The American Spectator

Streetcar Line

The False and the Absurd

Quin Hillyer | 2.22.08 @ 11:59PM

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

topics: John McCain, Business, Law, Supreme Court

Washington Prowler

Thinly Sourced

The Prowler | 2.22.08 @ 12:09AM

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

topics: NATO

Campaign Crawlers

See Ron Run

W. James Antle, III | 2.22.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: John McCain, Business, Constitution

Another Perspective

What a Disappointment

Lawrence Henry | 2.22.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: Trade, John McCain, Founding Fathers

The Nation's Pulse

Serfdom by a Thousand Cuts

Christopher Orlet | 2.22.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: Law

Among the Intellectualoids

Bull in Durham

Patrick O'Hannigan | 2.22.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Islam, Law, Africa

Eminentoes

A Shining City Without the "Hill"

Jay D. Homnick | 2.22.08 @ 12:07AM

Imagining the end to a career distinguished by its corruption.

topics: Education, Books, Constitution, Law, NATO

Reader Mail

Both Barrels

2.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Taxes, Education, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Business, Federal Budget, Entitlements, Social Security, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Israel, NATO, Communism, Medicare

Campaign Crawlers

The Sources of Our Discontent

J. Peter Freire | 2.21.08 @ 1:01AM

The New York Times gets something right about John McCain.

topics: John McCain, Business, NATO

Special Report

NIU Nightmare

Robert VerBruggen | 2.21.08 @ 12:09AM

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

topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Law, Supreme Court

The Current Crisis

Rock Star Clinton Takes a Nosedive

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 2.21.08 @ 12:08AM

It looks like the band is breaking up.

topics: Barack Obama, Television, NATO

Political Hay

If It Feels Good, Say It

George Neumayr | 2.21.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Barack Obama, NATO, Conservatism

Streetcar Line

Veep, Veep!

Quin Hillyer | 2.21.08 @ 12:07AM

A traffic jam of options.

topics: John McCain, Sarah Palin, NATO, Alaska

Among the Intellectualoids

Fidelistas Forever

Andrew Cline | 2.21.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Education, Health Care, Business, Iran, Russia, Africa, Socialism

The Nation's Pulse

What a Drag

Michael Brendan Dougherty | 2.21.08 @ 12:05AM

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

topics: Hollywood, Law

Reader Mail

Dropping an Obama

2.21.08 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Barack Obama, Economics, Medicaid, Religion, Environment, Books, Law, Military, NATO, Socialism, Conservatism, Energy, Oil, Medicare

Campaign Crawlers

Michelle, My Belle...

Philip Klein | 2.20.08 @ 12:09AM

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

topics: Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Law

Special Report

Florida's Darwinian Interlude

Ben Stein | 2.20.08 @ 12:08AM

No other suppositions about our origins would have been allowed.

topics: Constitution, Law, Energy

Political Hay

The Cox Report

Lisa Fabrizio | 2.20.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Abortion, Global Warming, Military, Russia, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Don't Want to Buckle-Up for Safety?

Eric Peters | 2.20.08 @ 12:07AM

Call Dr. Bob.

topics: Business, Books, Law

The Public Policy

Unfree to Choose

Jeff Emanuel | 2.20.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Law, NATO

At Large

Rudd Awakening

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 2.20.08 @ 12:06AM

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

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Environment, Law, Iraq, Israel, Socialism, Fascism, Unions

Reader Mail

Why Not Goldwater?

2.20.08 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Taxes, Education, Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Television, Business, Earmarks, Sports, Religion, Abortion, Environment, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, NATO, Conservatism, Immigration, Energy, Oil

Political Hay

Why Not Victory?

Jeffrey Lord | 2.19.08 @ 12:09AM

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

topics: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Social Security, Abortion, Law, NATO, Conservatism, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Bob Lott for President

Jeremy Lott | 2.19.08 @ 12:09AM

The second coming of Chester Alan Arthur.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Economics, Business, Entitlements, NATO

Another Perspective

Helping Hillary

Jennifer Rubin | 2.19.08 @ 12:08AM

Some unfriendly advice.

topics: Foreign Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Israel, NATO

Special Report

The Best Since De Gaulle

Roger Kaplan | 2.19.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: Education, Religion, Military, Israel

Campaign Crawlers

Inspired, But Not Inspirational

J. Peter Freire | 2.19.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

TAS Live

No Intelligence Allowed!

Tom Bethell | 2.19.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Business, Religion, Conservatism

Eminentoes

Stand By Your Woman

Andrew Cline | 2.19.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Health Care, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Global Warming

Reader Mail

Conservatives Against Corn

2.19.08 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Taxes, Trade, John McCain, Business, Federal Budget, Social Security, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Russia, NATO, Africa, Conservatism, Immigration, Energy, Oil

Buy the Book

Treasures From the Attic

Thomas J. Craughwell | 2.18.08 @ 12:08AM

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 @ 12:08AM

Vladimir Putin's place in History.

topics: Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, Islam, Military, Iraq, Russia, European Union, NATO, Energy, Oil

Eminentoes

Brilliant Blunderer

Mark Tooley | 2.18.08 @ 12:08AM

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

topics: Islam, Law, NATO, Africa

Another Perspective

Where Corn Counts

R. Andrew Newman | 2.18.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Mainstream Media, Economics, Environment, Law, Conservatism

The Public Policy

Peso Problemas

Juan Carlos Hidalgo | 2.18.08 @ 12:07AM

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

topics: Trade, NATO, Oil

Reader Mail

Roger That

2.18.08 @ 12:01AM

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

topics: Taxes, Health Care, Bill Clinton, Television, Business, Entitlements, Social Security, Sports, Religion, Islam, Global Warming, Books, Hollywood, Movies, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Military, NATO, Africa, Immigration, Energy