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Friday, January 4, 2013

Ben Stein’s Diary

God Bless Richard M. Nixon

Ben Stein | 1.4.13

His 100th birthday is coming up next week.

The Nation’s Pulse

Black Like Me

Daniel J. Flynn | 1.4.13

Racial snobbery is so unlike football.

Eminentoes

Dupe of the Year 2012

Paul Kengor | 1.4.13

You may be sick of hearing about him again, but Warren Buffett did huge damage serving as Obama’s useful fool last year.

Feature

Losing Mali

Roger Kaplan | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

The administration will not avoid further involvement in an African tribal war.

A Further Perspective

New Year’s Resolutions for Enhancing Liberty

Andrew B. Wilson | 1.4.13

And pulling back from the “fiscal cliff.”

At Large

China’s Next Decade

George H. Wittman | 1.4.13

Under new president Xi Jinping will it become a real superpower?

In Memoriam

Robert Kaplan, RIP

Jay D. Homnick | 1.4.13

The death of my favorite liberal politician.

Flashback

The Metaphysical Martini: Nov. 1981

Werner J. Dannhauser | 1.4.13

(Editor’s Note: After watching the slow-motion trainwreck that was the fiscal cliff negotiations, you probably could use a real drink. May we suggest that an exquisite martini will calm your nerves?)

The Great American Saloon Series

The Metaphysical Martini

Werner J. Dannhauser | from the November 1981 issue

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Political Hay

The Triumph of Tax-and-Spend Liberalism

George Neumayr | 1.3.13

That’s the upshot of bipartisanship.

A Further Perspective

Abandoned and Betrayed

James P. Gannon | 1.3.13

Republican ship, dead in the water, needs a mutiny.

The Tax and Spend Spectator

The Barack Obama Participation Trophy

Jeffrey Lord | 1.3.13

Obama raises taxes on middle class as Boehner, McConnell sign on. 

The Current Crisis

In Politics It Is the Economy, Stupid

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 1.3.13

The party of Sandra Fluke is out of control.

Sports Arena

D-E-F-E-N-S-E

James M. Thunder | 1.3.13

The term is synonymous with a Notre Dame linebacker who came out of President Obama’s school.

Another Perspective

White Is the New Black

Gerald Nachman | 1.3.13

Things are looking up for an aging white demographic.

Movie Takes

Hyde Park on Hudson

James Bowman | 1.3.13

Bill Murray and especially Laura Linney bring real value to this literary reinterpretation of FDR.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Political Hay

All-Purpose Scapegoats

Robert Stacy McCain | 1.2.13

Fiscal-cliff deal won’t end the Democrat war against “the rich.”

The Tax and Spend Spectator

Tax Cuts and Duplicity

Peter Ferrara | 1.2.13

The next Republican middle class tax cut is in the works, come hell or high fiscal cliff.

At Large

Iraq: Playing the Sectarian Crisis Card

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | 1.2.13

As seen this time in the Maliki-Issawi showdown, there’s a lot more to Iraqi politics than sectarian divisions.

The Nation’s Pulse

My Name is Cash

Bill Croke | 1.2.13

America’s growing underground economy — a necessity in the age of Obama.

A Further Perspective

A Key Economic Lesson

Ralph R. Reiland | 1.2.13

Good intentions and bad results in the never ending war on poverty.

Last Call

Sorry for Your Gain

Daniel J. Flynn | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

A sad father’s indestructability.

Another Perspective

Happy New Year?

Thomas Sowell | 1.2.13

To me, the Republican establishment is the 8th wonder of the world.

Campus Scenes

Pollice Verso and Pigskins

Nina Friel | from the December 2012 - January 2013 issue

The winner of our first collegiate essay contest has answered, with verve, our query: Should tackle football be banned for corrupting our educational institutions and concussing our youngsters?

Monday, December 31, 2012

Ben Stein’s Diary

It’s Been a Hard Year

Ben Stein | 12.31.12

In some ways nightmarish — and what was Romney thinking?

Ben Stein’s Diary

Dearly Beloved

Ben Stein | 12.31.12

Here’s what’s been happening this side of the cliff.

Loose Canons

Annus Horribilis Comicus

Jed Babbin | 12.31.12

If you think 2013 will be any better, John Boehner has a Plan C to sell you.

Sports Arena

Real Hope in Washington

W. James Antle, III | 12.31.12

Hail to the Redskins.

The Right Prescription

MSM Gives Us the Mushroom Treatment on HHS Mandate

David Catron | 12.31.12

The media are keeping us in the dark on Obamacare’s legal woes and feeding us Hobby Lobby.

Special Report

Religion Highlights of 2012

Mark Tooley | 12.31.12

Reports to the contrary notwithstanding, secularization is not the wave of the future.

The Hell-Hole Spectator

The Worst of the Worst

Doug Bandow | 12.31.12

A new report from Freedom House on the world’s most repressive societies in 2012.

Another Perspective

My Favorite Marxists

Aaron Goldstein | 12.31.12

A New Year’s tradition will never be more appropriate than this January 1.

Movie Takes

The Central Park Five

James Bowman | 12.31.12

Not exactly the documentary of the century.

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