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January 30, 2006 ISSUE

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All the President's Power 
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
From executive orders to undeclared wars, the White House has gone unchecked since long before George W. Bush.

Articles

Come Home, America 
Bill Kauffman
Time for ungrateful allies to look to their own defense.

God and Man at the Box Office   
John Zmirak
Narnia casts a holy spell.

The Irrepressible Mencken 
Daniel McCarthy
Fifty years after his death, the sage of Baltimore matters more than ever.

Political Climate   
Nabil O. Al-Khowaiter
Democratic success may depend more on climate than culture.

News

Fourteen Days   
If you liked Iraq, you’ll love Iran; Chalabi’s one-percent landslide; the House builds a fence

Deep Background   
Philip Giraldi
The NSA casts a wide net; emirs fear the Shi’ites more than Saddam

Arts & Letters

Film: Executioner's Song   
Steve Sailer
Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”

The Pen and the Cross   
R.J. Stove
Literary Giants, Literary Catholics by Joseph Pearce

The Faith of the Poet   
James Bowman
Auden and Christianity by Arthur Kirsch

Rumsfeld's Remote-Control War   
Clark Stooksbury
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor

Columns

Russian Roulette   
Patrick J. Buchanan
To Russia, with love

Peace Candidate, '68 Vintage 
Scott McConnell
Eugene McCarthy, Accidental Buchananite

Rousseau Was Wrong   
William Pfaff
Democracy doesn’t march.

Permission to Speak Freely 
Taki
“Shut up,” they explained.

 

 


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