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Friday, February 22, 2008

Streetcar Line

The False and the Absurd

Quin Hillyer | 2.22.08

60 Minutes's coming attempt to nail Karl Rove in a scandal is a sham.

Washington Prowler

Thinly Sourced

The Prowler | 2.22.08

To paraphrase Bill Keller, the N.Y. Times's hit job on John McCain bespeaks a lack of sources.

Campaign Crawlers

See Ron Run

W. James Antle, III | 2.22.08

Is Ron Paul's revolution about to be quelled in his own congressional district?

Another Perspective

What a Disappointment

Lawrence Henry | 2.22.08

Is the Republican moment over? It's looking that way.

The Nation’s Pulse

Serfdom by a Thousand Cuts

Christopher Orlet | 2.22.08

We may complain endlessly about them but, in a democracy, we get the laws we deserve.

Among the Intellectualoids

Bull in Durham

Patrick O'Hannigan | 2.22.08

N.T. Wright's defense of Rowan Williams is daffy.

Eminentoes

A Shining City Without the “Hill”

Jay D. Homnick | 2.22.08

Imagining the end to a career distinguished by its corruption.

Reader Mail

Both Barrels

2.22.08

From gun nuts and gun grabbers. No rally for McCain. Empty Obama. Dangerous drag races. Plus more.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Campaign Crawlers

The Sources of Our Discontent

J.P. Freire | 2.21.08

The New York Times gets something right about John McCain.

Special Report

NIU Nightmare

Robert VerBruggen | 2.21.08

Its lessons are unavailing, but that didn't stop the Brady Campaign president from saying something truly stupid.

The Current Crisis

Rock Star Clinton Takes a Nosedive

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.21.08

It looks like the band is breaking up.

Political Hay

If It Feels Good, Say It

George Neumayr | 2.21.08

Obama's “fierce urgency of now” drivel is music to a self-indulgent age.

Streetcar Line

Veep, Veep!

Quin Hillyer | 2.21.08

A traffic jam of options.

Among the Intellectualoids

Fidelistas Forever

Andrew Cline | 2.21.08

What's a few dead bodies if we get universal health care?

The Nation’s Pulse

What a Drag

Michael Brendan Dougherty | 2.21.08

On that stretch of Highway 210 Saturday morning, nobody expected the Crown Vic.

Reader Mail

Dropping an Obama

2.21.08

Not First Lady material. Libertarian driving instructors. Scolding Ben Stein. Plus more.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Campaign Crawlers

Michelle, My Belle…

Philip Klein | 2.20.08

What a slip of the tongue tells us about the Obama campaign.

Special Report

Florida’s Darwinian Interlude

Ben Stein | 2.20.08

No other suppositions about our origins would have been allowed.

Political Hay

The Cox Report

Lisa Fabrizio | 2.20.08

It's not often that people look to the SEC for vice presidential material.

The Nation’s Pulse

Don’t Want to Buckle-Up for Safety?

Eric Peters | 2.20.08

Call Dr. Bob.

The Public Policy

Unfree to Choose

Jeff Emanuel | 2.20.08

Candidate Clinton favors employing wage theft to enforce a “universal, voluntary” health care program.

At Large

Rudd Awakening

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 2.20.08

Australia's new government has only just started the spin cycle.

Reader Mail

Why Not Goldwater?

2.20.08

In your heart… Bob Lott? Why not? Bioduels. Angry C-SPAN viewers. Plus more.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Political Hay

Why Not Victory?

Jeffrey Lord | 2.19.08

Moderation, seven-time losers, and National Review's call for a truce with McCainiacs.

The Nation’s Pulse

Bob Lott for President

Jeremy Lott | 2.19.08

The second coming of Chester Alan Arthur.

Another Perspective

Helping Hillary

Jennifer Rubin | 2.19.08

Some unfriendly advice.

Special Report

The Best Since De Gaulle

Roger Kaplan | 2.19.08

For proposing French schoolchildren study the Holocaust, President Nicolas Sarkozy is being assailed as a child molester.

Campaign Crawlers

Inspired, But Not Inspirational

J.P. Freire | 2.19.08

Barack Obama's greatest asset, and his greatest defect, is his ability to speak.

TAS Live

No Intelligence Allowed!

Tom Bethell | 2.19.08

Welcome to a private screening of Expelled, starring Ben Stein and a host of expellees, insurgents, and atheists.

Eminentoes

Stand By Your Woman

Andrew Cline | 2.19.08

Bill Clinton says Hillary will be history's second-best president.

Reader Mail

Conservatives Against Corn

2.19.08

Biofuel biofoolishness. Occam sock 'em. Welcome back, Diane Smith. Jilting Joseph Smith. What about Arnold? Plus more.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Buy the Book

Treasures From the Attic

Thomas J. Craughwell | 2.18.08

For Presidents' Day, the final word on the “insanity episode” of Mary Todd Lincoln.

At Large

Icon-in-Chief

George H. Wittman | 2.18.08

Vladimir Putin's place in History.

Eminentoes

Brilliant Blunderer

Mark Tooley | 2.18.08

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has a mercifully few words of advice for his successor.

Another Perspective

Where Corn Counts

R. Andrew Newman | 2.18.08

Why are Movement Conservatives increasingly tone deaf about where GOP voters come from?

The Public Policy

Peso Problemas

Juan Carlos Hidalgo | 2.18.08

Latin America's mercantilist policies are causing dangerously high inflation.

Reader Mail

Roger That

2.18.08

Pumped up readers. Trillions served. More on Mormons. Stop breathing for Lent. Plus much more.

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The Spectacle Blog

Immigration Bill Clears Key Committee

Jordan Gonzalez | 11:56AM

Nixonian

Yogi Love | 11:54AM

Moore, OK by Steve Breen

Patrick Ryan | 11:50AM

He’s Just Not That Into You

Ross Kaminsky | 11:34AM

Issa’s Mistake

Ross Kaminsky | 11:11AM

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