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Grenades and Guts
TAS Staff | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Political Hay
Boehner Punishes the Principled
Ross Kaminsky | 12.7.12
A conversation with one of the purged, Rep. Justin Amash.
The Nation’s Pulse
The Greatest Christmas Song
Daniel J. Flynn | 12.7.12
It’s a real rock tune that’s probably never heard on 97.1 or 94.3 or 102.3 this time of year.
Special Report
Muslims, Episcopalians, and Diversity Dreams
Mark Tooley | 12.7.12
Is this how a liberal Episcopal church seeks to increase attendance and draw media attention?
A Further Perspective
Democrats (Heart) Socialism
Larry Thornberry | 12.7.12
Gallup bone-chillingly confirms what the party of government truly fancies.
Feature
Waiting for the Gods
F.H. Buckley | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue
What we will see in the next four years is the monarchical government of a president determined to rule without Congress.
At Large
See No Evil
George H. Wittman | 12.7.12
Despite the Obama administration’s official line, al Qaeda remains in serious business.
Another Perspective
Undercover Military Secrets Revealed
Gerald Nachman | 12.7.12
Paula and David, surveilled at a Motel 6.
Flashback
Chuck McHagel: Feb. 2005
George Neumayr | 12.7.12
(Editor’s Note: Washington is buzzing with the rumor that President Obama will name former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel to his cabinet, perhaps as secretary of defense. It was 2005 when the name “Hagel” last fluttered ‘round town, amid speculation that the Nebraskan would run for the White House. Back then, he was the kind of Republican that only a Democrat could love. It seems that little has changed.)
Feature
Chuck McHagel
George Neumayr | from the February 2005 issue
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Political Hay
The Conservative Revolt: Principles and Leverage
Jeffrey Lord | 12.6.12
Grover, Reagan, an angry GOP base, and a demand for Fiscal Cliff TV negotiations.
Special Report
Pied Pipers of Poverty
Ross Kaminsky | 12.6.12
In a show of solidarity, Newark Mayor Cory Booker parades the Food Stamp Diet.
The Current Crisis
The Mysterious Stranger
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.6.12
The strange case of the shoeless beneficiary of a policeman’s kindness.
Another Perspective
Why Attack Susan Rice?
Roger Kaplan | 12.6.12
Do Republicans have foreign policy proposals or political agendas?
A Further Perspective
I See England, I See France
Matt Purple | 12.6.12
Where in the world have tax increases made things better?
Feature
Books for Christmas: Vol. 3
12.6.12
Part III of our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Today: R.R. Reno, Andrew Roberts, Roger Scruton, Brad Thor, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and David Weigel.
The Male Spectator
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Lisa Fabrizio | 12.6.12
What makes a man attractive on screen?
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Ben Stein’s Diary
The Bueller Next to Me
Ben Stein | 12.5.12
Why the GOP is losing the tax argument.
Political Hay
Bounced Checks and Imbalances
George Neumayr | 12.5.12
The fiscal cliff fiasco continues.
Feature
Picking Up the Pieces
W. James Antle, III | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue
Presumably the Republicans’ next presidential candidate will have less in common with John Kerry.
The Obama Watch
Planting the Seeds of His Own Demise
Peter Ferrara | 12.5.12
The conservative comeback begins now — on the assumption that a majority of Americans will not welcome a second Great Depression.
Feature
Books for Christmas: Vol. 2
12.5.12
Part II of our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Today: Daniel McCarthy, Robert W. Merry, Charles Murray, and Douglas Murray.
Buy the Book
The Forgotten Art of Thinking About the Bomb
John C. Wohlstetter | 12.5.12
Can we relearn how to think seriously about nuclear weapons?
Movie Takes
Skyfall
James Bowman | 12.5.12
The great James Bond, as fantastic as ever, and even more pointless.
The Tax and Spend Spectator
Fiscal Cliff Notes: Part II
Thomas Sowell | 12.5.12
Obama’s blaming increased budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts is demonstrably false.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Ben Stein’s Diary
Missing in Action
Ben Stein | 12.4.12
Cut off from friends, as Republicans contemplate suicide.
Breaking News
Ruminations of a Reaganite
Jeffrey Lord | 12.4.12
Craig Shirley, Reagan biographer, businessman, author, ponders the state of the GOP.
Feature
Books for Christmas: Vol. 1
12.4.12
Part one of our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Today: Matthew Continetti, Artur Davis, Andrew Klavan, and Harvey Mansfield.
Political Hay
Gov. Scott Brown?
Aaron Goldstein | 12.4.12
Why Scott Brown is better off running for Massachusetts governor.
Streetcar Line
Poisoned Pens, Poisoned Lenses
Quin Hillyer | 12.4.12
The Establishment media’s sickness unto death.
Constitutional Opinions
Into the Wilderness
Seth Lipsky | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue
We may be licking our wounds, but we still have our principles.
Special Report
The Apostolic Nuncio Explains It All
G. Tracy Mehan, III | 12.4.12
Religious freedom, persecution, and martyrdom in the age of Obama.
The Tax and Spend Spectator
Fiscal Cliff Notes
Thomas Sowell | 12.4.12
Debasing the value of money by creating more of it is nothing new or esoteric.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Loose Canons
No Ifs, Thens, or Buts
Jed Babbin | 12.3.12
Obama is giving Republicans an offer they can refuse.
Special Report
Save the Country! Tax the Rich!
William Tucker | 12.3.12
They all live in the bluest of states.
Economics
Money and Oil
Lewis E. Lehrman | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue
One hundred years of monetary disorder.
At Large
Kidnappers Incorporated
Doug Bandow | 12.3.12
Kidnapping of foreign nationals is yet another of many crimes yet to be repudiated by the North Korean regime.
A Further Perspective
Mantra Raves
Ralph R. Reiland | 12.3.12
MSNBC’s tag teams of redistributionists.
Buy the Book
The Artist as Ethnographer
Bill Croke | 12.3.12
And in this case, he was the great photographer of the West, Edward Curtis.
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