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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

Ron Paul Defends WikiLeaks On House Floor (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/v/GDp1izlMQT0?fs=1&hl=en_US via huffingtonpost.com

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Whose Originalism?

Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law.

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So Where’s Your Originalism Now, Justice Scalia? – Law Blog – WSJ

By Ashby Jones From where we sit, the most interesting component of the most interesting Supreme Court case of the term — McDonald v. Chicago — involves this Privileges or Immunities Clause issue.

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PolitiFact | Bernie Sanders, in viral speech, says top 1 percent earn more than 23 percent of U.S. income

http://www.youtube.com/v/CIfEw1V8_Ls?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata via politifact.com

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The Good Doctor and American Political Realism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120904472.html  Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) doing his Peronist caudillo turn, for our intellectual edification! The aimless political world needs the interpretive brio of our little authoritarian, to explain the political prestidigitation, of the master politician Barack Obama, who … Continue reading

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Hive-minds and Kleptocrats

via krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Justices Unbound

Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law.

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This Side of the Pond | We’re proud to announce that John Miller’s APOLLO, AUGUSTUS AND THE POETS has won this year’s Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association

We’re proud to announce that John Miller’s APOLLO, AUGUSTUS AND THE POETS has won this year’s Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association

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Peter A. Joseph: Obama’s Real Record on Israel

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IRAN: Ahmadinejad aide provokes clergy with fresh set of provocative remarks | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

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