Succumbing to the self-indulgence of the 1960s is yet one more failure of modern conservatism.
His celebrity proved no cure for Mindy McCready.
What is it that moderate Republicans want?
Is it an answer to bloated family budgets?
Enviros team up with the feds to drive out ranchers and create a vast eco-theme park.
AmSpec sits down with Ken Cuccinelli.
Not everyone on the left is in denial about the nation’s fiscal crisis.
Melodrama without the intensity and humanity of Victor Hugo’s original.
(Editor’s Note: The 85th Academy Awards, which will galumph on and off the stage this weekend, boasts some impressively bad movies. Lest you think, though, that tastes and standards have declined, take a look at the titles on the 46th awards ballot. It’s hard to move downhill if you were at the bottom all along.)
Human rights theater, like the global outcry over Gambia’s death penalty, only obscures the real nature of lawless, despotic rule.
Columnist disses Rush while misreading Reagan and Lee Atwater.
As Amity Shlaes reminds us, Calvin Coolidge was a great president.
There are fiscal cliffs at every level of government, and it doesn’t help that states and many municipalities cannot legally go bankrupt.
How will Benedict XVI be remembered?
We’re past the point of deterring Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear weaponry. So what now?
A new compilation of right-wing folk—featuring songs like “Join the SDS” and “Fascist Threat”—shows a new side of the 1960s.
A boost for jobs (for journalists with no moral scruples).
Pressured by Obama, Biden & Co., Colorado Democrats prepare to set a liberal example.
Obama works on his socialism and swing.
The GOP is sort of cutting spending. Don’t give it too much credit.
A reason for him to travel to Israel next month.
President Obama is playing you again (and defiling his office as he does so).
Beverly Hills remains taxable country.
The Silent Majority needs small victories to find its voice.
The data doesn’t support Obama’s proposal, but his party won’t waver in its commitment to the mythology of left-wing class struggle.
Young GOP techies taken in by a liberal fairy tale in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.
It’s hard to squeeze juice out of, not to mention into, the taxpayer-endowed Tesla.
Meet Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee: Former Republican, current Independent, future Democrat?
The Social Security Administration has failed on disability oversight, the former commissioner’s remarks notwithstanding.
The consequences of military cuts and huge government pensions will become clear — many elections from now.
If you think Chuck Hagel is inept now, wait until he collides with sequestration.
Happy Presidents’ Day, Presidents Bush, Truman, and Hoover.
And the president who went AWOL (Part II).
The IRS invents a whole new kind of tax refund.
In his campaign against the U.S. “warfare state,” David Gushee takes no prisoners.
What should still be Washington’s Birthday is now an empty holiday weekend.
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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?
