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Issue Vol. 014 Issue 028 (April 6 2009)
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Paid article Scrapbook
Life Imitates P.J. The gap between parody and reality, never large to begin with, has been shrinking alarmingly. THE SCRAPBOOK’s colleague P. J. O’Rourke, for instance, suggested in a February 9...
Paid article MUDDY WATERS
LABASH, MATT
Casual MUDDY WATERS One upside of the recession is that I cut through the newspaper as never before. Since the news is too bad to actually read, I skip it, assuming I know what’s there—the sky...
Paid article Correspondence
Correspondence BLACKLISTED THE INTIMIDATION TACTICS employed against Maureen Mullarkey (“The New Blacklist,” March 16) and members of the Mormon Church after Proposition 8 passed are examples...
Paid article A Big, Fat Failure
CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
A Big, Fat Failure Well, it’s about time. The Beltway is waking up to the realities of President Obama’s budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. The president’s...
Paid article Obama's Fuzzy Math
MOORE, STEPHEN
Obama’s Fuzzy Math A trillion here, a trillion there . . . BY STEPHEN MOORE In his press conference last Tuesday, Barack Obama said that America must reject the “borrow and spend” policies of...
Paid article Look to Lincoln
STUNTZ, WILLIAM J.
Look to Lincoln Not to FDR, when designing legislative agendas. BY WILLIAM J. STUNTZ A lot of ink has been spilled on what might be called the Roosevelt and Reagan models of the presidency. In...
Paid article Doubling Down on the Welfare State
O'ROURKE, P. J.
Doubling Down on the Welfare State Get ready to pay twice for everything. BY P. J. O’ROURKE The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The...
Paid article The Return of Weakness
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
The Return of Weakness President Obama means well. Iran doesn’t. BY REUEL MARC GERECHT In diplomacy and espionage, there is no worse mistake than “mirror- imaging,” that is, ascribing to...
Paid article The Liberal Dream Agenda
BARNES, FRED
The Liberal Dream Agenda Republican senators have their work cut out for them. BY FRED BARNES Once the House passed a 90 percent tax on AIG bonuses, a mad rush was on in the Senate. Majority...
Paid article Like Father, Like Son
LUCAS, FRED
Like Father, Like Son Dodd looks beatable in Connecticut. BY FRED LUCAS When he met in early February with Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, about...
Paid article Downwind from Iran
BERKOWITZ, PETER
Downwind from Iran Why they’re nervous in the Gulf. BY PETER BERKOWITZ According to the conventional wisdom—echoed by Senators Obama and Clinton on the campaign trail and by President Obama in...
Paid article The Missing Mahatma
GORENBERG, GERSHOM
The Missing Mahatma Searching for a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King in the West Bank BY GERSHOM GORENBERG They marched southward from Ramallah one windy morning in March 2012. Sheikh Nasser...
Paid article Alive in the Mind
Seaton, James
Alive in the Mind Santayana’s world is a reasonable place. BY JAMES SEATON George Santayana (1863- 1952) was not only one of the great American philosophers, he was also an important presence...
Paid article Asylum Seeker
NICOL, CAITRIN
Asylum Seeker Sometimes crazy ideas make a certain sense. BY CAITRIN NICOL It is, perhaps, as good a sign of the times as any that it takes an East Village quasi-bohemian going undercover for...
Paid article Gotta Dance
LODGE, SARA
Gotta Dance With or without men, in search of romantic Vienna. BY SARA LODGE Everyone has a ball in Vienna. Between December and March, every weekend, in palaces and hotels and church halls in...
Paid article Sacred Mistrust
Eastland, Terry
Sacred Mistrust God is not in the details of reporting religion. BY TERRY EASTLAND A little over four years ago a group in Iraq affi liated with al Qaeda and calling itself “One God and Jihad”...
Paid article Rembrandt Lite
GARDNER, JAMES
Rembrandt Lite The versatility of an aging child prodigy. BY JAMES GARDNER For some reason, child prodigies abound in music and math, but they occur rarely in literature and almost never in the...
Paid article 'Battlestar' Rules
LEHRER, ELI
‘Battlestar’ Rules In the wasteland of TV drama, an intergalactic tour de force. BY ELI LEHRER When it premiered to high ratings in 1978, the producers of Battlestar Galactica promised their...
Paid article Tony and Juliet
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Tony and Juliet A revival of ‘West Side Story’ is a rehabilitation. BY JOHN PODHORETZ One of the great cultural disappointments of my life came at the age of 23, when I watched the Academy...
Paid article Parody
Parody “A U.N. panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to...
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