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Vol. 045 Issue 005 (June 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Heaven Can't Wait
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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ABOUT THIS MONTH Heaven Can't Wait by Wlady Pleszczynski At the white house Correspondents' Dinner this year, Ben Stein's old sidekick Jimmy Kimmel did something others in his fraternity of brave...
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Why I Voted 'No' on Ryan
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Huelskamp, Rep. Tim
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IN THE COLOSSEUM Why I Voted 'No' on Ryan The GOP needs to make good on its promise for tax reform. by Rep. Tim Huelskamp Mark Twain is credited for saying, "Do the right thing. It will gratify...
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Handicap the Handicapper
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ODDS & ENDS Handicap the Handicapper Correspondence Hats off to Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara for "The Poverty of Equality" in the April issue of The American Spectator. While the authors'...
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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. April dovetailed nicely into May, and I waited patiently for May 8 to come around, and with it the publication of my new book, The Death of Liberalism....
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Heaven: A Symposium
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Tyrrel, R. Emmett Jr.
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Heaven: A Symposium An Introduction Some time ago I picked up a small book on a large subject, Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing, by Peter Kreeft. The book had been around awhile, but people...
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Heavens to Betsy!
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Derbyshire, John
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Heavens to Betsy! A severe empiricist reveals his deepest longings. By John Derbyshire Seeing that the first sentence in the first paragraph of the first chapter of Peter Kreeft's book Heaven:...
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The Road to Heaven
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Aitken, Jonathan
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The Road to Heaven It is full of mystery and foreshadowings. by Jonathan Aitken When I was reading theology at Oxford, my tutor, the Regius Professor of Divinity no less, set his students this...
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Heaven Is Overrated
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Boteach, Rabbi Shmuley
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Heaven Is Overrated Earth is where the action is. By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach The problem with Peter Kreeft's eloquent and moving book Heaven is not the author but the author's faith. Kreeft follows...
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Try ing to Be Mr. Right
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Antle, W. James III
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Trying to Be Mr. Right Mitt Romney's quest for conservative acceptance. By W. James Antle III Mitt Romney endured months of slings and arrows from his Republican primary opponents as he...
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Mormons and Demons
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Lott, Jeremy
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Mormons and Demons Mitt Romney's religion is the best thing he has going for him. By Jeremy Lott They were words that still live in infamy. Mike Huckabee—Baptist minister, former governor of...
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P Is for Poison
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Scruton, Roger
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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE P Is for Poison by Roger Scruton People poison themselves through consuming stuff that harms them. They also poison the world, by spreading venomous thought, venomous...
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Medicaid Freedom of Choice
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Ferrara, Stephen Moore and Peter
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THE PUBLIC POLICY Medicaid Freedom of Choice by Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara Perhaps the most arresting way to illustrate the breakdown of Medicaid is to explain how a 12-year-old Maryland boy...
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United Faiths of America
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Norquist, Grover G.
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR United Faiths of America Obama and the secular left are creating an ecumenical right—again. by Grover G. Norquist Conventional wisdom holds that Governor Mitt Romney's...
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David Cameron, Seriously
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Nelson, Fraser
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EMINENTOES David Cameron, Seriously by Fraser Nelson From a distance, David Cameron looks like one of the world's most successful conservatives. He brought his party back to power, ending its 13...
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..And a Young Child Will Lead
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Lipsky, Seth
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS ...And a Young Child Will Lead by Seth Lipsky The wolf will live with the sheep and the leopard will lie down with the kid; and a calf, a lion whelp and a fatling [will...
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From 'Happily Ever After' to the Fall
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS From 'Happily Ever Alter' to the Fall by Tom Bethell What a strange thing the "women's movement" is. Often it seems to work against the interest of women. I heard the Independent...
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The Ineffective Greenhouse
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH The Ineffective Greenhouse by James Taranto Linda greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times's Supreme Court correspondent in 1978....
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In Midst of Poverty, an Educational Oasis
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Hillyer, Quin
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THE NATION'S PULSE In Midst of Poverty, an Educational Oasis by Quin Hillyer In 2007, a pastor with broad vision and indefatigable will named Ruby Eldridge dreamed of a model school for the...
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The One Percenters' Fortress City
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Fund, John H.
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POLITICS The One Percenters' Fortress City by John H. Fund In the dystopian blockbuster movie The Hunger Games, a restless and resentful population in the nation of Panem is controlled by the...
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Media Trackers Hits Wisconsin
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Ryun, Ned
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WITH THE TEA PARTIERS Media Trackers Hits Wisconsin by Ned Ryun For years, conservatives looking to effect change have turned their eyes to Washington, D.C., and the national political and media...
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A Case of Intracoastal Blues
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY A Case of Intracoastal Blues by Benjamin J. Stein SUNDAY—FORT LAUDERDALE This has been a good day. Yesterday was terrible. Alex and I awakened yesterday in the Capital Hotel...
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Laughing on the Wrong Side
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES Laughing on the Wrong Side by James Bowman One of the worst things about being a progressive and so being, as progressives like President Obama and Senator Harry Reid have...
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Rating the Presidents and Their Raters
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Rating the Presidents and Their Raters Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians By Robert W. Merry (Simon & Schuster, 320 pages,...
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Our Queen
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Roberts, Andrew
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Our Queen Her Majesty: The Court of Queen Elizabeth II By Robert Hardman (Pegasus Books, 384 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by Andrew Roberts After her sixty years on the Throne of...
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Tenured and Powerless
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Freire, J.P.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters By Benjamin Ginsberg (Oxford University Press, 264 pages, $29.95) Reviewed by J.P....
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Assorted Jackasses
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Current Wisdom New York Times Magazine In the Letters section of a famous old organ of contemporary belles-lettres a potential homicidal maniac manifests the first stirrings of what could be real...
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Capital Bound
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Peterson, Kyle
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LAST CALL Capital Bound by Kyle Peterson Even before I packed my belongings in January to take a gig with The American Spectator, I knew Washington, D.C., was a peculiar place. To be fair, I'm...
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