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NOVEMBER 20, 2010 / VOLUME 25 / NUMBER 23

CONTENTS F E AT UR E S

40 Meet the new speaker COVER STORY John Boehner has gained the confidence of his Republican colleagues— including social conservatives who are confident that he will advance their cause

46 Tea Party transit

Having made an enormous mark in the 2010 election, Tea Partiers now face the challenge of maintaining their momentum

53 Climbing the hill

As a large freshman class arrives in Washington promising change, these are some of the new faces to watch for in Congress

60 Oil from a rock

Political trends and commodity prices are pushing forward a controversial way to produce domestic energy

DISPATCHES 9 News 18 Human Race 20 Quotables 22 Quick Takes

64 ‘We will fight you’

After shouting down speakers and allegedly supporting terrorists, a Muslim student group prepares to re-emerge on a California campus ON THE COVER: Boehner: Cliff Owen/AP; Rubio: Jeffrey M. Boan/AP; Toomey: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images; Ayotte: Cheryl Senter/AP; Lee: George Frey/AP; Johnson: Morry Gash/AP; Paul: Ed Reinke/AP

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SOROS’ VISION FOR JOURNALISM

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eorge soros gets it. The billionaire investor and bankroller of left-wing political causes like MoveOn.org backed off politics this election cycle (“I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche”) and spent his dollars more strategically: to promote journalism. Last month, Soros announced a $1.8 million seed-money grant for National Public Radio’s “Impact of Government” project. It is meant to hire 100 journalists—two per state, in all 50 states— specifically to report on how the decisions of government play out over time. Aside from Soros’ big-government worldview, this is an otherwise good idea. Most reporting tends to focus on the political dealmaking that leads to a bill’s passage, but then neglects to look at its effects. The project launches in March 2011 in eight states. Meantime, NPR will seek $17 million to expand to the other 42 states, then $18 million to $19 million a year to sustain it. A New York Times report said NPR seeks “to counter some of the cutbacks in profit-making journalism.” Hmm. Where have you read that before? Over the last couple of years, I’ve used this space to report on the economic woes of journalism and the industry-wide trend to preserve profits by cutting newsgathering resources. I’ve also urged visionary readers to get involved financially as nonprofits like WORLD (or unlike WORLD, in the case of NPR) raise money, hire reporters, and take advantage of the opportunity provided by the elite-media retreat. This is why I say Soros gets it. What about you? Seriously, WORLD’s success rests largely upon you. Dear reader, you are the reason WORLD has not been swept away by the economics that prompted the Washington Post Co. this summer to unload Newsweek for a Email: neicher@worldmag.com

dollar to an investor willing to assume its debts. Unlike such advertiser-dependent media elites who earn 80 percent of revenues from advertisers, WORLD relies on readers to that same extent. As a subscriber, gift-subscription giver, or a WORLD Mover charitable donor, you make it possible for us even to contemplate a future. So I renew the invitation: Please help shape this future by becoming a WORLD Mover. We need 10,000 WORLD Movers’ monthly or annual gifts to fund the growth of Christian worldview journalism. What Soros regards as seed money is more than our entire editorial budget. In contrast to his $1.8 million/16 reporter plan, WORLD spends less than that for a staff of 25. Unlike Soros and NPR, we don’t need $110K-$190K a year to attract a reporter. We do a lot for a little. Last year, more than 3,000 of you answered the WORLD Mover call and that was a great encouragement. It inspired enough confidence in our future that I can announce today that Dr. Marvin Olasky, WORLD’s e ditor in chief, has agreed to put aside his substantial interest in college academics and to focus all his energies on WORLD, to train and lead the journalists who will staff our growing news organization. This is huge. When one of our board members heard this great news about Marvin, she remarked that it was one of the most encouraging things she’d heard during her tenure on the board. It is hard to exaggerate the significance of Marvin’s decision. It also means, though, that we must find the rest of that 10,000-strong support base of WORLD Movers—and soon. If Marvin’s stepping away as provost of The King’s College to focus exclusively on WORLD’s future thrills you half as much as it does me, I would encourage you prayerfully to consider today supporting this work financially. We are a 501(c) (3) nonprofit p ublishing ministry, so contributions to WORLD are tax-deductible. The purpose of WORLD Movers is strictly to fund news-reporting growth. Already, because of gifts from readers like you, we’ve begun to expand, and today we produce as much digital content in two weeks’ time as we publish in every biweekly edition of the magazine. But there’s so much more to do: new digital platforms to build, young reporters to train, important stories to cover. If journalism is to have a future, particularly our brand of journalism, it will be a journalism that is close to the people, supported by the people. Will you be part of this future? The need is urgent and the opportunity is now. I’d love to hear from you. Please use the envelope nearby. A N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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ay I be a bit transparent with you about my personal finances? I wasn’t born rich, and over seven decades still haven’t become a really wealthy person. So since my not-so-rich uncle arranged a couple of years ago to send me a check every month for something over $2,000, I’ve come to appreciate his regular stipend. It has become, I should probably admit, habit-forming. I bring this up in a fairly public way—in these days right after a truly remarkable shift in American politics—because if the shift is to produce any meaningful change for our society, I will almost certainly have to say goodbye to at least part of my uncle’s monthly check. My not-so-rich uncle, of course, is Uncle Sam. The monthly check is my Social Security “benefit.” And while Social Security is by no means the only fiscal challenge confronting our newly elected political class, it remains a close-to-home symbol of the enormous assignments now smack-dab in front of us. Like every social welfare program, Social Security is a symbol both of what’s right about our society and of what’s wrong. In terms of what’s right, it speaks of our humane commitment not to let any folks among us come to the end of their productive years and then have to live out their lives in total and abject nothingness. In terms of what’s wrong, it speaks of political chicanery that regularly promises more than it can actuarially deliver. It’s that combination that has been so ultimately deadly. We’ve wanted to believe a promise that something deep inside us says is unbelievable. Social Security, from its very beginning 75 years ago, has had its skeptics—but so long as Uncle Sam sent his monthly checks, nobody wanted to miss a good thing. If, along the way, more and more of those who were paying in

said they never expected to see a single benefit, others had vague hopes that the experts could fix things before the day of reckoning arrived. What happened in the 2010 election cycle is that the bluff got called. The American public rose up to say: “Quit lying to us. Quit pretending that we can afford everything we want. When you talk that way, we don’t trust you anymore.” And they weren’t speaking only to the incumbent Democrats, or primarily about Social Security. Democrats suffered voters’ ire partly because they have been so egregious at making hollow promises, but maybe this time mostly because they had the misfortune of holding office just as voters were waking up. Social Security probably wasn’t even on most voters’ minds in this particular cycle. I mention it here because it was historically the first and biggest of the social welfare programs that prompted us as a nation to pretend we could have it all—and that we didn’t have to be realistic about the costs. It seems now to have taken the excesses of the last two or three years—the multi-trilliondollar borrowing, the takeover of GM, the bank bail-outs, and certainly Obamacare—to shake us from our slumber and prompt that “we-don’ttrust-you-anymore” response. Which brings me back to that monthly check from my not-so-rich uncle. Do I appreciate it? Yes, of course—and especially because I paid into the system for more than 50 years! Will I be surprised if my check gets seriously chopped or even disappears over the next few years? Hardly. In fact, if properly structured, a benefit reduction might be one of the best things Washington could do right now to restore trust. It would suggest that our leaders are ready to quit snookering us and treat us with a little grown-up honesty. They did it in France a couple of weeks ago, telling the people there they’ll have to wait two years longer to retire. If the government of France can tell its people that such cutbacks are needed, the new leadership in Washington should take heart. A credible offer of 80 cents on the dollar? I’d take it in a heartbeat. Who knows? Even at an honest 60 cents, if it meant the survival of the republic were assured, it might be a very good deal. A

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Let freedom ring! NEWS: But let jubilation depart. The election of many pro-lifers is good news, but much work remains by Marvin Olasky

Reviewing the 2010 election: Let’s talk about headline numbers, relatively unpublicized numbers, and what’s more important than numbers. The numbers warm GOP hearts. A net gain of probably six senators, six governors, and 65 or so seats in the House of Representatives: That’s the biggest Republican surge since 1938, when the GOP netted 80 new seats in reaction to President Franklin Roosevelt’s overreach. (But FDR won reelection in 1940.) The personalities that those numbers represent are important. Marco Rubio of Florida is a potential future U.S. president. The Senate will be a livelier place with Rand Paul of Kentucky, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kelly

Ayotte of New Hampshire, and other new faces (see p. 53). The House will have more citizen legislators like Stephen Fincher of Frog Jump, Tenn., heading from farm to Washington (see p. 56). Some lesser-known numbers are also vital. State legislatures: This year Democrats have been in the majority in 60 legislative chambers, Republicans in 36, but the GOP appeared to be picking up 19 more, including both houses in Alabama, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Judges: Iowans voted out of office

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Looking Ahead Tolstoy centennial

Russian author Leo Tolstoy died 100 years ago on Nov. 20 at Astapovo railway station as a fugitive from his former life. Days prior to his death, Tolstoy, who penned War and Peace and Anna Karenina, had left his family and fortune behind, seeking to live his final years as a traveling ascetic.

Muslim journey

Nearly 2 million Muslims from across the globe are expected to arrive in Mecca to complete the Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage. The Hajj will begin at the sighting of the new moon, expected around Nov. 14. Every able-bodied Muslim is expected to complete the pilgrimage once during his lifetime.

Obama book release President Obama’s

latest book hits stores on Nov. 16. The book, titled Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, is meant for children and is a tribute to 13 Americans, including George Washington, Georgia O’Keefe, and Jackie Robinson.

National Adoption Day November is National Adoption Month (see p. 71), and on Nov. 20 adoption advocates and policy makers celebrate National Adoption Day. The National Adoption Day Coalition reports that last year advocates marked the day with 345 events nationwide.

Harry Potter release The first part of

the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series premieres Nov. 19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be a twopart finale of the wildly popular series that began in 2001. The previous Potter film grossed nearly $1 billion off of a $250 million bud get. Part 2, and the final Harry Potter movie, will arrive in 2011.

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three state supreme court justices who invented a state constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Although abortion was rarely mentioned in this year’s campaigning, the next Congress will be stronger in pro-life numbers and leadership. The Susan B. Anthony List targeted purportedly prolife Democrats who voted for the Obama healthcare bill with its potential funding of abortion—and helped to knock off 15 of the inconsistent. The SBA List was 34 for 48 overall, and Americans United for Life Action was 11 for 12 in the congressional races on which it focused. National Right to Life, Citizenlink (Focus on the Family’s political wing), and the Family Research Council also spent money and claimed success. They sent a message to congressmen and to senators up for reelection next year: Don’t tread on unborn babies! And when healthcare debates arise during the next two years, the House will have more pro-life doctors: Dan Benishek of Michigan, Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, and Larry Bucshon of Indiana were among those elected. All of this is pleasing for many WORLD readers—let freedom ring!—but let’s go slow on jubilation. To win elections down the road, conservatives and Christians need breakthroughs among young voters, minority voters, and voters who care about the poor. Barack Obama two years ago caused a surge in voting among those 18 to 29 years old: They made up 18 percent of the electorate in 2008 but only 11 percent in 2010. Lasting victories depend upon voters coming out, not staying home: The youth vote—probably sadder, maybe wiser—will be back for the next presidential election. Conservatives continue to have mediocre support from Hispanics and even less from African-Americans, even though both groups tend to be socially conservative. The victories of Florida’s Rubio and South Carolina’s Tim Scott, the first Republican African-American elected to the House from the deep South in over a century, are important. So is the return to the Senate of Dan Coats of Indiana, who fought for small government compassionate conservatism before the term sadly became synonymous with government expansion. A

Palin media blitz

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s television documentary debuts Nov. 14 on TLC. The show, called Sarah Palin’s Alaska, is slated for just eight episodes and has been billed by TLC as part travel ogue, part documentary. But that’s just part of the media blitz for Palin, who many assume will be running for president in 2012. The former vice-presidential nominee’s new book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, will go on sale Nov. 23.

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Under control?

A panel of experts is determining whether free birth control might be required by law. The healthcare reform–commissioned group is having its first meeting Nov. 16 to determine what kind of preventative care taxpayers must provide to women. Family-planning doctors have called contraceptives “preventative medicine,” which they say saves money and lives. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which opposes contraceptive use, argued that pregnancy is not an illness and shouldn’t be treated that way. Other pro-lifers are concerned that the morning-after pill would be provided for free because the FDA considers it birth control. Proponents of free contraceptives argue that if cost is not a factor, women will choose more effective birth control methods, like IUDs, which are more expensive initially. Once the panel submits its recommendations, the Department of Health and Human Services has until next August to issue a final decision.

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The weekend before the election, President Obama faced hecklers on his own turf—at a Democratic National Committee rally in Bridgeport, Conn. “Fund global AIDS!” they chanted, disrupting the president’s stump speech. “We’re funding global AIDS,” Obama rejoined. “And the other side is not.” Not so: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—the program that jumpstarted U.S. involvement in the global AIDS crisis—was a major initiative of President George W. Bush. Both Republican and Democratic Congresses have hailed and funded it. Under President Obama, the global AIDS fund has shifted to fund broader health systems overseas—covering diseases beyond AIDS—which has concerned some AIDS activists. They have interrupted Obama’s events across the country.

Hating Copts Humanitarian groups warn that rising persecution against Christians in Egypt could grow worse ahead of the country’s Nov. 28 parliamentary elections. The UK-based Barnabas Fund reported that broadcasters on Al-Jazeera TV accused Coptic Christians in Egypt of aligning with Israel and “stockpiling weapons for waging war against Muslims.” The group said that thousands of Muslims responded with at least 10 mass demonstrations against Christians, threatening violence. Coptic Solidarity—a human-rights organization for Coptic Christians—warned that a volatile election season could worsen conditions for Christians, and that the recent Islamic media campaigns could “degenerate into wholesale violence against the Copts and their spiritual leaders.”

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The largest release of classified documents in U.S. history served up more confirmation of what most Americans following the Iraq War already knew and less blockbuster revelations. Sifting the nearly 400,000 Defense Department documents dumped onto the internet last month via WikiLeaks has confirmed that Iran and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah directly aided Shiite militias that kidnapped Americans—as the Bush administration long claimed. It also confirmed that U.S. soldiers found evidence of chemical weapons labs and illegal weapons caches in 2004—as the Bush administration long claimed—even as a U.S. government report was published clearing Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction. The greater fallout from the disclosures is likely to land on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is under investigation in the United States and Europe (where he also faces sexual assault charges in Sweden). Far from being a hero for publicizing war records, Assange has been criticized not only by Pentagon analysts, but also by journalists—including longtime New York Times Baghdad bureau chief John Burns—for the indiscriminate release of raw war data. But the Taliban is taking Assange’s work seriously: A spokesman for the militants in Afghanistan said a commission is reviewing the WikiLeaks release of intel related to that war earlier this year in order to identify names of possible informants: “Our Taliban court will decide about such people.” Already U.S. soldier Pfc. Bradley Manning, believed responsible for the leaks (which Defense Department officials believe aren’t over) has been charged with two counts of misconduct by the military and awaits court martial.

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Dispatches > News Shadow war? After Yemen-based terrorists managed to airmail two explosive devices power ful enough to bring down a plane, U.S. and U.K. authorities grounded all cargo shipments from Yemen and deployed teams to assess the country’s cargoscreening process. But the foiled bombing plot that targeted cargo planes bound for the United States is prompting authorities to review more than cargo security: The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. officials are considering giving the CIA more author ity to conduct covert operations in Yemen—a country that intelligence officials believe is stocked with senior al-Qaeda operatives. The report says that such plans would allow Special Operations Command Units to operate under the CIA. (The Pentagon normally oversees the military units.) The move to expanded covert operations would allow the U.S. military to strike terrorist targets without the direct consent of the Yemeni government—and would allow Yemen’s government to deny knowledge of U.S. plans in a country with strong anti-American sentiment. The operations would still require congressional oversight, but the infor mation would remain tightly controlled. FOILED . . . FOR NOW: A woman walks past a UPS office in Sanaa, Yemen.

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Health workers worry that a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti could grow worse by Jamie Dean

When David Darg arrived at a hospital in St. Marc, Haiti, he found what he calls “a horror scene.” Darg is part of a team of workers from Operation Blessing—a Christian relief organization delivering supplies to Haitian communities struck with a cholera outbreak that threatens to grow worse. By early November, health workers reported nearly 300 cholera-related deaths and at least 4,100 infections. They w orried that the disease—which began north of HORROR SCENE: Port-au-Prince—could spread to the beleaguered capital city. Cholera patients in St. Marc. “Children were screaming and writhing in agony, others were motionless with their eyes rolled into the back of their heads as doctors and nursing staff searched desperately for a vein to give them an IV,” Darg wrote on his group’s blog. “The hospital was overwhelmed, caught suddenly by one of the fastest killers there is: cholera.” Haiti isn’t the only nation overwhelmed. The United Nations reported that cholera has killed more than 1,500 victims in Nigeria and has infected another 40,000. Officials reported several hundred deaths in neighboring Cameroon, and called it the worst outbreak in the region since 1991. While heavy rains likely worsened the spread of the waterborne disease in Nigeria, the African nation suffers from the same ills that afflict Haiti: poor infrastructure and lack of clean drinking water. The disease—caused by a bacterial infection—spreads through contaminated food and water, and causes severe diarrhea and vomiting. Without a simple treatment, some victims die within hours. The World Health Organization warned that health workers in Haiti should prepare for the cholera outbreak to reach Port-au-Prince—a grim prospect for thousands living in squalid tent cities around the capital city since the January earthquake that left more than 1 million homeless. A slew of aid organizations are trying to slow the disease in Haiti: Operation Blessing and Water Missions International—both Christian relief groups—are installing water treatment systems that can provide clean drinking water to tens of thousands. Samaritan’s Purse dispatched water, medical, and sanitation teams to the hardesthit areas. World Vision distributed soap and hygiene items to affected villages. Health workers said it’s difficult to estimate when a cholera outbreak might end: Victims can carry the disease for days without presenting symptoms. And it’s difficult to know how many Haitians are infected: With illnesses like diarrhea already rampant in the island nation, some cholera victims may die without ever seeking treatment.

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Under attack Christians in Iraq are reeling after a militant siege of a Catholic church in Baghdad ended with at least 58 dead and 75 wounded. Members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the massacre at one of the most prominent Catholic churches in the capital city. The assailants—armed with grenades, suicide vests, and AK47s— invaded the congregation of more than 130 worshipNOTHING LEFT: pers during Sunday evening Mass at Our Lady of A bloody shoe Salvation Church on Oct. 31. Witnesses said the outside the church attackers detonated explosives that killed churchgoon the day after ers, including handfuls of women and at least two the deadly siege. priests. Dozens of survivors hid in a barricaded room. The siege ended after four hours when Iraqi forces stormed the building. Iraqi officials said they were trying to determine if some victims died in the crossfire. Conflicting reports said that between three and eight militants died in the attacks, and that authorities arrested several assailants. A worker in Baghdad for Open Doors USA—a California-based advocacy group for persecuted Christians—reported that three priests died in the attacks: “I’m very confused and shocked—two of the pastors were my friends.” Other Christians lamented the deplorable conditions for Christians in Iraq: Militants have harassed, attacked, and killed Christians for years. Local church leaders say the government doesn’t provide adequate protection, and many Christians have fled the country looking for safety. After the October attacks, more will likely flee. “We have nothing left here,” a member of the church told The Washington Post. “We are the minority. We cannot defend ourselves. We cannot stay in this country anymore.”

Looking for work The week before the election saw a jump in the number of Americans applying for jobless benefits, according to the Labor Department. The number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits was 457,000 for the week that ended Oct. 30, up 20,000 from the previous week. Meanwhile, in October the National Federation of Independent Business reported that its index of small business optimism was stuck at recession levels. “The downturn may be officially over,” the NFIB report said, “but small business owners have for the most part seen no evidence of it.”

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Just as voters were repudiating much of its political agenda at the polls, embattled leftleaning community organizing group ACORN filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 2. The group’s chief executive blamed “a right-wing media blitz” for the financial problems. It was a swift downfall for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: In 2008 it had 400,000 dues-paying members and more than 1,000 staffers. But, amid a litany of allegations, election officials began launching numerous investigations into voter registra tion fraud last year. Among several guilty pleas, one ACORN worker admitted to filling out phony voter registration cards while sitting at home smoking marijuana. Congress last fall voted to defund ACORN, which had received more than $54 million in fed eral funding since 1994. A report last year by a House committee con cluded that ACORN “has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud.” The group, likely snowed under by legal defense fees and abandonment by donors, is set to go on trial at the end of November in yet another case. This Las Vegas case centers on allegations that ACORN illegally attached incentives to its voter registration drives during the 2008 presidential election in a program it called “Blackjack,” or “21.”

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Sentenced An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, 74, to death on Oct. 26 for his role in the past persecution of reli gious dissidents. Considered the public face of Saddam’s regime, he is a member of Iraq’s Christian minority and was the only Christian in Saddam’s pre dominately Sunni inner circle. The court also handed death sentences to Saddam’s former Interior Minister Sadoun Shakir and former secretary Abed Hammoud.

Appealed Last month a federal appeals court heard arguments in the case of California pastor Walter Hoye (“Straight time,” May 9, 2009), who is chal lenging Oakland’s

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She has been called the bravest woman in Mexico, but some think Marisol Valles is just plain crazy for signing on as the new police chief of Práxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most dangerous

border towns. The 20-year-old criminology student and mother of an infant will lead a force of 13 agents (mostly female) with only one function ing patrol car, three automatic rifles, and a pistol to combat the powerful drug cartels that recently murdered a local mayor and his son. Valles says rather than fighting the cartels, she plans to focus on crime prevention and community policing.

Died Mildred Jefferson, the first AfricanAmerican woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and the pro-life trailblazer who helped found the National Right to Life Committee and served for three years as its president, died Oct. 15 at age 84. Jefferson’s tireless fight against abortion began in 1970 after the American Medical Association decided its members could perform abortions if the proce dure was legal in their states—a stance Jefferson said violated the Hippocratic Oath: “I am at once a phy sician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.”

Died Tom Bosley, who played the fatherly Howard Cunningham on the hit sitcom Happy Days and won a Tony Award for his role in the musical Fiorello!, died on Oct. 19 of cancer. He was 83.

Died Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, 60, died suddenly Oct. 27 from a heart attack. Kirchner, who continued to wield extensive influence after his wife Cristina Fernandez succeeded him as president in 2007, was expected to run again during next year’s presidential election.

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Dispatches > Quotables “I was shocked when he did it. I told him to keep the cross and that I carry my Christianity in my heart.” Florida Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek on an attempt by independent candidate Charlie Crist to persuade Meek to exit the race and endorse Crist. Meek says that before the election, Crist offered him a cross that had been a gift from his sister. Meek and Crist lost to Republican Marco Rubio on Nov. 2.

Verne Martell, husband of independent write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, teasing his wife as they cast their ballots on Election Day. Murkowski reportedly did not respond.

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“I think he was a little envious that I am here.” U.S. Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON on President Obama after his phone call to Clinton before Election Day. Clinton was in Malaysia during the historic drubbing that Democrats suffered at the polls on Nov. 2. 20

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New Jersey Gov. CHRIS CHRISTIE on suspending construction of a tunnel between New Jersey and New York City. The tunnel would have been the nation’s biggest public works project.

“I’d say the Christmas show in many ways could be more elaborate than a KISS concert.” Joe Branam of Branam Enterprises on the extrav agances he witnessed at the Crystal Cathedral. The California mega-church founded by Robert Schuller filed for bankruptcy, citing tens of millions in debt (see “Crystal crash,” Nov. 6).

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Food fighter For the sake of a deli clerk in Dover, Maine, at least the angry customer didn’t order his sand wich on hard-crusted sourdough. Police in Dover charged Thomas Goulet of nearby Berwick with assault after the 40-year-old allegedly hurled a sandwich at a female deli clerk with whom he was having a dispute. According to the deli clerk, Goulet threw a sand wich at her after he became incensed at the speed with which she was completing his order. Goulet then fled the deli before police arrived but later turned himself in to authorities.

Finders keepers Insofar as world record holders go, Graham Barker isn’t one to boast. Perhaps the Australian man doesn’t particu larly want to be identified by the record he holds. Barker, according to Guinness World Records, is the owner of the world’s largest collection of belly-button lint. Over the past 26 years, Barker has pulled enough lint out of his navel to fill nearly three jars—a collection that tips the scales at just under one ounce. The collection process takes him just a few seconds every morning. “Collecting is not a big part of my life,” said Barker, “so I generally don’t talk about it or ask others about it.”

Spell checked Luckily for one Wisconsin 12-year-old boy, Kristine Flynn can’t spell. The 52-year-old inmate at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Wisconsin recently attempted to forge documents setting up her guardianship of the boy— another inmate’s child—and his trust fund. According to authorities, Flynn forged court documents and faked the signature of Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Steven Weinke. But when Flynn mailed the documents out of prison to set her plan in motion, authorities noticed she mis spelled Judge Weinke’s last name as “Winkie.” Now she faces an additional 22 ½ years in prison for the attempted scam.

Lunar sniff It may look like it’s made of cheese, but scientists and even astronauts all seem to agree: The moon smells like gunpowder. Former astronaut Charles Duke (Apollo 16) has teamed up with a printmaker and a flavorist to create what is believed to be the first scratch-and-sniff image of the moon. Flavorist Steven Pearce of Omega Ingredients worked with Duke to get the smell just right. Then the pair turned their work over to printer Sue Corke, who created the finished product. A UK printmaker has created about 300 scratch-andsniff moon pictures for a sale price between $55 to $428.

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For three days in October, one art gallery in New York City appealed to the nose as much as the eyes. That’s because from Oct. 15 to 17 the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art held a Bacon-Palooza—an art expo devoted to the tasty breakfast meat. The event, which raised money for children with autism, featured a multitude of bacon products, from bacon lip balm to bacon vodka to baconthemed board games and even bacon-scented soap. Gallery owner John Ordover says that, except for vegans and those required by reli gion to abstain, everyone he knows loves bacon. “It crossed all the social lines— rich, poor, happy, sad, outgoing, intro verted,” he told NPR. “If there is one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s bacon.”

Way out there If UFO conspiracy theorist Jeff Peckman had his way, Denver would become the central hub of all extraterres trial research. Peckman was able to secure enough signatures to put an initiative on Denver’s Nov. 2 ballot asking citizens whether the Mile-High City should create an extraterrestrial affairs commission to listen to UFO stories and to make recommendations to Denver citizens in the event of an alien encounter. The measure went down to defeat, though, with Denver voters rejecting it by a four-to-one margin.

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Single ceremony Growing old in a culture that promotes families and deni grates old maids, a 30-year-old Taiwanese office worker has decided to marry the only person she knows who will have her: herself. Chen Wei-yih of Taipei has posed for wedding photographs, rented a reception hall, and plans to have a wedding and reception amongst 30 of her friends, but Chen doesn’t plan on having a groom anywhere near. “Age 30 is a prime period for me. My work and experience are in good shape, but I haven’t found a partner, so what can I do?” Chen asked reporters before noting that she’ll be taking a solo honeymoon to Australia.

Duties of youth Kyle Roberts has the best excuse to get out of jury duty. The Ontario, Canada, native is only 10 but somehow appeared in local jury pools and voter registration lists. Kyle received his jury summons in October, about three weeks after he received a voter registration card in the mail.

Out of order When Fiji celebrated the 40th anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom on Oct. 10, one item was conspic uously absent from the revelries—the legal document that first established Fiji as independent in 1970. Fijians have compared the loss of the Independence Order presented to Fijian officials by Prince Charles in 1970 to the United States losing its only copy of the Declaration of Independence. For five years, government officials in the Pacific island nation have scoured offi cial records searching for the document. Sheepishly, ahead of the independence celebrations, the Fijian government called off the search and petitioned the United Kingdom for a photocopy version of its OOPS: Fiji's independence Independence Order. ceremony on Oct. 10, 1970.

Sleeper pick A 62-year-old Ecuadorian native has been crowned the world’s best napper after winning Spain’s first Siesta Championship. Participants in the unusual contest were given 20 minutes in the early afternoon to nap in the middle of a busy Madrid shopping center. Pedro Soria Lopez was able to sleep for 17 of the 20 minutes, according to monitoring hardware used by the event’s organizer, the National Organization of Friends of the Siesta. Lopez’s snores even reached 70 decibels—equal to a person talk ing loudly—which earned him style points. For winning the contest, the unemployed Ecuadorian security guard earned a nearly $1,400 cash prize. N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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In the kitchen of the Lord A post-election pot of metaphor

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bloodless vegetables complement; it forms the medium in which they consist. And it requires someone’s ultimate sacrifice. “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him” (John 6:56). Some of Jesus’ statements don’t have the same stunning effect on us as on the original hearers, but this one still shocks. Eat His flesh? Drink His blood? Yes, it’s metaphorical, but Jesus did literally offer His flesh and blood: the former to abide with us, the latter to pour out for us. And forever after, Christ feeds us. He’s the flesh and bone laying down His life at the bottom of the pot (so to speak). He gathers us, with our sharp angles and hard surfaces, our squishy and acidic selves, and chops us with the sharp blade of His Word. He adds us with all our imperfections and cooks us down to a mellow whole, conforming to Him and confirming each other. He sanctifies the garden and the butcher’s block and the kettle. As we cook, a pleasing aroma rises to His Father. And when we’re done, He serves us up. As I write, the current election is still undecided. As you read, it is; the world stumbles on and today’s controversies become tomorrow’s specialties. And all the time we’re cooking in the Lord’s kitchen. Let’s be patient—with ourselves, the world, and each other—for someday we’ll be done. A Email: jcheaney@worldmag.com

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No ordinary show TV: New ABC drama tells an engaging story about an incredible family with not-so-incredible problems

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buildings in a single bound. Sophomore No Ordinary Family, the new hourdaughter Daphne (Kay Panabaker) reads long drama airing on ABC at 8 p.m. minds, and freshman son J.J. (Jimmy Bennett) (Eastern) on Tuesday nights, is indeed is suddenly a genius who is, amazingly, able to something out of the ordinary on use his new math smarts on the football field. primetime network television—a family show While the superhero element provides that is, for the most part, appropriate for the plenty of well-executed action, it’s the interwhole family. Other contenders offer worthy play between family members that viewers viewing for parents, but not their children will find most engaging. The Powells have (NBC’s Parenthood). While yet others make a relatable enough problems heading into the pretense of being family-friendly but would crash. What’s impressive is how the show likely shock parents if they paid attention to manages to take each person’s new power and what their tweens and teens were absorbing use it to amplify and explore those issues. (Fox’s increasingly degenerate Glee). Before his dip in the phosphorescent water, The show takes the premise of Pixar’s Jim is a struggling artist who makes his living mega-successful movie, The Incredibles, and sketching police suspects. He feels emasculated sets it in a semi-serious, live-action format. by the fact that his scientist wife brings home While on a trip to the Amazon, the Powell more bacon, and it doesn’t help matters that family’s plane crashes into a glowing tributary his teenage kids rely more on their iPhones that leaves each of them with a superhuman than they do on him. Rather than ability. Mom Stephanie (Julie Benz) bestowing newfound confidence, becomes faster than a speeding DAD OF STEEL: Jim’s enhanced strength simply probullet. Dad Jim (Michael Chiklis) can Julie Benz and vides him larger-scale ways to deal bend steel, pick up SUVs, and leap tall Michael Chiklis.

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Reviews > Movies & TV like the scriptwriters and actors are still trying to find their feet. Now and then the dialogue strikes an overly earnest note, and the teens sometimes seem a little more concerned about the comings and goings of mom and dad than is realistic. But thankfully, ABC has ordered a full season, giving producers time to work out the kinks. The one wrench in the works is the series’ occasional use of mildly bad language. “What the hell,” is a common exclamation (as it is on virtually every

not a superpower, I don’t know what is). However, in the midst of this I-AmWoman activity, we see foreshadowing that even if she can for once do it all, for the sake of her marriage, she maybe shouldn’t. The importance No Ordinary Family puts on Jim and Stephanie’s relationship is one of the big draws of the show, both in showing their struggles and their closeness. (At one point Stephanie quips, “You’re stopping a felony and I’m committing one. Remember when we used to have movie night?”) As with most new series, the first few episodes feel

non-news network show), and a couple of other words parents won’t want their kids repeating crop up as well. But, perhaps because ABC is figuring out who the program’s audience is, these incidents seem to be decreasing in frequency with each episode. While No Ordinary Family is not yet as riveting as it could be, early plot lines suggest that it may grow into more suspenseful viewing as the series develops. And for those parents longing for a weeknight show they can enjoy with their kids, it’s good enough to fill the bill right now. A

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Rebecca Cusey

stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dominates the New York Times bestseller list, along with the other two books in the series, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Clearly, they’ve had an impact on American society. Translated from Swedish, the novels follow the story of Lisbeth Salander, a petite woman who dresses in goth black clothes, refuses to communicate with people, and can hack almost any computer system. Journalist Mikeal Blomkvist investigates her life, finding a dark story of governmental betrayal, almost unendurable abuse, and miraculous survival. The film adaptation of the third novel is now in theaters, with the first two available on DVD. All three are in Swedish with English subtitles. While not matching the complexity of the novels, the films perfectly capture the essence of the books, which is the character of Lisbeth. Played by Noomi Rapace, the unsmiling Lisbeth manages to control her destiny and mete out retribution to those who have wronged her. Although she has been victimized, she refuses to be a victim. For instance, when Lisbeth is forced into a sexual act by her court-appointed guardian, she returns to their next appointment with a hidden camera. She uses the video of the subsequent rape to blackmail him into leaving her and all other women alone. Rather than contact the police, she prefers to handle things on her own after the system repeatedly failed her. The scenes, as with many others in the films, are disturbingly violent. All the films are rated R. Within the world Larsson creates, evil is strong and active, but the women do not rely on men to protect them from it. From editor (and sometime Blomkvist lover) Erika Berger to scores of law enforcement women to Lisbeth, they face threats head-on. While there is much to admire in the characters’ strength and unyielding sense of justice, the refusal to depend on others leaves all the characters childless, or estranged from children, and ultimately alone. As a representation of the familial and societal mores over taking Europe, the series is a revelation. How will it play in greater America? We’re going to find out. An American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is due to be released next year.

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with his insecurities. In a touching sequence, he hunts down the armed robbers who stole his wife’s wedding ring so he can prove he’s still her protector. For moms in the audience, few storylines could be more envy-inspiring than Stephanie’s ability to get everything done in half the time. Suddenly she can give 100 percent to work and still has plenty of daylight left to romance hubby, bake muffins, and organize the school carnival, all without guilt that she’s letting anyone down (if that’s

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Megamind by Rebecca Cusey

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is it ever fair to judge a book by its cover? Can someone change? Can a villain with a big, blue, light-bulb-shaped head find love? The new children’s animated movie Megamind aims to find out. Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell) escapes to Earth as a baby from a dying planet. Unfortunately, he arrives at the same time as Metro Man (Brad Pitt), a strong, flying, good-haired jewel of an interplanetary refugee. Metro Man fills the role of superhero, so Megamind is cast in the only remaining role: evil villain. For a while, their rivalry works beautifully, Megamind hatching devious schemes only to be thwarted by Metro Man and his winning smile. One day, however, Megamind succeeds beyond his wildest dreams and finds it’s not so much fun being a villain without a hero. Megamind lan guishes in his evil lair with his piranha-in-a-jar

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police procedurals are a dime a dozen these days, so any new crime drama needs a compelling hook. Blue Bloods has two: a three-generation family of policemen and the family name Reagan. Tom Selleck makes a welcome return to series television as New York City police commissioner Frank Reagan. Selleck imbues the role with quiet strength, covering his inner resolve with the lightest necessary layer of diplomacy, revealing when

sidekick, Minon, and an army of brain bots. Turns out, subjecting a city to domination of fear and horror just isn’t as much fun as it’s cracked up to be. His attempt to create a replacement superhero named Titan, misunderstood as Tighten (Jonah Hill), ends in disaster. Could it be possible for Megamind to switch roles, become the hero, and win the intrepid reporter Roxanne (Tina Fey) in the process? Packed into this funny and engaging story we find a lesson on redemption. Megamind, who thought stealing all the artwork in the museum and painting his name all over town would be satisfying, finds he cares more about the respect of one woman than the subjugation of Metro City. Maybe he never really wanted to be bad after all. Maybe he can change. Rated PG, the movie provokes lots of laughs and will entertain parents as well as children, with out resorting to potty humor. While not quite up to the level of Pixar’s Toy Story 3, this movie is certainly one of the best animated films of the year.

ppropriate shades of the empathy and a good-natured relatability that made his Magnum character so appealing in the ’80s. Surrounding Selleck is a strong stable of veteran performers. Donnie Wahlberg portrays Frank’s son Danny, an Iraq War veteran turned NYPD detective with a propensity for bending the rules to put criminals behind bars. Frank’s daughter Erin (Bridget Moynahan) is the only non-cop in the family, but she proves very useful to them in her capacity as an assis tant district attorney. Youngest son Jamie (Will Estes) is a recent Harvard Law School graduate who has a career change of heart and opts to join the NYPD as a rookie beat cop. And then there’s Henry (Len Cariou), Frank’s father and a retired NYC police commissioner himself. As an adult-oriented family drama, Blue Bloods’ 10 p.m. (Eastern) time slot Fridays on CBS is perfect for parents with young children and no babysitter. Like other police dramas, Blue Bloods covers familiar ground—rape, a jewelry heist, drug trafficking—but what sets it apart are the engaging and often amusing family dinner-table conversations, in which the Reagans debate topics like the extent of force and rule-bending in the service of justice and the value of diplomatic immunity.

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Another signature element of this series is the Reagans’ Catholic upbringing and how it informs their decisions and values. Several episodes close with grace at the family dinner table. If its first episodes are a reliable harbin ger, Blue Bloods may earn a loyal following. —Michael Leaser is editor of FilmGrace and an associate of The Clapham Group N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

Reviews > Books

Quick book looks New titles survey the Enlightenment, democracy, and American history By Marvin Olasky

with Christians fighting a twofront intellectual war against Islam on one side and secularism on the other, Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo (B&H, 2010) illuminates the battle in the arts. Those who teethed on Francis Schaeffer and Hans Rookmaaker will welcome Pearcey’s thoughtful and readable look at how art reflected thinking in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. Once again we see that in the end the real choices are two—Christ or nihilism—for, as Psalm 73 notes, “Whom have I in heaven but You?” For those wanting to learn more about the big E from an author who thinks it was enlightened, read Philipp Blom’s A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (Basic, 2010): It features good writing about bad thinking that the author thinks is good. He celebrates the 18th-century Paris salon, which featured regulars like Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with its general dislike for Christianity: “There was suddenly no sin anymore and no reward or punishment in the afterlife; instead, there was only the search for pleasure and the fear of pain.” It’s no surprise that lurking at the end of this era was the guillotine. The better 18th-century revolution, filled with respect for Christianity, was

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the American one, which Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s celebrated in his wonderful Democracy in America— but he warned of egalitarian downsides. Now, almost 180 years later, Kenneth Minogue’s The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life (Encounter, 2010) argues that we live in Tocqueville’s dystopia: “Our very conception of society itself has changed. It is no longer an association of independent self-moving individuals, but rather an association of vulnerable people whose needs and sufferings must be remedied by the power of the state.” Minogue’s academic and theoretical prose lacks the human interest that would make his intelligent book an enjoyable read, and he doesn’t give us much of a game plan for overcoming creeping servility. David Kahane’s Rules for Radical Conservatives (Ballantine, 2010) gives us a plan, as his subtitle shows: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America. The plan, in essence, is never to pity liberals and always to punch them: “Always strike first. And give no quarter. . . . Attack on all fronts, with every weapon at your disposal.” Maybe that would work, but what country would conservatives have left? As federal spending seemingly expands to infinity and beyond, many

authors are offering ways to corral it. In Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Regnery, 2010), Thomas E. Woods Jr. advocates using the 10th Amendment to say no to Washington’s political expansion. Woods points out that the leading current example of such “nullification” emanates from the cultural left, not the right: After California legalized medical marijuana, the U.S. Supreme Court along with federal law enforcers said NO. California essentially ignored Washington: “There are as many as one thousand functioning dispensaries in Los Angeles County alone, each of which operates in direct defiance of the federal will.” To get a sense of the first stirrings of that federal will to power, Henry Clay: The Essential American, by David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler (Random House, 2010), could be useful—but it is a heavy read about the 19th-century congressional leader, presidential candidate, and womanizer that for some reason skips by basic character questions. Happily, we do have three good, overall American history texts from the past decade: Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States, William Bennett’s America: The Last Best Hope, and Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People. Schweikart now has out a light read, Seven Events That Made America America (Sentinel, 2010): It tells good stories about incidents such as the Dred Scott decision that led to the Civil War and the Johnstown flood that demonstrated the power of nongovernmental institutions. A

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NOTABLE BOOKS Four thrillers > reviewed by susan olasky

Three Stations: An Arkady Renko Novel Martin Cruz Smith A 15-year-old escaped prostitute and her baby flee “the c atchers” via a train to Moscow. On the train she avoids rape and is rescued, but when she wakes up her baby is missing. The novel follows her desperate hunt through Moscow’s seedy environs to find her missing baby while staying ahead of her murderous pursuers. A chess-playing homeless youth protects her from pimps and street punks, while detective Arkady Renko continues to annoy his superiors. It’s not clear whether he does the right thing out of moral conviction or because he doesn’t like authority—and in Russia all authority is corrupt. The novel rushes to an unconvincing conclusion after painting a despairing portrait of Russia’s underbelly. Lots of bad language.

The Last Operative Jerry B. Jenkins Jordan Kirkwood has been an agent of a spy agency since he was recruited out of high school and given highly specialized training. His job: spying on the other U.S. intelligence agencies. As he learns about a traitor and a plot against the United States, terrorists murder his wife, and the children he barely knows blame him. Jenkins sets up a situation where Kirkwood is isolated, doesn’t know who to trust, and must avert a major attack. The story is not as dramatic as it could be because Jenkins can’t quite decide if he’s writing a suspense thriller or a romance/family novel—and the various threads get in the way of the narrative.

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Dark in the City of Light Paul Robertson Robertson’s tale of murder and intrigue takes place in Europe in 1870, at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Baron Harsanyi, a diplomat in the service of the Austrian emperor, controls the largest cinnabar mines in Austria, a commodity in great demand for its use in creating ammunition. From Paris, he conducts a series of secretive negotiations about the cin nabar while his adult children plunge into society. As Imperial France prepares for war, it also faces revolt from within. The book is slow in places and could be confusing for those who don’t know much about Europe at the time, but it shows both the machinations that lead to war and the more personal betrayals that lead to murder. Spies of the Balkans Alan Furst Some singers have perfect pitch. A few authors do. Alan Furst creates spy novels of the World War II era with descriptive detail that envelops readers: Fog and mist on every page, Casablanca sprung to life with vivid characters and absorbing plots. In this book, Greek police official Costa Zannis in 1940 creates an escape route for German Jews through the Balkans to Turkey. He battles the Gestapo, navigates among a variety of spies and gangsters from half a dozen countries, commits adultery (but not in a glam orous James Bond way), and tries to find moments of happiness amid evil times. Some sex and violence. Email: solasky@worldmag.com; see all our reviews at worldmag.com/books

SPOTLIGHT When Gracie Rosenberger was 17 she fell asleep while driving a car and suffered a body-crushing accident. Although she survived, over the past nearly 30 years she has had 73 operations, including the amputation of both legs below the knee—and two Caesarean sections. With frankness and humor she and her husband Peter tell her story in Gracie: Standing With Hope (Liberty University Press, 2010). Rosenberger writes as one who doesn’t care about her dignity or pride. With humor she talks about bedpans, vomit, and losing artificial legs on the ski slopes. She writes of marital struggles and describes visits to amputees at Walter Reed, where her two prosthetic legs give her standing to talk to them about their suffering. She has a message about “the grace and power of God that is greater than eyes, legs, or anything else.” It allows people to “see past my defects, and concentrate on Christ’s power that is made perfect in our weakness.”

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Reviews > Q&A

Slumps that go on and on Author Amity Shlaes says today’s high unemployment is like that of the 1930s— the government is making it hard to hire

By Marvin Olasky

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Amity Shlaes, 50, is a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Bloomberg News columnist. She has written several terrific books on economics, including The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. I interviewed her soon after that book came out (“The hallowed New Deal,” WORLD, March 8, 2008) at a time when her story of how Washington prolonged the Depression seemed an interesting histori cal tidbit. Since then we’ve had a recession and a jobless recovery, which makes Shlaes’ focus on the jobless recovery of the 1930s utterly relevant. Here’s an edited and tightened version of her comments.

Stock market crashes are not unusual in American history. Short-lived depressions are not unusual. What made the 1930s different was that the Depression went on and on . . . That’s right. Do you know that in 1921 and 1922, two in 10 men were unemployed for a whole year? We do not even

remember that: It’s the forgotten depression because it all snapped back: Suddenly unemployment was below 5 percent. That change in the employment rate, up and down, was characteristic of the pre-Roosevelt United States. That was on balance a good thing: People were not afraid to rehire because when they rehired, there were not a lot of policies constraining them. Is our situation now more like 1922 or more like 1937? A front-page New York Times story says people over 50 can forget about getting a job again. The reason is not because they are old and stupid or can’t use an iTouch. It is because the obstacles to hiring are so great that employers don’t think it worth the bother. They might hire someone and the govern ment says you have to keep him on. Maybe the government will say you have to pay him more than you are able to pay— therefore, you don’t hire at all. That is very much like 1937. Now we’re told the recession is over, but unemployment is still high . . . Historically, the definition of recession is

two consecutive quarters of negative growth, or, the econ omy shrinking. But there are limits to what GDP can convey. And one of those issues is employment. In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed— something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not. If the adminis tration accepts that, that’s a failure on the part of our government. What types of policies now would lead to the creation of more jobs? A move toward a balanced budget. A serious commitment, such as a constitutional amendment, to making the government smaller. A commitment to permanently lower tax rates.

We don’t hear much about the price of labor . . . What does it cost to hire someone? The worst thing about these downturns is the unemploy ment. Something is wrong with what we are doing if people are unemployed for a long time. A while ago I did a story compar ing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is d isappearing and that is a problem. “Nice work if you can get it” was an expression that became popular during the Depression . . . It’s a song from a Gershwin musical. It resonated

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business executives do what anyone with common sense would do—wait for the elephant in the room to leave the room, or sit down, or something. Declaring business the enemy did not work very well in the 1930s. Why do we see this going on again? When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government’s economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate. So to reduce unemployment, government should . . . Mostly get out of the way. Employers are very concerned about healthcare legislation because they know that it will be a mandate upon them to pay more for healthcare, but they do not know the particular rules yet. They are concerned about unemployment insurance pre miums: When unemployment insurance goes for 99 weeks, what the company must pay to support them will be higher. How did New Deal government expansion affect charities? There was plenty of charity in the United States before the New Deal, and there were plenty of public works, mostly at the state level. This was essentially squeezed out by the New Dealers stepping in and hogging that space. In a recent column you advocated a humble economic policy. What is that? The reality is there’s a lot we do not know about economics. All of us don’t know. To assume that a stimulus will always work is a big assump tion. Given

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that we are not sure we know, maybe we should do less. There is a particular arrogance cur rently in Keynesian economics, which you see when econo mists say consumer spending drives the economy. Economists do not know that. Maybe the majority of people who got a doctorate in economics between 1968 and 1990 think that, but centuries before them, people who studied economics did not think that— maybe for a longer period. This assumption that

Keynesianism is the only way is absurd. You like lower taxes . . . I’m always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace. If the jobless recovery continues, what will be the structural consequences? Maybe the economy changes and it is easier for everyone to be a freelancer. Being a freelancer can be worse than being an employee, or it can be more lucrative, more entrepre neurial. All things being equal, this country wants to grow. It is not a loser country. It is a winner country. In terms of the mentality of the country, it is still an immigrant country. People are here because they tried hard, or their parents tried hard, or their grandparents tried hard. A

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because that was precisely the experience in the late 1930s. The Wagner Act, the Magna Carta for our modern labor law, scared employers. They didn’t hire. Or they paid a higher wage, but hired fewer people. And that’s the divide—nice work if you can get it. Another famous quotation from Franklin Roosevelt, almost as famous as “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” is his statement about the need for “bold persistent experimentation.” But Roosevelt’s commitment to experimentation itself c reated fear . . . The Monopoly board game was popularized in the 1930s. You know the role of the banker. There is not much discretion: He hands out the money. The rules for how he does that are written down. Yet we’ve all had an experience where a sibling or a friend took license in that role and started cheating or changing the rules. You also had a brother? Uh-huh. Changing the rules, mid-game. What happens when someone does that too much? You walk away from the board. That’s what happens when the government has license to experiment and change things. A CEO who is making plans for expansion needs to know what is coming up in legislation and regulation that will affect his business. If he doesn’t have continuity from one year to the next, will he tend not to make a hazardous investment? A fig ure called net domestic private investment measures whether you buy more machines to replace the machines you already have. In the 1930s you can see points where that figure is negative. That is very rare for the United States, but

“When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government’s economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.”

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In with the old

Lavish reissues end up adding little to the legacies of three rock legends By arsenio orteza

But in the intervening four albums he flailed about, scoring the occasional hit (“Mind Games,” “#9 Dream”) but otherwise seeming like a rebel without a cause. (The second half of Sometime in New York City sounds as if it was recorded while Yoko Ono had her finger stuck in an electric socket.) Perhaps if the set had included the separately available “stripped down” version of Double Fantasy, the $189.99 list price wouldn’t seem so un-“imagine”-able. And if The Original Mono Recordings of Bob Dylan—i.e., his first eight albums without the haphazard-sounding stereo separation foisted upon them by lessthan-sensitive engineers—doesn’t diminish his legacy, they don’t embellish it either, unless the undeniable aesthetic pleasure of owning the albums in miniature replicas of their original vinyl packages (right down to the liner inserts of The Times They Are A-Changin’ and Highway 61 Revisited) counts. As for the sound, only audio nerds will care that all of it is coming out of one channel— and feel like paying $124.98 for it. Hearing Dylan’s first eight albums in one fell swoop, however, does point up the main reason why Dylan still seems universal while Lennon seems increasingly parochial if not at times downright insular: In Dylan’s music, one hears life

happening to Dylan; in Lennon’s, one hears Lennon happening to life. The Witmark Demos, on the other hand, are a steal at $18.98. With 47 songs on two discs, over a dozen of them never officially released in any version (the precociously apocalyptic “I’d Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day,” the hilarious “All Over You”), the never-intended-for-release nature of the recordings captures the young Dylan at his most spontaneous and least affected. Even the songs that he would go on to record on his own albums benefit from pleasant surprises (the joke about losing 120 pounds by getting divorced in “I Shall Be Free” chief among them). A unique conundrum faces the consumer pondering the four-CD, one-DVD Jimi Hendrix collection West Coast Seattle Boy. No sooner do Disc One (15 songs circa 1964 to ’69 by performers such as the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, and King Curtis, on which Hendrix played guitar) and the Biography Channel documentary seem to justify the semi-reasonable price tag ($69.98) than Discs Two through Four kick in with their “alternate” and “previously unreleased” takes. They’re not bad. Really. They might even prove that Hendrix was rock’s greatest guitarist. A

THREE LEGENDS: Hendrix, Dylan, and Lennon (above) and their new collections.

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It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: The reissuing of classic rock ’n’ roll is driven mainly by record companies who’ve realized that the target audience for such stuff is dying off, so they’d better appeal to it while they can. How else to explain the recent multi-disc sets enshrining the works of John Lennon (Signature Box [Capitol]), Bob Dylan (The Original Mono Recordings and The Bootleg Series Vol. 9—The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 [Columbia]), and Jimi Hendrix (West Coast Seattle Boy [Sony Legacy])? Although lavishly packaged and therefore a dandy addition to any coffee table, the packages—with the partial exception of Dylan’s Witmark Demos— don’t add all that much to their respective artists’ legacies. In the case of Lennon, the Signature Box might even detract from it. Containing his entire post-Beatles output, it serves as a reminder that at least half of his solo output lacked luster. He began strong (Plastic Ono Band and Imagine embody his struggle to come to grips with a world he inadvertently created) and finished stronger (both Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey suggest that marriage and fatherhood beat being “bigger than Jesus” any day).

NOTABLE CDs

Five new or recent rock and pop releases > reviewed by arsenio orteza

An Introduction to Syd Barrett Syd Barrett

Of all the rock ’n’ roll acid casualties, none looms as large as the original (and late) Pink Floyd mem ber Syd Barrett, who spent the last half of his life as a permanently self-damaged, mentally addled recluse. This re-mastered and re-mixed collec tion of Barrett’s recordings, solo and with Pink Floyd circa 1967-1970, won’t necessarily con vince skeptics that LSD cost the world a lost genius, but it might convince similarly gifted young people that their God-given talent is too precious to be subjected to the Russian Roulette that is sensory derangement.

Autumn Sky Blackmore’s Night For eight albums now, the former Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (who once listed Bach as his favorite composer) and his dulcet-voiced wife Candice Night have been imbuing their mutual love of Renaissance music with a revivifying enthusiasm missing from the sometimes too-faithful recreations of their clas sical counterparts. Not that Blackmore and Night aren’t faithful (“Night at Eggersberg”), but neither are they above subjecting rock classics to their anachronistic virtuosity (the Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes”) and thereby evoking a timelessness that would otherwise remain merely theoretical. Live at the Ryman Jonny Lang

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That Jonny Lang’s first album for his new label (Concord) is a seamlessly enjoyable summary of his progress from blues wunderkind to blues adult serves his old label (A&M) right for letting him get away. Looser and funkier onstage than he ever was in the studio, he still sounds older than his age (29) but with fewer signs of strain. And by including five songs from his 2006 gospel breakthrough Turn Around, and by quoting Lamentations 3:23 in “Red Light,” he keeps his talented hands to the plow.

Move Third Day Lest anyone fear that Third Day has succumbed to the siren song of the age, they’re currently on tour with Max Lucado, TobyMac, and Michael W. Smith, and their latest songs have titles like “Trust in Jesus,” “Children of God,” and “Surrender” (not the Cheap Trick song). Brawny, deep-Southinflected gospel rock is the band’s latest aural template, with equally meaty evangelical lyrics to match, and seldom if ever has the marriage of the two sounded more made in heaven. Guaranteed to bring the lukewarm to a boil. See all our reviews at worldmag.com/music

SPOTLIGHT First released on VHS in 1984, the Everly Brothers’ Reunion Concert: Live at the Royal Albert Hall commemorated the first performance by Phil and Don Everly, 44 and 46, respectively, since their notoriously acrimonious onstage breakup midway through a California concert 10 years before. There they were, older and wiser, revisiting their classic catalog (“All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Cathy’s Clown,” “Devoted to You”) and then some (“Barbara Allen,” “Step It Up and Go,” “Lucille”) as only they could before a crowd that included Tom Petty, their patented tenor harmonies none the worse for the wear. They even wore tuxes. Now, thanks to the reissue mavens at Eagle Rock Entertainment, fans of the duo can relive the occasion on DVD and, thanks to the inclusion of the documentary Rock ’n’ Roll Odyssey, bone up on the brothers’ back story— and, of course, enjoy the performance of a lifetime by an act the likes of which we’ll never see again.

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Mindy Belz

Deeds done in darkness

A prison epistle sheds light on otherwise unknown Christians suffering in secret cells

n October Sayed Mossa handed a letter to a Westerner who came to visit him several times in jail in Afghanistan. He also asked the visitor not to come back, fearing that any misstep could lead to his death. The letter, a copy of which WORLD received in late October, begins with a plea “to the international church of the world and to the President Brother [Barack] Obama and to the heads of ISAF force in Afghanistan.” It describes his imprisonment since late May “due to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, saviour of the world.” It also describes daily beatings and torture: “They did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, mocked me (“he’s Jesus Christ”), [spit] on me. No body let me for sleep night and day.” He also has received death threats. Mossa, 45, has one wife and six children. His oldest child is 8 and one is disabled. Mossa himself is an amputee dependent on a prosthesis for one of his legs. Despite his own disability, he describes in the letter how a prosecutor and other Afghan judicial officials have refused to protect him and even encouraged the abuse from fellow prisoners. I first learned of Mossa’s arrest and imprisonment from a fellow Afghan Christian while in Kabul in late July (see “Fugitives,”Aug. 28, 2010)—all regarded as part of a crackdown against Afghans who have converted from Islam to Christianity. A co-worker of Mossa, worried about the repercussions of having a Christian in his workplace, reportedly turned him in to authorities, notably Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, sometimes referred to as the “secret police.” Yet for over 15 years Mossa (whose name also is spelled Said Musa) has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as an orthopedic therapist, largely assisting victims of the war. That work, along with a photo of Mossa helping a recent amputee, appeared in the local magazine Afghan Scene about the time of his imprisonment. Mossa’s friend has since left Kabul and is seeking asylum in another country, while at least one other Christian may remain in jail.

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What’s ensued is a lot of back-door diplomacy, as Westerners working in Kabul notified U.S. and European embassies there, members of Congress, and international organizations, including the ICRC. On Oct. 29, with the letter putting new pressure on officials, Mossa was moved to another prison, where he reportedly is separated from other prisoners. We hope and pray he will be released soon and that he and his family will be allowed to leave the country. Most seem to believe it will take a nod from President Hamid Karzai to secure Mossa’s release. We’ve been down this road before: In 2006 Christian convert Abdul Rahman, in similar captivity, was exiled to Rome following international pressure and Karzai’s intervention. At that time Karzai promised that Christians would be tolerated in Afghanistan. As Christians approach this month’s International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Nov. 14, we can take little solace in these deeds done in darkness—when backchannel deals take precedence over adherence to Afghan law, while those assured that no one is watching imprison and torture an amputee. Not only were diplomats with vital interests in Afghanistan slow to respond, but the ICRC—with a mandate, according to its website, of “visiting prisoners” and “helping victims of conflict and internal violence, whoever they are”—has not visited Mossa in prison nor intervened. Further, the United States has spent millions of dollars through non-governmental organizations to reform Afghanistan’s judicial system. One USAID-funded program, the Rule of Law Project, has trained court officials, judges, prosecutors, and others to follow Afghanistan’s constitutional procedures—and at the provincial level where Mossa was incarcerated for five months without legal representation, equal protection, or formal charges filed. In the end, despite the back-door diplomacy, the quiet persistence of fellow Christians, and massive efforts by the United States to help Afghanistan, Mossa was left to craft his own defense in a two-page prison epistle written in broken but legible, tightly lined English, and signed “Your destitute brother.” A Email: mbelz@worldmag.com

2010 election

Meet the new speaker A 20-year House veteran, John Boehner has gained the confidence of his Republican colleagues—including social conservatives who are confident that he will advance their cause

by Emily Belz in Washington, D.C. n January 2002, President George W. Bush hailed “a new era” as he signed into law his education reform, No Child Left Behind. Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and other lawmakers surrounded him. Despite opposition from conservative members, Boehner (pronounced “BAY-nur”), who chaired the House education committee at the time, had shepherded through NCLB with bipartisan support. One conservative Republican who served on the House education committee, Pete Hoekstra, was peeved with the reforms, but not with Boehner, who had given him space to air his disagreements. “I fought John more than anyone else on No Child Left Behind,” Hoekstra told me. “I did everything I could conceivably think of to take down that bill. He did everything to beat me every day. He never held a grudge. . . . I respect him for that.”

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Many conservative lawmakers say this is typical of the man who will likely become speaker of the House in January: Boehner, they say, is conservative on many issues and respects conservatives when he disagrees with them. When Boehner became minority leader he installed Hoekstra as the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, a powerful position. “John went out of his way to make me feel included,” said Hoekstra, who is retiring this year. As speaker, Boehner, 60, will have more than 240 members to lead, and they will range from libertarian Tea Partiers to moderates who won swing districts. Social conservatives will be a big part of that mix. And while the social conservatives say values issues aren’t Boehner’s driving passion, they say he listens. One of the highest priorities for social conservatives in the next Congress will be passing legislation to ban federal funding for abortion, and they think Boehner’s skill at strategizing and pulling votes together will be crucial in that effort.

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ocial conservative groups generally support Boehner. “All of the meetings I was in early in the Congress—we were extremely pleased to hear what the leadership said,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the head of the Susan B. Anthony List. She also forecasts the development of “a uniquely pro-life freshman class” that will push Boehner.

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orn in Cincinnati, Ohio, Boehner learned how to lead early in life: He grew up the second-eldest of 12 siblings. With so many in one house, his Roman Catholic parents, Earl and Mary Anne Boehner, slept on a pullout couch for a time. Boehner remains Catholic but rarely mentions his faith: “It’s very personal, very private, and very real,” said Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, Boehner’s closest friend on the Hill. (Boehner himself declined an interview request in the days leading up to Election Day.) Latham and Boehner have dinner together most nights when they’re in Washington: Latham said they always pray together for the country before they eat. Boehner and his siblings attended Catholic schools. He spent nights and weekends mopping floors in Andy’s Cafe, the bar his family owned in Reading, Ohio; these days, Latham said, Boehner enjoys a glass of red wine at dinner. After graduating from Xavier University Boehner became a salesman at the plastics company Nucite Sales, worked his way up to president, and became a millionaire in the process. Boehner won a seat in the state legislature in 1984 and moved on to a seat in the U.S. House in 1990. (His wife Debbie—they’ve been married since 1973—lives back in Ohio, and his daughters, Lindsay and Tricia, are grown.) He was one of the “Gang of Seven,” freshman Republicans who crusaded against the House banking scandal, in which members of both parties overdrew their bank accounts without penalty. Working as deputy to Newt Gingrich, he helped draft the “Contract with America” that helped the Republicans win the House in 1994. He then became Republican Conference chairman, the No. 4 spot in the GOP House leadership. But as Gingrich flailed as speaker and the party experienced losses in 1998, Boehner’s colleagues ousted him from leadership—a low point for him. “There were some times when on the inside there was more disappointment and turmoil than you could ever imagine,” he recalled to The New Republic last year. “But I was never gonna let anybody see it on my face.” Boehner fell back to work in committees and became chairman of the education committee in 2001—where he led the No

Child Left Behind effort. (He calls that his “proudest achievement” in government.) In 2006 Majority Leader Tom Delay, indicted for money laundering, stepped down from leadership, and Boehner beat out Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., to replace him. Just a few months later, Republicans lost the House and Boehner became minority leader—a position he has held ever since. With Democrats controlling both the White House and Congress over the last two years, Boehner developed a handsoff strategy that Hoekstra summed up as, “[Obama] will go off the cliff by himself.” Not a single Republican member voted for the stimulus bill or the healthcare overhaul, and the party voted “no” almost unanimously on the president’s other major initiatives like cap-and-trade and financial regulatory reform. In a silent, personal “no” vote, Boehner smokes in his office even though Speaker Nancy Pelosi instituted a ban on smoking in the Capitol. With Democrats derisively calling Republicans the “party of no,” Boehner swaggeringly upped that: He made them the party of “hell no.” Before the vote on healthcare reform, Boehner gave one of his blunt, blistering floor speeches: “Look at how this bill was written. Can you say it was done openly, with transparency and accountability? Without backroom deals, and struck behind closed doors, hidden from the people? Hell no, you can’t! Have you read the bill? Have you read the reconciliation bill? Have you read the manager’s amendment? Hell no, you haven’t!” Just about his only other talking point, besides “hell no,” was, “Where are the jobs?” That message has worked politically: Boehner says Pelosi and Obama have driven voters into Republican arms. Pelosi, going further with a governing strategy Gingrich began, has all but shut out the minority’s ability to add amendments to bills—and Democrats haven’t kept their promise to post bills two days ahead of a vote. In February 2009, just before the stimulus bill passed, Boehner hoisted the bill and said, “1,100 pages, yet not one member of this body has read it. Not one. What happened to the promise that we’re going to let the American people see what’s in this bill for 48 hours?” He then dropped the 1,100 pages on the floor, saying, “But no, we don’t have time to do that.” Latham said Speaker Boehner will institute a “respect of process.” Bills will be written in committee, Latham said, not in the speaker’s office. They’ll be published in advance so at least members’ staff can read the bills before their bosses vote. Boehner has never requested an earmark, and he instituted an unofficial moratorium on them this year within the party. Most House Republicans have adhered to it. But Boehner is friendly with lobbyists, and he says that is part of the job. He says he has maintained ethical boundaries. He rents a basement apartment on the Hill from a lobbyist.

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Tom DeLay, Dick Armey, Gingrich, and Boehner (from left) in 1995; in his Capitol Hill office in 1998 with a “Gang of Seven” poster; with Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; on a class trip to Washington, D.C., in 1967 (Boehner is in the back row, sixth from left); grabbing a smoke after unveiling “A Pledge to America” in September; Andy’s Café in Reading, Ohio (clockwise from top left).

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Dannenfelser interviewed more than 100 GOP candidates and was impressed with their “degree of steel and backbone”: “They will be voting as a bloc on ending public funding for abortion.” Social conservatives in the House echoed that prediction. “I’m assuming Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader [Eric] Cantor—they’ve been solid on life their whole legislative career. I think they get it,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who is vocal on social issues: “If they don’t fight for those things, there are going to be a lot of members that push them.” The most pushy (on social issues) member of the GOP leadership team, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., is not a close friend of Boehner’s—he ran for leader against him in 2006, calling for

When Republicans introduced this year’s Pledge to America at a Virginia lumber company, Boehner insisted that the GOP’s commitment to marriage and life issues wasn’t anything new: “We’re not going to be any different than we’ve been. We’re going to stand up for what we believe in.” The pledge includes a commitment to ban federal funding for abortion but lacks other specifics. In the document the GOP does pledge to “honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form the core of our American values.” Overall, social conservatives will be but one part of Boehner’s coalition and constituency, and they may not even

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be the one most difficult to please. Hoekstra said it will be tough for Boehner to manage the expectations of frustrated voters who want a drawdown of government spending and a repeal of the healthcare overhaul—which Boehner may be able to pass in the House, but which may not make it to the Senate floor and would face a certain veto on President Obama’s desk. “I’m not worried about him,” said Latham. “You can do as much as you can do.” The speech Boehner gave on the House floor in 2007, on the first day of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, may be the best message to himself and his party now. “This is the people’s Congress,” he said. “Most people don’t care which party controls it. What they want is a government that is limited, honest, accountable, and responsive to their needs. The moment a majority forgets this lesson, it begins writing itself a ticket to minority status.” A Email: ebelz@worldmag.com

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a return to the “values” of the 1994 Contract with America. But Pence responded to my questions about Boehner with a strong statement defending him: “John Boehner has led from conviction on social issues throughout his time in Congress. . . . Social conservatives will soon realize that John Boehner is the most pro-life speaker since Roe v. Wade.” Boehner’s spokesman, Michael Steel, said reports of conflicts between Boehner and social conservatives are “completely manufactured.” Even in one of Boehner’s less conservative moments—his championing of No Child Left Behind—it was apparent that social conservatives had the future speaker’s ear. During negotiations over the legislation in 2001, Republicans added language specifying that publicschool curricula should offer “the full range of scientific views” on controversial topics like evolution. Social conservatives had stressed to Boehner the importance of including such language.

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Tea Party transit Having made an enormous mark in the 2010 election, Tea Partiers now face the challenge of maintaining their momentum by Edward Lee Pitts in Paducah and Madisonville, Ky.

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he start of a late-October Tea Party rally was still more than an hour away. But David and Christy Fletcher were already waiting along the bank where the Tennessee River flows into the Ohio. The Fletchers were putting finishing touches on their colonial-era costumes: David, 52, from nearby DeSoto, Ill., sported a green waistcoat, black buckle shoes, and red stockings. Christy, 49, stood nearby in her rose-flowered period dress. David handed her colonial-era flags out of the back of their beige Ford FreeStar. Next would come the loading of David’s flintlock rifle—“the rifle that won the American Revolution,” he said. The Fletchers have been dressing up at events and for schools since 1995, and David spent part of Sept. 11, 2001, on a street corner in full costume, waving an American flag. Drivers trying to come to grips with the terrorist attacks waved and honked. David says he enjoys the new Tea Party company, but he wonders if it will last. “American people tend to wake up, get excited, and then they go back to sleep,” said David, who later, at the rally’s main stage, raised his rifle high above his head and gave a rendition of Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. “We need to stay on the front lines and not back down. We have to do this for the rest of our lives. This isn’t just one election.” No one will disagree that the less than two-year-old Tea Party movement left an indelible mark on the 2010 election. Despite notable Tea Party defeats in the Delaware and Nevada Senate races, exit polls showed an impressive nearly 40 percent of midterm voters expressed support for the Tea Party. But the euphoria of campaign rallies and bus tours has ended. It will soon be replaced with the often-boring slog of governing. Now a slew of freshman lawmakers are set to carry the Tea Party banner into Congress: a place that they have described as enemy territory. Will they be able to reverse the big-government trends of the last several years? Or will they, and the movement itself, remain a group of loosely connected, roughNOT BACKING DOWN: David Fletcher in his around-the-edges political activists costume; Rand Paul whose resistance to structure actually in Paducah, Ky. limits their post-Nov. 2 influence? In short, what will happen when the bottom-up Tea Party comes to top-down Washington? “I’ve been thinking a lot about that,” James Tidwell, 82, of Paducah told me at the rally. I met Tidwell, who calls himself a “grassroots, mid-America Republican,” shortly after the r ally’s opening prayer in which the speaker called current political leaders “gutless.”

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“Just about everything Obama has done needs to be repealed,” Tidwell said. “Not reformed. And they ought to start that in January. If they dilly dally, they will lose my confidence.” Tidwell ticked off for me his legislative goals: ending Obamacare, stopping bailouts, killing the stimulus, reducing the size and scope of government, preventing cap and trade, and doing away with the Department of Education. Others at the rally added to this legislative agenda: a balanced budget amendment, term limits, immigration reform, reducing regulations, renewing the Bush-era tax cuts, establishing a flat tax, eliminating the estate tax, and phasing out Social Security and Medicare in favor of personal savings accounts. The Tea Party grassroots has a conservative to-do list just as ambitious as the Democrats’ liberal agenda of the last two years. These super-sized expectations have been building through the emotional campaign season, and most Tea Partiers’ anger will turn into hope now that they have voices inside the Capitol. But Judson Phillips, the Memphis, Tenn., founder of Tea Party Nation and organizer of the movement’s first ever c onvention last February, warns that his Tea Party brethren need to have more realistic expectations: “We will have to be content the first couple of years with just stopping the Obama agenda. We are not repealing Obamacare this time. We simply won’t have enough votes.”

hat doesn’t mean the new crop of Tea Party lawmakers won’t be aggressive. Expect epic fights between Tea Party lawmakers and Washington Democrats. But the more interesting looming battle could be between Tea Party lawmakers and Washington Republicans. The crowd in Paducah loved 47-year-old Bowling Green eye surgeon Rand Paul, who in May became the first Tea Party favorite to upset an establishment-endorsed Republican c andidate in a primary. The message of Paul, who won a Senate seat on Nov. 2, is one Republicans in Washington may not like. “Both parties have failed us,” he told the crowd, adding that “what is going on in Washington is extreme. What is going on here is the mainstream.” The Bluegrass state could become the epicenter of the intraparty drama: Beginning next year it will be represented by Tea Party darling Paul and also by Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, first elected by Kentucky voters in 1985. You can’t get much more old-guard than being in Congress for 25 years, including nearly four years as Senate GOP leader. Jesse Burris, a GOP county chairman, calls McConnell the “godfather of the Kentucky Republicans.” But last summer voters found a McConnell offer that they could refuse: After he corralled nearly two dozen Republican senators for a D.C. fundraiser supporting his choice in the GOP primary, Trey Grayson, Kentucky Republicans chose Paul. After Grayson’s defeat, McConnell led another Washington fundraiser with several senators, this time for Paul. Showing the balancing act Tea Partiers will face between keeping their outsider credentials and embracing their old guard colleagues, Paul, by attending the event, reversed a primary pledge not to accept donations from anyone who had backed the $700 billion bank bailout in 2008. The bigger challenge, though, could be for long-serving Republicans relishing newfound party power in Washington. The N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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question of the next Congress, according to Burris, is “Can you teach old dogs new tricks?” The Tea Party has the numbers and the enthusiasm to make old dogs roll over. The local establishment figure for the GOP, McCracken County Republican Party Chairman Dan Underwood, attended the Tea Party rally. He surveyed the riverbank packed with lawn chairs and said the Tea Party will continue to move Republicans to the right: “More than a thousand people are here. If Republicans had tried something like this there would just be hundreds.” Sure enough, a few hours later about 200 people attended a rally at the parking lot of the Hopkins County Republican Party’s headquarters in nearby Madisonville, Ky. The local GOP tried to entice folks with free hot dogs and early Halloween candy. Here the sandy-haired Paul mingled with the crowd in the parking lot before taking the microphone to repeat most of his lines from the earlier rally—minus the Tea Party plugs.

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“We are their boss, and we will not let them forget that.” —Tea Party organizer Danita Kilcullen

that the Tea Party “has the establishment shaking in their boots.” He then quoted from a thank-you card he had recently received from Paul. It read: “I smile when I think of what we can do together in the Senate.” This Washington shake-up attempt, now approved by the voters, begins in January. A Email: lpitts@worldmag.com

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or the Tea party movement to have influence, John O’Hara, author of A New American Tea Party, says its members must evolve from rallying, recruiting, and campaigning to emphasizing “accountability.” Tea Partiers across the United States understand that. For example, Florida’s Danita Kilcullen, 60, is ready to be on the accountability watch. She founded the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party, and for more than 80 straight weeks she and other members have spent two hours each Saturday afternoon camped out at one of the city’s busiest intersections. With as many as 135 protesters bringing Tea Party flags and protest signs, drivers at first would stare the other way. But one Saturday Kilcullen said she counted 2,500 honks of support. After each protest, her group retires to a nearby Jib Room pub to discuss strategy. At a recent meeting, Kilcullen asked, “Who here thinks the Tea Party is done after Nov. 2?” No hands went up. Author O’Hara argues that Kilcullen’s group might be correct: He says that the group’s lack of a central leader will help it survive

where other movements die out after the figurehead isappoints, loses, or disappears. d Kilcullen says she understands that Washington is a “very corrupting realm.” That is why her group’s next task is to keep a close eye on the freshman Tea Party lawmakers: “We are their boss, and we will not let them forget that. As we say in our Tea Party meetings here in Florida, ‘On Nov. 3 we are already searching for somebody to replace you.’” To avoid getting fully sucked into the GOP party apparatus, new Sen. Paul hopes to launch a bipartisan, bicameral Tea Party caucus. He promises not to act like a career politician, biding his time on the chamber’s backbench until party leaders invite him to join the big lawmaker table. But will these new lawmakers, who argued that never holding office is an attribute, have the skills to make laws? That is where Jim DeMint comes in. The Senate Republican from South Carolina has been an early backer of the movement from inside Congress. He supported Tea Party long shots like Paul long before other veteran lawmakers. Most observers expect that DeMint, just elected to his second term in the Senate after serving three terms in the House, will become the de facto congressional leader of the Tea Party. At a recent rally in Erlanger, Ky., DeMint told the crowd

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Climbing the hill As a large freshman class arrives in Washington promising change, these are some of the new faces to watch for in Congress by Emily Belz, Jamie Dean, Alisa Harris, and Edward Lee Pitts s Democrats limped away from a defeat in bruising mid-term elections, Republican Marco Rubio warned jubilant Republicans against strutting. “We make a grave mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party,” Rubio said after winning his Senate race in Florida. “What they are is a second chance—a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not long ago.” Republicans longing for a second chance weren’t disappointed: The GOP reclaimed a majority in the House of Representatives by winning more than 60 seats held by Democrats, the party’s largest sweep of House races since 1938. Democrats retained control of the Senate, but their majority narrowed: Republicans gained at least six seats, including the spots of liberal mainstays like Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. GOP wins stretched across every region of the country, reflecting widespread voter angst against Democrats. But winning isn’t everything: Now Republicans have to deliver—a formidable task for Republican senators still in the minority, and for presumed Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his crop of political newcomers. Who are these new faces? What will drive them in Congress? Here’s a look at some of the future legislators set to arrive on Capitol Hill next month. SECOND CHANCE: Rubio celebrates victory in Florida with his family. lynne sladky/ap

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Ron Johnson | Wisconsin Last spring, Ron Johnson was a 55-year-old president of a plastics company in Oshkosh, Wis. Then the healthcare overhaul passed. So, on May 17, Johnson found himself announcing that he was taking on three-term Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold. “The passage of Obamacare, that was just kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back from my standpoint,” Johnson said, “and I thought I just couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.” Few gave Johnson much of a chance. After all, Wisconsin hasn’t had a Republican senator since 1992 and Johnson had never run for public office. But Johnson spent more than $8 million of his own money in the race, and it will be the once virtually unknown Johnson, not Feingold, who goes to Congress in January. Johnson will bring with him to Washington 31 years of accounting and manufacturing experience. He says a top goal is to cap federal spending and to stop the remaining $165 billion in stimulus funds from being spent. But his ultimate goal is what started him on this road less than six months ago: repealing Obamacare.

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When Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark., transfers to the U.S. Senate in January, he’ll bear a notable distinction: Boozman is set to become only the second Republican senator from Arkansas since the 1870s. The congressman unseated Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, whose support for Obama’s healthcare legislation proved toxic. Boozman—a House member since 2001—voted against the healthcare overhaul. The optometrist who owns his own business said that combination helped drive his votes against costly legislation that weakens healthcare and burdens small business owners. Most expect Boozman to promote fiscal conservatism in the Senate, but they’ll also watch his promises: Boozman—who sponsored $30 million worth of earmarks last year—says he’ll join a GOP moratorium on pork-barrel spending. Though Boozman emphasized fiscal discipline in his Senate campaign, his House voting record also reveals a conservative stance on social issues. The congressman supported the partial-birth-abortion ban and opposed federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. He also opposes same-sex marriage and recently voted against a veterans’ bill because it included a repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay troops.

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With her victory in New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte proved that a young conservative female could indeed win a statewide election in a moderate state. Ayotte, 42, quietly maintained a steady lead in a New England state despite her support of the sanctity of marriage and her persistent criticisms of the new healthcare law. A former New Hampshire attorney general, Ayotte replaces the retiring Sen. Judd Gregg. As a senator, she is expected to be a fighter for prolife issues. While attorney general, Ayotte appealed a lower court ruling that overturned a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification of a minor’s abortion. She personally argued the case before the Supreme Court over the objections of the state’s incoming Democratic governor. Ayotte, the wife of an Iraq War veteran and mother of two, favors term limits and vows to serve no more than two terms in office. A national Republican Party looking to broaden its appeal among women and independent voters will likely embrace her.

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Pat Toomey | Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey offered this summary of his free-market, small- government views while running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania: “France might be a nice place to visit, but I don’t want to be France.” The message resonated with Pennsylvanians: Toomey won the seat that Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter vacates in January. (Specter—a Republican until last year—lost his primary battle to Rep. Joe Sestak.) Few doubt that Toomey will drive a hard line on fiscal conservatism. The former president of the limited-government group Club for Growth vigorously supports cutting taxes and federal regulations. On social issues, the National Right to Life Committee endorsed Toomey’s run, noting the former congressman’s pro-life voting record. But pro-life advocates will watch Toomey’s votes on any future Supreme Court justices. The senator-elect said last year that he would have voted for confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying that “objective qualifications should matter more than ideology in the judicial confirmation process.” Sotomayor testified during her confirmation hearings that Roe v. Wade is settled precedent.

Previously profiled WORLD profiled some of the newly elected senators and congressmen during the campaign season, including: Marco Rubio of Florida (“The challenger’s challenge,” Aug. 14), Dan Benishek of Michigan, Larry Bucshon of Indiana, Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, and Scott Rigell of Virginia (“Rookie season,” Sept. 25).

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Mike Lee | Utah The Republican Party establishment did not start taking the Tea Party seriously until it took out one of their own: Bob Bennett, Utah’s three-term senator, finished third last May in his state’s GOP convention. Now attorney Mike Lee, just 39, heads to Washington in his place. Lee promises to take Tea Party priorities straight to the Senate chamber. His goals for his first two years include passing a balanced budget and a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget every year. He also pledges to first defund, then repeal Obamacare. While Bennett brought home the federal bacon, Lee opposes earmarks, describing them as the “holy sacrament of big government.” Saying it shouldn’t be considered outlandish to want to get the nation’s fiscal house in order, Lee has suggested an immediate 40 percent cut in federal spending and has argued that a government shutdown may be “absolutely necessary.” Despite being a Tea Party star, Lee is not really new to Washington: His father served as solicitor general under President Reagan, and Lee himself worked for a D.C.-based law firm and once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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Steve Southerland | Florida-02 Steve Southerland is making the unusual jump from funeral director to congressman, representing Florida’s 2nd District. Southerland retired seven-term Blue Dog Democrat Allen Boyd, even though registered Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district. The National Rifle Association and U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed the incumbent Boyd, but his votes for the stimulus and the final healthcare reform bill riled voters. Southerland, whose family is also involved in local timber and stone industries, campaigned on fiscal restraint based on his experience as a businessman. He will be leaving the Panama City funeral home his grandfather started in 1955. He and his wife Susan have four daughters and attend a Southern Baptist church in Panama City.

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Stephen Fincher | Tennessee-08 When Tennessee’s John Tanner, one of Congress’ original Blue Dog conservative Democrats, announced last December that he would retire after 11 terms in the House, few thought his seat would change parties. After all, Republicans have held what is now called the state’s 8th Congressional District for a total of just six years since 1875. But enter a farmer and gospel singer named Stephen Fincher from Frog Jump, Tenn. A political novice, Fincher, 37, rode an “it’s time to plough Congress” campaign slogan to victory in this northwest Tennessee district. “My roots run deep in Tennessee, not politics,” says Fincher, who plays bass guitar and sings with family members in a band that has performed in more than 500 churches over the last decade. He even admitted during the campaign to a gathering at a local community college that he’d never been to Washington until December, when he spoke to about 100 Republican congressmen. “I stood and I said, ‘Can I be honest?’ and they said, ‘Yes, sir,’ and I said, ‘I don’t like it up here,’ and they said, ‘If you keep it that way, you’ll be the best congressman we’ve ever had.’” Fincher could also be a sign that Southern white Democrats like Tanner may be an endangered political species.

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The so-called Rust Belt in the Midwest turned a deep shade of red on Election Day: The GOP recaptured the majority of the nation’s governors’ seats, including a number of posts in Midwest and industrial states. The victories are a boon for Republicans seeking an advantage in next year’s redistricting process for congressional seats, and a bell wether for presidential politics in the swing states that comprise the politically coveted region. Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine touted the national implications of Republican John Kasich’s win over incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in Ohio: “Today we kicked down Obama’s firewall.” Republicans clinched governors’ victories in other Midwest and industrial states held by Democrats, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Iowa. In another swing state, Republican Rick Scott—a Tea Party favorite—narrowly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in the race for Florida governor. Outside the Midwest, a trio of Republican women became their states’ first female g overnors: Mary Fallin took Oklahoma and Susan Martinez won New Mexico. In South Carolina, Nikki Haley prevailed in a state that has never had a governor who wasn’t a white male. Haley is also set to become the nation’s second Indian-American governor. Democrats did hold governors’ seats in some key states, including Massachusetts and Colorado. The party also picked up Republican seats in at least two states: Hawaii and California. In California, Democrat Jerry Brown defeated Republican Meg Whitman after the GOP candidate spent $148 million of her personal fortune on the race. States also decided on a bevy of high-profile ballot measures: Voters in California said no to legalizing the retail sale and possession of marijuana. Oklahomans voted to make English the state’s official language. The state also approved measures prohibiting courts from considering Islamic law when deciding cases, and prohibiting laws that require citizens to purchase health insurance. In Colorado, voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have declared “personhood” for unborn children.

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Cedric Richmond | Louisiana-02

Mike Pompeo | Kansas-04

One of the few Democrats to wrest a seat from a sitting Republican, Cedric Richmond beat out Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao in Louisiana’s heavily Democratic 2nd District, which encompasses New Orleans and some of its suburbs. In 2008 Cao was the first Republican to win that seat in over a century, so Democrats felt certain they could win it back. Richmond, 37, who became the youngest state representative when he was elected 10 years ago, had tied Cao to Republicans, highlighting Cao’s votes against the stimulus and the healthcare overhaul. Cao voted with Democrats more than any other House Republican, but Richmond is likely to be a reliable party-line vote. He had issues in his own background, including an arrest in a bar fight, two ethics violations, and a temporary suspension of his law license—but in 2008 he ran in the primary against then-Rep. William Jefferson, the Democrat who was found guilty of corruption, and that boosted his credibility as someone concerned with integrity in politics. Richmond is not married.

In Kansas’ 4th District, businessman Mike Pompeo, 46, will replace Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who is retiring after losing in the Republican Senate primary to Rep. Jerry Moran. Pompeo is the head of a Wichita oil company. He has raised money and campaigned for Republicans previously, and has business ties to the Koch brothers, billionaires who support Republicans. A West Point graduate, Pompeo also attended Harvard Law School where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. He later joined Thayer Aerospace as a business partner and is currently CEO of Sentry International, which manufactures oilfield equipment. Pompeo describes himself as a “committed economic conservative” and as pro-life. He was at one time a candidate for the state party’s chairman because politicos believed he could bring together the conservative and moderate wings of the Republican Party. He has a wife, Susan, and one son, Nicholas. Competing in a historically Republican district, Pompeo easily defeated Democrat Raj Goyle.

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Tim Huelskamp | Kansas-01 Farmer and state Sen. Tim Huelskamp, 41, will replace Republican Rep. Jerry Moran, who won the seat of retiring Sen. Sam Brownback, in Kansas’ 1st District. Huelskamp, raised in Kansas, runs a farm that his grandparents started in 1925 even as he has served in the state Senate since 1997. One of the state legislature’s most conservative members, he has opposed even his GOP leaders in the state Senate on spending issues. Huelskamp is Catholic and prolife, and with his wife Angela counseled women in crisis pregnancies in Washington, D.C., in the mid-1990s when he was working on his Ph.D. at American University. The couple now has four adopted children, two of them from Haiti. Huelskamp, in a solidly Republican district, had no trouble beating Democrat Alan Jilka.

Tim Scott | South Carolina-01 To become the first black Republican in Congress in seven years, Tim Scott first had to defeat an iconic name in South Carolina’s politics. Scott, with Tea Party support, unseated the son of late Sen. Strom Thurmond in the GOP primary before going on to win the House seat for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. The elder Thurmond ran for president on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket in 1948. Now Scott will become just the sixth black Republican in Congress since the start of the 20th century. He likely will be a star in the GOP’s efforts to attract minority voters. A 45-year-old state legislator and insurance agent, Scott will represent a district that cuts through portions of Charleston—where the Civil War began. But Scott seems more interested in curtailing the federal government’s reach than he does in playing race politics. “Business creates jobs when government gets out of the way,” he says. N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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Nan Hayworth | New York-19

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During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Nan Hayworth said she decided to run for New York’s 19th Congressional District after the 2008 election, when she worried that the government “would crush the enterprise and the commerce, would impede the business that is the lifeblood of our prosperity.” President Bill Clinton stumped for the district’s incumbent John Hall, but Hayworth pulled ahead in a swing district that went for Barack Obama in the last presidential election. Hayworth is a political newcomer who spent her professional life running an ophthalmology business and working as vice president for a healthcare advertising agency. Named one of NRCC’s Young Guns and endorsed by the Club for Growth, Hayworth decries government spending, says cap-and-trade is a “bad idea,” and supports a permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts. She says she would vote to repeal the healthcare overhaul and, in the meantime, work to “depower and defund it and replace it with a plan that works.” Her conservatism does not extend to social issues, however: Hayworth supports legal abortion.

A native Coloradan, Cory Gardner opposed Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey on a platform of lower spending and less regulation. Gardner has a law degree and has worked in politics both as an aide and as a state legislator since 2005. In a Q&A with the Colorado newspaper Daily Camera, Gardner named “wasteful, out-of- control spending” as the most pressing issue facing the country. Gardner advocates a balanced budget amendment and cutting non-defense discretionary spending to pre-2009 levels. In its endorsement of Gardner, the Denver Post said he was “far more animated by fiscal issues than . . . divisive social issues.” Gardner downplayed his commitment to social causes during the campaign—he declined to answer when The New York Times asked him about abortion—but as a state legislator he supported the Colorado ballot initiative that would define “personhood” to include embryos and sponsored legislation that would ban abortion except to preserve the life of the mother. Pro-abortion groups like EMILY’s List spent heavily to defeat him.

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Steve Chabot | Ohio-01 When Steve Chabot heads to Washington, D.C., in January, he’ll know how to pack: The Ohio Republican served in the House for 14 years before a Democratic challenger ousted him in 2008. This year, Chabot ousted the ouster, re-taking the seat he lost to incumbent Democrat Steve Driehaus. The Democrat had painted Chabot as a Washington insider, but Chabot reminded voters of his conservative voting record and his 1993 Buick. His voting record included opposition to TARP funds and the auto bailout, and a consistent pro-life position. Chabot said after losing his reelection bid to Driehaus in 2008, he thought he would re-open his law firm and remain a private citizen. But Congress’ passage of the $787 billion stimulus bill prompted Chabot to reconsider, especially after he watched Driehaus vote “yea.”

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Adam Kinzinger | Illinois-11 When Adam Kinzinger was growing up, his siblings called him “Mr. Mayor” because of his early interest in politics. The Republican won a spot on a county school board when he was 20. Kinzinger never became mayor of his native Bloomington, Ill., but the 32-year-old has deftly leapfrogged to a higher office: U.S. congressman. Kinzinger defeated Democratic Rep. Debbie Halvorson, a landslide winner in 2008. During his campaign, Kinzinger emphasized fiscal conservatism and fostering an economic environment that encourages growth for small business. The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List endorsed his candidacy. Kinzinger didn’t mention social issues on his campaign website, but he did outline policy for Iraq and Afghanistan. He advocates increasing troop levels and refraining from publicizing a date for U.S. withdrawal. Kinzinger’s interest in foreign policy comes by experience: The U.S. Air Force captain has deployed to Iraq three times. A

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3 Beneath the hills and cattle hoofs of Colorado lies a vast energy resource that gets locals a bit up in arms. It’s oil shale, a dark, flaky rock that oozes oil when heated. Enthusiasts want to mine it, but others in the state say the stuff is more trouble than it’s worth. When former oil executive Glenn Vawter of Glenwood Springs heard an especially vocal critic repeatedly insist that oil shale’s energy content was as low as a baked potato, he decided to take some potatoes to a nearby lab to have their energy content checked. “Typical oil shale will [yield] 25 gallons of oil per ton of shale,” he told me. When Vawter substituted his potatoes for the shale, the energy yield plummeted—down to “about 3.5 gallons of oil per ton of potatoes.” Clearly, tubers won’t be powering cars anytime soon. But oil shale will have to outmaneuver more than just potatoes to reach U.S. gas pumps. Its opponents in the Rocky Mountain states and in

Washington are worried that industrial mining operations will waste limited Western water and damage the environment. Proponents say it can reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil: Miners in Brazil and Estonia have worked the sedimentary rock for decades, but 72 percent of the world’s supply is found within 150 miles of Grand Junction, Colo. Political trends and a recent surge in oil-extraction technology will help determine how serious a player oil shale becomes in America’s energy future. Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming straddle the best oil shale reserve in the world—the equivalent of nearly 2 trillion barrels of oil, an estimated 800 billion of which is recoverable. By comparison, Saudi Arabia’s proven crude oil reserves total 263 billion barrels. Oil shale contains kerogen— essentially a solid fossil fuel that nature never had a chance to convert to liquid. Americans have seen it for decades as an energy source: The government extracted 3,600 barrels of petroleum from shale in the 1920s, but the discovery of large oil fields in California and elsewhere stifled interest. The industry has surged and ebbed in the years since. “The cost of getting it out is obviously higher than pumping oil out of the ground,” said Vawter, who is the executive director of the National Oil Shale Association, an educational group with members from within the industry. “That’s been the stumbling block all these years.” But when the price of oil spikes, as it did in July 2008 ($147 per barrel then), oil shale

COOKING: Raytheon senior principal systems engineer John Cogliandro pulls an RF antenna from a shale sample at the CF Technologies lab in Boston. The antenna transmits radio frequen cies that generate heat to melt a waxy substance in the shale called kerogen so that it can be converted into oil. The vials above contain oil extracted from shale.

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s uddenly becomes cost effective. With U.S. crude expected to average a healthy $80 this year, oil giants and smaller energy companies alike are competing to see whose technology can squeeze oil out of the rocks the most cheaply. Some are taking the traditional approach— which is to mine the shale, load it into a kiln, and cook the oil out—and making it cleaner and more efficient. Other companies are testing in situ techniques, in which the shale is cooked while still in the ground, eliminating open pit mining. Shell Oil is a leader in this technology. The company plans to drill holes up to 2,000 feet deep and insert electric heaters to slowly raise the shale temperature to around 700 degrees Fahrenheit, collecting oil and natural gas as the heat forces them out. To prevent the operation from contaminating groundwater, Shell will use underground refrigeration systems to freeze the perimeter of the site, creating a wall of ice. In its initial tests in Colorado’s Rio Blanco County, Shell yielded 1,700 barrels of oil from a 30-by-40-foot area. Other companies hope to go commercial with their own unique technologies, but politics has

slowed the pace of development. During the Bush administration, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) crafted terms to lease federal land so companies could demonstrate feasible oil shale extraction methods. Twenty energy companies applied, and four were awarded leases in 2007. But with a new administration came new priorities: President Obama appointed Ken Salazar, a U.S. senator from Colorado, to be secretary of the Interior. One of Salazar’s first moves was to cancel the Bush lease rules, rewriting them to be less generous for oil companies. The new secretary said those who view oil shale as a “panacea for America’s energy needs have been living in fantasy land.” “[Salazar] was very sensitive to land and water issues and environmental concerns, and carried that with him to Washington,” said Daniel Fine, a strategic adviser for the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. “The policy is basically to contain it—contain oil shale development, which has been done in terms of the change in leases.” When Salazar offered his revised BLM leases in 2009, only three companies applied.

Many Coloradans share their former senator’s skepticism about oil shale, going back to the 1970s and 1980s. The 1973-74 Arab oil The United States holds more than half of the world’s oil shale resources, embargo drove up but extracting the oil requires huge amounts of energy. oil prices and prompted a federal Major U.S. oil shale deposits push for domestic WY fuel development. Richest, most concentrated Taking advantage Less concentrated of subsidies, energy companies began developing oil shale operations with limited regard for Green River community or formation UT environmental CO impact. By 1982 oil prices were falling Green River formation again, and Exxon 3 16,000 square miles pulled out of a $5.5 3 Largest known deposits billion oil shale of oil shale project, laying off 3 Estimated to contain 2,200 employees on 1.5 trillion to 1.8 trillion what was called barrels of oil “Black Sunday.” Coloradans still remember it, and some are wary of another industry source: u.s. geological survey; u.s. department of energy

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boom and bust. As the local sarcasm goes, “Oil shale has a fantastic future—it always has, and it always will.” Poll numbers show most Coloradans are against oil shale subsidies unless they involve “strict environmental controls.” A recent report by the environmental policy group Western Resource Advocates laid out the case against the oily rock: If the United States were to make an all-out run on Western oil shale, producing 2.4 million barrels of oil a day by 2030, the industry could require somewhere between 180,000 and 420,000 acre-feet of water. That’s about 5 percent to 12 percent of what Colorado already draws each year from the Colorado River Basin. And although oil shale has seven times more energy than potatoes, it has a low energy return on investment—making it anywhere from one-half to one-twentieth as efficient an energy source as conventional crude, depending on technology and how the numbers are run. Add to that increased CO2 emissions and the risks that a landscape of oil extraction plants could pose to migrating mule deer, groundwater, and a scenic view of pinyon pines and junipers, and it’s nearly enough to make a concerned citizen worry that his state will become “a sacrifice zone to produce inefficient and wasteful fuels,” in the words of the Advocates report. But Jeremy Boak, director of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research at the Colorado School of Mines, believes such critics exaggerate the environmental impact. He hosts an annual conference that brings together oil shale experts from around the world to share new developments. “We know how to restore the land, and we know the footprint in the oil shale industry can be quite compact,” he said. In the last decade or so, companies have made big advances with carbon capture technology, in situ mining, and efficient refining techniques that use little water. The industry could be built slowly, said Boak, with plants occupying as little as “ten square kilometers out of a thousand or more.” Fine said oil shale’s obstacle isn’t technology so much as politics and oil prices. An oil price spike could jolt oil shale into production, but the Nov. 2 election may help, too. The House, coming under Republican control, may push to revive oil shale—but likely with resistance from a Democratic Senate and administration. The result will likely be pressure for more development but also a continuation of what Boak calls a “kind of a perennial disgruntlement” on both sides of the oil shale debate. A

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Gas glut If you find your heating bill delightfully inexpensive this winter, you can thank the ingenuity of shale gas drillers. New drilling technology in huge Eastern and Southern U.S. shale rock formations have allowed energy companies to reach natural gas resources that were inaccessible before. “We once thought we could face gas shortages and brownouts,” energy analyst Fadel Gheit told the Associated Press. “Now we are CHEAP GAS: Workers facing an enormous oversupply of natural gas.” move a section of well Known U.S. gas resources increased around 40 casing into place at a percent from 2006 to 2009, according to the natural gas well site in Colorado School of Mines. Pennsylvania. The glut has boosted production and cut gas prices—great for homeowners and natural-gas-fired power plants but devastating for more expensive forms of electricity generation, such as wind farms and nuclear power plants. Even with the option of federal loan guarantees, many energy companies have delayed or halted nuclear reactor projects—or say they’ll do so if gas remains at its low $3 to $4 per million British thermal units (down from nearly $14 in 2008). Electricity from natural gas is expected to supply a quarter of U.S. power by 2015, as coal-fired plants face pressure and regulation for their comparatively high carbon emissions. Natural gas from shale is sometimes confused with oil shale, but it is a distinct geologic phenomenon. In this case the gas has already separated from the shale but remains trapped inside it. Energy companies release the gas by drilling holes and using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”—employing high-pressure blasts of water or specialized fluids—to crack the rock. Although the process was pioneered in the 1980s, only recently did engineers perfect the technique of drilling down and then sideways into hard-toaccess shale deposits. Hydraulic fracturing isn’t without problems, though: The EPA has launched a two-year investigation into the environmental and health effects of fracking, looking especially hard at the chemicals in fracking fluids. In September drilling companies were required to start disclosing their fracking ingredients in Wyoming, where some residents found benzene and naphthalene in their well water. Both houses of Congress have introduced bills to establish federal oversight of fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act, but as of early November the bills were stuck in committee. —D.J.D.

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After shouting down speakers and allegedly supporting terrorists, a Muslim student group prepares to re-emerge on a California campus When a Muslim organization on a campus known for free speech tries to shut up those with a different viewpoint, what’s the right penalty? At the University of California, Irvine (UCI), home to approximately 23,000 students and one of the most virulent Muslim student groups in the nation, administrators are choosing a slap on the wrist. ¶ UCI’s 2010 travail began in February when the Muslim Student Union (MSU) orchestrated a protest of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech at UCI. Emails obtained by administrators revealed the MSU plan for students one by one to heckle the ambassador. Campus officials issued a warning the group chose to ignore. ¶ The interruptions continued—consuming more than 30 minutes of the ambassador’s speech—until police escorted from the building and arrested 11 protesters, eight of them UCI students. Then the remaining protesters exited, chanting slogans in unison as they left. UCI suspended MSU, which is funded by compulsory student fees,

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Neelie Milstein, a December 2009 graduate of UCI, says she hadn’t felt attacked for being Jewish until she came to the university in 2006. She recalls her first encounter with some of the MSU’s more visual propaganda: “I first saw an Israeli flag and thought, ‘Where’s the hate in this?’ And then as the flag continued to blow in the wind, I realized there was blood all over it.” Many radical Muslim groups attempt to make a distinction between Zionism and Judaism, claiming they are not guilty of antiSemitism when they call for Israel’s destruction. Milstein disagrees: “Some argue that it’s just the Israeli flag and doesn’t have anything to do with being Jewish, but I beg to differ because, as you know, the Magen David [Star of David] is the center of the Jewish flag and it’s also the symbol of Judaism.” Other visual demonstrations are equally disturbing: posters of Muslim women saying, “God bless Hitler,” swastikas and the Star of David displayed side by side, a mock “apartheid wall” complete with students dressed as Hamas “freedom fighters,” and posters of Muslim women sporting AK-47s are a few of the group’s choice props. Some Jewish students claim they’ve also been physically attacked. None has reported serious injuries but many are clearly frustrated by what they say is a lackluster response on the part of the university. “They cause a lot of hate on campus,” Milstein said. UCI, like other college campuses, appears to be entangled in a discussion about First Amendment rights. The crux of the disagreement centers on the definitions of free speech and hate speech and to whom these rules apply. Radical Muslims maintain a double standard—one that regards any negative comment about Islam or Muhammad as hate speech (and deserving of punishment or death, according to some) but considers violent rhetoric against Israel and the Jewish people a duty, according to Islamist interpretations of the Koran, and a constitutional right under the First Amendment. MSU leaders have historically avoided the media spotlight and have attempted to keep both media and non-Muslim students from attending their meetings or filming their events, but one post-protest gathering after a 2007 speech at UCI by Daniel Pipes is on tape: “It’s just a matter of time before the state of Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth. . . . Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country is with our tongues. We speak out and we deflate their morale, and it’s the best we can do right now. And our brothers and sisters on the other side of the world are handling business in their own way. May Allah give them strength.” A

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for 12 months, but in September cut the suspension by two-thirds: The suspension will now end on Dec. 31, with MSU remaining on “probation.” MSU has a history of disturbances and support for terrorist groups. In May it sponsored a speech by Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali, an imam associated with the Muslim organization As-Sabiqun. Malik-Ali gripped a campus podium displaying the slogan “Israel, the Fourth Reich” and called Jews “the new Nazis.” He thrust forward a thinly veiled threat: “Your days “A LOT OF HATE are numbered. We will fight ON CAMPUS”: you. We will fight either until Muslim Student we are martyred or until we Union rallies are victorious!” A group of at UC Irvine. students responded with the jihadist battle cry, “Allahu Akbar!” Joe Wolf, one of the few “observant” Jews at UCI, should feel that threat. A Ph.D. candidate in physics, Wolf wears the traditional kippah and strictly follows religious laws—even dismantling his refrigerator light during holy days so he won’t violate laws some interpret as prohibiting any form of “work.” Wolf is also 6'2" and originally from the East Coast—two factors that prevent him from being intimidated by the MSU and its tactics, he says. Wolf frequents MSU rallies, always prepared to ask specific questions and armed with facts, sources, and copies of texts for speakers to examine. His demeanor is confident but respectful. He believes that the Michael Oren protest was the least damaging of the MSU’s many endeavors: “When they use hate speech and actually intimidate people and raise money for terrorists— these actually hurt people.” After this year’s “Israeli Apartheid Week,” Wolf launched a campaign to refund a portion of the estimated $6,500 in mandatory students fees allocated to the MSU for the four-day event. Malik-Ali’s vocal support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad—all considered terrorist organizations by the U.S. government—constitutes a breach of campus policy, Wolf said. Last year MSU hosted British politician George Galloway and allegedly solicited funds for his organization, Viva Palestina, which has links to Hamas documented by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The university has not reached a decision about the student refunds, but the ultimate goal, according to Wolf, is to prevent future student fees from being used to sponsor speakers like Malik-Ali or Galloway.

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November is National Adoption Month, so I asked Chuck Johnson, the new CEO and president of the National Committee for Adoption (NCFA), about adoption trends and challenges. First the good news: “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference” between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, in concern for adoption issues. “It’s the only issue you can get agreement on.” Just before Congress took off for the election break, it renewed for another year the adoption tax credit scheduled to expire in December. Johnson hopes they’ll make the tax credit permanent. That political unity can’t overcome tough challenges, especially regarding inter-country

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and domestic infant adoptions. Johnson said that legitimate concerns about corruption in some countries and a series of missteps by a few adoption service providers have cast a shadow over all inter-country adoptions. Officials have a “duty and obligation” to make sure children are legitimate orphans or their parents have relinquished rights, he says, but he’s worried about what happens when you let those concerns disrupt all adoptions: “You end up hurting many more children.” The numbers are revealing: Inter-country adoptions fell to a 13-year low in 2009, Suffer little children: when fewer than A girl at an orphanage in 13,000 took place. Feyzabad, Afghanistan. N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

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domestic infant adoptions occurred. The Johnson fears the 2010 story will be federal government has tried to encoureven worse, with fewer than 11,000 age adoption options, and NCFA has a occurring this year. Some formerly grant—The Infant Adoption Training popular countries like Vietnam and Initiative—to train family planning and Guatemala are now closed, and the State healthcare workers to discuss adoption Department recently suspended adopwith pregnant clients. Pregnant women tions from Nepal. Countries that are still for the most part don’t consider it a open—China and Russia, for instance— viable choice even though research have decreased the number of children shows that women who place their they are letting out of the country. Johnson says inter-country adoption is only a small part of the solution to the ‘‘People are international orphan crisis. He lining up notes that Americans adopt and waiting more children internationally to adopt than all other countries comregardless of bined. With 50,000 internarace, health, tional adoptions worldwide or culture of barely making a dent in the the child.’’ number of orphans needing adoption, the challenge is to —Chuck Johnson turn adoption-hostile cultures into adoption-friendly ones. babies for adoption generally do well As Americans have become more in life and are happy with their choice. aware of the orphan crisis, they have The one bright spot in adoption is a been willing to adopt special-needs small increase in the number of children children. Johnson said 60 percent of adopted out of foster care. According the Chinese adoptions now involve to the Administration for Children and special-needs kids: “People are lining Families, 52,000 children were adopted up and waiting to adopt regardless of out of foster care in 2005. In 2009 that race, health, or culture of the child.” number had increased to 57,000. At Despite high rates of out-of-wedlock the same time, the number of children pregnancy and abortion, pregnant waiting to be adopted from foster care women are still not turning to domestic declined from 131,000 to 115,000. infant adoption: In 2007 only 22,000

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption published recently its list of the most adoption-friendly work places. The Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, founded by Thomas, placed first. It offers its employees a maximum $24,300 reimbursement for adoption expenses and six weeks of paid leave. Other companies in the top 10 include Citizen’s Financial Group, Liquidnet, LSI Corporation, Putnam Investments, Vanguard Group, Subaru of America, BHP Billiton, The Timberland Company, and Barilla America. Some companies provide bene fits only to full-time employees, but more than half provide benefits to part-timers as well. The financial services industry is the most adop tion friendly, with 20 companies making it into the top 100. Despite the availability of generous benefits, only half of 1 percent of eligible employees take advantage of them each year. Nonetheless, human ser vices managers say the benefit helps create a family-friendly workplace. Even employees who don’t take advantage of it like the fact that their companies offer it. —S.O.

‘Mercy and grace in action’

experts, including adoptive par ents and older adoptees, and learn about the lengthy and some times uncomfortable process of adopting out of foster care. Kelly Rosati, FOTF’s vice pres ident of community outreach, heads up the program. As the mother of four “kiddos” adopted from the system, she knows firsthand that these children need families prepared to deal with a range of problems. She also knows how invasive the adoptive

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process can seem, but she says God uses the process to help par ents prepare for what will come. Rosati calls adoption of foster children “a beautiful thing and a hard thing . . . mercy and grace in action.” In Colorado, more than 500 families, mostly emptynesters or parents of healthy, older teens, have responded and begun the process: Families that choose to go forward need to do it “with their eyes wide open.” The campaign has spread to

California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas. Rosati says FOTF is always looking to expand in other areas with many waiting children, eager child wel fare officials, Christian child-plac ing agencies (particularly those with state contracts), and a church that’s excited about adoption. Rosati notes the math: 120,000 waiting children, 300,000 churches: “Not everyone is called to adopt,” she says, “but we’re all called to do something.” —S.O.

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Social media sites challenge Google’s dominance of internet searching By alissa wilkinson

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Bites of the Apple In the United States, Apple’s iPhone has been available exclusively on the AT&T network since its release to the market. The original contract between the technology giant and the mobile phone carrier expired this year, prompting rumors that Apple would switch carriers or even make the phone available on various networks, as it has elsewhere in the world. But although the iPhone is still only available from AT&T—for now—Verizon began carrying the iPad in its stores in late October. Instead of offering the 3G version of the device, which operates over AT&T’s 3G cellular data networks, Verizon sells the version that only works over a wireless internet signal, but bundles it with a MiFi, a small device that makes it possible to access the internet over Verizon’s networks. The cost for the iPad with the MiFi is roughly equivalent to the cost of the AT&T version, but whereas AT&T’s data plan costs between $15 and $25 per month, Verizon’s data plan will cost a flat $20 per month. —A.W.

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Google’s place as the leading technology for finding information on the web is so entrenched that its name is synonymous with “search.” But social media sites—such as Facebook and Twitter—may be ushering in a new era of internet searching. Google’s problem is that it can only index the “visible web”—websites that are publicly visible to anyone. But sites like Facebook make it increasingly possible to keep information more secure. While a person may have once blogged about his day on a site that anyone could read, now he might post a Facebook update and only choose to

No more wondering which toaster to buy—popular magazine Consumer Reports recently released its first iPhone app (priced at $9.99 until January, when it will increase to $14.99). The app provides detailed information, including the magazine’s ratings and reviews, on more than 3,000 products, as well as basic information (such as price and user reviews) on 17,000 more. But what’s most interesting about the app is its scanner: Customers can scan in the barcode of a product, and if it’s in the Consumer Reports database, the app will bring up a report card with an overview of the product’s strengths, weaknesses, and performance. —A.W.

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Asteroid insurance NASA seeks an increase in the budget for detecting and dealing with “near-Earth objects” By daniel james devine

>> Pollution eaters Deciduous trees like poplars and maples find some air pollution delicious: A global survey of ecosystems revealed that deciduous plants absorb and metabolize larger amounts of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (36 percent more) than scientists have realized. Trees can change their absorption rate of the compounds as well. Physical and chemical stress—such as ozone pollution—causes trees to increase the production of metabolizing enzymes. The pollutants the trees recycle are thought to be harmful to human health and the environment. —D.J.D.

Bioplastic havoc Remember those unnaturally noisy (and allegedly biodegradable) SunChips bags? Frito-Lay has sacked most of the bags while it searches for some quieter eco-friendly material, but it could face another problem: Contrary to some reports, a new study has shown that many plant-based plastics could be as damaging to the environment as their petroleum counterparts when the production process is taken into account. With manufacturing factored in, researchers found that four types of bioplastics were the worst contributors to ozone depletion, compared to seven traditional plastics. They produced more carcinogens, were more energy-intensive, and, because they relied on plants, increased pesticide and fertilizer use. Once in their final form, of course, bioplastics outperformed their competition for biodegradability and overall “eco-friendliness.” But if you’re determined to have a chip bag that’s green, first consider what it costs to make it. —D.J.D.

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You may think the prospect of firing a missile at an asteroid to stop it from snuffing out a fraction of humanity is mere science fiction, but NASA and the Obama administration are advancing a framework for just such an operation. In his 2011 budget, the president asked Congress to more than triple the $5.8 million previously set aside for the detection of asteroids and comets that orbit in Earth’s neighborhood—in part to “reduce the risk of harm to humans.” At the direction of Congress, NASA has been cataloguing near-Earth objects (NEOs) for the past 12 years and has identified 818 asteroids with colossal diameters of a kilometer or more, up from the 242 identified in 1998. An asteroid need only be 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter to survive Earth’s atmosphere and reach the surface: By 2020, NASA’s goal is to track 90 percent of the thousands of NEOs that are 140 meters or larger (think bigger than a football field, including end zones). In October a NASA task force recommended that the administration create a $250 million Planetary Defense Coordination Office and invest immediately in the construction of an infrared satellite designed to track NEOs. The satellite would cost half a billion dollars, dwarfing even Obama’s increased investment in the field during a time of budget turmoil. A few weeks ago John Holdren, Obama’s science czar, offered Congress his recommendation that NASA work with the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in developing a strategy to destroy or divert the path of any threatening space rock—some suggest using nuclear weapons or a “gravity tractor” spacecraft—and a system to warn the public of an incoming asteroid. Since no dangerous NEOs are known to be on a collision course with Earth, is a “planetary defense” strategy simply hubris—or is it as sensible as defending against hurricanes? At any rate, FEMA already has an emergency alert message drafted for the occasion.

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Built in 1774, the Old Stone Union Church was a joint meeting house of the Dutch Reformed and German Lutheran congregations in Long Valley, N.J. The “father of American Lutheranism,” Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, pastored a congregation that met at the building, which is on the state historic register.

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Getting over Brett

The sports world is done buying Favre’s tough-guy act, and not too interested in his football either By mark bergin

The quote sums up well the narrative Favre has been selling for the past several years. With every prolonged moment on the turf after taking a big hit, with every exaggerated limp as he walks back to the huddle between plays, with every mention of any and all ailments, the 41-year-old playcaller begs the media for another ode to his grit. But this year, amid a growing stack of losses and unredeemed interceptions, some media members have stopped buying. Perhaps the charges against Favre of sexual harassment and lewd text messages to a former New York Jets employee have awakened the cynicism in reporters once happy to suspend all critiques of the NFL’s golden boy. Maybe some had just seen one too many spots of Favre playing backyard ball in his real, comfortable Wrangler jeans. Whatever the reason, the literary serenades that used to pass for game stories have ceased. In their place, clear-headed columns review Favre as footballer and actor. The consensus: thumbs down.

Giant letdown

WALKS IN THE PARK: Derek Holland watches as the Giants’ Buster Posey scores in Game 2.

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The Giants may have clinched their World Series victory in Game 5, but they won it several days earlier. The decisive moment of the series came in the bottom half of the eighth inning in Game 2. Trailing by just two runs with the top of their explosive lineup due up the ninth, the Texas Rangers needed just one more out to finish the inning and set up a potential comeback bid. They brought in second-year man Derek Holland to get the job done. He did not. Holland threw 13 pitches. Only one was a strike. The three resulting walks pushed home a third run for the Giants and left the bases loaded for subsequent Rangers reliever Mark Lowe. The veteran right-hander proved little better, walking another man to force in a fourth Giants run before surrendering a two-run single. Dipping back into the bullpen, the Rangers called on strikeout artist Michael Kirkman, to no avail. The hard-throwing lefty gave up a two-run triple and then a one-run double before finally recording a strikeout to end the carnage. The seven-run outburst did more than seal Game 2. It deflated the Rangers. How could it not? The helplessness of Holland, Lowe, and Kirkman on the mound is a sensa tion to which most athletes can relate and one from which many never recover. The sports world calls it choking. But it is more painful than that; it is a complete inability to perform the very thing you live to perform in the very moment you live to experience simply because you now stand on the stage you’ve dreamed of since childhood. Choking? No. Try heartbreaking. —M.B. Email: mbergin@worldmag.com

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Remember when Brett Favre could do no wrong? Remember when the gun-slinging quarterback could throw three interceptions in the first half of a game and then engineer a fourth-quarter comeback victory? Remember when he stacked division championships like Lego blocks? Remember when he became the only football player ever to win three con secutive MVP awards? For many, such memories are growing dim. Favre’s legacy of sports greatness is fading in the blinding light of his selfworshipping, look-at-how-tough-I-am act. Case in point: the post-game press conference on Halloween night following a 28-18 loss for Favre’s Vikings. The beleaguered quarterback, whose secondhalf interception allowed New England to pull away with an insurmountable lead, was eager to tell the story of his toughness: “I really can’t complain, although I probably should. I have a broken foot. I have eight stitches in my chin. I’ve had tendinitis in my elbow. But I threw it as well as I have all season.”

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Balancing act

China hikes a key interest rate in an effort to curb inflation and de-emphasize growth By joseph slife

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China’s central bank—the world’s top holder of foreign currency reserves—unexpectedly hiked a key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, touching off temporary havoc in world markets as investors worried that the rate increase could harm global growth. Stock markets tumbled and commodity prices, including for oil and gold, declined sharply. The Chinese rate hike, aimed at tempering domestic inflation, came one day after the Communist Party Central Committee issued a draft of its latest five-year plan calling for “accelerating the transformation of the nation’s

conomic-development e pattern.” Heritage Foundation analyst Derek Scissors, an expert on China’s economy, told Barron’s that the interest rate increase is part of the plan’s strategy of “deemphasizing growth and emphasizing better balance.” Later, China announced its economy grew 9.6 percent in the third quarter— slower than in the second quarter but still faster than any other economy in the world. Meanwhile, finance ministers from the G20 nations huddled in South Korea to talk about easing trade tensions and avoiding currency battles. They ended up with a vague, informal agreement in which industrialized and developing economies pledged to maintain trade balances at “sustainable levels” and to measure compliance by guidelines still to be negotiated. “Right now there is no established sense of what’s fair,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said before the gathering got underway.

Age approved The French Parliament—withstand ing weeks of street protests and union strikes that sparked travel chaos, school closings, and fuel shortages (see “Riots against reality,” Nov. 6)—approved a landmark pension reform bill. The legislation raises the threshold age for a minimum pension from 60 to 62 and the age for a full pension from 65 to 67. President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to sign the bill in mid-November. —J.S.

Inflation ahead?

The Federal Reserve prepared to unveil a second round of “quantitative easing”—i.e., buying billions of dollars of Treasury securities in an effort to pump up the economy. The practice is akin to printing huge amounts of new money. Dissenting Fed member Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, characterized the policy as a “bargain with the devil,” warning that it would likely stoke future inflation. During its first round of quantitative easing that began in early 2009, the Fed bought a massive $1.75 trillion in Treasury securities and mortgage bonds. This time, purchases are expected to be on a lesser scale. Many investors seemed confident that at least some inflation is ahead, shown by their willingness to buy government notes with a negative interest rate. At an Oct. 25 auction, the Treasury Department was able to sell TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) that had a face value of $100 for $105.50—the first time such notes have been auctioned at a negative interest rate. The bond buyers will make money only if future inflation averages at least 1.5 percent a year for the next 4.5 years. Large institutions, including foreign central banks, bought about 40 percent of the $10 billion in negative TIPS. —J.S. Joseph Slife is the assistant editor of SoundMindInvesting.com

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Notebook > Law

Plates protected Appeals court overturns rejection of religious vanity plates in Vermont By Lauren Sneed

In 2004, Vermont resident John Byrne applied for a vanity plate with the state’s motor vehicle department. The proposed plate read “JN36TN,” referencing John 3:16 from the Bible. Section 304(d)(4) of title 23 of the Vermont Statutes prohibits any vanity license plate that refers, “in any language, to a . . . religion” or “deity.” Officials denied Byrne’s application.

One court upheld that decision, but last month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reversed that judgment and ruled that the statute violates the First Amendment’s free speech clause. Justices said the state’s method of relying on the applicant’s supplied meaning to determine the plate’s meaning creates arbitrary results. For example, the state approved “BUDDHA” because the appli-

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cant claimed it to be a nickname, but denied “JMJ1” because the applicant said it means “Jesus, Mary, Joseph 1”: The first applicant obviously referenced religion but offered a secular meaning while the second applicant gave a religious meaning to something not overtly religious. The appeals court also determined the state cannot distinguish between the expression of secular and religious beliefs. Based on the court’s holding, previously denied plates, including “PRAY,” “ONEGOD,” and “THEREV,” can join approved value-laden plates such as “CARP DM,” “PEACE2U,” and “LIVFREE.”

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In 2007, after the Texas legislature added the words “under God” to the Texas Pledge of Allegiance, Dan Croft sued to have the phrase removed, alleging a vio lation of the First Amendment’s estab lishment clause. Croft argued that the pledge should represent every Texan and that for schoolchildren across the state to say “under God” every morning violates the separation of church and state. Last month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit affirmed a lower court’s

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AFFIRMED: Students in Dallas say the pledge of allegiance as they celebrate Flag Day.

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vermont: Joe Sohm/newscom • texas: ANDY SCOTT/Newscom

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upholding of the phrase’s inclusion. The court found it to be a “patriotic exercise, and it is made no less so by the acknowl edgement of Texas’ religious heritage via the inclusion of the phrase ‘under God.’” The court declared that a pledge may reference a religious belief without necessarily valuing one belief over another. The Texas pledge will continue to be recited as: “Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.” —L.S.

In 2007 the Illinois Legislature amended the “Illinois Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act” to make a moment of “silent reflection” at the start of each school day mandatory. Dawn Sherman, a student at Township High School in Buffalo Grove, and her father Rob, an atheist, brought suit against the state and school alleging the amendment violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause. Last month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in a 2-1 panel, reversed the lower court and held the law as constitutional because it was passed for a secular purpose— to settle down the students at the start of each day. The panel ruled that the bill makes no requirement that students use this time to pray or engage in any other religious meditation: It merely mandates silence. Dissenting Justice Ann Claire Williams disagreed, preferring to “call a spade a spade—statutes like these are about prayer in schools.” —L.S.

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After reading the GOP’s Pledge, I’m heartened to see someone has a plan (what a concept) that is far better than the Democrats’ plan. Their plan amounts to (1) storm the candy store, then (2) grab everything you can.

I found this column very convicting regarding my desire to avert my gaze from the suffering of others, especially those in Afghanistan. I am praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ there, as well as for wisdom and safety for Mindy Belz in her reporting.

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Emily Whitten Old Hickory, Tenn.

“Winter plans” (Oct. 9) “Nothing left to covet” (Oct. 9) “Nothing left to covet” was disturbing. “Quiet diplomacy” was heartbreaking. As my h usband looks for a job and we have family abroad, this is real life for us. Sometimes the picture of today and, even worse, tomorrow, is so unclear and fright ening that one is tempted to despair. But as I pondered how an average person like me could possibly affect our world, I remem bered that there is no more powerful way to touch a life, a country, or anything at all than prayer.

United States. This redistribution of private property is unmitigated theft. M.D. Frank Chicago, Ill.

Four years ago, God in His mercy allowed my husband and me to become poor, by American standards. I needed to look the sin of coveting straight in the face; it has taken me this long to see my sin. But one cannot get to a place where there is “nothing left to covet.” I should know. It would do American

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Joel Belz’s point about giving to Caesar caused me to reformulate my position. Within the limited functions governments should perform, such as maintaining order, coining money, and so on, we rightfully owe taxes (a flat tax, not a progressive tax). The taxes we pay above this to help the state infringe on the other social spheres, such as the family and church, I consider theft.

This column comes at a good time as I am currently being treated for lymphoma. I’ve prayed but with “nevertheless, not my will” in mind. Some see that as a lack of faith. Some of those praying for me assured me, even before I was tested, that doctors would find no trace of cancer in my kidney. I appreciate their prayers, although I may not agree with their theology of prayer. Nothing touches me without His permission.

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hands of trusted “staff and leaders” for years. Those individuals responsible, along with the leadership who failed to act decisively and openly to end the abuse, should be charged as criminals.

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What outraged me was the casual way these incidents were handled. While we cannot hang a millstone around the offenders’ necks and push them off the nearest bridge, they should have been relieved of their duties until the charges were proven true or false, and if true they should have been exposed and dismissed. An organization that covers up such behavior only enables the offender to do it again.

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“Hawking’s wager” (Oct. 9) I’m no expert on science, but I know enough that it leads me to a greater appreciation of the Lord. It’s unfortunate that Stephen Hawking and many others never make that final and crucial step. How sad it will be for them one day to stand before Almighty God and discover that all they thought they knew was dust in the wind. George Mulvey

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“Christians on Broadway” (Oct. 9) Thank you for shifting our focus to our brothers and sisters in the arts. It’s so easy to let the glitz and glamor that surrounds them blind us to the challenges they live and work with every day. The perfor mance arts influence our values and our lives, and Christians must have a voice. Carolyn Phillips Garden Grove, Calif.

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“Works in progress” (Sept. 25) Unaware that films are not good evan gelistic tools, we have been making films with strong gospel messages for 60 years. We have records of hundreds of people being saved or rededicating their lives to Christ and still hear of such results for films made 30 years ago, rereleased on DVD. If Peter and Paul had made a film, it wouldn’t have been a “wholesome date movie” but an actual redemptive story via the “foolishness of preaching.” Wade K. Ramsey Greenville, S.C.

“Waiting still” (Sept. 25) With all the controversy surrounding the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, it is not surprising that the rebuilding of St. Nicholas Church has been overlooked. It doesn’t seem right that nobody seems to care about the rebuilding of this church. Our nation needs to get its priori ties straight. Jesse Morton St. Louis, Mo.

“Wanted: spiritual eyes” (Sept. 11) Recently my wife and I spent three days in the hospital for the birth of our son, which was a joyous occasion except for the fact that he was born two months early. It was a scary time. But as our son was hooked to machines, I read this

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battlegroundâ&#x20AC;? (Sept. 11) Although some folks believe it would be a violation of religious freedom to prevent a mosque from being constructed near the site of the 9/11 attacks, I think it would be extremely insensitive and inapÂ propriate to allow it so close to where Islamic terrorists murdered thousands of innocent people. JoAnn L. Fuir

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making the gradeâ&#x20AC;? (Oct. 23) The 9th Circuit reversed only the grant of a preliminary injunction against the uniÂ versityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech code. Since the case has been filed, Los Angeles City College has changed its speech policies to bring them more in line with the First Amendment, and our claims against the professor who silenced Jonathan Lopez continue. David French

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Real Life

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Those who try to define it for us always have an agenda

here is a question as to what is “real life.” Many a time I have been jolted from a contemplation that may well have been of the Holy Spirit, by a sight or sound that made me think, “Ah, real life.” The man in flight from the Hound of Heaven embraces as “real life” the regularity of the kiosk vendor on the city street corner. In particular, there is a question about “real life” as concerns the movies. I saw Secretariat with my daughter and loved it, though some of the writing made me wince. (The first trainer, the one who got fired, would never have talked like that in “real life.”) But then I checked out Salon.com, and the reviewer had a bigger problem with the film’s “real life” quotient than my minor gripe about dialogue. He faulted Secretariat (which depicts the 1973 Triple Crown victory of a spectacular horse) for not mentioning Richard Nixon or Vietnam, though as Roger Ebert rebutted, neither did other films set in the ’70s like Apollo 13. Salon was just getting started. More serious “real life” violations included the film’s “right-wing ideology and xenophobia,” as well as its savor of the KKK: (The movie was “so infused with warm golden light, that I began to wonder. . . if someone just off-screen were burning a cross on the lawn.”) The Klan charge was earned for having a mostly white cast, and the xenophobia charge because the Italian owner of the rival horse is not depicted as a nice person. The charges are so astonishing, for a film that is as wholesome and uplifting as any ever made, that when Roger Ebert scratched his head, the Salon writer backed off a half-step and said he was only kind of sort of kidding. This reminded me of a verse from Proverbs: “Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, ‘I am only joking!’” (Proverbs 26:18-19). The damage is done. May I say, in short, that the Salon review was hatred disguised as scholarly critique?

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But the larger question of film and “real life” remains. Salon complained that Secretariat is a “vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, . . . scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord.” So now we are reduced to the embarrassing argument over whether there were enough blacks, Puerto Ricans, and LGBT roles in the story. May I ask a stupid question: Are we allowed to use white actors to make movies about historical events that involved white people? (Let the record show that the horse groomer, a prominent presence, was African-American.) Secretariat owner Penny Chenery’s sin is that she is “striking and magisterial but utterly nonsexual, illuminated from within like a medieval saint.” In other words, she is TGTBT (too-good-to-be-true). You know that the culture has spun 360 degrees when we are complaining about a character not writhing and contorting her body. Much of Secretariat concerns the relationship—the thrills of victory and agonies of defeat—between the horse trainer and Mrs. Chenery, often thousands of miles from her husband. It was so cool to me to find not a hint of flirtatiousness between the two of them. Nowadays “real life” in movies is a potty mouth and sexual polymorphism. Mrs. Chenery is good, ergo she is not “real.” But what makes vulgarity more “real life” than wholesomeness? Are we saying that people like Penny Chenery don’t exist? I, for one, know women like that— dignified, well-spoken, kindly, strong, and self-controlled. What is the purpose of telling stories, ever think of that? Here is a better question: What is God’s purpose in telling stories? God Himself is a storyteller, and we are to be “imitators of God” (Ephesians 5:1). What kinds of characters does He draw? What is His agenda in telling the story? Every writer of movies, plays, and musicals has an agenda. From The Three Little Pigs to Brokeback Mountain, somebody is sending you a message, spliced in with the Pepsi ads. Call it i deological product placement, or embedded marketing. What is “real life”? Who are you going to let define it for you? A N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 1 0 W O R L D

Marvin Olasky

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Private education is doing the best job of teaching the world’s poorest children

AN EDUCATION: Students at a private school in the Ahanta West District of Ghana.

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en years ago James Tooley, a professor of education with a doctorate and a World Bank grant to study private schools in a dozen developing countries, took the standard path toward helping the poor: He flew first class and stayed at 5-star hotels. But something happened in India as he visited private schools and colleges that cater to the privileged. At night, lying on 500-thread-count Egyptian-cotton sheets, he meditated about the “con” that he was now part of: Wealthy Indians enjoy foreign aid because they live in a poor country, the poor fall further behind, and the researchers live richly. Then Tooley broke the rules. With guilt feelings and some spare time, he actually went into the slums instead of riding past them with his driver. He was surprised to see little handwritten signs announcing the existence of private schools: He thought private schools are for the rich. Guided through alleys and up narrow, dark, dirty staircases, he entered classrooms and found dedicated teachers and students. Tooley found schools that survive not with government money or international bequests, but through $2-per-month fees paid by rickshaw pullers who scrimp and save to give their children a chance not to pull rickshaws. He went on to visit 50 Indian private schools in poor areas over the next 10 days. Did some foundation make them possible? No, these were for-profit schools created by poor but persevering entrepreneurs. Tooley was astounded to see high motivation and better results than at the better-funded government schools. He then visited other private schools for the poor in cities and villages throughout India, Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya), and even China. In The Beautiful Tree (Cato, 2009), he describes how he regularly found government schools with better-paid but poorly motivated teachers, and private schools somehow surviving on very little income. Why did Tooley slog through the mud when he could have hung out in

hotel bars with other international researchers? I emailed him and asked. Tooley responded: “I was brought up as an evangelical Christian, baptized at 14, but lost my faith by 16. For the next thirty years I was a searcher. Age 46, I said a prayer again recommitting myself to Jesus. Ups and downs in the faith since then.” No surprise: When someone goes beyond the call of duty, it’s often because Someone else is calling him—and the path isn’t always straight. Throughout most of The Beautiful Tree Tooley shows rather than tells, but in the interest of space here I’ll need to quote his summary: In poor countries “private education forms the majority of provision. In these areas parents have genuine choices of a number of competing private schools within easy reach and are sensitive to the price mechanism (schools close if demand is low, and new schools open to cater to expanded demand).” Tooley’s crucial conclusions: “In these genuine markets, educational entrepreneurs respond to parental needs and requirements. . . . Their quality is higher than that of government schools provided for the poor.” And his findings are not merely anecdotal. Governmental officials showed little interest in his findings, but a Templeton Foundation grant allowed him to create research teams that tested 24,000 fourth-graders from a variety of schools in India, China, Nigeria, and Ghana. The result: Children in private schools scored 75 percent better than comparable students in government schools. You’d think this would excite other World Bank researchers—but like Darrow Miller, Hernando de Soto, and William Easterly (see “Don’t be a Bepper,” WORLD, Jan. 13, 2007), Tooley looks for bottom-up rather than top-down strategies, and that could put a lot of Big Economic Planners out of work. The title of Tooley’s book comes from his sense that parents don’t need government officials to tell them what to do: A beautiful tree can grow without supervision from “development experts” who believe that poor children will be educated only if governments, with funding from rich nations, establish free, universal public schooling. The better way: Poor parents pay teachers directly. Voucher plans “if done in the right way” can help, but that’s a vital caveat, because it’s easy to end up with good ideas killed via fraud and unintended market distortions. The essential strategy is this: If students don’t learn, teachers don’t eat. A

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