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Every Foreign Dollar Counts at NRO
National Review Online has run numerous editorials against the idea of a federal loan to the Big Three, without, so far as I can tell, any dissenting voice arguing for such a loan from any of its columnists, most of whom have also attacked the idea of a loan for Detroit. NRO’s opposition to [...]
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What Is Wrong With This Picture?
The foreign adulation of Obama proves only one thing—they like him because they see him as not very American.
I’m sorry, President-elect Obama, but I don’t feel very healed by this election.
Opposed to a black President? I am not reconciled yet to John Quincy Adams.
I hear that local gun sales are up 49 per cent. I [...]
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
Just when I thought I’d seen it all, I discovered that Planned Parenthood of Indiana has deployed a new weapon in the War on Christmas—er, Holiday. Not to mention the War on Life—er, inconvenience.
There’ve been some real dingers lately in the War on Holiday. I just heard an ad on a sports-talk-radio station in Chicago [...]
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Oresteia II
The Agamemnon Concluded:
I’ll be very brief with the rest of the Agamemnon in order to discuss, more rapidly, the next two plays, where the moral and political crisis becomes apparent. The central scene of the play, in dramatic terms, is the confrontation of Clytaemestra and Agamemnon. She is the complete master of the situation, a [...]
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The Cost of Hegemony Is Beyond Reach
Undeterred by massive budget deficits from wars, a falling economy and financial bailouts, the U.S. government has managed to start a new cold war with Russia. Last Friday, the Russian military announced that it was developing a new generation of ballistic missiles in response to the U.S. government’s decision to deploy ballistic missile defenses in [...]
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Xanthippe: The Thrilling Conclusion
Socrates and Xanthippe have been discussing a proposed bailout of the cartmakers in the Peiraeus. They are joined by a very young Plato and Pheidippides, the dissolute son of Strepsiades, who sent him to study in order to find out how to evade his debts.
Socrates: Well, I see we have reached another impasse, Xanthippe. [...]
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The Rationale of Terror
Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the archduke and his [...]
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KEEPING CHRISTMAS—December 2008
PERSPECTIVE
Christmas Nightmares
by Thomas Fleming
VIEWS
Sola Scriptura: The Case for the Crusades
by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.
Following Christ.
How to Win the War Against Christmas
by Tom Piatak
Remembering how we got here.
Muslim Pressure and Christian Appeasement
by Christie Davies
The British retreat as the Muslims advance.
NEWS
The Cold War Never Ended
by Joseph E. Fallon
U.S.-Russian relations since September 11.
REVIEWS
The Fall of the House of Utter
by [...]
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What Is History? Part 15
These theories are interesting and valuable, although it is possible to stray too far along the road of geographical determinism. —John Davies
A socialist firebrand could rapidly become a jingoistic warmonger. . . . —John Davies
[T]he sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or bribe the powerless majority. —Gore Vidal
We cannot maintain an [...]
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America’s Moronic Iraqi Policy
According to all accounts, the United States faces its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with $2 trillion in near-term financing needs for bailouts and economic stimulus. This is an enormous sum for any country, especially one that is so heavily indebted that it is close to bankruptcy. If the money can’t be borrowed [...]
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