Saturday, December 11, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS Germany will not face the fact that German laws have priced Germans out of work : "The number of people out of work...

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ELSEWHERE The very Leftist EU : "Christians are bad. Comrades are good. That is the lesson of the recently concluded parallel proce...
Friday, December 10, 2004

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AIRPORT MAYHEM Bureaucratic nonsense at airports : "I recently flew back to the United States, my birthplace and home for most of ...

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ELSEWHERE A good comment from Wayne Lusvardi: " Here is a story which shows how off base the mainstream media is. It reports that ...
Thursday, December 09, 2004

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"SENSITIVE" LEFTISTS: A MINOR DISAGREEMENT WITH DENNIS PRAGER I am a great fan of Dennis Prager. Prague has suffered a great...

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ELSEWHERE More illiteracy in The Times : "an international criteria". The singular is of course "criterion". Briti...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

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MORE ON DALRYMPLE My recent skeptical comments (see post of 6th below) about the claims of "Theodore Dalrymple" elicited the f...

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AN INTERESTING EMAIL "I thought you may be interested to know that since yesterday I have had a raging fight with John Quiggin . Qu...

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ELSEWHERE Reliapundit says that the Left's refusal to say a word of criticism about any of America's enemies is due to their po...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004

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THE AMERICAN ROOTS OF FASCISM The American "Progressives" were the first Fascists of the 20th century "Fascism" ...

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ELSEWHERE There is a good summary here of Australian attitudes to their alliance with America. Formal alliances in the form of treatie...
Monday, December 06, 2004

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THEODORE DALRYMPLE: SOME SKEPTICAL THOUGHTS I am sure that there can be few readers of this blog who have not enjoyed at least some of ...

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ELSEWHERE The death of the Left : "The hysterical reaction of the Western Left to the reelection of President George W. Bush is no...
Sunday, December 05, 2004

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GOVERNMENT SERVICES WORK BETTER IN AUSTRALIA An interesting email from a very pro-American Australian who knows both Australia and the U...

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ELSEWHERE A reader had a rather interesting comment on my post yesterday about morality. I noted that when ordinary people debate wheth...
Saturday, December 04, 2004

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MOST MORALITY IS INSTINCTIVE Although moral philosophy is a field in which I have made some very minor academic contributions , I have n...

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ELSEWHERE This excellent article by Anne Applebaum under the heading "The left now sees evil behind pro-democracy campaigns" ...
Friday, December 03, 2004

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LEFTIST LOGIC An email from a reader Regarding "that good old Leftist inconsistency and opportunism" that you mentioned in...

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ELSEWHERE There is a strange article by "Spengler" that chronicles the history of American Protestantism. He makes the inter...
Thursday, December 02, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS The yuan and the US economy There are strident calls for the US to do something about the yuan. The situation is more...