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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

Myra Breckinridge on John Yoo and Robert Delahunty

Posted on June 26, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/20/obama-is-flouting-the-war-powers-resolution/ Hi, it’s me Myra, Most of you know me as the inquiring girl reporter for HeddaAndLouellaAreDead.com but today I would like to step out of that role and comment on a recent article by John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, … Continue reading →

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Boston Review — Pamela S. Karlan: Me, Inc. (Supreme Court, Corporations, Personhood, Citizens United)

Posted on June 26, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via bostonreview.net

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Paul Krugman on Inspiration for a Liberal Economist | FiveBooks | The Browser

Posted on June 25, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Additional Reviews and/or Endorsements for Barrett, L.: Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds.

Posted on June 25, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Marquand, D.: The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe.

Posted on June 25, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley

Posted on June 25, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Check out this website I found at facebook.com

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Repeal the Patriot Act by Juan Cole

Posted on June 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/repeal-the-patriot-act-is-the-lesson-of-bush-white-house-spying.html

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Leslie Gelb:The ethical void at the center of the mechanism of policy construction by Political Observer

Posted on June 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/23/why-obama-should-have-declared-mission-accomplished-in-afghanistan.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BOBIlAB8cDbthu The great thinker and political commentator Walter Lippmann extolled the virtues of the ‘expert’ in American political life, in a mass society in the 20th Century: a misplaced faith?  One need only read Mr. Leslie Gelb’s latest piece at … Continue reading →

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Political Observer on George Will, bad faith and the propaganda potential of the neo-imperial John McCain

Posted on June 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccains-neverending-war/2011/06/21/AGlbiSgH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Poor Mr. Will is on a fruitless search for someone or something to blame for the state of endless war that, now, is a fact of our lives as Americans. Mr. Will is the bearer of the bad faith … Continue reading →

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Political Observer on George Will and the selective use of cultivated political outrage

Posted on June 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/libya-and-the-potemkin-alliance/2011/06/17/AGdQ2UZH_story.html ‘America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is in its fourth month and has revealed NATO to be an increasingly fictitious military … Continue reading →

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