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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

PUBLISHER
Alfred S. Regnery

EXECUTIVE EDITOR, WEB EDITOR
Wlady Pleszczynski

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George Neumayr

ASSISTANT MANAGING AND WEB EDITOR
Jeremy Lott

Copyright © 2004
The American Spectator









Tuesday, August 10, 2004     


Monday     /      Sunday     /      Saturday     /      Friday     /      Thursday     /      Wednesday   
The Manchurian Candidate Reconsidered
Special Report
We’ve been fooled. It’s an anti-Kerry remake. Cruelly, ruthlessly so.
James Bowman, 8/10/2004 12:08:50 AM

Terry in Turquoise
Washington Prowler
Tenderfoot Kerry's shopping spree. Plus: Bushwhackers in Lawrence. Also: Happy to remain Unfit.
The Prowler, 8/10/2004 12:08:45 AM

W Stands For Winner
Campaign Crawlers
And winners can only act one way: as Mr. Nice Guy.
Jay D. Homnick, 8/10/2004 12:07:21 AM

Down the Alleys
At Large
The treasure-laden pathways of open-sky America’s backyard.
Bill Croke, 8/10/2004 12:05:40 AM

An Off-Keyes McCainiac
Another Perspective
Go back to the Straight Talk Express, Mike Murphy.
Hunter Baker, 8/10/2004 12:05:04 AM

Diamonds Are Forever
TAS Live
Terror’s secret financial network is cut in stone.
John Corry, 8/10/2004 12:04:57 AM

 Monday, August 09, 2004
Carterism, Janjaweed, and Lemonade
Loose Canons
Whatever we do we should stay out. Darfur is gutcheck time for the gutless U.N.
Jed Babbin, 8/9/2004 12:09:15 AM

Making It Look Big Easy
Washington Prowler
Republicans beat Dems at own game. Plus: Kerry and his no show colleagues. Also: Kerry not so swift.
The Prowler, 8/9/2004 12:08:20 AM

Q&A; for Bruce Springsteen
Political Hay
For a pretty good musician he's a lousy political Boss.
Paul Beston, 8/9/2004 12:06:28 AM

Keyes In
Another Perspective
Listening to him speak will be its own reward.
Hunter Baker, 8/9/2004 12:05:37 AM

Stone Cold
At Large
The ACLU chooses sides in the terror war. Plus: When a kiss is not a kiss.
Mark Goldblatt, 8/9/2004 12:04:01 AM

Boat People
Reader Mail
Kerry under fire. Making Bush follow through. Flight 327. Tyson's beef. Europe's choice. Plus more.
8/9/2004 12:01:20 AM

 Friday, August 06, 2004
How Does It Feel?
Political Hay
John Kerry gets a taste of his own medicine over Vietnam.
George Neumayr, 8/6/2004 12:08:24 AM

Crackup Symptoms
Washington Prowler
Kerry backers cut jobs. Edwards's BBQ blues. Kerry shows his cards.
The Prowler, 8/6/2004 12:07:56 AM

Keyes to the Senate?
Another Perspective
It’s not too late for Alan Keyes to make the right call.
W. James Antle III, 8/6/2004 12:06:53 AM

Flinty?
At Large
Is that about the nicest thing anyone can say about John New Englander Kerry?
Lawrence Henry, 8/6/2004 12:06:22 AM

Bush’s Opportunity
Campaign Crawlers
Democrats officially view the war in Iraq as a complete distraction from the war on al Qaeda. Here’s how the President can set them straight.
David Hogberg, 8/6/2004 12:05:00 AM

 Thursday, August 05, 2004
Rashomon in the Skies:
The Tangled Tale of Flight 327

Special Report
What happened on the now infamous June 29 Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles starring 13 Syrian musicians? Are terrorists sizing up our commercial aviation for another strike?
Clinton W. Taylor, 8/5/2004 12:09:20 AM

Down and Out
The Current Crisis
Mike Tyson could have been a contender.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., 8/5/2004 12:07:18 AM

Safer and Stronger
Political Hay
Kerry says that’s what he’ll make us -- as if we won’t be sorrier.
Brandon Crocker, 8/5/2004 12:06:07 AM

Everlasting Kelly
TAS Live
The collected writings of Michael Kelly -- someone who mattered.
Colby Cosh, 8/5/2004 12:05:07 AM

The Manchurian Candidate
Movie Takes
Once it was the Commies who brainwashed; now it’s the Bushies, though they’ve never read Marx or Engels, not to mention Lenin, Mao, and Che Guevera.
James Bowman, 8/5/2004 12:02:50 AM

On Standby Alert
Reader Mail
You never know. Pace Rocks the Vote. What’s good about goodbye. Losing it at the movies. Plus much more, including our Kerry Korner.
8/5/2004 12:01:05 AM

 Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Democratic Offshoreman
Campaign Crawlers
Attacked by tax pirates, John Kerry sought shelter on offshore islands before becoming a pirate himself.
George Neumayr, 8/4/2004 12:09:41 AM

The Big Orange
Media Matters
We sure do scare easily, no?
Reid Collins, 8/4/2004 12:08:49 AM

What Have You Done For Us Lately?
Special Report
The U.S. is learning just how many fair-weather friends it has. What happens when they find themselves needing our help?
Doug Bandow, 8/4/2004 12:07:34 AM

Divided We Stand
Political Hay
Who says we need a national intelligence director?
Jay D. Homnick, 8/4/2004 12:06:18 AM

Drug War Dirty Dealings
Another Perspective
How long can we tolerate this ugly state of affairs?
Ralph R. Reiland, 8/4/2004 12:05:05 AM

The Bourne Supremacy
Movie Takes
Nothing here about the post-9/11 world -- in keeping with its exquisite liberal conscience.
James Bowman, 8/4/2004 12:02:37 AM

Open Field Politics
Reader Mail
Ohio without a helmet. Conventional Yeats. Godless in Tampa. Po-mo Manchuria. Teresa on the loose. Plus more.
8/4/2004 12:01:48 AM

 Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Kerry’s Flat Bounce
Campaign Crawlers
The Democrat should be congratulated: he’s now perceived as more liberal than he was before Boston.
John Tabin, 8/3/2004 12:46:36 AM

Democrats in Deep Prayer
Special Report
In Florida, they're led by a certified atheist.
Larry Thornberry, 8/3/2004 12:08:00 AM

Blocking Dummy
Washington Prowler
Kerry fumbles Ohio football. Plus: Teresa grounded. Kerry revives busing.
The Prowler, 8/3/2004 12:07:10 AM

Misperception Correction
Political Hay
Looking at the record on John Heinz and Max Cleland.
Hunter Baker, 8/3/2004 12:06:48 AM

Paranoia: Then and Now
Latte Nation
The new Manchurian Candidate falls victim to its own corporate greed.
Jeremy Lott, 8/3/2004 12:06:24 AM

Pieces of Our Minds
Live From New York
Take your medicine: Prenup Kerry or radical Islam.
Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder, 8/3/2004 12:05:51 AM

Progressive Recovery
Reader Mail
Further coming to terms with the surreal JFK. Plus much more, including daring to talk about 9/11 and taking the measure of winning candidates. Also: An early Valentine to Reader Mailers.
8/3/2004 12:01:33 AM

Editor's Desk
We're getting rather fed up with John "Swifty" Kerry and the many efforts his goons in the DNC and media to suppress dissenting opinion on his Vietnam heroics. At this point we're tempted to take all the Enemy of the Week medals we've conscientiously awarded him in recent months and heave them into the blue Potomac, where they might nourish the dread snakehead and other of his advisers. According Matt Drudge, the acting director of national intelligence who broke the story on Unfit to Command and the resistance of Vietnam Veterans to co-optation by the current Kerry crew, "Kerry supporters are comparing the effort by the veterans to the Arkansas State troopers tell-all against Bill Clinton." That says it all. Since the troopers spoke to the truth, these veterans are obviously doing no less. Kerry sycophants, like Clinton's, know as much. Their only defense is to make it a political crime to expose the lies keeping their man afloat. That's the problem with these people. They've been living lies so long they can't conceive of other ways to live.
The Prowler
Just who wears the pants -- and carries the cash -- in the Kerry family became embarrassingly clear over the weekend, when, while shopping in Albuquerque, John Kerry had to let wife Teresa cover the cost of jewelry he wanted to buy for her [more]
Reader Mail
There is simply too much criticism of Kerry (I know it's easy) and defense of Bush (I know it's reflexive) in The American Spectator. We would be better off analyzing Bush's failures, forcefully asking the right questions, and advocating alternatives [more]