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 Vol. 017 Issue 032 (May 7 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Remember John Kerry’s Running Mate? The Scrapbook admits that it has taken some interest—well, more than a little interest—in John Edwards’s fraud trial in North Carolina. Like many...
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CASUAL
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BARNES, FRED
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CASUAL Charles Colson, 1931-2012 I don’t remember when I first heard from Chuck Colson. Most likely it was in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Nor do I recall whether he called or sent a letter. But...
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OBAMA'S SENIOR SWINDLE
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ANDERSON, JEFFREY H.
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Obama’s Senior Swindle The most politically brazen feature of Obamacare has always been its looting of Medicare. About half of Obamacare’s costs are to be covered with money taken from an already...
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LEGALIZED DRUGS: DUMBER THAN YOU MAY THINK
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WALTERS, JOHN P.
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Legalized Drugs: Dumber Than You May Think Even smart people make mistakes—sometimes surprisingly large ones. A current example is drug legalization, which way too many smart people consider a good...
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FLYING NOT QUITE AS HIGH
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Auslin, Michael
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Flying Not Quite as High Our threatened airpower. by Michael Auslin The release of the Obama administration’s defense budget in January makes clear just how the president intends to reshape the...
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THE MOST HATED MAN IN FRANCE
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MOUTET, ANNE-ELISABETH
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The Most Hated Man in France I was a Facebook martyr for the Sarkozy cause. by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet Paris ould you write a personal piece on why you still V V like Sarkozy?” an editor at the...
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ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE IN CYBERSPACE
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Economic Espionage in Cyberspace By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce To many, "economic espionage" sounds like a good plot twist in a blockbuster action film or in a...
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TERRORISTS OR FALL GUYS?
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SMITH, LEE
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Terrorists or Fall Guys? The MEK puzzle. by Lee Smith The Treasury Department has issued subpoenas to the speakers’ agencies of 11 prominent former U.S. officials, including a governor of...
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THE NEXT PENSION CRISIS
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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The Next Pension Crisis Union plans are taking on water fast. by Mark Hemingway Talks between the Newspaper Guild of New York and the New York Times have been heated. In late March, the union...
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WHAT'S GOING ON IN AZERBAIJAN?
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JOSCELYN, THOMAS
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What’s Going On in Azerbaijan? The Iran-al Qaeda alliance. by Thomas Joscelyn On April 18, just days after a U.S.-led coalition wrapped up the first round of renewed nuclear negotiations with...
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EDEN JET
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~^=EdenJET Now you can have an ultra luxurious Boeing private jet for as little as $7.5 million Finally, you can own a large, ultra luxurious private jet, a Boeing 737, for as little as $7.5...
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GET HAPPY!
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Get Happy! Something new to worry about. by Wesley J. Smith Is there no end to the technocratic impulse? Just when you thought that our government overlords couldn’t find any new way to intrude...
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A HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM THAT WORKS
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LEHRER, ELI
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A Health Insurance System that Works Why does the market function better for pets than for humans? by Eli Lehrer Around the time Lisa Mul-hearn’s Old English Sheepdog, Goober, turned 12, a...
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THE LADY WITH THE POPULAR FRONT
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Caldwell, Christopher
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The Lady with the Popular Front France's rightists have grown too big to ignore By Christopher Caldwell The French prefer “tenacity” to “cooperation” by a measure of 51-44 percent, according to a...
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AUTHENTICALLY YOURS
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Authentically Yours Against his primary opponents, what looked like Romney’s characteristic defect ended up serving him well By Noemie Emery ? M uthenticity” has been all the rage in (p the...
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IT'S STILL HER COURTROOM
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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Books ^Arts It’s Still Her Courtroom The jurisprudence of Judge Judy. by Charlotte Allen Like many members of America’s “cognitive elite” (I’ve got a string of fancy degrees to prove it), I’ve...
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MYSTERIES OF OSLO
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BOLTON, JOHN
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Mysteries of Oslo The tenuous relation of the Nobel Peace Prize to peace. by John Bolton The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and...
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THE WIKI-POET
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LEHRER, ELI
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B A The Wiki-Poet A brave new bard for the Internet age. by Eli Lehrer A complete understanding of Michael Robbins’s poetry requires, in roughly equal measures, knowledge of modern academic...
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ON SEEING THE WORLD
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Rothstein, Aaron
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BA On Seeing the World The more we know, the less we seem to understand. by Aaron Rothstein In his tragedy Phoenissae, Seneca wrote “Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand...
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FAD MEN
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GARDNER, JAMES
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B A Fad Men The Whitney Biennial strikes again. by James Gardner Paradox is supposed to be interesting and subversion is supposed to be fun. But this year’s supposedly subversive Whitney...
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FANDOM IN FOCUS
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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BA Fandom in Focus An affectionate (?) look at popular obsession. by John Podhoretz Have you ever seen those hilarious recut movie trailers on YouTube—like the one that takes Stanley Kubrick’s...
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Vol. 017 Issue 033 (May 14 2012)
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Vol. 017 Issue 034 (May 21 2012)
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Vol. 017 Issue 035 (May 28 2012)
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