The American Spectator

Special Report

The Woman Behind "An American Carol"

Anita Crane | 10.3.08 @ 12:08AM

Myrna Sokoloff was once a Democrat. Her funny new movie opens today.

topics: Education, Health Care, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Satire, Religion, Abortion, Hollywood, Constitution, Military, Iraq, NATO

Campaign Crawlers

The Barracuda Bites Back

J. Peter Freire | 10.3.08 @ 12:08AM

In last night's debate, Sarah Palin gives the best interview of her career.

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Business, Law, Supreme Court, Iraq, NATO, Alaska

Another Perspective

Both Sides of the Financial Crisis

Lawrence Henry | 10.3.08 @ 12:07AM

We know about the part played by Fannie-Freddie in its origins. But what about the role of global economic growth and corresponding growth in money supply and demand for new forms of investment?

topics: Law

The Nation's Pulse

Chump Change

Roger Kaplan | 10.3.08 @ 12:07AM

Yes, voters are thirsting for change -- from change.

topics: Education, Business, Religion, Constitution, Law, NATO, Africa

Political Hay

The Campaign in a Word

Christopher Orlet | 10.3.08 @ 12:07AM

Is it better for a president to be old or inexperienced?

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Iran, NATO

At Large

Don't Tread on Me

George H. Wittman | 10.3.08 @ 12:07AM

Europe presumes it is has a voice in this year's presidential election.

topics: Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Military, Iraq, United Nations, Africa

Among the Intellectualoids

Palin Gets Last Laugh at Joke Line

Jay D. Homnick | 10.3.08 @ 12:06AM

As for Joe Klein's pre-debate performance....

topics: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Abortion, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court

Reader Mail

No Questions Asked

10.3.08 @ 12:01AM

Scamming along the campaign trail. Bailout trumps Constitution -- and the Bible. Alaska: Flyover country? Roush: Why can't we be friends? Thatcher "middle class"? Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Hank Paulson, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Television, Economics, Business, Religion, Constitution, Law, Military, Russia, NATO, Africa, Socialism, Communism, Conservatism, Energy, Alaska, Oil

Washington Prowler

Obama's Fishy $200 Million

The Prowler | 10.2.08 @ 12:08AM

Who will investigate before Election Day? Also: Barney and Fannie.

topics: Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton

Streetcar Line

Maddening for Madisonians

Quin Hillyer | 10.2.08 @ 12:08AM

Threats to the civic order, including the Senate's effort to play mob boss.

topics: Constitution, Law

Another Perspective

Alaskan Foreign Policy

James P. Lucier | 10.2.08 @ 12:08AM

Something to remember tonight: Sarah Palin, like any Alaska governor, is certainly more cosmopolitan in world outlook than her insular colleagues in the lower 48.

topics: Foreign Policy, Trade, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Television, Law, Military, Russia, United Nations, NATO, Energy, Alaska, Oil

The Current Crisis

Championing Obama

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.2.08 @ 12:08AM

The rookie has no experience, but his wacky fans think he's been MVP for more than a decade.

topics: John McCain, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Television, Sports, NATO, Alaska, Oil

Special Report

Obama's Gift to America

Matt Bowman | 10.2.08 @ 12:08AM

125,000 new abortions each year.

topics: Barack Obama, Medicaid, Abortion, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

The Nation's Pulse

The Bible vs. the Bailout

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.2.08 @ 12:07AM

What part of "Thou shalt not steal" don't they understand?

topics: Health Care, John McCain, Barack Obama, Social Security, Law, NATO, Medicare

Reader Mail

Opportunity Knocks

10.2.08 @ 12:01AM

If only McCain knew. Democrat readers cry foul. Will common sense ever come back? Mother Nature lives cute in Quito. Keeping up with Diane. Plus more.

topics: Trade, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Business, Environment, Constitution, Law, Military, NATO, Conservatism, Energy, Oil

Presswatch

Edwards Lied, People... Were Born?

James Taranto | October 2008

Ben Stein's Diary

Heroic Blackhawks

Ben Stein | October 2008

Books in Review

Taking Brundage

Alan B. Somers | October 2008

The Pursuit of Knowledge

Saving the City

Roger Scruton | October 2008

Feature

Suffer the (Political) Children

Shawn Macomber | October 2008

Books in Review

The Man Whisperers

Shawn Macomber | 10.1.08 @ 2:19PM

The Campaign Spectator

Obama's New Deal

Philip Klein | 10.1.08 @ 2:16PM

Books in Review

An American from Cambodia

Sheldon Kelly | October 2008

Books in Review

Monument to the Age of Faith

Joseph A. Harriss | October 2008

Last Call

Disorientation

J. Peter Freire | 10.1.08 @ 2:09PM

Politics

Change to Nowhere

John H. Fund | October 2008

Conservative Tastes

Saying Something Stupid

James Bowman | October 2008

Capitol Ideas

Has Oil Peaked? Maybe Not

Tom Bethell | October 2008

Feature

Between a Rock and a Sinatra

Paul Beston | October 2008

The Hell-Hole Spectator

Holding the Line on Iran

Ilan Berman | October 2008

Templeton Essay

Freedom and the City

Brian C. Anderson | October 2008

High Spirits

A Serious Encounter

Jonathan Aitken | October 2008

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | October 2008

Public Nuisances

Public Nuisances

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | October 2008

A Surge of Confidence. The Mainstream Moron Media.

On the Prowl

On the Prowl

The Prowler | October 2008

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

Assorted Jackasses | October 2008

The Nation's Pulse

Neither a Borrower Nor Lender Be

George Neumayr | 10.1.08 @ 12:08AM

Frivolous, demagogic liberalism catches up with America.

topics: Education, Nancy Pelosi, Business, Environment, Global Warming, Conservatism, Energy, Oil

Political Hay

In Defense of the House Republicans

James Bowman | 10.1.08 @ 12:08AM

Nancy Pelosi had her chance, but she blew it.

topics: Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Books, Iraq

The Public Policy

A New Opportunity for McCain

Peter Ferrara | 10.1.08 @ 12:08AM

How to get America booming again.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Books, NATO, Energy

At Large

Nature as a Privileged Minority

Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz | 10.1.08 @ 12:07AM

Not only has Ecuador just voted to go the way of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, it has also granted the environment juridical personhood.

topics: Education, Social Security, Abortion, Environment, Constitution, Law, Africa, Oil, Unions

Special Report

The Class of 1939

Lisa Fabrizio | 10.1.08 @ 12:07AM

Old Hollywood peaked that year, giving us everything from Gunga Din to Gone With the Wind to Stagecoach to The Women -- which is why you'll want to miss the new remake of the last.

topics: Hollywood, Movies, Military, Russia, Oil

Another Perspective

October Surprise

Jeremy Lott | 10.1.08 @ 12:07AM

On turning thirty, one remembers what it was like to be five.

topics: Trade

Reader Mail

Not So Fast

10.1.08 @ 12:01AM

Walk at your own chosen speed. Nero was a Republican. Chicken Little tactics. Media maniacs. No longer a republic. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Transportation, Trade, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Business, Social Security, Medicaid, Religion, Constitution, Law, Socialism, Immigration, Energy, Alaska, Medicare

Washington Prowler

Democrat Leaders Played to Lose

The Prowler | 9.30.08 @ 12:50AM

Not just Speaker Pelosi but Rahm Emanuel obtain the desired result in yesterday's House vote.

topics: Nancy Pelosi

The Public Policy

Libertarian Populism

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.30.08 @ 12:08AM

A free-market message in the bailout vote.

topics: Bill Clinton, Global Warming, Conservatism

Special Report

Paradigms Lost

Jeffrey Lord | 9.30.08 @ 12:08AM

What did Katie Couric know, who investigates Chris Dodd, and why keep the New Deal?

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, Education, Health Care, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mainstream Media, Television, Business, Constitution, Law, Military, Russia, United Nations, NATO, Alaska, Oil, Unions

Political Hay

Quibbling Over Principle

Jeremy Lott | 9.30.08 @ 12:08AM

In voting down the bailout package, Republicans try to regain some of their lost virtue.

topics: Hank Paulson, Business, NATO

Another Perspective

Scaling the Heights

Jay D. Homnick | 9.30.08 @ 12:07AM

Rosh Hashanah arrives just in time, a nuanced blend of jubilation and trepidation.

topics: Iran, Israel, Oil

The Nation's Pulse

Accelerate Yourself

Russ Ferguson | 9.30.08 @ 12:07AM

Americans need to learn to walk faster.

topics: Business, Movies

At Large

Trouble in Paradise

Joseph Lawler | 9.30.08 @ 12:06AM

Hawaii is on its way to become less than the 50th state we thought it was.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Economics, Constitution, Law, Supreme Court, NATO

Reader Mail

Greenlight Special

9.30.08 @ 12:01AM

Government, brokers dig in. The do-nothing Congress. Sticks and stones. Thanks, Peter Ferrara. McCain update. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hank Paulson, Business, Environment, Law, Military, Iraq, Iran, NATO, Immigration, Energy, Oil

Special Report

Doing Something?

John Berlau | 9.29.08 @ 12:09AM

How $700 billion could make it worse.

topics: Hank Paulson, Books, Law, Oil

Washington Prowler

Room Service

The Prowler | 9.29.08 @ 12:08AM

Secretary Paulson's Democrat guests. Also: Obama's "John."

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, NATO

Political Hay

If It Quacks Like a Canard

Peter Hannaford | 9.29.08 @ 12:08AM

Do not compare Reagan and Ford in 1976 to Clinton and Obama in 2008.

topics: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Television

Special Report

Financial Affirmative Action

Matthew Vadum | 9.29.08 @ 12:08AM

How leftist groups got us into the credit mess.

topics: Taxes, Business, Law, Africa

Special Report

The Hero of Trafalgar at 250

Daniel Mandel | 9.29.08 @ 12:07AM

Horatio Nelson's great victory resonates to this day.

topics: Trade, Islam, Books, Iraq, United Nations, NATO

At Large

Diplomatic Disturbance

S.E. Cupp | 9.29.08 @ 12:07AM

America learned early on that diplomacy does not always work.

topics: Taxes, Trade, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Islam, Iraq, Iran, Africa

Reader Mail

Snooty Katie

9.29.08 @ 12:01AM

Couric oversteps her bounds. Fannie and Freddie's friends. Penny antics. A prodigal's return. Plus more.

topics: Taxes, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Television, Economics, Federal Budget, Social Security, Sports, Law, Iraq, NATO, Alaska, Medicare