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Vol. 036 Issue 004 (August 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 SUMMER WILTS. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR prepares to begin monthly production in the fall. An elegant new layout is moving from the drawing boards to the printing press. And over at the White...
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Correspondence
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looking Ahead Forty-eight hours after taking the oath of office, President Hillary Clinton will declare the entire staff of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR as "Enemy Combatants." Given this, you might...
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The Better World of Sam Brownback
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Horowitz, Michael
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BY MICHAEL HOROWITZ A merica has always ceded governing status to the leaders and parties most rooted in moral concerns—to those who best understand the powerful links between American interests...
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The Murky Murkowskis
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Fund, John H.
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I n a country in which the last presidential election featured the son of a former president squaring off against the son of a former senator, it's safe to say that nepotism is making a comeback in...
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Moral Idiocracy
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Roans, Spencer
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I n 1948, the great conservative thinker Richard Weaver noted with near despair "the appalling problem, when one comes to actual cases, of getting men to distinguish between better and worse." There...
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In Nino Veritas
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Sager, R. H.
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BY R. H. SAGER T 4 4 o be able to write an opinion for oneself, without the need to accommodate, to any degree whatever, the more-or-less-differing views of one's colleagues; to address...
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Blue Gray
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Neumayr, George
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BY GEORGE NEUMAYR 0 my a pol as congenitally unlikable as Gray Davis could inspire a recall within less than a year of his election. Unattractive even under the best circumstances, the ghoulish...
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Washington's Cross-Dresser
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Bethell, Tom
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S ince corning to Washington in 1975, I recall one truly pungent remark by a Republican leader. Rep. Newt Gingrich was its author—a decade before he became House Speaker. He said that Sen. Bob Dole...
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Monty Python M&A
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Kessler, Andy
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BY ANDY KESSLER S oftware is a bizarre business and so are the people in it. Bill Gates may be King of the Geeks, but Oracle Corporation chairman and CEO Larry Ellison is Silicon Valley's King...
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Letter from Europe
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Gedmin, Jeffrey
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T here are two general theories about George W. Bush in Europe today. The first holds that the U.S. president is an idiot—"the most intellectually backward president of my political lifetime," as...
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Lusser's Law
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Collins, Reid
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S ometime in August, the interagency Columbia Accident Investigation Board is set to declare the probable cause of February's space shuttle disaster: the now-famous chunk of foam that struck the...
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Live from Baghdad
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Wolfowitz, Paul d.
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T he first thing I'd like to do is amplify what I just alluded to about our troops. They are just incredible, and they're doing an absolutely stunning job. They are brave when they have to fight—and...
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Patriot Act Games
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Barr, Bob
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BY BOB BARR Winston Smythe approached the checkpoint, beads of sweat forming on the back of his neck. Had he removed everything from his briefcase that might reveal to roving hands and prying eyes...
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The Once and Future President
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Davis, Mark w.
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enator Charles E. "Chuck" Schumer enters the Lake Placid, New York, convention hall, his necktie swinging like a pendulum with his stride. The son of a Brooklyn exterminator, Schumer became a...
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Take-a My Heart
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Robinson, Peter
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F xamine the Public Papers of the Presidents, the vol- umes published by the Government Printing 4 Office that contain all the utterances of our chief executives, and you'll see that during his...
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Info-War Invades Iraq
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Wohlstetter, John C.
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0 n a single horrific night in March 1945, more than 300 B-29 Superfortress bombers saturated Tokyo with napalm and incendiary explosives. The resulting firestorm devoured a quarter of the city,...
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A Talk with Bob Metcalfe
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HE INTERNET HAS MANY FATHERS, T but one of them indisputably is Dr. Bob Metcalfe. Inventor of the seminal electronic-networking standard, Ethernet, and founder of 3Com Corporation, he is also...
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The Doomslayer
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Moore, Stephen
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E arlier this year a group of geologists published an astonishing theory: that heat from the earth's core is continuously replenishing subterranean deposits of coal, natural gas, and oil. Though far...
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Sister Sontag
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Valiunas, Algis
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W hat's a girl to do if she happens to be brainy and easy on the eyes and hip beyond all reckoning so that nobody can see her pass by without having a shot at her one way or another? Here's what...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Ben
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TUESDAY Malibu T here is a great scene in "Richard II" in which the imprisoned monarch paces in a cell. He has only one companion, a spider. He is thinking of how he got into that mess of...
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The Talkies
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Bowman, James
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ietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran D pastor and theologian murdered by the Nazis less than a month before the end of the Second World War, was a great lover of America and Americans. He studied at...
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Son of Saul
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Lott, Jeremy
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I n the modern American vocabulary, "nepotism" has become a mildly dirty term, like "white trash" or "White House intern?' The last presidential race, a contest between the sons of two political...
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Betrayers and Betrayed
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Beston, Paul
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B y 1968 Joe Louis and Jesse Owens had long since settled into their roles as elder statesmen and revered icons of the sports world. They were also something like saints to black America. All that...
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Creed and Prejudice
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Collins, Bob
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The New Anti-Catholicism is not what I expected, thank Heaven. I envisioned nothing more than a litany, so to speak, of anti-Catholic outrages. There are some eye-popping examples, to be sure—like...
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Roll Over Sibelius
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Karnick, S. T.
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PROGRESSIVE MUSIC—Open Your Mind," reads the T-shirt of the chubby, thirtyish fellow standing beside me in a sweltering hallway outside the elegant (and comfortably air-conditioned) Patriot...
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The Tao of the Shotgun
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Babbin, Jed
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0 f the choices a man has to make, few are as difficult—or remotely as important—as choosing a shotgun. Finding a spouse or a career just isn't in the same league. Those of us who hunt and shoot...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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H istory is the greatest of the humanities. To remind us of its consequentiality it leaves specimens of itself around for later generations to discover to their amazement and edification. The other...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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THE GREAT BOOKS SERIES In her stupefying memoir once again Hillary Rodham Clinton tests the outer limits of her fans' credulity: My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me [p....
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Last Call
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Henry, Lawrence
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F or years, The United States Golf Association has been running a TV commercial: two young guys sitting with their golf bags on a bench outside a tiny starter's shack, under an overhanging roof. The...
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