Current Affairs
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Sunday Night Journal — October 17, 2011 The personal and the political The interplay of the personal and the political in the book and in Horowitz’s life is interestingly illustrated in this passage. In our second year [in Berkeley, ca. 1962], Elissa became pregnant. This was not exactly planned, but neither was it entirely an…
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Sunday Night Journal — October 9, 2011 Let me say right off that this is a much better book than I expected, and perhaps better than you might expect if you’re familiar with David Horowitz’s political work. He’s a former left-wing polemicist/agitator turned right-wing polemicist/agitator, and in neither of those roles, where the principal objective…
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I'm not even that big a fan of Apple and its products, although I once was. But there's no denying the impact of Steve Jobs and the company he co-founded on the world we live in. In the video below, the Macintosh looks pretty quaint, but it really was a big deal at the time.…
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I must say I'm more amused than anything else by the protests. This list of demands posted on the forum of what seems to be a semi-official site is very funny, at least until you consider that the person who composed it is quite serious. It reminds me of the most ludicrous political statements of the…
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Peter Hitchens says they're very, very bad. I would be interested in hearing the views of anyone who is there or in contact with people who are. Update: Theodore Dalyrmple thinks the same. But of course he would–like P. Hitchens, he's been playing Jeremiah for years. I may have mentioned this before, but in case I…
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I often bookmark things I read on the net with the intention of posting something about them later, but sometimes I don't get around to it or am too busy, and then I forget about them. Here's one I saved a couple of weeks ago, and had forgotten till just now: Rick Bragg on last spring's…
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At Front Porch Republic, by Walter A. McDougall: Part 1: The Challenge Confronting Conservatives and Part 2: Sustaining a Republic of Hustlers
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This is not a politics and current events blog, but it seems somehow indecent not to mention the events in Norway, though a conventional expression of horror is inadequate. There are no words to express the dismay one feels at the slaughter itself, and its possible or probable social repurcussions. Pray for the dead, pray…
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That's the description, by her lawyer, of a woman in a nearby town who runs a tax preparation and loan business and is pleading guilty to "a systematic scheme" to cheat the government by filing "thousands of bogus tax returns over several years." According to her plea agreement, she and some of her employees cheated…
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The last space shuttle landed safely this morning, and various headlines have announced that this is the end of the shuttle era. I think it may be more than that: the end of an age of which my generation saw the beginning. The term "space age," which for a long time meant whatever is newest…
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