Monthly Archives: November 2014

Political Realist on Match restraint with implacable robustness or a collection of cliches

Posted on November 28, 2014 by stephenkmacksd

Mr. Stephens has to be congratulated for staying so close to the script of the respectable Foreign Policy chatterer, while seeming to impart a seasoned wisdom to the reader. Absent from the essay is any mention of the 100 to … Continue reading →

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Luce,Douthat,Vienna & the almost of the Hegel ‘resignation’: a comment by Political Observer

Posted on November 25, 2014 by stephenkmacksd

Recall if you will the Edward Luce essay of November 21,2014 ‘Yes I can,says Obama’: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6e1e0428-7127-11e4-85d5-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3K2C2V2jX In which Mr. Luce in his very clever way engages in nearly faint praise for the President and almost scolds the Republicans for their … Continue reading →

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Almost Marx on Detroit Bankruptcy and The Economist

Posted on November 12, 2014 by stephenkmacksd

Not one mention of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick or his co-conspirators UBS Bank and Bank of America in the wholesale looting of the city of Detroit? Congratulation to V.V.B for carefully eliding from the essay the important political actors except for … Continue reading →

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