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Evincing no Christmas spirit whatsoever, in late December Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, and various law enforcement officials proclaimed their intention to prosecute the leaders of the Green Movement, the loosely organized opposition forces that challenged President Ahmadinejad in the … Continue reading →

via vanityfair.com Here, in all its salacious detail, is the latest scandal to hit the pages of Vanity Fair regarding this generation’s Clair Booth Luce and all her powerful friends, associates and their alliances and, most definitely, their falling outs. … Continue reading →

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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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via theatlantic.com The necessary and indispensable Andrew Bacevich: always worthy of our time and attention!

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 →