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Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 07, 2025 As usual Janan Ganesh has a lively and insightful conversation with himself -its like a fast moving current in a river of ideas, speculations, and just plain political chatter – some call this … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 06, 2025 Editor: The first two senteses are vintage Wooldridge/Micklethwait Oxbridger dullwitted slur, against a long gone caricature of Left Pariaians, like Sartre? Can a country still call itself an ally of America if America is … Continue reading →

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Newspaper Reader: Mr. Stephens, when he isn’t screecing, renders the jejune in it’s rancid state! stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 05, 2025 Editor: The final paragraphs of Jennifer Mittelstadt’s essay is to say the least bleak, that hallowed ‘Post-War Liberal Order’ is at … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Feb 04, 2025 Editor: The Economist ‘thinks of itself’ in the most self-congratulatory way! Briefing | Self-restraining Raj Headline: Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed Sub-headline: Many small steps could make a big difference In offices that used to … Continue reading →

stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 01, 2021 stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2025 Anne Applebaum’s re-published essay: ‘The New Puritans’ from October 2021. That is framed by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne. Note that brevity is not an attribute of Neo-Cons: exhausting the readers patience, and short circuiting … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2025 Headline:How popular is Donald Trump? Last updated on January 29th 2025 FEW FIGURES have loomed as large in American political life as Donald Trump. Even out of office, the celebrity-turned-president has had an extraordinary … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 Editor :The Frame: Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation vote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing … Editor: Question: “Is Edward Snowden a … Continue reading →

Political Observer: I have no permission from @RutgersIT to reprint this selection from Jordan Rubin’s revelatory biography of William Rehnquist! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 Editor: Reader beware of the caviets, of the publisher, aboutMr. Rubin , lets name them prejudices, … Continue reading →

Political Observer surveys a small portion, of this iteration, of ‘The China Paranoia’! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 30, 2025 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Political Observer.