Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Asking for readers' insights on this issue . . .

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What's up with Islam ? I came across an article in City-Journal by Ibn Warraq on the use of a highly inaccurate history of the Crusad...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Blogging's been light

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Blogging has been light while I’ve been doing non- political consulting in Geneva, Istanbul and Manila. What I’m posting today is from note...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Another Take on the Decline of Empire

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Most readers consume a blog from the top (most recent) downward, which rather discourages traditional continuity of thought.  A week ago, I ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Many years ago, I issued a fatwa on Umberto Eco for his intellectual depravity in writing "The Name of the Rose" and here's an example of why . . .

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On July 8, 2009, I posted here a commentary called "The Voodoo Trifecta of Nonsense" in which the interviewee, below, featured p...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The absolute absence of irony here is what strikes me . . .

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The following excerpt is from The Ancient Engineers, by L. Sprague deCamp.   L. Sprague deCamp is known primarily as a writer of science-f...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Nancy Pelosi is many things . . .but stupid isn't one of them.

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Nancy Pelosi's determination to bring ObamaCare to a floor vote this Saturday seems to me to be widely misunderstood.  It calls to my mi...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Obama White House War with Reality: we report - you decide!

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For the Obama White House to go to war with Fox News over ACORN scandals  was bizarre, in that it should have been beneath the purview of ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Headline: FDIC closes 9 banks in one day . . .Oct. 30, 2009 . . .

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What you don't see behind the curtain is . . . image from FBOP's home page All banks were owned by FBOP Corp. of Chicago. The Chi...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

News for the Blues - Stuff I Couldn't Have Made Up

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from Reuters: Kremlin Warns Against Wrecking Russia With Democracy   Who would have imagined  this? from Foreign Policy : Theory of In...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Rush was Right

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Obama's policies fail.  There was never any doubt that they would fail . . .and they have failed.  Rush had the courage of his convicti...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Satire Becomes Impossible . . . No, No, Not Yet!

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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize Better now than later. Later it could have been construed as a political statement. Now it is patently a...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Did the success of American government policies cause the failure of California?

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Will California become America's first failed state? This very good question was recently asked by The Guardian (UK)>link< . In...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Is American Politics REALLY Worse Than Ever ??? -- Part I

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I have asked myself this question and now will attempt to answer it. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Is American politics worse...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Presidential Legacies - Part II

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The historical legacies are like a series of matryoska dolls, going back to the War for Independence. We have to begin somewhere. We...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The W Legacy . . .the Reagan Legacy and Presidential Legacies, in General

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There is a story that, after the inauguration of John Kennedy on January 20, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, thanked the Whit...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Untold Story of Geo.H.W.Bush and Ronald Reagan

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While it is difficult not to guffaw at this story . . .and to dismiss it as gossip . . .what I am describing was a fundamental dynamic of 12...
Friday, August 14, 2009

I don’t think the Obama Administration took over GM. I think GM took over the Obama Administration.

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SO YOU’VE GOT A BLOATED, UNTRUSTWORTHY PRODUCT THAT PEOPLE AREN’T BUYING AND DON’T LIKE — WHAT’S YOUR SOLUTION? Run more advertising sa...