Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Republic is under concerted attack by Publius

Day by day we see the cumulative evidence of the failure of Capitalism and the concomitant victory of authoritarian principles and practices of governance,these essays are highly instructive: Detroit in a hostile takeover bid at the CBS News web site. … Continue reading

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George F. Will on Newt Gingrich: Some Thoughts by Myra Brekenridge

If you are looking for some political entertainment while the Republic self-destructs, amid the clamor and bad faith of career politicians, that stumble over themselves,and each other, trying in vain to prove their fealty to that modern hybrid, the National … Continue reading

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Redux by David Brooks: Episode CCXXIII of The American Political Melodrama

David Brooks in his latest essay titled The Spirit of Enterprise inhabits the spirit of a besotted lover, but the love object is Capitalism and the villains are the lowly, lazy Southern European countries of Spain, Italy and Greece. It … Continue reading

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Max Boot on the Clear and Present Danger of Iran: Episode CCXXI of The American Political Melodrama by Political Observer

Max Boot in his December 1,2011 column for the Los Angeles Times titled The Iran Threat fully commits himself to the analogies of the rise of Nazism and the dithering and equivocations of the politicians, who should have been more … Continue reading

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