Commentary - America's Future

By David Freddoso • Dec 18,2005

Learning from the most expensive sidewalk in Washington

PORTLAND, Maine — President John F. Kennedy is rumored to have said that Washington is famous for its Northern charm and its Southern efficiency. This has never been more evident...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Dec 11,2005

The Brainwash holiday gift guide 2005

While the sheer number of material objects available for purchase skyrockets, it seems that people are finding it more difficult to choose among them. How else to explain the increasing...

By Peter J. Lynch • Dec 11,2005

Separation anxiety

Michelle McCusker, a 26-year-old preschool teacher from Long Island, recently found herself in an uncomfortable, if not exactly unprecedented, position. She was pregnant and single, with a shotgun wedding not...

By AF Editors • Dec 04,2005

Trading places on Roe

Judge Samuel Alito’s smooth road to the Supreme Court hit a bump last week as a 1985 memo penned by him while at the Department of Justice surfaced. In that...

By AF Editors • Dec 04,2005

Who’s afraid of big business?

A close examination of the political scene in Washington suggests that conservatives have far more reason to be upset with big business influence over government, while liberals ought to be...

By AF Editors • Nov 27,2005

An analog armageddon?

Hollywood movies are replete with bad guys nefariously plotting to control the world, but these days, music and movie industry associations are looking awfully like power-hungry villains themselves as they...