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David Brooks ‘thinks’ that his readership has forgotten his tedious War Mongering: ‘The Collapse of the Dream Palaces’ ?

Political Observer comments on his latest Anti-Trump diatribe, as if his own Political Past has been carefully eroded of any stain! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 18, 2025 Editor: Mr. Brooks’ opening paragraps: In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of … Continue reading

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Paul Ryan on Trump & Ryan’s political flirtation with The Tea Party!

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 15, 2025 ……………………………………………………… From 2016 Paul Ryan faces Tea Party forces that he helped unleash Jennifer Steinhauer https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/04/paul-ryan-faces-tea-party-forces-that-he-helped-unleash/10113592007/ Paul D. Ryan and his self-proclaimed “young guns” in the House Republican leadership traversed the country in 2010 … Continue reading

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‘The Free Press’ send’s me ‘A Ready-Made’!

Old Socialist Shares The Wealth of Neo-Conservative Mendacity… stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 15, 2025 ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. “In Trump’s America, the Guessing Game Never Ends” What is our policy toward Iran? Are the tariffs on or off? If they’re on—what countries are they … Continue reading

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@rcolvile on Activist Judges, his own xenophobia & the ever-present ‘Left’!

Unrepentant Leftist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 14, 2025 Headline: Activist judges are getting too big for their wigs Sub-headline: A catalogue of immigration cases has caused outcry — but don’t expect Labour to wade in. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/activist-judges-are-getting-too-big-for-their-wigs-hf89pshgq Editor : The Reader only … Continue reading

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John Yoo : ‘Birthright Citizenship Is American Citizenship’ ‘John Yoo: The Man Who Would Make the President King’, by Gene Healy : Mark J. Rozell & Mitchel A. Sollenberger on Unitary Executive Theory

Political Observer offers a selection from three sourses! The Fourteenth Amendment directly overruled Dred Scott by declaring that all persons born in the US were citizens. John Yoo. https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/birthright-citizenship-is-american-citizenship. … & Wong Kim Ark is not just an artifact that history has long … Continue reading

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Newspaper Reader on The Financial Times and Trumpian chicanery!

Trumpian chicanery renders any attempt at finding motive and reasons, for self-serving political and economic manipultion, are moot? Exploitable Chaos is The Trumpian métier ! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 12, 2025 Headline: Global stocks soar as Donald Trump backs down from trade … Continue reading

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Straussian Bret Stephens’ vain search for the moral/political high ground?

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 09, 2025 Headline: There’s Nothing Real About Trump’s ‘Real America’ … I’ve been thinking about this case as an emblem of everything that makes Donald Trump’s presidency so vile and destructive, even when I’ve bent over backward to give … Continue reading

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On the re-birth of ‘The Organization Woman/Man’from Yale University Press?

Who can recall this ‘American Type’, once lost in the fog of a yester-year, reivegortated in The Age Of Trump, asks Political Observer? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 03, 2025 A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of … Continue reading

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Edward Skidelsky from 1999: Perry Anderson ‘a strangely conservative figure’!

Political Observer on the value and necessity of actual History! stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 02, 2025 19 March 1999 The New Statesman Profile – Perry Anderson He is one of Britain’s great Marxist intellectuals, yet now he seems a strangely conservative figure … Continue reading

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I recall the salad days of ‘The Literary Wittgenstein’ quite well! John Holbo, of National University of Singapore of 2005.06.02 offers a telling critique!

Philosophical Apprentice offers a brief, but telling sample of John Holbo’s revelatory essay ! stephenkmacksd.com/ The Literary Wittgenstein John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge, 2004, 368pp, $33.95 (pbk), ISBN 0415289734. Reviewed by John Holbo, National University of … Continue reading

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