The American Spectator

The Strip Club

Judy Bachrach — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

Naturally I was happy to learn that Christopher Buckley had just written a new novel, this one called Losing Mum and Pup—the story, I assumed, of a mute and careless veterinarian. However,...

Saving Liberty

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:09:00 -0400

WASHINGTON -- A few weeks back, at the dawn of the Obama Administration, I was at dinner with a very bright woman of middle years who called herself an independent. She found the new president...

Coming and Going

Enemy Central — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

At last, some intelligent commentary on Sarah Palin in the New York Times. "I fear that we are only deepening the divide by mocking her...all the while failing to address the issues faced by...

ACORN Sells Out the Poor

Matthew Vadum — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

The relentlessly sanctimonious Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now may not deserve its carefully cultivated image as a defender of the poor. That's because the group has...

Accentuate the Positive

Quin Hillyer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

Barack Obama is a disaster for the country because his economics are straight out of Mussolini's playbook, his foreign policy is that of Ramsey Clark, his Justice Department is that of Ramsey ...

Hard Knox

Fred Lucas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:07:00 -0400

When President Barack Obama spoke to a crowded East Room on June 29 commemorating Pride Month, he took time to recognize a few people from a key constituency in the audience. "It is great to ...

The Jackson Trajectory

Mark Goldblatt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:07:00 -0400

After a week of rolling my eyes at the grotesque verbal pieta constructed around Michael Jackson's death -- with the media casting itself as Virgin Mary, cradling the fallen King of Pop down to...

Diversity in Suspense

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:01:00 -0400

NOTHING PHONY Re: Larry Thornberry's The Dean of Suspense: Larry Thornberry’s description of bioethics as "a phony branch of elite philosophy whose principle purpose seems to be to...

The Bush Doctrine Is Still Working

Peter Ferrara — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

A central theme of President Bush's administration was to promote democracy in the Middle East. He argued that establishing a full fledged democracy in Iraq in the heart of the Middle East would ...

The Receding Economy, Surging Spending

J.T. Young — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:08:00 -0400

America's emerging policy issue is the federal budget deficit. According to the 7/2 released CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll of 1,026 adults (conducted 6/26-28 with a 3.1% +/- margin of error), ...

Honduras -- Riding Tigers

James M. Thunder — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:07:00 -0400

President Obama has denounced the actions taken by the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court and military, all actions taken under the rule of law -- Honduran law -- in the nonviolent arrest and ...