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Vol. 046 Issue 007 (September 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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About This Month: It's Never Easy
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Pleszczynski, Wlady
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About This Month By Wlady Pleszczynski It's Never Easy Want To hear a good one? According to the New York Times, not that it's endorsing him, what's the one thing that qualifies Rep. Frank...
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In the Colosseum: Quintessentially Conservative
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Peterson, Kyle
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In The Colosseum By Kyle Peterson Quintessentially Conservative Spectator senior editor Quin Hillyer makes a run for Congress. For years as a professional journalist, Quin Hillyer has slung...
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Odds & Ends
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Odds & Ends Latter-day Complaints Jeremy Lotts Recent Article ("Stranger in a Mormon Land," TAS, July-August 2013) is certainly thought-provoking, but not always thoughtful. The only "keeper" was...
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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 seven 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. July evanesces, and so does the Prophet Obama. Toward the end of the month he auspicated a lecture tour on the economy and, of a sudden, began...
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Ten Paces: Chris Christie: Friend or Foe?
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Purple, Wlady Pleszczynski and Matt
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Ten Paces Conservatism is not, and has never been, a monolith—no matter how much its opponents pretend otherwise. At times in its history, building unity has been the paramount concern. But this is...
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Read My Lips: No New Texas
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Murchison, William
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Read My Lips: No New Texas Can liberal media darling Wendy Davis paint the Lone Star State blue? By Bill Murchison As The Year Of Grace 2013 seeped slowly into our consciousness, a Texas...
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The Arab Spasm
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Hitchens, Peter
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The Arab Spasm In the Middle East, all bets are off when deluded Westerners spring into action. By Peter Hitchens It is because we no longer understand our own societies that we cannot understand...
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The Great Kindle Fire
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Walther, Matthew
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The Great Kindle Fire Why are America's libraries tossing their collections? By Matthew Walther The American Library Association is, as its name suggests, a professional organization for...
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The Giant Stumbles
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Antle, W. James III
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The Giant Stumbles Government looks bigger, but not so sturdy, in Obama's second term. By W. James Antle III When Barack Obama won a second term, many conservatives and libertarians despaired. It...
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Constitutional Opinions: Fed Up Yet?
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Lipsky, Seth
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Constitutional Opinions By Seth Lipsky Fed Up Yet? As summer becomes fall, we commence the 100th anniversary of that most glorious of all the violations of the United States Constitution, the...
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The Law & Economy Spectator: The Misrule of Law in America
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Buckley, F.H.
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Law And Economy Spectator By F.H. Buckley The Misrule of Law in America Twenty years ago liberals thought they knew how to make a country rich: self-government, public education, and loads of...
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Letter From Paris: Cool War With China?
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss Cool War With China? Much of the world thinks we've already lost it. It would be hard to find a better symbol of the relative decline of American influence...
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The Tax & Spend Spectator: Samuel Gompers Versus Reagan
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Norquist, Grover G.
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The Tax & Spend Spectator By Grover G. Norquist Samuel Gompers Versus Reagan Immigration Is Different. For 20 years, Republicans have come together to oppose higher taxes. Paul Ryan's budget won...
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Campaign Crawlers: [Insert Pun Here]
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Zeiser, Bill
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Campaign Crawlers By Bill Zeiser [Insert Pun Here] On the trail with Weiner and Spitzer. Anthony WEiNER's Twitter feed is largely inactive. That's probably for the best. The Democrat's...
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Presswatch: The Journalist as Apparatchik
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Taranto, James
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Presswatch By James Taranto The Journalist as Apparatchik Your humble media critic came in for some media criticism over the summer. Its source: Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member at the...
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Politics: Don't Save Detroit-Sell It
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Fund, John
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Politics By John Fund Don't Save Detroit— Sell It In the 1983 movie Dr. Detroit, the flamboyant lead character goes on a rampage warning of trouble to come. "I am talking about scorched earth,...
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In Memoriam: No Mere Academic
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Scruton, Roger
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In Memoriam By Roger Scruton No Mere Academic Readers Of This Magazine will know that conservatism has been going through a dark time in Britain. Since the premiereship of Margaret Thatcher, the...
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The Great Ottoman Saloon Series: Gorging and Guzzling in the Red Apple
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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The Great Ottoman Saloon Series Gorging and Guzzling in the Red Apple By Aram Bakshian, Jr. Long before there was the Big Apple, there was the Red Apple. Constantinople, the "Second Rome" capital...
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Americana: Zing Along With Allan, Bob & Ray
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Nachman, Gerald
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Americana By Gerald Nachman Zing Along With Allan, Bob & Ray It's hard to imagine any more equally brilliant yet personally diverse satirists than Allan Sherman and Bob & Ray. Nor any more...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Bees on Vacation
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Bees on Vacation By Benjamin J. Stein Wednesday SANDPOINT. Something is definitely wrong with the weather. It is killingly hot, and has been day after day after day. Just murderous. It has been...
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Conservative Tastes: Why They Fight
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Bowman, James
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Conservative Tastes By James Bowman Why They Fight Four years ago in this space (see "Rotten Apples," TAS, September 2009), I wrote that movie violence, like movie sex, is inherently fantastical....
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The Heart of the Heartland
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Epstein, Joseph
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Books In Review The Heart of the Heartland The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Knopf, 752 pages, $37.50) Reviewed by Joseph Spstein Willa Cather's...
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An American Prime Minister
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Walther, Matthew
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An American Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: From Grantham to the Falklands. By Charles Moore (Knopf, 857 pages, $35) by CMatthew Walther In a may 1988 diary column...
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The Lincoln Blueprint
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Lehrman, Lewis E.
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The Lincoln Blueprint Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream—and How We Can Do It Again by Rich Lowry (Broadside Books, 288 pages, $27) Reviewed by Jewis 8....
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The Big Bow-Wow
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Coyne, John R Jr.
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The Big Bow-Wow Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black (Encounter Books, 746 pages, $35.99) Reviewed by John...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Current Wisdom The Atlantic An earnest young disciple of the Hon. Eliot Spitzer makes an inquiry about his true loves only to be made the butt of ridicule: This girl and I have been dating for a...
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Last Call: Couch-22
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Thornberry, Larry
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Last Call By Larry Thürnberry Couch-22 The days ofour years are threescore years and ten," or so said the Psalmist. If he's right, then for almost a year, I've been, as George Will once put it,...
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