Editor’s note: With their party back in power for the first time since 1994, some senior House Democrats who will be rising to committee chairmanships are already planning to conduct investigations into wrongdoings of the Bush administration in everything thing from fraud and abuse in Iraq War contracting to illegal domestic surveillance and detainee interrogations. […]

Read more

Left, Right, Center?—Even before the midterm elections were over, the mainstream media had found the narrative for the event: the results represented the triumph of “conservative Democrats.” The New York Times ran glowing profiles of Democratic challengers like Heath Shuler, the former quarterback from North Carolina who opposes abortion, gay marriage, gun control and illegal immigration. Voters […]

Read more

Editor’s note: President Bush never misses an opportunity to tout the economic growth and job gains of the last few years. The Dow may be at record highs, but there’s an ugly truth behind the myth of today’s economic “good times.” We asked occasional contributor Perry L. Weed to tease out the real story from […]

Read more

A Scandal-Filled Election—Two bribery convictions, one money-laundering indictment, two sex scandals, one Russian contracting fiasco and $90,000 stashed in a freezer. It’s been that kind of a year for the 109th Congress. Here’s how scandals are affecting some of the Congressional races across the country: Duke Cunningham, California: Cunningham resigned from Congress and pled guilty last […]

Read more

Editor’s note: The author says it would require a year’s worth of Spectators to lay out his case, fact by fact, that our recent elections were stolen. But since that case has already been made in detail elsewhere—and not just by Miller—we asked him to prepare a reader’s guide to all the evidence. We’ve published that bibliography on-line, […]

Read more