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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 (Dec 29, 2011)
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
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Emmett Tyrrell (Dec 22, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- They are back! I speak of the episodic apologists, who have been a phenomenon of the Clinton Saga since its earliest days, back when the Clintons were flipping... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Dec 15, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Do you recall in reading President Harry S. Truman's very good memoir, "Years of Trial and Hope: 1946-1952," his scholarly dissection of the Federal Reserve... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Dec 08, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Do my eyes deceive me? It seems that the Republicans are in danger of losing the debate on cutting taxes. Some 30 years after President Ronald Reagan proved... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Dec 01, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- When Barney Frank announced the other day that he was shuffling off stage after three decades in the Congressional limelight, I was brought back to 1980, when... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Nov 24, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- On Sunday morning we lost a big-hearted prodigy: Teddy Forstmann, financier, political player, philanthropist (especially for the young and those in education)... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Nov 17, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- The death of Fred Ikle last week inspires me to prophesy. Thus far, only the redoubtable Wall Street Journal has remarked on Fred's passing. That he was a... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Nov 10, 2011)
Last weekend I was given a hint as to how an erroneous idea is born and how it takes on a life of its own.I was at Yale University as a guest of the William F. Buckley Jr.... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Nov 02, 2011)
A presidential election looms on the horizon, and already the nation's great organs of opinion -- and occasionally of fact -- are gearing up to serve the commonweal and, ever... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Oct 27, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- It's called the Taranto Principle, and it's now being employed by the Kultursmogists to blanket the country in a preposterosity: namely that the Tea Partyers... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Oct 20, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- I do not know what the learned political scientists of the Republic say about it, but it seems to me that the laws of the land are now so poorly written that... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Oct 13, 2011)
As an observer on the national scene lo these many years, I have noted time and again that in a discussion of politics the first person to inject the topic of race into the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Oct 06, 2011)
WASHINGTON - Supposedly, this White House has just made a furious attempt to sink a book, "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" by Ron... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Sep 29, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- One of the causes that has brought the great and worthy movement of Liberalism to its present state of decrepitude has been remarked upon in this column many... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Sep 22, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- It is clear from the way President Barack Obama has been talking about the federal budget recently, and about taxation since he came to office, that all the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Sep 15, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- We are preparing to vamoose Camp Victory just outside of Baghdad. There were once 505 bases for American troops sprinkled around Iraq at the height of our... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Sep 08, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Readers of this column will remember that when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off an Air France flight in May, just as it was about to vamoose for Paris, I... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Sep 01, 2011)
When Vice President Joe Biden rolls into a room to talk politics, frankly I am ready to laugh. He is, for me, the gaffable Joe Biden. Remember when he told the perky Katie... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Aug 25, 2011)
Washington - Alas, we lost a most desirable candidate for the White House this week, one that is not charismatic, did not write (or have someone else write) his memoir,... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Aug 19, 2011)
Washington: Who on Aug. 18, 2010 -- almost one year ago -- said, "I now think it is clear even to official Washington that President Obama is the worst president of... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Aug 18, 2011)
Washington -- There is squabbling in the White House. President Barack Obama's approval rating has dipped to unprecedented lows in the polls, and he has not a clue as to what... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Aug 11, 2011)
Washington: Who on Aug. 18, 2010 -- almost one year ago -- said, "I now think it is clear even to official Washington that President Obama is the worst president of... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Aug 04, 2011)
Washington -- we are engaged in a long war -- actually two long wars. The first and most commonly accepted of our wars is the long war against Islamic fascists. It is not... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jul 28, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Think of Anders Behring Breivik, the man who bombed a government building in Norway before proceeding to coldbloodedly massacre scores of defenseless young... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jul 21, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- It seems Rep. Michele Bachmann is under increased scrutiny for her religious views, even as she climbs ever higher in the presidential polls. With tea party... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jul 14, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Do we need any other evidence that the Kultursmog exists and that it is international -- at least in the English-speaking world -- than the fact that the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jul 07, 2011)
It is summer and time to read books. I recall that Meg Greenfield, the sainted and deceased former editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post, made fun of the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jul 07, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- It is summer and time to read books. I recall that Meg Greenfield, the sainted and deceased former editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post, made fun... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 30, 2011)
Followers of this column have noticed that something is amiss. They have looked to it every week for months with increased frustration. Many have gone back to the March,... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 23, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- In the weeks ahead, I shall be in Europe to speak on American politics. What will I say to old Europe? Well, I shall give them my broad view of American... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 16, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- So there are two. Two pulchritudinous ones, that is. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are very beautiful, and the feminists tell us, "So what?" Well, they never... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 16, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- So there are two. Two pulchritudinous ones, that is. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are very beautiful, and the feminists tell us, "So what?" Well, they never... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 09, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- They call it BCS, Bill Clinton syndrome, and it has broken out anew in New York and here in Washington, where it was first discovered. As elaborated upon in... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jun 01, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Here we are now in the afterglow of another Memorial Day. The flags and the bunting are being put away. The memories endure for another year of our honored... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 26, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- How did so flawed a man as Newt Gingrich get to the top of his party in the 1990s? For that matter, how did so flawed a man as Bill Clinton get to the top of... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 19, 2011)
The facts keep changing. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK to the cognoscenti), the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is nabbed by New York police Saturday,... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 12, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- It seems to me that our government had vastly more intelligence on what was going on in Obama bin Laden's ghastly hideout before sending SEAL Team 6 in last... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (May 05, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- I in my innocence was, in the aftermath of SEAL Team Six's disruption of Osama bin Laden's bucolic life in posh Abbottabad, reading editorial comment by the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 28, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 21, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Why is it that Donald Trump is a creditable candidate with a significant segment of Republican voters? In some polls, he runs ahead of all Republicans save Mitt... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 14, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Last week was the culmination of a process begun years ago. A bill was introduced to Congress that could end American dependence on foreign oil. What is called... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Apr 07, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- I see that President Barack Obama has filed as a candidate for re-election in 2012. I previously suggested that he get to work early on his presidential... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 31, 2011)
NEW YORK -- Monday night, I attended a public policy discussion sponsored, not surprisingly, by The American Spectator; I say not surprisingly because I have been attending... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 24, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Well, it is official. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has asked the Norwegian Nobel Committee to take back President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 17, 2011)
There are finally some rustlings on the hustings; you will pardon my attempt at poetry. Republican presidential hopefuls are moving about in Iowa and New Hampshire; does that... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Mar 10, 2011)
It is a bloodbath over at National Public Radio. First the pinhead Ron Schiller resigns after initially being defended by NPR and then, by the end of the day Tuesday, being... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 24, 2011)
Frankly, I did not think of Chris Matthews as an episodic apologist until I watched his MSNBC documentary this week, "President of the World: The Bill Clinton Phenomenon."... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 17, 2011)
Now the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has joined the chorus. The other day, he said, "My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure." The "it" was multiculturalism, and he... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 10, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- The other night while watching the Super Bowl, I became increasingly aware that the Angry Left might have a point about the Giant Corporations. Not that the... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Feb 03, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- My guess is that U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson is an amateur zoologist. Vinson is the federal judge who ruled Monday in Pensacola, Fla., that those who... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 27, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Ah so, every day, in every way, it becomes ever clearer that Rahm Emanuel's campaign for mayor of Chicago and mine have striking similarities. Rahm went off to... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 20, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- The other day, I received a call from a very agreeable lady at C-SPAN, asking me to do a show with them called "In Depth." It will take a lot of time, as they... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 13, 2011)
The evidence mounts that liberalism is dead.
The liberal wizards, working their wonders at The New York Times and its clearinghouses in the major networks, cannot even dupe... more
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Emmett Tyrrell (Jan 06, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- New Year's Day in Washington dawned gray and wet -- and cold. It was a perfect day for sightseeing, so my wife and I decided to sightsee. We went to Mount... more