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Vol. 039 Issue 007 (September 1 2006)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Pursuit of Liberty
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Pursuit of Liberty BY ALFRED S. REGNERY T HE AMERICAN SPECTATOR has always greeted the world with a combination of amusement and seriousness, and this issue is no...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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CORRESPONDENCE Cellular In the June 2006 issue David Holman writes the following about Senator George Allen ("The Jeffersonian"): "He eschews cell phones" because Allen feels they...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE ISIS CONTINUING CR R. Emmett T y r r e i l , J r . July has come and gone, and the Israeli Defense Forces spent much of the month rummaging through Lebanon looking for two Israeli soldiers...
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ON THE PROWL
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ON THE PROWL Boyle Oh Boy The fight over judges is going to come to a head after Labor Day recess, say Senate insiders, but the fight could have been much easier had the White House and the...
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READY FOR RUDY
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Murdock, Deroy
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New York NE JET PASSENGER NEVER WILL FORGET t h e evening of March 9, 2005. He remembers flying with Rudolph William Giuliani from Dallas, where "America's Mayor" earlier that day had...
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GIULIANI AND CHURCHILL
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Klein, Philip
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READY FOR RUDY Crime and Quality of Life Anyone who thinks Giuliani is a liberal should walk through Times Square. A dozen years ago, it was a gritty, dangerous place, brimming with litter,...
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CONSERVATIVE STATES ADRIFT: Introduction
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Hillyer, Quin
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I N ITS BEGINNINGS, THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE movement was little more than an uphill effort to rally around a single national leader at a time.first Ohio's RobertTaft and then Arizona's Barry...
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CONSERVATIVE STATES ADRIFT: Party Wars in Arizona
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Slivka, Judd
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I N ITS BEGINNINGS, THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE movement was little more than an uphill effort to rally around a single national leader at a time.first Ohio's RobertTaft and then Arizona's Barry...
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CONSERVATIVE STATES ADRIFT: Buckeye Blues
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Myers, Steve
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In Ohio. scandals surroundingTaft grandson RobertA.Taft II have made that state's long-dominant GOP suddenly vulnerable up and down the ticket just as Kenneth Blackwell. a favorite among...
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AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
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Wilson, James Q.
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1 ~ ~ HEN PRESIDENT BUSH said that America t ] ~ / hopes to spread democracy to all ofthe i / I / w o r l d , he was echoing a sentiment I~1 / I /many people support. Though Ameri! / I / cans...
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ECONOMICS: The Latter Curve Strikes Again
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Moore, Stephen
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ECONOMICS Stephen Moore The Laffer Curve Strikes Again The Bush tax cuts create new wealth and greater tax revenue. ~"-N JANUARY 2003 George W. Bush's presidency was in a rut. The first round...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: The Death Wish Revisited
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS Tom B e t h e l l The Death Wish Revisited is the first in all history to breed and indoctrinate its own destroyers, educating at the public expense the barbarians who will...
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POLITICS: Sons of the Fathers
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Fund, John H.
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( POLITICS John I ] . Fund Sons of the Fathers - • A R L SANDBURG CHRISTENED CHICAGO"City of the Big Shoulders." These days the nation's third largest metropolis might merit a new moniker:...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Countryside and Culture
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Roger Seruton Countryside a.nd Culture " ' 1 HERE IS AN EMERGING "CULTURE WAR" which has I dominated British politics for the last two decades, and is beginning to...
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EMINENTOES: The Full Murtha
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Holman, David
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EMINENTOES David Holman The Full Murtha W ASHINGTON IS A FORGMNG TOWN, at least to Democrats. Generally, scandal-tainted Republicans are given little quarter. John McCain is the most...
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LETTER FROM PARIS: He Was Our Friend
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS Joseph A. t t a r r i s s He Was Our Friend A NTI-AMERICANISM BECAME the most ubiquitous form of racism in the latter part of the 20th century. And if you don't agree with...
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HIGH SPIRITS: British Mean Streaks
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS Jonathan Aitken British Mean Streaks EMONIZATION IS AN UNPLEASANT blood sport, especially when its quarries are people you admire. I have been getting upset in London this summer...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Clear Eyed
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Clear Eyed by Benjamin J. Stein FRIDAY H UMIDITY. YUCK. When you live in California, you learn to love the absence of humidity. But, alas, the humidity is still there lurking...
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THE TALKIES: Passion Without Reason
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES James Bowman Passion Without Reason p mUBLIC SUFFERING IS THE PREROGATIVE of the celebrity. In fact, you could almost say that public suffering is what makes him a celebrity. I...
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True in His Fashion
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Kelly, Ian
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BOOKS IN REVIEW True in His Fashion ~ HE FEMINIST GEI~MAINE GREER once declaimed that it was folly to allow men to rule the world ~wa when they begin the day by tying a noose around their...
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X-Ray Vision
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Bowman, James
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BOOKS IN REVIEW the progress of George III's insanity. Despite his heavy losses he was safe from his creditors as long as he remained friends with the Prince, but his self-destructive streak...
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Breaking Away
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Derych, Jim
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BOOKS IN REVIEW to virtually unthinkable, and he acknowledges how steep a mountain we will have to climb. He manages a tone of enlightened skepticism while never quite resorting to...
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Kneejerk Imperialists
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Karsh, Efraim
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BOOKS IN REVIEW to relocation camps now to avoid the unpleasantness of house-to-house searches later on." W HILE SEARCHING for a comprehensive FDR biography to re-familiarize myself with the...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: They Asked for It/A Terrible Battle
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett T y r r e l l , J r . T They Asked for It WASHINGTON O THE GRIZZLED AND DISHEVELED stalwarts of Hezbollah and Hamas, may I say you did it to yourselves. Kapow! As...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times From exotic Hicksville comes word that Denward is retiring his organ: This decision from the New York Court of Appeals places a choice before me. Should I, as a...
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LAST CALL: Shacking Up
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Macomber, Shawn
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LAST CALL Shawn Macomber Shacking Up W ERE WE OUTCASTS BY CHOICE o r circumstance? It's difficult to tell even now, really, since one so often feeds offthe other. I've known political...
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