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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Amateur Hour at Trump Tower The Scrapbook confesses that its one big surprise, thus far, in the 2016 presidential campaign has been Donald Trump’s announcement of his candidacy. We...
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Father Knows Best
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Swift, Jim
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CASUAL Father Knows Best Before the advent of today’s advanced electronic gaming systems and cell phones with their apps, there were handheld games powered by AA or AAA batteries. Most of these...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS the weekly Standard A Little Touch of Trump We are not allowed, needless to say, to disclose our top secret list ranking the GOP presidential candidates from top to bottom. It’s kept...
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The Politics of Tedium
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HALPER, DANIEL
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The Politics of Tedium Someone throw me off this island. by Daniel Halper Roosevelt Island, N. Y. Reporters milled about, waiting for Hillary Clinton to make her grand entrance. Would she come by...
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Jeb Bush's To-do List
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BARNES, FRED
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Jeb Bush’s To-do List Off to a bumpy start, he can still recover. by Fred Barnes The best moment in Jeb Bush’s announcement speech last week wasn’t choreographed. As he spoke, a group of...
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The Bum's Rush
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LINDSEY, LAWRENCE B.
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The Bum’s Rush Voters are tilting antiestablishment. by Lawrence B. Lindsey Americans feel—with a good deal of justification—that the political establishment has been serving them poorly for...
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Party On
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COST, JAY
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Party On There are far worse things than partisanship. by Jay Cost It has never been easy to be a conservative in “polite” society, but these days it seems to be getting harder. We live in an age...
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France's First Family of Jihad
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ROSENTHAL, JOHN
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France’s First Family ofJihad Meet the Merah-Essids. by John Rosenthal £ h, you Jews! Allah has I 1 permitted us to kill your V_>^ brothers on French soil and here on the soil of the Islamic...
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Follow the Money
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Follow the Money Oregon makes assisted suicide a public priority. by Wesley J. Smith The United States is slowly becoming pro-suicide. No, not all suicides. No one favors troubled teens or healthy...
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Pension Armageddon
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Eide, Stephen
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Pension Armageddon Can California voters avoid it? by Stephen Eide Not all Californians believe that drought is the greatest threat to their state’s future. Early this month, a bipartisan group...
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The Bears and the People
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NORMAN, GEOFFREY
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The Bears and the People Can’t we just get along? by Geoffrey Norman It was after midnight when my dog, Woodrow, sounded the alarm. I knew right away that this was not the usual fox or raccoon or,...
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The Game of Life
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BERGNER, JEFF
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The Game of Life It’s not a lottery. by Jeff Bergner President Obama recently referred to the wealthy as “society’s lottery winners.” This clever little locution contains a world of radical...
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The Hillary Paradox
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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The Hillary Paradox Pity the woman's admirers By Andrew Ferguson When news broke this spring about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s appetite for other people’s money and their indifference to other...
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Dressing Up
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MANSFIELD, HARVEY
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Dressing Up The only commencement speech you'll ever need By Harvey Mansfield These commencement remarks were delivered at the John Adams Academy, a charter high school in Roseville, California,...
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Opening Shot
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Jeffers, Thomas L.
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Books & Arts Opening Shot Antidotes to the closing of the American mind. by Thomas L. Jeffers Readers of a certain age will remember the critical surprise—a mingling of delight and disgust—when,...
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The Genius Cycle
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VALIUNAS, ALGIS
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The Genius Cycle ‘Art produced at the knife’s edge of despair.’ by Algis Valiunas The art song for voice and piano—Lied, melodie, canzone—is the poor relation of opera and oratorio, at least as...
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Over There
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Timmers, Christopher
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Over There A not-quite-definitive dispatch from the Western Front. by Christopher Timmers World War I occupies virtually no acreage in the mental landscape of most Americans, even those who think...
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London Calling
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Short, Edward
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London Calling The documentary version of Dickens’s metropolis. by Edward Short During 1849-50, the author and journalist Henry May-hew (1812-1887) set about anatomizing the lives of the London...
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Monster Mash
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Monster Mash The dinosaur quality of a blockbuster franchise. by John Podhoretz Jurassic World is a movie about itself. It tells a story about the difficulty of making special effects exciting...
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Parody
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PARODY “San Francisco’s controversial measure to require warning labels on soda billboards also would target Starbucks’ Frappuccinos, city officials say.... Billboards and posted advertising in San...
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