Current Affairs
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There's much more to it than meets the eye.
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Politics and Anti-Christ (2) As I said in a sort of disclaimer about last week’s post, the subject was really too big for the work of a few hours. Toward the end I touched on some things that need elaboration, so I’m doing that now. The subject is still too big, but I've covered the…
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Headline from MSNBC: Is Romney off-message about his foreign policy? MSNBC’s Chris Jansing talks with Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, Jackie Kucinich of USA Today and former Bush advisor Mark McKinnon about Mitt Romney’s foreign policy blunders and the unrest in the Middle East. Romney’s blunders?! The determination to talk about Romney rather…
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From John O'Sullivan at National Review Online. Sample: A metaphorical casualty of this crisis — even at this early stage — is the reputation of the Obama administration (and of liberal statecraft in general) for sophistication. Watching its spokesmen such as the hapless Susan Rice vainly seeking to maintain that these riots are solely and…
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Anti-American fury sweeps Middle East over film Embassies of U.S. and Allies Under Siege In Muslim World etc etc etc. Is there some faction in the Islamic world that wants to make "violent fanatical" a redundant qualifier to "Muslim"? I'm quite sure these riots are reinforcing that perception. There's so much to be said about…
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Politics and Anti-Christ This is late because it’s long, and is one of those cases where I bit off a bit more than I could chew in a few hours. If I were a well-known pundit, I would not have written this: the propagandists would immediately accuse me of saying that all Democrats are possessed…
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Bill Clinton Pulls the Race Card. I just can't stand the guy. Arguably he was a less-bad president than Obama, but I can't stand him. It's partly the unctuous-preacher/redneck-playboy smarm that's so irritating. As I've probably said here before, I can see him playing the Bible salesman in a movie of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country…
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Whittaker Chambers, in Witness, describing the time he spent working on a streetcar line in Washington (D.C.), ca. 1920: There was one job that every man dreaded. The two third rails hung, just below the surface of the street, in a shallow tunnel. It could not have been more than four feet deep. The concrete…
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"French Pessimism Nears All-Time High"
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It's so crucial that they be defeated. Of course I do think it's important that one side be defeated in the upcoming election. This is more a comment about the nature of the debate than about the issues.
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