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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK A Democratic ‘Civil War’? THE SCRAPBOOK has always observed that while Newton’s Third Law of Motion—“to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction”—is true of...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL It’s How You Play the Game I was on the sidelines at my daughter’s 11-and-under travel soccer game. It had been a successful season, but today they were being outmuscled by a...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIAL Dear Barack Seduced and then disappointed by a hipster who turned out just to be another solipsistic boomer, now chastened yet still hopeful for change (if no longer swept away by the...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEA PARTY
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Samuelson, Richard
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Articles Happy Birthday, Tea Party Remember, remember the sixteenth of December. BY RICHARD SAMUELSON Two hundred and forty years ago this month, a gang of Bostonians dressed as...
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POLL POSITION
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BARNES, FRED
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Poll Position Obama’s collapsing numbers. BY FRED BARNES President Obama is 5-for-5, but not in the way he’d prefer. In baseball, 5-for-5 signifies perfection. In Obama’s case, it means...
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IN A PLAIN BROWN PACKAGE
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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In a Plain Brown Package Australia’s doomed effort to kill tobacco sales. BY P. J. O’ROURKE I am sitting at my desk, looking at a photograph of a gangrenous foot. It is a bloated thing in hues...
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KING OF THE CONTRACTORS
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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King of the Contractors Erik Prince defends his warriors. BY MARK HEMINGWAY With all due respect to General David Petraeus, the most influential strategist of the wars in Iraq and...
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HABEAS CHIMPANZEE
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Habeas Chimpanzee The nonhuman rights campaign. BY WESLEY J. SMITH ‘Tommy” and other chimpanzees are the subjects of several lawsuits in New York seeking writs of habeas corpus and...
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DOING THE WRONG THING
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LEHRER, ELI
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Doing the Wrong Thing Congress prepares to undo one of its few worthy reforms. BY ELI LEHRER After a decade-long run of bad weather that included Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Ike, and a...
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EQUALITY FOR CONVICTS?
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Eastland, Terry
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Equality for Convicts? Another case of federal overreach. BY TERRY EASTLAND A question: Are Texas and all its agencies and local governments breaking the law? The answer is that they...
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THE BATTLE OF 2014
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COST, JAY
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Features The Battle of 2014 With the midterm elections less than a year away, the terrain looks surprisingly favorable for Republicans BY JAY COST Regularly scheduled elections are a...
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BACK TO WORK
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Strain, Michael R.
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Back to Work Long-term unemployment is a serious problem. Liberals don’t have an answer. Conservatives can do better. BY MICHAEL R. STRAIN Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee wrote...
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YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
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Achorn, Edward
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Books & Arts John Lennon, George Harrison, Sir Paul McCartney, and Pete Best, Liverpool, December 17, 1961 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah The first of three (!) volumes on the Fab Four. BY EDWARD...
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IN DUBIOUS BATTLE
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WALSH, PATRICK J.
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B&A In Dubious Battle Why Bunker Hill was a pyrrhic victory for the British. BY PATRICK J. WALSH I’ve previously read two fi ne accounts of Bunker Hill written by two masterful...
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AGONY OF SPIRIT
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Short, Edward
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B&A Agony of Spirit The revolutionary poet revealed in his letters. BY EDWARD SHORT England produced some superb letter-writers in the 19th century: Lord Byron, Emily Eden, John...
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ON THE BRINK
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KLINGENSTEIN, SUSANNE
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B&A On the Brink A world in transition before the Great War. BY SUSANNE KLINGENSTEIN ‘The fi rst second of 1913. A gunshot rings out through the dark night. There’s a brief click, fi ngers...
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STARDUST MEMORIES
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TROY, TEVI
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B&A Stardust Memories Not so long ago, Hollywood was a two-party town. BY TEVI TROY Hollywood’s hostility to conservatives is so unrelenting that at times it reaches comic levels. In the...
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MAN IN CHAINS
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B&A Man in Chains Hard to watch, important to see, the reality of slavery. BY JOHN PODHORETZ T he problem with 12 Years a Slave is that it is very, very good—and because it is very, very...
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PARODY
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PARODY “The White House will take the lead in emphasizing a different benefi t each day until the Dec. 23 enrollment deadline for Jan. 1 coverage.” — Politico, December 2,...
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Vol. 019 Issue 015 (December 23 2013)
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