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Ever since my escape from the Best Seller list of 1968, I've been trying to catch up on my movie watching because I believe that movies, or as the French say cinema,are the medium and the message, to riff on … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/anwar-al-awlaki-and-why-president-barack-obama-is-right-to-kill-u-s-citizens.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/anwar-al-awlaki-killing-obama-must-explain-his-targeted-drone-policy.html Tina Brown at The Daily Beast attempts to provide a rather proscribed debate on the killing of Anwar al-Awalaki, for readers without a certain political sophistication and even the barest minimum of basic investigative skills. First is Mr. … Continue reading →

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-turley-civil-liberties-2… Thank you to Glenn Greenwald for the link to this very important editorial.    

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/brooks-the-lost-decade.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss           The Lost Decade is the latest intellectual entity to make for a cliché ridden column by Mr. Brooks. It is Plato with a heavy garnish of Hegel, not the most palatable repast.  But let us begin at the beginning.  … Continue reading →

Is Occupy Wall Street a harbinger of things to come? Social chaos is not good for business. So the mass arrests of protestors in New York City are probably not surprising. But the brutality of the police is being documented … Continue reading →

Excerpt from a letter dated October 25,1940 to Alexander Woollcott page 397: “…For while I want my friends to understand what I do, I have a fanatical conviction that columnists who undertake to interpret events should not regard themselves as … Continue reading →

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa9208f0-e480-11e0-92a3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YppvW0CO   Is it my imagination or does Mr. Christopher Caldwell, in his latest essay at the Financial Times web site titled ‘The president just does not get the American centre’, dated September 23, 2011, seem to be suffering from … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/22/house-vote-to-defeat-spending-bill-raises-new-government-shutdown-threat.html Is it anything like a surprise that the Tea Party Jacobins now run the Republican Party? The confidence that the old guard expressed to everyone who would listen; to the hushed tone of confidence in the ability of Washington … Continue reading →

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/the-amateur-ideal.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/clinton-and-obama-learned-nothing-remembered-nothing/2011/03/29/gIQA9zHVoK_blog.html#pagebreak In her column of September 22,2011 Jennifer Rubin severely scolds President Obama and President Clinton for deviating from the AIPAC and Neo-Conservative line on Israel. Not anything like a surprise from an American Likudnik. http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/james-renton/palestines-un-bid-lessons-from-history-of-zionism But here is James … Continue reading →