Monthly Archives: July 2015

You have to give Sen. Cotton his due! As student of Harvey Mansfield and protege of William Kristol he is a well credentialed Neo-Con, but with the political savvy to frame his criticism of Kerry in biblical terms.Therefore capturing a … Continue reading →

From the deep recesses of the intellectual technocracy comes ‘the Globalist’ aided by Mr.  André Reichel as writer/prognosticator,  on the ‘last man standing’ for Europe or at least the Europe represented by Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. The Germany called … Continue reading →

Nebenkanzler is the perfect shadow leader of the fissuring EU, the perfect stern pater familias : a stock character in almost all of European literature. Yet what renders the German political/moral position null is the reports in these pages by … Continue reading →

Here is a copy of page 100 and 101 of Cloaked in Virtue. I have provided a link to a copy that can be enlarged for easier reading : https://goo.gl/WzYPNu In this page and a half Xenos describes the Straussian … Continue reading →

On the dubious question of ‘mis-remembering Reagan’ A quotation from his notorious ‘States Rights’ speech that opened his 1980 campaign, see this quotation that leaves no doubt, in terms of content and place, that Reagan was a Southern Strategist completely … Continue reading →

‘Club Med’ is a maladroit attempt at insulting the Greeks, it riffs off of the Profligate Southern Tier myth. See this from Forbes, carefully framed in the notion of inefficiency, after all it is Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/03/13/contrary-to-what-most-people-think-greeks-work-the-longest-hours-in-europe-infographic/ Headline:Contrary To What Most … Continue reading →

Mr. Tusk is a most welcome guest at The Financial Times: first it is ‘Left’ and ‘Right’, political radicalism that threatens the EU, but then Mr. Tusk gets to the central argument that resonates with both its editors and readers: … Continue reading →

Mr. Weiss and his co-author Ms. Youssef have produced an impressive piece of propaganda, using Assad as their starting point, except that they eventually become immersed in quoting from their  dubious political allies: Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the … Continue reading →

Mr. Gelb’s essay is welcome, in the face of the predictable Republican/American Likudnik hysterics. But Mr. Gelb fails to mention the fact that if anyone has upset the nuclear balance of power in the ‘Middle East’ it is Israel, too … Continue reading →

You have to just wonder,almost, at the screeching Republican/Neo-Con united political front on the Iran Agreement, and then compare it to the TPA/TPP alliance vote. The TPP was/is a state secret, yet the Republican Corporatists sided with the president on … Continue reading →