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Vol. 040 Issue 010 (January 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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ABOUT THIS MONTH: Shall We Dance?
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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UR ANNUAL ROBERT L. BARTLEY Memorial Dinner this year celebrated The American Spectator’s 40th anniversary. It was like prom night: a dizzying, delightful black tie evening amid friends old...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Everlasting Love The American Spectatorhas been and continues to be one of my main avenues of political education, as it has for almost 30 years. The humor of R. Emmett continues unabated,...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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October is gone but Bruno is back! Bruno, the bulky, tough-talking, longtime wife of Boy Clinton, emerged from beneath her halo late in the month after rivals for the Democratic presidential...
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ON THE PROWL
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Sweatshopped American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees labor boss Gerald McEntee, who played kingmaker in the 1992 presidential election race by elevating a...
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 40 YEARS
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Johnson, Paul
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1 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Around the World in 40 Years Around the World in 40 Years O MUCH HAS HAPPENED TO THE WORLD in the last 40 years, nearly all of it,...
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IDEAS STILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 BY ALFRED S. REGNERY One of them has been the conservative movement’s political, intellectual, and economic progress against the stale...
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MEMORIES AND TRIBUTES
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2 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 FRED BARNES THE FIRST TIME I SAW The American Spectator in the late 1970s I didn’t know what to make of it. It was a funny size—too...
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IMMIGRATION REVERSALS
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Magnet, Myron
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30 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Immigration Reversals Immigration Reversals ’M EMBARRASSED IT TOOK ME SO LONG to grasp the phoniness of the charge that it’s...
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THE FIRST LADY PRESIDENT
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Klein, Philip
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3 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 BY PHILIP KLEIN AHillary Clinton presidency would be much closer to her first tenure in the WhiteHouse than she would have us believe....
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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
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42 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Books for Christmas TINA BROWN TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England by Lynne Olson...
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PRESSWATCH: The Second Time as Farce
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Taranto, James
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ISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, HEGEL NOTED, prompting Marx to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. As this summer turned to fall, two onetime media notables, Daniel Irvin Rather Jr....
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CAPITOL IDEAS: The Socialist Bacillus and the Investor Class
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Bethell, Tom
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Y WIFE AND I WENT to one of those free dinners that brokerage houses offer to attract clients. This was a Smith Barney affair, and I was glad to go because it was held at an Italian...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Truth and Self-Censorship
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Scruton, Roger
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HEN JOHN STUART MILL gave his famous defense of free opinion in On Liberty, he was careful to point out that errors are not only inevitable, they are also beneficial, provided we are able to...
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FROM THE GUT: Funny Games
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Gutfeld, Greg
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S I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE in these very pages, my first job out of college was here at The American Spectator. Iwas a young punk at 22, with a crew cut, and I owned only one suit. The tie I...
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POLITICS: Terrorist, Sadist, and Left-Wing Saint
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Fund, John H.
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ORTY YEARS AGO, The American Spectator helped drag conservatism out of its stodgy past and enlivened it with a dash of brio.Writers such as P.J. O’Rourke, Ben Stein, and Greg Gutfeld helped...
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THE TURKEY SPECTATOR: The End of the Affair
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BERMAN, ILAN
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HAT HAPPENED TO the U.S.-Turkish alliance? These days, that question has become something of a recurring theme within the Washington Beltway. Relations between Washington and Ankara have...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Present at the Creation
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Aitken, Jonathan
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ORTY YEARS ON WHEN AFAR AND ASUNDER/ Parted are those who are singing today are the chorus lines of the school song of Harrow, Winston Churchill’s alma mater. It evoked such emotion in the...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Better Than We Deserve
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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EREIAMINMINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA,and a surprise is waiting for me at the door of my hotel room. Why, lookee here. It’s an article on the front page of the New York Times attacking me. Why?...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: Among the Mad Simpletons
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Bowman, James
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HENEWYORKTIMESOBITUARYof Robert Goulet reminded us that “in 1961, The New York Daily News Magazine called him ‘just the man to help stamp out rock ’n’ roll.’” Alas, as the obituarist for the...
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FLORENCE KING: The Spy Who Loved Men
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Shipman, Pat
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OUDON’THAVETOREADVERYFARinto this book to know that you won’t be able to stop reading until you finish it. Only then will you get around to the dishes piling up in the sink, the basket of...
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CONRAD BLACK: Relentless and Entertaining
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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was over and done with as soon as she got the money, at least as far as she was concerned.” But not as far as the French were concerned. While she was in Paris buying new stuff and trysting...
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THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL: Treasures From the Attic
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Emerson, Jason
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esting case for the view that Bill Clinton was the “greatest huckster ever to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” that the Clinton era was, in some respects, “a holiday from history,” and...
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DANIEL JOHNSON: A Fundamentally Decent Man
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BLACK, CONRAD
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B O O K S I N R E V I E W DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 8 7 loving care and wise guidance [of Dr. Patterson],” as Mary’s closest friend, Sally Orne put it. Mary Lincoln...
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W. JAMES ANTLE III: Hero Worship
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Gerson, Michael J.
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down far more than the American people. He builds up a picture of a gifted, visionary politician who grasped before anyone else that America’s unique role in the postwar world required a new...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: Their Seven Deadly Sins/Missing Scandals
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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9 2 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 Their Seven Deadly Sins WASHINGTON N OCTOBER IT WAS REPORTED in the authoritative Capitol Hill newspaper, The Hill, that Don Van Natta...
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HISTORIC CURRENT WISDOM: The Tyrrell/McAuliffe Letters
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EVER ON THE LOOKOUT FOR CURRENT WISDOM, I, this past summer, secreted a copy of Terry McAuliffe’s memoir: What A Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists,...
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LAST CALL: At Otto's
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Kaplan, Roger
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98 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 OB TYRRELLWASWAITING FORUS at the bar at Otto’s, a saloon just outside the city limits of Oak Park, which is dry. He was a very fit, very...
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