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) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- Conrad Black is back in Canada. He controlled the third-largest string of English-language newspapers in the world before he became entoiled with the Unites States Department of Justice. For his friends,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/05/10/conrad_blacks_example 4d3bebe6-8d9f-49fd-80dd-7df032addf8d Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Washington -- When you have a young woman screaming in a hallway about some sort of grievance she has with you, you have a problem. Even a Secret Service agent, surrounded by his buddies, has a problem. I know about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/04/26/i_take_the_secret_service_scandal_personally aaeb7347-e6fd-496b-90d5-87e2e1780b48 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- All is bleak. All is woe! I speak of the tea party movement, the movement of 2009 and 2010 that was the hot news story of those years and led to the Republican rout of the Democrats in 2010. Now the tea... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/04/12/the_tea_party_goes_local 9ab5d5f4-bd8f-4daf-8d21-f2886d86f74b Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There are some campaign advisers who would counsel former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to jog on the campaign trail tirelessly, probably in short pants and with a catchy T-shirt emblazoned with some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/04/05/romney_is_coming_on_strong eaa6b951-249e-4fd1-a2c9-272e32d5e9b2 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As America rings up another $3 trillion-plus budget -- almost a historic peacetime 25 percent of gross national product -- and borrows another $1.3 trillion to pay for it, one should not be surprised that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/03/29/the_ryan_budget_is_for_everyone a28295ea-4f27-4c36-a227-d73babd1f208 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- We in America today live in a country circumscribed by entitlement policies devised by an America that steadily has been disappearing. Those policies established more than a generation ago cannot possibly,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/03/22/the_overextended_america 75b601ed-eb19-44c3-bb5b-012d3dcea2d5 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:11:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- For a couple of years now, I have been talking about the Kultursmog, the utterly polluted state of our political culture. Those who pollute it are the liberals. Kultursmog is the only form of pollution... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/03/15/what_about_free_speech 648c1f05-888b-4d62-a839-0a0d379fb06c Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT I like to think of Miss Sandra Fluke's contretemps with the madly admired Mr. Rush Limbaugh as, well, a fluke. She objected to his joke about her being "a slut" and "a prostitute," and hesto presto the part-time... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/03/08/miss_flukes_fluke 012655fc-7968-4cad-8e12-89cc92322c86 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The other day, the estimable Wall Street Journal editorial board took issue with the equally estimable T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, over the Nat Gas Act. The Journal argued with its customary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/03/01/boonedoggle 87ab5897-a486-4b31-ae75-549aa821ef03 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There is another horripilation on the campaign trail. Someone has told a joke that has roused the virtue police. I am speaking of the virtue police who are working for the grim forces of political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/02/23/foster_friess_joke 5bdaa3fd-4163-4263-a8e9-a93e0c956d55 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- There is another horripilation on the campaign trail. Someone has told a joke that has roused the virtue police. I am speaking of the virtue police who are working for the grim forces of political... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/02/23/foster_friess_joke 8432f1d0-fbd2-4a63-8579-7c9fef7fa560 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Washington -- There is a grisly pallor that has beset former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Then, too, there is a lumpiness -- to his face, to his features, to his ... well, to his lump.When he walks into a room, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/02/16/its_time_for_newt_to_go b9ad333c-1322-41c0-8c63-b137c2cf4d17 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As the tents were coming down at McPherson Square, the dead rats and mice being retrieved, the urine and feces and filthy bedding disposed of by District of Columbia employees dressed in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/02/09/the_delousing_of_a_movement 79fd8276-cb0e-4e3f-8291-1a1803fabfec Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Ah, yes, Newt Gingrich did in the last days of the Florida primary precisely what I predicted he would do. He hurled wild charges at Mitt Romney that suggested Newt was losing his grip. He charged Romney... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2012/02/02/exit_newt 3289c851-8af6-4585-9d9b-73b24b677f49 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT