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Vol. 042 Issue 006 (July 1 2009)
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Portrait of an Artist
Regnery, Alfred S.
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Portrait of an Artist by Alfred S. Regnery I recall thinking after reading Paul Johnson's Modern Times that if I could remember everything that was in it, I'd never...
FREEDOM WATCH: Exclusive: Grand Inquisitor Endorses Obama Health Plan
McCotter, Thaddeus G.
FREEDOM WATCH Exclusive: Grand Inquisitor Endorses Obama Health Plan by Thaddeus G. McCotter Washington, D.C.-Breaking his half-a-millennium media silence from eternal damnation,...
THE CONTINUING CRISIS
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. And so ends the month of May, the fourth full month of the Obama Dizziness. In a Memorial Day weekend interview on C-SPAN, the 44th...
ON THE PROWL
ON THE PROWL Steele Eyed Some members of the Republican National Committee who chose not to support Michael Steele for chairman are encouraging reporters to monitor the RNC's FEC...
THE MATTER WITH THE MYTHS
Klein, Philip
The Matter With Myths If conservatives don't counter them, government-run health care will be here to stay. By Philip Klein With the fight over the future of the United States health care...
DOWNGRADING AMERICAN MEDICAL CARE
McCaughey, Betsy
Downgrading American Medical Care An American plan to help the uninsured, restore Medicare's fiscal soundness, and preserve medical excellence. By Betsy McCaughey The health proposals...
WILL THE NEXT PRESS BE CAPITALIST?
BAY, AUSTIN
Will the Next Press Be Capitalist It will if freedom remains on the American agenda. By Austin Bay Will the next press be capitalist? Whether drained by arrogant habits or strained by admirable...
HANGING OUT WITH THE REPO MAN
Wilson, Andrew B.
Hanging Out With the Repo Man He's smart, funny, and he "steals" cars legally. (He's also the best friend you never knew you had.) By Andrew B. Wilson Business for the nation's top recovery...
LONDON CALLING: The Joy of Portraiture
Johnson, Paul
LONDON CALLING The Joy of Portraiture by Paul Johnson Painting the human face and form, the most difficult and precious of the fine arts, reached its maturity in 15th-century Florence and...
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS: The Strip Club
Bachrach, Judy
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS The Strip Club by Judy Bachrach Naturally i was happy to learn that Christopher Buckley had just written a new novel, this one called Losing Mum and Pup-the...
POLITICAL HAY: Center Stage
Antle, W. James III
POLITICAL HAY Center Stage Republican primary voters must decide whether to play it moderately safe. by W. James Antle III Sen. John Cornyn's facebook friends aren't in a very friendly...
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Facing Torture
Scruton, Roger
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Facing Torture by Roger Scruton The debate over the use of torture has taken a new and disturbing turn, as prominent Democrats seek to bring criminal charges...
CAPITOL IDEAS: Perilous Path for Obama
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS Perilous Path for Obama by Tom Bethell Last month i pointed out the ways in which Obama's policies could threaten the country's future. Here I look at the issue from the other...
THE HELL-HOLE SPECTATOR: Uneducating the Slamic World
BERMAN, ILAN
THE HELL-HOLE SPECTATOR Uneducating the Islamic World by Ilan Berman Give barack obama credit for thinking big. Since taking office this past January, the president has embarked upon a...
PRESSWATCH: Tea Hee
Taranto, James
PRESSWATCH Tea Hee by James Taranto It's too early to tell if the anti-tax-and-spend "tea party" movement will fizzle or develop into a serious opposition to President Obama's domestic...
LETTER FROM PARIS: Still Standing Tall
Harriss, Joseph A.
LETTER FROM PARIS Still Standing Tall by Joseph A. Harriss Did you hear the one about the lady who married the Eiffel Tower? No, really. Erika La Tour Eiffel had had other infatuations with...
POLITICS: Cowards on Race
Fund, John H.
POLITICS Cowards on Race by John H. Fund Bartle Bull couldn't believe his eyes. The former civil rights lawyer had been arrested in the South during the 1960s. He once forced local...
HIGH SPIRITS: From Winchester to Westminster
Aitken, Jonathan
HIGH SPIRITS From Winchester to Westminster by Jonathan Aitken Westminster Abbey has been crowning and burying England's monarchs for 11 centuries. But it rarely pays spiritual homage to...
BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Liberty Weekend
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY Liberty Weekend by Benjamin J. Stein Friday Here i am riding through the lovely Virginia countryside in the back seat with my trusty driver, Bob Noah, at the wheel. You...
CONSERVATIVE TASTES: The Triumph of Fantasy
Bowman, James
CONSERVATIVE TASTES The Triumph of Fantasy by James Bowman As i was sitting in my local cineplex and waiting, not very hopefully, for the new Star Trek movie to begin, I watched in the...
Overlords of World War II
Piereson, James
BOOKS IN REVIEW Overlords of World War II When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first met Winston Churchill at the hastily arranged Placentia Bay conference in August 1941, he took an immediate...
The Permanent Crisis
JR., JOHN R. COYNE
BOOKS IN REVIEW The Permanent Crisis As Joan Didion once observed, a writer is always selling someone out. That's something that Bob Tyrrell knows all about. Eight years ago, in the...
It Was a Very Good Year
Falcoff, Mark
BOOKS IN REVIEW It Was a Very Good Year Recently marking his 86th year, Henry Kissinger remains unique among recent American secretaries of state-indeed, perhaps of all our secretaries of...
Suicide of the West
Beston, Paul
BOOKS IN REVIEW Suicide of the West The pacifist's preferred term for any war is "senseless," but more troubled observers would be hard-pressed to apply such a judgment across the board....
The Prince of Philadelphia
Lott, Jeremy
BOOKS IN REVIEW The Prince of Philadelphia Books," says Joe Queenan in his masterstroke of a memoir, are "the wealth of the poor's children." On this point, the man is unyielding. He...
How Our Best and Brightest Think
Codevilla, Angelo M.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE How Our Best and Brightest Think To what extent has a generation of monopoly over academic life corrupted the monopolists' intellectual standards? Could it be that...
PUBLIC NUISANCES: The ACLU Talks Too Much/Chimp Change
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The ACLU Talks Too Much WASHINGTON It was my old friend and mentor, Luigi Barzini, who asseverated: "Americans talk too much." He was sitting in the...
CURRENT WISDOM: Assorted Jackasses
CURRENT WISDOM New York Review of Books Sixty thousand years after the appearance of the species Homo sapiens on the planet Earth, and, according to Bill McKibben banging the pots and pans...
LAST CALL: Walk Hard
Pleszczynski, Wlady
LAST CALL Walk Hard by Wlady Pleszczynski Within a year of birth we learn to walk, much to the delight of our parents. But then we disregard our new ability. Speaking for myself, I only...
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