Chronicles Magazine June 2013

Take the Money and Run: Entitlement Politics

Mark Brennan - JUNE 01, 2013

As New York City’s mayoral campaign kicked into overdrive earlier this spring, the New York Times saw fit to question the viability of Republican candidate Joe Lhota, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. With all the...

American Proscenium

Welcoming Terrorists, Locking Down Citizens
Wayne Allensworth - JUNE 01, 2013
Terrorist bombings that killed 3 and wounded and maimed over 260 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 prompted the militarized “lockdown” of an American city for days, as police in full combat gear took part in a massive manhunt...
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Cultural Revolutions

Syria's Jihadist Rebels
Ted Galen Carpenter - JUNE 01, 2013
Although Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and other hawks have urged the United States to put “boots on the ground in Syria,” the Obama administration thus far seems determined to resist such calls.
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Perspective

Topsy-Turvy
Thomas Fleming - JUNE 01, 2013
“Oh, horror!” cry the addlepated young noblemen in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. Horror, indeed. Their world will be turned upside down if the Queen of the Fairies carries out her threat to turn the House of Lords into a meritocracy.
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VIEWS

Uncle Sam Goes Bust
Doug Bandow - JUNE 01, 2013
Even President Barack Obama appears to realize that Washington has a spending problem. His latest budget, delivered late and without enthusiasm, makes a nod toward restraining the growth of social programs, most notably “entitlements,” headed...
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BETWEEN THE LINES

The Specter of History
Justin Raimondo - JUNE 01, 2013
There are ghosts in this house. Yes, more than one, I think. Of course, I don’t believe in ghosts—except that I can hear them.
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REVIEWS

Mal de Mer
Chilton Williamson Jr. - JUNE 01, 2013
This novel inevitably invites comparison with Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints (1973), published in France, as the English equivalent of Raspail’s famous book.
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Chronicles Magazine June 2013

Take the Money and Run: Entitlement Politics

Welcoming Terrorists, Locking Down Citizens

Syria's Jihadist Rebels

Topsy-Turvy

Uncle Sam Goes Bust

The Specter of History

Mal de Mer

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