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Vol. 040 Issue 008 (October 1 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Class of 1967
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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T'SCAUSEFORCELEBRATIONwhenanymagazineturns40, especially an opinion magazine. And when that magazine is The American Spectator, you have a real...
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE: Whose Reagan? An Exchange
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Diggins, John Patrick
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ETER J. WALLISON'S review of my book, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History ("Reagan Co-opted," TAS, July/August 2007), is so full of utter distortions that a reader could...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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August passed, but the Clintons' Chop Suey Connection returned! It was first identified in these pages back in 1995, when Mr. James Ring Adams apprehended Indonesian bankers of Chinese...
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ON THE PROWL
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Governor George Former Virginia senator and governor George Allen is looking for a political comeback, but not in the Senate, even though his former colleague, Sen. John Warner,...
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BULLISH ON 2008
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Norquist, Grover G.
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1 8 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 HERE ARE FOUR REASONS for Republicans to approach November 2008 with optimism. First, much of the case for continued Democrat...
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THE WINGERS' GAME: A CAMP DIARY
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Freeman, Neal B.
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If football is war by other means,Albany,New York,is Parris Island. If football is war by other means,Albany,New York,i Parris Island. 2 2 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O...
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SCENES FROM A CRACK-UP
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Macomber, Shawn
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W 2 6 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 Scenes From a rack-Up The DailyKos crowd convened in Chicago as the second coming of the Democratic National...
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LETTER FROM BAGHDAD: Three Months of Dysfunction
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Mylroie, Laurie
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Y THREE MONTHS RECENTLY SPENT in Baghdad clarifiedtheconsiderabledifficultiesfacingtheUnited States in Iraq. Baghdad is very much a city at war, under siege by insurgents seeking to make...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Altruism and Selfishness
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Scruton, Roger
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HE FIRST PIECE OF MORAL ADVICE thatparentsusedto give their children was contained in the Golden Rule:Doasyouwouldbedoneby.Christianparents backed this up with the parable of the Good...
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FROM THE GUT: A Rotten Affair
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Gutfeld, Greg
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T'S A REALLY SAD THING whena14-year-oldboyisahead taller than you, but for me, it's not just sad, it's a reality. My nephew Garrett, whom I haven't seen in six months, has experienced a growth...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: The Great Blunder
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Bethell, Tom
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NE QUESTION THAT COMES TO MIND in connection with the Iraq disaster is this: Why did we decide that Iraq ought to be a democracy? And a constitutional democracy--if that isn't a...
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POLITICS:Green Inhumanity
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Fund, John H.
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OVE OVER, MICHAEL MOORE. You have competition in the art of political film-making from a 24-year-oldunemployedRomanianminer.And instead of advancing the cause of smug liberal hypocrisy, he's...
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PRESSWATCH: Issues of Narrative
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Taranto, James
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N A SUMMER POSTMORTEM on the Duke University rape hoax,RachelSmolkinoftheAmericanJournalismReviewsummedupmuchofwhatiswrongwithjournalism today: Perhaps the most complex lessons about...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Georgias on My Mind
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Aitken, Jonathan
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ROM ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TO TBILISI, GEORGIA, is a long journey across continents, cultures, and huge dividesofwealth.Yethavingrecentlyvisitedbothcapitals I can also say that both Georgias have...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: The Making of an Economist
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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HATAHELLISHDAY.LastnightasIwascomingin from a lovely day in Malibu, I decided I was hungry.Ihadbeencravingacornedbeefsandwich and so I went to a little 24-hour deli in Santa Monica called...
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CONSERVATIVES TASTES: Right-Wing Fantasy
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Bowman, James
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Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, I smile--but she doesn't see... ELL, DUH! But Antonio Carlos Jobim wasn't really as dumb as he...
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WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI: Washington's Prince
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Novak, Robert D.
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AM NOT A PERSON WHO IS EASY for a lot of people to like," Bob Novak writes early in this not-massiveenough memoir. But how can anyone ever dislike someone who never fails to make an...
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DAVID AIKMAN: Up From Slavery
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Aitken, Jonathan
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Up From Slavery THIS YEAR IS AN IMPORTANT ONE for anniversaries of Christian work. It marks the 200th anniversaryofthearrivalinCanton,China,of Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary...
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JOSEPH A. HARRISS: Europe Was Yesterday
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Laqueur, Walter
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his death in 1807, months after the trade had actually been abolished, Newton was mentor, guide, and friendtoWilberforce.Itwasanextraordinarilyinfluential friendship. His careful, precise...
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W. JAMES ANTLE III: Chafee at the Bit
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Laffey, Steve
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Danish newspaper publishes satirical cartoons of Muhammad; after a storm of protest, Berlin's Deutsche Oper delays plans to stage a Mozart opera with a scene of The Prophet's severed head;...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: John McCain Battles On/Hastert La Vista!
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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7 0 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 John McCain Battles On WASHINGTON READ FOUR NEWSPAPERS A DAY, occasionally more. I watch television news and listen to radio...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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The Great Books Series Part-time anthropologist Bill Clinton records a typical African greeting prefatory to the customary outbreak of small arms fire: In Africa, where the first...
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LAST CALL: Atheist Chic
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Thornbury, Gregory Alan
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7 4 T H E A M E R I C A N S P E C T A T O R O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 AMILY VACATIONS ARE OVER, and the children have gone back to school. For many of us, the time...
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