Christopher Landon: Ice Cold in Alex
Interesting and well developed characters, in genuinely tension inducing situations - even when the matter of "who did it" is not really a mystery. Vivid enough for the place and period - WW2 North Africa to early 1950s Britain - to come to life inside your mind. (***)
Karl Von Clausewitz: On War
I read this first many years ago.
The author then impressed me as being more lucid and broadly learned than many contemporary writers on this and similar areas. He still does. (****)
Loren Lomasky: Person's, Rights, and the Moral Community
Well written, and clear. Many interesting ideas and explications of problems, but his theory itself - on a derivation of rights, seems possessed of unnecessary elements. Worth reading. (***)
J.G.Ballard: The Drowned World
Another (long-time) re-read.
Ballard tends to play one note - but it's a good one - and he plays it VERY well. Some uncontrolled/unforeseen calamity engulfs the world. Protagonist(s) confront general realization of the coldly impersonal nature of the world and how human responses are to a large extent a product of the interaction of those forces with his/there-own biological pre-dispositions - engraved in the structure of each and every one of their cells. And, that the true and only expression of one's authentic self and humanity, lies in how and whether one can/does inwardly accept the truth of these constraints, and expresses that realization, in those (few) opportunities available for actual personal choice.
Intentionally or not his work gives powerful and poetic expression to the Existentialist perspective.
The world of this novel happens to be slowly drowning in the over-heated flood-tides that result from a run-away solar anomaly. But, it could be just about any such occurrence - e.g. A "Wind From Nowhere," or the Japanese invasion of Shanghai (both of which served as the backgrounds of others among his novels). The story-line, character-types, dilemmas, decisions, and general moods are much the same in each story, but the pacing, poetry, intensity, and aggravating authenticity of the characterizations in each instance are gripping enough to make every reading worthwhile. (***)
taking it
back
Vickie McKenna has the right idea
And, the right way of thinking about the
problem.
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"...this is not “your father’s” left.
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We must be willing and able to work for and encourage the best that might emerge from the incoming administration, but also, to be fully prepared for the worst
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Barak Obama is no longer young. And, whatever mentors,
colleagues and movements might have been understandable in one of his background
whilst still forming, are no longer sufficient to explain who and what he is
now. And, in particular, they are not sufficient to justify his current choices.
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This is a revised version of a previous article: "On McCain" published in early
April, this piece is intended to serve - more clearly - as a quick reference
for comparing the views of Sens Obama and McCain on key issues, and to do
so from a conservative perspective.
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Asymmetric
AMATTEROFFACT
Reflections on a House Divided
Feeding the hand that bites you
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It should have been a slam-dunk.
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My proposal is simple: take the American Library Association at their word - and by their actions; begin to think of them as "standing in" for the left-wing of the Democratic Party, and the "Progressive Movement" in general; and do so when we go to the polls in November.
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Celebrate Disaster
It's about CHANGE
"Who me?
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"The Democratic Party and Barak Obama want to do for
America what they've done for Chicago and Illinois, America can't afford that
risk."
An ad and a slogan.
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A suggestion for changing the course of the conflict along the Afghan/Pakistani frontier.
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"It's for the children."
You've already heard the story, but there
are some vital points still left unsaid or not said often and loudly enough.
Just one example of which is that - just as we've failed to brand our enemies in
the War on Islamist Terror as what they really are - we've also failed to put a
name on other groups and individuals who threaten our families, children and
traditions, and who do so right here at home
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Candidates who are willing to say "enough is enough" on these matters - and
related ones such as affirmative action - are likely to find that they have
tapped into an undercurrent
Reflections on a House Divided
Branding
the nature and extent of Sen Obama's left-wing agenda doesn't seem to have penetrated into the awareness of the American public in general. They just don't associate him, the "Progressive" movement and the Democratic party with the kinds of infringements and irritations that have come to be seen as "normal" in everyday life. That is, things such as...parents being threatened for spanking their kids..public libraries that let paedophiles in...while keeping Christians at bay...:...kids being punished in school for drawing pictures of their soldier relatives...
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Contrary to "pundit wisdom" and media hype, America is not really aching for a leftwards turn
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There is reason for conservatives to be troubled about this bill and its likely passage, but not for the inevitable complaining that will follow when the President signs it into law - as he has said he would. And, certainly enough there is little or no justification for the - equally inevitable - charges of "capitulation" that will emanate from those quarters to accompany and trail along after the President's action in doing so.
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Recent writings by The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin on the alleged role of high-level officials of the Bush administration in the development and implementation of "harsh interrogation" methods - for use on suspected terrorists - provide an object lesson in the meaning of the term "media bias," as well as a unique window into the world-view of the liberal elite
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We are not voting to fill a vacancy amongst the angels
From the beginning I've been afraid that Sen McCain is also too much of a gentleman to adopt and sustain an approach [direct, critical, unapologetic] of that kind. But, this speech seems to indicated that...he has started in that direction.
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The epic struggle against Soviet Communism lasted over 40
years.
Our victory when it came was sudden and unexpected. And, many of the
most bitter struggles that marked its course were fought in shadows, the men and
women who waged them un-named, hence forgotten. But, even the memory of many of
the most public of its campaigns - including those in which thousands of
American fighting men fought and died - have also
largely faded from public
consciousness as well.
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An article on a recent survey of the public's attitudes towards Sen Obama's connection with Rev Wright indicates that - some things in the culture have changed, drastically - and not for the better.
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Apparently - to the staff of the Times - another "fix" is called for. Perhaps a
really "good" one might top that previous job-loss figure, and, in doing so,
provide material for a month's worth of articles exposing the plight of the "new
jobless" stranded on the "heartless shoals of late American Capitalism."
The issues where Sens McCain and Obama differ
significantly:
a matrix, with commentary
Walking the Talk
He has had many years in which to make these same points...And then. after speaking thus and doing so at the time Rev Wright actually
made his pronouncements - rather than
waiting for a crisis in one of his electoral campaigns
With update on Sen Obama's Speech
The debt America as a whole - as well as conservatives in
particular - owe
to him is incalculable.
I just hope that enough people keep that catastrophe and the current dangers in mind when they vote in this coming election. And, that instead of just ticking the same box they've done all their lives out of habit they - particularly [our fellow] Jews - [will] spend a moment to consider that - the [World] war and Holocaust [were] proceeded by the Munich treaty, appeasement of the aggressors, anti-military feelings and isolationism..., withdrawal, and the illusion that conflict could be avoided if we tried to "just get along."
The veterans and active-duty personnel who have supported the presidential aspirations of John McCain so far, may not be aware that he has advocated for a measure that might leave some of them struggling to avoid spending the rest of their lives behind bars.
"...And to all a good night!"
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