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IN THE July 9, 2012, ISSUE

The Immigration Proclamation

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President Barack Obama once again has brushed aside the founding principles that hold our Constitution together. His signature health-care scheme depends on the claim that the Constitution places no limits ...

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The Immigration Proclamation

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President Barack Obama once again has brushed aside the founding principles that hold our Constitution together. His signature health-care scheme depends on the claim that the Constitution places no limits ...
Politics & Policy

Stepping in It

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Toward the end of this piece, I am going to make a dry but mercifully brief argument for a corollary of technological neutralism I arrogantly (and probably unjustifiably) dub “Foster’s ...

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The 51st Star

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William F. Buckley Jr. said of Jeane Kirkpatrick, “She ought to be woven into the flag as the 51st star.” When I was introduced to Kirkpatrick, I quoted this remark. ...
Politics & Policy

America’s Iliad

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Every generation christens its own favored Civil War book, almost by clockwork. Twenty-five years ago, James McPherson brought forth his richly awarded and eminently readable Battle Cry of Freedom, just ...
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Still Guilty

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It is unlikely that we ever will have a proper reckoning of the American Left’s culpability in the worldwide Communist enterprise — the gulags and laogai, the Stasi, the Holodomor, ...

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Letters

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Questionable Questions I was surprised to notice that, in the June 11 issue of NR, The Week touted the necessity of the American Community Survey. This survey is unconstitutional. Yes, according to ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ Not that those work permits are going to be of much use . . . ‐ During a press conference, President Obama said that the private sector was “doing fine.” ...
The Long View

Bethesda Mental Health Clinic

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Bethesda Mental Health Clinic  Doctor’s Notes 6/12 Had first session with new patient. Always difficult to start a new series of treatments, this time slightly more difficult due to the presence of Secret ...
Athwart

Uncle Sam Meets Aunt Jemima

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The Voyager spacecraft has reached the edge of the solar system, and is now poised to become an undocumented resident of the galaxy beyond. Impressive! It contains a record that ...
Politics & Policy

Poetry

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Bobolink You rise from dry meadowgrass           With a laborious flutter, more Wing-action than the shortness of your flight            Would seem to call for And so ...
Happy Warrior

Mr. Powell and His Peers

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‘All political lives,” said the British politician Enoch Powell many years ago, “unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the ...
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