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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE YEAR 2002 gives way to 2003, and our suave president, George W. Bush, displayed his supply-side bona fides with an economic plan incorporating tax reduction on marginal tax rates and on stock...
Paid articleCorrespondence
FOUNDED 1967 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor SPENCER REISS Managing Editor CHARLES BORK Creative Director TOM BETHELL JOHN CORRY MICHAEL...
Paid articleThe Senate's Battle Axe
Fund, John H.
D emocrats lost control of the U.S. Senate in November, but paradoxically Senator Hillary Clinton's star brightened as a result. As a freshman senator, Mrs. Clinton lacks seniority and other...
Paid articleWe Want Ours
Wesbury, Brian S.
T he big mystery of this winter is how the new, improved Bush tax cut—ending the inefficient and unfair double taxation of dividends, cutting marginal tax rates for all taxpayers, and reducing the...
Paid articleLess Is More
rutledge, john
D on't turn the page! President Bush's plan to end the double taxation of corporate profits has unleashed a tsunami of words. Some purport to tell us why zeroing out today's 38.6 percent tax rate on...
Paid articleBang Goes Pyongyang
Helper, Stefan
Were one to be gentle about it, one would simply observe it has been a difficult time for the administration and its many voices. Focused on a prospective war in Iraq, buffeted by the equity...
Paid articleYou've Got Germs
Rosett, Claudia
Nukes? Sure—they're worth worrying about. Given the odds that North Korea might already be peddling plutonium in the Pyongyang duty-free shop, or Saddam Hussein might even now be tucking the bomb...
Paid articleCatholicism in Crisis
Bethell, Tom
In 1949, Evelyn Waugh wrote an article for Life magazine entitled "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church:' Catholicism was an "essential part" of the American spirit, he wrote, and America was...
Paid articleNothing Ventured
Barr, Bob
C ontrary to the knowledge possessed by many Americans, whose view of the space program began with the 1986 Challenger explosion, that tragedy was not the American space program's first. Its...
Paid articleHave You Hugged Your Tree Today?
Neumayr, George
E nvironmental activist John Quigley spent November and December perched in an oak tree near Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. Taking tree hugging to a new level, Quigley commandeered the old oak...
Paid articleFood Fetish
Martosko, David
F ile this one under "strange airport experiences." In a sandwich-stand line at Reagan National the day before Christmas, the twenty-something waif ahead of me pestered the counter girl: "Do you...
Paid articleWe Won't Overcome
Allhoff, Hans
1 N 1.-7 1,11.,, 1 S ince 1978, when it ruled on Regents of the University of California v. Bakke and decided U.C. Davis Medical School could not set aside 16 percent—or any percent—of its dass for...
Paid articleThe Men Who Would Be CINC
Babbin, Jed
/ f the Democrats learned anything from the 2002 election, it's that Americans don't want the draft-dodging antiwar San Francisco Democrats leading them now. It's the war, stupid, and anyone who...
Paid articlePolitically Corrected
Chavez, Linda
The call inviting me to Austin came on New Year's Eve 2000. Clay Johnson, the head of president-elect George W. Bush's transition office, reached me at my Washington office, where I was dutifully...
Paid articleThe Savage Sunset of Saddam Hussein
Coughlin, Con
ami Salih, the man in charge of Iraq's secret oil-smuggling program, knew that he was in trouble when a team of Iraqi intelligence officers arrived at his Baghdad office. "They told me,...
Paid articleA Spoonful of Self-Delusion
Magilnick, Judd
In January 1965, ninety-yearold Winston Churchill lay dying at home in London. As life slipped away from the man who saved Western civilization, at his bedside was a picture of a simple, unknown...
Paid articleHow to Harpoon a Liberal
D'Souza, Dinesh
ear Chris, I really enjoyed the details of your "gun debate" with your history professor. When he began to quiver and describe your views as "truly scary"—that's when you know you really got...
Paid articleThe Visual West
Croke, Bill
T he West certainly has a literary tradition, but its photographers and painters are at the heart of its culture. Stunning vistas translate to photograph, canvas, and celluloid better than to the...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary
Stein, Ben
brave firemen and firewomen. I went out to dinner at Morton's because I was not allowed by the Highway Patrol out to the house in Malibu anyway, but I could not concentrate. Barbara Walters was...
Paid articleThe Talkies
Bowman, James
Unlike drama, unlike fiction, the movies don't do failure very well. They are essentially a heroic medium, like tragedy or epic poetry, in which even defeat must be made to seem an achievement....
Paid articleThe Vast Redneck Conspiracy
Chapman, Steve
Michael Lind is here to report that the Civil War is over, and the South won. One hundred and thirty-eight years after Appomattox, he asserts, we have a president who embodies the base principles of...
Paid articleLet Slip the Spooks of War
Henry, Lawrence
T he conventional wisdom about the CIA and the 9/11 attacks runs like this: In the 1970s, under pressure from a liberal Congress, the press, and the Church Committee, the U.S. intelligence...
Paid articleBedtime for Bolshevism
Beston, Paul
H e is a "firm and unbending politician for whom words and deeds are the same," stated a Soviet intelligence report on Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign. Rare is the political...
Paid articleArtificial Ingemination
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
'It,/ believe it was my friend Vic Gold, long an AMSPEC writer, who first referred to Washington as "Hollywood East." Other pushier cultural critics claim the insight, but they would, wouldn't they?...
Paid articleSpecial Operations
Train, John
silliness moves beyond the pomposity of American grandees to just about everywhere. Mrs. MacMann on her last day in the White House peruses the morning newspaper and reads that "a significant...
Paid articleSelf's the Man
Valiunas, Algis
F 4 specially in a democracy, the prevailing ideas of a particular time and place seem the work of nature itself, no more to be questioned than the prevailing winds. It is a rare American...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
D o my eyes deceive me? Is that surly fellow staring from the front page of the good old Drudge Report, wearing a Confederate general's uniform, a United States senator? It is indeed, and not...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
THE PROGRESSIVE London-based fabulist John Pilger provides a reassuring report on the prodigious intellectual origins of the present administration: I interviewed Perle when he was buzzing around...
Paid articleLast Call
Beston, Paul
G rowing up in the 1970s, I was a Bigfoot fanatic. I took out every book in the library and read eyewitness accounts to my father, who of course scoffed from behind his newspaper. Finally I...
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