The American Spectator

Streetcar Line

From a Crotchety Old Man

Quin Hillyer | 3.27.09 @ 6:08AM

Words to the whippersnappers.

The Obama Watch

Touchdown Obama

George Neumayr | 3.27.09 @ 6:08AM

Notre Dame hands him another Alinskyite victory.

Political Hay

The Lady Is Preoccupied

Thomas Cheplick | 3.27.09 @ 6:07AM

Sarah Palin has too much on her plate at home to hit the D.C. conservative cocktail circuit -- yet.

topics: Sarah Palin

The Public Policy

Obama Ignores His Tocqueville

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 3.27.09 @ 6:07AM

Philanthropy suffers for the benefit of government.

topics: Charitable Giving

At Large

Law and Disorder

George H. Wittman | 3.27.09 @ 6:06AM

In Pakistan there is always one solution to its chronic condition.

Movie Takes

Brothers at War

James Bowman | 3.27.09 @ 6:02AM

In the age of herolessness, why do men fight?

The Current Crisis

Progress Thwarted

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 3.26.09 @ 6:08AM

The NCAA's continuing war on swim fins.

The Energy Spectator

Carter Energy Solutions, Part II

William Tucker | 3.26.09 @ 6:08AM

That's the only way to characterize the Obama administration's approach.

The Public Policy

A Tale of Two Taxes

J.T. Young | 3.26.09 @ 6:07AM

Washington was spared a fight on alternative minimum tax extension -- but the death tax debate is bound to prove much more explosive.

topics: Taxes, Estate Tax

Special Report

Do It for the World's Poor

Doug Bandow | 3.26.09 @ 6:07AM

A sobering report on the state of property rights protections worldwide.

topics: Economic Freedom, Property Rights

Eminentoes

Frontier Justice From Spain

Peter Hannaford | 3.26.09 @ 6:06AM

Judge Baltasar Garzon, one might say, is a man after Barack Obama's heart.

Buy the Book

Bear Market's First Bagged Bear

John C. Wohlstetter | 3.26.09 @ 6:05AM

A riveting tale of hubris and wretched excess.

Special Report

Card Check Means Union Slavery

Peter Ferrara | 3.25.09 @ 6:08AM

A losing proposition for everyone save bosses and goons and their Democrat protectors.

topics: Unions, Card Check

Political Hay

Boredom at Commerce

Matthew Vadum | 3.25.09 @ 6:08AM

Gary Locke has officially been confirmed as Commerce secretary -- not that he or anyone else seems particularly excited by this development. 

What's Still Great

The Funniest Movie Since Ferris Bueller

Ben Stein | 3.25.09 @ 6:08AM

Tropic Thunder is hysterically funny, in fact, and devastatingly insightful about Hollywood.

The Obama Watch

The MTV President

Lisa Fabrizio | 3.25.09 @ 6:07AM

It's not cool to have a leader one can only look down at.

At Large

Yo Se Perder: Mexico's Cry in Love and War

Joseph P. Duggan | 3.25.09 @ 6:07AM

Something else for Secretary of State Clinton to think about as she begins her visit today.

The Nation's Pulse

Status Quo Antebellum

Jay D. Homnick | 3.25.09 @ 6:06AM

Make way for Obama's little Robespierres.

The Obama Watch

The 1966 Election's Warning to Obama

Jeffrey Lord | 3.24.09 @ 6:08AM

A shoppers boycott, seven future presidents and a fight for the future.

Political Hay

The Specter of a New Arlen

Larry Thornberry | 3.24.09 @ 6:07AM

Charlie Crist has some good news and some bad news for Republicans.

Special Report

Man in the Street of Laredo

Joseph P. Duggan | 3.24.09 @ 6:07AM

A stop Secretary of State Clinton will not make on her visit to Mexico this week.

The Nation's Pulse

Deeper in Debt Than Anyone Knows

Jeff Emanuel | 3.24.09 @ 6:07AM

Federal law linking Social Security to Medicare only makes it worse -- though here's an opportunity for Republicans.

Another Perspective

Mental Survival 2009

Barron Thomas | 3.24.09 @ 6:06AM

The solution to today's problems is in your pocket.

Live From New York

How Not to Tax the Internet

Ryan Young | 3.24.09 @ 6:06AM

Gov. David Paterson wants tolls on the information superhighway

Washington Prowler

Plenty of Rahm at the AIG Table

The Prowler | 3.23.09 @ 6:10AM

Why are Geithner and Summers taking the rap while Emanuel is not?

Political Hay

Ten Questions for Jeff Flake

W. James Antle, III | 3.23.09 @ 6:09AM

A conservative's eye view of Nancy Pelosi's House.

topics: Republican Party, Congress

Special Report

Steve Adams: Bull's-Eye Philanthropist

Neal B. Freeman | 3.23.09 @ 6:08AM

His creative giving to Yale's School of Music has enhanced the quality of music for audiences around the world.

The Obama Watch

The Destruction of Notre Dame

James M. Thunder | 3.23.09 @ 6:08AM

Why the Catholic university's president should not have invited President Obama to deliver the school's commencement address this spring.

The Public Policy

"It's Not About the Money"

Eric Heidenreich | 3.23.09 @ 6:07AM

It's payback time for the environmental lobby.

topics: Environmentalism, National Resources Defense Council

At Large

Citizen-Defendants of the World

Ben Lerner | 3.23.09 @ 6:07AM

Barack Obama assumes the burdens of global citizenship -- just what the International Criminal Court has been waiting for.