The American Spectator

The Right Prescription

GOP's Health Care Strategy Is Short-Sighted

Philip Klein | 10.2.09 @ 6:09AM

Republicans have weakened support for Obamacare, but they have done nothing to advance an alternative view of the U.S. medical system.

topics: Health Care, Republican Party

Political Hay

Kerry'd Away on Cap and Trade

W. James Antle, III | 10.2.09 @ 6:08AM

It's not going to be easy for John Kerry and Barbara Boxer to get their climate bill through the Senate.

topics: Environmentalism, John Kerry, Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer

Feature

The World of Market Authoritarianism

Stefan Halper | October 2009

China's winning model is leaving the U.S. and the West increasingly isolated. Our October issue's cover story.

topics: China, The West

The Nation's Pulse

No Retreat, Baby, No Surrender

Patrick O'Hannigan | 10.2.09 @ 6:07AM

When it comes to defending Obamacare, the name-calling left assumes only it can be Boss. 

At Large

Moscow Casting Call

George H. Wittman | 10.2.09 @ 6:07AM

Whether on stage or behind the scenes, Dmitry Medvedev is no longer serving as Vladimir Putin's understudy.

topics: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Dmitry Medvedev

Books in Review

Looking for the Perfect History

Lee Edwards | October 2009

Conservatives keep waiting for the definitive history of the Reagan years.

Movie Takes

The Baader Meinhof Complex

James Bowman | 10.2.09 @ 6:02AM

It begins on a nude beach in Germany, sometime in the 1960s.

topics: Terrorism, Anti-Americanism

Breaking News

ACORN's Prophetic Lawyer

Matthew Vadum | 10.1.09 @ 6:09AM

Never can it say it or its apologists say it wasn't warned -- and in such detail, as lawyer Elizabeth Kingsley's memo reveals.

topics: ACORN, Wade Rathke, Elizabeth Kingsley

Streetcar Line

Too Many Deaths on the Right

Quin Hillyer | 10.1.09 @ 6:08AM

Time to redeem their legacies.

topics: Conservatism, Neoconservatism

The Current Crisis

Freedom From Foreign Oil

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.1.09 @ 6:08AM

Boone Pickens likes to call it a "game changer."

topics: Natural Gas

Eminentoes

Roman Law

George Neumayr | 10.1.09 @ 6:08AM

The Polanski case divides liberals.

topics: Bill Clinton, Roman Polanski, Whoopi Goldberg

Special Report

Free to Choose

Brian O'Connell | 10.1.09 @ 6:07AM

Unless you are poor, black student in the Washington, D.C. public school system, that is.

topics: Marion Barry, School Choice

The Nation's Pulse

Senate Committee Holds Fast for Abortion

G. Tracy Mehan, III | 10.1.09 @ 6:07AM

One nation, two cultures, polarized politics.

topics: Health Care, Abortion

The Slaughterhouse

Laughing Gas

Daniel Oliver | October 2009

With The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanenhaus establishes himself as one of America’s premier comic geniuses in the field of political commentary.

topics: Conservatism, Liberalism

Special Report

Bertha's Bolsheviks

Matthew Vadum | 9.30.09 @ 6:09AM

Why is ACORN's chief organizer friendly with the Marxist anti-American governments of two South American countries?

topics: Hugo Chavez, Bertha Lewis

Campaign Crawlers

GOP Soul Check

Larry Thornberry | 9.30.09 @ 6:08AM

Though it knows it should, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is not about to withdraw its hasty endorsement of Charlie Crist.

topics: Republican Party, U.S. Senate Races 2010, Marco Rubio

The Obama Watch

A Clear and Present Danger

Peter Ferrara | 9.30.09 @ 6:08AM

How Barack Obama endangers you and your family.

topics: Iran, Nuclear Weapons

Another Perspective

Does the Left Have a Sense of Decency?

Steve McCann | 9.30.09 @ 6:07AM

The question is asked seriously.

The Public Policy

Copenhagen or Bust

Peter Hannaford | 9.30.09 @ 6:06AM

Ms. Henny-Penny is back, dizzy with climate warming.

topics: Global Warming

Sports Arena

Bomberphobia

Lisa Fabrizio | 9.30.09 @ 6:06AM

Yankee haters of the world fail to appreciate the conservative essence of New York's mightiest franchise. 

Washington Prowler

Obama's Olympic Spirit

The Prowler | 9.29.09 @ 11:12AM

He doesn't have time to deal with Afghanistan. But he has plenty of time for his Chicago gang and its Olympics hustle.

Breaking News

Murder and Motives in Clay County

Robert Stacy McCain | 9.29.09 @ 6:10AM

Should an entire Kentucky community take the blame?

Political Hay

Israel's Reagan

Jeffrey Lord | 9.29.09 @ 6:08AM

A leader willing to call evil by its name.

topics: United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama Watch

The Splashdown of the Obama Presidency

Robert P. Kirchhoefer | 9.29.09 @ 6:08AM

Happy Days is here again.

Special Report

Holier Than Obama

Mark Tooley | 9.29.09 @ 6:07AM

The National Council of Churches calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament -- by the U.S. of course.

The Right Prescription

Obamacare's Shovel-Ready Cure

Ralph R. Reiland | 9.29.09 @ 6:06AM

Newsweek's editorial death panel has endorsed it.

topics: Health Care, Death Panels

Another Perspective

Pulling the Plug

Reid Collins | 9.29.09 @ 6:06AM

Preparations are under way to drain Sloan's Lake.

Conservative Tastes

Rotten Apples

James Bowman | September 2009

The unreality has settled in and there seems to be no way back.

topics: Bonnie and Clyde

In Memoriam

William Safire, RIP

Ben Stein | 9.28.09 @ 2:01PM

This has not been a good time for losing friends.

topics: William Safire, Irving Kristol

Washington Prowler

The Placid Conservative

The Prowler | 9.28.09 @ 6:09AM

New York's tale of Doug Hoffman. Plus: Justice for ACORN.

topics: Conservatism, Republican Party, Doug Hoffman

Breaking News

ACORN's Man in the White House

Matthew Vadum | 9.28.09 @ 6:09AM

Meet Patrick Gaspard, now in Karl Rove's former position.

Special Report

The Next OPEC

William Tucker | 9.28.09 @ 6:09AM

Meet the IMF-SDRs -- which will chip away at the dollar's preeminence until…

topics: OPEC, China, Dollar

Political Hay

Running from Reform

RiShawn Biddle | 9.28.09 @ 6:09AM

Adrian Fenty may win re-election, but the D.C. mayor is not living up to his promises.

topics: Adrian Fenty, Marion Barry

The Obama Watch

America Cops to the World

Jay D. Homnick | 9.28.09 @ 6:07AM

He who is without sin always casts the first stone.

The Environmental Spectator

America's Second-Best Idea

Bill Croke | October 2009

In his new PBS series, documentarian Ken Burns takes us on a lovely stroll through our national parks and their history. 

The Right Prescription

Women to the Rescue

Manon McKinnon | 9.28.09 @ 6:06AM

Nurse Michelle Obama will bring equality to your pill popping.

Campus Scenes

Who Is College Material?

Mark Goldblatt | 9.28.09 @ 6:06AM

Intellectual curiosity, Charles Lindbergh, and the college freshman.