Monthly Archives: July 2015

Here is a quote from The Lacanian Delusion that describes Strauss with stinging accuracy! “His style ,then, is specifically designed to ward off simplification, but more generally , to defy any translation that would gloss over the words at issue … Continue reading →

Central to the Neo-Confederate/Originalist political myth is Brown I and II, as an attack on American Feudalism: white male power as above any kind of challenge. See The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean for confirmation of that political connection. The … Continue reading →

Where does Mr. Troy actually begin his argument? Not in the first paragraphs larded with self-congratulation of the legal expert. Legal narcissism is the disease of the profession!  And the assurances that he knows his American Law, supported by apposite … Continue reading →

More predictable hysterical chatter ! Is your strategy to flood the internet with your ‘journalism’, masquerading as thoughtful observation and comment? The picture that accompanied your tweet, of the lonely despairing pensioner was a propaganda coup de théâtre! A partial … Continue reading →

Even if the contents of Ms. Nemtsova’s carefully constructed bill of attainder are true, the critical reader has the historical  facts of the Ukrainian Coup, as an object lesson of EU and US NGO’s as subversive operatives, in the installation … Continue reading →

 ‘Ryan admitted, though, that he didn’t know the exact context for Bush’s remarks.’ Ryan is a political propagandist who disguised his Budget Proposals as actual Budgets, and political hacks like Douthat fell all over themselves, in calling this merde ‘policy … Continue reading →

Mayor Emanuel is a Neo-Liberal, although not in the sense that President Obama is. The Mayor does not hide his particular brand of that odious utopianism, as the timid president did  behind the fading rhetoric of of 2008.The President has … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce strikes a less strident note than Mr. Barber did on July 5th in the Financial Times. In fact Mr. Barber’s essay reflects a case of full blown political hysterics, doom saying garnished with pertinent historical references. Everything but … Continue reading →

It must be said that it is truly impressive that the Financial Times has procured the services of Jacques Delors the ‘Icon of Europe’ according to Derk-Jan Eppink  in his ‘Life of a European Mandarin : Inside the Commission’, quite … Continue reading →

The Greeks are not yet asking for debt forgiveness, but an end to utterly failed Austerity: the ‘strong medicine’ of the IMF, that is prescribed regardless of circumstance, or more pointedly as the cure for the Welfare State as a … Continue reading →