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Vol. 040 Issue 006 (July 1 2007)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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ABOUT THIS MONTH:Among the Cynics
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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A B O U T T H I S M O N T H Among the Cynics by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski RESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES say the darnedest things, but once in a while one of them will get something right. So there...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Core Concepts Among the many excellences of Michael Novak’s “The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty” (TAS, June 2007), I would single out his now quite rare...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . T H E C O N T I N U I N G C R I S I S May has taken a powder, and so to has Miss Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war superstar, who resigned from the peace...
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ON THE PROWL
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O N T H E P R O W L vate dinners with each of the four top-tier Republican A Place at the Table For all the talk of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg running for president as a...
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HOPE FLOATS ON THE BAYOU
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Hillyer, Quin
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Hope Floats on the Bayou OUISIANA’S U.S. REP. BOB LIVINGSTON, then the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Jim McCrery, a rising star on the Ways and Means Committee,...
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DON'T GO HIKING WITH CAPTAIN PAIN
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Croke, Bill
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Don’t Go Hiking W Don’t Go Hiking W A mountain man’s search for a summer paradise. BY BILL CROKE IGH COUNTRY HIKERS” hikes are “led” affairs. As many as a half dozen people have taken...
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OBAMA RISING
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Klein, Philip
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24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 0 7 Obama Obama Rising Rising The charismatic freshman senator may just be the Democrat who can beat Hillary—and make liberalism a...
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ARMIES FOR DEMOCRACY-PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
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HANSON, VICTOR DAVIS
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Armies for Democracy— Past,Present, and Future I. Distrusting the Military HE COMPLEX AND SOMEWHAT ill-defined relationship between the military establishment and constitutional...
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ECONOMICS:The Long Global Boom
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Wesbury, Brian S.
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E C O N O M I C S The Long Global Boom by Brian S. Wesbury gy prices, terrorists, hurricanes, 17 Fed rate hikes, corporate scandal, and war. None of these things has created a recession....
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CAPITOL IDEAS:Darwinism at AEI
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Bethell, Tom
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C A P I T O L I D E A S Darwinism at AEI by Tom Bethell ARLY IN MAY, the American Enterprise Institute held a debate about Darwinism, a faith embedded in many debates, whether scientific,...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE:Art, Beauty, and Judgment
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Scruton, Roger
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Art, Beauty, and Judgment T H E P U R S U I T O F K N O W L E D G E Good taste is as important in aesthetics as it is in humor. by Roger Scruton CENTURYAGOMARCELDUCHAMPsigned a urinal with...
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THE SENATORIAL SPECTATOR:Pork Buster in Chief
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Moore, Stephen
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Pork Buster in Chief T H E S E N A T O R I A L S P E C T A T O R In Tom Coburn, the Republicans, to their dismay, have a rising star in the Senate. by Stephen Moore...
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PRESSWATCH:Ignorance of the Law
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Taranto, James
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P R E S S W A T C H Ignorance of the Law by James Taranto N JUNE 2006, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated President Bush’s system of military commissions to try war-crimes defendants...
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FROM THE GUT:Mother's Day at Pier 1
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GUT, FROM THE
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F R O M T H E G U T Mother’s Day at Pier 1 by Greg Gutfeld FTHEREISABETTERWAYTOSPEND a Sunday in May than at Mamapalooza, the “Creativity and Lifestyles Conference, 2007,” then don’t...
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POLITICS:Springtime in Paris
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Fund, John H.
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P O L I T I C S Springtime in Paris violence there. (But then who isn’t?) by John H. Fund EWFRENCHPRESIDENTNICOLASSARKOZYis full of surprises. He stunned observers by selecting Bernard...
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HIGH SPIRITS:Blair's Faith and Future
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Aitken, Jonathan
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H I G H S P I R I T S Blair’s Faith and Future by Jonathan Aitken ONY BLAIR IS NOW ENJOYING his first few weeks as a private citizen. At 54 he is far too young, energetic, and idealistic...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY:I Get Around
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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B E N S T E I N ’ S D I A R Y I Get Around by Benjamin J. Stein her at all. She did me a huge favor by talking me into getting a Weimaraner dog named Mary back in 1972. That truly changed...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES:Making It Official
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Bowman, James
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C O N S E R V A T I V E T A S T E S Making It Official by James Bowman WO RECENT ANNIVERSARIES—the 40th of the Beatles’ album, “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and the 30th of...
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PETER J. WALLISON:Reagan Co-opted
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Diggins, John Patrick
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Reagan Co-opted Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History By John Patrick Diggins (W.W. NORTON, 493 PAGES, $27.95) B O O K S I N R E V I E W HIS IS A BOOK I VERY MUCH...
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LAURIE MYLROIE:Present at the Destruction
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Allawi, Ali A.
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B O O K S I N R E V I E W able to identify more clearly Reagan’s role in bringing about the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet system. First, of course, was the U.S. military...
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R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.:Will We Always Have Paris?
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Iklé, Fred Charles
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Will We Always Have Paris? B O O K S I N R E V I E W which he was directly involved, particularly economic matters, but he can be surprisingly off-base on issues remote from his own...
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PAUL JOHNSON:Indispensable Encounters
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Kramer, Roger Kimball and Hilton
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B O O K S I N R E V I E W The Muslim attack on Christendom… has gone through three phases. The first is from the beginning of Islam, when the new faith spilled out of the Arabian Peninsula,...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES:Carter's Coogler Hat Trick/Do Nothing Democrats
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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R . E m m e t t Ty r r e l l , J r . P U B L I C N U I S A N C E S versity. The books have all been insipid and occasionally remarkably bad. His first book, Keeping Faith, won him the J....
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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C U R R E N T W I S D O M Chicago Sun-Times Charnel drolleries from Miss Cathleen Falsani, obituarist from the Windy City: When doctors pronounced the Rev. Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. dead...
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LAST CALL:Special Orders
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Macomber, Shawn
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L A S T C A L L Special Orders by Shawn Macomber T’S AMAZING, THE THINGS YOU HEAR when you regularly give a little cash to panhandlers. I’ve been told at least a dozen times now, for...
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