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11/30/2009: Vol. 015, # 11

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11/23/2009: Vol. 015, # 10

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11/16/2009: Vol. 015, # 09

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11/9/2009: Vol. 015, # 08


 Issue Date: 11/30/2009 -  Volume 015, Number 11

Editorial

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No Substitute for Victory
Don't abandon Afghanistan.

Scrapbook

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Media on Palin: 'War of the Worlds, II'

Articles

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Obamanomics 101
No cheers for capitalism.

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Eric Holder's Horrible Hearing
The Obama plan to try KSM in New York bombs on Capitol Hill.

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Malign Neglect
Political correctness and institutional stupidity in the case of Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Obama Blunders Through Asia
Undoing Bush's years of deft diplomacy.

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German-Iranian Relations
A lovers' discourse.

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Time for a Dose of Protectionism?
The case for giving China a taste of its own medicine.

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Going Backwards in Beirut
Hezbollah still holds power despite losing the election.

Features

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The Adventures of Low Impact Man
One week that will turn you from a conspicuously consumptive carbon monster into a person fully able to lecture the less virtuous about how they're destroying the planet.

Books & Arts

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Man with a Horn
Louis Armstrong, pioneer.

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Prophet Disarmed
A dozen drawings as a litmus test for freedom.

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Europe's Temblor
The year the old order was shaken and stirred.

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The Yenta
Barbara Walters asks the questions celebrities want to answer.

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Plus-Size Pathology
Just when things couldn't get worse, they do.

Casual

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The Turkey Vanishes

Parody

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Obama Chooses a Turkey to Pardon


 Issue Date: 11/23/2009 -  Volume 015, Number 10

Editorial

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Anti-Obama, Pro-America
What is the loyal opposition to do?

Scrapbook

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Anonymice Trash Palin
From the Scrapbook.

Articles

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Afghanistan Myths
What Congress and the media think that isn't so.

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Willful Misunderstanding
When JFK was assassinated, liberals couldn't stand the truth. Can they now?

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Gee Thanks, Nancy
Pelosi delivers Reid a health care bill that can't pass the Senate.

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Harvard's Warriors
Honoring the Medal of Honor recipients.

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Hot Air in Copenhagen
Will the climate gabfest be ineffectual or harmful?

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Barack in Beijing
How the Chinese regime hopes to make use of him.

Features

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The NEA at the Tipping Point
After a decade that saw the endowment successfully expanding Americans' access to art, a new chairman has other priorities.

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Connecting the Dots
The shooting at Fort Hood was no 'mystery.' It was an act of terrorism waiting to happen.

Books & Arts

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Memories of War
And the battle for posterity.

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Healthy Obsession
Every modern president has his own cure.

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Blessing and Burden
What it means for Jews to be the 'chosen people.'

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Tree Musketeers
Digging and replenishing the Scottish landscape.

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Soft Landing
Why 'too big to fail' leads to costly mistakes.

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Machine Dreams
There are limits to the magic of technology on film.

Casual

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The Accidental Wine Tourist

Not a Parody

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Who could forget these signs?
Not a Parody.


 Issue Date: 11/16/2009 -  Volume 015, Number 09

Editorial

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The Future Is Bright
A three-part plan for taking advantage of the Obama-Pelosi agenda.

Scrapbook

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Pelosi's Victory, and Other Election News

Articles

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Painting Virginia Red
Anatomy of a GOP victory.

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Barack Obama's Leading Indicator
Deval Patrick's fizzle bodes ill for the White House.

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Next, Locusts?
The abject failure of the Obama administration's Middle East policy.

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Dictatorships and Double Standards
Tough on Fiji, soft on Iran.

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The Swedish Way
A surprising model for Chicago's crackdown on prostitution.

Features

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As We Stand Down, Can They Stand Up?
Iraq still needs close attention from the United States.

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France on the Hudson
It's 1973 all over again, as New York enters the ninth year of the reign of Michael Bloomberg.

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The Palin Persuasion
A case for the new populism.

Books & Arts

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The Ayn and Only
Cult-empress or great thinker?

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Closing Time
The Irish country pub is thriving everywhere except Ireland.

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Paint By Numbers
New Deal art and the problems of public patronage.

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Ghost Patrol
The curious mythology of the Vietnam war.

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Unthriller
The aging King of Pop prepares for his final appearance.

Casual

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Keep Hope Alive

Parody

Headlines amid GOP victories
A parody.


 Issue Date: 11/9/2009 -  Volume 015, Number 08

Editorial

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The Pelosi Plan
... and the Swine Flu Democrats.

Scrapbook

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Sycophancy in Our Time
... from the Scrapbook.

Articles

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Hark! the Heralded Dylan Sings
Bob Dylan fans are the battered wives of the music industry.

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Obama's Fight to Win or Lose
Mitch McConnell takes a shrewd tack in the battle over Obamacare.

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When Pro-Israel Is Not Very Pro-Israel
Meet the J Street gang.

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The Flying Imams Win
And the rest of us lose.

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McChrystal Lite
How to lose a war by splitting the difference.

Features

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Too Small To Fail
The brutal realities of Latvia's response to the economic meltdown.

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The Two-Front War
Pakistan is finally doing its part. Now we need to do ours.

Books & Arts

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The Good Doctor
Samuel Johnson, writer and sage.

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A Fine Mess
Even E.L. Doctorow can't spoil the saga of the Collyer brothers.

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Case by Case
The new Oxford edition of decisions that made history.

Cool Gone Cold
Old hipsters now need hip replacement.

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Atrocity Road
In the Philippines, a Japanese assault on civilization.

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Big Talker
The reputation of Isaiah Berlin rests on words and letters, not books.

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Polk's Empire
The president who did what he said he would do--and in one term.

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Annuals of Crime
The Choice of 'Best' can be a Mystery, too.

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Great Reformer
Is freedom of conscience indebted to John Calvin?

Casual

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The Age of Innocence

Parody

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Amb. Holbrooke Dodges The Question
A parody.




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