Remembering Corporal Dunham
Scrapbook Remembering Corporal Dunham Next to being elected president, the greatest honor bestowed on an American is the Congressional Medal of Honor, awarded for extraordinary courage in battle....
...But from Chicago We to you a comforter will send: Monetarism...
...How can we many goods produce, And have instability turn to stability...
...Of course, The Scrapbook would never dream of telling the Nobel Peace Prize people in Oslo how to do their job, but we have a piece of advice: Dr...
...DuBois Award of the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Alpha Phi Alpha Award of Merit, and the Trumpet Award of the Turner Broadcasting Corporation...
...Indeed, it was a Republican president of that era who imposed federal wage and price controls when his "jawboning" against rising prices came to nought, and another Republican who thought it enlightened policy to give a speech urging his fellow Americans to "whip inflation now...
...Top candidates for this position will be personable, reliable, organized, and—not least—love the thrill of closing a sale...
...He jumped on the grenade to protect his fellow Marines...
...The Times's other rival, the Daily News, found room for two stories—one on the president's announcement and another on how the news was greeted in Dunham's hometown of Scio, N.Y...
...The rarity of the award argued for front-page treatment, and one of the Times's rivals, the New York Post, put Dunham on page one...
...For since publishing From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans in 1947, Dr...
...In World War II, with millions mobilized, only 464 were...
...Needless to say, The Scrapbook was relieved to get these tidings because, frankly, we had been worried that there might be a prize somewhere out there that Dr...
...He died so that members of the Marine squad he led would live...
...Only If You're Reading the Mainstream Media," December 26, 2005...
...Milton Friedman, 1912-2006 Commentators more expert than The Scrapbook will be needed to reckon with the technical achievements of Milton Friedman—the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize for economics...
...But if Friedman was widely celebrated on the occasion of his death last week, it was not for his having elaborated the quantity theory of money or refined the consumption function...
...An excerpt: So asked economists of the fallen seventies of the archeconomist Milton: "Our inflation is infinite, our unemployment immense...
...The Associated Press wrote a story about Dunham...
...Be sure it will," replied Milton...
...Monetarism will stand against them, not afraid To insist that laziness ought not be recompensed...
...And no more shall Congress send, To evangelize the nations, money to those not Baptized in the religion of Democracy, Nor with wondrous gifts them endow...
...Franklin has been awarded (in addition to the usual hundred-plus honorary degrees, organizational presidencies, visiting lectureships, and appointments to advisory boards, delegations, and commissions) the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Jefferson Medal of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Encyclopedia Britannica Gold Medal for the Dissemination of Knowledge, the Charles Fran-kel Prize, the Gold Medal for History of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Cosmos Club Award, the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Cleanth Brooks Medal of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the W.E.B...
...The Washington Post ran a brief story...
...That's a partial list, by the way, and just from the past few years...
...Help Wanted The Weekly Standard is seeking an advertising account executive who will sell pages in the magazine and space on our website, www.week-lystandard.com, and in our weekly email newsletter...
...The Kluge prize, named for the Metromedia mogul who endowed it, is awarded annually by the Library of Congress and is, in the words of Librarian James H. Billington, "the only global award given at the level of the Nobel Prizes that recognizes a lifetime of accomplishment in humanities and social sciences...
...In World War I, 124 Medals of Honor were awarded...
...a theory which, combined with The spirit of frugality and the law of self-reliance, with all men Working with entrepreneurial ardor, will succeed, with No guidelines, no make-work, No welfare nor the irresistible drive To print money to quench the fiery demands of Congress...
...economy...
...But America's supposed paper of record, the New York Times, took no notice of the award in its nationally circulated print edition...
...When the terrorist rolled a grenade near his fellow Marines, the president said, "Corporal Dunham did not hesitate...
...The Scrapbook assumes there's a plaque or glass bowl or something, but the main scratch is a check for one million simoleons...
...Smith's) to Marine Corporal Jason Dunham...
...Then, on November 10, President Bush announced that a second Medal of Honor for bravery in Iraq would be awarded (posthumously, like Sgt...
...Paul Ray Smith, whose valor in the early days of the war was recounted in these pages last year by Fred Barnes ("A War Without Heroes...
...He used his helmet and his body to absorb the blast...
...Rather, it was because he shared with fellow free-market Nobelist Friedrich Hayek a gift for popularization that rivaled his economic genius...
...Dunham's story was news, especially since the medal is awarded so rarely...
...In April 2004, Dunham was struggling in hand-to-hand combat with a terrorist...
...The Prizes of Franklin Our attention was drawn this week to the award of the John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity to the historian John Hope Franklin...
...Katie Couric mentioned Dunham on the CBS Evening News...
...This person will manage our online sales effort and be an essential part of our ad sales team, which includes representatives in Chicago, San Francisco, and Toronto...
...In Vietnam, 245 Medals of Honor were bestowed...
...What Hayek's Road to Serfdom was for the World War II generation—a lonely lighthouse of freedom piercing the fog of socialism—Milton Friedman's 1980 PBS series Free to Choose was for all who suffered through the economic sclerosis and stagflation of the 1970s...
...In Iraq, there'd been only one, Sgt...
...The paper ran a short AP story online...
...The award is not given out lightly...
...If you think you are up to the challenge of this job, email a cover letter with resume to Associate Publisher Peter Dunn, pdunn@weekly-standard.com...
...Franklin has not won...
...In Korea, there were 132 recipients...
...It is easy to forget nowadays, when both parties are more or less persuaded of the benefits of free markets, that as recently as 30 years ago, it was the other way around: Both parties were more or less enamored of Washington's heavy hand on the levers of economic policy...
...Bush got choked up as he talked about Dunham...
...Everyone knows the Times is antiwar...
...A Medal of Honor winner is so venerated in the military that officers stand up when an enlisted medal recipient enters a room...
...Franklin is 91 years old, and it would be pretty embarrassing to deny him an honor that has gone to the likes of Jody Williams, Jimmy Carter, and Le Duc Tho...
...That doesn't make ignoring a home-state Medal of Honor winner any less unprofessional...
...For its part, The Scrapbook will also remember Friedman as the subject of "Production Lost," a brilliant parody of a different Milton's "Paradise Lost," published in the January 1980 American Spectator by our friend Andy Stark...
...On NBC's morning Today show, Campbell Brown interviewed Dunham's parents...
...Milton Friedman was as responsible as any individual for overturning this horrendous bipartisan consensus...
...for that and much else besides he deserved the gratitude of his fellow citizens (as well as the billions of other people around the globe who benefit from a vibrant U.S...
Vol. 12 • November 2006 • No. 11
