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Friday, August 8, 2008

Washington Prowler

Reaching Out to Cheney

The Prowler | 8.8.08

The McCain campaign is having second thoughts.

Another Perspective

No Nonsense Novak

Sean Higgins | 8.8.08

He accumulated enemies like barnacles on a battleship.

Campaign Crawlers

After Allard

David Mark | 8.8.08

Will Senate candidate Bob Schaffer be crushed by a Boulder liberal?

Special Report

Stolen Oil

Shawn Macomber | 8.8.08

Hugo Chavez and Joe Kennedy deserve each other. But impoverished Venezuelans deserve better.

Media Matters

No Otis Chandler

George Neumayr | 8.8.08

The warfare between staffers at the Los Angeles Times and its publisher, Sam Zell.

The Nation’s Pulse

My Glorious Career

Lawrence Henry | 8.8.08

It’s a mystery why things turn out the way the do.

Sports Arena

The King Returns….and Departs

Jonathon M. Seidl | 8.8.08

Like Brett Favre, Green Bay fans face a similar situation.

Reader Mail

Where’s the Love?

8.8.08

Bush wants to know. Stein-Hilton, round two, big time. RET vs. IOC. Roush respondents. Plus more.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Current Crisis

My Olympic Boycott

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.7.08

It’s a couple of decades old, and remains in effect.

Buy the Book

Change That’s Unbelievable

Joseph Lawler | 8.7.08

David Freddoso’s book on Barack Obama may be the one we’ve been waiting for.

Political Hay

Bush Hatred: The Sequel

Mark Goldblatt | 8.7.08

Once more around, all because he reacted to 9/11.

The Nation’s Pulse

Honey Queens and Government Crooks

Ralph R. Reiland | 8.7.08

Capitalism fails once again to attract the best and the brightest.

Another Perspective

The Audacity of Wishful Thinking

Richard Kirk | 8.7.08

An energy package we can believe in.

The Public Policy

Regulatory Competition Is the Solution

Lawrence A. Hunter | 8.7.08

Unfortunately, the Bush administration thinks it’s the problem.

Reader Mail

That’s Hot

8.7.08

Politics gets celebritized. Bayh the way. Playing the odds. Plus more.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Special Report

Porn Star for Obama

Ben Stein | 8.6.08

Paris Hilton shouldn’t be telling anyone how to vote.

Eminentoes

Bayh, Bayh, Miss American Pie?

Jeremy Lott | 8.6.08

They don’t come more boringly moderate than Indiana’s junior senator.

Campaign Crawlers

Is Obama’s Victory a Statistical Certainty?

Robert Stacy McCain | 8.6.08

Polls are not predictions, and elections aren’t baseball.

Buy the Book

Healing Health Care

Shawn Macomber | 8.6.08

Free-market health care reform hero Dan Perrin discusses his new book, America’s Health Care Crisis Solved.

Special Report

Understanding American Politics

Peter Ferrara | 8.6.08

Nobody does so more perceptively and creatively than Grover Norquist.

Political Hay

Birds of a Feather

Lisa Fabrizio | 8.6.08

When it comes to confronting the nation’s energy crisis, Barack Obama suffers from Jimmy Carter Malaise.

Another Perspective

Not Mollified by Ivins

Jay D. Homnick | 8.6.08

The FBI always gets its fruitcake.

Reader Mail

School’s Out

8.6.08

Outsourced, that is. Also: Deliverance from the meatheads. Solzhenitsyn’s warning. Side-saddling with McCain. Sock hopping. Plus much more.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

In Memoriam

Peter Rodman, RIP

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.5.08

He was a major figure in the defense of American freedom.

Streetcar Line

The West Should Heed Solzhenitsyn

Quin Hillyer | 8.5.08

Thirty years before Phil Gramm complained that we have become a nation of whiners, Solzhenitsyn said much the same thing.

Political Hay

Sen. Chris Matthews (D-Pa.)

Jeffrey Lord | 8.5.08

Will it come to pass?

The Nation’s Pulse

Trade School

RiShawn Biddle | 8.5.08

Anti-traders should focus on the real reason many Americans are left behind by globalization — substandard schooling.

Among the Intellectualoids

False Messiah

Christopher Orlet | 8.5.08

Obama supporters prophesy a golden age of peace and love.

Another Perspective

The McCain Candidacy

Bruce Herschensohn | 8.5.08

A prominent California conservative rallies to the man he says was born to be commander in chief.

Reader Mail

Card Shark

8.5.08

Election poker. Right Wing conspirator. Deaf ears in Indiana. Plus more.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Campaign Crawlers

A Majority Delayed

W. James Antle, III | 8.4.08

Behind the scenes, Tom DeLay is still trying to return the Republicans to power.

Washington Prowler

In and Out of Action

The Prowler | 8.4.08

McCain disengages Cheney. Cantor cries veep. Conservatives trade shots over China.

Special Report

Leveraging Fannie and Freddie

Carl F. Horowitz | 8.4.08

How the left concocted an “affordable housing” disaster — and has just been rewarded for its dirty work.

Political Hay

Youth Against “Hope”

Robert Stacy McCain | 8.4.08

Keeping Reagan’s legacy alive in the Obama age.

The Nation’s Pulse

Northern Indiana’s ANWR Blackout

Mark Hyman | 8.4.08

Media bias shuts down energy debate in the RV Capital of the World.

Eminentoes

Playing the Race Weapon

Brett Joshpe | 8.4.08

Even before last week’s events, the rapper Nas, an Obama supporter, showed how it’s done.

Reader Mail

Shatner Shattered

8.4.08

Violating the Prime Directive. Out of Afghanistan. No Hall of Fame for Favre? Plus more.

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The Spectacle Blog

Anthony Weiner’s Campaign Video

Patrick Ryan | 1:33PM

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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