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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

Michael Tomasky is a perpetural apologists for the Clinton/Obama/Biden betrayel of The New Deal!

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 09, 2025 Mr. Tomasky’s potted history of the dismal failure ‘Third Party Candiates’ in American Elections, is about the Self-Rescue Project of The New Democrats, still led by the Clinton ménage. Hillary Clinton could not win an … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens in not a man of wit nor sensibility! Though he is a creature of the self-serving Politics of the Zionist Cadre!

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Title: Desides the insults reservered for Greta Thunberg, Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson, Bret Stephens in not a man of wit nor sensibility! Editor: I’ll begin my comentary at this point in Stephens … Continue reading

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@NYT, in the person of @adamliptak takes aim at Ketanji Brown Jackson!

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 08, 2025 Editor: The first paragraphs of Adam Liptak scolding chatter? Steeped in animus toward the newist member of the Court, is unsurprising, this is The New York Times! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions … Continue reading

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A re-post from June 27, 2013:

stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 06, 2025 Katzenbach, 383 U. S., at 328 and 329 etc. Opinion and Dissent Posted on June 27, 2013 by stephenkmacksd “Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices. The formula captures States by reference to literacy tests and … Continue reading

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The Times defames dissenters: Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, Carla Denyer, the Green party leader.

The Time’s is the voice of another time and place, long dead! Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 04, 2025 Headline: MPs like Corbyn won’t be prosecuted for Palestine Action support Sub-headline: The former Labour leader and fellow PA advocates such … Continue reading

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Re-posting from: February 10, 2022: ‘My struggle with reading ‘The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche’ By Philip Grundlehner.

Philosophical Apprentice comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 05, 2025 I purchased ‘The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche’ what seemed like decades ago, from a Oxford University Press book sale. I had read Rudiger Safranski’s Philosophical Biography of Nietzsche, well before reading about Nietzsche’s poetry. Some … Continue reading

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From February 9, 2022: ‘Peter Thiel as ‘reported’ in The Financial Times’

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 04, 2025 If Capitalism is represented by an ‘investor’, Peter Thiel, what might that say about the state of Capitalism? The Peddler of the 21st Century, Jeff Bezos, employees thousands in his chain of warehouses, and its … Continue reading

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New Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, aided by Michael Tomasky, marks a new day for The Sclerotic Party of Clinton?

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 04, 2025 Malcolm Ferguson/ July 3, 2025/9:15 a.m. ET Share This Story Hakeem Jeffries Speaks for Six Hours as He Delays Trump Budget The House minority leader has been spe aking for more than six hours … Continue reading

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The Times defames dissenters: Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, Carla Denyer, the Green party leader.

The Time’s is the voice of another time and place, long dead! Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 04, 2025 Headline: MPs like Corbyn won’t be prosecuted for Palestine Action support Sub-headline: The former Labour leader and fellow PA advocates such … Continue reading

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On Bret Stephens selective compassion twords ‘Palestinian civilians’& his hatred of Muslim Mamdani!

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jul 03, 2025 Editor: the final paragraphs of Mr. Stephens essay are indictive of Stephen’s usual attempt at carefully side-stepping the Gaza Genocide, via in an ersatz compassion. This is all by his recollection of the … Continue reading

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