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ANOTHER OBAMA FRIEND (March 2012)

Another Obama Friend by Alfred S. Regnery Remember the fobs? There were reportedly thousands of them, all anxious to do Bill’s bidding, to send an encouraging word or to help minimize the...

Note from the Publisher (February 2012)

Who’s Really Conservative? by Alfred S. Regnery Rarely has the debate between right and left been more vibrant than it is as we enter this election year, a year when the very soul of the...

OBAMA CAN'T GET PAST THE PAST (December 2011)

Obama Can’t Get Past the Past by Alfred S. Regnery Religion and american politics are intertwined in many ways, and there is unending concern, largely among his opponents, that a...

My One-Night Stand with a Real Pig (November 2011)

Note From The Publisher My One-Night Stand With a Real Pig by Alfred S. Regnery Lest readers think that the Spectator is all about serious stuff-politics, terrorists, foreign debt, and health...

Balancing Acts (October 2011)

Note From The Publisher Balancing Acts by Alfred S. Regnery "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect," Harry Hopkins, FDR's most trusted adviser, allegedly told Arthur Krock, veteran...

Note From The Publisher: Red States Rising (September 2011)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Red States Rising by Alfred S. Regnery With the federal government in charge of most everything these days and incessantly trying to gather more into its grasp, it...

They're all in this Together (September 2011)

They're All in This Together Meet Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ayers, and their friend, the president. By Alfred S. Regnery Asked during the 2008 presidential campaign about his relationship with the...

Note from the Publisher (June 2011)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER William A. Rusher, RIP by Alfred S. Regnery Conservatism has lost its most dedicated eternal optimist. One of the last of the original conservative giants, one who...

The Best Is Yet To Come (May 2011)

note from the publisher The Best Is Yet to Come by Alfred S. Regnery Press reports tell us that Republican activists are convinced that the nation is hurtling down the wrong road, about to...

We'll Always Have Paris (April 2011)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER We'll Always Have Paris by Alfred S. Regnery There are good bureaucracies and there are bad bureaucracies, but they all share at least one thing: Parkinson's Law....

Unwanted: Dead Or Alive (February 2011)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Unwanted: Dead or Alive by Alfred S. Regnery There's an old game played by ideologues called Predict the Other Side's Demise. "Conservatism is dead, once and for all,"...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Repudiations and Recommendations (December 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Repudiations and Recommendations by Alfred S. Regnery A great deal will have been written about the 2010 election by the time our readers receive this issue of The...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Ending the Ratchet Racket (November 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Ending the Ratchet Racket by Alfred S. Regnery As this is written, in early October, poll numbers indicate that the left will suffer a stunning defeat on Election Day....

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Obama's War (October 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Obama's War by Alfred S. Regnery AFGHANISTAN is often called the "graveyard of empires." It is also Barack Obama's Achilles' heel. He has nobody to blame but...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER (September 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Ruling Against the Ruling Class by Alfred S. Regnery The liberal elite has been redefined. Call it the Ruling Class, and the rest of us the Country Class. In the...

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL (September 2010)

SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL Pilgrimage to Albania by Alfred S. Regnery ALBANiA? why, of all the places to go in the world, would you choose to go to Albania?" That was the usual response from friends...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER (July 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Three Essential Words by Alfred S. Regnery We the people..." So starts off the Constitution, a document written by a group of a white male elitists, but elitists who...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER (June 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER No Reverse by Alfred S. Regnery Democrats and republicans alike anticipate something of an electoral bloodbath in November, and by everybody's calculation, Republicans...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Why the Tea Party Movement Is Important (May 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Why the Tea Party Movement Is Important by Alfred S. Regnery The last time the right was energized with new blood, new foot soldiers, and new voters was in...

THE GOOD OLD DAYS (April 2010)

The Good Old Days How William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia set the stage for a conservative turnaround on the U.S. Supreme Court. By Alfred S. Regnery Paul clement, George W. Bush's...

Constitution Care (March 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Constitution Care by Alfred s. Regnery When asked by a reporter where Congress gets the constitutional authority to require Americans to buy health insurance,...

Suicide Prevention (February 2010)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Suicide Prevention by Alfred S. Regnery Why are democrats on a suicide mission and what is it they are trying to accomplish? Poll after poll tells us that the...

Agents of Influence (December 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Agents of Influence by Alfred S. Regnery Whom is the president listening to, and what is he being told? Judging from those we’ve read about in the past several...

What DIfference a Year Makes (November 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER What a Difference a Year Makes by Alfred S. Regnery It has often been said that the best thing for the right is a couple of years of the left. Sometimes,...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: This Property Is Condemned (October 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER This Property Is Condemned by Alfred S. Regnery For thou hast lost thy princely privilege With vile participation — Henry IV It was more than just wanting to be...

note from the publisher: Losing the Battle-But Winning the War (September 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Losing the Battle—But Winning the War by Alfred S. Regnery Sonia Sotomayor will probably provide Barack Obama what he wanted on the Supreme Court: a reliable...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Portrait of an Artist (July 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Portrait of an Artist by Alfred S. Regnery I recall thinking after reading Paul Johnson's Modern Times that if I could remember everything that was in it, I'd never...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Up from Obama (June 2009)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Up from Obama by Alfred s. Regnery We have heard more than we needed to know about the First 100 Days, not to mention the Next 100 Days, and the Next, and the...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER (May 2009)

TO ANY POLITICIAN—especially a president—the most damaging criticism, at least apart from a seamy ethical problem, is incompetence. People just like to think those they elect are capable...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Sailing to Obamaland (April 2009)

The american president,â€ said Henry Adamsâ€”grandson of one president and great-grandson of anotherâ€”â€œresembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Promisses, Promises (March 2009)

IFIND IT ENLIGHTENING to review the many promises made by incoming presidents over the years, and to then compare those promises with what they actually accomplished. The country is fixated...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLIsHER : Back to Basics (January 2009)

noTe from THe PublISHer Back to Basics by Alfred s. Regnery T he age of reagan, we are told, is over. Conservatives have had their day, have been rejected and replaced with liberalism...

In With the New (November 2008)

NoTe from THe PublIsHer In With the New by Alfred S. Regnery Throughout the campaign for the White House, it was increasingly apparent that according to media elites, Barack...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Come Cruise With Us (October 2008)

noTe fRoM THe PublIsHeR Come Cruise With Us by alfred s. Regnery A s the Democrats were sweeping up their litter at Denver’s Invesco Field, John McCain stole the bounce that the angry...

Note from the Publisher: Back to School (September 2008)

noTe fRoM THe PublIsHeR Back to School by alfred s. Regnery T T he superstitions of academic freedom” was the subtitle Bill Buckley used when he published God and Man at Yale...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Conservatism Is Dead-Long Live Conservatism! (July 2008)

Conservatism Is Dead— Long Live Conservatism! n o t e F R o M t H e P u b l I s H e R To paraphrase mark twa by Alfred S. Regnery in, the rumors of the death of conservatism have been...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Individual Liberty on Display (June 2008)

n o T e f R o M T H e P u B L I s H e R Individual Liberty on Display by Alfred s. Regnery standing of the Constitution, and on the conservative legal movement, than Robert Bork. We...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLIsHER: Recessional (May 2008)

n o T e f R o M T H e P u b l I s H e R Recessional by alfred s. Regnery Remember Jimmy Carter’s “misery index”? You add inflation to unemployment, and the result tells you how miserable...

NOTE FROM THE PUGLISHER : Civility and Freedom (April 2008)

noTe fRoM THe PublIsHeR Civility and Freedom by Alfred s. regnery A s we mourn the passing of Bill Buckley, it is interesting to note the contrast between the uni-versal praise now being...

MARK FALCOFF: Upward and Onward (March 2008)

Upward and Onward Upstream: The ascendance of american conservatism By Alfred S. Regnery (Threshold/simon & schusTer, 448 pages, $26) Reviewed by Mark falcoff retreated to a reduced...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Property Values (March 2008)

n o T e f R o M T H e P u b l I s H e R Property Values by alfred s. Regnery Without property of their own, voters have no fixed interest in conserving the property of others, and...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Give Me Liberty (February 2008)

n o T e f R o M T H e P U b L I s H e R Give Me Liberty by Alfred S. Regnery Individual liberty—the foundation of our freedom, the essence of the Constitution, and one of the foremost...

IDEAS STILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES (January 2008)

20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 BY ALFRED S. REGNERY One of them has been the conservative movement’s political, intellectual, and economic progress against the stale...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Matters of Life and Death (November 2007)

OW OFTEN HAVE WE HEARD thattheWest,especially Western Europe, has a demographic problem? So few babies are being born, we're told, thattherewon'tbeenoughpeopletopayforthe pensions,...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Class of 1967 (October 2007)

T'SCAUSEFORCELEBRATIONwhenanymagazineturns40, especially an opinion magazine. And when that magazine is The American Spectator, you have a real...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Run of the Place (September 2007)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Run of the Place by Alfred S. Regnery P RESIDENTS LIKE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES as “running the country,” and presidential candidates virtually salivate at the...

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES: Single Malt in the Blue Ridge (September 2007)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES Single Malt in the Blue Ridge by Alfred S. Regnery T HE AMERICAN DREAM LIVES ON in Virginia’s Blue It is a slow-moving Sunday afternoon in July, and Ridge....

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Desert Storms (June 2007)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Desert Storms by Alfred S. Regnery O NE OF THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES of the Iraq war is the ascendance of Iran as one of the West’s principal irritants in the...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: A Matter of Competence (May 2007)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER A Matter of Competence by Alfred S. Regnery THERE HAS LONG BEEN a consensus among American voters that Republicans are a competent lot. When they set out to...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Let's Get Going (April 2007)

UMMELED IN THE FALL ELECTIONS and now in the minority in Congress, Republicans--especially Republican leaders--still haven't figured out why they lost or what they need to do to win once...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: A Parting of Ways (March 2007)

WILL NEVER FORGET WANDERING throughtheAmerican Cemetery near Omaha Beach in Normandy several years ago. Nearly 10,000 American boys are buried there, in row upon row of graves, each with a...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER:It's Not Over (February 2007)

N O T E F R O M T H E P U B L I S H E R It’s Not Over by Alfred S. Regnery HE AGE OF REAGANOMICS, proclaimed Chuck Schumer, and the philosophy that Ronald Reagan brought to Washington, is...

LAST CALL: Continental Divide (October 2006)

LAST CALL Alfred S. Regnery Continental Divide ~-T IS 3,100 MILES FROM the Canadian border to Mexico. Imagine the benefits of a multi-purpose road (of sorts) right through the heart of the...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: History Ignored (October 2006)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER History Ignored BY ALFRED S, REGNERY G EORGE SANTAYANA'S QUIP that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it has almost become a platitude. But I'll...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Pursuit of Liberty (September 2006)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Pursuit of Liberty BY ALFRED S. REGNERY T HE AMERICAN SPECTATOR has always greeted the world with a combination of amusement and seriousness, and this issue is no...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Most Dangerous Branch (May 2006)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Most Dangerous Branch BY ALFRED So REGNERY d rHY ARE WE SO CONCERNED about the feder"I : al courts? Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 78, assured us that the...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Underwhelmed (April 2006)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Underwhelmed BY ALFRED S. REGNERY L IKE MOST CONSERVATIVES, we are not overwhelmed by George Bush's presidency, and we are doing, in this issue, what conservatives are...

Note Fron The Publisher (November 2005)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER George W. Rush: A Loss for Conservatism? BY ALFRED S. REGNERY 3 EFORE NIXON WAS NOMINATED in 1968, newly elected California Governor Ronald Reagan gave...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: High and Outside (October 2005)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER High and Outside BY ALFRED S. REGNERY HOW ABOUT THIS FOR IRONY? The Supreme Court decides two cases, both involving whether the Constitution permits...

A Life of Deception (May 2005)

Books in Review "A Life of Deception" were living in France and, like much of the country, were caught by surprise by the German blitzkrieg. Wodehouse spent almost a year separated from his wife in a series of...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Christian Kiev (March 2005)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Christian Kiev BY ALFRED S. REGNERY WIRES DON'T DIE EASILY. Thus, the successful 11J Vladimir Putin and his network of old Soviet election—finally—of Viktor Yushchenko is...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: On Red Alert (December 2004)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER On Red Alert BY ALFRED S. REGNERY Y THE TIME THIS ISSUE ARRIVES in your mailbox you will probably have digested the election results, and may even be sick of hearing...

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Coalition of the Bribed (November 2004)

NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Coalition of the Bribed BY ALFRED S. REGNERY It sounds like something you'd order at Starbucks. Unfortunately, it isn't. As a lifelong United Nations drone who...

Good Questions (April 2004)

I N THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR'S TRADITION of presenting all sides of the conservative cause, we include herein at least one piece which will provoke some of our readers and supporters to inquire of our...

THE TRANSATLANTIC SPECTATOR: We Can Get Along (April 2004)

PENDING TIME TALKING to European politicians and journalists makes you want to sing a paraphrase of the Kingston Trio's old Merry Minuet: The Germans hate the British, and the British hate the...

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Regnevy, Henry

Rehyansky, Joseph A.

Reich, Robert B.

REID, JOHN DEN DULK, MELINDA BOWMAN, RICHARD L. HOFFMAN, RICHARD MARLIAVE, NANCY ANN HOLTZ, LINDA EL

Reid, Paul

Reid, Stuart

Reilly, Robert R.

Reinken, Paul E.

Reinsch, William A.

Remini, Robert V.

Remnick, David