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cyclical or structural?

Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading

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who cares what other people think…

Some things never change. Way back when David Ben Gurion said something to the effect…”What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.” So it was then,  and so, to a great degree, it is today. … Continue reading

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bombs away: mullah strangelove

So then, just where are they going to drop this thing? (see link at end)…Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Thursday that Moscow does not believe Iran will use a nuclear weapon against Israel. “Thus … Continue reading

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fill the void: the voidoid zone

Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading

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stooges: a captivating public

What? He captivated the Arab world? It was previously thought that walking on water and loaves of bread and nets full of fish were associated with Christian culture. But heck, with Mohammed Morsi, there is no telling where charisma can … Continue reading

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throw a rock of ages

Are there legitimate reasons to criticize what is perceived as extreme left foreign policy. The supporting of a gaggle of twisted ideologies and Islamic fundamentalists heck bent for leather as the Gipper would say? Is there good reason to explain … Continue reading

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a star is born: quickie autograph session

They can’t drink, they can’t smoke, they can’t chase skirt or burka. They can’t do a goddam thing. Except try to make nuclear weapons. It’s hard to get a handle on Mohamad Morsi. Sort of. Obviously the U.S. thought they … Continue reading

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a plateful it is

The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading

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on the cusp of the second awakening

The reality of Arabism was misted, and presently this inner uncertainty , expressed in endemic feuds and rivalries, led to the collapse of Arab power. The decline was more protracted than the rise… The Arabs burst out of their peninsula … Continue reading

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it was just a piece of paper

Like a good neighbor? And so ends the peace process. Hey, it was only a scrap of paper ad worth about as much. This could get very ugly. In fact, the entire land for peace charade was a scandal from … Continue reading

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