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Vol. 046 Issue 010 (December 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Jenny Woodward, 1943-2013
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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about this MONTH byWLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Jenny Woodward, 1943-2013 You don't have to be young to find Christmas the best day of the year, even if the latest edition occurs (it increasingly seems) no...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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the CONTINUING CRISIS byR. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. October disappeared into the mists of history, but we thought we could not close this department until the end of the first week in November. There...
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Inflated Dollars and Reputations
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odds & END S Inflated Dollars and Reputations I wouldn't have expected to see—in The American Spectator of all places— more dull, tiresome John Kennedy hype and hero worship. How Ira Stoll ("JFK...
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The Bootblack Stand
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Plunkitt, George Washington
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the BOOTBLACK STAND Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retiredfrom a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume ten ofhis...
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The Island Hopper
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Purple, Matt
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in the COLOSSEUM by MATT PURPLE The Island Hopper Tom Coburn battles careerist politicians and big-government waste—for a few more years, anyway. The senate isn't known for its candor....
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Will the government shutdown hurt the GOP in the long term?
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Mccarthy, Wlady Pleszczynski And Daniel
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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...
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Bright Young Things
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Bright Young Things by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Adapted from RET's remarks at TAS's annual Robert L. Bartley dinner on October 23 in Washington, D.C. Twenty thirteen was a distressing year. The...
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It Was a Very Bad Year
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Macomber, Shawn
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It Was a Very Bad Year In the winter of our discontent, a look back at the endless bummer that was 2013. by S H AWN MACOMBER The 2013 agenda set out for the nation by our political and cultural...
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Marine Corps
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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MARINE CORPS The irresistible rise of Marine Le Pen and the National Front has European technocrats quaking with fear. by JOSEPH A. HARRISS OUT OF NOWHERE this autumn, the sunny little Proven9al...
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Kingdom Come
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Tushnet, Eve
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Kingdom Come On Stephen King and that awful muttering voice. by EVE TUSHNET WHAT DO you do when you're in a Stephen King novel, but you're not a Stephen King character anymore? Or rather: What do...
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Books for Christmas
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far C HRIS TM A S Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Andre Aciman RECOMMENDATIONS TAKE TIME, and the books I read are mostly written by dead...
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Obamacare Versus Rule of Law
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McCaughey, Betsy
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the nation's PULSE by BETSY Mc CAUGHEY Obamacare Versus Rule Of Law The botched roll-out of the Affordable Care Act offers a stunning example of President Obama's unrelenting attempts to expand...
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The C.S. Lewis Industry
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Lott, Jeremy
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the pursuit ^/KNOWLEDGE ^JEREMY LOTT The C.S. Lewis Industry Fifty years after his death, he continues to sell. Countless books , documentaries, and news segments have been queued up to mark the...
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Digest 2013
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Norquist, Grover G.
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the tax & spend SPEC TAT O R by G R O V E R G. NORQUIST Digest 2013 Recapping a year of fiscal warfare. WITH THE November 5 contests in New Jersey and Virginia behind us, we are now one full...
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Mighty Mandate
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Lipsky, Seth
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constitutional OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Mighty Mandate Judge Scheindlin stopped and frisked. For fans of blind justice few things are as exciting as the drama unfolding in the Second United...
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Ruination
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Bethell, Tom
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capitol IDEAS by TOM BETHELL Ruination Adam Smith and the welfare state. In 1777, a correspondent told Adam Smith that the British loss at the Battle of Saratoga worried him. "If we go on at...
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Now They Tell Us
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO Now They Tell Us The disastrous October 1 launch of Healthcare.gov surprised even those of us who expected Obamacare to fail. The economics of the law are impossible,...
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My Jewish Questions
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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ben stein's DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN My Jewish Saturday WELL, HERE I am in Beverly Hills on a spectacularly beautiful day. Temp in the 70s. Light breeze. No humidity. Cloudless skies. I pulled...
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Truth Wimps Out
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Bowman, James
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conservative TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN Truth Wimps Out In the many obituaries of and accompanying tributes to Lou Reed, in the course of which he was often referred to as a poet of genius, I was...
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Royalties and Royal Ties
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Reid, Paul
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books IN REVIEW Royalties and Royal Ties Mr. Churchill's Profession: The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the "Special Relationship " By Peter Clarke (Bloomsbury Press, 347 pages,...
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Franco, Dear
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Franco, Dear Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 By Jeremy Treglown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages, $30) reviewed hy<^ram hakshian, jr. WHEN Generalissimo Francisco...
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Get Smart
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Lehrman, Lewis E.
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Get Smart Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War By Christian Whiton (Potomac Books, 304 pages, $29.95) Reviewed HyLewis £. Lehrman Christian whiton is a man with his country in mind. A shrewd...
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The Great American Novel
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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The Great American Novel Norman Mailer: A Double Life By J. Michael Lennon (Simon & Schuster, 948 pages, $40) reviewed by john 'bjcoyne, jr. This thick block of a book is packed with facts,...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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current W I S D O M Time A daft diatribe from the clearly berserk columnist Joe Klein, in extremis over the "radical nihilist minority of the Republican Party" but full of gratitude for the...
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Christmas Below the Gnat Line
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Thornberry, Larry
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last CALL — iTTT-rmiirn1"-""" —Y»TMinnni by LARRY THORNBERRY Christmas Below the Gnat Line I'll risk cliche by saying it seems like we just did this a few months ago. Cliche perhaps, but true...
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