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Romney’s New Rx
Michael F. Cannon | 8.31.07
Free of Massachusetts, Mitt makes strides toward genuine free-market health care.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Political Hay
Democrats Are Idaho Dreamin’
Liz Mair | 8.31.07
Larry Craig's troubles have inflated Democrats' hopes of capturing another Senate seat.
Another Perspective
Stuff
Lawrence Henry | 8.31.07
It wouldn't be a family if the house weren't overflowing with material possessions of every sort.
Special Report
Anti-War Despair
Mark Tooley | 8.31.07
Unlike their Vietnam-era predecessors, today's Religious Left has lost faith in both God and country.
Campaign Crawlers
Democratic Sanity Check
Mark Goldblatt | 8.31.07
Would another major terrorist strike against the U.S. really help Republicans?
Reader Mail
The Unforgiven
8.31.07
No kind words for John McCain. Also: Vietnam right-left. Gay selection. New Orleans on the level. Plus more.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
The Current Crisis
John McCain Battles On
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 8.30.07
The old combat pilot has plenty of fight left in him.
Political Hay
Getting Vietnam Right
Mark Moyar | 8.30.07
The line between appeasement and self-delusion is very thin.
Special Report
Amnesty International Adieu
Doug Bandow | 8.30.07
The long-time human rights defender now defends a fundamental human wrong.
Another Perspective
China Meets Subprime
David Donadio | 8.30.07
The crisis is bad enough in an open economy. Imagine how much worse it can be if market information is harder to come by and investors have less freedom.
The Nation’s Pulse
Gays in the Militancy
Jay D. Homnick | 8.30.07
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Reader Mail
The Battle of New Orleans
8.30.07
It will never end. Also: the skinny on fat: an exchange. Mother Teresa's “dark night.” Nixon, beauty, and taste. Plus more.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Political Hay
Nixon’s Gift
Jeffrey Lord | 8.29.07
What the former president taught me about “intellectual junk food.”
Another Perspective
Dark Night, Blessed Morning
Lisa Fabrizio | 8.29.07
Mother Teresa has once again taken center stage in world opinion.
The Public Policy
The Ignored Amendment
Ralph R. Reiland | 8.29.07
Cruel and unusual punishments and fines come into their own.
Movie Takes
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
James Bowman | 8.29.07
A real treat for fans of Rowan Atkinson — and who cannot be a fan of his?
Reader Mail
Exactly Right
8.29.07
There is no substitute for victory. But was it enough to lose in Vietnam but win the Cold War? Also: Optimistic about 2008. Hurricanes and Welfare. Plus more.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Another Perspective
A Question of National Honor
James Bowman | 8.28.07
That's why Iraq is like Vietnam.
The Nation’s Pulse
A Tale of Two Visitors
Bill Croke | 8.28.07
If you're in Cody, there's only one person to see.
Special Report
Taming the Hurricane
Patrick J. Michaels | 8.28.07
Hurricane Dean, which hit Yucatan last week, was as strong as killer Hurricane Janet back in 1955. So how come no one died this time?
TAS Live
Art, Beauty, and Judgment
Roger Scruton | 8.28.07
Good taste is as important in aesthetics as it is in humor.
Reader Mail
Good News Assessments
8.28.07
The ballade of Alberto Gonzales. Winning back Iraq. Disrespecting Steve Laffey. WHO's dirty health care. Plus more.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Special Report
Another Iraqi “Awakening”
Jeff Emanuel | 8.27.07
In yet another region of Iraq, one tribe decides that it wants something better than what the insurgency has to offer.
Political Hay
A Laffey Matter
W. James Antle, III | 8.27.07
Lincoln Chafee's conservative primary challenger wonders why his party favored a Rockefeller Republican over a Reaganite.
Campaign Crawlers
If the Shoe Fits
Thomas Cheplick | 8.27.07
Do the fashion critics who disliked Fred Thompson's Gucci loafers remember Ronald Reagan's Jodhpurs?
Another Perspective
A Summer Chill
Peter Hannaford | 8.27.07
The weather refuses to cooperate with the falling sky alarmists.
Buy the Book
Indispensable Encounters
Paul Johnson | 8.27.07
A tribute to the catholicity of the New Criterion's Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball.
Reader Mail
Military Motivations
8.27.07
Iraq war death rates — Lancet authors reply. Stauffenberg's reasoning. Semper Fi and more. Plus much else.
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