The following is a summary of the August 2010 issue of the St. Croix Review:
In "Rush Limbaugh" Barry MacDonald describes the power and reach of the number one talk-radio broadcaster, and cost of becoming the most hated man in America.
In a Letter to the Editor Don Lee responds to the June editorial by writing that voters must share the blame for the nation's fiscal mess, and that politicians are mostly "misguided and gullible."
Herbert London, in "The Coming Crisis in the Middle East," believes war is inevitable, with Iran becoming the "strong" and the U.S. the "weak" horse; in "Austrian Complacency and the Movement for Sharia," he reports how anti-Western Islamic influence is growing; in "Doctors Who Compromise With Islam," he shows how American medical authorities are compromising with Islamic brutality of women -- Americans won't speak out against female genital mutilation; in "The E.U. and Its Likely Breakup," he writes that the high costs of bailouts will explode cooperation; in "The Search for Equality," he sees healthcare reform as redistribution of wealth, a system destined to fail, as it always does.
Allan Brownfeld, in "America's Ethical Decline Is Accompanied by Growing Ignorance of Our Religious Traditions," sees unethical behavior in politicians, Wall Street investors, and schoolchildren, and believes the nation's religious institutions are failing; and other court cases; in "To Move Africa Forward, It Is Essential to Understand the Real Causes of Poverty," he shows how the absence of property rights has crippled the economies of Africa, and he points out the exceptional example of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who spurns foreign aid, but seeks instead private enterprise, free markets, and competition.
Mark Hendrickson, in "Reflections on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster," makes many points, including whether we should be drilling in such deep waters, and the role environmentalists have played; in "Christian Charity: Social Justice and the Good Samaritan," he considers how the conduct of the Religious Left compares with the parable of the good Samaritan; in "Tragedy in Amish Country: Living Levi's Example," he tells a story about the importance of forgiveness and being kind to each other; in "Reservations About a Balanced Budget Amendment," he writes that laws and the plain words of the Constitution are already being ignored, so a new amendment wouldn't help. The Constitution simply needs to be read, understood, and followed. In "America Needs Union Competition," he advocates an end to union monopoly and forced dues, and believes that new unions could emerge that would compete to serve members' best interests.
In "The Forgotten Battle of World War II: Remembering the Aleutian Campaign," Paul Kengor lays out the story, with attention given to two soldiers; in "Helen Thomas Angers Her Media Colleagues -- Finally," he reviews some of her exchanges with Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, and he remarks on the reasons for her forced retirement; in "With Father, Through the Valley of Death," he relates the experience of happening upon the Vietnam War Memorial, and its powerful presence.
In "International Business Faces A Challenging Global Marketplace," Murray Weidenbaum writes that although the American business system remains the largest and most successful in the world, current trends suggests that China's economy will surpass ours in coming decades. He makes forecasts about the development of trade into regional markets, research and development, American productivity, education, high technology, immigration, and the good points of multinational companies and globalization for the prosperity of the world's people.
In "The New New Deal," Charles R. Kesler compares President Obama's brand of liberalism with that of FDR and notes striking differences: Obama and his fellows no longer believe in objective truth, and thus they can no longer defend their purported principles as true -- they are left with amoral pragmatism that is increasingly difficult to justify, and with a barely concealed dislike of traditional America.
In "Progressing Backwards," Jarrett Skorup shows that the solutions climate-change alarmists propose -- wind, solar, biodiesel, and light rail -- have already been tried and have proven to be failures.
John A. Howard tells one soldier's story in "Some Remembrances of World War II."
In "Devices of Belief," Jigs Gardner discusses the art of making the reader believe and enjoy a created world by using two authors who set their novels in upper-class Europe during the 1920s and 1930s.
