Tuesday, March 29, 2022

US Troops to Ukraine?

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Is Joe Biden set to deploy U.S. troops to Ukraine? Watch him address the troops near the Ukrainian border in Poland (1:35) and listen for th...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Biden Puts His Foot in It Again

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People like Joe Biden never learn from history and never think long-term. It's the double whammy. By declaring that Vladimir Putin must ...

Is Ketanji Brown Jackson Qualified?

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Is a Supreme Court nominee who can't answer the question "What is a woman?" because, she says, she is not a biologist really q...
Friday, March 25, 2022

TGIF: Our Age of Character Assassination

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I am not one for romanticizing the past because in every alleged golden age you find grumblers looking longingly to some earlier alleged gol...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Disparity

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 From Mondoweiss :

Law of the Jungle vs. Law of the Market

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In the jungle, consumers compete, tooth and claw, with each other for scarce food. In the market, producers compete, peacefully, with each...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Virtues Are Not Vices

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In some quarters nuance is a vice, in others a crime.
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Synonyms Are Rarer than You Think

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  Understand is not a synonym for condone , much less for  justify or excuse .
Friday, March 18, 2022

TGIF: Congress Again Rewards Israel's Misdeeds

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To judge by what Congress is up to these days, one would think that it  wants  to reward Israel for its relentless confiscation of Palestini...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

The Rotten Case for Sanctions

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Now's a good time to read (or reread) Gary Chartier's 2019 article "The Case for Sanctions Fails at Every Turn."
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Only People Threatened by Russia May Bear Arms

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Pundits and politicians who routinely deny that Americans have the natural right to keep and bear arms nevertheless are thrilled by the scen...
Friday, March 11, 2022

TGIF: Russia in Ukraine: Cui Bono?

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I don't know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine -- an argument could be made for the affirmative -- but I...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

American Infallibility

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Beneath the widespread stubborn American refusal to understand the Russian government's motives for its condemnable invasion of Ukraine ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

Bill Clinton the Horrible

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If someone has done a full and honest assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency, I would really like to see it. It is stunning how many il...
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Friday, March 04, 2022

TGIF: When History Begins - Russia, Ukraine & the US

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Contrary to what hypocritical U.S. rulers and their loyal mass media suggest, two propositions can both be -- and indeed are -- true: that R...
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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Don't Let the US Foreign Policy Elite Off the Hook

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It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin's invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U....
Friday, February 25, 2022

Ten Favorite Books

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Keith Knight, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, interviewed me about ten of my favorite books. 

TGIF: On Privilege

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One of the most abused words in English is  privilege . Observe how indiscriminately this word is spoken and written. For example, in some q...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Change of Pace

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It's certainly a change to have a major country other than the United States committing an invasion.

Damn!

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Vladimir Putin's invasion and bombing of Ukraine deserve the condemnation of all decent people. Regardless of what has been going on ove...
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