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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

Progressives United

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CPAC as reported by The Daily Beast or AlterNet

Compare and contrast these two reports on CPAC: the obvious winner AlterNet! http://www.alternet.org/story/149902/right-wing_disunity_clashes_at_this_year%27s_conservative_political_action_conference http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-12/cpac-winners-and-losers-from-romney-to-pawlenty/?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BNV$–B8Yq55QH

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Sherrod Sues Breitbart For Damaged Reputation | Media Matters for America

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Pretty Boy Reactionary,Barack Obama, and The Egyptian Revolution : Considering the failure of policy and policy makers.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-13/obamas-egypt-muddle-niall-ferguson-blasts-the-presidents-foreign-policy?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BNWTD4B8Yq5mQq The Egyptian Revolution provides Pretty Boy Reactionary (PBR) a golden opportunity to engage in  a  partisan, critical evaluation of the timid and blundering Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration, and more importantly on the leadership of Barack Obama, all … Continue reading →

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FT.com / Arts / Visual Arts – Luc Tuymans: The painterly pessimist

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Al Jazeera English: Live Stream – Watch Now – Al Jazeera English

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At Last, Bernie Madoff Gives Back

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The Egyptian Revolution and the Neo-Consevatives

Should we even feign surprise that the perpetrators of the murderous, political obscenity of the ‘War On Terror’, now in the shadow of the Egyptian Revolution, claim that as the precursor of the momentous events that have riveted the attention … Continue reading →

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Let’s say good-bye to the straw-feminist | PLoS Blogs Network

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Harvard University Press Blog : This Is What Democracy Looks Like

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