The American Spectator

The Man Who Despises America

Mark Hyman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:09:00 -0500

The very next paragraph is going to make the nut jobs on the far left excitable beyond belief. I am not referring to all Democrats or even a majority of liberals. I am singling out the ...

Fear of The Mother

Shawn Macomber — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:08:00 -0500

In his eye-opening, astute new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, Matthew Continetti argues that the "story of Sarah Palin is the story of American political journalism's intellectual...

The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever

Peter Ferrara — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:08:00 -0500

"The Worst Bill Ever." That is the title the always calm and rational Wall Street Journal put on its editorial on November 1 about the government health care takeover bill that passed the...

On Speed

Eric Peters — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:07:00 -0500

Some of my very earliest memories are of highway speed limit signs with "70" or even "75" on them. This was in the early 1970s. I also remember my parents routinely driving around 80 mph on...

Word Freight

Peter Hannaford — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:06:00 -0500

Words carry freight. Sometimes it's only the dictionary meaning drummed into us in the past. Other words conjure a picture. Take "swashbuckler." Recently, a popular conservative journal had an ...

We Win, They Lose

Lisa Fabrizio — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:06:00 -0500

Another week in the life of our nation sweeps by, and with it comes more evidence that the gloom and doom that has enveloped conservatives for the past year may finally be lifting. It's not so...

Antichrist

James Bowman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:02:00 -0500

You only have to hear the plot summary of Lars von Trier's Antichrist to hate it. It begins with scenes of a couple (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe) enjoying carnal relations in...

Abandoned Under Obama

Heather Robinson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:09:00 -0500

Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described "Muslim Zionist," traveled to the U.S. to address audiences in New York City and at Yale University. Publisher of the largest...

The Wall, The Fort, and a Movie: The Real Disaster of 2012

Jeffrey Lord — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:08:00 -0500

They are the prototypical Reagan stories. Everyone of any approved sensibility believes X. Ex-presidents. Cabinet members and ex-Cabinet members. The Staff. The Friends. The Media,...

Bursting the Economist's Population Bubble

Joseph Meaney — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:07:00 -0500

The Economist magazine's cover story for October 31, 2009 "Falling fertility: How the population problem is solving itself," is notable both for its eminently sane rebuke of population control...

Czars Along the Potomac

Frank Schell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:07:00 -0500

All along the Potomac, we now observe an array of potentates not seen since the days of imperial Europe. Were they to stand side by side, they would equal the width of a U.S. Navy destroyer....