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Vol. 046 Issue 006 (July 1 2013)
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Losing It
Pleszczynski, Wlady
About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski Losing It T that will live on famously: “ e administration has now lost all credibility.” Most of us could have written that on January 20, 2009. ...
Gangbuster
Walther, Matthew
In The Colosseum By Matthew Walther Gangbuster Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions on border security, blue-collar wages, and what he’s learned from Afghanistan and Iraq. With the IRS harassing...
Odds & Ends
Odds & Ends Mama Grizzly 2016? Three cheers for your headlining “Sarah Palin’s Rack” feature article in your May issue—a timely, overdue tribute to, and partial defense of, the most...
The Bootblack Stand
Plunkitt, George Washington
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has recently retired from a sta position with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume six of...
The Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
The Continuing Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. May gave way to June, though for some shivering Americanos it felt more like November. Global Warmists were driven into hiding in the...
Michael Knows Best
Stoll, Ira
Michael Knows Best Mayor Bloomberg has a rock-solid record on crime, education—and little else. By Ira Stoll One Hundred and fifty three years after Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous...
Britain's Muzzled Press
Harris, Myles
Britain’s Muzzled Press Free speech dies in the land where it was born. By Myles Harris Amanda knox, the young American who spent four years in an Italian jail for the alleged murder of...
Three Cheers for Tax Avoidance
Kaminsky, Ross
Three Cheers for Tax Avoidance Corporate profits are looking juicier and juicier. Now the feds want a bite. By Ross Kaminsky In a hearing before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on...
AM Radio, Signing Off
Flynn, Daniel J.
AM Radio, Signing Off An autopsy of a great American medium. By Daniel J. Flynn Bill Heywood, afixture on Phoenix’s AM band since the 1960s, checked into a room at the Scottsdale...
Pillar to Post
Lipsky, Seth
Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Pillar to Post It looks like the drums are going to be beating over the summer for a special prosecutor to go after President Obama. The president is in...
We Don't Need No Stinking Badges
Taranto, James
Presswatch By James Taranto We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges It was an appeal to his political base from a Democratic president mired in scandal. “Journalists should not be at legal risk for...
Tragedy 303
King, Florence
Among The Intellectualoids By Florence King Tragedy 303 We hear much about “the coarsening of the culture” nowadays but I submit that there is something worse, and that is cultural...
No Internet Taxation Without Representation
Norquist, Grover G.
The Tax And Spend Spectator By Grover Norquist No Internet Taxation Without Representation The knights of the Round Table searched for the Holy Grail. Alchemists in the Middle Ages...
Toodles, Baba
Taki
Eminentoes By Taki Toodles, Baba It was a stop-the-presses moment, one that all Americans will remember in 50 years, just as some of us recall when the news of JFK’s assassination came...
Can You Spare a Drone?
Harriss, Joseph A.
Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss Brother, Can You Spare a Drone? France’s campaign in Mali exposes Europe’s unpreparedness for 21st-century war. With well-armed radical...
Stranger in a Mormon Land
Lott, Jeremy
The Latter-Day Spectator By Jeremy Lott Stranger in a Mormon Land Media fads quickly slip the bonds of memory, but try to recall one clip from last year’s highlights reel. It’s the...
Mothers of Invention
Craughwell, Thomas J.
Americana By Thomas J. Craughwell Mothers of Invention As you read this, the United States Patent Office has issued patents for over 4 million inventions. That figure is an...
Penn And Joe
Brennan, Mark
Campus Scenes By Mark G. Brennan Penn and Joe Joe biden ruined my midlife crisis. In 2006, desperate for a more meaningful endeavor after 15 years of highly compensated toil in the hedge fund...
Life in the Afternoon
Fiske-Harrison, Alexander
The Great Andalusian Saloon Series By Alexander Fiske-Harisson Life in the Afternoon “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his...
Screwtape Answers Pilate
Buckley, F.H.
The C.S. Lewis Spectator By Ebenezer Screwtape 12 June 2013 Reginald Wormwood, Esq. Wormwood Consulting, Inc. 1600 K Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 As you’re in Washington, you have a...
Unrestrained
Bethell, Tom
Capitol Ideas By Tom Bethell The soviet mathematician Igor Shafarevich once spelled out the elements that have inspired socialists throughout the ages. Having won many prizes, he was freed...
Washington Long Ago
Stein, Benjamin J.
Ben Stein’S Diary By Benjamin J. Stein Washington Long Ago My makeup artist, the charming Renae, told me a few weeks ago that I had not lived until I watched House of Cards, a TV series on...
Reminders of America's Decline
Bowman, James
Conservative Tastes By James Bowman Reminders of America’s Decline This spring brought us two movies, both set in 1947 and both intended to remind us of a time when it was easy for people...
The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Christian Scientist
Stove, R.J.
Books In Review The Hammer, the Sickle, and the Christian Scientist Diaries 1924-1933: The Prodigal Son Serge Prokofiev, translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips (Cornell University Press,...
Field of Dreams
Derbyshire, John
Field of Dreams Gettysburg: The Last Invasion By Allen C. Guelzo (Alfred A. Knopf, 634 pages, $35) By John Derbyshire To write a book about the Battle of Gettysburg is as audacious an...
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Rumsfeld's Universe
Babbin, Jed
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Rumsfeld’s Universe Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life By Donald Rumsfeld (Harper Collins, 2013, 293 pages, $27.99) By Jed...
Ennobling Us All
Bishop, Michael F.
Ennobling Us All Edmund Burke: The First Conservative By Jesse Norman (Basic Books, 325 pages, $27.99) said of him, “you could not stand five minutes with that man beneath a shed while it...
The Texas Way: An Alternative Model
Coyne, John R. Jr.
The Texas Way: An Alternative Model Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas By Erica Grieder (Public Affairs, 304 pages, $26.99) Reviewed by John...
The Other Shoe
King, Florence
The Other Shoe The Writer Is In The one yearbook you don’t want to find your children in is The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The APA...
Public Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Public Nuisances By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. My Rahm Reunion WASHINGTON My Rahm Reunion WASHINGTON How odd! There I was Saturday evening in the Windy City at a fundraising event for the...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Current Wisdom The Daily Telegraph In a leading British daily, yet another wholesome use for that staple of a young Westerner’s life, the prophylactic, now more commonly called the condom or...
I Wasn't Choking!
Antle, W. James III
Last Call By W. James Antle, III I Wasn’t Choking! In april, i departed for Dallas as part of my book tour. “Tour” might be a bit of an exaggeration. Most of my stops were virtual, with me...
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