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Vol. 042 Issue 007 (September 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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note from the publisher: Losing the Battle-But Winning the War
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Losing the Battle—But Winning the War by Alfred S. Regnery Sonia Sotomayor will probably provide Barack Obama what he wanted on the Supreme Court: a reliable...
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FREEDOM WATCH: What's Your Metric?
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Oliver, Daniel
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FREEDOM WATCH What’s Your Metric? by Daniel Oliver How do you watch freedom? How do you watch it grow? How do you watch it shrink? What’s the metric? What’s your metric? What do you think...
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. July has been put in a jar and placed on a shelf, the same fate that might befall the Obama administration presently. The Prophet, who began his...
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A LONG SHOT: ONE-TERM OBAMA
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Srodes, James
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A Long Shot: One-Term Obama Americans love to create president-heroes—only to turn on them once they acquire too much power. By James Srodes I miss the late Henry Simmons, the legendary...
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EMPTYING RESERVOIRS IN THE MIDDLE OF A DROUGHT
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SCHULZ, MAC
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Emptying Reservoirs in the Middle of a Drought California’s privileged species lord it over the endangered farmer. By Max Schulz Anyone doubting that our nation’s environmental and...
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FROM CITIZENS TO "STAKEHOLDERS": THE NEW AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
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Codevilla, Angelo M.
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From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution Or just call it the New Obama Constitution. By Angelo M. Codevilla “I’m going to get everybody concerned around a big table...
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: Dealing With Iran
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Dealing With Iran There’s a reason why paranoids have enemies: they create them. by Roger Scruton It is nearly 30 years since Islamist students and Revolutionary...
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EMINENTOES: Three Little Piggies
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Friedman, Abu M.
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EMINENTOES Three Little Piggies …go against the market in trucking with the government. by Abu M. Friedman Oink, says Jeff Immelt, smacking his lips. While his company’s stock has shed...
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THE CONGRESSIONAL SPECTATOR: Blue Dogs Turn Red
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Antle, W. James III
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THE CONGRESSIONAL SPECTATOR Blue Dogs Turn Red by W. James Antle III Before congress adjourned for the summer recess, Republicans stood on the House floor, faced C-SPAN’s cameras, and asked...
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THE NATION'S PULSE: News of the Weak
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Murchison, William
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THE NATION’S PULSE
News of the Weak
by William Murchison
Ex-newspaperman that i am, the saga of “old” media
decline in the ultra-high-tech 21st century engages
every nerve ending, every tear duct....
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THE OBAMA WATCH: The War on Watchdogs
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McCain, Robert Stacy
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THE OBAMA WATCH The War on Watchdogs Inspectors general fight for independence, while Obama brings the “Chicago Way” to Washington. by Robert Stacy McCain House oversight committee chairman...
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THE PUBLIC POLICY: Taking Health Savings Into Account
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Ferrara, Peter
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THE PUBLIC POLICY Taking Health Savings Into Account HSAs are already solving our health policy problems. by Peter Ferrara Back off, Barack Obama. A conservative, free market health policy...
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CAPITOL IDEAS: Can We Do Without Relativity?
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS
Can We Do Without
Relativity?
by Tom Bethell
Something tells me that my new book—Questioning
Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?—is unlikely to
be reviewed. So I shall say something...
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PRESSWATCH: Now They Tell Us
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Taranto, James
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PRESS WATCH Now They Tell Us by James Taranto The bad news came in an Associated Press dispatch July 8 titled “PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Tax Pledge Unrealistic.” Candidate Barack Obama had...
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POLITICS: Toxic Nancy
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICS Toxic Nancy by John H. Fund Growing up in San Francisco, I met Nancy Pelosi when I was a young reporter. She was then chair of the California Democratic Party, and I will always...
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HIGH SPIRITS: Kazakh Hospitality
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS Kazakh Hospitality by Jonathan Aitken Welcome to the great pyramid, not of ancient Egypt but of 21st-century Kazakhstan. Towering over the surrounding steppes, this 290foot...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: Plugging Away
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BENSTEIN’S DIARY Plugging Away by Benjamin J. Stein MONDAY It’s summer. Wifey and I are up at Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho, Bonner County. We are in our condo and we’re both...
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES: Rotten Apples
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES Rotten Apples by James Bowman In an article in a recent edition of the London Daily Telegraph titled “More Sex Please, We’re Grownups,” Josa Young, a novelist, writes...
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He Did It His Way
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BLACK, CONRAD
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BOOKS IN REVIEW He Did It His Way This is a very worthwhile book, whose title incites hopes for a vast plot confected and executed in all its intricacy by a much more complicated figure...
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Blown Away
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Peterson, Dan
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Blown Away When I learned that Dr. Stephen Meyer had written a new book on the evidence of design displayed in living cells, I expected to be impressed by it. I wasn’t...
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Brief Thoughts From Think Tanks
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Bethell, Tom
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Brief Thoughts From Think Tanks
A sampling of new offerings.
by Tom Bethell
The publishing trend in think tanks is brevity.
This makes sense, for thin books are both less
expensive...
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A Failure of Reason
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Lott, Jeremy
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BOOKS IN REVIEW The Slaughterhouse A Failure of Reason Is richard posner too big to fail? That term of art usually refers to companies that are too politically paid up to go down without...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: Saving Liberty / Consequences of the Liberal's Death Wish
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Saving liberty WASHINGTON A few months back, at the dawn of the Obama administration, I was at dinner with a very bright woman of middle years...
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CURRENT WISDOM
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Historian Eric Alterman avails himself to the sagacious E. J. to explain the frightful rightward imbalance of American media that so troubles his readers’ paranoid...
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LAST CALL: To the Santa Barbara Station
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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LAST CALL To the Santa Barbara Station by Wlady Pleszczynski Riding over them on my way to church that September Sunday in 1959, I looked down at the railroad tracks beneath my bike’s...
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