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 Vol. 018 Issue 032 (May 6 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK The Emperor Has No Diapers Barack Obama’s first big political moment was at the Democratic convention in 2004 where he gave a heartfelt oration about the differences between red...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Against the Wind MAY 6, 2013 Garden City (“What a misnomer!” said cousin Betty, who’d been there) is the seat of Glasscock County, a rectangular piece of fl at, dry West Texas with a...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Barbarism in Philadelphia: an Exchange In “Barbarism in Philadelphia: The Crimes of Kermit Gosnell” (April 29, 2013), Jon A. Shields performed a service in educating readers about how...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Against the ‘New Normal’ Are you alarmed by the counterterrorism failures increasingly evident as we learn more about the Boston terror attack? Don’t be. Former CIA director Michael...
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IT JUST GETS MORE AND MORE DISMAL
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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It Just Gets More and More Dismal Caution: economists at work. BY ANDREW FERGUSON We moralize with numbers these days, under the guise of disinterested science. The only institution we trust...
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MISSING THE PING
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Missing the Ping So much for the surveillance state. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES As the country awoke to the news of a massive manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers in the early morning hours...
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BUSH V. OBAMA
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BARNES, FRED
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Bush v. Obama A study in contrasts. BY FRED BARNES Dallas President Obama is not known for his graciousness. But the occasion— the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and...
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUISITION
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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The Philadelphia Inquisition Its two weapons are fear and surprise . . .and ruthless ineffi ciency. BY MARK HEMINGWAY Philadelphia The campus of historic Girard College in north...
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DOWNWARD MOBILITY
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Havard, Kate
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Downward Mobility Maryland’s sorry Republican party. BY KATE HAVARD Timonium, Md. It’s not easy being a Maryland Republican. The little state on the Chesapeake is quickly becoming one of the...
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THE POST-WELFARE STATE FAMILY
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EBERSTADT, MARY
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The Post-Welfare State Family The original cradle-to-grave institution. BY MARY EBERSTADT Among various unwanted truths that grown-ups of the Western world have to contend with these days,...
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IT TAKES TWO
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SKERRY, PETER
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It Takes Two Immigration and the rule of law. BY PETER SKERRY With an immigration bill finally on the table, Republicans would do well to stop and ponder how they have arrived at this...
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THE TWIDIOCRACY
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LABASH, MATT
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The Twidiocracy The decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time BY MATT LABASH “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one...
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A MASTERPIECE OF WAR
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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A Masterpiece of War The battle of Chancellorsville, 150 years on BY GEOFFREY NORMAN By April 1863, America’s Civil War was two years old and there were two more years of fighting ahead though,...
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LEATHERNECK TALES
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OWENS, MACKUBIN THOMAS
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Books&Arts Leatherneck Tales How the Marines have survived, and why. BY MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS In 1957, the commandant of the Marine Corps, General Randolph Pate, sent a brief note to the...
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SAFE AT HOME
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Fleming, Colin
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Safe at Home The rebirth of the national pastime after World War II. BY COLIN FLEMING In an American sports world where football is king, the notion of baseball as our country’s...
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ORGANIZING EUROPE
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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Organizing Europe The key to continental ‘ unity’ lies in its center. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Early in this book, author Brendan Simms, professor of history at Cambridge, quotes John Locke:...
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GOD IN THE DETAILS
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VALIUNAS, ALGIS
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God in the Details Is the decadent Baudelaire the answer to the bourgeoisie? BY ALGIS VALIUNAS What are we to God, and what is God to us? Hardly questions that men considered serious...
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JACKIE, OH
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Jackie, Oh A great story yields a not-so-great film version. BY JOHN PODHORETZ The new movie about Jackie Robinson’s entry into major league baseball paints its characters with such...
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PARODY
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PARODY “Boston is tough and sentimental, traditional and forward-looking, working-class and wealthy, parochial and global, warm and reserved, reform-minded and un-reformable, restrained and...
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Vol. 018 Issue 033 (May 6 2013)
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Vol. 018 Issue 034 (May 20 2013)
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Vol. 018 Issue 035 (May 27 2013)
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