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 Vol. 040 Issue 004 (May 1 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: A Matter of Competence
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER A Matter of Competence by Alfred S. Regnery THERE HAS LONG BEEN a consensus among American voters that Republicans are a competent lot. When they set out to...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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CORRESPONDENCE Bonfire of the Vanities “Reengineering Easter” or “Easter Replacement Theory” or “Triduum Blinds the Eyes” may be better titles for Jonathan Aitken’s recent Pesach...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. March passed and with each day it became ever more apparent that friendship between President George W. Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is...
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ON THE PROWL
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ON THE PROWL fundraising issues inside the campaign than talk in the media would suggest. “He didn’t focus on the fundraising in the first quarter,” says one fundraiser. “He didn’t...
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STAR POWER: When Fred Thompson talks about entering the 2008 presidential race, Republicans respond with standing ovations. And Democrats get nervous. Stay tuned.
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Fund, John H.
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STARPOWER When Fred Thompson talks about entering the 2008 presidential race, Republicans respond with standing ovations. And Democrats get nervous. Stay tuned. IT’S VERY...
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THE LATEST CHILEAN MYTH: Far from a friend to the United States, Michelle Bachelet is the latest in a long line of far left leaders in the tradition of Castro and Chavez.
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Whelan, James R.
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The Latest Chilean Myth The Latest Chilean Myth THERE IS AN OLD ADAGE IN STATECRAFT which instructs that the height of stupidity is the inability to distinguish between friend and foe....
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THE CASE FOR FREEDOM: Democracy hasn't failed in the Middle East. Rather, it has hardly been attempted, let alone defended, despite the Bush administration's commitments and correct understanding of its indispensability to U.S. national security.
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DERMER, NATAN SHARANSKY AND RON
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28 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2007 N HIS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS, George W. Bush offered no sign of the sweeping democracy rhetoric that has marked his presidency, limiting himself only to...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Global Warming: A Role for the Sun
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS Global Warming: A Role for the Sun by Tom Bethell I KNOW YOU DON’T WANT TO READ another article about global warming. But bear with me, even though the last...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: In Defense of Terroir
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE In Defense of Terroir by Roger Scruton G ROWING UP IN A LOWER MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILY in mid-20th century England, I was taught to avoid wine, as one of...
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PRESSWATCH: Life in the Vast Lane
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH Life in the Vast Lane by James Taranto I T WASN’T EXACTLY A SCANDAL, but on February 24 the Associated Press published this revelation: While Mitt Romney condemns...
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FROM THE GUT: What Do I Know?
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Gutfeld, Greg
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FROM THE GUT What Do I Know? by Greg Gutfeld T HEY TELL YOU TO WRITE what you know. And officially, I now know nothing. This is what happens, I imagine, to anyone who ends up...
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THE NATION'S PULSE: Adult Approaches
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Fumento, Michael
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THE NATION’S PULSE Adult Approaches Will embryonic stem cell promise ever pay off ? by Michael Fumento I F YOU OR A LOVED ONE IS CURRENTLY ILL or planning to be so in the...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Episcopalian Recovery
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS Episcopalian Recovery by Jonathan Aitken EVANGELISM AND THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH are not comfortable bedfellows. The discomfort shows up in many ways, starting with empty...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Clinton Country
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN’S DIARY Clinton Country by Benjamin J. Stein WEDNESDAY NIGHTMARE. WOW. WHAT AN AWFUL DAY. I went to LAX to get a plane to Charlotte. U.S. Air. The boarding area was...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: End of Story
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES End of Story by James Bowman A FEW MONTHS AGO in this space (see “What’s the Story?” November 2006), I animadverted on Hollywood’s recent preference for...
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JOSEPH A. HARRISS: Tocqueville Between Two Worlds Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
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Brogan, Hugh
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BOOKS IN REVIEW America and Russia would come to dominate the world seemed uncannily prescient during the Cold War, when he was seized on as an alternative to Karl Marx as a theorist of...
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JOEL MILLER: Adam Smith for Dummies On the Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Publication of the book’s first volume in 1835 (the second was in 1840) made Tocqueville an instant celebrity in Paris. Accolades showered, from the Legion of Honor to...
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ALGIS VALIUNAS:The Dreams of Your Youth Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
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Stone, Robert
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BOOKS IN REVIEW mantling the theories of the French physiocrats, readers can know the ultimate relevance is tied to the Big Three. O’Rourke also does a decent job of intellectual...
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ANGELO M. CODEVILLA: Caricature of America Dangerous Nation
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Kagan, Robert
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BOOKS IN REVIEW not a metaphor; on peyote there are no metaphors. From the tenor sax issued festive, gorgeous silk bands of the brightest richest red, whirling and dancing and filling the...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: Picture This/ Democrats Found Guilty
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Picture This WASHINGTON ELL, IT IS STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has only been in the race for the presidency a short...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Concord Monitor On the howl page of a great liberal gazette Miss Rosemary Mellon, the Katie Couric of greater metropolitan Franklin, New Hampshire, makes a Herculean...
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LAST CALL: Jazz Coda?
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Hillyer, Quin
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LAST CALL Jazz Coda? by Quin Hillyer N EW ORLEANS STILL SUFFERS TERRIBLY troubled waters, and it’s time to stop assessing blame and instead start working to preserve the...
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