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 Vol. 014 Issue 047 (September 7 2009)
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••Contents••
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 Waiting for the Kent Brockman Award
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Waiting for the Kent Brockman Award The tendency of journalists to present each other with multiple awards—usually named for journalists, living and dead—reminds The Scrap-book of the scene in...
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THE FAN
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BARNES, FRED
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_Casual The Fan Robert Novak was a world-famous columnist when I met him in 1974. I was a reporter for the Evening Star newspaper in Washington. We were covering a trip to Delaware by Vice...
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A DOG'S BREAKFAST
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PETERSON, ROBERT
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Correspondence A Dog's Breakfast Ihave read one apologist after another concerning Michael Vick, et al and their problems with the law, and what Christopher Caldwell misses in his article, "The...
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Caving to Trial Lawyers
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BARNES, FRED
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EDITORIAL Caving to Trial Lawyers We've always suspected that fear of angering trial lawyers was the only reason President Obama refused to embrace tort reform as a crucial part of achieving his...
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Eric Holder's Anti-CIA Witch Hunt
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Rubin, Jennifer
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Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to ask a special prosecutor to investigate for possible criminal prosecution CIA operatives Jennifer Rubin, a lawyer and regular contributor to Commentary...
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Fair Is Foul in Scotland
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LINDBERG, TOD
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Fair Is Foul in Scotland The feckless release of a Libyan terrorist. by Tod Lindberg Since there is so little of it, let's start with the good news about the release from prison and triumphant...
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The 'Most Prolifi c' Detainee
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JOSCELYN, THOMAS
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The 'Most Prolific' Detainee We learned a lot about al Qaeda from KSM, and not by asking nicely. by Thomas Joscelyn On March 1, 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the principal planner of the...
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Might Makes Right
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Caldwell, Christopher
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ight Makes Right Yale University Press blinks. by Christopher Caldwell During the "cartoon crisis" of early 2006—when mobs in Nigeria, Pakistan, Libya, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere...
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A Rake's Progress
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LABASH, MATT
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A Rake’s Progress BY MATT LABASH Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. —from Sam...
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The Magazine Game
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LODGE, SARA
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The most distinctive thing about English literary journalism in the early 19th century is that it was Scottish. This was the great age of the magazine. As John Wilson, alias...
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Boys n the Hood
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BENSON, CHRISTOPHER
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Boys ’n’ the Hood Manhood, that is, and why it’s elusive. BY CHRISTOPHER BENSON The Dionysiac crowd on the Mall last winter was probably not prepared to hear their new president exhort the...
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Church of State
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MCKENZIE, WILLIAM
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Church of State How is the Almighty treated when He’s a guest in the White House? BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE This is a breezy cut-and-paste of the last 50 years of the intersection of religion...
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"Password, Please"
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BecK, Stefan
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Password, Please The inside story on conspiracy theories. BY STEFAN BECK I have an ugly confession to make. I used to entertain myself by composing faux-earnest query letters to conspiracy...
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Thinking Big
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SCHMITT, GARY
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Thinking Big Herman Kahn didn’t shrink from the fundamental questions. BY GARY SCHMITT When Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove fi rst appeared in movie theaters in 1964, it was Peter Sellers’s...
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New Democrats
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Kirchick, James
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New Democrats Seeds of change in unfertile ground. BY JAMES KIRCHICK The debate over democratization in the Middle East took on a new sense of urgency following the terrorist attacks of...
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Triple Feature
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QUEENAN, JOE
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Triple Feature A once-in-a-lifetime moment in baseball. BY JOE QUEENAN Old timers insist that if you go to a baseball game, you will always see something you never saw before. On Sunday,...
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Parody
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“A ‘profanity-laced screaming match’ at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration offi cials...
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Vol. 014 Issue 048 (September 14 2009)
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Vol. 015 Issue 001 (September 21 2009)
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Vol. 015 Issue 002 (September 28 2009)
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