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 Vol. 029 Issue 004 (April 1 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Karl sells, Snoop walks, Boris quaffs, John puffs a a 0 g S 0 The Year of the Rat, according to the lunar calendar, arrived at February's end. There was rejoicing in Hong...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE All in the Family Thank you for your February article on Newt written by Grover G. Norquist ("The Chase"). It was refreshing to read something about my brother which was both...
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On the Prowl
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"On the Prowl" Protection Racket "We really miss the days of Reagan and Bush when we were treated with respect and allowed to do our jobs the best we could," a Secret Service officer told a member...
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Editorials: No to Drug Legalization / Touched by Fidel / Facts of Primary Life
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Editorials: No to Drug Legalization" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. No to Drug Legalization This is a joyous occasion! William F. Buckley, for a quarter of a century my friend and moral superior, has given me an opportunity to...
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Capitol Ideas: A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas: A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come" by Tom Bethel' A Flat Tax Is Gonna Come The Communist Manifesto contained a ten-point program thought by Marx and Engels to be suitable for "the most advanced countries." Most of...
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Taiwanese Takeout
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DavidAikman
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"Taiwanese Takeout" The Coming U.S.-China Showdown When the story was leaked to the New York Times towards the end of January, it was calculated to shock. And it did. Chas Freeman, former...
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The Peking Pentagon
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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"The Peking Pentagon" the people on Taiwan and any danger to the interests of the United States arising therefrom." The TRA is not a security treaty, but it comes close. It defines U.S. policy—the law of the land, in...
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Why Ron Brown Won't Go Down
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York, Byron
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"Why Ron Brown Won't Go Down" Sure enough, the appointment of an independent counsel has undercut House oversight chairman William Clinger's determination to get to the bottom of a very dirty barrel...
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Alabama Jury Booty
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Shiflett, Dave
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"Alabama Jury Booty" The juror, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says that the jurors talked about awards between $100,000 and $8.5 million before arriving at the $10 million figure. "Quite...
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Watergate versus Whitewater
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Brutish, Solitary, Poor, Nasty; Short
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"Watergate versus Whitewater" President Clinton and his paid political defenders naturally deny it, but WATERGATE the similarities between Watergate and Whitewater are striking. In fact, President Nixon was done in for a...
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Culture Vultures: Rock of Ages
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Steyn, Mark
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"Culture Vultures: Rock of Ages" by Mark Steyn Rock of Ages With a primary race this dramatic, a pundit's analysis can be moldy as old cheese by the time it hits the newsstand. But two things one can say with...
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Presswatch: The Goldberg Deviation
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Corry, John
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"Presswatch: The Goldberg Deviation" by John Corry The Goldberg Deviation see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle, George Orwell once wrote, neatly describing the difficulty involved in clear...
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The Public Policy: Unsafe at Any Speed
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Bovard, James
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"The Public Policy: Unsafe at Any Speed" by James Bovard Unsafe at Any Speed Turning kids into druggies and snitches....
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Ben Stein's Diary: Death of a Producer
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"Ben Stein's Diary: Death of a Producer" by Benjamin J. Stein Death of a Producer Friday Back on the pitching trail. I am in a meeting in a building in Century City, talking to...
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The Nation's Pulse: Lost Shepherd
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Milyo, Jeff; Groseclose, Tim
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"The Nation's Pulse: Lost Shepherd" by Jeff Milyo and Tim Groseclose Lost Shepherd By now most Americans have heard about Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz (R-Utah) and her husband and campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz;...
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Warsaw Watch: Life After Lech
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"Warsaw Watch: Life After Lech" by Adrian Karatnycky Life After Lech Lech Walesa, icon of Eastern Europe's anti-Communist revolution, has been defeated in a presidential race by a former Communist youth official...
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Among the Intellectualoids: Bum of the Month
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York, Byron
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"Among the Intellectualoids: Bum of the Month" by Byron York Bum of the Month just before the first votes of the campaign, New Republic writer Michael Lewis followed Republican presidential hopeful Alan Keyes to a...
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Great Israeli Saloons: Tel Aviv Stagecoach
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Davidovits, Andrew
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"Great Israeli Saloons: Tel Aviv Stagecoach" by Andrew Davidovits Tel Aviv Stagecoach Wby Israel? Well, a lot of reasons. First: Smoking's still allowed. So far, Israel hasn't bought into the fairy tales about...
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The Talkies: Too Much of a Good Thing
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Bowman, James
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"The Talkies: Too Much of a Good Thing" by James Bowman Too Much of a Good Thing 0 ne measure of America's greatness is the extent to which we are insulated from the sorts of life and death concerns that have preoccupied...
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Breaking the News
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Fallows, James
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Breaking the News" The Most Unhappy Fallows Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy James Fallows Pantheon Books 296 pages / $23 REVIEWED BY Robert D. Novak james Fallows,...
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The Good Life and Its Discontents
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Samuelson, Robert J.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Good Life and Its Discontents" often says he did not take an oath of poverty when he became a journalist. Neither, dare I say, did Jim Fallows, which may explain his book's curious "Epilogue" concerning the estimable ABC...
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Not Without Honor / Red Scare or Red Menace?
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Powers, Richard Gid; Haynes, John E.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Not Without Honor / Red Scare or Red Menace?" about this time. As James Q. Wilson, quoted here by Samuelson, put it, "Many of the largest changes in the last century have occurred not because of popular demand but because of elite...
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God's Chinese Son
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Spence, Jonathan D.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "God's Chinese Son" expropriated, and were condemned for, a decade or so later. They smeared their opponents by labeling all isolationists (including the American Legion and Reader's Digest) as fascists or...
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Union of Words
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Fields, Wayne
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Union of Words" Principles of Speech Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence Wayne Fields Free Press / 406 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY Mark W. Davis Iwas but a junior staffer at the Republican...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Current Wisdom" Washington Times More Desperate Truths from the Corn-pone Canoodler of i600 Pennsylvania Avenue: "The central lesson I have learned in three years as your president is that we...
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Last Call: Blasted
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Reid, Stuart
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"Last Call: Blasted" by Stuart Reid Blasted IWAS ON THE TELEPHONE talking to a former Foreign Office minister about arms sales to Saddam Hussein when, at 7:01 on the...
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