The American Spectator

The Right Prescription

Psychotic Torturers for Obamacare

Shawn Macomber | 10.30.09 @ 6:09AM

The latest Saw film redeems torture porn for statist do-gooders.  

topics: Obamacare, Halloween, Saw Movies, Jigsaw

Streetcar Line

Dave Treen, Political Builder

Quin Hillyer | 10.30.09 @ 6:09AM

Requiescat in pace. And in joy.

topics: Edwin Edwards, David Duke, David Conner Treen

The Obama Watch

Patriotic Gore

Andrew Cline | 10.30.09 @ 6:08AM

Banks, our president says, have a patriotic duty to spread the wealth around.

topics: Economic Recovery, Bank Loans, Small Business

A Further Perspective

The Precedented Peace Prize

J. Christian Adams | 10.30.09 @ 6:07AM

Sir Norman Angell won in 1933 for the same reasons Barack Obama has won in 2009.

topics: Nobel Peace Prize, Sir Norman Angell

At Large

Russia Redux

George H. Wittman | 10.30.09 @ 6:07AM

The spirit of the Cold War makes Moscow feel good about itself.

topics: Vladimir Putin, Nuclear Weapons, Dmitry Medvedev

Another Perspective

Elections Have Consequences

Robert P. Kirchhoefer | 10.30.09 @ 6:06AM

A lesson in political pragmatism -- or how an imperfect conservative would be preferable to a perfect liberal.

topics: John McCain, Barack Obama, Big Government

The Nation's Pulse

Go Fly Al Qaeda

Jay D. Homnick | 10.30.09 @ 6:05AM

A squabble in Kent, Connecticut, that is unlikely to have a happy ending.

topics: Terrorism, September 11

Streetcar Line

In Defense of Principled Moderates

Quin Hillyer | 10.29.09 @ 6:09AM

Snowe, right. Newt, wrong.

topics: Olympia Snowe, Newt Gingrich, Mike Castle

Campaign Crawlers

Third Way

W. James Antle, III | 10.29.09 @ 6:09AM

Could Doug Hoffman portend a less reflexively Republican conservative future?

topics: Doug Hoffman, New York Conservative Party

The Right Prescription

Thin Reids

George Neumayr | 10.29.09 @ 6:08AM

Sifting through the claims of the Medicine Man party.

topics: Health Care, Democratic Party, Hyde Amendment

The Current Crisis

Where the Girls Are

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 10.29.09 @ 6:08AM

Our president is staring into a gender gap.

topics: New York Times, Feminism, Maureen Dowd

Political Hay

The Accidental Mayor

RiShawn Biddle | 10.29.09 @ 6:08AM

Will Indianapolis' Republican reformer be the second mayor to fail to live up to his promise?

topics: Greg Ballard, Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers

Feature

Not-So-Gentle-Ben

Stephen Moore | October 2009

Obama's risky Bernanke gamble.

Campaign Crawlers

NY23: 'Do You Believe in Miracles'?

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.28.09 @ 6:08AM

Hoffman gets a grassroots surge in Upstate New York.

Political Hay

Playing for Keeps

Ken Blackwell | 10.28.09 @ 6:08AM

How we know abortion coverage is in the health care plan.

topics: Health Care, Abortion

The Energy Spectator

Unscientific American

William Tucker | 10.28.09 @ 6:08AM

Scientific American used to be a great magazine -- before it became intellectually unsustainable.

The Obama Watch

Determined to Decline

Peter Ferrara | 10.28.09 @ 6:07AM

Part 2, in a never-ending nightmare.

topics: Barack Obama, American Decline

The Public Policy

Rush-Defying Thought Experiments

Paul Chesser | 10.28.09 @ 6:07AM

What planet does Andrew Revkin live on?

topics: New York Times, Cap and Trade, Overpopulation

The Nation's Pulse

The Individual Mandate Slope

Christopher Orlet | 10.28.09 @ 6:07AM

Next the Feds will fine you for failing to put in a rainwater harvesting system.

topics: Taxes, Mandates

Buy the Book

Mad About Free Trade

Shawn Macomber | 10.27.09 @ 6:10AM

Daniel Griswold on why Main Street should embrace globalization and reject the protectionist swindle.

topics: Free Trade, Protectionism, Globalization

Political Hay

Catholic Bishops 'Misrepresented' by Fox, Talk Radio Attackers

Jeffrey Lord | 10.27.09 @ 6:09AM

Denver's Archbishop Chaput: We did not agree to FCC probe of Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Dobbs.

Special Report

Obama's Jewish Lobby

Jamie Weinstein | 10.27.09 @ 6:08AM

J-Street is holding its first ever-national policy conference.

topics: Israel, Hamas, J-Street

Among the Intellectualoids

Potemkins in Pyongyang

Mark Tooley | 10.27.09 @ 6:07AM

The international religious left flacks for North Korea.

topics: Nuclear Weapons, Religious Persecution, World Council of Churches

The Environmental Spectator

Cluck, It's Cold Outside

Peter Hannaford | 10.27.09 @ 6:06AM

Ms. Henny-Penny looks ahead to Copenhagen.

topics: Climate Change, Antarctica

The Nation's Pulse

Reich Stuff

Ralph R. Reiland | 10.27.09 @ 6:06AM

From central planning -- "We're going to let you die."

Movie Takes

Two Unserious Men

James Bowman | 10.27.09 @ 6:02AM

The Coen brothers are incapable of seriousness, even when dealing with the most serious subjects.

Washington Prowler

Hiding Under the Ceiling

The Prowler | 10.26.09 @ 6:09AM

Obama's reckless Defense appropriations cynicism. Plus: Dede's desperate condition.

The Obama Watch

Obama's Real Enemies List

Mark Hyman | 10.26.09 @ 6:09AM

Ever expanding and the product of long-festering resentments and grievances.

What's Still Great

The Essential Broker

Ben Stein | 10.26.09 @ 6:08AM

There are good reasons to ignore Arthur Levitt's advice.

topics: Stocks, Index Funds, Arthur Levitt

The Nation's Pulse

About Those Green Jobs…

Max Schulz | 10.26.09 @ 6:08AM

So where are they, amid all the promises?

topics: Unemployment, Green Jobs

Political Hay

Marco Gets It

Larry Thornberry | 10.26.09 @ 6:08AM

Anti-socialist warrior and Charlie Crist opponent Marco Rubio talks about himself and his Senate campaign.

topics: Charlie Crist, U.S. Senate Races 2010, Marco Rubio

Campaign Crawlers

Doug Hoffman, Ordinary American

Robert Stacy McCain | 10.26.09 @ 6:07AM

A grassroots candidate seeks a "miracle" in the 23rd District.

topics: Doug Hoffman, Dede Scozzafava

Special Report

Nadler's ACORN Ethics

Matthew Vadum | 10.26.09 @ 6:07AM

ACORN enjoys congressional a congressional investigator's protection.