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Vol. 046 Issue 003 (April 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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About This Month
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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About This Month by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI American Rand Stand Maybe it’s the Tiger Woods curse. The world’s greatest golfer befriends and mentors young Rory Mcllroy, a chief rival and rising...
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In the Colosseum
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Sanford, Mark
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In The Colosseum by MARK SANFORD On Second Chances I have come To learn that life has many turns and twists. Some come by chance, providence, or God’s plan; others instead seem more the...
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends Those Dastardly Mailmen I subscribe To many magazines, and try to read most of them. Of course, I’m saving up National Geographic until I’m paralyzed, retired, or dead. I’ve...
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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 three...
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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. February approached extinction, and the country approached “sequestration†just as the courts closed down Ray’s Hell-Burger restaurant, a...
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Calvin Cooldige
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Calvin Coolidge: His Times Are Our Times by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Progressives of large intellect, such as Woodrow Wilson, and of more modest equipage, like Barack Obama, endeavor to Gigantic...
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The D Team
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Purple, Matt
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The D Team Democrats have an inspiringly shallow bench for 2016 and beyond. by MATT PURPLE It may have been inauguration weekend, but the minds of many at the Iowa State Society Ball were already...
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Black Sea Changes
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Omolesky, Matthew
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Black Sea Changes by MATTHEW OMOLESKY Georgia, Ukraine, and the Fading Blossoms of Revolution In the summer of a.d. 95, the Greek orator Dio Chrysostom sailed across the Black Sea’s brine-salt...
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Rand The Realist
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Walther, Matthew
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The Realist Rand Kentucky senator Rand Paul is his own man: not a neocon or a paleoconservative, not his father’s successor. by MATTHEW WALTHER Rand Paul’s shirts always seem to fit. Look at...
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London Calling
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Hitchens, Peter
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London Calling by PETER HITCHENS I’m Not Getting Married in the Morning The day may yet come when the only people who want to get married in Britain will be lesbian clergywomen. This is...
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The Presidential Spectator
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Murchison, William
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The Presidential Spectator By WILLIAM MURCHISON Dubya’s Reemergence The opening of his presidential center this month marks a turning point that could prove transformational. I’ve...
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Constitutional Opinions
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Lipsky, Seth
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Constitutional Opinions by SETH LIPSKY The Grave Robber Your constitutional correspondent has rarely had such a fright, peering, as I was, from behind a sarcophagus in the Graveyard of the...
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Letter From Paris
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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Letter From Paris by JOSEPH A. HARRISS France Meets Ugly American Compared With some of the more spectacular Fran-co-American clashes, this spat was relatively smalltime. It wasn’t Charles de...
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State Watch
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Norquist, Grover G.
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State Watch by GROVER G. NORQUIST Murder in the Old Dominion There’s been a murder in Virginia. Or a suicide, anyway. In mid-February, Republican governor Bob McDonnell—only a year ago viewed...
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The C.S. Lewis Spectator
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Buckley, F.H.
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The C.S. Lewis Spectator by EBENEZER SCREWTAPE Screwtape’s Little Sermon 12 April 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 My dear...
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The Nation's Pulse
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Nachman, Gerald
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The Nations Pulse By GERALD NACHMAN Whatever Happened to Tom Lehrer? (Not Much) Most people assume that Tom Lehrer is dead, just as he has always wished us to think. Lehrer is by no means dead,...
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Capitol Ideas
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Bethell, Tom
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Capitol Ideas by TOM BETHELL Black Plight: In Conflict With Unions One Paradox of the Obama presidency is how it has retained the support of young people and minorities despite the damage its...
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Spectator's Journal
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Russell, Nicole
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Spectator’s Journal By NICOLE RUSSELL A Think Tank With Action When Texas native Jerry Fullinwider was just 30 years old, he was invited to an unusual seminar in the ranch country of central...
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Presswatch
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO Journalism That Dare Not Speak Its Name If you’re a reporter at the Washington Post and you aspire to write unsigned editorials, just send an e-mail to the...
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High Spirits
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Aitken, Jonathan
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High Spirits By Jonathan Aitken The CEO of Canterbury While All Eyes have been on Rome in recent weeks for the election of a new pope, the world’s third-largest Christian denomination has...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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ben steins DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN South Carolina On My Mind Sunday So here I am in my beloved Greenville, most charming and friendly of small cities. All of South Carolina is wonderfully...
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Conservative Tastes
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Bowman, James
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Conservative Tastes by JAMES BOWMAN As She Likes It We hear that the state of Massachusetts has passed a law— “An Act Relative to Gender Identity.†It requires (among other things) that...
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What Did You Do In The War, Benjy?
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Stove, R.J.
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Books In Review What Did You Do in the War, Benjy? Benjamin Britten: A Life in the 20th Century By Paul Kildea (Allen Lane, 665 pages, $45) Reviewed by RJ. Stove Thanks to the centenary of his...
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Tangles Of Pathologies
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Coyne, John R. Jr.
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Tangles of Pathologies The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America By James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 310 pages, $28.99) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. If you’ve followed the dreary...
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Too Left-Wing To Fail
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MELLOAN, GEORGE
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Too Left-Wing to Fail Bad History, Worse Policy: How a False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act By Peter J. Wallison (AEI Press, 581 pages, $90) Reviewed by George...
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Up From Totalitarianism
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Shattan, Joseph
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Up From Totalitarianism Is God Happy? Selected Essays By Leszek Kolakowski (Basic Books, 327 pages, $29.99) Reviewed by Joseph Shattan Leszek Kolakowski was a philosopher and historian of ideas....
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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. The Lie Gets Worse WASHINGTON I Do Not Know About You, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Previously I wrote of my surprise...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Current Wisdom Huffington Post The solitary vice as practiced by an anonymous source in bed but fully clothed and dwelling on The Immensities: I settle back in bed, fully clothed, under the...
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Last Call
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Lott, Jeremy
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Last Call by JEREMY LOTT Benediction When Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would vacate the Chair of Saint Peter before he reached his expiration date, headline writers the world over...
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