Bernie Concedes

Allowing Clinton to label herself a "progressive" (because she believed in progress) and conceding that Obama was also a progressive, Bernie undercut his raison d'etre and  all but conceded the nomination  .....  [read]

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And from Versailles. . .

Asked the other day, why she ate cake while the people in Paris starved, l'Antoinette replied, "Well, that's what they served."

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Hillary's Inner Goldwater

Hillary Clinton lets slip her true anti-progressive side.   [read]

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Hillary's Loss in Iowa

There are no Pyrrhic Victories in sports; but in politics, as in war, some wins protest too much.  [ read ]

Palin's Personal Holocaust

Ranting in front of a crowd of cheering admirers Sarah Palin blamed Obama for “single-handedly” “ruining” her “plans and dreams”. . .  Chipsters ponder why such insanity resonates with people  [ read ]

Our Present Future

Manuel Vals has spoken...... [ecoute]

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RapsNach im Köln

  

One has to sneer at the inconvenient marriage between Germany’s politically correct left and its politically incorrect right, over the “sexual assaults” which allegedly took place in Cologne’s cathedral square on New Year’s Eve. [more] 

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Being Reminded

The Archbishop of Canterbury reminds us that .....   [read on!]

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Black, Gold and Green

It occurs to us that there is a very simple why the United States will never really get behind an agreement to detox the world from oil:   . . .  [more]

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Where's the War Room?

Fifty one years ago, Stanley Kubrick's  Dr Strangelove  had its premier in New York City[ continue ]

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The Parables of Memory

Memory is the present act of reconstructing past realities. ... How and what we remember defines us as who we are. ... In contrast to peddlers of shame and guilt, the heart of Christianity is to remember despair in a way that constitutes hope once and for all.   [ continue reading ]

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