The American Spectator

The Nation's Pulse

The Picture

Lawrence Henry | 9.12.08 @ 12:08AM

The miracle of close friendship, finally captured in a group photo.

Special Report

Meet the Obama Pro-Lifers

Matt Bowman | 9.12.08 @ 12:08AM

They are spearheading the effort to tell pro-life voters that Obama will reduce abortion.

topics: Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Earmarks, Abortion, Law, NATO

Campus Scenes

Lower Education Blues

J.T. Young | 9.12.08 @ 12:07AM

Because they compete for students, America's colleges do fine in global comparisons. Not so our elementary schools, which tolerate no competition.

topics: Education

Political Hay

Barack's Failed Euronomics

Ralph R. Reiland | 9.12.08 @ 12:07AM

The effects of his policies are already evident in Europe's falling economic numbers.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Israel, Energy, Oil

At Large

Liechtenstein Lifts Its Skirts

George H. Wittman | 9.12.08 @ 12:07AM

A tax haven for the very rich announces it's "ready to adopt European standards."

topics: Taxes, Law, Russia

The Public Policy

Coming Home to This?

Matthew Bishop | 9.12.08 @ 12:06AM

Improved living conditions for America's fighting men and women will keep them in uniform.

topics: Military, Iraq

Reader Mail

Credit Where It's Due

9.12.08 @ 12:01AM

Seven safe years. Loving the sinner. Booming economist Tyrrell. Klein's warning holds up. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Business, Islam, Abortion, Hollywood, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, NATO, Africa, Alaska, Oil

Streetcar Line

The Terrorists Are Losing

Quin Hillyer | 9.11.08 @ 12:08AM

Bush responded well to 9/11.

topics: Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, Oil

Political Hay

Up from Murphy Brown

W. James Antle, III | 9.11.08 @ 12:08AM

With social conservatives defending a working woman and a teen mother as liberals condemn both, Sarah Palin turns the culture wars on their head.

topics: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Abortion, Hollywood, Conservatism

The Current Crisis

The Economy Is Sound

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.11.08 @ 12:08AM

Republicans should not be afraid to say so, particularly since Democrats haven't a clue as to how to improve it.

topics: John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Economics, NATO, Socialism, Alaska, Oil

Among the Intellectualoids

Sarah's God and Guns

George Neumayr | 9.11.08 @ 12:08AM

The Obama elite probes Palin's religion.

topics: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Religion, Abortion, Military, Alaska

Special Report

India and Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | 9.11.08 @ 12:07AM

A rising power not yet ready for global leadership.

topics: Religion, Environment, Constitution, Law, Military, Nuclear Weapons

Another Perspective

If Only Sam Kinison Met Barack Obama

Mark Hyman | 9.11.08 @ 12:07AM

Charity begins at home -- and in this case stops at our nation's shores.

topics: Barack Obama, NATO, Africa

Reader Mail

Palin on a Pedestal

9.11.08 @ 12:01AM

Some will count to ten become succumbing. Kansas loves you. Perfection can wait. The goosegirl. Roush takes leave. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Television, Abortion, Environment, Hollywood, Constitution, Law, Military, Iraq, Russia, NATO, Immigration, Energy, Alaska, Oil

Another Perspective

Don't Obamaize Palin

Philip Klein | 9.10.08 @ 12:41AM

Conservatives shouldn't fall victim to the celebrity culture by prematurely idealizing the Alaskan governor.

topics: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Entitlements, Books, Founding Fathers, NATO, Conservatism, Alaska, Medicare

Campaign Crawlers

Sweetheart of the Heartland

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.10.08 @ 12:08AM

Sarah Palin loves small-town America, and vice-versa.

topics: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Alaska

Special Report

The Supreme Court in the Balance

Peter Ferrara | 9.10.08 @ 12:08AM

The stark differences in the two presidential candidates will nowhere be felt more than in who the winner gets to appoint to the nation's courts.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, Africa, Socialism

Political Hay

America's Imperfect Servant

Lisa Fabrizio | 9.10.08 @ 12:07AM

Discovering what makes John McCain dramatically different.

topics: John McCain, Sarah Palin

The Public Policy

A Summer Job for Every Kid

Windsor Mann | 9.10.08 @ 12:07AM

Thousands of D.C. teens have just been laid off. Thank goodness.

topics: Business

Buy the Book

Textbook Perfect

Mark Coppenger | 9.10.08 @ 12:06AM

Students will love Herbert London's succinct new book, America's Secular Challenge.

topics: Economics, Religion, Books, Hollywood

Reader Mail

Silly Sally

9.10.08 @ 12:01AM

Would you like to be Quinn for a day? European airs. Throw out the playbook. General Admiral McCain. Signing off. Plus more.

topics: Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Mainstream Media, Islam, Environment, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Alaska, Oil

Eminentoes

Who Is Sally Quinn?

Jeffrey Lord | 9.9.08 @ 12:08AM

As Dracula fears a cross, so a liberal media doyenne is terrified by Sarah Palin.

topics: Trade, Sarah Palin, Television, Business, Law, Alaska

Special Report

Muslims Attack Jews in Paris (Again)

Roger Kaplan | 9.9.08 @ 12:08AM

It's the sort of thing that happens in France.

topics: Islam, Law, Israel, NATO, Africa

Buy the Book

Welcome to the (Media) Madhouse

Shawn Macomber | 9.9.08 @ 12:08AM

James Bowman, chronicler of the post-honor society, takes aim at the mass media.

topics: Foreign Policy, Health Care, John McCain, Business, Religion, Environment, Global Warming, Books, Iraq

Campaign Crawlers

The New Playbook

Patrick O'Hannigan | 9.9.08 @ 12:07AM

Democrats are running out of arguments to use against Sarah Palin.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Abortion, Books, Law, NATO, Energy, Alaska

Political Hay

Pumped and Primed

Joseph Lawler | 9.9.08 @ 12:07AM

Republicans resume their drill on Capitol Hill.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Environment, Energy, Oil

TAS Live

Geneva in Orlando

Jonathan Aitken | 9.9.08 @ 12:06AM

A network of over 200 classical and Christian schools is flourishing in communities across the United States.

topics: Education, Law

Reader Mail

Signed, Nobody

9.9.08 @ 12:01AM

Free speech, no responsibility. McCain's chess pieces. Sister Sarah's health care: an exchange. Freddie hearts Obama. Plus more.

topics: Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Business, Satire, Islam, Law, Iran, Pakistan, NATO, Alaska, Oil

Washington Prowler

Fanny, Freddie, and Obama

The Prowler | 9.8.08 @ 12:08AM

They go way back.

Another Perspective

Cold, Calculating McCain

Jeremy Lott | 9.8.08 @ 12:08AM

His handling of the vice presidential rollout demonstrated a finely tuned strategic sense.

topics: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Alaska, Oil

Political Hay

The Miracle Worker

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.8.08 @ 12:08AM

Sarah Palin lights the Republican fire.

topics: Foreign Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Alaska

Media Matters

False Free Speech

Peter Hannaford | 9.8.08 @ 12:08AM

Should the First Amendment protect the cowardice of slanderers who hide behind anonymity on the Internet?

topics: Law, NATO

At Large

Sub-Prime Minister

Jay D. Homnick | 9.8.08 @ 12:07AM

Reflections on the fall of Ehud Olmert.

topics: Sarah Palin, Business, Israel

The Public Policy

That '70s Showoff

Robert M. Goldberg | 9.8.08 @ 12:07AM

Barack Obama even likes the notion of price controls.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Barack Obama, Iran, Oil

Movie Takes

"Tell No One"

James Bowman | 9.8.08 @ 12:02AM

But unlike Hollywood directors, who for all intents have abandoned story-telling, Guillaume Canet goes to wonderful length to tell us everything.

topics: Books, Hollywood, Movies, Law

Reader Mail

Post-Conventional Wisdom

9.8.08 @ 12:01AM

John McCain's greatest hit -- or miss? Speaking of Sarah Palin. Ethiopian American. Roushed up. Plus much more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Television, Business, Religion, Abortion, Environment, Global Warming, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, NATO, Energy, Alaska, Oil