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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010302422.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions Here is Marc Thiessen returning to his weekly column at The Washington Post with a certain political swagger, as he argues for the political rehabilitation of Jesse Helms. Mr. Helms is the political precursor to the Tea Party rebellion … Continue reading →

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/scalia-women-discrimination-constitution_n_803813.html Let me disagree with the characterization of Marcia Greenberger in regards to the comments of Justice Scalia as ‘shocking’. There is nothing ‘shocking’, prima facie, in the comments of Scalia regarding women, women’s rights etc., they are in fact … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-02/leslie-h-gelb-on-the-late-richard-holbrookes-contributions-to-foreign-policy/2/ Is the point of Mr. Gelb’s encomium to Richard Holbrooke to satirize a whole literary genre? Or is it a tribute of one public intellectual to a man who wielded power and so a tribute to a sort of … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-01/arnold-schwarzenegger-leaves-california-governorship-jerry-brown-quietly-follows/ The real enemy of progress is the Public Sector Unions as argued by dalelama and Mort Zuckerman among others. This is simply the tired but necessary next step in the 'starving the beast strategy' of Grover Norquist and the … Continue reading →

Kirk Garcia, Sandy Anderson, 'Kit' Anderson, Taylor Anderson, Mali Miller, Denise BeCotte, Steve Stark, Jimee Esposito, Ann Marie Johansen, Fernando, Paula Flees, Matthaeus, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales,Russ Feingold,Glen Greenwald,Robert Scheer,Paul Krugman, Frank Rich,Emma Rothschild,Dieter Henrich, Pierre Hadot, Immanuel Kant, Jacques … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss  Cockeyed Platonist (CP) in his December 30, 2010 column titled ‘The Arena Culture’ reviews a new book by Herbert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly titled All Things Shining. ‘They take a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western … Continue reading →