Monthly Archives: April 2025

The Rule is anything written by @rcolvile: Approach With Caution !

Political Observer, with the help of Jean-Louis Missika & Dominique Wolton and James and Marie McIntosh. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: Mr. Colevile’s voice is very distinctive: The Reader cannot compare him in any way to @JohnJCrace of The Guardian, … Continue reading

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@FT & miranda.green@ft.com ask the probing ? : ‘What makes ‘Reform-curious’ Labour voters so hard to woo back’

Political Cynic comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: The headline of Miranda Green’s would-be commentary is exhausted in a marriage of the headline & sub-headline, that trades on the well worn political place holders , wedded to current jargon. Opinion … Continue reading

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In attempting to read ‘Ross Douthat’ ‘Condition of America’ Interviewed by Nick Burns, in New Left Review …..

In the guise of Political Observer, my attempt to satirized Mr. Douthat: I missed the actual thinker/writer of his books, rather that his opinion columns in The New York Times? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 26, 2025 Editor: For the occasional reader of … Continue reading

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The last paragraphs of Bret Stephens April 22, 2025 diatribe promps Political Observer to wonder: At what point will or can Stephens confront the Genocidal Netanyahu?

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 23, 2025 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Editor: There can be no doubt that Stephens self-presents as a political moralist via Harold Macmillan, and that the birth of a diatribe has begun. Stephens as a Neo-Con and student of Leo … Continue reading

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Is there nothing more tedious than @DouthatNYT examinations of the pressing question of ‘Ultramontanism’ vs. ‘Gallicanism’?

Has Political Observer strayed into the most pressing question of the Historical Moment? Also, does Huntington’s ‘Who Are We’ offer an echo of Douthat in another key? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 20, 2025 Editor: For an exploration of this ‘Catholic Duality’, if that is … Continue reading

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Peter Thiel: Insights from“The Straussian Moment“

Political Observer on Peter Thiel and the Gordian knot? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 19, 2025 … 1. The Enlightenment’s mistake. “You can distinguish the intellect and the will. The medievals believed in the weakness of the will but the power of the … Continue reading

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David Brooks ‘thinks’ that his readership has forgotten his tedious War Mongering: ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ ?

Political Observer comments on his latest Anti-Trump diatribe, as if his own Political Past has been carefully eroded of any stain! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 18, 2025 Editor: Mr. Brooks’ opening paragraps: In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of … Continue reading

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Paul Ryan on Trump & Ryan’s political flirtation with The Tea Party!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 15, 2025 ……………………………………………………… From 2016 Paul Ryan faces Tea Party forces that he helped unleash Jennifer Steinhauer https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/04/paul-ryan-faces-tea-party-forces-that-he-helped-unleash/10113592007/ Paul D. Ryan and his self-proclaimed “young guns” in the House Republican leadership traversed the country in 2010 … Continue reading

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‘The Free Press’ send’s me ‘A Ready-Made’!

Old Socialist Shares The Wealth of Neo-Conservative Mendacity… stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 15, 2025 ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. “In Trump’s America, the Guessing Game Never Ends” What is our policy toward Iran? Are the tariffs on or off? If they’re on—what countries are they … Continue reading

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@rcolvile on Activist Judges, his own xenophobia & the ever-present ‘Left’!

Unrepentant Leftist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 14, 2025 Headline: Activist judges are getting too big for their wigs Sub-headline: A catalogue of immigration cases has caused outcry — but don’t expect Labour to wade in. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/activist-judges-are-getting-too-big-for-their-wigs-hf89pshgq Editor : The Reader only … Continue reading

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