Wlady Pleszczynski Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Feb 6, 2017

All week long — actually, for two weeks — I was worried about the New England Patriots’ chances against a hot and talented Atlanta team. It didn’t help that all the pre-Super Bowl coverage focused almost entirely on the Patriots…

by | Jan 30, 2017

So they’re not an opposition party? The requests below, displayed prominently on their home pages yesterday and well into this morning, came from the Washington Post and New York Times respectively: Are you, or is someone you know, affected by…

by | Jan 11, 2017

After today’s press conference, the drive-bys will beg Donald Trump to stick to Twitter. It wasn’t a presser so much as another version of a Trump rally, a sharp reminder that Trump as a political player is force of nature,…

by | Oct 31, 2013

EVERY FRIDAY I love to tune in to the PBS NewsHour to catch David Brooks (supposedly) representing the right in an exchange about the week’s top stories. He was in especially good form four days into the October shutdown, if…

by | Oct 30, 2013

It’s hard not to like him, even though the act wears thin. Last Memorial Day weekend I happened to be at Cornell, where rising Democratic star Cory Booker delivered the Convocation address on the Saturday of the weekend-long commencement. There…

by | Sep 11, 2013

It was the least of the problems our president had with his speech last night, but did any ears perk up when he referred to America’s soldiers who fought in World War One as “GIs,” a term not in use…

by | Sep 1, 2013

WANT TO HEAR a good one? According to the New York Times, not that it’s endorsing him, what’s the one thing that qualifies Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. for the U.S. Senate? Answer: He “helped write the Affordable Care Act.” Once…

by | Aug 21, 2013

The Spectator has always offered a big tent under which a variety of views have flourished. Our new department, TEN PACES, aims to further the debate by asking a divisive question of two conservatives with opposing views. First up, the record and…

by | Aug 19, 2013

The War on Football: Saving America’s Game Daniel J. Flynn(Regnery Publishing, 239 pages, $27.95) It’s the best time of the year. Footballs are in the air, Russell Wilson’s Seahawks manhandled Peyton Manning’s Broncos last Saturday night in an incredibly hard-played…

by | Aug 7, 2013

Has tort reform been good for Texas? Attorney General Greg Abbott sure thinks so, and it’s hard to disagree with him. Nonetheless, personal injury lawyers can’t forgive him his tort-reform advocacy, given the damages he won after he was left…

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