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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

Episode LI of The American Political Melodrama:The Good Doctor,Paul Ryan and Pantomime Economics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-ryans-leap-a-rush-of-deficit-demagoguery/2011/04/07/AFUfOXxC_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) attacking  ‘deficit demagoguery’ in defense of the dubious economics of Representative Paul Ryan.  By the accounts of other Conservative thinkers, Cockeyed Platonist and The Great Will, Ryan is the seminal economic thinker and … Continue reading

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Thank you, Jumper of South Carolina for your Eloquent and Moving Letter

To Jumper of South Carolina,Thank you for your eloquent and moving reply to the Paul Krugman column of April 7,2011' Ludicrous and Cruel'. A great letter, a reminder to us all, of our history of struggle against the inherent feudalism … Continue reading

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Episode LV of The American Political Melodrama:The Rise of Fake Progressive

Fake Progressive (FP) has become an American Institution with her very popular website, whose origin was a desire to answer to the Right Wing and to elect a Democrat to the Presidency. She has been a decided success but there … Continue reading

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5 Myths about Federal Workers: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120306348.html#

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If Americans Knew – what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

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Paul Ryan’s plan to erase the Great Society – How the World Works

via salon.com Republican Mendacity is a perennial in The American Political Melodrama. The Great Will and Cockeyed Platonist have pledged their troth to the Great White Hope,Paul Ryan: he is the anointed of the Party of Austerity i.e. The Republican … Continue reading

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Harold Meyerson on Paul Ryan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whos-hurt-by-paul-ryans-budget-proposal/2011/04/05/AFfP7PlC_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions# “The cover under which Ryan and other Republicans operate is their concern for the deficit and national debt. But Ryan blows that cover by proposing to reduce the top income tax rate to just 25 percent. He imposes the … Continue reading

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Episode XXXIX of The American Political Melodrama: Cockeyed Platonist and Paul Ryan

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/opinion/05brooks.html?src=me&ref=homepage Here is Cockeyed Platonist ( CP)  acting, in this episode of The American Political Melodrama, as Paul Ryan’s campaign manager . He issues this memo to the campaign staff, in preparation to the big announcement,  that Mr. Ryan will … Continue reading

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As Congress Dithers, San Diego Shipyard Workers’ Woes Abound – Working In These Times

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Sexual Assault of Immigrant Women is a Hidden Human Rights Tragedy | Southern Poverty Law Center

Olivia came to the U.S. from Mexico to escape an abusive relationship. But what the 46-year-old meatpacking worker experienced in this country was a greater horror that haunts her still. Early one morning after a 12-hour shift, she found her … Continue reading

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