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Saturday, May 1, 2010

On the Prowl

On the Prowl

The Prowler | from the May 2010 issue

The Continuing Crisis

The Continuing Crisis

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | from the May 2010 issue

Freedom Watch

The Mount Vernon Statement

Edwin Meese, III | from the May 2010 issue

Note From the Publisher

Why the Tea Party Movement Is Important

Alfred S. Regnery | from the May 2010 issue

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

Assorted Jackasses | from the May 2010 issue

Presswatch

Bar Fight

James Taranto | from the May 2010 issue

Friday, April 30, 2010

The Obama Watch

Drill, Barry, Drill

Andrew Cline | 4.30.10

The president’s decision to drill in the Gulf remains sound, and he knows it.

Campaign Crawlers

Special Time in Pennsylvania

Robert Stacy McCain | 4.30.10

Republican Tim Burns battles for Murtha’s 12th District.

Eminentoes

Loitering With Intent

Larry Thornberry | 4.30.10

Our favorite Republican In Name Only has made it official — he’s not even that anymore.

Washington Prowler

Financial Regulatory Windfall

The Prowler | 4.30.10

The Obama-Dodd bill wants to know everything about your spending habits.

The Nation’s Pulse

Why They Hate

Matt Purple | 4.30.10

The Tea Parties throw the whole progressive narrative off-kilter.

Political Hay

Is the Climate Bill Frozen?

Ken Blackwell | 4.30.10

The forecast doesn’t look so bright and sunny for cap and tax.

Special Report

Seeing Red

F. Vincent Vernuccio | 4.30.10

The Service Employee International Union’s shaky finances undermined Andy Stern’s protégé.

Reader Mail

Looking for the Drawing

4.30.10

The missing Mohammed drawings. Stephen Labaton, lobbyist? Peggy Noonan and Catholic coverups.  Financial reform, diagnosing racism, and more.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Campaign Crawlers

End of the Line

Larry Thornberry | 4.29.10

Independent or not, there’s no third way out for Charlie Crist.

The Current Crisis

Hating the Middleclass

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 4.29.10

Nobody does it better than the Liberal.

Special Report

The Cartoonists Shall Enter First

George Neumayr | 4.29.10

Village idiots vs. Islam’s useful idiots in the South Park controversy.

A Further Perspective

Rush Was Right(er)

Jay D. Homnick | 4.29.10

The things Wall Street did because of government — and only because of government.

In Memoriam

Methodist Dixie

Mark Tooley | 4.29.10

The actress Dixie Carter, who died this month, only played a liberal. In real life she was something else.

The Nation’s Pulse

Teachable Moments

Christopher Orlet | 4.29.10

Illinoisans wallets may be safe for now.

Car Guy

Leaf Blowers

Eric Peters | 4.29.10

Get ready for another clunker bill to subsidize buyers of the shockingly pricey and suspect electric Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Breaking News

Judicial Activist

Stacy Cline | 4.28.10

Robert Chatingy, an Obama court nominee, crosses the line from judge to advocate.

Special Report

The Left’s Favorite Bank

Matthew Vadum | 4.28.10

Big Government has never had a better friend than Goldman Sachs.

The Obama Watch

The President’s Permanent TARP Bailout Socialism Bill

Peter Ferrara | 4.28.10

Washington is operating today as if we have been conquered by a foreign power that has suspended our democracy and doesn’t care what the American people think.

The Nation’s Pulse

Freedom Worth Its Salt

Daniel Oliver | 4.28.10

What will Big Brother outlaw next? Salt shakers?

Eminentoes

The Temple of Ted

Daniel J. Flynn | 4.28.10

The late Senator Kennedy continues to cost taxpayers money from the grave.

Washington Prowler

HHS’s Data Game

The Prowler | 4.28.10

More on the numbers that were in play before passage of Obamacare.

Political Hay

Getting Back to Basics

Jim Tracy | 4.28.10

A Tennessee Republican congressional candidate calls it as he sees it — and he doesn’t like what he sees in Washington.

A Further Perspective

Return to Hollywood

Lisa Fabrizio | 4.28.10

The last thing Tinsel Town deserves is a two-week run.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The War on Terror Spectator

Jon Stewart Flunks His Spartacus Test

Jeffrey Lord | 4.27.10

Comedy Central star brave when attacking Fox, folds to Islamic terror threat.

The Right Prescription

Health Care Role Reversal

J.T. Young | 4.27.10

Now it is the left that is on the defensive.

The Nation’s Pulse

The Humorless Veto

Jeremy Lott | 4.27.10

Ready or not, here comes Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.

Another Perspective

Diagnosing Racism

Robert VerBruggen | 4.27.10

Sorry, Tea Party bashers — opinion polls can’t show whether some political groups are more bigoted than others.

At Large

Beijing Smiles and Growls

Peter Hannaford | 4.27.10

Playing hope and experience for a sucker again.

The Public Policy

Fixing America’s Immigration Black Market

Ryan Young & Alex Nowrasteh | 4.27.10

Overly strict government policy is creating incentives for illegal, rather than legal, immigration.

Conservative Tastes

The Laughs Keep Coming

James Bowman | from the April 2010 issue

The modern audiences, the serious side of life has disappeared.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Editorial Cartoon

Waiter, There’s A Boot in my Plate

Yogi Love | 4.26.10

Washington Prowler

What Lies Beneath

The Prowler | 4.26.10

HHS buries report. Obama’s mining activity. Dick Morris meddles. Paying Wall Street back. Labaton’s post-NYT profits.

Political Hay

Lindsey Graham’s Climate Change

W. James Antle, III | 4.26.10

How an immigration amnesty may have cost Democrats bipartisan cover on cap and trade.

Buy the Book

November Energy Futures

William Tucker | 4.26.10

Will green turn red? Robert Bryce shows why it should.

Another Perspective

Space Is Lost

Hal G.P. Colebatch | 4.26.10

Is Obama euthanizing the space program?

The Right Prescription

The Fix Is In

Robert M. Goldberg | 4.26.10

The president has just nominated a great admirer of Britain’s National Health Service to run Medicare and Medicaid.

Special Report

Democracy Delayed

Heather Robinson | 4.26.10

In their haste to exit Iraq, U.S. and international observers may be overlooking election fraud against liberal, pro-Western candidates.

The Nation’s Pulse

The Great Arizona Shootout

George H. Wittman | 4.26.10

Thanks to the signing of SB 1070 into law, the lines in the immigration wars are becoming clearer.

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