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Vol. 042 Issue 001 (February 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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ABOUT THIS MONTH: Hail to the Chief
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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Conservatives in washington (oxymoronic as that may sound) greeted the Obama inaugura tion with mixed feelings, to put it mildly. Some were accepting, and even attended inaugurationrelated...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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exceptional Thank you all for a truly exceptional issue (TAS, December 2008/January 2009). All of the articles were outstanding. Michael No vak’s and Roger Scruton’s were exceptional....
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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December, viewed from beginning to end and with the advantage of hindsight, demonstrates incontrovertibly that President-elect Barack H. Obama is indeed a hind. On the other hand, by the end...
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ON THE PROWL
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The big Fix Despite the dire talk on the U.S. economy coming from President Barack Obama and his economic advisers, many inside what was then the economic transition team, including...
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DASCHLE CARE
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Klein, Philip
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Where Hillary Clinton failed, the team of President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Tom Daschle is determined to succeed— and the political momentum is all on their side. By Philip Klein The last...
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THE TRUE ORIGINS OF THIS FINANCIAL CRISIS
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Wallison, Peter J.
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TWO NARRATIVES SEEM TO BE FORMING to describe the underlying causes of the financial crisis. One, as outlined in a New York Times frontpage story on Sunday, December 21, is that President...
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PROVIDING RELIEF FROM THE CRISIS
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How to spare the economy further crippling government intervention by suspending mark-to-market accounting. Our economics editor, Brian Wesbury, has put together this symposium in the hope that...
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ENFORCING RULES AGAINST RADICALS
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Hillyer, Quin
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Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in this magazine’s occasional, ongoing series of political-event reminiscences by senior editor Quin Hillyer, each with lessons relevant to current...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Surviving Obama
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Scruton, Roger
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American conservatives, still in a state of shock from President Obama’s victory, must now live with the man for whom they didn’t vote. We English conservatives have born a similar burden for...
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POLITICAL HAY: Minority Report
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Antle, W. James III
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After the democrats took control of both houses of Congress in 2006, some conservatives consoled themselves with this comforting thought: they might not have the majority anymore, but at...
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THE TERROR SPECTATOR: After Mumbai
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Aikman, David
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INDIANS AS WELL AS FOREIGN OBSERVERS of all kinds were quick to call the November 26–29 massacres in Mumbai “India’s 9/11.” Mercifully for India, the 10 terrorists who took part in the attacks...
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS: Special Thanks to Spot
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Black, Jonathan
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YOU MAY THINK SCANNING THE Acknowledgments page first is like reading the weddings in the New York Times Sunday Styles section before hitting the news. I beg to differ. The Acknowledgments...
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LETTER FROM PARIS: Finally, A Brit Who Gets It
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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THE GLORY DAYS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM may have been in the 1970s, when marchers filled the streets of every European capital to protest against “neocolonial imperialism,” but that pernicious...
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POLITICS: S.O.S. at the BBC
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Fund, John H.
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LONDON—WHEN A COUPLE YEARS AGO I met Vladimir Bukovsky, the former Soviet dissident who spent A a decade in the Gulag before being released in 1976, I asked him how he liked living in Britain....
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CAPITOL IDEAS: A Culture Mired in Callousness
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Bethell, Tom
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I WRITE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, but our first AfricanAmerican president should have been sworn in and the inaugural festivities completed by the time you read this. On a more somber note, an...
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PRESSWATCH: Blogged Down
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Taranto, James
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AFTER THE 2004 ELECTION, conservatives loved blogs. “As CBS News can tell you, the rise of the Internet…is the latest and perhaps most explosive change that is shrinking liberal edia...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Antiquities Diplomacy
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Aitken, Jonathan
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SYRIA IS A DIFFICULT COUNTRY POLITICALLY, even for an Obama administration committed to dropping the axis of evil and replacing it with unconditional dialogue. But here is an idea for an...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: The Age of Fraud
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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SUNDAY SO HERE I AM IN RANCHO MIRAGE reading about Bernie Madoff and Marc Dreier and Governor Blagojevich and I am thinking: Now is the age of fraud. On one day there is the governor of...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: The Mind of the Past
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Bowman, James
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OBAMA MAKES HISTORY," blared the headline in the Washington Post last November 5. A few days later in the same newspaper, Robert Kaiser acknowledged this as “a statement of the obvious,” but...
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SIR MARTIN GILBERT: Essential Company
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Langworth, Richard
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I HAVE KNOWN RICHARD LANGWORTH, initially by reputation and then personally, for 40 years. In the late 1960s, when I was a research assistant to Churchill’s son, Randolph, Langworth wrote to...
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MARK FALCOFF: He Was There
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Rodman, Peter W.; Kissinger, Henry A.
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THE LATE PETER RODMAN, who died last summer, was one of those remarkable people rare in Washington—the key insider unknown to the general public and (rarer still) happy to remain that way. A...
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MATTHEW KENEFICK: Shades of Gray
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Crocker, H. W. III
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AN OFT-REPEATED TRUISM IS “History is written by the victors.” Certainly this has been the case of the War Between the States. Books written about the war must number in the hundreds of...
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ROBERT HUBERTY: Good as Goldwater
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Hoplin, Nicole; Robinson, Ron
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Good as Goldwater IN NOVEMBER OF 1958, Barry Goldwater was reelected to a second term in the Senate, but Republicans lost 48 seats in the House, 12 in the Senate and 13 of 21 governorships....
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J. PETER FREIRE: You Are Stupid
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Jacoby, Susan
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THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM in Washington about Sarah Palin is that she lacks intelligence and curiosity. This, coming from a city that considers ex-con and current councilman Marion Barry an...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: Back to the Wilderness
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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On December 3, 2008, The American Spectator held its 2008 Robert L. Bartley Annual Dinner, a gala banquet held for Washington Club members who have supported the magazine over the years....
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Meet the Press Ted Turner, a historical illiterate in action: We have an FBI, and we’re not preju diced against somebody who’s worked at the FBI. It’s an honorable place...
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LAST CALL: One With the Underdogs
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Macomber, Shawn
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LAWYER, DOCTOR, INDIAN CIZIEF, Auntie chanted mantra-like as she and her niece buffed, polished, and mopped their way through the mansion where Auntie served as maid. If an orphan like Alice...
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