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Vol. 046 Issue 004 (May 1 2013)
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Boys and Girls
Pleszczynski, Wlady
ABOUT THIS MONTH by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Boys and Girls For once let me say President Obama is getting a bad rap. In between shutting the White House to tourists and ogling California’s attorney...
We Have Her Example
Aitken, Jonathan
IN MEMORIAM by JONATHAN AITKEN We Have Her Example Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P. The greatness of Margaret Thatcher is readily apparent to those who honor the conservative principles by which she...
Odds & Ends
ODDS & ENDS Her Unrequited Letter Tom bethell’s “Black Plight: Conflict With Unions” (TAS, April 2013) touches on something very important: human nature. The human nature that the Founders of...
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 four...
The Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THE CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. March came in like a lamb and went out like a lamb. That was the good news of Global Warming! Also the most feeble of all modern economic recoveries...
Palin's Rack
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Sarah Palin’s Rack The former governor has racked up an impressive record electing conservatives by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. All over america, men of a certain age have been playing a YouTube clip...
Obama's Drone War
Babbin, Jed
Obama’s Drone War Is it legal? Is it constitutional? And is it the right policy? by JED BABBIN Back in the days when we had them, declarations of war were short, simple, and clear. By contrast,...
Hannah and Her Friends
Walther, Matthew
Hannah and Her Friends On Lena Dunham’s television masterpiece Girls. by MATTHEW WALTHER Like all good parents, Hannah Horvath’s mother and father are worried about their daughter. What, her...
Eugenic Abortion 2.0
Neumayr, Daniel Allott And George
Eugenic Abortion 2.0 A new blood test could zero out the disabled unborn in the 21st century. by DANIEL ALLOTT and GEORGE NEUMAYR Until recently, if a pregnant woman wanted to determine the...
A Nation on the Edge
Harriss, Joseph A.
LETTER FROM PARIS by JOSEPH A. HARRISS A Nation on the Edge Is there a "French Spring" coming? Only one year into his presidency, François Hollande, France’s bland, indecisive, but stubbornly...
What's in a Name?
Lott, Jeremy
THE PAPAL SPECTATOR by JEREMY LOTT What's in a Name? The holy spirit, according to the band U2 and also the Hymnal, “moves in mysterious ways.” On March 13, many people were shocked to learn...
The Demise of Money and Credit
Lehrman, Lewis E.
ECONOMICS by LEWIS E. LEHRMAN The Demise of Money and Credit Lately we have been engulfed by headlines reporting financial turmoil on every continent, in almost every nation, large and small....
Razing Reagan
Hahn, Nicholas G. III
CAMPUS SCENES by NICHOLAS G. HAHN III The only Chicago home of the only president born and bred in Illinois is now a pile of rubble. Ronald Reagan lived in that toddling town as a young boy, and...
Peace in Our Times?
Lipsky, Seth
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by SETH LIPSKY Peace in Our Times? Sooner or later Congress is going to have to decide whether to declare peace. I’m not saying I’m for it, and I’m not saying I’m...
The End of the Castros?
Cruz, Alberto De La
DICTATOR WATCH by ALBERTO DE LA CRUZ The End of the Castros? On the friday of the last weekend in February, Cuban dictator Raul Castro caught the news agencies covering his island nation by...
The Great Train Robbery
Fund, John
POLITICS by JOHN FUND The Great Train Robbery Nothing fits the Obama administration’s economic project better than high-speed rail. It’s based on visions of a utopian future, employs gobs of...
Downton's Class System-and Ours
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by TOM BETHELL Downton’s Class System—and Ours A few words first about Downton Abbey. I’ll assume that its upstairs/downstairs formula is familiar to readers. One of the BBC...
Screwtape Talks Turkey
Buckley, F.H.
THE C.S. LEWIS SPECTATOR by EBENEZER SCREWTAPE Screwtape Talks Turkey Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 My dear Wormwood, How i envy...
Consternated Conferences
Tabin, John
THE NATION’S PULSE by JOHN TABIN Consternated Conferences In most years, there is fairly little in common between the Conservative Political Action Conference and the annual confab held by the...
A President Loses His Power
Norquist, Grover G.
FISCAL CLIFF SPECTATOR by GROVER G. NORQUIST A President Loses His Power He stood astride the republic. He had real power. The first time he had it taken away. The second time he gave it...
The (Real) Great Divide
Ryun, Ned
WITH THE TEA PARTIERS by NED RYUN The (Real) Great Divide There has been much wringing of hands over how the Obama campaign’s use of big data and technology was (and is still) so much more...
Nuts to Nutter
Taranto, James
PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO Nuts to Nutter When Philadelphia magazine published an article Mayor Michael Nutter didn’t like, he tried to censor it. He wrote a letter to the Philadelphia Human...
Inside the Gates of Eden
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN’S DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN Inside the Gates of Eden Another beautiful day in Beverly Hills: blue skies, light breeze, temperature in the low 70s, no humidity. This is why we love...
Wincing at Cumberbatch
Bowman, James
CONSERVATIVE TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN Wincing at Cumberbatch As a long-time admirer—even an enthusiast—of Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy of novels (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up,...
The Vast and the Tiny
Derbyshire, John
BOOKS IN REVIEW The Vast and the Tiny The Milky Way: An Insider’s Guide by William H. Waller (Princeton University Press, 296 pages, $29.95) A Palette of Particles by Jeremy...
Ailes: A Voice for the Silent Majority
Coyne, John R. Jr.
Ailes: A Voice for the Silent Majority Roger Ailes: Off Camera By Zev Chafets (Sentinel, 258 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by John R. Coyne, Jr. During the last campaign, there was a widely...
Self-Righteous Republic
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
Self-Righteous Republic Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India By Ananya Vajpeyi (Harvard University Press, 342 pages, $39.95) Reviewed by Aram Bakshian, Jr. Somewhere...
Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. The National Rifle Association’s Deterrent to Gun Violence WASHINGTON Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City ought to know by now that gun owners...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM MTV.com The sad breakup of a truly promising rock ensemble occasioned because some idiot forgot to flush the toilet is remembered in the imperishable prose of Mr. James Montgomery,...
The Welfarians
Flynn, Daniel J.
last CALL by DANIEL J. F LYNN The Welfarians The shopper in front of me in the supermarket line the other night paid with two peculiar checks with the letters “WIC” prominently inscribed on them....
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