The American Spectator

The Obama Watch

Ironed Out

George Neumayr | 9.11.09 @ 6:09AM

What President Obama considers "details."

Another Perspective

President Obama's Odd Example

Perry L. Glanzer | 9.11.09 @ 6:08AM

Contrary to what he told Congress, federal aid to public higher education did very "inhibit" the role of private colleges and universities in American life.

Feature

Emptying Reservoirs in the Middle of a Drought

Max Schulz | September 2009

California's privileged species lord it over the endangered farmer.

Special Report

Israel Prepares for the Next Round

Brett Joshpe | 9.11.09 @ 6:07AM

On Monday Judge Richard Goldstone is expected to release his report on Israel's recent Gaza incursion. It's not expected to be anything but extremely critical.

topics: Israel, United Nations, Gaza

At Large

Foreign Policy by Avoidance

George H. Wittman | 9.11.09 @ 6:07AM

How long will the Obama administration continue to receive a free pass on foreign policy and national security issues?

topics: Foreign Policy, National Security

Constitutional Opinions

Money Business

Stacy Cline | 9.11.09 @ 6:07AM

Efforts to keep corporations and the wealthy from influencing politics will fail as long as the government hands out so many goodies.

topics: Supreme Court, Citizens United, McCain-Feingold

The Nation's Pulse

Spending Money Freely

Jay D. Homnick | 9.11.09 @ 6:06AM

Raising health care to support taxes.

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Governor Sunbeam

Brian O'Connell | 9.11.09 @ 6:05AM

Rod Blagojevich tells his long, strange tale.

The Public Policy

TARP and the Demands of Democracy

Darrell Issa | 9.10.09 @ 6:08AM

What are bailout recipients doing with the money they've received? The Obama administration doesn't want you know.

topics: TARP, Neil Barofsky

The Current Crisis

Is Pat Buchanan a Crank?

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 9.10.09 @ 6:08AM

Going after Churchill on British soil -- and apologizing for Hitler.

topics: World War II, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler

Streetcar Line

Alabama Byrne-ing

Quin Hillyer | 9.10.09 @ 6:08AM

A "New South" conservative runs for governor.

topics: Bradley Byrne, Bob Riley

Another Perspective

Our Nice-Guy War

Tom Bethell | 9.10.09 @ 6:07AM

How are we to distinguish "civilians" from "insurgents" in Afghanistan?

topics: Afghanistan War

A Further Perspective

The Government Plan

Robert M. Goldberg | 9.10.09 @ 6:06AM

With or without the public option, the idea is to assert government control over individual choice. Good luck with that.

topics: Health Care, Public Option, Max Baucus

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Founding Anti-Communists

Joseph Shattan | 9.10.09 @ 6:05AM

The convergent paths of Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers.

topics: Anti-Communism, Whittaker Chambers, Lionel Trilling

The Right Prescription

Solving Healthcare Through Verbosity

William Tucker | 9.9.09 @ 6:09AM

Imposing bureaucratic control on the expectation no one will understand you.

Special Report

Apocalypse When?

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.9.09 @ 6:08AM

Obamanomics approaches the brink of disaster.

topics: Joe Biden, Obama's Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve

Eminentoes

All the President's Nuts

Peter Ferrara | 9.9.09 @ 6:07AM

They came in all shapes and sizes, salted and unsalted, shelled and half-shelled, true Obamaites all.

topics: Barack Obama, Van Jones, Mark Lloyd, Carol Browner

The Obama Watch

There He Goes Again

Andrew Cline | 9.9.09 @ 6:07AM

The real lesson from Obama's school speech.

topics: Health Care, Stimulus Bill, Back to School

A Further Perspective

The Audacity of Refusing to Be Stampeded Into Obamacare

Andrew B. Wilson | 9.9.09 @ 6:07AM

Barack Obama was not always so impatient

topics: Health Care, Barack Obama

At Large

Insult to Injury

Christopher Orlet | 9.9.09 @ 6:06AM

Speech laws are leaving European prosecutors tongue-tied.

topics: Islam, Free Speech, The Netherlands

The Nation's Pulse

The Limits of Self-Hate

Lisa Fabrizio | 9.9.09 @ 6:05AM

Unfortunately for the Obama crowd, most Americans aren't at heart anti-American.

topics: Liberalism, Anti-Americanism

Washington Prowler

Valerie Jarrett's Show

The Prowler | 9.8.09 @ 6:09AM

Van Jones was not an isolated hire but a key cog in Obama's chief diversity operative's government-wide operation.

topics: Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Van Jones, Jameel Jaffer

The Obama Watch

Had Enough? Obama's John Mitchell Strategy

Jeffrey Lord | 9.8.09 @ 6:09AM

Van Jones incident pulls back curtain on Nixon maneuver as Obama speaks.

topics: Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, Mark Lloyd

Feature

From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution

Angelo M. Codevilla | September 2009

Or just call it the New Obama Constitution.

Special Report

I Pledge to Promote Global Warming Propaganda

Paul Chesser | 9.8.09 @ 6:07AM

President Obama is not the only propagandizer of our nation's youth.

At Large

Hounding Honduras

Doug Bandow | 9.8.09 @ 6:07AM

The Obama administration is determined to destroy democracy in Honduras in order to save it.

A Further Perspective

Does God Favor an Unlimited State?

Mark Tooley | 9.8.09 @ 6:07AM

A compelling response from an Iowa bishop.

topics: Catholic Church, Obamacare, Evangelicals

The Hell-Hole Spectator

With Friends Like These

Matthew RJ Brodsky | 9.8.09 @ 6:06AM

Obama's Palestinian "moderates" are finding it impossible to overcome their extremist ways.

topics: Israel, Middle East, Palestine