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IssueVol. 044 Issue 009 (November 1 2011)
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Paid articleMy One-Night Stand with a Real Pig
Regnery, Alfred S.
Note From The Publisher My One-Night Stand With a Real Pig by Alfred S. Regnery Lest readers think that the Spectator is all about serious stuff-politics, terrorists, foreign debt, and health...
Paid articleEconomic Freedom for Black Americans
West, Rep. Allen B.
Freedom Watch Economic Freedom for Black Americans by Rep. Allen B. West The word "freedom" for many black Americans is inextricably linked with the word "slavery." While it has been 148 years...
Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
The Continuing Crisis R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September and apparently the gloom continues over at the White House. Mrs. Michelle Obama was seen shopping at Target. The presi-dent's popularity is...
Paid articleSplit Personality
Antle, W. James III
Split Personality What the Republican divide over Social Security means for the future of entitlement reform-and the party itself. By W. James Antle III Mitt romney has spent the bulk of this...
Paid articleLessons for Obama from Silent Cal
Johnson, Charles C.
Lessons For Obama From Silent Cal Frugal, laconic Calvin Coolidge instinctively applied his conservative principles. The result was just what we need today: low debt and rising prosperity. By...
Paid articleIs Vegas Burning?
Wilson, Andrew B.
Is Vegas Burning? Can Sin City survive without the gift of free water? By Andrew B. Wilson With the famous slogan, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors...
Paid articleVictory in the Desert
Kaplan, Roger
Victory in the Desert The Libyan campaign is over-to whose benefit? It's a question best directed to Nicolas Sarkozy. By Roger Kaplan The accounting is far from over, but the Depart-ment of...
Paid articleCuriouser and Curiouser
Scruton, Roger
The Pursuit Of Knowledge Curiouser and Curiouser by Roger Scruton Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings now move through a cloud of messages as...
Paid articleObama's Tax Reform Trick
Norquist, Grover G.
The Campaign Spectator Obama's Tax Reform Trick by Grover G. Norquist On august 2, President Obama lost a yearlong campaign to leverage public outrage at growing deficits and debt into a massive...
Paid articleExtraterrestrial Intelligence and the Search for God
Bethell, Tom
Capitol Ideas Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Search for God by Tom Bethell A week doesn't go by without the announcement of new planets. "Week Brings Hail of Planets" was just the most...
Paid articleGovernment in Full Gallop
Lawler, Joseph
The Tax and Spend Spectator Government in Full Gallop by Joseph Lawler "The record the period before President Rea-gan was one of galloping socialism," the great libertarian and Nobel...
Paid articleBeyond Steven Brill
Murchison, William
The Nation's Pulse Beyond Steven Brill by William Murchison Temptations to bash the teachers unions are, confessedly, immense. And omnipresent-those scenes, for instance, last winter at the...
Paid articleThe Democrats' Worst Loss Yet
Fund, John H.
Politics The Democrats' Worst Loss Yet by John H. Fund HoWard beacH, N.y. The victory of republican Bob Turner in a solidly Democratic New York City congressional dis-trict represented the...
Paid articleHistory's Smallest Monster
Taranto, James
Presswatch History's Smallest Monster by James Taranto At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, terrorists destroyed a hijacked plane by crashing it into the north tower of the World Trade Center....
Paid articleOhio Rising
Ryun, Ned
With The Tea Partiers Ohio Rising by Ned Ryun Those familiar with the Tea Party movement know that one of its more sophisticated coalitions is the Ohio Liberty Council (OLC), a collection of 80...
Paid articleCharacter and Leadership
Aitken, Jonathan
High Spirits Character and Leadership by Jonathan Aitken If you think some praise is due to him, Now's the time to tell it to him, For he cannot read it on his tombstone when he's dead. These...
Paid articleHouse Broken
Stein, Benjamin J.
Ben Stein's Diary House Broken by Benjamin J. Stein Wednesday Wow. A lot has happened since we last spoke, dear diary. I have been on the road. Last week I was in Boston speaking to some really...
Paid articleWe're all Leninists Now
Bowman, James
Conservative Tastes We're All Leninists Now by James Bowman Once it could have been said that, like Willie Nel-son's, Hollywood's heroes have always been cow-boys, though they obviously aren't...
Paid articleThe Fix Was In
BLACK, CONRAD
Books In Review The Fix Was In A Matter of Principle By Conrad Black (McClelland & Stewart, 581 pages, $35) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. A big book by a big man, in many ways a man from...
Paid articleDearest Jackie
Kennedy, Caroline; Beschloss, Michael
Dearest Jackie Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy: Interviews with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. By Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss (Hyperion, 400 pages, 8...
Paid articleTwo Cheers for the World
Cheney, Dick Cheney With Liz
Two Cheers for The World According to Cheney If I had to sum up both the tone of this memoir and the character of its author in six words, I would quote-as he does on page 18-the words of Miss...
Paid articleA Great and Wonderful
Crocker, H. W. III
Books In Review A Great and Wonderful Experiment "The british empire was a great and wonder-ful social, economic and even spiritual experiment," wrote Noel Coward in his diary in February 1957,...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Public Nuisances R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Twenty Percent, Si. Twenty-five Percent, No. WASHINGTON It is clear from the way President Barack Obama has been talking about the federal budget...
Paid articleAssorted Jackasses
Current Wisdom U.S. Department Of Statediplomacy in Action The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the greatest secretary of state since Elihu P. Root and husband of Boy Clinton, sends felicitations to a...
Paid articleBully Pulpit
Nachman, Gerald
Last Call Bully Pulpit by Gerald Nachman You may have noticed that this year's trendy trau­ma is bullying, which replaces last year's obesity. The year before that it was ADD syndrome and I think...
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