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Friday, August 4, 2006

At Large

Cuban Misinformation Crisis

Jay D. Homnick | 8.4.06

There is nothing much to celebrate unless Cuba can somehow burst out into the sunlight of liberty.

Another Perspective

Europe’s Duty

Quin Hillyer | 8.4.06

Why the West should fight for Israel.

Political Hay

Government Waste Disclosure

Chris Edwards | 8.4.06

Who's getting your tax dollars? Sen. Tom Coburn launches his latest idea to keep you informed and the porkers and earmarkers chagrined.

Special Report

Cuba’s Unfinished Revolution

Jorge Amador | 8.4.06

It's never too late, even after 47 years.

TAS Live

NR Goes to War

Neal B. Freeman | 8.4.06

Reflections on conservatives and the arguments for going into Iraq.

Reader Mail

Time Travel

8.4.06

When driving was a trip. Also: Presidential steel. Rahm Democrats. Prelapsarian coral lapses. Plus more.

Thursday, August 3, 2006

The Current Crisis

Cool Under Pressure

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.3.06

Steady support from our president is helping Israel overcome its hesitancy.

Political Hay

The Emanuel Brothers’ Mel Bonding

Jeffrey Lord | 8.3.06

Why no Democratic outrage over anti-Semites with real Lethal Weapons?

Buy the Book

The Flying Inn Reconsidered

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 8.3.06

G.K. Chesterton's prophetic and forgotten look at a British establishment enthralled by Islamicism.

The Nation’s Pulse

Boxed-In Beauties

Eric Peters | 8.3.06

Our cars a more powerful and better built than ever — and we can't even go 55 in them in 70 mph zones. How's that for irony?

TAS Live

Brownwater Sailors

Jed Babbin | 8.3.06

Training with the new Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.

Reader Mail

Coming Clean

8.3.06

America: From Freedom to What? Civilian hostages. Coral depths. Politically held tongues. Pool hall romances. Plus more.

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Special Report

Lost in the Deluge

Shawn Macomber | 8.2.06

A state-sponsored courtroom trip into inner city hell.

At Large

Civilian Shields

Christopher Orlet | 8.2.06

The big story in Lebanon is under-reported.

The Public Policy

Okay Coral

Patrick J. Michaels | 8.2.06

Our oceans' coral reefs have survived a lot worse than a slight increase in global temperatures.

Media Matters

Noncommittal Americans

Lisa Fabrizio | 8.2.06

Rather than take a stand on issues that matter, many good citizens allow the media to cow them into silence and apathy.

Movie Takes

America: From Freedom to Fascism

James Bowman | 8.2.06

The paranoid style finds its home in the movies, happy to appeal to left-wing nuts and right-wings nuts alike.

Reader Mail

Passion Fodder

8.2.06

Mel Gibson goes for a drive. Also: Values are all around. Teddy K. once more. Plus much else.

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Eminentoes

Braveheart’s Tequila Sunset

Clinton W. Taylor | 8.1.06

Which is the real Mel Gibson?

Political Hay

Values Apply to All Issues

Paul Chesser | 8.1.06

Unintentional caricaturing of the religious right by media and conservative advocacy groups alike leaves the wrong impression of what might be on the minds of evangelical voters.

At Large

Why Not Kill This Man?

Jeremy Lott | 8.1.06

Naveed Afzal Haq knew exactly what he was doing.

Another Perspective

Catch-22 Dictatorships

Daniel Freedman | 8.1.06

Does the Bush Doctrine give Muslim dictators an incentive to overstate the Islamist threat?

Movie Takes

Scoop

James Bowman | 8.1.06

Woody Allen bombs again.

Reader Mail

Outstanding Work

8.1.06

Triple plays. Ben is right. Jed is right. The Sit Out Right. Teddy bear rocked. Religion and heat. Plus much more.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Another Perspective

How to Lose to Terrorists

Ben Stein | 7.31.06

You cannot fight inhumane people with humane means.

Loose Canons

Israel as George Bush

Jed Babbin | 7.31.06

Vince Brooks, please call your office. Your travel orders are ready.

Political Hay

They Haven’t Changed

David Hogberg | 7.31.06

Given a chance to demonstrate fiscal responsibility, House Republicans failed miserably. Way to motivate the base to bother to vote this fall, guys.

Special Report

Dear Senator Kennedy: Resigning to Reform

Jeffrey Lord | 7.31.06

Teddy's 43 years of “service” on the Senate Judiciary Committee has been spectacularly destructive. Now he's causing trouble again.

The Nation’s Pulse

Nothing New Under the Sun

Mark Tooley | 7.31.06

Evangelicals spar over global warming — and some are having second thoughts.

Reader Mail

Rack and Roll

7.31.06

Pool hall memories and sounds. Also: The dirt on the Bulgarian find. Uncle Walter not so avuncular. Acts of conscience. Relocation, relocation. Plus much more.

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