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I saw a copy of this latest biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Stephen Budiansky, today, at my local library. I searched, out of curiosity, for the Buck vs. Bell case. This being a valid test of an actual biography … Continue reading →

I still think that Mr. Ganesh’s novel is still a work in progress! But to earn a living he writes in the most hybrid of forms: the feuilleton blended with political commentary, I think that these two rhetorical practices are … Continue reading →

The headline below and its ‘reporting’: Headline: Sanders secures narrow victory in New Hampshire primary https://www.ft.com/content/fe58cccc-4c4f-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5 Added to this headline and sub-headline: Bernie Sanders’ early strength worries Democratic leaders Prospect of nomination of most anti-establishment presidential candidate since 1972 https://www.ft.com/content/d38e6b52-4d24-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5 … Continue reading →

Headline:Problems for Macron as defecting MPs believe the party is over Sub-headline: French president’s La République en Marche is losing ground ahead of elections Unreported in the pages of this newspaper, The General Strike since its inception in December 2019, … Continue reading →

Cpl. Jones, thank you for your, brief ,but thought provoking comment. To ignore Corbyn’s catastrophic stand on Brexit in all its wishy-washyness is the very crux of his defeat in the election. If Corbyn had only had the courage of his … Continue reading →

With the collapse of the Clinton/Clapper/Brennan ‘Russian Interference’ in the 2016 Election, almost receding into the back ground? except for die-hard New Democrats and their Corporate Media allies. ‘CrowdStrike’ was the only organized investigative agency to examine the Clinton servers … Continue reading →

It’s not just New Democrat James Carville, political expert and fixer who helped Bill Clinton to win in 1992: forget Bush looking at his watch, during the debates, and the prescient Ross Perot’s interjection into the campaign, that fated Clinton’s … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh gives the game away with his first sentence: ‘Excuse the postmodernism here but the Iowa caucuses did not happen.’ What Mr. Ganesh ‘knows’ about Post-Modernism is a matter of conjecture, but does provide an au courant opening for … Continue reading →

Can there be any doubt that Macri’s ‘Neo-Liberalism Lite’ has been an utter failure! Was the peso in near free fall the first indicator, that de Kirchner would be returning to office, in her very adroit political trompe l’oeil as … Continue reading →

Headline:America Needs a Miracle Andy Divine long ago lost the privilege of commenting on ‘race’ with his publication of this essay adapted from ‘The Bell Curve’ : https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerpt Andy’s surmise is that his contemporary readers , in the provincial world … Continue reading →