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Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Terry McAuliffe's Gift It is called the Taranto Principle, having been named after him who coined it, the inimitable James Taranto of the Wall Street...

The Continuing Crisis (September 2013)

The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. July evanesces, and so does the Prophet Obama. Toward the end of the month he auspicated a lecture tour on the economy and, of a sudden, began...

A Bizarre Province (November 1991)

Back In School R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A BIZARRE PROVINCE Preliminary findings from The American Spectator's Amnesty in Academia campaign. E vidence accumulates that in our time those...

Editorials/Company Man/Small Minds (October 1991)

EDITORIALS COMPANY MAN by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ommunism's East European police states collapsed almost two years ago. So did Americans' fear of awakening on the morrow to nuclear holocaust,...

Editorials/Introducing Clarence Thomas/Memory of an Elephant (September 1991)

MEMORY OF AN ELEPHANT Here is how the Democrats are going to win the 1992 presidential election, which, incidentally, will be their first presidential win since 1976 and only their second since...

Editorials/The Borking of Carol Iannone/Mouthwash Madness (July 1991)

MOUTHWASH MADNESS S pring is with us! But so are The Mournful—The Ever Mournful. No sooner are we visited by the first balmy gusts from the season of amour than word leaks from the National Cancer...

Editorials/Newt the Whaler/Chairman of the Board (December 1990)

EDITORIALS NEWT THE WHALER by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. George Herbert Walker Bush has obviously never read the memoirs of Harry S. Truman or Hubert Humphrey, and Congressman Newt Gingrich has. Had...

Editorials/Taxing Times/Freak Shows (September 1990)

EDITORIALS FREAK SHOWS America loves its freak shows. P. T. eral public. That they can degrade our Barnum recognized this and pro- judicial system with impunity does not vided them in abundance....

Editorials/The Totalitarian Comeback/Boycott the Germans (August 1989)

EDITORIALS THE TOTALITARIAN COMEBACK rin he massacre in Tiananmen Square 1 —also called the Square of Heavenly Peace, by the way—and the subsequent wretched recantations now broadcast on...

Editorials / Drug Dealings / Looking for Loons (June 1989)

LOOKING FOR LOONS W here are all the nuts of yesteryear? The other day I happened by Lafayette Park across from the White House. To my astonishment the motley of shabby prophets and loons was...

Editorials/The Duke Did His Best/Pardon 011ie/Junk Danger (January 1989)

EDITORIALS PARDON OLLIE 6 A ction this day" was a Churchillian invocation. Or as the American philosopher Satchel Paige would put it in more relaxed tones, "Don't ever look back. Something may...

Editorials/Spirits of Enterprise/Along Goose Creek (May 1987)

ALONG GOOSE CREEK T have now lived in America's Rome 1 for precisely one year. My reference to the ancient capital of the Caesars is facetious. The founders of Washington were smitten by the notion...

Editorials/Conservative Cooglers/The Diver (March 1987)

THE DIVER Your introduction to Sam Hall probably came on Monday, December 15, when it was reported that the Dayton, Ohio furniture salesman had been arrested in Nicaragua on spy charges. My...

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