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Vol. 039 Issue 009 (November 1 2006)
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ABOUT THIS MONTH: A Rare Opportunity
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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ABOUT THIS MONTH A Rare Opportun.ity BY WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI ~N THE LATEST CLASH OF CMLIZATIONS involving B i l l Clinton, we saw our uncouth former president on Fox News nearly lynch and...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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CORRESPONDENCE Sound of Broken Glass Stephen Moore's article "The Laffer Curve Strikes Again" in the September issue commits the "broken pane" fallacy. In the "broken pane" story, a home run...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE ISIS CONTINUING CR September vamoosed; and so did the 109th Congress, a Congress that endeared itself to libertarian conservatives by doing very little. It also endeared itself to...
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ON THE PROWL
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ON THE PROWL Mental Cruelty Just how bad is the relationship between the White House and Capitol Hill Republicans? When the House Government Reform Committee was planning on releasing its...
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TO AN ATHEIST FRIEND
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Novak, Michael
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To a _9 Friend I MAGINE THAT THIS IS ONE RESPONSE in an exchange of letters, about issues that have been argued over for centuries. Borrowing from the device of a dialogue that has proved very...
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STUDENTS FOR A DEMENTED SOCIETY
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Macomber, Shawn
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The $1D$ attempted a comeback this summer, only to f o i l victim to its obsessions with ~ender and white skin orivilefle. by Shown ~accmber T TOURS BEFORE HIS 1915 EXECUTION at the hands of a ]...
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A MASTERPIECE OF ORATORY
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Podhoretz, Norman
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A V by Norman EOIIGE W. BUSH has been "misunderestimated" s o many times that this sardonic neologism has _9 ! forced its way into the American language and _9 i ~ w i l l forever be...
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LETTER FROM PARIS: Let Us Now Praise Marthe Richard
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS , l o s e p h A, I t a l " 'iss ~ ..... II1 ikla, " ":l t/3e: t-{lch a i'd N EVER HEARD OF HER? Join the club. But in France, home of oh la-la!, she is a household word....
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ECONOMICS: The Super Bowl Economy
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Wesbury, Brian S.
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ECONOMICS B 'iat S~ - u _l..J::l e _ upe " B{ ......... I{! co:no my S o AY YOUR FAVORITE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM goes 16-0 during the regular season, 2-0 in the playoffs, and then wins the...
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LONDON BUREAU: Wankers
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Gutfeld, Greg
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LONDON BUREAU {;reg (;u :feld I DISCOVERED THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR a s a confused freshman at Cal-armed with an undisciplined mind focused only on attracting girls through the romantic pull of...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: The Great Stem Cell Error
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Bethell, Tom
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VCAPITOL IDEAS Tom i ethe]] (jl. eat Stem Ceil. E_I rol. "~HE ERA OF STEM CELLS, an advocacy campaign from the start, began eight years ago. On November 6, 1998, articles reporting the...
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PRESSWATCH: Read and Despair
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH , . l a m e s Taran|:o t ead and Despair T Guantanamo Bay, Cuba HE MOST STRIKING THING about visiting the terrorist detention facility here, which has become a staple of...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The Idea of a University
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE o g c r S c r tl t: 0 il The Idea of a Un.,i rsit U NIVERSITY EDUCATION IS BIG BUSINESS i n America, with the largest turnover of all economic sectors in the state of...
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POLITICS: See How They Spend
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICS ,JohH l / . Fund ~ FTER A YEAR OF HEADLINES about runaway federal spending and wasteful pork-barrel projects, fiscai conservatives finally won both an important and symbolic victory...
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THE PUBLIC POLICY: The Politics of Entitlement Reform
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Klein, Philip
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THE PU BLIC POLICY N NOVEMBER 4, 2004, a giddy President Bush stood before reporters in his first press conference after winning re-election, and declared, "I earned capital in the campaign,...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Faith in Foreign Affairs
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS , J o n a i h a n Aitken Faith in. Foreign Aflhies *"-S THE UNITED STATES DEVELOPING a f a i t h - b a s e d foreign policy? The question is being increasingly debated around the...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: After Munich
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY After Munich by Benjamin J. Stein SATURDAY i OU WOULD NOT BELIEVE what we did today. We T woke up in Munich. Or, I should say, I woke up in Munich at the Four Seasons. My...
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THE TALKIES: What's the Story?
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES James O NCE I HAD A FRIEND who was such an extreme antihistoricist that he affected to believe-I still can't quite imagine that he really did believe it--that there was no reason...
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Operation Overload
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Friedrich, Jörg; Bruhl, Marshall De
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BOOKS IN REVIEW ion ad IXTY YEABS AFTER THE EVENT, the mass bombing of Germany still raises anxious thoughts, and reading these two impressive books is a sad experience. JSrg Friedrich's...
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Paper Tiger
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Olbermann, Keith
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Paper Tiger The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders by Keith Olberrnann (WILEY, 267 PAGES, $22.95) Reviewed C EORGE M. COHAN USED TO SAY, explaining why...
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Aid Is Not Enough
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calderisi, Robert; Easterly, William; Sachs, Jeffrey D.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW A grim Olbermann speculates whether O'Reilly is simply "a false patriot who would rather be loud than right," or if he is driven by something more insidious, like the...
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That Was War The Somme
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Gilbert, Martin
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BOOKS IN REVIEW tions. Who would administer them? Presumably the UN and other bureaucracies. Sachs calls UN Secretary General Kofi Annan "the world's finest statesman." Who would collect...
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Don't Forget China Showdowns
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Babbin, Jed; Timperlake, Edward
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BOOKS IN REVIEW open country towards which we are struggling by inches is capable of entrenched defense at every step, and is utterly devoid of military significance." Gilbert, who is also...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: Rumsfeld Speaks, Democrats Screech/Their Sound and Their Fury
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett T y r r e | l , . ! r . Rumsfeld Speaks, Democrats Screech WASHINGTON l ~ ECENTLY IN A SPEECH before the national convention of the American Legion, Secretary of...
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CURRENT WISEDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New Yorker Despite the presence on the premises of scores of the New Yorker~ fabled "fact-checkers," all presumably wide awake and sober,, here is how this magazine for the...
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LAST CALL: A Sad Day For Baseball
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Schulz, Max
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W LAST CALL Max Sehuiz A Sad,, Day Baseball. -'• HERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL, at least if Tom Hanks is to be believed, but this year Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson broke the...
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