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 Vol. 037 Issue 003 (April 1 2004)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Good Questions
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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I N THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR'S TRADITION of presenting all sides of the conservative cause, we include herein at least one piece which will provoke some of our readers and supporters to inquire of our...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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JR., R. EMMETT TYRRELL.
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February recedes and after the first week of March it is apparent that the Democrats have a frontrunner destined for their presidential nomination with only the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Hon. Dennis...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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1 Every subscriber to The American Spectator who did not carefully read all eight pages of "Freedom of Speech Now Illegal" by "Spencer Roane" (TAS, February 2004) should be put on probation unless...
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Weapons of Conventional Destruction
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Macomber, Shawn
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T 4:45 P.M., ON AUGUST 19 OF LAST YEAR, a mad bomber drove a cement truck packed with explosives down a dusty road and straight into the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, the United Nations' temporary...
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Neconservatism Is Not Reaganism
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HEALPER, STEFAN; CLARKE, JONATHAN
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OLLOWING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the U.S. has undertaken a remarkably ambitious foreign F policy—one radically different from the philosophy on which President Bush campaigned and a notable departure...
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The War Without End
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Barr, Bob
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IMAGINE AMERICANS PUTTING UP WITH A WAR 40 YEARS IN DURATION. To a people whose patience started to fray within weeks, if not days, of our military victory in Iraq, and who forced our government to...
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ECONOMICS: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs-And Surveys
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Wesbury, Brian S.
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RO0M0 4AL, wLasOnuTwot [ 1 2 a good day for PcEres,siFrdeindtaBy, Moshar. Icth 5, was reported that non-farm payroll employment increased by only 21,000 in February, well below the consensus...
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EMINENTOES: Kerry Catholicism
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Neumayr, George
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ATHOLICISM POSES A MORE SERIOUS and ironic political problem for John F. Kerry than it did for the first JFK. Kennedy merely faced suspicion from non-Catholics, whereas Kerry faces / outright...
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POLITICS: Kerry Veeps
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Fund, John H.
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OHN KERRY WILL LIKELY PICK his vice-presidential running mate in May, two months before the Democratic convention opens in Boston. The downside is that an early decision will eliminate the one...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Passionate About Evolution
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Bethell, Tom
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VOLUTION STIRS UP GREAT PASSIONS, as I 1_11 have found over the years. Something those might only lgyea it tpeople er na alternatives, vexcited.es I h A basic is at stake, so it's not...
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THE TRANSATLANTIC SPECTATOR: We Can Get Along
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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PENDING TIME TALKING to European politicians and journalists makes you want to sing a paraphrase of the Kingston Trio's old Merry Minuet: The Germans hate the British, and the British hate the...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Lenten Gibson
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Aitken, Jonathan
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T WOULD PROBABLY BE VAIN OF ME to suppose that Mel Gibson read my article in these illustrious pages last month. Since I was writing about the spiritual need to re-emphasize the importance of Lent...
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THE KERRY SPECTATOR: The POWs Speak
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Babbin, Jed
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HE VIETNAM WAR brought out the best and the worst of America, but we've never really agreed which was which. That's a problem for John Kerry, who played a minor role on one side, then a major role...
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LETTER FROM EUROPE: All Ears
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Gedmin, Jeffrey
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LET ROM EUROPE JEFFREY GEDMIN All Ears T HE CAPTAIN RENAULTS OF OLD EUROPE expressed "shock" in late February over allegations that the British had bugged the conversations of U.N. Secretary...
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THE NATION'S PULSE: Winter Dreams
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Stricherz, Mark
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THE NATION'S PULSE MARK STRICHERZ Winter Dreams Why Catholics aren't yet part of the Republican base T N EARLY FEBRUARY, former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn was organizing a citywide rally against...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Going Places
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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MONDAY RAVEL, TRAVEL, TRAVEL. It is the last week in February of 2004. So far, since New Year's Eve, I have been to New York City on two trips, to Australia (which is great but had a lot of angry...
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THE TALKIES: Why Not Be Anti-Semiotic?
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Bowman, James
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T HE LATE PROFESSOR GEOFFREY SHEPHERD of the University of Birmingham in England, at whose feet I sat for a time back in the 1970s, once observed that for medieval Christians the central event in...
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Lonely Are the Brave
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Weiser, Benjamin
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Secret Life is really two books in one. The li first is a biography of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a heroic Polish officer who became one of the CIA's most valuable agents during the final phase of...
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Disabling America
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Powell, Jim
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Disabling America FDR's How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell (Crown Forum, 352 pages, $27.50) Reviewed by Colby Cosh DR's Folly is, as the title suggests,...
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Mein Kampf II
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Hitler, Adolf
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Mein Kampf II Hitler's Second E The Unpublished el to Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, edited by Gerhard L. Weinberg (Enigma Books, 300 pages, $32) Reviewed by Andrew Roberts T IS A LITTLE-KNOWN...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES
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Tyrrell., R. Emmett Jr.
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The Woman in Kerry's Future WASHINGTON O MY EYES DECEIVE ME? The morning after Super Tuesday expired with a burst of fireworks enhaloing the hunk of granite that is John Kerry's head,...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times ac ir Another neurotic moment proving once again that sibling rivalry happens: I had wanted to tell Will I was gay since I was 12. As twins, we shared everything back then:...
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LAST CALL: With This Ring
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Macomber, Shawn
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OT LONG AGO, while working at a small bookstore in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I met the girl I will soon marry. She worked in the cafe nestled off in the corner of the store, and I spent days...
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