Monthly Archives: July 2012

Mr. Brooks begins his New York Times essay of July 31 2012 Dullest Campaign Ever by paraphrasing the Reagan speech writer and the Wall Street Journal's columnist Peggy Noonan: the Presidential campaign is inconsequential and boring. Ms. Noonan exemplifies, for … Continue reading →

David Brooks has a penchant for repeating the most callous, even loathsome, Conservative platitudes about human beings, and tries to pass them off as valuable insights, as the view of a deep thinker, a cogitator on the evil character of … Continue reading →

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=18272

I would like, in this post, to concentrate on the title of Mr. Brooks July 23,2012 essay titled More Treatment Programs. This imperative/admonition seems to be at absolute odds with Mr. Brooks' long time advocacy of the Free Market, in … Continue reading →

http://www.economist.com/node/21559373?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/troikaiscoming This is an essay that needs to be read but with a cautionary note:the Greeks have become the focal point of Free Market finger pointing and viscous name calling, indeed ethnic slurs,in the battle against Socialism, political corruption that … Continue reading →

———- Forwarded message ———-From: Stephen Mack <stephenkmack@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:35 AMSubject: Ross Douthat's essay on Aurora: my comment by Political ObserverTo: Posterous <post@posterous.com> Ross Douthat has used the comic book world of good versus evil from … Continue reading →

Is there anything like the collection of cliches, borrowed phrases, and intellectual sundries that make up the body of David Brooks latest essay at the New York Times titled Where Obama Shines. Mr. Brooks stumbles over himself in praise of … Continue reading →

You must give David Brooks his due, he is gifted story teller, and the political fiction he excels at producing is his political opinion column, that he writes for the New York Times. It isn’t that Mr. Brooks is an … Continue reading →

In the New York Times of  July 14, 2012 under News Analysis appears Scott Shane's essay titled The Moral Case for Drones. This long apologia for the use of drones is not even surprising, in it's convoluted defense of the … Continue reading →

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0631228861,descCd-descript&#8230;