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Vol. 046 Issue 002 (March 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Sounds of Silence
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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ABOUT THIS MONTH by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Sounds of Silence Months after the fact, Republicans are said to be reeling still from the setbacks of November 6, not to mention the hurtful campaign...
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The Next Showdown
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Jordan, Rep. Jim
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IN THE COLOSSEUM by REP. JIM JORDAN The Next Showdown Conservatives must win concessions for a debt ceiling hike. There’s an old maxim that says “When governments fear the people, there is...
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Odds & Ends
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She loves me... she loves me not. In Memoriam Jerry W. Gerde, a board member of this magazine, passed away in January in Panama City, Florida, where he had practiced law for over four decades. I...
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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 two of...
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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. January goes poof, poof, and leaves 2012 even further behind. Our Third World president, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, took his second oath of office...
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Legal Feeding Frenzy
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Taylor, Stuart Jr.
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Legal Feeding Frenzy U.S. court rules invite harassment and extortion. Here’s one way to fix them. by STUART TAYLOR, JR. It’s not news that countless bogus lawsuits are filed in this country...
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation
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Murchison, William
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation Surrendering on “social issues” won’t save the Republican soul. By WILLIAM MURCHISON The heat’s on, my friends. Gotta change that GOP Change it how? You know by now,...
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Rock and Roll Is (Mostly) Noise Pollution
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Walther, Matthew
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Rock and Roll Is (Mostly) Noise Pollution And now book publishing is choking on it, as rock enters its “memoir” phase. by MATTHEW WALTHER Sammy Hagar has numbers on the brain. Or rather he had...
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Duped at Foggy Bottom
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Kengor, Paul
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Duped at Foggy Bottom John Kerry Reporting for Duty by Paul Kengor I recently received a concerned e-mail from a troubled citizen in the gentle state ofAlabama. He was in understandable distress...
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The Optimistic Pessimist
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Boudreaux, Donald J.
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IN MEMORIAM by DONALD J. BOUDREAUX The Optimistic Pessimist James Buchanan taught us the danger of romanticizing government. The cover of my late colleague James M. Buchanan’s 1992...
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Null and Void?
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Lipsky, Seth
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Null and Void? "Be careful" a crony, Myron Magnet, fairly exclaimed when I mentioned to him, en passant at our club, that I was going to do a column on the...
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The Only Prophylactic Against Voter Fraud
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Norquist, Grover G.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY by GROVER G. NORQUIST The Only Prophylactic Against Voter Fraud Democrats were recently shocked—shocked—to discover Republican plans to change how states allocate their...
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An Assist From the Press
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS by TOM BETHELL An Assist From the Press A Few Thoughts about politics and an increasingly biased media in the weeks after Obama’s emergence as an openly leftist president—perhaps...
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Kerry Chéri
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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LETTER FROM PARIS by JOSEPH A. HARRISS Kerry Cheri Finally the French have one of their own as secretary of state. It’s been a long wait, but at last the French can delight in seeing their...
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Beyond Palestine
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Tabin, John
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SPECTATORS JOURNAL by JOHN TABIN Beyond Palestine As Israel counted votes in its legislative election in January, your humble correspondent joined reporters at an election night event in Tel Aviv...
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Screwtape Gets Real
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Buckley, F.H.
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THE C.S. LEWIS SPECTATOR by EBENEZER SCREWTAPE Screwtape Gets Real 12 February 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street NW Washington, D.C. 20006 My dear...
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Gray Lady Dumps Darwin
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH JAMES TARANTO Gray Lady Dumps Darwin It turns out you can deny evolution and get published on the New York Times op-ed page. Dan Slater did just that, in a January piece called “Darwin...
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Term Limits Are Back
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Fund, John
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POLITICS By JOHN FUND Term Limits Are Back Term limits were all the rage in the 1990s, when 21 states limited the terms of their own members of Congress by popular vote. The movement was close to...
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A Stone's Throw Saloon Series From the White House
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES by ARAM BAKSHIAN, JR. A Stone’s Throw From the White House The Off the Record Bar at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Once Upon A Time, old friends John Hay (personal...
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An Oasis of Tolerance
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Aitken, Jonathan
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HIGH SPIRITS by JONATHAN AITKEN An Oasis of Tolerance Times are tough for Christian communities in the Middle East. They are being slaughtered in Syria, persecuted in Iraq and Iran, bullied in...
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The Economics of Love
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEINS DIARY BENJAMIN J. STEIN The Economics of Love Super Bowl Sunday Long ago, my old economics professor, the superteacher C. Lowell Harriss, started our first class on Money and Banking...
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Selective Moralism
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Bowman, James
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CONSERVATIVE TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN Selective Moralism The 200th Anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice in January seems a good opportunity to celebrate not only the fiction of...
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An Enduring Partnership
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW An Enduring Partnership Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage By Jeffrey Frank (SlMON & Schuster, 434 PAGES, $30) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. Damn,” was the...
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The Church of Somewhere
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Derbyshire, John
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The Church of Somewhere Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton (Atlantic Books, 224 pages, $32.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire When I mention religion, I mean...
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Not a Dark Age, Just 50 Shades of Gray Oil and the No-Growth Economy
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Srodes, James
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Not a Dark Age, Just 50 Shades of Gray The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy By Jeff Rubin (Palgrave MacMillan, 272 pages, $27) Reviewed by James Srodes In February 2010, this august...
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Understanding the Forest, One Tree at a Time
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Understanding the Forest, One Tree at a Time Silent House By Orhan Pamuk (Knopf, 334 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by aAram Bakshian, Jr. About halfway through Silent House, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk...
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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. Letter From the Ancient Mayans Santo Tomas De Castilla, Guatemala Wherever is that, you ask? Generally this column comes to you from Washington, D.C....
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM NewYorker.com YoungDavid Remnick, editor ofthe New Yorker, while in the solitude of the quiet car on an Acela Express returning to New York from the Coronation rite, tries his hand...
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Shoot on Sight
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Flynn, Daniel J.
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LAST CALL by Daniel J. Flynn Shoot on Sight I killed my television. Please don’t kill me for saying so. As a repeat offender, I understand that admissions of this sort tend to get interpreted as...
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