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, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 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 Sept. 1 was the 70th anniversary of Hitler's blitzkrieg into Poland and the beginning of World War II. Fifty million people died. Western Europe was devastated. Eastern Europe was more thoroughly devastated and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/09/10/new_generation_of_churchill_critics 738b1d4b-3529-4f79-847a-a332ce60c46c Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Why is the governor of South Carolina still a national news story? This past week, Gov. Mark Sanford was again in the news, and neither sex nor romance had anything to do with it. I can understand his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/09/03/mark_sanford_and_the_odd_fellows f931f0ed-823e-48df-b36d-326440dd593b Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT According to the Gallup Poll, the Prophet Obama's job approval is now at its lowest since his coronation. It began at 70 percent. Now it is at 51 percent. Equally glum, his disapproval rating has climbed from 11... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/08/27/obamas_carousel_of_incompetence 6fea664f-7ac9-45a2-9169-17167e04e7d2 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT It took cancer longer than a year to kill Bob Novak, and actually, this was the fifth cancer that tried to kill him. Let that stand as testimony as to how tough this guy was. He was very tough. He worked long hours as a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/08/18/tribute_to_robert_novak d18ca97c-1461-4b19-bb10-39ec7e29d4d8 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:32:41 GMT Allow me a word of encouragement to our president. Mr. Obama, you are doing just fine. You wanted to set a new tone in Washington, and you have. You wanted an open debate on health care, and you have it.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/08/13/the_health_care_chaos 521157ea-c4f8-47a5-aacf-2d8451118788 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Back in the 1990s, David Brooks, then an editor at The Wall Street Journal, called me and asked me whether I would like to "gloat" on the newspaper's op-ed page. What inspired him to encourage such... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/08/06/public_nuisances 2cef10b6-c391-4496-a012-739a4af5aaf3 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Did you see the look on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's face when, during her visit to India, she visited with that country's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh? It was that frozen smile we have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/07/30/sanity_from_the_indian_subcontinent 31247f5e-4c04-4a4a-b089-0838ba6d08a6 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT