and tax revenue -- and Republicans and Democrats alike get increasingly nervous.

topics: Taxes, Economics, Oil

At Large

The Band of Brothers (and Their Mothers)

Michael Fumento | 5.11.06 @ 12:08AM

In Ramadi, a part of Iraq the journalistic community prefers to avoid.

topics: Military, Iraq

Special Report

Let My People Come!

Doug Bandow | 5.11.06 @ 12:07AM

Just because Christian Burmese resisted the Junta doesn't make them terrorists.

topics: Law, Military, NATO

Eminentoes

Bush the Bad Christian

Mark Tooley | 5.11.06 @ 12:07AM

Better late than never -- Mahmood Ahmadinejad follows the lead of pious American left-wingers to find the president's religiosity wanting.

topics: Foreign Policy, Religion, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Weapons

Media Matters

Guttmacher Inseminates the Media

Paul Chesser | 5.11.06 @ 12:06AM

Pro-abortion researchers and their media accomplices would have you believe that pregnancy is foisted upon women.

topics: Mainstream Media, Abortion

Reader Mail

Oil for One

5.11.06 @ 12:01AM

The offshore drill. Slick defenses. Pumped up over profits. Plus: What Ben Stein knows. What FDR knews. And much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Economics, Business, Federal Budget, Social Security, Environment, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Energy, Oil

Special Report

What You Need To Know

Ben Stein | 5.10.06 @ 12:50AM

A genius shrink explains how today's college graduates can succeed at life.

topics: Religion, Africa, Communism

Streetcar Line

Produce More Domestic Energy, Now!

Quin Hillyer | 5.10.06 @ 12:10AM

The NIMBYites have it wrong -- drill offshore.

topics: Economics, Business, Environment, Law, NATO, Energy, Alaska, Oil

Another Perspective

American Compassion

Lisa Fabrizio | 5.10.06 @ 12:06AM

Zacarias Moussaoui will get an even better taste of it at ADX Florence.

topics: Trade, Islam, Military, Iraq

Campus Scenes

What's the Idea?

Mark G. Michaelsen | 5.10.06 @ 12:06AM

The University of Wisconsin has abandoned its great Progressive tradition.

topics: Taxes, Education, Economics, Business, Law

Eminentoes

Ancien Regime Changeling

Jay D. Homnick | 5.10.06 @ 12:06AM

Who is a mullah puppet to call anyone illegitimate?

topics: Business, Islam, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel

The Public Policy

Concentrating the Army Corps of Engineers

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 5.10.06 @ 12:06AM

The military principle of "concentration" makes increasing sense post-Katrina.

topics: Trade, Economics, Business, Environment, Military, NATO

Reader Mail

Hoyer Endorses Pelosi

5.10.06 @ 12:01AM

Nonetheless, there's been a breakdown in communications. Also: Oil is not well. Darfur interventionism. Divided Iraq. Plus much more.

topics: Education, Trade, Nancy Pelosi, Business, Environment, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Africa, Energy, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Stop the Scapegoating

Ben Stein | 5.9.06 @ 12:09AM

Oil companies do not set oil prices.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Oil

Special Report

FDR's Domestic Surveillance

Adam J. White & Daveed Gartenstein-Ross | 5.9.06 @ 12:08AM

Franklin Roosevelt stuck to his guns. So should George W. Bush.

topics: Constitution, Supreme Court, Military, NATO

Political Hay

Left-Wing Unilateralism

Andrew Cline | 5.9.06 @ 12:07AM

On Darfur, the left discovers the pitfalls of diplomacy.

topics: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Iraq, United Nations

Another Perspective

La Guerre Est Finie

Reid Collins | 5.9.06 @ 12:07AM

Stop calling the current condition in Iraq a war.

topics: Iraq

TAS Live

Thinking About Tomorrow

Amy K. Mitchell | 5.9.06 @ 12:05AM

Don't stop -- or else.

topics: Constitution, United Nations, Energy

Reader Mail

General Intelligence

5.9.06 @ 12:01AM

Talk about your existential problems. Two Americas. The CIA goes down in Plames. Confessed incompetence. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Business, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Africa, Oil, Unions

Washington Prowler

Pelosi Bluster

The Prowler | 5.8.06 @ 12:09AM

Nancy's the one in the dock. Plus: Pending administration changes.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Business

Loose Canons

Val for DCI

Jed Babbin | 5.8.06 @ 12:08AM

The CIA praetorians won and national security lost.

topics: Trade, Books, NATO, Energy

Enemy of the Week

Resigned to Mediocrity

Enemy Central | 5.8.06 @ 12:07AM

The search for deserving winners resumes.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Law, NATO

The Nation's Pulse

Teach Your Children Well

Patrick O'Hannigan | 5.8.06 @ 12:07AM

They should know that Aunt Rhody's old gray goose is dead.

topics: Books, Immigration

Among the Intellectualoids

My Application to Harvard

J. Peter Freire | 5.8.06 @ 12:07AM

How Kaavya Viswanathan got a life.

Reader Mail

A Military Education

5.8.06 @ 12:01AM

Generally speaking about Rumsfeld. Also: Ryan Lizza gets flagged. GM's Saturn Sky. From Iraq to Ben. Plus more.

topics: Education, Bill Clinton, Business, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, NATO, Conservatism, Oil