Saturday, May 22, 2004

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LEFTIST "IDEALISM"? Doc Rampage has just put up a long post devoted to explaining why Leftists and conservatives don't un...

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ELSEWHERE Japan goes for missile defence : "Japan is now thinking only to acquire a sophisticated missile defence system. This cap...
Friday, May 21, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS US protectionists accuse economist of treason -- though he is of course a benefactor of U.S. taxpayers: "Sumner, a...

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ELSEWHERE From the Sodakmonk : "I first noticed the (Left wing media) bias after Reagan was elected in 1980. My theory is that af...
Thursday, May 20, 2004

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A SLIGHT EMBARRASSMENT I mentioned yesterday that I make an effort always to write simply. But in my posts of just the day before I des...

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BROWN Few people now remember that the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision (forcing racially mixed schools) was substantially based...

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ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY Stephen Karlson has been writing a lot about the absurdities of academic life lately and Anthropology & E...

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ELSEWHERE Why is it OK to bomb and remove from office one brutal Fascist dictator (Milosevic) but not OK to bomb and remove from office...
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

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INFO ABOUT THIS BLOG I go to some lengths to make this blog as easy to read as possible. I usually post only once a day (around 9am my ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2004

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CONSERVATISM Hayek , like Burke, came to the profoundly conservative conclusion that human society is too complex to be modelled by anyo...
Monday, May 17, 2004

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THE WEDDING Many Americans may be unaware that the Crown Prince of Denmark has just married an Australian girl. The event got big cov...

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ELSEWHERE The Left of politics are of course doing everything within their power to blame the Bush administration for the prisoner abuse...
Sunday, May 16, 2004

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IRAQ I mentioned on 11th. the relevance of the famous Zimbardo experiment to an understanding of the Iraqi prisoner mistreatment affair....

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ELSEWHERE It seems that the American Catholic bishops are so pro-Democrat that they are about to fold even on the homosexual marriage is...
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...