Scrapbook Special Starr Report Edition THE SCRAPBOOK has spent the last week doing the work of the American people. To be specific, perusing the appendices to the independent counsel’s...
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Correspondence Understanding Nixon David Frum’s rave review of Allen J. Matusow’s book about Nixon’s economic policies was a shocker—he rehashes all of the canards that Democrats espoused in...
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Casual A Spring in His Step Iused to linger in bed for a few minutes after the alarm went off in the morning. But not since January 21. Now, I jump up, put on my bathrobe, and head for...
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Grow Up— and Impeach In the classic courtroom dramas from which most Americans learn their law, there inevitably comes a final scene in which the hero attorney gets the bad guy on the stand and...
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Slouching Toward Judgment by Tod Lindberg WHAT A MAGICAL SHAPE-CHANGING BEAST this independent-counsel law is! In its marauding two-decade-long journey through the American political landscape,...
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To the Slaughter by Tucker Carlson Denver The Labor Day parade has begun to wind its way through downtown Denver, and Ellen Moran has to raise her voice above the brass band to explain how...
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Hello, Neumann! by Matthew Rees RARE IS THE CONGRESSMAN who’ll bring an overhead projector to a town meeting so he can lecture on the federal debt. And Wisconsin Republican Mark Neumann, to be...
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The Right Miss America by Pia Nordlinger FORGET ARTIFICIAL SMILES AND SWIMSUITS: These days, the Miss America Pageant is all about “the issues.” The annual televised glam-fest, aired this year...
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Hollywood Beats Harvard By David Brooks It’s an iron law of American life that each new ruling class makes you nostalgic for the last one. But who could have predicted that we’d so soon...
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Bill Clinton, Moral Exhibitionist By Noemie Emery “Iintend to reclaim my family life for my family,” Bill Clinton said, petulantly, in his nonapology of August 17, explaining further, “Even...
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Liberalism and Cloning By Adam Wolfson The summer of 1998 will be remembered not only for baseball sluggers and Oval Office sex but also for animal cloning. Reports of cloned cows and mice and...
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