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Vol. 015 Issue 003 (October 5 2009)
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Vol. 015 Issue 004 (October 12 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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President No
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Scrapbook President No Barack Obama is President No. And not because he says no a lot. It’s because he’s the president who takes no for an answer—again and again and again. It’s now his...
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ON THE ROAD
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Casual ON THE ROAD Three weeks ago I walked out of my front door at 6:30 A.M., headed for the offi ce. I made three turns in short succession, bringing me to Old Bridge Road, the local...
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Same Old Obamacare
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levin, yuval
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EDITORIAL Same Old Obamacare After a summer of setbacks on health care reform, Democrats on Capitol Hill again seem to think they have found a formula for success. The latest iteration of...
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Coalition of the (Sort of) Willing
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MATUS, VICTORINO
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Coalition of the (Sort of) Willing A victory for Angela Merkel and the Free Democrats. BY VICTORINO MATUS The final campaign rally of the Social Democratic party (SPD) was impressive....
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The Republican Revival
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BARNES, FRED
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The Republican Revival The leading indicators all point to major gains in the 2010 midterm elections. BY FRED BARNES Ignore anyone who says Republicans have no chance of winning 40 seats in...
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Don't Go Wobbly on Afghanistan
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KAGAN, FREDERICK W.
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Don’t Go Wobbly on Afghanistan President Obama was right in March. BY FREDERICK W. KAGAN & KIMBERLY KAGAN ‘To defeat an enemy that heeds no borders or laws of war, we must recognize...
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Labour's Last Gasp
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Labour’s Last Gasp Gordon Brown still wants to tax-and-spend. BY IRWIN M. STELZER Britain’s Labour party has come a long way from 1994, when a charismatic Tony Blair, the new leader of a...
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Detente and the Bunker
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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D?tente and the Bunker How to oppose a president’s disastrous foreign policy. BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS The appearance in Washington last week of Iran’s foreign minister, while the blood is not...
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If Darwin Ran Baseball
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STERN, WILLY
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If Darwin Ran Baseball A modest proposal for ensuring that the best teams play in the World Series. BY WILLY STERN The modern World Series began in 1903 with the Boston Americans beating the...
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All the President's Czars
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MENASHI, STEVEN
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All the President’s Czars Obama emerges as a champion of the unitary executive. BY STEVEN MENASHI A bipartisan chorus in Congress, along with a bevy of conservative activists, has...
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The Mania of Central Planning
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LEHRER, ELI
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The Mania of Central Planning Thinking big is killing Michigan’s economy. BY ELI LEHRER Coleman Young II is on a roll. Standing outside of the Michigan legislature’s baronial house chamber,...
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Abandoning the Most Vulnerable
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Abandoning the Most Vulnerable Britain moves closer to legalizing assisted suicide. BY WESLEY J. SMITH On July 4, 1995, Myrna Lebov, age 52, committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. The...
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The New Tammany Hall
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SIEGEL, FRED
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The New Tammany Hall Public sector unions have become a labor aristocracy— and they are bankrupting states and municipalities. BY FRED SIEGEL & DAN DISALVO Ever since the 1972 Democratic...
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"Don't Change 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
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Bowman, James
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Don’t Change ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ There are sound reasons—unbigoted ones— for our policy on gays in the military. BY JAMES BOWMAN Reporting on the prospective dismissal from the Air...
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The Brandeis Effect
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WHITE, G. EDWARD
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The Brandeis Effect Close study leads to deep admiration for the justice BY G. EDWARD WHITE Melvin Urofsky’s new biography of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis is the best one-volume life of...
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Googling Google
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Googling Google The story behind the story of the search engine. BY JONATHAN V. LAST Ken Auletta’s Googled is the sixth corporate biography of Google published in the last four...
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The Greek Way
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WHARTON, DAVID
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The Greek Way An ancient Mediterranean civilization is still in business. BY DAVID WHARTON For those on nodding terms with ancient history, the life trajectory of the Greek...
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Red Warbler
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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Red Warbler Marching in step with a song and a smile. BY P.J. O’ROURKE This is an important book. As with any book about which this needs to be said, what’s meant is that it isn’t...
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Speech and Song
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YEZZI, DAVID
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Speech and Song The music of language in the words of the poet. BY DAVID YEZZI ‘Poetry,” Robert Graves once wrote, “is more than words musically arranged. It is sense; good...
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Polanski's Law
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Polanski’s Law Does an artist’s history mitigate his conduct? BY JOHN PODHORETZ So Roman Polanski has landed himself in a Swiss jail. Expecting garlands from cineastes at the Zurich Film...
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Parody
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Parody “The language that we use here is very important, because [rape] is not the allegation. . . . I know it wasn’t ‘rape-rape.’ . . . All I’m trying to get you to understand is, when we’re...
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Vol. 015 Issue 005 (October 19 2009)
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Vol. 015 Issue 006 (October 6 2009)
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2010s
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