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Vol. 047 Issue 007 (September 1 2015)
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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 The Defiant Ones WE thought we had some breaking news. Shortly after the calamitous November 4 elections, the Washington Post quoted a top aide as telling a...
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The Continuing Crisis
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Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
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the CONTINUING CRISIS by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. He is eating pizza far from the White House. He is downing Starbucks, slurping ice cream, and munching on burgers across America. Yet he is...
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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 staffposition with the House Ethics Committee and is working on volume seventeen...
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Sketchbook
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SKETCHBOOK Obamacare Architect: Let’s All Die at 75 by DAVID CATRON IF george Washington was the father of our country, Benjamin Franklin was its grandfather. While the former was fighting the...
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Ten Paces
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Pleszczynski, Larry Thornberry, Wlady
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ten PACES Does interest in the World Cup show that Americans are finally taking to soccer? Football vs. Futbol— No Contest in El Norte by LARRY THORNBERRY It’s never as bad an experience, and I...
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In the Colosseum
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Elliott, Amanda C
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in the COLOSSEUM by AMANDA C. ELLIOTT The Negotiator Raul Labrador on government shutdown, voter outreach, andJohn Boehner’s honor. Washington is a city full of dueling egos, a kind of bubble of...
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Rick the Reformer
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Cassidy, Jon
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Rick The Reformer by JON CASSIDY The Texas governor has a solid record. But can he make voters forget 2012? Three years ago, a Texas reporter named Jay Root set out to chronicle the...
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Why Israel Won't Listen to Critics
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Tobin, Jonathan
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Why Israel WOnt Listen to Critics The war in Gaza leaves the Jewish state united against its enemies and righteously indifferent to international opinion. by JONATHAN S. TOBIN At the end of weeks...
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Death by Pension
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Greenhut, Steven
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Death by Pension California offers a case study of what happens when public employee unions control everything. by STEVEN GREENHUT When the November election was still a long way off,...
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In Defense of Liberal Arts
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Mcclay, B.D.
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BACK TO CAMPUS BONANZA In Defense of Liberal Arts Who will speak upfor Socrates? by B.D. Mc CLAY writers point out the need for global leadership or an “adaptable and creative workforce.”...
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Pop the Student Loan Bubble?
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Mcmorris, Bill
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BACK TO CAMPUS BONANZA Pop the Student Loan Bubble? Then overturn Griggs v. Duke Power Co. by BILL McMORRIS Business reporters and talking heads are tripping over themselves to predict the next...
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Americana
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Tushnet, Eve
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AMERICANA by EVE TUSHNET The Gift Shop ofthe Dead A visit to D. C. s Museum of Crime and Punishment. For the past twelve years I’ve volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center serving mainly...
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Politics
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Moore, Stephen
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POLTTTCS by STEPHEN MOORE Can’t We All Get Along ? We have to if we’re going to, you know, win. At a recent small dinner at the end of the fabulous Freedomfest gathering at the Paris Hotel in...
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The Law and Economy Spectator
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Buckley, F.H.
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law and economy SPECT AT O R by F.H. BUCKLEY The Lois Lerner Curve Corrupt countries, where the rule of law is weak and political pilfering is common, are poor countries. Entrepreneurs and...
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Letter From Paris
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Harriss, Joseph A.
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letterfrom PARIS by JOSEPH A. HARRISS Racist, Moi? Excuse me Marianne, but your anti-Semitism is showing. Israel’s summer offensive against Hamas in Gaza sparked the predictable pro-Palestinian...
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Presswatch
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Taranto, James
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PRESSWATCH by JAMES TARANTO The Times’s Little Saint Nick Evaluating the error-prone Nicholas Kristof. WE often assume that racism or sexism is primarily about in-your-face bigots or...
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Campaign Crawlers
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Norquist, Grover G.
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campaign C R AW LERS by GROVER G. NORQU 1ST Governors Under Seige Scott Walker and Sam Brownback must win re-election. The math looks good. Very good. One can presume that when the American...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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ben stein’s DIARY by BENJAMIN J. STEIN In the Time We Have Left Tuesday This cannot be happening. Just can’t be. I am in my condo at the Shoreham Towers getting my toenails cut by my manicurist,...
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Conservative Tastes
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Bowman, James
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conservative TASTES by JAMES BOWMAN There’s No Breaking Away This year for the eighth summer in succession I presented—along with free pizza—a collection of old movies on a theme. The theme of...
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A Lady With the Spark of Wit
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Sherwood, Lydia
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arts & LETTERS A Lady With the Spark of Wit The Informed Air: Essays By Muriel Spark (New Directions, 352 pages, $24.95) Reviewed by Lydia Sherwood How do you do it?” asked Evelyn Waugh in a...
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Mini-Me to the Man Who Would Not Die
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Mini-Me to the Man Who Would Not Die The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority By Patrick J. Buchanan (Crown Forum, 392 pages, $28) Reviewed by <Aram...
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Reading the Reformist Manifesto
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Antle, W. James III
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Reading the Reformist Manifesto Room to Grow: Conservative Reforms For a Limited Government and a Thriving Middle Class By Peter Wehener, Yuval Levin, et al. (YG Network, 121 pages, Free) By W....
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Does Language Shape Thought?
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Derbyshire, John
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Does Language Shape Thought? The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language By John H. McWhorter (Oxford, 208 pages, $19.95) Reviewed by John Derbyshire Chinese has an...
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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. Paul Ryan’s Mysterious Way WASHINGTON There is a mystery about Congressman Paul Ryan’s new and very good book, The Way Forward: Renewing the American...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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current W ISDOM New York Times Paul Krugman,filled with laughing gas, as he reads of President Barack Obama slippingon yet another banana peel: The truth is that these days much of the commentary...
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Last Call
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Peterson, Kyle
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last CALL by KYLE PETERSON Shopper’s Delight Few things can buoy the human spirit more than a trip to the local store. There, on endless shelves, stacked ceiling high, sit the progressive fruits...
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