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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Should we be surprised?

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Matt Taibbi on Republicans

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/loony-ass-insurgents-vs-waffling-bores-gop-presidential-fight-starts-tonight-20110505

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Danger Mouse Lives!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4a807b14-776f-11e0-824c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1LeQ2HdWx

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Opinionator Emeritus on The Rehabilitation of American Invincibility

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-05/how-obama-can-capitalize-on-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden/   If there was any lingering doubt, in the minds of his readers, that he had access to ‘a key’ White House official, Opinionator Emeritus (OE) has laid them to rest, with the opening sentences from his latest essay: … Continue reading

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The Good Doctor : A Vindication of The War On Terror

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evil-does-not-die-of-natural-causes/2011/05/05/AFhTKG2F_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions   Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) in a bellicose mood, that is to say, in his guise as a Neo-Conservative Political Theologian, discoursing on the nature of evil. The title of his essay is ‘Evil does not die … Continue reading

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Glenn Greenwald on Osama bin Laden

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/06/bin_laden/index.html One is forcefully reminded by Mr. Glen Greewald’s eloquent and well argued essay of the deep psychic wound that 9/11 is and will remain: the destruction of the deeply held belief in American Exceptionalism, in American invincibility. This, perhaps, … Continue reading

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Nir Rosen on Al Qa’eda

Stop reading the intellectual impostors. Read Mr. Rosen's report on Al Qa'eda! http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/al-qaeda-was-always-a-fringe-group-with-no-roots-in-the-arab-world?pageCount=0

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Max Boot on Osama bin Laden: The Apotheosis of Historical Fiction by Literary Hack

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot-bin-laden-20110503,0,2161613.story Here is Max Boot on Osama bin Laden. A Neo-Conservative Historical Fiction might be a more apt subtitle of his latest opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times of May 3, 2011. Erased from this historical sketch in service … Continue reading

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Political Hack on David Brooks: What Drives History?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/opinion/03brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Mr. Brooks has the enviable talent to turn anything he writes into Cheese Whiz. It is completely ersatz, it comes sealed in a jar, with a shelf life of near eternity, and it almost resembles food. We, his readers, … Continue reading

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Robert Scheer on bin Laden

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_monster_of_our_own_creation_20110504/

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