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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.
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 17, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- I first heard it two, perhaps two and a half years ago. A sage sitting in his New York City office pronounced it. Said the sage to me: "This is going to be the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 10, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 26, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 12, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 05, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 29, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 22, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- We in America today live in a country circumscribed by entitlement policies devised by an America that steadily has been disappearing. Those policies... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 15, 2012)
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.... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 08, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 01, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 23, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 23, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 16, 2012)
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 ...... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 09, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 02, 2012)
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... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 26, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private, I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism's Bill Clinton, but without... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 19, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Whose job would you want to have? Would it be President Barack Obama's or Governor Chris Christie's in the great state of New Jersey? Would it be President... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 12, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- I have officially called off my boycott of the National Football League. I do not care how many felons or frotteurs play the game. Now there is Tim Tebow to... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 05, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- An underlying theme of our times that has gone unperceived by the high and mighty in media, government and other locales where the politically alive come to... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 04, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- The year 2011 has drawn to an end, and as I look back, I see several of my predictions that appear pretty sound. President Barack Obama is dead in the water and... more