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Monthly Archives: February 2010
February 28, 2010
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A Blog is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Apologies for the light blogging during the last few days. I’ve been visiting family and trying to cope with a sudden flood of deadlines. There’s lots to write about, including Al Gore’s poorly conceived op-ed in the Times, and I’ll … Continue reading
February 27, 2010
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The Democratic Crisis?
The modern Democratic Party was formed out of four previously antagonistic elements in American society: urban working class and immigrant whites, Southern whites, African-Americans and upper middle class progressive reformers. It began to take shape when Woodrow Wilson brought progressives … Continue reading
February 25, 2010
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Middle East ‘Realists’: Anti-Semites or Just Dumb?
The Gallup organization has come out with yet another poll showing that Americans by an overwhelming percentage sympathize with the Israelis rather than the Palestinians. This time, the pro-Israel sentiment is at a near record level: 63 percent of those … Continue reading
February 24, 2010
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Another Blow to The Blue Beast
A report from the Pew Research Center out this morning isn’t getting huge play in the press, but it offers a much bigger clue to the shape of our future than anything you will read on the front page of … Continue reading
February 23, 2010
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Fools Rush In
Regular longtime readers of this blog know about E. Benjamin Skinner, a former Team Mead research associate who has gone on to great things. He wrote a book on slavery in the contemporary world, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with … Continue reading
February 22, 2010
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Carter According to Carter
President Jimmy Carter, and his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, have both taken issue with my recent article in Foreign Policy about Obama’s Jeffersonian and Wilsonian foreign policy impulses, entitled “The Carter Syndrome.”
February 21, 2010
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Do Soldiers Drink Tea?
At the tea parties here in glamorous Queens we make sure we serve genuine Devonshire clotted cream with the scones and we keep our pinkies carefully extended while lifting the delicate porcelain cups to our lips, but a very different … Continue reading
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Can We Please Give the Aussies (and Kiwis) A Break?
In yet another American poll guaranteed to make folks unhappy down under, Australia failed to make the list of Americans’ favorite foreign countries. The top five were Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and Israel. But a closer look at the … Continue reading
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Left-Wing European Press Attacks IPCC, UN Climate Change “Dilettentes”
The meltdown of the climate change movement is entering a new phase as the European left turns on the UN climate change office and the IPCC. The German left wing press, one of the world’s strongest supporters of the ‘climate … Continue reading
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Sunday Jeremiad: Petty Prophets of the Blue Beast
There’s nothing like Lent for reflecting on the sins of other people; I thought I’d start at the top — with the bishops of my own church. As the Episcopal church along with the other mainline Protestant denominations diminishes, we … Continue reading
February 19, 2010
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How Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth
The Washington Post this morning has a strong story on the collapse of the movement to stop climate change through a binding treaty negotiated under UN auspices. And even the normally taciturn New York Times is admitting that the resignation … Continue reading
February 18, 2010
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Patients Flock to Robo-Doc Prostate Surgeons
Some readers (like Michael Barone) were skeptical when I wrote about the coming technological revolution in American medicine and hailed it as our one chance for the kind of health care Americans really want (better, cheaper and more abundant than … Continue reading
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Incompetent Democracy
Both Daniel Drezner and Daniel Larison took issue — in their customarily civil and intelligent way — with my post on the Ukrainian election. From slightly different perspectives, they raise the same question: Ukraine just had a peaceful, democratic election. … Continue reading
February 17, 2010
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The Times They Are A-Changing
An editorial in today’s New York Times acknowledges something that everybody who doesn’t read the Times has known for several weeks now: sloppy work by climate scientists and the IPCC has severely dented public confidence in climate science generally, and … Continue reading
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The Twilight of the Guilds?
Two stories this morning cast some light on where the country is headed. The news isn’t good for the upper middle class. If you are, or you plan to be, a lawyer, a tenured university professor, a manager, an architect, … Continue reading
