William Tucker
Remember the old cowboy movies with the Good Guys and the Bad Guys. Sometimes the Indians were the Bad Guys, sometimes the Bad Guys were a bunch of stagecoach robbers. Halfway through the story the Good Guys would find themselves…
In recent years people have started adding Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” to the Christmas canon. In a way it feels like creeping secularization — the song doesn’t have much to do with Christmas — but then neither does…
Why am I feeling so good these days? Somehow it doesn’t bother me that the Democrats are inching toward passing some kind of healthcare reform or that that global warmers are celebrating in Copenhagen. Maybe it’s the reception Sarah Palin…
To borrow from R. Emmett Tyrrell, the illustrious founder of this publication, I have the sense that liberal America is headed for a huge crack-up. Mid-term elections are less than a year away. A Republican blowout is in the making….
Editor’s note: Last night, The American Spectator hosted its annual Washington dinner. Here is the speech one of our longtime writers — who did speak at our 2008 dinner — meant to deliver this year. Thank you everyone for letting me have a…
Here’s a quiz that may appear some day on history tests: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in November 2009, was: a) Part of a terror network that had planned attacks on the United States since…
Scientific American used to be a great magazine but like any publishing venture headquartered in New York, it has gradually drifted into liberal never-never-land. . Over the years the magazine has run several lead stories encouraging complete nuclear disarmament. At…
Without any idea what it is doing, Congress is about to pulverize the American medical system, put the health insurance companies out of business, and set the federal budget on a runaway course that may end up wrecking the entire…
I found myself glued to the television last week as Fox broadcast its special investigation of ACORN. It was a terrific piece of journalism — something worthy of 60 Minutes in its heyday. But the real fascination for me was personal….
