NR PLUS
Magazine October 29, 2012, Issue

Block the Vote

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Absentee ballots are an invitation to fraud

Just a few days before Florida’s October deadline for registering to vote in the 2012 presidential election, authorities in Tallahassee confirmed that the state’s Democratic party and two of its key allies — the New Majority Education Fund and the National Council of La Raza/Democracia USA — were the subject of a criminal investigation into fraudulent voter registrations. In one of life’s little ironies, the New Majority Education Fund has reconstituted itself as the National Open Ballot Project, with an apparently expansive interpretation of the word “open.”

The news from Florida includes the worst kind of bipartisanship: Earlier in the same …

In This Issue

Articles

Politics & Policy

Truth UnPrompTed

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TelePrompTers, like many of the folks who rely on them, are deceptively simple.                 Two thin panes of grey glass are clipped into place in front of the promptee, and ...
Politics & Policy

The New Tax Myth

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Just in time for the 2012 election, a Congressional Research Service study has concluded, amid the usual waffles and syrup of caveats, that tax cuts retard economic growth — but ...
Politics & Policy

The Unions’ Last Stand?

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Los Angeles — After the presidential election, the most consequential political contest in America this year is that over Proposition 32, a California ballot initiative that would curb union political ...
Politics & Policy

Block the Vote

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Just a few days before Florida’s October deadline for registering to vote in the 2012 presidential election, authorities in Tallahassee confirmed that the state’s Democratic party and two of its ...

Features

Politics & Policy

That Obama Movie

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2016: Obama’s America opened on one screen in Houston. Then it went to four screens. There were lines outside the doors. Then the movie opened in Nashville, Anchorage, Kalispell (a town ...

Books, Arts & Manners

Politics & Policy

Grievance Class

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How does one critique an entire academic discipline? For many conservative writers, it’s as simple as listing the names and topics of typical courses or papers and then counting on the ...
Politics & Policy

Flawed Genius

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If Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master was awaited with breathless anticipation by legions of film critics — here, finally, was a new film from the auteur behind 2007’s near-masterpiece There ...
Politics & Policy

Ambiguous Hero

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There is something irresistibly conservative about Lawrence of Arabia. The film is almost Biblical in its morality and, as played by Peter O’Toole, T. E. Lawrence is very nearly the ...
Politics & Policy

The Mormon Moses

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If a magnetic, irritable, and occasionally horrifying Moses were the main character in a quite bloody western, watching it might be something like reading this new biography of Mormonism’s second ...

Sections

Politics & Policy

Poetry

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THE BOOKS By now, the books have almost filled their shelves Like some slow love affair reaching its end, When little space is left for richer selves, And all have spent the last cent ...
Happy Warrior

The Volunteer Military

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If you seek an epitaph for America’s longest war, consider one bleak, pitiful sentence from an Associated Press report a few weeks ago: Kabul, Afghanistan (AP)  –  A newly recruited Afghan ...
Politics & Policy

Letters

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What Is Happening to the Middle Class? Scott Winship’s “What ‘Lost Decade’?” (October 1) opens by misstating one of the basic findings of “The Lost Decade of the Middle Class,” a ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ We don’t know why everyone is being so hard on Obama’s debate performance. He did fine. Carry on, Mr. President! ‐ Every famous political debate is coated with myth. Reagan ...

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