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September 2013

THE TED CRUZ EFFECT: BETSY WOODRUFF…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/358893/print TED CRUZ SURE IS SHAKING UP THE GOP MAKING FOOLS OUT OF   McCAIN AND GRAHAM AND BOEHNER…THERE IS ROOM FOR NEW ENERGY AND NEW FACES IN THE GOP….RSK One doesn’t visit Hemphill, Texas (pop. 1,188), expecting a huge crowd. But when Ted Cruz arrived in the tiny city in Deep East Texas for an […]

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:The Decline of College The Four-Year Campus Experience is Becoming a Thing of the Past. *****

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/358841/print For the last 70 years, American higher education was assumed to be the pathway to upward mobility and a rich shared-learning experience. Young Americans for four years took a common core of classes, learned to look at the world dispassionately, and gained the concrete knowledge to make informed arguments logically. The result was a […]

Contrary to Claims, IRS Has Not Destroyed Conservative Donor Lists: Eliana Johnson

  The House Ways and Means Committee says that, despite the IRS’s promises to destroy the donor lists it demanded from tea-party and other conservative groups, it has discovered those lists in the case files it has reviewed in the course of its investigation into the targeting scandal. A Ways and Means Committee source tells […]

JACK ENGELHARD’S GUIDE TO WRITING IN A WORLD GONE BERSERK

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/sep/18/engelhards-guide-writing-world-gone-berserk/ NEW YORK, September 18, 2013 — Tips on writing, from any writer, should be ignored. But here we go anyway because the world needs you. 1. Keep it simple. SEE RELATED: ENGELHARD: Salinger is back and PBS has got him 2. Write for yourself. If you do not trust yourself, write for your best […]

If Israel’s Paranoid, It Has Every Reason to Be So: Roger Boyes

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3872885.ece Across the Middle East today there is a sourness and a sense of abandonment because the old order has been broken and not replaced. It is Israel that feels the disappointment most strongly: the United States, a staunch protector since 1948, seems to be slipping away in its clumsy rush to disengage from the […]