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October 9, 2006 Issue

Liberating Ourselves
By Paul W. Schroeder
Ending U.S. participation in the no-win war in Iraq would be a kind of victory.

GOP Safety Valve
By W. James Antle III
Can the Republicans’ credibility on national security overcome their weakness on Iraq?

Trading Places
By John Zmirak
Conservatives and liberals both stand to gain by looking through the others’ eyes.

Back to the Future
By James Howard Kunstler
Those who consider American urban centers permanent fixtures haven’t counted on contracting energy supplies.

Cartoon Castro
By Peter Hitchens
The Left’s fantasies about Cuba should die with Castro.

Provoking Pakistan
By Eric S. Margolis
Pervez Mursharraf is this year’s Anwar Sadat.

The Morons Shall Inherit the Earth
By Steve Sailer
Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy”

He Wrote the Book on Torture
By James Bovard
War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror by John Yoo

Recovering the Lost Liturgy
By Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its Problems and Background by Klaus Gamber

Chanteuse of Strange Fruit
By Ralph de Toledano
Lady sang the blues

Losing the Will to Fight
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Americans are tired of paying the butcher’s bill.

We Need to Talk
By Taki
Better to jaw-jaw than to
war-war

Fourteen Days: Bush Tortures the Rule of Law; Lobby Strikes Back; Laura, Where’s My Flight Suit?

Deep Background: Iran War Plan; Manucher Ghorbanifar, Arms and Disinformation Dealer; Torture Tells Us What We Already Know

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