The Current Crisis
The Prophet’s Wanderlust
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 4.23.09
There is something curious about the frenetic pace of the 44th president’s foreign trips this month.
The Obama administration is blowing smoke about how many jobs its environmental agenda will create.
When it came to the Soviet Union, the journalist I.F. Stone wasn’t so independent.
From Kevin Spacey to Sean Penn and Danny Glover, they all pillage their hearts for Hugo Chavez.
A Buddhist bishop for the Episcopal Church?
With the North Koreans it’s always back to square one.
Everyone’s looking for energy fixes in all the wrong places.
There is something curious about the frenetic pace of the 44th president’s foreign trips this month.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was an ingenious solution in 1965. Its extension in 2006 was mere political expediency. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether that extension was also constitutional.
But he turns prim on the CIA.
Mr. Blogger goes to Washington — and maybe to some local offices near you.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to silence military leaders. Congress needs to demand that they be heard.
On behalf of those with the attention span of a Frosted Mini-Wheats eater.
Save the earth, shoot a moose. Nixon that. President Axelrod. Plus more.
When he says he won’t do something that usually means he will.
After a condescending visit the president adds insult to injury with his choice for U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Lenin on his organic and recycled birthday.
Earth Day 2009 brings some good news from the world’s fisheries.
That might be too much to ask of the current president.
They know the dissatisfaction is deeper than reported.
Overlapping with Hitler’s birthday.
Political momentum is pushing ahead with wind at full tilt.
George Washington and other persons of interest — Congressman McCotter’s Top 10 American extremists.
What do you expect from a newspaper industry that has outdone Detroit in wasting its franchise?
There are two types of economists — make that two types of people — in the world.
An editor in Richmond. Socialism: once is enough. The winsome Ms. Winship. Plus more.
Waxman’s cap-and-trade insistence isn’t what White House wants.
Newspaper days at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, when it was still a Southern grand dame.
Now that Obama has sparked a Grateful Dead — make that Dead— revival tour.
The first thing to remember is that criticism and whistleblowing will not to be tolerated, as British practice reminds us every day.
Machiavelli could not have written a better book.
Obama’s economic goals. Snarlin’ at Arlen. Don’t be so insure. 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