The Public Policy
Intolerance for Imperfection
Daniel Allott | 10.10.08
The cultural prejudice against children with developmental disabilities is being seriously challenged.
If Republicans aren’t careful, they could be looking at a very blue Senate next year.
ACORN accused of “flooding” state election boards with phony registrations.
No one knows that better than the nervous Obama and his fellow dissemblers.
The United States is not immune from history’s slings and arrows.
The cultural prejudice against children with developmental disabilities is being seriously challenged.
Two days ago, I threw away my Percocets.
Conservatives should see this as a welcome development, and not only because Obama feels threatened by it.
Listen to the pride of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Barack Obama remains extremely vulnerable on a battleground where John McCain should be routing him.
The radical influences on Obama can’t be dismissed.
Legal minds know better than anyone what clamping down on Wall Street will mean.
There’s a long list of sins to admit to on this Yom Kippur.
A very good perspective on the current meltdown — though watch your back.
He was saved last night only because Barack Obama was just as mediocre. Does he have any fight left?
Under Democratic rule, today’s troubles will seem like the good old days, predict the authors of The End of Prosperity.
Obama’s supporters sharpen their police state tactics.
Under an Obama presidency, you’ll hear a lot more about “transnationalist jurisprudence.”
The price we are paying for tearing down a President.
Is it really over? A special Reader Mail exchange on Robert Stacy McCain’s “How John McCain Lost.”
How to handle those handlers. Anti-Immigration as racism. Sarcasm lost. Plus more.
The New York Times and the 2004 media narrative designed to defeat George W. Bush.
An open letter to Gov. Sarah Palin.
Let the campaign post-mortem begin.
Hitting the reset button on the American economy.
They sure do, according to the National Council of Churches.
America’s first dirty election, a mere 208 years ago.
The days grow shorter for the good guys. A tale of two Friedmans. An American Carol isn’t impressing. Heedless speeder. Plus more.
He’s trying hard to save the Earth, but he doesn’t much know what he’s talking about.
Does anyone still remember how unqualified Harry Truman was once thought to be?
You can’t afford not to contest it — and there are ways to do so.
Will going to see An American Carol end the career of an aspiring Hollywood writer?
The great Ricky Gervais in his first leading role in a feature film.
A special Reader Mail section on Sarah Palin, the pressies, and J. Peter Freire’s “The Barracuda Bites Back.”
Hateful ingrates and other Obamaites. Also: Which side to blame? Carol and the humbugs. Palin’s airspace defense. Plus more.
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A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
H/T to National Review Online