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Is it like @NYT telling ‘reporters’ what words are verboten about the Gaza Genocide & Famine? I used the violent word ‘Purge’ . StephenKMackSD

Old Socialist asks ‘A New York Times Question’: Is Bret Stephens ‘Woke’ ? Mr. Stephens disingenuous thank you note to campus protestors, who can’t quite match Stephens education : Middlesex School , *University of Chicago & the London School of Economics, demonstrates … Continue reading →

Political Observer provides the pertinent data! While the Genocide and enforced Famine continues in Gaza, and the attack on Rafah awaits, Bret Stephens and Sheryl Sandberg sound the alarm on ‘Anti-Semitism’. Political Observer ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. The Electronic Intifada Debunking “Screams Before Silence,” … Continue reading →

Political Observer recalls Obama’s praise for Ronald Reagan, as ‘The Transformational President’, while FDR remained in the shadow of that Hollywood has-been! The reader needs, must consider what planet Janan Ganesh resides! This ‘essay’ on Joe is History Made To Measure ‘we … Continue reading →

Political Observer on Friedman’s 2,019 word intervention. ‘writing from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’ is attached to this ‘essay’ as the in order to of impressing the Times readership? Mr. Friedman, and his newspaper, self-present as not just the ‘last word’ on International Affaires but … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the the unhappy marriage of Politics & Theology! Don’t relax, Europe — the US hard right isn’t finished yet Ultraconservative Americans have views about the old continent that would dismay most Europeans Constanze Stelzenmüller https://www.ft.com/content/a9e85226-0946-4b09-b755-6b44d885c677 At the … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. I am not a subscriber to ‘Real Clear Politics’ , but somehow I am on their mailing list. Today I explored the web site, and one of the essays caught my interest: ‘Philip Howard Aims To Enhance Freedom by … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Melanie Phillips opens her diatribe with these markers, this hysterical collection of ‘charges’ against a people subject to 75 years of subjugation, oppression, dispossession, incarceration, kidnap, murder. And in the present to Geocide and Famine, charges that Phillips vehemently denies, … Continue reading →

Political Observer wonders at this short lived ‘evolution’! The first paragraphs demonstrate a remarkable ‘evolution’, that reminds this American Reader of Rod McKuen’s ‘Listen to the Warm’ of 1967! He was reported to be Elizbeth Taylor’s favorite Poet! Mr. Colvile poetic reach, not … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist offers a selective commentary. The first paragraphs of the Brooks’ essay don’t quite give the game away : Should this surprise The Reader? Brooks is smitten by evocatively presented ‘Credentials’ ! I’ve placed in bold font the Brooks … Continue reading →