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May 16, 2010
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PB: "For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism's door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead. Morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral. If the leaders of groups like AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations do not change...
Daniel J. Linke of Princeton University Writes to Erick Son of Erick
D.J. Linke:
Princeton Demands We Not Show You Elegan [sic:] Kagan’s Socialist Thesis | RedState:
From: Daniel J. Linke
Subject: Kagan senior thesis copyright violation
Date: May 14, 2010 3:04:42 PM EDT
To: contact@redstate.com
Dear Sir or Madam:
It has been brought to my attention that you have posted Elena Kagan’s senior thesis online. (See: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/05/13/breaking-we-have-elena-kagans-college-thesis/) Copies provided by the Princeton...
Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 16, 1940
Winston Churchill: May 16, 1940:
When he stopped there was a considerable silence. I then asked: "Where is the strategic reserve?" and, breaking into French, which I used indifferently (in every sense): "Ou est la masse de manoeuvre?" General Gamelin turned to me and, whith a shake of the head and a shrug, said: "Aucune." There was another long pause. Outside in the garden of the Quai d'Orsay clouds of smoke arose from long bonfires, and I saw from the window venerable officials...
May 15, 2010
Megan McCardle Says _____. But That's Really Not Right...
is, as Nylund says, "as close to a universal truth as one can get."
Here's Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein - Discretionary spending is not the same as 'new spending': Megan McArdle has a post up saying that health-care reform is "already at least a hundred billion dollars in the hole." That's really not right...
He continues:
[I:]t's certainly true that the CBO's estimate suggesting $115 billion in discretionary costs confused a lot of people. But let me just quote CBO Director Doug...
Megan McCardle Says _____. But That't Really Not Right...
is, as Nylund says, "as close to a universal truth as one can get."
Here's Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein - Discretionary spending is not the same as 'new spending': Megan McArdle has a post up saying that health-care reform is "already at least a hundred billion dollars in the hole." That's really not right...
He continues:
[I:]t's certainly true that the CBO's estimate suggesting $115 billion in discretionary costs confused a lot of people. But let me just quote CBO Director Doug...
Elena Kagan's Undergraduate Thesis
From the introduction:
Ever since Werner Sombart first posed the question in 1905, countless historians have tried to explain why there is no socialism in America. For the most part, this work has focused on external factors--on features of American society rather than of American socialist movements. Socialists and non-socialists alike have discussed the importance of the frontier... the fluidity of class lines... the American labor force's peculiarly heterogeneous character, which...
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Dude, If You Aren't Going to Do This, I Am
Eric Rauchway blogs:
Dude, I invented the monopoly. Ever heard of it? « The Edge of the American West: Who needs Fake Steve Jobs when real Steve Jobs is so, well, acerbically interactive? It makes one wish for a Gilded Age mogul to have a blog. Or even better, for a passel of Gilded Age moguls to get together and establish an oliblogopoly. What would John D. Rockefeller blog?
Dude, if you aren't going to do this, I am. Facebook, Twitter, Typepad, or Wordpress? And what's the title...
Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 15, 1940
Winston Churchill: May 15, 1940:
At half-past seven... I was woken... M. Reynaud was on the telephone at my bedside.... "We have been defeated." As I did not immediately respond he said again: "We are beaten; we have lost tghe battle." I said: "Surely it can't have happened so soon?" But he replied: "The front is broken near Sedan; they are pouring through in great numbers with tanks and armoured cars"--or words to that effect. I then said; "All experience shows that the offensive...
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