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Vol. 042 Issue 003 (April 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Sailing to Obamaland
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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The american president,†said Henry Adams—grandson of one president and great-grandson of another—“resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to...
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FREEDOM WATCH: Political Greed
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DeMint, Jim
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As strange as it sounds, one of the greatest threats to individual liberty in the United States is an obscure legislative tactic called “earmarking.” As you probably know, earmarks are provisions...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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February was a very cold month. By the end of it Venezuela's president Mr. Hugo Chavez had won an anti-term limits referendum, which he claimed as a victory "for socialism and revolution."...
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ON THE PROWL
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Treasury This Moment When Timothy Geithner was nominated by then president-elect Obama to be treasury secretary, longtime associates warned that the former Fed insider from New York was not...
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WRESTLING WITH CAPITALIST PIGS
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Klein, Philip
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IT WAS IN THE EARLY PART OF THIS DECADE that I ?rst wrestled with the phenomenon of capitalist pigs. In the public sphere, the wealthy businessman is constantly under attack. He is the...
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OBAMA'S GLOBAL "NARRATIVE"
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Aikman, David
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ABOUT A DECADE AGO I was working in Washington with some colleagues on a TV documentarysubsequently aired worldwide by the BBCabout the Israeli-Palestinian agreement known as the "Oslo...
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THERE'S PLENTY OF ENERGY AT THE BOTTOM
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Tucker, William
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ON DECEMBER 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of...
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SCIENTIFIC PRETENSE VS. DEMOCRACY
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Codevilla, Angelo M.
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"We will restore science to its rightful place..." —Barack Obama UNPACKED, THIS SENTENCE MEANS: "Under my administration, Americans will have fewer choices about how they live, and fewer...
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THE CONGRESSIONAL SPECTATOR: Blue Dogs Roll Over
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Antle, W. James III
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HEATH SHULER KNOWS HOW TO make a splash when he comes to Washington. He began his first stint in the nation's capital as quarterback for the Washington Redskins, the third overall pick in the...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: The Long Run
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Scruton, Roger
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THE "CREDIT CRUNCH" has raised the question of whether it could have been prevented by a better use of our rational powers, or whether on the contrary it hasn't been just a long-term...
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LETTER FROM PARIS: Girl Trouble
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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FIRST OF ALL, LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: I am not the father of Rachida Dati's new baby. Admittedly that disclaimer might be superfluous, because of all the many names mentioned since the...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Obama's Inauspicious Start
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Bethell, Tom
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IAM TRYING TO BE OPTIMISTIC but it isn't easy. The Obama people have been in office for less than six weeks (as I write) and yet everything seems to have gone from bad to worse. Certainly...
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THE PUBLIC POLICY: We're All Keynesians Again
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Lawler, Joseph
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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES is fashionable again, thanks at least in part to President Barack Obama. Obama's economic team features economists like Larry Summers, whom the BBC termed a...
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PRESSWATCH: A Times Leader
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Taranto, James
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WHAT DO Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Muammar Qaddafi have in common? All of them write for the New York Times op-ed page. Qaddafi, who made his debut on the page in...
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POLITICS: Making Every Census Count
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Fund, John H.
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A CENSUS-THE SUPPOSEDLY OBJECTIVE counting of every inhabitant of a country-has always had politics lurking in the background. Jesus was born in Bethlehem because the Romans insisted Joseph and...
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ECONOMICS: Demand and Supply
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WESBURY, BRIAN
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THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF ECONOMISTS-make that two types of people-in the world: demand-siders and supply-siders. What's interesting about the two is that they think in vastly different ways about...
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HIGH SPIRITS: National Prayer Bazaar
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Aitken, Jonathan
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AMERICAS NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST has a problem. It is in danger of becoming an empty social ritual rather than a meaningful spiritual event. As a reasonably regular attendee at the NPB for...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: From Coolidge to Harding
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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TUESDAY IAM SITTING IN THE STUDY OF MY HOME in Rancho Mirage. My glorious dogs, Brigid and Cleo, are sitting on the couch staring at me. Words cannot describe the love I feel for them. No....
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: Two Cultures in One
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Bowman, James
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WRITING IN VANITY FAIR'S MARCH ISSUE, Peter Bart, the editor of Variety, pronounces with all the authority of that august eminence that "the movie business is splitting into two...
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MIDGE DECTER: The Towering London
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London, Herbert
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GK. CHESTERTON ONCE OBSERVED that people who cease to believe in God will not then believe in nothing but will rather believe in anything. Who can offer better confirmation of what might have...
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NICK SCHULZ: Taking a Walk on the Supply Side
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Laffer, Arthur B.; Moore, Stephen; Tanous, Peter J.
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WITH THE ADVENT OF Barack Obama's administration and a Congress with strong Democratic majorities, it would be reasonable to assume that the school of thought known as supply-side...
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JASON EMERSON: Lincoln's Decisive Shift
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Lehrman, Lewis E.
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THE FIRST LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES. The turning point. The political catalyst. The Peoria speech. These are some of the terms used to describe Abraham Lincoln's return to politics in 1854 after...
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FRED IKLÉ: Up from Diplomacy
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Codevilla, Angelo
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MACHIAVELLI COULD NOT HAVE written a better book to give advice to "war presidents." But this should not puzzle the reader. Angelo Codevilla is a connoisseur of Machiavelli; indeed he...
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WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI: Frozen in Time
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Post, The Washington
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DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR YOU, but this is the book I've been waiting for. Lots and lots of pictures, easy-to-read captions, hardly any other text. In short, a leisurely assignment for any...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES
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Giggly Diplomacy WASHINGTON HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's first foreign policy jaunt with my customary discernment in matters regarding the Clintons. Frankly...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Washington Post A learned professor and Obama mentor reveals in the venerable Post that henceforth no more dirty talk will pass between the prof and our 44th president: "I'm much more of...
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LAST CALL: Retirement
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Shattan, Joseph
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THE NOTICE FROM UNCLE SAM arrived the other day: "Welcome to the Federal Employees Retirement System. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management thanks you for your years of public service and...
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