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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Inside the Liberal Bubble In Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr.’s closing arguments before the Supreme Court in defense of Obamacare last week, The Scrapbook couldn’t help but...
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CASUAL
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Caldwell, Christopher
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CASUAL Laggard At about quarter till nine Monday morning, heading back to the office after a big lunch of barbecued chicken and rice, I realized how much of my life I’ve lived under the influence...
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FORWARD, MARCH!
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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EDITORIALS Forward, March! The conventional wisdom about the 2012 presidential race, among most political professionals and especially Republican campaign operatives, has been this: Reelection...
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UNDOING OBAMACARE
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ANDERSON, JEFFREY H.
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Undoing Obamacare A month before President Obama signed Obama-care into law, his secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, said, “I think the president remains committed to the...
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A LOSE-LOSE CASE
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BARNES, FRED
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A Lose-Lose Case In his autobiography, Ronald Reagan recalled when Pat Brown, his opponent for California governor in 1966, put together a TV commercial in which he tells a group of small children,...
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BEWARE 'FLEXIBILITY'
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FLY, JAMIE M.; Zarate, Robert
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Beware ‘Flexibility’ President Obama didn’t intend the world to hear him tell outgoing Russian president Dmitri Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” to accommodate the Kremlin’s concerns...
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RYAN VS. DEMPSEY
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Donnelly, Thomas; SCHMITT, GARY
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Ryan vs. Dempsey Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey is getting an appetite for political controversy. Earlier this week he offered up a “clarification” of his analysis of the...
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ONLY IN NEW YORK
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MUNSON, ZACK
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Only in New York The battle of the Park Slope Food Coop. by Zack Munson Brooklyn Do you know what your grocery store thinks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Do you care? If you don’t,...
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UNESCO FUNNY BUSINESS
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ROSETT, CLAUDIA
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UNESCO Funny Business Annals of a dishonest PR campaign. by Claudia Rosett Surely Comedy Central’s The Daily Show meant well when it sent comedian John Oliver all the way to Africa to file a...
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HIGH CULTURE'S PALADIN
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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High Culture’s Paladin Hilton Kramer, 1928-2012. by Philip Terzian It would be tempting to describe Hilton Kramer, who died last week at 84, as the last of his breed, his kind: the cultural...
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OBAMACARE FOR THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
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Wallison, Peter J.
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Obamacare for the Financial Industry The disastrous Dodd-Frank Act. by Peter J. Wallison All the Republican presidential candidates have called for repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act. Foreign...
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ANIMAL DESIRES
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Animal Desires Coming soon to a courtroom near you? by Wesley J. Smith When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sought a court ruling declaring SeaWorld’s killer whales “slaves”...
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NUCLEAR UTOPIANISM
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Payne, Keith B.
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Nuclear Utopianism The wishful thinking of U.S. arms control. by Keith B. Payne George Kennan, the celebrated architect of U.S. Cold War doctrine, called arms control policy during the 1920s and...
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THE BOOK THAT DROVE THEM CRAZY
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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The Book That Drove Them Crazy Allan Bloom's 'Closing of the American Mind’ 25 years later By Andrew Ferguson He had gone public with his ideas. He had written a book—difficult but popular—a...
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CANDIDATES IN ORBIT
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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Candidates in Orbit The late, great U.S. space program By P. J. O’Rourke We’ve had some fun with space policy in the 2012 presidential race. Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show, candidate...
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UNLEASHING THE TALENT OF WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Unleashing the Talent of Women in the Economy By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce Women make up half of the workforce, but they are underrepresented in the top...
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GUILTY MAN
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RADOSH, RONALD
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Books&Arts Guilty Man Posterity ponders the Hiss case. by Ronald Radosh Since the publication in 1978 of Allen Weinstein’s definitive Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, only partisans of the far...
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HEE HEE=MC2
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GUASPARI, DAVID
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Hee Hee=MC2 A postmortem on humor kills the joke. by David Guaspari Humor plays an extraordinary role in everyday life. The traditional Martian observer might marvel at our craving for the...
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LEO THE GREAT
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SMITH, JORDAN MICHAEL
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Leo the Great The novelist makes room for the celebrity. by Jordan Michael Smith History’s greatest novelist has not received the definitive scholarly biography he deserves. Why not? I put this...
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NIGHT VISION
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BecK, Stefan
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Night Vision The Dance of Death, with flashbulbs and film. BY Stefan Beck Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean— armed with nothing more than a camera, a flashbulb, and a...
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THE ALPHABET BLUES
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QUEENAN, JOE
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The Alphabet Blues The agony (and occasional ecstasy) of the letter Q. by Joe Queenan Every month I get a prescription for a Lipitor generic filled at my local pharmacy. I also get a prescription...
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE ONE
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Slaughterhouse One A gripping Grand Guignol for girls. by John Podhoretz No wonder that the movie version of the surpassingly strange young-adult novel The Hunger Games is an enormous hit and bids...
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