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February
Vol. 039 Issue 001 (February 1 2006)
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Corruption DeLayed BY ALFRED $~ ~EGNERY V~T HY ARE WE SURPRISED t h a t Republicans i n /Washington have been caught up in an / e m b a r r a s s i n g fundraising...
CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Show of Class Please allow me to preface my remarks with a bit of personal background. I served three years in the USMC while President Reagan was Commander in Chief. I...
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTiNUiNG CRIS S R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. December exited stage left, trampling 2005 and allowing 2006 to make its debut, much to the relief of another Clintonista, hounded as Clintonistas so...
The Atheist Foxhole
Codevilla, Angelo M.
T / /ST A(,(,ORI)iN(, TO THE IHJSII-RUMSFI~LI) PI~NTAGON, 1;01) CAN NI':VEll Ai;AIN lie A (?()PILOT. BY ANGELO M. CODEVILLA 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 2006 RGUABLY THE WORST, MOST...
Second Chances at Life
Yost, Mark
The untold revolution in combat medicine. OOK AT THE FRONT PAGE of any major U.S. newspaper or the evening news on cable and network television and you'd think Iraq really was another...
Securing Iraq
Babbin, Jed
S CUI NG I Manhunting along rat lines and the other battles we're fighting in trying to rescue a country from itself and its neighbors. BY J E D BA B B I N LYING IN AND OUT of Baghdad's "Green...
Bad News Bearers
Taranto, James
Bad News Bearers The media won't defeat America by fighting the last war. by James Taranto - ' • OCTOBER THE U.S. GOVERNMENT released a letter found _9 in Iraq and purportedly written by Ayman...
The Perfect Storm
Norquist, Grover
The Perfect Storm Republican rule took some huge hits last fall--how did the President and the GOP Congress ever survive? Washington HE FALL OF 2005 WAS A PERFECT STORM of troubles for the...
ECONOMICS: Flat Earth Requirements
Wesbury, Brian S.
ECONOMICS BRIAN S . WESBU RY Flat Earth Requirements The better America's economic performance, the more calls we hear for government intervention. LMOST A DECADE AGO, I began to write and...
CAPITOL IDEAS: An Officer and a Gentleman
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS TOM 8ETHELL An Officer and a Gentleman EITH EILER, A DEAR FRIEND, died the other day. I had spoken to him by phone a week earlier, on his 85th birthday, but we exchanged only a...
POLITICS: French Gore
Fund, John H.
POLITICS rJOHN H~ FUND French Gore - • H E NEWS FROM FRANCE HAS BEEN GRIM the last year o r so. First, John Kerry failed to win the U.S. presidential election. As a French official told me...
HIGH SPIRITS: Narnia Triumphant
Aitken, Jonathan
HiGH SPIRITS JONATHAN A{TKEN Namia Triumphant ~ .S. LEWIS MUST BE CHUCKLING in the celestial clouds a s he looks down on the newbattle for Narnia that has i been raging among earthlings over...
EMINENTOES: The Butterfly's Sting
Beston, Paul
EMINENTOES PAUL BESTON The Butterfiyg Sting Muhammad Ali's greatness took a toll on him-and the rest of us. F YOU WATCH ESPN CLASSIC LONG ENOUGH, you'll come upon the footage. It's the...
THE NATION'S PULSE: Does Speed Really Kill?
Peters, Eric
THE NATION'S PULSE ERIC PETERS Does Speed Really Kill? ~ *-S AN AIRLINER DOING 500 MPH "SPEEDING"? Does the a c t ~ o f driving faster than a number posted on a sign neces~ s a r i l y mean...
COLLEGE AVENUE: Dodging the Multicultural Bullet
Gottfried, Paul
COLLEGE AVENUE PAU L GOTTFR~ED Dodging the Multicultural Bullet p LIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE MAY HAVE just dodged the ruinous impact of the multicultural bullet. Last summer our administration...
LETTER FROM PARIS: Riots? What Riots?
Harriss, Joseph A.
LETTER FROM PARIS JOSEPN A~ HASRtSS Riots? What Riots? s LONG AGO AS THE PARIS MAYHEM of May 1968, France's great conservative thinker, Raymond Aron, pointed to extreme blockage as the...
BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Night Vision
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY Night Vision by Benjamin J~ Stein SUNDAY ~"~-ARRIVED AT THE MEMPHIS AIRPORT feeling sick and exhausted from two very tiring days in Monroe, Louisiana, home of the world's...
THE TALKIES: Spielberg Stress Disorder
Bowman, James
! THE TALKIES JAMES BOWMAN Spielberg Stress Disorder V HEN I LAST WROTE IN THIS SPACE I hadn't yet seen Stephen Spielberg's Munich, but when I did I found that I had alreadywritten the...
Monumental Monster
Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon
BOOKS IN REVIEW Monumental Monster F THE THREE GREAT DICTATORS of the last c e n t u r y - S t a l i n , Hitler, and Mao Tse-tung--the last was by no means the least destructive. Though he...
Relentless Partisanship
Wilentz, Sean
BOOKS IN REVIEW tary of state, Henry Kissinger, betrayed Taiwan without gaining even a promise not to use force--a concession Kissinger now says he regrets. Mao extracted the maximum from...
Rebel With a Cause
Barnes, Fred
BOOKS IN REVIEW Zachary Taylor. Poor Stephen A. Douglas, according to Wilentz, was the earnest compromiser Clay was not, but the ground was taken out from under him, we are told, by the crafty...
The Myths of War
Miniter, Richard
BOOKS IN REVIEW ' ~ ARNES DOES UNDERSTAND BUSH and does a n e x D cellent job analyzing the private as well as pubi lie man. A fellow evangelical Christian, Barnes displays a keen...
PUBLIC NUISANCES: Our Immigration Imbroglio/Who Is Byron Dorgan?
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMM ETT TYRRELL, JR. Our mmigratio mbrogHo WASHINGTON I ! A SPEECH TO BORDER AND CUSTOMS agents in RECENT ucson, Arizona, President George W. Bush fastened he nation--s...
CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Thirty-seven lonely years after Woodstock, the wretchedAlexander Cockburn has yet another humiliating LSD relapse, and some imbecilic editor at Old Faithful is fool...
LAST CALL: Bunny Boilers Anonymous
Macomber, Shawn
LAST CALL SHAWN MACOMBER Bunny Boilers Anonymous HEN I WAS GROWING UP, whenever one of my elder relations would bring home someone a bit too mentally or chemically unstable from the seedy...
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