R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Oct 31, 2013

WASHINGTON — The historic blunders of President Barack Obama’s embarrassing healthcare rollout demonstrate spectacularly the utter failure of what? Let me tell you. They are the blunders of what was once called the “Brightest Generation” in American history, the 1960s…

by | Oct 3, 2013

WASHINGTON — It is the most thunderous proof of the Taranto Principle to date. I am speaking of the Senate’s rejection of the House of Representative’s proposal to delay the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act for a year,…

by | Oct 1, 2013

We have outdone ourselves. I wanted you to know about it. On October 23, at Washington’s JW Marriott, we are holding the Robert L. Bartley Dinner celebrating forty-six years as the leader of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. You are invited….

by | Sep 26, 2013

WASHINGTON — And so the government of the United States has put its foreign policy in the steady hands of President Vladimir Putin and the KGB. Americans from coast to coast are breathing a sigh of relief. In Congress, the…

by | Sep 19, 2013

WASHINGTON — Avert your gaze! Show some respect for the deeply troubled. Richard Trumka, the portly president of the AFL-CIO, has come forward with a pathetic acknowledgment of organized labor’s weakened condition, and I suggest compassion. In fact, his proposal…

by | Sep 12, 2013

WASHINGTON — It has now been just over a year since a group of terrorists overwhelmed our diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and killed four Americans, one of whom was our Ambassador, two of whom were former SEALs. Today we…

by | Sep 5, 2013

WASHINGTON — It was one of the most comic, presidential moments in recent American history: President Barack Obama’s solitary walk across the South Lawn of the White House. Supposedly it made history. I would put it right up there with…

by | Aug 29, 2013

WASHINGTON — I know. I know. This puts me out of sync with the New York Times and even the infallible New York Post, but if I were a citizen of New York and not just a monthly visitor I…

by | Aug 22, 2013

WASHINGTON — Maybe Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq should not have been in such a hurry to bid American troops adieu as he was back in 2007. What is more, maybe President Barack Obama should have come up…

by | Aug 15, 2013

WASHINGTON — It is called the Taranto Principle, having been named after him who coined the principle, the inimitable James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal. According to the Taranto Principle, the left-wing media, in their fawning treatment of left-wing…

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