R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, a political and cultural monthly, which has been published since 1967. Tyrrell founded The American Spectator (originally called The Alternative) in 1967 after receiving a master of arts in history from Indiana University, from which he also received his bachelor of arts in 1965. In 1979 Time Magazine named Emmett Tyrrell one of the 50 future leaders of America. In 1978, the U.S. Jaycees chose him as one of their "Ten Outstanding Young Americans" of the year. In 1977, he received the American Institute for Public Service's Award for the "Greatest Public Service Performed by an American 35 Years or Under." The same year, he was presented with the American Eagle Award of the Invest-In-America National Council. Emmett Tyrrell currently serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the United States Naval Academy. Emmett Tyrrell is also a member of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- The editor of the venerable conservative weekly Human Events is causing an admirable ruckus. Jed Babbin, once deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of George H.W. Bush... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/12/24/war_is_hell,_not_litigation ead670e0-b352-49cf-b406-63bedbbe0fd0 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- I am rather sorry that Myles Brand has passed on to his reward. Brand is the fellow who, as president of Indiana University, gained enormous respect among liberals for ruining the basketball program of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/12/17/the_politically_correct_and_altercationists_anonymous f8463d3c-e378-4ce8-b21c-a3b190406ed6 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Do my eyes deceive me? Did I really see President Barack Obama this week calling for a vast increase in government spending? He is promising to "spend our way out of this recession." He plans to build... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/12/10/government_giveth_and_taketh_away a0331016-de21-4760-9ff8-8131f786a03b Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Sidney Blumenthal, the Clinton administration's famed servitor, saw it all coming. He predicted the Obama administration's carousel of incompetence, as I like to call it. He was not thinking about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/12/04/white_house_gate-crashers 844895b1-bd3f-4f65-a12f-06abc4313a3e Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- I assume all readers of this column are aware of polite society's theory of global warming. According to the theory, anthropogenic (once known as "man-made") gases waft into the atmosphere, causing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/11/26/the_global_warmists_deceit c1acdbf3-9219-42cd-a332-c6ab2568255e Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:00:54 GMT WASHINGTON -- What would the mainstream media's response be if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin described China's economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as "an accomplishment unparalleled in human... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/11/19/sarah_and_barack 4fd393a0-3a52-4d6c-8b5d-21265287212a Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Well, that did not take long! Just weeks after initiating a war of words with Fox News and being exposed as an admirer of Chairman Mao's, Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/11/12/she_is_gone cd15ce2b-2aee-4010-8344-0108846266c9 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- What strikes me about politics over the past couple of years is how obvious it all has been. In 2008, as the junior senator from Illinois campaigned across the country, demonstrating his gifts as a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/11/05/the_off-year_elections_and_the_politics_of_the_obvious bb9ad23c-752b-4bcb-98d2-9a3af224d801 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT These are vexed times. The country is at war on two fronts. Rogue states are edging toward acquiring strategic nuclear weaponry. We have been through a very serious recession from which we may not emerge into the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/10/29/where_the_girls_are e16b6c61-3aa7-4271-98f6-1fc87364ec8e Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT We are at that delicious moment in a modern Democratic presidential administration when the bizarre fantasticos who decorate each chaotic regime make their painful appearance -- though this administration is bringing a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/10/22/dangerous_zanies 69714087-ce4f-4ef4-9ca1-d430b7db6878 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification. The defamation takes place in his new book, "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/10/15/another_clinton_scandal afd4c91d-9ed9-49a3-b115-be7bae0a191e Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If you happen to be in Manhattan on Monday, do not miss the Columbus Day parade gliding up Fifth Avenue. It will be a gaudy, joyful affair as always, but it will feature something especially timely. Its grand marshal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/10/08/white-collar_hero 03aa3cf3-3032-4a11-962c-1f75101c49d5 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Boone Pickens likes to call it a "game changer," and the game he has in mind is a big one: the game for our global energy security. Boone is the billionaire Texas oilman who years ago warned that the price of oil will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/10/01/freedom_from_foreign_oil 26be538c-19d9-4110-b539-013abdd2fd3d Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Was I wrong about him? I have voiced a low opinion of the Hon. Newt Gingrich since the mid-1990s. It was then that I concluded Newt was the Republican equivalent of Boy Clinton. That is to say, Newt was a 1960s... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/09/24/conservatisms_next_coming 1e089775-ec14-4d37-a479-b6c2192267d4 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- My absurdity meter has blown up. The current news has been simply too much for this frail device, which I attach to my television set to give me a daily reading of the news' absurdity content. First,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/09/17/the_absurdity_meter_blowup 6ed99a56-fa1a-439d-87cd-713ff641e3c8 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT