The American Spectator

The Running of the Bulls: Is Harry Reid the Next Scott Lucas?

Jeffrey Lord — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:09:00 -0500

Senator George Norris was stunned. "Why should people be so mad at me?" he wondered in amazement to a reporter for the New York Times. It was November, 1942. And Senator Norris, one of...

Sweet Tea for GOP in Alabama

Robert Stacy McCain — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Don Odom stood quietly at the back of a conference room Saturday morning at the Renaissance Hotel. Tall and muscular, with a shaved head, goatee and wire-rim glasses, ...

While America Slept

Andrew Roberts — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

"I do not think America is going to smash,” Winston Churchill told his American stockbroker in the depths of the Great Depression. “On the contrary I believe that they will quite soon begin to...

Avalanche Country

Bill Croke — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:07:00 -0500

Every year an average of 25 winter sports enthusiasts die in avalanches in the West. There have been a dozen such fatalities so far this winter. Two were "in-bounds" skier deaths: one a skier...

A Thousand Points of Lightness

Jay D. Homnick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:07:00 -0500

Milton Berle was at a party in D.C. once and, making conversation over cocktails, he asked a fellow: "Have you heard the latest gag about the White House?" "I beg your pardon," the man...

Yes to the Party of No

Ross Kaminsky — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:06:00 -0500

In a column posted from his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the further-left-every-year NY Times columnist Tom Friedman offers us this gem from the echo chamber: ...

We've Got Mail

Katherine Eastland — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:06:00 -0500

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters By Thomas Mallon (Pantheon, 338 pages, $26.95) “Oh, my dear friend, my heart was trembling as I walked into the post office, and there you were,...

Obama's Miranda Madness

The Prowler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:09:00 -0500

USELESS CYNICISM A Senate Intelligence Committee staffer says that in recent updates to the committee, and in briefing individual Senators, national security and national intelligence...

The Kennedy Joke

Daniel J. Flynn — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

Rep. Patrick Kennedy has come out swinging against the man who now sits in the Senate seat his father held for 47 years. Telling a blog for the Hill newspaper that Senator Scott Brown was "in...

The Wrong Gay Line

Larry Thornberry — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

Wilford Brimley, the folksy and appealing character actor, did a series of commercials a few years back for a brand of oatmeal, the signature line of which was, "It's the right thing to do." ...

Federal Court Requires State of Washington to Allow Incarcerated Felons to Vote

James M. Thunder — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:08:00 -0500

You may have seen a headline like this one following a January 5 decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (usually shortened to "Ninth Circuit"), the federal ...