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Tuesday, July 20 2010
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the

“By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion…
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Monday, June 28 2010
Robert Byrd RIP
“Before his death early this morning at the age of 92, I placed the legendary West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd in the category of “only the wrong survive” along with Fidel Castro and Pete Seeger. I was not a fan.

In 2005 the New York Times published a predictably fawning profile Senator Byrd …
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Friday, June 25 2010
The forever war
On June 25, 1950, 90,000 North Korean soldiers backed by 150 Soviet-built T-34 tanks poured across the border into South Korea. The Cold War had suddenly turned hot, and America found itself drawn into the longest war in its history.

Vietnam used to claim that dubious title. Now it’s Afghanis…
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Friday, June 18 2010
Time to worry
“Now, no one disputes that this is a real disaster and that BP acted irresponsibly in commissioning Trans-Ocean and Halliburton to drill for oil in waters so deep that if a failure occurred there would be no way to fix it — at least until major damage had been done. BP, Trans-Ocean, and Hallibur…
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Tuesday, June 08 2010
We are the problem
Dennis Prager makes the point clear.