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Serfs letters to Lord Koch
These are just a few lines from the WSJ comments. See also Thomas Jefferson would have hated Charles Koch. Take it away, grovelers: It is fashionable among liberals to hate the rich and bite the very hand that feeds them. Reading this was a great way to start my day,…
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Thomas Jefferson would have hated Charles Koch
Jefferson: I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property Then he goes on to write: Another means of silently lessening the inequality…
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Pissing contests in Ukraine
To beat Vladimir Putin, we’re going to need to be a little more like him. The last two weeks have witnessed the upending of the European order and the close of the post-Cold War era. With his invasion of Crimea and the instant absorption of the strategic peninsula, Vladimir Putin…
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Enthusiastic Proud Democrat
There are two reasons I am an enthusiastic and proud Democrat: The Democratic Party does a lot of good and includes many wonderful, hard working, brilliant people. The Stimulus saved America from a massive depression. The Democratic US President got America out of a brutal and hopeless war in Iraq,…
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Who was right about the Iraq War: Ukraine edition
Stephen Walt writes about the dominance of failed “experts” in US foreign policy circles (with bold added by me) [M]ost of the U.S. foreign policy establishment performed abysmally during the run-up to the war. Top officials in the Bush administration told several important lies to bolster the case for war,…
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The Importance of History
Moscow has wanted to redraw the internal borders of the USSR, which do not reflect ethnic realities well, ever since 1991, and in this revanchist game Ukraine is the biggest prize of all. Simply put, Barack Obama is the first American president Moscow has felt they could pull this off…
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Ukraine Crisis shows that Conservative Economic Policies are National Security Threats
Europe’s weak response to Russian aggression in the Ukraine is the product of short-sighted “free market” and “frugal government” policies loved by Conservatives and their Pet Economists. Free Market Economic Ideology says Russian gas will be delivered to Western Europe at market rates, no matter what. But Vlad Putin is…
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Learned nothing, forgot nothing: the US “hawks”, Ukraine and Iraq
There is an uncomfortable amount of truth in this op-ed: http://t.co/j4YkujH6t7 — John Schindler (@20committee) March 5, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Americans who objected to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq were liable to receive peculiar, earnest, and often wildly angry lectures about how it was time to put away our unserious,…
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It turns out that Putin is just an American neo-con
The vociferous hawkish critics of US foreign policy in Ukraine and Syria often like to “explain” that the Obama admin & EU have profoundly misunderstood Vladimir Putin’s character and world-view. The critics argument is that Western governments have assumed Putin is just like them, law abiding, mild mannered, nice. But,…
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