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No sooner do I call attention to the ridiculous pretense to intellectualism by Ron Radosh than he doubles down on the conceit with a lament for the old “New York Intellectuals”. The occasion for this latest chest-beating is that David Remnick of The New Yorker has seen fit to come in behind the curve in [...]
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Pat reminds us of his brilliance yet again in taking on the ever-dreary national greatness conceit about the decline of our science and math test scores. He cites a study by the great Steve Sailer showing that White and Asian test scores still beat all but a very few European and East Asian countries and [...]
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I can only wholeheartedly agree with Paul Gottfried’s post on @TAC about all the recent chest-beating about Nixon saying he would not go to war with Russia over Soviet Jewry, as well as about Nixon generally. Has anyone actually taken the time to think about the madness of any contrary view? Since about the fall [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — It’s rare when Mr. Scallon writes something wherewith I find myself to be in disagreement, but the time has come. At @TAC, Sean writes, For Paul supporters, if he does not run, there are two potential candidates they would probably feel comfortable supporting: former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and current [...]
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Perhaps the silliest narrative to spring up during Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was the fantasy that his presidency would bring forth the end of racial America. Pundits, mostly on the left, nearly wet themselves with glee entertaining this delusional idea. Obviously post-racial America has yet to emerge. The fiction of race retains a strong grasp [...]
MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — … but is not today’s FCC decision on “net neutrality” a good thing, notwithstanding teeth-gnashing from various members of the sycophantic “right”? From the Wall Street Journal: The new FCC rules, for example, would prevent a broadband provider, such as Comcast Corp., AT&T, Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc., from hobbling access [...]
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Richard Silverstein blogs about the most recent newspaper column of Martin van Creveld, the brilliant Israeli military historian and author of the monumental work The Rise and Decline of The State. The column is just the conventional argument that it is necessary for Israel to retreat to the 1967 borders in order to survive as [...]
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I am admittedly late in commenting on this item on @TAC praising a new effort to unify and strengthen leftist dissent from Obama. It brings me nothing so much as an overwhelming sense of deja vu about my own youthful travels on the left and what it was that ultimately left me dubious if not [...]
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For all the anticipation of the miserable fate of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, the greater outrage upon America of the neocon wars has to be that of the 9/11 first responders that America is turning its back on. Jon Stewart has made news giving an entire episode of the Daily Show to the [...]
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A commenter on my blog about Jennifer Rubin tells me that he knew her in Hollywood, where she was known to be conventionally liberal as late as 2004: I knew Jennifer fairly well for a number of years. She worked at DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation. She worked with Jeffrey Katzenberg on issues and I had [...]
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