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Vol. 046 Issue 009 (November 1 2013)
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Chatter Box
Pleszczynski, Wlady
About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski Chatter Box Every Friday I love to tune in to the PBS NewsHour to catch David Brooks (supposedly) representing the right in an exchange about the week's top...
Bell, Book, and Scandal
Walther, Matthew
In The Colosseum By Matthew Walther Bell, Book, and Scandal Darrell Issa strives mightily to keep the president's scandalabra aflame. It was about 85 degrees on the third floor of the Rayburn...
Odds & Ends
Odds & Ends Living in Zinn Thanks for a great July-August issue, whose quality almost made up for the fact that I had to stretch it out for two months! An especially delectable summer treat was...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume nine...
The Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. September transforms itself into October and hesto presto the federal government closed down, or rather parts of the federal government closed down:...
Should we worry about violent video games?
Hitchens, Scott Shackford and Peter
Ten Paces Conservatism is not, and has never been, a monolith—no matter how much its opponents pretend otherwise. At times in its history, building unity has been the paramount concern. But this is...
Politics' Leading Man
Peterson, Kyle
Politics' Leading Man Ted Cruz didn't succeed in defunding Obamacare. But he did put on a hell of a show. By Kyle Peterson Pundits in Washington simply cannot decide about Ted Cruz. Does the...
18th Century Fox
Rittelmeyer, Helen
18th Century Fox On the long and noble history of mass-market conservatism. By Helen Rittelmeyer Two things all conservatives love are narratives of decline and talking about conservatism. Put...
Golden Exile
Neumayr, George
Golden Exile Republicans should look at—and learn from— the failures of the California GOP By George Neumayr As the gop goes wobbly, red states go purple, then blue. This is the cautionary tale...
Chastened by Iraq
Purple, Matt
Chastened by Iraq A new GOP foreign policy rises from the ashes of the Bush administration. By Matt Purple The odds in September were in Bill Kristol's favor. Bashar al-Assad's army had been...
Why America Can't Keep Its Own Secrets
Babbin, Jed
The Nations Pulse By Jed Babbin Why America Can't Keep Its Own Secrets America's defense and intelligence communities have gotten into a bad habit of late. We've been trusting some of the most...
Conventional Thinking
Lipsky, Seth
Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Conventional Thinking Politics 'have reached civil war levels'..." was the headline on the Drudge Report the other day. It linked to a story in National...
Bubbles for the Rich, Welfare for the Poor
Lehrman, Lewis E.
Economics By Lewis E. Lehrman Bubbles for the Rich, Welfare for the Poor When government economists, academics, and the talking heads on bubblevision speak of "modest price inflation," they know...
"Viva la revolution"
Buckley, Jeff Sandefer And F.H.
Campus Scenes By Jeff Sandefer And F.H. Buckley "Viva la revolucion" Education will never be the same. Conservatives properly bemoan the state of education in America. Our K-12 system exists to...
Never on Sunday
Harriss, Joseph A.
Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss Never on Sunday When socialist ideology meets reality. Don't look now, but we just might be witnessing the tentative first steps toward the beginning of a...
The Carcinogenic Media
Taranto, James
Presswatch By James Taranto The Carcinogenic Media Writing in this space one year ago and looking ahead to 2012 election, I observed: "An Obama victory in the face of slow growth, high...
Grow With the Flow
Norquist, Grover G.
The Tax & Spend Spectator By Grover G. Norquist Grow With the Flow Economic growth requires more than just low rates. Amid the clatter and clutter of official Washington's daily dysfunction, a...
A Serious House
Kaplan, Roger
The Great Parisian Saloon Series By Roger Kaplan A Serious House File copy first, ask Big Questions later. If you are coming from Notre-Dame de Paris, you can cross the bridge and follow the...
More Things Wrought by Prayer
Aitken, Jonathan
High Spirits By Jonathan Aitken More Things Wrought by Prayer Absent from this column all summer, I have been walking, in the words of the 23rd Psalm, "through the valley of the shadow of death."...
Intensive Care
Stein, Benjamin J.
Bensteins Diary By Benjamin J. Stein Intensive Care Tuesday Here I am in sioux city, Iowa, to address the Chamber of Commerce. The day started well, with a late lunch of prime rib at a place...
Historectomies
Bowman, James
Conservative Tastes By James Bowman Historectomies An item headlined "Wimping of America" in the Daily Caller a few weeks ago informed us that the intramural football program at the Lawrenceville...
Is Anybody There?
Derbyshire, John
Books In Review Is Anybody There? Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings (Penguin, 304 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire In the Principles...
Knowing All the Way
Gilder, George
Knowing All the Way Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory ofCapitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World By George Gilder (Regnery, 400 pages, $27.95) Reviewed by Steve Forbes At the...
Giving Short Schiff
Bawer, Bruce
Giving Short Schiff Sydney and Violet: Their Life With T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis. By Stephen Klaidman (Nan A. Talese, 268 pages, $27.95) Reviewed...
Capitalism's Theologian
Tooley, Mark
Capitalism's Theologian Writing From Left to Right: My Journey From Liberal to Conservative By Michael Novak (Image, 336 pages, $24) Reviewed by Mark Tooley Michael novak is one of the great...
Who's the Hippest of Them All?
Bowman, James
Who's the Hippest of Them All? What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House By Tevi Troy (Regnery, 416 pages, $18.95) Reviewed by James...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Current Wisdom SavannahNow.com On the tragic occasion of Mr. William "Freddie" McCullough's abrupt departure from this Vale of Tears, the celebrated "Trooper Andrews" recalls Willy's devotion to...
Smoking Gun
Liddle, Rod
Last Call By Rod Liddle Smoking Gun A few months back I was standing in a car park in the UK smoking a cigarette. Not one of those hideous underground car parks, but a nice one, in the open air....
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