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Archive: Jul 2007

Weekly Review

Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions,Jerusalem Postand his successor Gordon Brown proposed stripping British prime ministers of the power to declare war.

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Karl Rove, Master of Secrecy

Scooter Libby is not the only confidant of President Bush who is apparently above the law. There’s also Karl Rove. Now Rove serves as a senior presidential advisor and in…

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Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence

In his tenure as governor of Texas and as president, George W. Bush has demonstrated that he doesn’t believe in pardons and clemency. That’s for whimps… unless, of course, it’s…

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Javert in Alabama, Continued

Some friends down in Alabama chide me justifiably for failing to note what may be the single most striking editorial run today in the Heart of Dixie. It comes from…

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The Beltway Press Needs a Good PR Firm

I knew that there was a fair amount of hostility towards the high-end Washington press corps, but until Saturday, when the Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed, I had no…

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Calm Heads vs. Headless Chickens

This weekend, we were riveted by the news out of Britain – a string of terrorist attacks timed to put a macabre mark on the transition of power from Tony…

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The 43rd President of the United States, the Honorable Neville Chamberlain

The Washington Post leads this morning with a must-read analytical piece by Peter Baker examining George W. Bush in the seventh year of his presidency. Never in modern American political…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Albuquerque

The current scandal over politicized prosecution had its epicenter in the Land of Enchantment, where a highly regarded young Republican prosecutor, David Iglesias, was ousted for refusing to politically manipulate…

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Javert in Alabama

The immortal Victor Hugo knew the type perfectly. In his great novel of the quest for justice, he gave us the character of Javert – formed from an historical figure,…

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Macaulay on the Dullard Monarch

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn…

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Listening Recommendation

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Elijah: An Oratorio (1846) Heinrich Heine could not help noticing the irony in the fact that when the greatest work of the Baroque sacred repertoire, Johann Sebastian Bach’s…

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The Dark Shadow of Racism

Every time the subject of immigration comes to the top of the public agenda, a dark shadow falls over the country. Hysterical rhetoric begins – racist demonization. It’s not a…

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Six Questions for Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer, the renowned and eccentric writer whose works on the human will revolutionized modern philosophy was last seen in one of the Taunus mountain resorts up above Frankfurt sometime…

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Schopenhauer on Wisdom and Stupidity

In the totality of human history across all cultures and ages, the wise have always said generally the same thing, and the idiots, namely, the immeasurable majority, have always also…

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