The following is a summary of the August/September 2013 issue of the St. Croix Review:
In "Co-opting Saul Alinsky," Barry MacDonald writes about the exploits of James O'Keefe and his team as they secretly record liberal power brokers caught in the act of shameful and embarrassing conduct.
Mark Hendrickson, "In My Native City of Detroit, Atlas Has at Long Last Shrugged," he points out the corrupt conduct that bankrupted a once rich city; in "Big Brother Is Increasingly Watching You," he shows how government secrecy has been growing, and privacy had been declining: in "With Gulliver Asleep, the Lilliputians Are Almost Done Smothering the U.S. Economy," he points at the crushing federal burdens on the economy; in "The View from Londonistan," he relates his up close experience of Islamist hostility to Western values in England, and points to English history for the solution.
Herbert London, in "President Obama and Trayvon Martin," counters President Obama's inflammatory rhetoric with crime statics on black criminality; in "The Lack of Seriousness," he looks for persistence and determination in culture and politics; in "The Supreme Court and Voter Registration Law," he questions the reasoning of Justice Antonin Scalia; in "Equality and the Court," he considers the Supreme Court's recent decisions on affirmative action and gay marriage and sees diminished reliance on fundamental belief.
Allan Brownfeld, in "The Death of Trayvon Martin Has Unleashed a Wave of Demagoguery That Must Be Answered," notes many sensible comments in response to the trail of George Zimmerman; in "Freedom, Security, and Outsourcing Intelligence: Confronting Many Unanswered Questions," he doubts whether we can trust the government with its new surveillance powers, and he notes that a vast number of intelligence analysts work for private companies, and these analysts are poorly supervised.
Paul Kengor, in "Clinton's Progress: Bill and Hillary Clinton Embrace Gay Marriage," notes how "Progressives" embody an ideology of no fixed principles; in "The Progressive Income Tax Turns 100," he provides a history of the progressive's passion for the redistribution of income; in "Remembering Herb Romerstein - Death of a Cold Warrior and National Treasure," he recalls the life of an "unafraid, cheerful, colorful," anti-communist warrior.
Jigs Gardner, in "Speed the Plow," writes about the best time to harvest hay, tough cattle and good-milking cattle, very grudging soil, and the stultifying influence of the attitude: "It was good enough for my father and grandfather, so I guess it's good enough for me!"
Jigs Gardner in "Hemingway and Kipling Redux," takes a deep look at these two great writers.
In "Survey of Conservative Magazines: A Bright Light," Fayette Durlin and Peter Jenkin write about an essay by George Weigel, "Reality and Public Policy," that nails down the reasons why so much of our politics is in denial.
In "The Illiberal Fruits of Corruption," Joseph S. Fulda writes on case law about police corruption and corrupt governance.
In "Americans at Work: Diesel Engineer," Fred Marcus explains how mechanical engineers operate, how much their efforts cost the company, and the miracles they accomplish: 96 percent of the soot produced by diesel engines has been eliminated since 1996!
Jigs Gardner reviews Eco-terrorism: Green Power, Black Death, by Paul Driessen, and Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa, by Robert Paarlberg.
