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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

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R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator and a New York Times best-selling author. He makes frequent appearances on national television and is a nationally syndicated columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, National Review, Harper's, Commentary, The (London) Spectator, Le Figaro (Paris) and elsewhere.

Articles by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

The Battle for Israeli Security Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Israel’s danger long-standing reality

I was thumbing through an old magazine over the weekend. It was 47 years old to be exact, and I came across a surprisingly prescient piece entitled wittily, "The Arab, the Jew, and the Pickle." What particularly caught my eye was that the piece was written by me in what is now called The American Spectator. Imagine that.

November 24, 2015
Ben Carson Under the Biased Microscope Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Ben Carson, clean in comparison

Last week I wrote in this column that Ben Carson, a leading Republican candidate for the presidency, was an "American hero." I pronounced him thus even as the roof was falling in on his candidacy.

November 10, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks in Lakewood, Colo. FILE (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: The source of Ben Carson’s success

Ben Carson is an American hero. He is also a front-runner in the Republican race for the White House. What is more, he is black, God-fearing, law-abiding and a distinguished neurosurgeon. Weighing the most important things in life, he is everything you would want in an American man.

November 3, 2015
Differing Media Coverage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Liberals looking at Benghazi with closed eyes

We are told that our political system here in Washington is "broken." The left and the right do not get along, and usually it is because the right is obdurately partisan. Actually, it is not the political system that is broken. It is much wider than the political system.

October 27, 2015

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: The Clintons’ long and mendacious road

Here we are again with Hillary Rodham Clinton confronted by charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and general improbity. Such behavior has been going on with her for a long time. Some journalists who today chronicle the charges facing the Clintons were not even born when it all began.

October 12, 2015
Illustration on the mental illness root of mass murder by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Mass murders in U.S. becoming routine

Regarding last week's mass murder in Oregon, what is there to say that is new? There was a day in America when such an atrocity was almost unheard of. There were family feuds, mafia murders and I guess what were called juvenile delinquents' murders, though they were comparatively rare and for the most part ignored.

October 6, 2015
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (AP Photo/File)

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Kevin McCarthy revisits Benghazi

When House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy blurted out on Fox News September 30 that: "Everybody thought Hillary Rodham Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we [the Republicans] put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.

October 1, 2015
Illustration on parallels between Warren G. Harding and Bill Clinton by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Warren Harding recalls Bill Clinton’s hanky-panky

That 1920s predecessor of President Bill Clinton has again been in the news, and in a big way. Last week the media resounded anew with delightful reports of President Warren Gamaliel Harding's nigh unto maniacal attraction to women, or at least to some women, during that period of American history that became known as the Roaring Twenties.

August 18, 2015
Inspectors General and Hillary's Email Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Obama’s great gambit

The plot thickens. As we all know, the inspector general of the intelligence community has discovered that a small number of emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal, albeit mysterious, server were in fact classified e-mails. She as recently as this weekend denied that they were classified, but we shall see. There could be many more classified documents on that server. After all, she herself admits there were some 30,000 more e-mails.

July 28, 2015
Illustration on how damaging Obama's comments are by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

R. EMMETT TYRRELL: Obama’s careless words

"Things fall apart," as Yeats was wont to say, "The center cannot hold." The center is most assuredly falling apart today, and who is at the center? Well, his name is Barack H. Obama. He is our president, and I think many Americans wish he would shut down. Every time he pipes up, especially on a peripheral issue, he makes things worse -- no, not worse, appalling.

July 21, 2015