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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

Cockeyed Platonist and Governor Mitch Daniels: A Platonic Political Romance

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/opinion/25brooks.html?_r=1&hp Cockeyed Platonist (CP) makes a bold statement in his latest column in The New York Times, a U.S. Government subsidiary. It deserves a full quotation: ‘Daniels’s Conservative Political Action Conference speech had a serious and weighty tone. He spoke … Continue reading

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The Good Doctor and the Failure of Geography

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022406520.html The Good Doctor (TGD) is an adept at the production of manufactured political hysteria and we have his latest column as the printed actuality, paper or electronic, an artifact of his gift of  ‘political commentary’. Not the Olympian thought … Continue reading

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PostPartisan – Krauthammer falls for the Paul Ryan ruse

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“government employees sowing disorder”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103190.html Monday, February 21, 2011 Madison, Wisconsin The Great Will (TGW) is in panic mode, The Public Sector Unions are on the move and it cannot bode well for the political fortunes of Scott Walker, pretender to the mantle of … Continue reading

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Public Sector Unions

Public Sector Union members are our brothers,sisters,wives,husbands,partners,lovers and children who every day try to make our lives better by doing their jobs, only to be treated like shit by Republican Party hacks who only have respect for the likes of … Continue reading

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Return of the Class Struggle « LRB blog

Thanks to the public employees of Wisconsin, thousands of whom have occupied the state capitol building for the past several days, the class struggle has returned to the United States. Of course, it never really left, but lately only one … Continue reading

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Thousands of workers strike in Saudi Arabia|26Feb11|Socialist Worker

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The Probity of Roger Ailes under attack?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/nyregion/25roger-ailes.html?_r=4&hp

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Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model? « AlterPolitics – Progressive Blog For Politics, World Issues, Arts & Entertainment

Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?   by Stan on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 11:37 am in Politics, Writing Chris Hedges’ new TruthDig column, Huffington’s Plunder, raises a topic that seems to provoke … Continue reading

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Boston Review — Jonathan Kirshner: Business As Usual

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 Business As Usual The Next Wall Street Collapse Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. Vintage, $15.95 (paper). Richard A. Posner, A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 … Continue reading

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