The American Spectator

The Right Prescription

How Much Is a Year of Your Life Worth?

David Catron | 7.24.09 @ 6:09AM

Obamacare puts a price on your head.

Political Hay

Community-Organized Crime

Matthew Vadum | 7.24.09 @ 6:08AM

The Issa report sheds light on ACORN's damning conduct.

The Nation's Pulse

There Are Towns a Lot Tougher Than Cambridge

William Tucker | 7.24.09 @ 6:08AM

If only Henry Louis Gates had been a little more circumspect.

Special Report

The Pope and the Astronauts

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 7.24.09 @ 6:08AM

The Vatican was enthusiastic for the moon landing and space exploration.

Another Perspective

The Palestinians of Al Wahdat

Tuvia Tenenbom | 7.24.09 @ 6:08AM

Tobias of Germany reports from inside one of the largest refugee camps in Jordan.

The Obama Watch

Questions I Never Asked Obama

Robert M. Goldberg | 7.24.09 @ 6:07AM

Fifteen questions reporters were afraid to ask.

At Large

Walking on the Wild Side

George H. Wittman | 7.24.09 @ 6:07AM

The bewildering experience of one special operations officer in Afghanistan.

Conservative Tastes

The Triumph of Fantasy

James Bowman | July 2009 - August 2009

Yet fantasy is not always harmless, as the summer blockbuster schedule confirms. From our July-August issue.

The Right Prescription

Health Care Reform and the American Character

Congressman Paul Ryan | 7.23.09 @ 6:09AM

What's really at stake in the health care battle?

The Current Crisis

More Media Follies

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 7.23.09 @ 6:09AM

Obama-bashing for sport -- still more evidence of the trivial nature of the contemporary American news media. 

At Large

In a Mellow Mood

Jay D. Homnick | 7.23.09 @ 6:07AM

Shocking news: Israelis have become more pleasant, less abrasive.

Streetcar Line

Sports Behind the 8-Ball

Quin Hillyer | 7.23.09 @ 6:07AM

The greatest stories, never told.

Eminentoes

A Turner Classic

Mark Tooley | 7.23.09 @ 6:07AM

Richard Cizik, now in the employ of Ted Turner's UN Foundation, dutifully advocates for "new" (i.e. liberal) evangelicals.

Car Guy

Talk and Drive

Eric Peters | 7.23.09 @ 6:07AM

But learn to drive first!

Books in Review

Overlords of World War II

James Piereson | July 2009 - August 2009

Andrew Roberts' Masters and Commanders is the best kind of history, faithful to the past yet relevant to the present.

Special Report

AARP’s Got Their Back

Philip Klein | 7.22.09 @ 6:10AM

The nation’s largest advocacy group for seniors says it’s nonpartisan, but its support for the Obama administration’s health care push places it on the side of bigger government yet again.

The Obama Watch

What's Not Political About Health Care Reform?

Andrew Cline | 7.22.09 @ 6:09AM

It's not about him, the president said. But Meredith Vieira wasn't buying.

The Public Policy

Obama Is Delaying the Economic Recovery

Peter Ferrara | 7.22.09 @ 6:08AM

Or to be more precise, he's preventing economic recovery -- and thus dooming his political future.

Ben Stein's Diary

Liberty Weekend

July 2009 - August 2009

Off to meet the chancellor of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Jr. From our July-August issue.

At Large

A Scold's Lesson

Christopher Orlet | 7.22.09 @ 6:07AM

It didn't work with Bill and it won't work with Islamic militants.

The Right Prescription

The Kennedy-Orszag $700 Billion Fix

Robert M. Goldberg | 7.22.09 @ 6:07AM

How can Obama & Co. continue to insist that government-run health care will not lead to rationing and exploding health care costs?

Eminentoes

Truth and Heresy

Lisa Fabrizio | 7.22.09 @ 6:07AM

Another Kennedy flaunts her liberal Catholicism.

The Slaughterhouse

How Our Best and Brightest Think

Angelo M. Codevilla | July 2009 - August 2009

Could it be that our “best” universities’ humanities departments are filled with pretentious poseurs? From our July-August issue.

Feature

The Matter With Myths

Philip Klein | July 2009 - August 2009

If conservatives don't counter them, government-run health care will be here to stay.

Media Matters

Out of Business Week

Michael Johnson | 7.21.09 @ 6:09AM

Eminentoes

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Maureen Dowd

Jeffrey Lord | 7.21.09 @ 6:08AM

Columnist brings attention to white-run Times, media's racial double-standard.

Special Report

Hang 'Em High

Bill Croke | 7.21.09 @ 6:07AM

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident continues to resonate.

Another Perspective

Cars, Climate, Fuel Efficiency, and the American Consumer

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 7.21.09 @ 6:07AM

Cognitive dissonance writ large.

Buy the Book

A Housing Crisis Not Wasted

Joseph Lawler | 7.21.09 @ 6:06AM

Washington doesn't worry about its failures.

Special Report

Many Moons Ago

Paul Beston | 7.20.09 @ 6:09AM

We're all post-Apollonians now.

The Congressional Spectator

Behind Closed Doors

Robert Stacy McCain | 7.20.09 @ 6:08AM

Secrecy, suspicion, and the IG investigations.

Eminentoes

Liberal Lion in Winter

Daniel J. Flynn | 7.20.09 @ 6:08AM

Ted Kennedy's constituents would be best served by his resignation, 40 years ago and today.

The Environmental Spectator

Governors (Two) Bark Back

Paul Chesser | 7.20.09 @ 6:08AM

Western govs Otter know better than let themselves be controlled by global warmist fanatics.

Political Hay

Sloppy Senates

Hope Hodge | 7.20.09 @ 6:07AM

The antics of New York's state senators have some people wondering if the Empire State would be better off without them.

The Obama Watch

A Nation of One-Eyed Sycophants?

Ralph R. Reiland | 7.20.09 @ 6:07AM

Our president is all closed ears when it comes to "chatter" and "talk" disapproving of his policies.

Media Matters

And That's the Way It Is

Reid Collins | 7.20.09 @ 6:07AM

We've lost Walter Cronkite.

Movie Takes

The Stoning of Soraya M.

James Bowman | 7.20.09 @ 6:02AM

Is it art -- or propaganda?