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Vol. 016 Issue 036 (June 6 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Horton Wins a Prize Scott Horton is the kind of bumbling, inept journalist who seems to exist only in novels. A writer for Harper’s and the Daily Beast, he constantly makes mistakes...
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CASUAL
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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CASUAL Mr. Rogers Among the Savages I’ve been spending a lot of time with Fred Rogers lately. Mr. Rogers passed away in 2003, but he lives on in an endless series of television repeats on PBS...
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HARBINGERS OF SUCCESS
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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EDITORIALS Harbingers of Success Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the subsequent rapid American recovery at home and abroad, didn’t come out of the blue. There were plenty of...
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ENOUGH'
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Donnelly, Thomas; SCHMITT, GARY
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‘Enough’ In the next month, after more than four decades of distinguished public service including almost five extraordinary years at the Pentagon supervising the successful surges in Iraq and...
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LET OUR CRIMINALS GO?
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Eastland, Terry
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Let Our Criminals Go? Last week the Supreme Court reentered the business of dubious liberal policymaking with its decision in a case from California, Plata v. Brown. With Justice Kennedy writing...
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FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE WEST WING
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ANDERSON, JEFFREY H.
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From the Midwest to the West Wing The formula for a winning GOP candidate. by Jeffrey H. Anderson From the moment the Democratic House passed Obamacare on March 21, 2010, it was clear that...
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MANLINESS AND MORALITY
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MANSFIELD, HARVEY
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Manliness and Morality The transgressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. by Harvey Mansfield What with Arnold and DSK, male transgression is once again in the news. Let’s not...
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OBAMA IN THE ABSTRACT
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LINDBERG, TOD
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Obama in the Abstract Spokesman for the ‘international community.’ by Tod Lindberg Let’s assume that it was not President Obama’s intention for the final section of his big Mideast speech, in...
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THE POLITICS OF DEFENSE CUTS
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GOLDFARB, MICHAEL
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The Politics of Defense Cuts The president tries—and fails—to paint Republicans into a corner. by Michael Goldfarb Not that long ago it looked like President Obama had Republicans right where he...
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HIRING OUR HEROES
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Hiring Our Heroes By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce This Memorial Day roughly 1 million veterans were looking for jobs. The 11.5% unemployment rate for post-9/11...
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A DAY WITHOUT U.S. SEAPOWER
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Eaglen, Mackenzie; McGrath, Bryan
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A Day Without U.S. Seapower It’s June 2025. Do you know where your fleet is? by Mackenzie Eaglen & Bryan McGrath The idea of a world without the benefit of preponderant American seapower may sound...
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LAW AND ORDER
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ANDERSON, KENNETH
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Law and Order Targeted killing is legitimate and defensible. by Kenneth Anderson Even before the successful raid against Osama bin Laden was announced, news that America’s most admired general,...
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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
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Smick, David
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Small Is Beautiful Memo to GOP: Think less about corporate America, more about startups. by David Smick In late 1979, during an economic strategy meeting, Ronald Reagan was talking about his...
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A COMING ARAB WINTER?
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SMITH, LEE
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A Coming Arab Winter? The Fatah-Hamas deal may presage a new Iranian approach to the Middle East. by Lee Smith It can’t give many Americans much lasting pleasure that the Israeli prime minister...
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SYRIA'S NUCLEAR IMPUNITY
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FLY, JAMIE M.; Zarate, Robert
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Syria’s Nuclear Impunity Bashar al-Assad’s lengthening rap sheet. by Jamie M. Fly & Robert Zarate Contrary to what the Obama administration might hope, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is no...
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TARGETED BY THE EPA
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WATSON, BETH HENARY
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Targeted by the EPA Don’t mess with Texas. by Beth Henary Watson A three-inch lizard scuttled into the spotlight in December after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving it onto the...
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THE THIRD MAN
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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The Third Man Missing from the Bibi vs. Barack drama in Washington was the man who really torpedoed the peace process, Mahmoud Abbas By Elliott Abrams The week of dueling speeches by President...
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THE REASONS WHY
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Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
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Books&Arts The Reasons Why Cause and effect in the Civil War. by Edwin M. Yoder Jr. In the earlier of these companion books, The Confederate War (1997), Gary Gallagher posted an emphatic...
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AN OBVIOUS SECRET
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Seaton, James
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An Obvious Secret The monumental achievements of middle-class morality. by James Seaton Deirdre McCloskey is well aware that the Western intellectual class—what she calls, following Samuel...
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BROKEN RECORD
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QUEENAN, JOE
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Broken Record When the going gets tough, the tough sing ‘Besame Mucho.’ by Joe Queenan A friend, now long dead, once told me that when the Beatles were putting the finishing touches on their...
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VENICE OBSERVED
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LODGE, SARA
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Venice Observed Canals, commerce, and Carnival. by Sara Lodge Venice It’s only noon and already I have bumped into a female unicorn, Romeo, and a cluster of dancing Magic Trees. I’m in Venice and...
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PARIS WHEN IT FIZZLES
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Paris When It Fizzles Isn’t it pretty to think what might have been? by John Podhoretz There’s a brilliant moment in a great and unheralded comedy from 1989 called The Tall Guy, in which Jeff...
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