Summer is over for us — as thoughts turn to Randy Weaver and Todd Akin.
Obama defends green energy, Romney coal, because that’s where the jobs are. Nuclear might as well not exist.
Even George Will is on board, trying to haul America’s Game off the field.
The death of Amb. Harry Barnes recalls a forgotten hero of hope and change.
This time, probably for good. And now even V-6s are in trouble.
There goes the British Royal Family’s painfully reacquired dignity.
Beijing has designs on the South China Sea. The U.S.-patrolled Western Pacific is another matter.
Republicans are not going to win until they recognize the Democrats are playing a different game.
(Editor’s Note: The eve of the GOP convention in Tampa, a town [supposedly] renowned for its strippers, makes a perfect opportunity to review Andrew Ferguson’s Bourbon Street escapades from the 1988 convention in New Orleans, a town renowned for… much, much more.)
Akin made a stupid remark. But the hysterical reaction to it was even stupider.
Clinton rape scandal resurfaces in Akin controversy: The McCaskill-Clinton videos.
Time for First Amendment training for flag officers.
Even his dog is in over its head.
Conservatives should articulate a vision for Patient Power.
Give me a Brahmin over a Quant any day.
The mysterious, amazing Eric Hoffer, as captured for good by AmSpec’s own Tom Bethell.
Conservative ideas can break into urban areas like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Miami. Here’s how.
For Pussy Riot, and for Western intellectuals, desecration counts as freedom of expression.
Who needs Congress when the Obama administration is ready to legislate?
A return to Glass-Steagall is no solution to today’s banking problems.
It takes a special skill to pull that off.
Not everything memorable has found its way into David Talbot’s catchy San Francisco retrospective.
Dinesh D’Souza’s 2016 is must viewing.
Joe Biden is absolved.
Are FRC, Sikh shootings, Occupy Wall Street warnings of more Leftist violence?
Strip club correspondent Lloyd Grove — the tiny beast that roared.
There’s more than one Pledge in play this election year.
The Afghan campaign is pointless, but something could be saved from it.
Seeing the forest for the trees in this year’s election.
The media gets physical with the studly Paul Ryan — anything to avoid dealing with the substance of the Ryan/Romney ticket.
We know the mess Obama has made of them. But what about Romney’s understanding?
How inspiration devolved into desperation in four short years.
Thomas Jefferson’s flirtation with French cuisine.
Bad ideas don’t always make for bad art. They do here.
The thrill, by one who knew the young Paul.
A fall from grace that can be described as an American liberal’s dream come true.
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A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
