The American Spectator

Special Report

The Lost Heroes of the War on Terror

Jeff Emanuel | 5.25.07 @ 12:09AM

Four exceptional warriors whose names and deeds every man, woman, and child should know.

topics: Military, Iraq

Political Hay

Star Wars' Libertarian Mission

John Tabin | 5.25.07 @ 12:08AM

Thirty years ago today, Biggs Darklighter articulated perhaps the most uncompromisingly libertarian critique a government has faced on film.

topics: Socialism, Communism

At Large

European Tea Leaves

George H. Wittman | 5.25.07 @ 12:07AM

Unfortunately, their source is Vladimir Putin's samovar.

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Iraq, Iran, Russia, European Union, Communism, Oil

Another Perspective

The New Me

Lawrence Henry | 5.25.07 @ 12:07AM

After 59 years, why not look south?

topics: Trade, Oil

The Public Policy

The Health Care Challenge

David Hogberg | 5.25.07 @ 12:07AM

Whose system squanders more lives? A response to single-payer champion Matthew Holt.

topics: Health Care, Law

The Nation's Pulse

Gender Benders

Mark Tooley | 5.25.07 @ 12:07AM

Should members of the clergy be permitted to change their sexual identity?

topics: Education, Law

Reader Mail

Literary Peanuts

5.25.07 @ 12:01AM

Jimmy's hat-trick and lifetime achievement. Talibaning Modernism. McCainiyucks. Missing John Wayne. A Danish co-conspiricist. Australia settled. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Television, Global Warming, Books, Hollywood, Movies, Law, Military, Russia, Immigration, Energy

The Current Crisis

The Worst Book of the Year

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 5.24.07 @ 12:08AM

It's Coogler time -- meaning it's Jimmy Carter time again, as he earns a lifetime achievement award for his literary efforts.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Books, Military, Israel, Africa, Communism

Campaign Crawlers

John Just Being John

Jennifer Rubin | 5.24.07 @ 12:07AM

What in the world has McCain been up to?

topics: Trade, John McCain, Law, Iraq, NATO, Immigration

The Nation's Pulse

None Is Less

Christopher Orlet | 5.24.07 @ 12:07AM

Modernist Masterpieces are leveled to make way for Mammoth McMansions.

Among the Intellectualoids

The Loony Left's 9/11

Peter Hannaford | 5.24.07 @ 12:07AM

The bad news is this professor of conspiracy studies is retired. The bad news is he believes in this stuff.

topics: Trade, Islam, Law, Africa, Energy, Oil

Special Report

Happy Birthday, Duke

Larry Thornberry | 5.24.07 @ 12:07AM

Cowpoke turns 100 this Saturday.

topics: Television, Hollywood, Movies, Military, Fascism

Reader Mail

Reader Requests

5.24.07 @ 12:01AM

Hillary's flip side. Howard's end. Milk and oil don't mix. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Business, Islam, Environment, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, Immigration, Alaska, Oil

Streetcar Line

Somewhere, Gurgi Grieves

Quin Hillyer | 5.23.07 @ 12:08AM

Author Lloyd Alexander, RIP.

topics: Books, Law

Special Report

The Real Planned Parenthood

Tom McClusky | 5.23.07 @ 12:07AM

Margaret Sanger's baby receives infinitely more from unwitting taxpayers and willing corporate donors than it does from presidential wannabes.

topics: Taxes, Abortion, Law, Supreme Court

Political Hay

Hillary's Song

Lisa Fabrizio | 5.23.07 @ 12:07AM

When she was a lass she served a term as office person to an Attorney's firm.

topics: Hillary Clinton, Law

The Public Policy

Is Chunky Monkey an Obvious Combination?

Peter Pitts | 5.23.07 @ 12:07AM

Perhaps unwittingly, the Supreme Court has moved to stifle innovation in modern medicine.

topics: Hollywood, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

The Nation's Pulse

Reform Madness

Jay D. Homnick | 5.23.07 @ 12:06AM

Guess who's joined with the National Council of Churches to thump against the immorality of global warming?

topics: Religion, Abortion, Global Warming, Constitution, Law, NATO

Reader Mail

Upside Down Under

5.23.07 @ 12:01AM

Labor frees markets? Howard = Bush? Also: Inflammable taxes. Obama. Jimmy. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Education, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Islam, Environment, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Energy, Oil

Buy the Book

Health Care's Godmother

David Hogberg | 5.22.07 @ 12:09AM

Harvard professor Regina Herzlinger's diagnosis is second to none.

topics: Health Care, Business, Law, Medicare

Special Report

Religious Persecution's Global Reach

Doug Bandow | 5.22.07 @ 12:08AM

Is the U.S. doing as much as it could to expose it? And what about the rest of us?

topics: Taxes, Religion, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea

The Public Policy

Big Oil Outslicked

Eric Peters | 5.22.07 @ 12:07AM

Why is Big Government never blamed for rising gasoline prices?

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Business, Oil

Political Hay

A Government of Idiots?

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 5.22.07 @ 12:07AM

A close U.S. ally prepares to return its amalgam of Jimmy Carter and Hugo Chavez to power.

topics: Trade, Economics, Business, Religion, Environment, Law, Iraq, Communism, Unions

Another Perspective

Getting Crazier by the Week

Ralph R. Reiland | 5.22.07 @ 12:07AM

Oscar Levant never had it so rough. But then he never ran for president.

topics: John McCain, Iraq, Iran

TAS Live

Adult Approaches

Michael Fumento | 5.22.07 @ 12:06AM

Will embryonic stem cell promise ever pay off?

Reader Mail

Desperate Decisions

5.22.07 @ 12:01AM

Obama out-teaches madrassas. Also: There he goes being Jimmy Carter again. Backroom immigration. Who's a Mennonite? Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Television, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Iraq, Iran, NATO, North Korea, Conservatism, Immigration, Energy, Oil

Campaign Crawlers

Obama in the Granite State

Philip Klein | 5.21.07 @ 2:24AM

The junior senator from Illinois wants to replace the War on Terror with a War on Cynicism. And it just might get him elected president.

topics: Foreign Policy, Education, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Environment, Global Warming, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO

Special Report

I'm Jimmy Carter, and I Can't Help Myself

Paul Beston | 5.21.07 @ 2:22AM

It's hard to keep your mouth shut when you have all the answers.

topics: Bill Clinton, Law, Iraq, Africa, Communism

Political Hay

The Great Immigration Ruse

Jeff Emanuel | 5.21.07 @ 12:08AM

A case of misplaced priorities and mistaken judgment -- if not outright cynicism.

topics: John McCain, Harry Reid, Television, Law, Military, NATO, Immigration

The Nation's Pulse

Business Needs a Backbone

John Weber | 5.21.07 @ 12:07AM

The Human Rights Watch should not have the last word on Wal-Mart's labor practices.

topics: Business, Environment, Law, Unions

Another Perspective

Spent Republicanism

Windsor Mann | 5.21.07 @ 12:07AM

GOP candidates need to stop invoking a budgetary past that never was.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Economics, Business, Federal Budget, Entitlements, Law, Military, NATO

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Caricature of America

Angelo M. Codevilla | 5.21.07 @ 12:04AM

Robert Kagan joins the ranks of revisionist historians.

Reader Mail

Extracurricular Politics

5.21.07 @ 12:01AM

Scarier than Falwell. The new immigration wars. McCain-Feingold redux. Rudy redone. Resisting the Hillyer Doctrine. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Education, Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Economics, Social Security, Religion, Abortion, Books, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, Iraq, Iran, Israel, NATO, Africa, Socialism, Conservatism, Immigration