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Vol. 044 Issue 004 (May 1 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Best Is Yet To Come
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Regnery, Alfred S.
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note from the publisher The Best Is Yet to Come by Alfred S. Regnery Press reports tell us that Republican activists are convinced that the nation is hurtling down the wrong road, about to...
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Fighting Off Power Grabs
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Blackburn, Rep. Marsha
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freedom watch Fighting Off Power Grabs by Rep. Marsha Blackburn Much of the Washington debate over health care reform has revealed that when health care decisions are shifted to Washington's...
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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. March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, but President Barack Obama entered the month and exited like a lamb. The strongest earthquake...
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The True Story Of The Financial Crisis
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Wallison, Peter J.
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The Tnue Stony of the Financial Crisis Its origins are in the federal government. By Peter J. Wallison As many readers of The American Spectator will know, I was a member of the Financial...
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Achieving The Impossible
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Schanzer, Jonathan
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Achiving the Impossible By Jonathan Schanzer Toward a coherent policy on Middle East unrest. President Barack Obama's response to the spread of unrest across the Middle East has been an...
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The Arab World And Its Discontents
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Wilson, Andrew B.
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The Arab World and Its Discontents The bitter harvest that came from having too much money. Andrew B. Wilson A long time ago (when those of us in our sixties were young and the Great Extinction...
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Is America In Decline?
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Symposium, A
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Is America in Decline? A preliminary inquiry. W. James Antle III At a low point in our experiment with nation-building in Iraq, longtime conservative columnist George Will identified what was...
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Class War
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Iii, W. James Antle
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the congressional spectator Class War The Republican freshmen try to keep the House majority on track. by W. James Antle III Will the new tea party-influenced, Republican-controlled House...
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Freedom And Speech And American Decline
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Murchison, William
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the nation's pulse Freedom and Speech and American Decline by William Murchison There's nothing like a comfortable and familiar phrase—"free speech," say—to fuzz up useful discussion of just...
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The Ring Of Truth
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Scruton, Roger
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the pursuit of knowledge The Ring of Truth by Roger Scruton People make mistakes, and often the full cost of these mistakes is paid only long after their deaths. One of the most tragic...
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Randi's Tangled Vine Garden
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Biddle, Rishawn
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eminentqes Randi's Tangled Vine Garden by RiShawn Biddle There's no better known or infamous teachers union boss—or leader among America's public sector unions—than Randi Weingarten, the cunning,...
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The War Of The Flea
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Ryun, Ned
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with the tea partiers The War of the Flea by Ned Ryun By any standard, unions are a behemoth in American politics. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that between 1990 and 2010, the...
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Civility' Was Always Dead
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Taranto, James
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presswatch 'Civility' Was Always Dead by James Taranto Remember when the New York Times was lecturing us about "civility"? Neither do I, but I wrote about it recently ("A Week in the Death of the...
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Enchanted Charter Schools
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Bethell, Tom
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capitol ideas Enchanted by Charter Schools by Tom Bethell Waiting for "Superman"—a documentary about failing government schools—was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also produced An...
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Opportunity Can't Wait
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Fund, John H.
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politics Opportunity Can't Wait by John H. Fund It turns out President Obama may be more of a reactionary rather than a liberal when it comes to education policy. How else to explain his...
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Working One's Faith
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Aitken, Jonathan
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high spirits Working One's Faith by Jonathan Aitken NAPLES, FLORIDA AND ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND are a long way apart geographically if you are speaking in these cities on consecutive weekends. Yet...
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Life Outside The Meeting Room
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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ben stein's diary Life Outside the Meeting Room by Benjamin J. Stein TUESDAY A STUNNING, DISASTROUS DAY. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Beverly Hills looking out at the palm...
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Trash Collection
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Bowman, James
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conservative tastes Trash Collection by James Bowman When I was a boy, my mother wouldn't let me read comic books for an unusual reason. At least it's not one that I have ever heard of another...
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James Piereson
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Cowen, Tyler
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BOOKS IN REVIEW America's Slowdown The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better By Tyler...
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Daniel Johnson
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Brady, Frank
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An American Tragedy Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall— From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness By Frank Brady (Crown, 402 pages, $25.99) Reviewed by Daniel...
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John R. Coyne Jr.
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Farnsworth, Ward
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All Those Gin Joints ?? y^^v f all the gin joints in all the towns in all I 1 the world, she walks into mine." That's Humphrey Bogart (Rick) in Casablanca, reacting to Ingrid Bergman's (Ilsa)...
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F. H. Buckley
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Jasanoff, Maya
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Empire of Liberty Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World By Maya Jasanoff (Knopf, 480 pages, $30) Reviewed by F. H. Buckley Maya jasanoff's splendid new book, Liberty's...
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Aram Bakshian, Jr.
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Ackerman, Bruce
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The Slaughterhouse The Decline and Fall of the American Republic By Bruce Ackerman (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 270 pages, $25.95) Reviewed by Aram Bakshian, Jr. Monkeying With...
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Obama's Crazy War /Barbour Out On The Hustings
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Obama's Crazy War WASHINGTON Well, it is official. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has asked the Nobel Prize Committee to take back President...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Greenwich Time A prospective lawyer for William Jefferson Clinton on some faraway day when things really get tough for him makes an audacious argument for the accused in...
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Last Call Advice For Eulogists
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Beston, Paul
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LAST CALL Advice for Eulogists by Paul Beston Death is final, but it leaves you with the same old questions of form and content. What to say, what mood to strike? And how to deliver—a question...
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