Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Editors June 27, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 39 We at The Weekly Standard have had plenty of advice for Republicans on how to criticize (and occasionally to support) Obama administration foreign and defense policies. But as the GOP presidential campaign heats up, it seems that some candidates are
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Staying Alive The limits of endurance in enemy hands. Noemie Emery June 20, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 38 Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Random House, 496 pp., $27 Around two in the afternoon of May 27, 1943, an American bomber,
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JUNE 25, 2011 The real risks of the shale gas revolution, and how to manage them. The U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution, and we don’t mean solar panels or wind turbines. A new gusher of natural gas from shale has the potential to transform U.S. energy production—that is, unless politicians, greens
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What America needs is a better class of left-winger. David Gelernter June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The outrage of the left can turn into nihilism, meanness, hatred; and has. We know all about what Obamacrats don’t like. It’s time for them to ask
JUNE 22, 2011 World War II created confidence in large institutions and big government. But few would want the cultural conformity of the mid-20th century back. By MICHAEL BARONE There’s a longing on the left for the golden years of the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. Income distribution was significantly more egalitarian than it is
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The Chopra Humiliation by John Hayward (more by this author) Posted 06/20/2011 ET Look out, America! You stand on the brink of a “national cleansing” that could become as violent as Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and only Deepak Chopra can save you. When you’re the Huffington Post, it’s hard to “sink to a new low,” but they
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June 20, 2011 By Star Parker 6/6/2011 As the season of presidential politics 2012 unfolds, I’m struck by similarities between today and the tumultuous period in our history that led up to the election of Abraham Lincoln and then on to the Civil War. So much so that I’m finding it a little eerie that
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June 16, 2011 Our Reactionary President ‹ By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
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