The American Spectator

Feature

Osama bin Elvis

Angelo M. Codevilla | March 2009

All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama bin Laden. But tell that to the CIA and all the other misconceptualizers of the War on Terror.

Streetcar Line

Channeling the Young Patrick Henry

Quin Hillyer | 3.13.09 @ 6:09AM

If this be treason, so be it.

topics: Barack Obama, Already a Disaster

Special Report

The Amazing Revkin

Paul Chesser | 3.13.09 @ 6:08AM

Presto! Global warming consensus appears where there is none.

topics: Environment

The Public Policy

Banks on Welfare

Lawrence A. Hunter | 3.13.09 @ 6:08AM

Obamanomics is paving the way to financial ruin.

topics: Bailout, Obama

Political Hay

The Other CPAC

Robert Stacy McCain | 3.13.09 @ 6:07AM

 What critics of the giant conservative event missed.

topics: Conservatism, Republican Party

The Nation's Pulse

Eyes Shut at Homeland Security

George H. Wittman | 3.13.09 @ 6:07AM

Janet Napolitano has forgotten where she came from.

topics: Illegal Immigration, Hispanic Voters

Another Perspective

Edward Abbey, Conservative Anarchist

Bill Croke | 3.13.09 @ 6:07AM

Unfortunately, this writer and essayist, who died 20 years ago tomorrow, also had a soft spot for eco-terrorism.

topics: Environmentalism, Contemporary Writers

Eminentoes

Dead Wrong

Daniel J. Flynn | 3.12.09 @ 6:09AM

The attacks on Rush Limbaugh are a distraction by conservatives without credibility.

topics: Conservatism

The Obama Watch

Obama's Stem Cell Diktat

Andrew Cline | 3.12.09 @ 6:09AM

He won, you lost.

topics: George W. Bush, Bioethics

Political Hay

Chaos Theory

George Neumayr | 3.12.09 @ 6:08AM

To Buffett and Grove, Obama has gone from idealistic to imprudent.

topics: Barack Obama, Warren Buffett

The Current Crisis

Missing Bill

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 3.12.09 @ 6:07AM

The 1990s Democratic centrist is today a dinosaur.

topics: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton

Special Report

Has Obama Killed Carbon Cap and Trade?

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 3.12.09 @ 6:07AM

Tax collection trumps the environment.

topics: Taxes, Environment, Environmentalism

Another Perspective

The Real Purim Story

Joseph Shattan | 3.12.09 @ 6:06AM

This might correct an Egyptian cleric's misunderstanding of the Jewish holiday observed yesterday and what role Starbucks might have played in it.

Books in Review

War by Other Means

Joseph A. Harriss | March 2009

Daniel Johnson's fascinating account of the Soviet Union's attempt to turn an ancient game into a Cold War weapon.

topics: Chess, Bobby Fischer

Special Report

Ostracized by Obama

Philip Klein | 3.11.09 @ 6:10AM

The White House says it is soliciting ideas for health-care reform, but free marketers need not apply.

topics: Health Care

The Public Policy

When Is the Economic Recovery Due?

Peter Ferrara | 3.11.09 @ 6:09AM

Even if it comes, under current policies it will only set the stage for a new recession immediately in its wake.

topics: Economics, Recession

The Energy Spectator

How Nuclear Will Revive

William Tucker | 3.11.09 @ 6:08AM

But not because of any "nuclear lobby" -- though maybe because the so-called "smart grid" is anything but smart.

Political Hay

Stimulating Big Government

Melanie Harmon | 3.11.09 @ 6:08AM

How Colorado pols are using the federal stimulus as an excuse to weaken the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.

topics: Taxes

At Large

Yucatán Diary: Love in the Ruins Revisited

Joseph P. Duggan | 3.11.09 @ 6:07AM

Cobá was too big to fail. Its leaders thought globally and acted locally. What happened?

Books in Review

A Financial History to Forget

Brandon Crocker | 3.11.09 @ 6:05AM

Considering the subject and the time at which it appears, not to mention its star author, Niall Ferguson's new book is a huge disappointment.

The Obama Watch

Obama's LBJ Syndrome

Jeffrey Lord | 3.10.09 @ 6:09AM

From millions to trillions, the ghost of Johnson's credibility gap haunts Democrats.

Political Hay

Steele Drums

Andrew Cline | 3.10.09 @ 6:08AM

The RNC chairman marches to his own beat.

topics: Republican Party, Republican National Committee

The Nation's Pulse

The Search for Crisis Leadership

J.T. Young | 3.10.09 @ 6:08AM

The longer it goes on, the deeper the recession and the less likely any real recovery.

Special Report

Power, Politics, and Freedom of Religion

Lisa Fabrizio | 3.10.09 @ 6:07AM

A twisted effort to punish the Catholic Church in Connecticut.

topics: Religious Freedom

The Public Policy

Card Check's Bounce

Doug Bandow | 3.10.09 @ 6:07AM

Another looming threat to our economic freedom.

topics: Economics, Unions, Democratic Party

The Pursuit of Knowledge

The New Humanism

Roger Scruton | March 2009

It spends little time idealizing man, and prefers to denigrate belief in God as a human weakness.

Eminentoes

William Jennings Bryan Redux

Mark Tooley | 3.10.09 @ 6:06AM

In attacking Darwinism, liberal evangelist Tony Campolo risks obloquy.

topics: Democratic Party, Darwinism, Racism

Political Hay

Country Clubbing for Growth

W. James Antle, III | 3.9.09 @ 6:10AM

Arlen Specter Republicans say that conservative primary challengers shrink the party, but the results are not so one-sided.

topics: Conservatism, Republican Party

Another Perspective

Accuracy Is Desirable

Daniel Oliver | 3.9.09 @ 6:09AM

Conservatism finds itself at a rhetorical Crossroads.

topics: Political Rhetoric, Alexander Tytler

The Obama Watch

Slickness With a Straight Face

Brett Joshpe | 3.9.09 @ 6:08AM

Obama giveth and Obama taketh away.

Car Guy

Safety Inefficiency

Eric Peters | 3.9.09 @ 6:07AM

Before government developed its safety fetish, American economy cars were genuinely efficient -- and affordable.

topics: Automakers, Fuel Efficiency

Special Report

Winning British Hearts and Minds

Eleanor Stables | 3.9.09 @ 6:07AM

A military that pioneered counterinsurgency may need a refresher course.

topics: Iraq, Afghanistan

The Terror Spectator

The MRI and I

Reid Collins | 3.9.09 @ 6:05AM

The closest thing to a near-burial experience.

Books in Review

Socking the Angel

Algis Valiunas | March 2009

The wonderful Flannery O'Connor is the most famous Roman Catholic writer America has produced.