Saturday, July 17, 2004

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LEFTIST HISTORY AND FASCISM Being a Leftist historian must be a depressing job: So much of history upsets Leftist preconceptions. The ...

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ELSEWHERE There is a huge review here of books that try to explain anti-Americanism. The Leftist explanations are hilarious in their s...
Friday, July 16, 2004

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ARE ALL LEFTISTS UNPRINCIPLED? Leftist intellectuals certainly are. "There is no such thing as right and wrong" seems to be o...

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ELSEWHERE Well, I've learned that I am not the oldest guy in the blogosphere. Dick McDonald tells me he is nearly 70. And he start...
Thursday, July 15, 2004

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I TURN 61 TODAY I've got the key of the door. Never been 61 before... or something.... SOME RECENT BUT FORGOTTEN HISTORY...
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

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NICK O'TEEN My post yesterday about the sometimes benign effects of nicotine drew a few responses. Here are the two most interestin...

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ELSEWHERE Yes. I know it's Bastille day. The real birthday of Communism. The French revolution gave us the first Communist regime...
Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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STRAUSS REVISITED An interesting paper on Leo Strauss just out from Claremont. It argues that Strauss was more in tune with tradition...

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ELSEWHERE Christopher Pearson has an interesting summary of recent developments in Australia's "History wars" (surprisin...
Monday, July 12, 2004

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SOME OLDIES BUT GOLDIES A great Orwell essay . He says Leftists are a type of nationalist: "By "patriotism" I mean dev...

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ELSEWHERE LOL: I mentioned yesterday a Leftist/feminist blogger who changed her tune when she had a baby. She ended one of her posts o...
Sunday, July 11, 2004

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SICK EDUCATION Soviet history lives! In Australia. Australian academic historians want to make it an offence to "publicly quest...

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KUDOS Keith Burgess Jackson has a recent post on misuse of the word "kudos". I posted on that too -- on Oct 3, 2003 . I sa...

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ELSEWHERE The religion of peace again : "A young woman and her baby have been attacked in a suburban train near Paris by unidentif...
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Saturday, July 10, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS Should be more of it : "Meet Tennessee's shadow governor. As a state senator, Marsha Blackburn made it politica...

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ELSEWHERE Hilarious! I have somehow got myself onto the mailing list of the Iranian Communist Party! (headquartered in London, of cours...
Friday, July 09, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS China's militarists humiliated by President Bush's resolve In response to Beijing's mounting threats aga...

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ELSEWHERE Carnival of the Vanities is up again with a big range of reading The junk-science candidate : "As newly announced v...
Thursday, July 08, 2004

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SOME HISTORY There has of course been a lot of discussion in recent years about the differences between Europe -- particularly France --...

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ELSEWHERE Dennis Prager has a good article on why many Leftist citizens of both Israel and America hate their own country. In Israel ...