Saturday, May 15, 2004

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AN ANNIVERSARY TO BE MOURNED When government of the people, by the people perished in the USA "May 17 is the 50th anniversary o...

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ELSEWHERE My post of 8th. on why elites tend to be Leftist was advertised on the most recent "Carnival of the Vanities" and s...
Friday, May 14, 2004

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Update from a reader in Denmark -- in response to my post about today's Royal wedding and the award of the "Order of the Elephant...

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Beijing makes its move in Latin America Beijing has been using Cuba's Fidel Castro as a means to subvert South Am...
Thursday, May 13, 2004

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SOME POLITICAL HISTORY There is a long and wide-ranging essay here which looks at the major influences in modern American conservatism....

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ELSEWHERE Government by judges : "As an American in remission, I have a romantic fondness for the notion of constitutional governme...
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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MEDICAL MAYHEM Lies, Lies Lies : "Obesity is fast becoming one of the world's leading reasons why people die" See here ...

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ELSEWHERE I have a motto at the top of my blog and a rubric at the bottom of each day's posts which makes the point that Leftists ow...
Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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THE BLOGGER.COM "IMPROVEMENTS" Hooray! The "improvements" at blogger.com (Pyra) seem not to have caused any crashes...
Monday, May 10, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS Globalization saves the day in New Zealand : " It's Saturday morning and you've just noticed that the data ...

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ELSEWHERE An email I posted yesterday tended to give the impression that U.S. forces in the Vietnam war condoned prisoner abuse by alli...
Sunday, May 09, 2004

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ERK! Blogger.com is going to be "down" tomorrow while they install some "improvements". Someone needs to tell them: ...

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ELSEWHERE Prisoner abuse : An interesting comment from a reader: "As a Viet Nam Vet of the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division (Cu C...
Saturday, May 08, 2004

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WHY ELITES TEND LEFT Why is a man as privileged as John Kerry on the Left of politics? Why are people who are well-organized, well-paid...

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ELSEWHERE The media and the Democrats ( same thing ) seem to have gone rather quiet about GWB's "lies" over WMDs lately. ...
Friday, May 07, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Sen. Lautenberg: Patriot or fifth columnist? Last week Frank Lautenberg took to the floor of the Senate and launched...

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ELSEWHERE Revel: Anti-Globalism = Anti-Americanism: "How to understand this war against globalization, which has grown in scope ...
Thursday, May 06, 2004

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THAT WONDERFUL U.N. Kofi-gate kickbacks : "Kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime on contracts signed under the United Nati...

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ELSEWHERE More glories of socialized medicine : A pregnant Australian mother was told by two public hospital doctors that the baby was ...
Wednesday, May 05, 2004

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FASCISM I mentioned last Sunday the latest book on Fascism ( The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert. O. Paxton) but was too deterred by its ...