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Vol. 046 Issue 001 (February 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Clearing the Air
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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ABOUT THIS MONTH by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Clearing the Air These are head-scratching times. Last I checked, the Republican Party controls the House, yet from all appearances and expectations its...
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Our Forty-Five Years
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Our Forty-Five Years Brushing aside the cobwebs that have accumulated in my mind while editing this magazine for 45 years, I perceive six phases...
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Lessons From North Dakota's Oilfields
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Hoeven, Sen. John
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IN THE COLOSSEUM by SEN. JOHN HOEVEN Lessons From North Dakota's Oilfields Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy...
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Odds & Ends
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ODDS & ENDS Christmas in February Re: Christmas Books Editor’s note: In the last issue, we asked prominent individuals to share Christmas reading recommendations. But due to an...
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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 retired from a staff position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume one...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. December goes poof taking the entire year of 2012 with it. Good riddance! Now our gaunt, humorless, Teleprompterreading president threatens to...
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A New Eleventh Commandment
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Hillyer, Quin
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A NEW ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT In the age of Obama, the last thing we need is conservatives at each other's throats. by QUIN HILLYER It’s time to dust off Ronald Reagan’s old “11th Commandment,”...
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He Wears Short Shorts
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Stoll, Ira
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He Wears Short Shorts by IRA STOLL A recent graduate of Princeton reports that professor Paul Krugman could be sighted there dressed in an unusual uniform: jacket, dress shirt, and tie on top,...
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Yahya Jammeh's Charnel House
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Omolesky, Matthew
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Yahya Jammeh’s Charnel House by MATTHEW OMOLESKY It was in the summer of 1845 that Thomas Eyre Poole parted from his family, picked his way through the jagged lanes of Wapping, and descended to...
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The Right's Reefer Madness
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Hitchens, Peter
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The Right's Reefer Madness Succumbing to the self-indulgence of the 1960s is yet one more failure of modern conservatism. by PETER HITCHENS When i pray for my enemies these days, it takes quite...
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The Spirits of Erin
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May, Clifford D.
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THE GREAT aMERICAN SALOON SERIES by CLIFFORD D. MAY The Spirits of Erin Fighting Irish whiskies are back. I first developed a taste for Irish whiskey back in 1978. I was a young foreign...
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Next at the Palladium
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Lipsky, Seth
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Next at the Palladium It looks like we are going to see this year a campaign to restrict the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. It is going to be...
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Ocean State Anointed
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Epstein, Ethan
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EMINENTOES by ETHAN EPSTEIN Ocean State Anointed In late december, Rhode Island’s six Republican state representatives (out of a total chamber of 75 members—no, that’s not a typo) announced an...
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Screwtape Talks Tactics
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Buckley, F.H.
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THE C.S. LEWIS SPECTATOR by EBENEZER SCREWTAPE Screwtape Talks Tactics 21 January 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1000 N. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 My dear...
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Dolan, Not Dylan
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Macomber, Shawn
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THE SIXTIES SPECTATOR by SHAWN MACOMBER Dolan, Not Dylan In his excellent, edifying study Political Folk Music in America From Its Origins to Bob Dylan, Lawrence J. Epstein tells the...
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Islam and Islamism in the Modern World
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS by TOM BETHELL Islam and Islamism in the Modern World An interview with Daniel Pipes. Daniel pipes, one of our leading experts on Islam, established the Middle East Forum and...
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The Medium Is the Motive
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO The Medium Is the Motive If hypocrisy were an intoxicating spirit, Andrew Rosenthal would be a master distiller. A few hours after the December massacre at a...
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The Four-Year War Over Spending Begins
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Norquist, Grover
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THE FISCAL CLIFF SPECTATOR by GROVER NORQUIST The Four-Year War Over Spending Begins With the fiscal cliff behind us, a four-year war over government spending is about to begin. The dates of...
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We're Picking Up Good Migrations
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Fund, John
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THE NATIONS PULSE by JOHN FUND We're Picking Up Good Migrations If you run a high-tax, budget-busting state, the embarrassing government statistics you fear the most are probably the migratory...
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Black Punches Back
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS by JONATHAN AITKEN Black Punches Back Coming back from death—real death—has only happened once. Its political equivalent has been almost as rare. Yet as 2013 gets under way, recent...
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Agony and Ecstasy
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN sTEIN'S DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN Agony and Ecstasy Saturday Hmmm. I slept in my office above the garage this morning. I have gotten into the evil habit of getting up in the middle...
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All That Trash
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN All That Trash Writing on The American Spectators website in December, Mark Tooley expressed his disgust with Roger Michell and Richard...
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Echoing the Last Lion's Roar
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Echoing the Last Lion's Roar The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 By William Manchester and Paul Reid (Little, Brown and Company, 1,182...
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The Stalinist Assassin
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Kengor, Paul
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The Stalinist Assassin Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine By Brian Latell (Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, $27) Reviewed by Paul Kengor Fidel Castro Has Been A...
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Spies, Traitors, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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Spies, Traitors, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government By M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein (Threshold Editions, 294...
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Dung Fu Fighting
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Peterson, Kyle
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Dung Fu Fighting The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage By Greg Gutfeld (Crown Forum, 256 pages, $26) Reviewed by Kyle Peterson They say you can't judge a...
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Public Nuisances
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. What Crime Has Harry Reid Committed? WASHINGTON I have one question about the way Majority Leader Harry Reid has been conducting the Senate. Has...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Time Time magazine gives its invaluable Person of the Year award to the man who will lead America for the next four years from the White House's official John Deere D140...
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Abraham Lincoln Again, and Again
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Kaplan, Roger
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LAST CALL by ROGER KAPLAN Abraham Lincoln Again, and Again We cannot overstate his importance to America's destiny. In the summer of 1864 Lincoln and the Republican stalwarts thought...
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