Even when dining with Obama, Republicans know the prix-fixe is always in.
The speech sounds even better today.
Battle-hardened Chadian desert commandos on the Sahel front of the GWOT.
Fallon Fox should really be a woman in combat.
The History Channel’s inaccurate, relativist treatment of the Good Book.
Our friends at TSA are going on a shopping spree.
Senator Paul Rand stages a filibuster — and is joined by a happy few comrades.
Government regs have driven costs up — yet diesel power still may be the way to go.
(Editor’s Note: In dedication to Sen. Rand Paul’s grand 13-hour talking filibuster on Wednesday, we explore a short history of the dysfunction of the Senate. Michael Scully, writing in February 1978, declares that with the expansion of the federal government, the Senate is no longer an “exclusive club”; rather, it is the chamber of 100 bickerers.)
The demands of the postwar world have transformed the Senate from an “exclusive club” into something like a convocation of princes from a hundred private fiefdoms. Therein lies the dilemma of Majority Leader Robert Byrd.
We’re seeing a profile in courage, properly understood, that could prove transformative not just for the GOP.
Jeb Bush, Obama’s EPA nominee, and the tie to Republican moderation.
Our president’s mastery of “partisan message management” will do him in.
Political and economic crisis can create strange bedfellows, as Egypt and Iran are proving.
No, not that “Barry,” but the great one, Barry Goldwater.
Kim Jong-un thinks he has game, but he’s slow, overweight, and can’t jump.
Who knew “Honey I’m home” was such an influential part of family life?
His “evolution” on gay marriage has been one big lie.
Will President Obama delegate Dennis Rodman to represent the U.S. at the Venezuelan’s funeral?
A Malaysian scandal raises questions about 21st-century journalism.
You thought Obama would stop at the ones he’s told already?
The California Republican Party sees an opportunity.
Social mobility — the opportunity to move up — cannot be measured solely by how much movement takes place.
CPAC controversies over Christie, gays come from a misreading of group’s purpose.
Did Obama know he would be so Eurocentric?
Those who still pay income taxes will be paying even more.
Five tips for Republicans — if they are to prosper and we are to get out of our economic hole.
The power of market adaptation illustrated.
Could there be an education proposal more straightforward than assigning the Great Works?
The political calculations of cuts look towards the 2014 election.
The lawless Obama administration is brazenly endangering the country to prove a political point.
Only in a Keynesian world is that a possibility.
What everyone needs to know.
The Court ruled Obamacare’s Medicaid provision unconstitutional, but these wimps still caved.
He’s too late to say it’s killing him not to be in the White House.
A remembrance, 50 years after her death.
Samuel Gregg on how we might still avoid the fate of Europe.
Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume one of his memoirs, tentatively titled Screams From My Father. But he has graciously consented to once again advise American statesmen in these times of trouble.
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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?
