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RACHMAN CRIES US A RIVER
October 24, 2010The Financial Times published an edited extract from “Zero Sum Game” Gideon Rachman’s forthcoming book. In it their award winning liberal columnist bemoans what he perceives to be the unsavory consequences of the post 2008 relative decline of the US. Before becoming an FT columnist, he reports, he has worked for the BBC and the [...]
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Mondo Cane
October 23, 2010Here are some of the ways our lives have changed since 9/11. We are all subjected to tedious search and scans at airports, courthouses, museums, concert halls and selective commercial and professional buildings. We will all shortly be exposed to the humiliation of full body scans at airports. We have watched specially trained german [...]
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US DEMAND IS LOCAL; SUPPLY IS GLOBAL
October 22, 2010Stimulus emerged as a dirty word in this election cycle. Democratic Keynesians argue that it saved the US and what is needed is more of the same. 2/3 of American polled, consider it a waste of money. They may not know the reason the Keynesian recipe no longer works but they can see that it [...]
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Mad Men
October 22, 2010Now that the season has ended, it will be interesting to speculate on what is coming for Don Draper and the gang. We have watched as Don deteriorated throughout most of this season, culminating in his severe business losses and concomitant alcoholism, growing problems for Sally, difficulties in Betty’s marriage and a spiraling realization [...]
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A chill wind
October 21, 2010Jews have a prayer for everything — at least that’s what they say in Fiddler on the Roof. So, if there’s no prayer thanking God for not making one a woman in Saudi Arabia, there oughta be. One reason is exemplified in a recent report by a human rights group that said the courts in [...]
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Barbering is not just a job, it’s an art, a philosophy
October 21, 2010“Everybody needs a haircut. That’s how I got started. I was forced to cut my own hair in eighth grade. Back then, they would start around the head like a bowl — no blending, no nothing. That was the style then.” So says Ishmael Coye, his own hair closely trimmed, his beard neat, wearing a [...]
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Pyongyang provocations: North Korea’s torpedo mischief ripples beyond Northeast Asia
October 21, 2010When North Korea makes headlines, it is never good news. For instance, there was the Korean War ‘
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YOU LIKE HIM? DON’T TEXT HIM!
October 19, 2010Plenty of women would prefer a phone call over a text from guys they’
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North Korea’s nuclear family biz
October 19, 2010Over the weekend, North Korea promised a “1,000-fold” rise in its military strength, The Associated Press reported. And Pyongyang may be keeping its word. For example, the Institute for Science and International Security, a US-based research group, says that North Korea is busy as a beaver, building its bomb-making capabilities. Based on [...]
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Why dont they just stay in Hollywood?
October 18, 2010The first movie I ever saw being filmed in Chicago was ‘
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Maureen Dowd Kettle Black
October 18, 2010After reading the latest rambling casserole of venom dished up by Maureen Dowd I can see why she is so angry. I would be angry too if my President was a hapless nitwit who couldn’t maneuver a sandwich out of a brown paper bag. Lady Dragon Dowd somehow believes that the problem is not her liberal [...]
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The Death Of EveryMom
October 17, 2010It was the pearls. They seemed so out of place. She always wore pearls, whether she was doing housework, eating breakfast or just reading the newspaper. Barbara Billingsley, aka June Cleaver, the archetypical 1950′