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Vol. 015 Issue 016 (January 11 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Run to the Fire
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THE SCRAPBOOK ‘Run to the Fire’ wanted to give some of its space this holiday season to an email from our friend Jim Hake, founder and chairman of Spirit of America. This terrifi c nonprofi t...
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Rage Against the Machine
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Caldwell, Christopher
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CASUAL THE WEEKLY STANDARD / 5 Rage Against the Machine My wife, back from walking the dog in a rainstorm, was drying her wet sox by the electric space heater in my attic offi ce. I told her...
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2009: Could Have Been Worse
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EDITORIALS 2009: Could Have Been Worse We survived 2009. Without minimizing the damage that’s been done—yes, we’re aware of a minor piece of health care legislation whose passage looks...
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A Fine Mess
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CaPretta, James C.; levin, yuval
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A Fine Mess The substance of the Reid bill is as bad as the process that produced it. BY JAMES C. CAPRETTA & YUVAL LEVIN In the Democrats’ rush to pass some kind of health care...
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Going Rogue
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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Going Rogue Hosein Ali Montazeri, 1922-2009. BY REUEL MARC GERECHT When I first encountered the Persian word mofangi, I struggled to grasp its meaning. It implies a certain timidity, physical...
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The Facilitating Leaks Act
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BARNES, FRED
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The Facilitating Leaks Act Congress sucks up to the media with a misbegotten ‘shield law.’ BY FRED BARNES The title of the legislation is innocent enough: the Free Flow of Information Act....
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The Two Americas
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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The Two Americas Obama’s is smaller. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI Was 2009 the dawn of a new liberal era? Or was it, rather, the apogee of Democratic power (for now)? In November 2008, when Barack...
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A Bad First Draft
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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A Bad First Draft Journalists make a hash of the decade that was. BY PHILIP TERZIA Journalists, long on confi dence but chronically short of knowledge, have been lately offering...
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Inside Our Secret Afghan Prisons
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STERN, WILLY
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Inside Our ‘Secret’ Afghan Prisons A Navy SEAL and a Harvard-trained lawyer take charge of U.S. detention policy BY WILLY STERN Kabul, Afghanistan Amanula is a cold-blooded killer. But the...
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Secondhand Hate
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Secondhand Hate Another step downhill for modern liberalism ‘They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse...
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America the Baleful
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ROSENTHAL, JOHN
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America the Baleful A German view of the nuclear threat . . . from the United States Germany has fi nally discovered the nuclear threat. For years, German politicians and press played down...
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War With Mirrors
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KLEHR, HARVEY
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War With Mirrors Britain and its secretive service BY HARVEY KLEHR This monumental history of Britain’s MI5, published to mark the centennial of its founding, offers dozens of fascinating...
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Pen Pals
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Seaton, James
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Edward Alexander can be a devastating polemicist, as his 1989 essay on Edward Said, “Professor of Terror,” memorably demonstrated. Much of the appeal of his most recent book, however, derives...
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Early Americans
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Bowman, James
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Early Americans Shrewd observations on wisdom about the past. BY JAMES BOWMAN Edmund S. Morgan, the Sterling professor of history emeritus at Yale, must surely know more about...
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Orientation
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RICHARDSON, SOPHIE
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Orientation Old China seen through the lenses of the New. BY SOPHIE RICHARDSON Charles Horner advances a number of different ideas in his new book, but the central one is this question: Which...
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Late Mastery
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GARDNER, JAMES
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Late Mastery The marriage of art and humanity in Kandinsky. BY JAMES GARDNER If Wassily Kandinsky had lived only as long as Raphael and Caravaggio, he wouldn’t merit so much as a footnote in...
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Alicia's Keys
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QUEENAN, JOE
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Alicia’s Keys The dangerous combination of women and pianos. BY JOE QUEENAN B&A Since my late teens I have had a deep fear of women lurking behind pianos. This is probably because of...
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Bridges to Somewhere
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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It is startling to think that, even though he has been in the movies for four decades and received his fi rst Oscar nomination 38 years ago, Jeff Bridges is only fi ve years away from...
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PARODY
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“President Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that was delivered by the administration's special envoy for North Korea during a visit to Pyongyang last...
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Vol. 015 Issue 017 (January 18 2010)
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