Monthly Archives: July 2017

The badly bruised and battered ego of Hillary Clinton has nurtured a thousand flowers of New Cold War Paranoia: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) most recently accused Russia of engaging in warfare. “I think this attack that we’ve experienced is … Continue reading →

In answer to Mr. Sandbu’s fulsome praise for ‘Globalization’ framed in a kind of political moralizing, because that framing is all important to the production of usable propaganda: Headline: An enfeebled America stands alone Sub-headline: Economic change has affected other … Continue reading →

Where have McConnell and Ryan been? They have had ample time to come up with an alternative to the Heritage Foundation Health Care! Where was a Working Group on Health Care ‘Reform’ , made up of Senate and House Republicans, … Continue reading →

Its Monday July 17, 2017 at before 7 AM  PDT, here is a screen capture of an e-mail I received from The Financial Times: All of these ‘News Stories’ published on July 16, 2017, in order of appearance: Headline: Theresa May … Continue reading →

Can there be any doubt that Mr. Trump is a megalomaniac? Mr. Brooks’ attempts a psychological/moral diagnosis of Trump, the man and his politics, is presented in this paragraph: I repeat this history because I don’t think moral obliviousness is … Continue reading →

Mr. Luce’s latest essay reads as it were authored by the Clinton Wing of the New Democrats, so awash in paranoid speculation on the Evil Trump. Mr. Luce simply embroiders on the themes first enunciated by Mrs. Clinton and her … Continue reading →

Headline: The Sun King: Macron burnishes his presidential image Sub-headline: French lap up ostentatious display of grandeur from youthful head of state From the utterly shameless, what to call it, kowtowing,worshipful, obsequious stance of The Financial Times towards Macron, the … Continue reading →

As a regular reader of Andrew Sullivan I find his reputation as an American Pundit a function of his self-advertisement, wedded to his abysmal ignorance of American political, social history.  Some examples from Mr. Sullivan’s July 7, 2017 essay: But … Continue reading →

Headline: Police braced for further G20 violence Sub-headline: Scale of Hamburg clashes casts a pall over showcase for German diplomacy “It looks like war,” one resident told German TV. “This has nothing to do with protest — it’s raw violence and … Continue reading →

The Financial Times assigns ‘reporter’ Mamta Badkar the task of ballyhooing the June Jobs Report. Of course, the comments section is closed, the editors of this Tory tabloid knows their readership. Now, this essay features the usual graphs, that chart … Continue reading →