The story in the New York Times says Kleiner Perkins has been “humbled” by the past decade’s performance. That seems appropriate. The nation’s most famous venture capital firm had a stunning 35.7 percent annual rate of return in the decade…
Last week Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski unveiled the Republicans’ new plan for energy development. She called for a partial opening of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, the development of offshore oil tracts plus more production from federal lands. Within hours…
Paul Lieberman is a feature writer who spent 24 years covering a variety of beats at the Los Angeles Times. He has won a fistful of awards plus a Nieman Fellowship and was on two reporting teams that were awarded…
Brandon had always felt somewhat envious of his sister. This was strange because he was the natural child and she was adopted. And she was a girl while he was a boy. It seemed as if he should have a…
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…