The American Spectator

The Right Prescription

The Myth of the 46 Million

Philip Klein | 3.20.09 @ 6:10AM

The truth behind everybody's favorite health care statistic.

topics: Health Care

Special Report

Erin Go Brawl

Paul Beston | 3.20.09 @ 6:08AM

In which I become ensnared in the St. Patrick's madness on a train ride home.

Political Hay

Red Ink and Blue Dogs

W. James Antle, III | 3.20.09 @ 6:08AM

If Democratic deficit hawks don't stand up to their president now, when will they?

At Large

The Country the World Forgot

George H. Wittman | 3.20.09 @ 6:07AM

Thirty years later, the Taiwan Relations Act is making much more sense than it originally did.

topics: Foreign Policy, Taiwan

Another Perspective

The Day Our House Caught Fire

Joseph Shattan | 3.20.09 @ 6:06AM

Luckily, Fire Marshal Obamavich came to the rescue!

Books in Review

Doctrinal Candidates

Robert VerBruggen | March 2009

A response to the intelligent criticisms conservatives have made of political bias in academia.

Streetcar Line

Monstrously Anti-Life

Quin Hillyer | 3.19.09 @ 6:09AM

The most radically anti-life administration in American history is on the march.

topics: Abortion, Susan B. Anthony List

The Obama Watch

Obama's Penal Code

George Neumayr | 3.19.09 @ 6:09AM

The AIG sideshow and his view of taxation.

The Current Crisis

Cap-and-Trade Socialism

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 3.19.09 @ 6:08AM

A monstrosity in the offing.

What's Still Great

Straight A's for AA

Ben Stein | 3.19.09 @ 6:07AM

The genuinely friendly skies of American Airlines.

At Large

Mexico's Half-Reported Drug War

Peter Hannaford | 3.19.09 @ 6:06AM

And President Calderón hasn't even had to appoint a drug czar.

Books in Review

Radical Sick

Mark Falcoff | March 2009

Young Che is the latest addition to the vast flood of devotional literature on the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto ("Che") Guevara.

Movie Takes

Must Read After My Death

James Bowman | 3.19.09 @ 6:02AM

The latest example of conformity in the exposure of 1950s conformity.

The Obama Watch

Rookie Mistake

Ilan Berman | 3.18.09 @ 6:10AM

If geopolitics were poker, the Obama administration would have just gone bust.

topics: Foreign Policy, Missile Defense

Special Report

The Medium Is the Magisterium

Joseph P. Duggan | 3.18.09 @ 6:09AM

What the Holy See can learn from McLuhan.

topics: Pope Benedict XVI

Special Report

You've Got to Have Heartland

Peter Ferrara | 3.18.09 @ 6:08AM

Man-made global warming proved wrong -- a report from the Heartland Institute's New York conference.

topics: Global Warming

Political Hay

Some Are More Equal Than Others

Patrick O'Hannigan | 3.18.09 @ 6:07AM

Thank heaven for the White House Council on Women and Girls.

topics: Feminism

The Nation's Pulse

Clerical Errors

Lisa Fabrizio | 3.18.09 @ 6:06AM

The chuckleheads in Hartford just don't know when to quit.

topics: Religious Freedom

Buy the Book

Boomers Behaving Badly

Christopher Orlet | 3.18.09 @ 6:05AM

Modern man in search of a Wi-Fi connection.

Movie Takes

We'll Clean in the Sunshine

James Bowman | 3.18.09 @ 6:02AM

Sunshine Cleaning is charming if unpersuasive -- but Emily Blunt is excellent.

Another Perspective

St. Patrick for Adults

James M. Thunder | 3.17.09 @ 6:08AM

And not for adults who will spend today behaving like 10-year-olds.

topics: Human Rights, Civilization

Political Hay

Mr. Frum's Cult

Jeffrey Lord | 3.17.09 @ 6:08AM

Confessions of a former Inside-the-Beltway Kool-Aid drinker.

topics: Conservatism, Washington, D.C.

Special Report

The Solitude of St. Patrick

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 3.17.09 @ 6:07AM

In silence with God.

The Nation's Pulse

Freedom Lives

Nicole Russell | 3.17.09 @ 6:07AM

A state by state analysis.

topics: Economic Freedom, Personal Freedom

Eminentoes

Evangelical Left Rallies to Sebelius

Mark Tooley | 3.17.09 @ 6:07AM

These evangelicals could teach Doug Kmiec's pro-Obama Catholics a thing or two.

Lifestyles Left and Right

The Scumbag Millionare Economy

James Poulos | 3.17.09 @ 6:06AM

Discovering the cultural contradicitions of crap-italism.

The Slaughterhouse

Huffing and Puffing

Wlady Pleszczynski | March 2009

The Huffington Post shows off its wares.

In Memoriam

Jim Bellows, RIP

Ben Stein | 3.16.09 @ 6:10AM

A letter to a great -- and neglected -- friend and editor.

Washington Prowler

Obama Security Breech

The Prowler | 3.16.09 @ 6:09AM

The evolving story of Vivek Kundra. Also: UPDATE: Retraction on Jindal.

Special Report

Close the Door, Please

Paul Beston | 3.16.09 @ 6:08AM

Getting fired usually requires calm, not grief counseling.

topics: Recession, Unemployment

Constitutional Opinions

Gerrymandering on Trial

Edward Blum | 3.16.09 @ 6:08AM

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer about white versus black, but about red versus blue.

topics: Voting Rights Act, Racial Colorblindness

Feature

That '70s Horror Show

Stephen Moore | March 2009

Here it comes again -- and Jimmy Carter should sue for residuals.

Another Perspective

An Australian Lesson

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 3.16.09 @ 6:07AM

Australia got out of the Depression in the 1930s by doing the opposite of what Obama is doing now.

The Nation's Pulse

God Exists, and He's Mormon

Jeremy Lott | 3.16.09 @ 6:06AM

The hot new movie, Watchmen, confirms it.

Buy the Book

Overcoming Aid

Joseph Lawler | 3.16.09 @ 6:05AM

Liberal sentimentality isn't putting food on Africans' tables.