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Vol. 036 Issue 001 (January 1 2003)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Correspondence
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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...
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The Senate's Battle Axe
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Fund, John H.
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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...
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We Want Ours
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Wesbury, Brian S.
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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...
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Less Is More
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rutledge, john
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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...
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Bang Goes Pyongyang
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Helper, Stefan
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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...
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You've Got Germs
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Rosett, Claudia
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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...
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Catholicism in Crisis
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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Nothing Ventured
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Barr, Bob
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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...
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Have You Hugged Your Tree Today?
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Neumayr, George
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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...
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Food Fetish
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Martosko, David
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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...
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We Won't Overcome
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Allhoff, Hans
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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...
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The Men Who Would Be CINC
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Babbin, Jed
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/ 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...
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Politically Corrected
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Chavez, Linda
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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...
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The Savage Sunset of Saddam Hussein
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Coughlin, Con
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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,...
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A Spoonful of Self-Delusion
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Magilnick, Judd
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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...
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How to Harpoon a Liberal
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D'Souza, Dinesh
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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...
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The Visual West
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Croke, Bill
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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...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Ben
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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...
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The Talkies
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Bowman, James
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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....
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The Vast Redneck Conspiracy
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Chapman, Steve
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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...
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Let Slip the Spooks of War
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Henry, Lawrence
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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...
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Bedtime for Bolshevism
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Beston, Paul
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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...
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Artificial Ingemination
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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'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?...
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Special Operations
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Train, John
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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...
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Self's the Man
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Valiunas, Algis
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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...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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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...
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Last Call
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Beston, Paul
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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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