IN THE April 19, 2010, ISSUE

The Long War

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In the depressing aftermath of Congress’s passage of the Democratic health-care legislation, there has been an understandable temptation among conservatives to think that all their effort over the last year ...

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No Margin for Error

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Whom should we blame for the enactment of Obamacare? Philip Klein, writing at The American Spectator’s site, nominates President Bush, for leaving Republicans in such poor shape. Noemie Emery reminds ...
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You Think It’s Pricey Now?

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From the moment Democrats introduced health-care legislation last year, Republicans focused on the adverse impact it would have on the federal debt.  But what is remarkable about the Patient Protection ...
Politics & Policy

Hardly Healthier

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Just before the House of Representatives voted to enact Obamacare, Speaker Nancy Pelosi triumphantly proclaimed, “This legislation will lead to healthier lives.” Democrats and liberal pundits have clung to that ...
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Obama’s Waterloo

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Since Obamacare moved unsteadily over the first finishing line, liberals have been jubilant and conservatives wracked by variations on depression, including existential despair. This is a rare emotion on the ...
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Disarmament Danger

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The Obama administration has placed nuclear disarmament at the top of its foreign-policy agenda. Other possible goals, such as modernizing U.S. nuclear forces for deterrence purposes, are now considered either ...

Features
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The Long War

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In the depressing aftermath of Congress’s passage of the Democratic health-care legislation, there has been an understandable temptation among conservatives to think that all their effort over the last year ...
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Ryan’s Way

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Almost immediately after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the conversation about health-care reform changed. Advocates of the proposal suddenly hit cautionary notes, insisting that difficult ...

Books, Arts & Manners

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Dark Continent

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Many books have now been written about Europe’s malaise, most making similar observations, but Dr. Theodore Dalrymple has two great gifts and an advantage. His gifts are his prose style ...
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The Next America

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During the 1980s and 1990s, when many believed that Japan was ascendant and the United States was doomed to become an economic backwater, Joel Kotkin offered a strikingly different thesis. ...
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Run for Your Life

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There are two stories intertwined in Greenberg, Noah Baumbach’s painful, grimly comic portrait of bourgeois dysfunction in Los Angeles. One involves a 40-year-old failure, angry, acerbic, and self-sabotaging, who lurches ...

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Letters

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Having It All Kevin A. Hassett recently opined that racial differences in layoff rates between white and black employees probably indicate ongoing discrimination (“Racial Recession,” March 22). I find both his ...
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The Week

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‐  May we now call it “big §#*$%@! government”? ‐  During the eight years of George W. Bush, we heard constantly that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. The moment ...
The Long View

Proposal for Consulting Contract

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TO: Democratic Party November ’12 Stakeholders FROM: MessageMakers™ RE: Midterm Positioning Greetings! We here at MessageMakers™ are excited and enthused about the midterm elections and the wonderful things in store for the Democratic party! What’s ...
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Poetry

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  TOO MANY BIRTHDAYS Curtal Sonnet #17 “What seems to be the trouble, Mr. Williams?”   — Physician “Too many birthdays.”   — Thomas J. Williams, age 91 The leg-kick that gave leverage to pull         The prop and ...
Happy Warrior

. . . Then as Farce

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You’ve probably heard of Geert Wilders, the “far right” Dutch politician currently on trial in Amsterdam for offending Islam. But have you heard of Guy Earle? He’s a Canadian stand-up ...
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