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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Their Master’s Voice If anybody doubts that our future will be mixed up with the People’s Republic of China, The Scrapbook invites you to take a stroll along New York Avenue in...
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CASUAL
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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CASUAL Bastard Wit The angry man at the town-council meeting snarled, “As Harry Truman put it, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ ” “No,” answered his...
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TARIFFS NOT TAX BREAKS
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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EDITORIALS Standard Tariffs not Tax Breaks Right diagnosis. Wrong prescription. That’s the fairest way to describe Rick Santorum’s idea to provide tax breaks for “manufacturing.” Leave aside the...
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LEAD FROM THE FRONT
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SMITH, LEE
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Lead from the Front Last week, Syrian security forces withdrew from Zabadani, a town near Damascus where defectors from the army and other antiregime elements had been exchanging heavy fire with...
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THE FRENCH CONNIPTION
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Caldwell, Christopher
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The French Conniption In the week since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of nine European countries, French newspapermen and European politicians have viewed it as a warning sign for...
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THE NEW ROMNEY FIREWALL
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Myrtle Beach, S.C. An hour before the Republican presidential debate started on January 16, a relaxed Mitt Romney strode confidently behind the scenes at the cavernous convention center, past an...
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UPSTAIRS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Upstairs at the White House Who knows what the first marriage is really like? by Andrew Ferguson We have good news for all you skeptics who’ve been wondering whether you should trust the gossipy...
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PERMANENT RECESS
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BARNES, FRED
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Permanent Recess The AWOL Democratic Senate. by Fred Barnes The Senate often goes into recess. This year it’s going a step further. It’s going into hibernation. Not turn out the lights, lock the...
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THEY HATE POOR PEOPLE
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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They Hate Poor People The liberals’ dirty little secret. by P J. O’Rourke On January 1, 2012, Maine became the first state to ban smoking in all low-income public housing. Twelve thousand poor...
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REACTORS AND BOMBS
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SOKOLSKI, HENRY
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Reactors and Bombs How North Korea and Iran can militarize ‘civilian’ nuclear plants. by Henry Sokolski At first blush, our government’s approach to head off Iranian nuclear weapons with tighter...
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THE LONGSHOT
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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The Longshot Can a Republican win a congressional seat in Portland, Oregon? by Mark Hemingway Lake Oswego, Oregon About 20 minutes into the speech by Rob Cornilles, the Republican candidate in...
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A NEW FRONT IN THE FRACKING WAR
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Havard, Kate
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A New Front in the Fracking War Ohio’s natural-gas bonanza. by Kate Havard Starting in March 2011, a series of microearthquakes hit Ohio. The first few registered just above 2.0 on the Richter...
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A RADICAL'S RADICAL
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Kirchick, James
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A Radical’s Radical Ron Paul and his supporters. by James Kirchick In early May, a little over a week after President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Texas...
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THE OBAMA WAY OF WAR
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Donnelly, Thomas
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The Obama Way of War To the rear, march By Thomas Donnelly You can criticize Barack Obama—and fear not, I’m about to—but he has been a consequential president. Obamacare, his signature domestic...
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LOYAL OPPOSITION
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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Books ^Arts Loyal Opposition Democracy flourishes with conflict by Matthew continetti We have Occupy Wall Street to thank for the already grating tendency among pundits to sort the American...
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THE DAWN OF PRINT
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Bowman, James
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B A The Dawn of Print Has the death of the ‘physical’ book been exaggerated? by James Bowman It’s had a great five-hundred-year run ... but it’s time to change. So Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com has...
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HELLO, LIBYA
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marLowe, ann
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BA Hello, Libya Does the fall of Qaddafi mean the rise of tourism? by Ann Marlowe Tripoli Thirty years ago, few Americans were aware that Turkey has nearly as many classical Greek ruins as...
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A HARROWING TALE
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Alston, Edith
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B A A Harrowing Tale Blood, sweat, and tears at an English public school. by Edith Alston Set amid the historic halls of England’s Harrow School, The White Devil plumbs the literal depths of a...
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OUT OF THE CLOSET
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GELERNTER, DAVID
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BA Out of the Closet New York’s museums are mysteriously averse to the New York School. by David Gelernter New York’s art museums are shirking two crucial civic duties. One is to show major...
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