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November 19, 2007 Issue

Hired Guns
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
You go to war with the Army you buy, not the Army you have.

Prisoners in Camp Kim
By Peter Hitchens
North Korea hides its misery behind nuclear bluster and Stalin-era theatrics.

Osama’s Man in America
By Leon Hadar
Al-Qaeda’s embedded correspondent reports from Giuliani headquarters.

Discounting Values Voters
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
The Christian Right sells its principles to the lowest bidder.

Pakistan’s It Girl
By Eric S. Margolis
America’s Plan Bhutto

Past the Peak
By James Howard Kunstler
The Bottom of the Barrel

California Schemin’
By Steven Greenhut
If you can’t win votes, ask to share.

The Fixer Is In
By Steve Sailer
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”

Getting Lost on Utopia Highway
By R.J. Stove
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

Big Ideas Need Small Places
By Jesse Walker
Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations by John Ryan, George Dunford, and Simon Sellars

The Gospel According to Gerson
By Kara Hopkins
Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America’s Ideals by Michael J. Gerson

Warmed-Over Globalism
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Cold to Global Warming

Term Limits
By Daniel Larison
Islamofascism, the Imaginary Adversary

The Schwarzenegger Doctrine
By James P. Pinkerton
What’s the Matter With Kansas?

Fourteen Days: Our Diplomacy: Starve First, Kill Later; Dr. Watson’s Inquisition; Dodd’s Drive-By Moment

Deep Background: PKK’s White House Allies; Suicide Bombers Break the Glass Ceiling


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