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Paid article Why We're Not in Government
Why We're Not in Government If you watched any of General David Petraeus's testimony before a variety of congressional committees last week, The Scrapbook thought you might enjoy seeing "the rest...
Paid article RogeR & Me
Roger & Me As a general principle, the best athletes shouldn't be our favorite athletes. We should appreciate greatness, of course. But actually rooting for Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan or Barry...
Paid article Mormon bashing, HSM, and more
Maligning Mormons Regarding Fred Barnes's profile of actor Jon Voight ("Hollywood Witness," September 3), apart from the overwhelming consensus of critics that September Dawn, in which Voight...
Paid article Men at Work, Children at Play
EDITORIAL Men at Work, Children at Play Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. —Mark Twain This week, America heard about Iraq from two...
Paid article The Surgin' General
BARNES, FRED
The Surgin' General And the reeling Democrats. by Fred Barnes When congressional leaders met with President Bush last week at the White House, the Republicans were upbeat, the Democrats far less...
Paid article Ready, Willing, and Able
Donnelly, Thomas
Ready, Willing, and Able We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. by Thomas Donnelly In the wake of last week's Iraq-related developments in Washington, the strongest...
Paid article The Truthers Are Out There
BUNCH, SONNY
The Truthers Are Out There Leftwing causes converge with the 9/11 denial movement. by Sonny Bunch New York City Certain events can be expected each time the 9/11 anniversary rolls around. Opinion...
Paid article Pennies from Heaven
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Pennies from Heaven Special one-for-two sale. BY PJ. O'ROURKE How much do you suppose it costs the U.S. Mint to produce a penny? Let me tell you—with a deeply self-satisfied howl of...
Paid article The Party of Civil Rights
ALEXANDER, GERARD
The Party of Civil Rights It wasn't the Democrats. by Gerard Alexander An anniversary passed without much notice on September 9th. It was fifty years since President Eisenhower signed the 1957...
Paid article Mr. Chavez's Neighborhood
Currie, Duncan
Mr. Chavez's Neighborhood He's not very popular there. by Duncan Currie Venezuela's cocksure president, Hugo Chavez, might take a sobering glance through the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey,...
Paid article Defeat At Any Price
GELERNTER, DAVID
Defeat At Any Price Democrats worried that Petraeus would impress the country as dispassionate and serious—which he did. He said that much work remains—but that Iraq has turned a corner. It was a...
Paid article No Child Left Alone
FERGUSON, ANDREW
No Child Left Alone An education reform run amok BY ANDREW FERGUSON There used to be a lot of school kids crowding the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland, a few miles south of Washington....
Paid article Mama Dearest
GURDON, MEGHAN COX
Mary Gordon and her father, 1996 Mama Dearest Anna Gordon's daughter writes a painful memoir-for readers. by Meghan Cox Gurdon It has become fashionable for memoirs to be scorchingly honest, and...
Paid article Durham Bull
ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
Durham Bull The phony Duke rape case, and who was really assaulted. by Charlotte Allen Now that: (1) all rape and related felony charges stemming from the supposed white-on-black sexual assault...
Paid article Money for Nothing
ANDERSON, RYAN T.
Money for Nothing The road to you-know-where is paved with good intentions. by Ryan T. Anderson "F or God's sake, please stop the aid!" The Kenyan economist James Shikwati made headlines...
Paid article Dr. Culture
DAY, ANTHONY
Dr. Culture Franklin Murphy and the hunt for treasure in Los Angeles. by Anthony Day The Culture Broker vividly tells the story of the post-World War II emergence of one of America's great...
Paid article Fifty Years On
GIOIA, TED
Fifty Years On The boulevard of broken dreams, and Sal Paradise. by Ted Gioia "T hat's not writing. That's typing," griped Truman Capote in a famous put-down, when asked about Jack ...
Paid article Parody
SPECIAL PARODY CHALLENGE! The Washington Post headline above is real. See if you can fi nd fi ve fake headlines below. Solution: 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8 are fake. (The Columbus Dispatch, August...
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