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Vol. 035 Issue 004 (July 1 2002)
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The Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"The Continuing Crisis" FROM LATE SPRING THROUGH SUMMER, tensions remained electric in the Middle East, and it cannot have gone over well with the Palestinians when they heard that some very smart Israelis at...
Sunshine Voters
Fund, John H.
"Sunshine Voters"BY JOHN H. FUND The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. —attributed to Joseph Stalin n the wake of the Florida election...
Euphoria Lacking
Wesbury, Brian S.
"Euphoria Lacking" corn millionaire who in 2000 spent over $1 million of his own money to get elected to the state board of education, a nonpaying position. Now he is spending even more to tout the idea that Colorado...
NATO Springs Eternal
Train, John
"NATO Springs Eternal" THE ALLIANCE SPRINGS ETERNAL BY JOHN TRAIN As I found on a recent field trip to the Balkans and Brussels, some Europeans maintain that we dragged them into Kosovo, but that idea is of course...
Worst Book of the Year
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Worst Book of the Year" if you listen to the Rumsfeld coterie, and if you consider what we actually did in Afghanistan, you realize that the State Department is just being stately. Where our serious interests are engaged...
Blinded by the Bias
Corry, John
"Blinded by the Bias" Skeptical readers will also recall the columnists who so often get caught passing off their infantile fantasies as real people ground down by cruel America. Remember Mike Barnicle of The Boston...
Drugs and Me - You
Henry, Lawrence
"Drugs and Me - You" about forcing sex on minors." And The New Republic: "We all know the sexual abuse of minors is horrific; but somehow the bishops did not react with horror. That is what truly shocks" And The New...
Open the DNA Doors
Gottlieb, Scott
"Open the DNA Doors" BY SCOTT GOTTLIEB, M.D. So now we find out: The DNA used to make Celera Genomics' celebrated map of the human genome was not picked at random from anonymous donors, as...
Info-Topia: Computers get smarter.Can we?
Schank, Roger C.
"Info-Topia" COMPUTERS KEEP GETTING SMARTER. CAN WE? BY ROGER C. SCHANK intelligence an absolute? Does mankind I get smarter as time goes...
Slouching, Still: Judge Bork unrocks
"Slouching, Still: Judge Bork unrocks" We couldn't think of two better fire-breathers to talk about racketeering courts, the perils of an overtaxed, over-regulated economy and the perennial biggest question of all: Is...
The Black Art of Spying : Time to get smart about intelligence
Petera, Ralph
"The Black Art of Spying BY RALPH PETERA with the Atlantic Ocean separating us, my extended family's generations slipped out of synchronization.Thus, it was my cousin who served in World War II on...
Thermo Economics: Making sense on the supply side
rutledge, john
"Thermo Economics: Making sense on the supply side" I was lucky enough to be part of the group that produced the Reagan economic plan. At that time inflation was running at 15 percent annually. The federal...
Underdosed: Is radiation good for you?
Bethell, Tom
"Underdosed: Is radiation good for you?" For centuries, the wizards of alchemy COULD TOXINS-AND RADIATION believed that with the addition of heat and esoteric knowledge, base metals could be transmuted into gold. Isaac...
Beyond the Telechasm
Gilder, George
"Beyond the Telechasm" BY GEORGE GILDER, with 37 big bankruptcies and stock prices As I was finishing the revised paper-back version of Telecosm this spring, our optics sage,...
Ben Stein's Diary
Stein, Ben
BEN STEIN'S DIARY of my wife, with clean, straight features. We talked for a long time about how lonely she was and how she could feel her husband's presence in her house after his death. I found...
The Never-Ending War
Ledeen, Michael
0"The Never-Ending War" That Never Ended Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon take on Israel, from a 1967 Lebanese newspaper. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East MICHAEL B....
Strobe Lite
Terzian, Philip
"Strobe Lite" sight of the preeminent importance of political power. The Israelis knew from the beginning that they would eventually be reined in by the United States and that they therefore would have to tailor...
Classical Economics
Dreck", "Mindles H.
"Classical Economics" MUSIC By "Mindles H. Dreck" Classical Economics important messages to and fro. For that matter, Clinton himself was a cloud on Talbott's horizon. The author politely praises the...
Teaching the Gorillas
Bowman, James
"Teaching the Gorillas" By James Bowman Teaching the Gorillas points out, the labels are stuck in the rut of issuing a 101't recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. There are already some signs of new life, much...
Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Public Nuisances" BILLY DILI —WASHINGTON could be surprised when our debonair president took a breather from the war on terror to spoof his grandstanding predecessor? He sent Bill Clinton as Washington's...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Current Wisdom" On a fabulous pro-Clinton website, the cruelest cut against David Brock yet made: David as John Dean. What next, David as Richard Millions? David Brock's tell-all...
Last Call
Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
"LAST CALL" By Wladyslaw Pleszczynski You've Got A Friend, American Spectator is Back! "You don't have to take my word for it, because the headline wasn't mine but rather that of the liberal...
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