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THE LESSON ACCORDING TO LUKE
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Our lesson for today comes from the Gospel according to Luke. No, no, not the manger, the shepherds, the wise men, any of that stuff, but the other birth: But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. That bit of the Christmas story doesn't get a lot of attention, but it's in there – Luke 1:13, part of what he'd have called the back story, if he'd been a Hollywood screenwriter rather ...
THE LESSON ACCORDING TO LUKE
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"Useful stories" we forgot the usefulness of
FALSE FRONTS, AT HOME AND ABROAD
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The Happy Warrior on headlines to ponder, from three continents
THE FRAUD OF "YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR OWN" ECONOMICS
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The President's wretched speech in Kansas
THE FRAUD OF "YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR OWN" ECONOMICS
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The President of the United States came to Osawatomie, Kansas, last week to deliver a speech of such fascinating awfulness that archeologists of the future, sifting through the rubble of our civilization, will surely doubt whether it could really have been delivered by the chief executive of the global superpower in the year 2011. "This isn't about class warfare," declared President Obama. Really? As his fellow Democrat Dale Bumpers testified at the Clinton impeachment trial, "When you hear ...
THE SQUANDERING OF THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT
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What does America have to show for its investment in Egypt and Afghanistan?
THE SQUANDERING OF THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT
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I've been alarmed by the latest polls. No, not from Iowa and New Hampshire, although they're unnerving enough. It's the polls from Egypt. Foreign policy has not played a part in the U.S. presidential campaign, mainly because we're so broke that the electorate seems minded to take the view that if government is going to throw trillions of dollars down the toilet they'd rather it was an Al Gore-compliant Kohler model in Des Moines or Poughkeepsie than an outhouse in Waziristan. Alas, reality does ...
SAINT GEORGE AND THE FLAGGIN'
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Here be dragons: Last orders at the multicultural pub
ARAB SPRING, COPTIC WINTER
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As the Jews learned long ago, and the Copts are realizing now, Egypt has spent 60 years getting worse, and is now getting worser.
IN THE DANGER ZONE
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"It's the end of the world as we know it," sang the popular musical artistes REM many years ago. And it is. REM has announced that they're splitting up after almost a third of a century. But these days who isn't? The Eurozone, the world's first geriatric boy band, is on the verge of busting apart. Chimerica, Professor Niall Ferguson's amusing name for the Chinese-American economic partnership that started around the same time REM did, is going the way of Wham!, with Beijing figuring it's the George Michael of the relationship and that it's tired of wossname, the other fellow, getting equal billing but not pulling its weight.
GAGGING US SOFTLY
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In this anniversary week, it's sobering to reflect that one of the more perverse consequences of 9/11 has been a remorseless assault on free speech throughout the west. I regret to say that, in my new book, I predect this trend will only accelerate in the years ahead. The essay below was written as last week's National Review cover story: To be honest, I didn't really think much about "freedom of speech" until I found myself the subject of three "hate speech" complaints in Canada in 2007. I ...
THE DEMOGRAPHY OF DEBTORS
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HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review The other day, Abdul Qadir Fitrat, the governor of Afghanistan's central bank, fled the country. The only wonder is that there aren't more fleeing. Not Afghans; central bankers. I mean, you gotta figure that throughout the G-20 there are more than a few with the vague but growing feeling that the jig's up big time. Round about the time the Afghan central banker was heading for the hills, the Greek central banker ventured some rare criticisms of his government ...
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