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October 3, 2018
New Rules for MenAnd so we have arrived, in the Brett Kavanaugh affair, the inevitable and ultimate apotheosis of #MeToo – the vilification of men qua men. Now, one accusation alone – no matter how unsubstantiated and uncorroborated ...
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January 26, 2018
Our Omnipresent PastEphemeral. From the Greek ephemeros – literally, "that which lasts but a day." For most of the existence of Homo sapiens, our lives were filled with ephemerality. Things, people, events came into our...
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December 31, 2016
Carrie Fisher: Goodnight, PrincessAs the world learned of the death of Carrie Fisher two days after Christmas, 2016, social and legacy media were (of course) swamped with saccharine platitudes and cringeworthy clichés. The most nauseating were the endless kudos to Carrie...
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September 5, 2016
How to Be a LiberalIt’s easy to be an American liberal. All that is required are hypocrisy and ignorance. Ignorance is an absolute must, but especially ignorance of three things: economics, human nature and all of recorded history. One has to be truly econo...
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May 17, 2016
What Lies Beneath?New scientific discoveries in astrophysics and archeology make the notion of “settled science” risible. They also bring to mind the wisdom of Donald Rumsfeld in stressing the vital importance of “unknown unknowns.” O...
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July 4, 2012
The American Revolution Comes to a Pitiful CloseJune 2012 - and especially its last week - was ripe with ominous metaphor, all revolving around the Supreme Court's decision on June 28th to uphold President Barack Obama's signature health-care reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act, otherwi...
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December 10, 2011
A World without Men?Last year an article in The Atlantic asked the headline question, "Are Fathers Necessary?" The answer was thoughtfully supplied in the subhead -- "A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think." Uh-oh. The art...
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October 2, 2011
The Sphinx Decoded?"The first time I went to Egypt and saw the Sphinx with my own eyes, I was deeply shocked," writes Robert Temple, Ph.D in his recent book (with Olivia Temple), The Sphinx Mystery, for "the Sphinx did not look at all like a lion."Everyone knows t...
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September 8, 2011
Is Obama Insane?A popular definition of insanity, variously attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and Ben Franklin, is, "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." By this standard the President of the United States is clearl...
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August 22, 2011
The Dismal GOP FieldLet me get this straight: The conservative presidential field includes (1) the father of a socialized medicine regime every bit as disastrous as Obamacare, but who thinks his was OK because it was at the state level, (2) a woman ...
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August 18, 2011
Obama: The Affirmative Action PresidentYears from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoi...
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July 30, 2011
America: Time to Start OverThis must have been what it was like living in the 1930s: politicians running around, fingers in their ears, unwilling or unable to confront a rising conflagration that they helped to light. Back then, the threat came from a revivified and revanchist...
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April 2, 2011
Art Death/Heart DeathThe Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 6Part 1: Step Away from the ComputerPart 2: iPad, Therefore I AmPart 3: Life between the CracksPart 4: The Tyranny of GooglePart 5: Digital Dark Age Ahead?Bach is singing.Well, from his grave at least. A lo...
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January 29, 2011
Digital Dark Age Ahead?The Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 5Part 1: Step Away from the ComputerPart 2: iPad, Therefore I AmPart 3: Life between the CracksPart 4: The Tyranny of GoogleScholars from the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt once roamed the world to locate, ...
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September 15, 2010
What's the Matter with Islam?I have surveyed the unfolding saga of the Reverend Terry Jones with growing dismay and gloom.Not because this man, who has an apparently miniscule flock, wanted to burn copies of the Muslim Holy Book. In a free state, especially one in which the sanc...
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August 20, 2010
The Tyranny of GoogleThe Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 4 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?) - JuvenalLovers of liberty are now consumed with the fight against the Obama administration and Congress over their pro...
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June 26, 2010
Life between the CracksThe Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 3 (Part 1, Part 2)Your Facebook profile asks you to describe yourself: In a relationship? Yes or no. Likes, dislikes? This, not that. You type in a search in Google: The long fingers reach into the web and, based...
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June 19, 2010
Tea Partiers Late to the PartyNothing sets the chattering class to chattering quite like that exotic and excitable clan, the Tea Party. Dismissed by turns as faux rabble-rousers and dangerous lunatics, this strange species of tax-loathing citizens continues to baffle an...
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April 16, 2010
iPad, Therefore I AmThe Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 2Apple has a new gadget, as I'm sure you've heard. It's sleek and beautiful, a luminous and luxuriant screen they call the iPad, with which you can access and manipulate entertainment, data, and the internet with...
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March 30, 2010
So You Say You Want a Revolution?How are the people to react to the erosion of liberty that is the Obama health care regime? To be sure, lawyers will challenge it in the courts, and November is right around the corner, giving opportunity to punish those traitorous politicians who ac...
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March 22, 2010
Where Were You When the Republic Died?In November 2008, Americans elected a socialist as their president. In March 2010, they woke up stunned to find themselves living in a socialist country.Health insurers -- once private companies -- are now organs of the federal government. Every citi...
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March 12, 2010
Step Away from the ComputerThe Analogue Counter-Revolution -- Part 1Step away from the computer.Not now, of course. First finish reading this article, and then by all means peruse the many other fine offerings at American Thinker. But sometime, on some occa...
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January 5, 2010
Does America sit under a rising, or setting sun?Once, a group of rowdy, boisterous Americans successfully rebelled against the world's greatest superpower - all over some not-very-onerous taxes. Today, docile and decadent Americans are preparing to roll over and acquiesce to wholesale...
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December 19, 2009
Are We Doomed?I have a fear about John Derbyshire's new book, We Are Doomed -- that the over-the-top cheekiness of its title and the wit and snap of its prose will distract from its deadly serious thesis. n short, it's so funny that I'm afraid some people ma...
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December 3, 2009
Obama's surrender will end in bloodThey say that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was an odd venue for President Obama's Afghanistan speech. And indeed it was - after all, surrenders are usually offered to the enemy on the battlefield. For that is exactly what the President pro...
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November 24, 2009
Obama and the Cult of YouthYoung people are stupid. I do not exclude myself from this judgment; when I was a lad newly of voting age, my news addiction made me a curious specimen (though in those days, CNN and newspapers were the only dealers in town), and as such I was a...
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November 10, 2009
Losing Our RepublicAt a November 4th presentation by GOP congressional leadership on their alternative health care plan, Eric Cantor & Co. seemed energized and upbeat, both about their own plan and about the other side's chances -- more than one said flatly that th...
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October 14, 2009
Obama The Impotent: A Dangerous DelusionA meme is forming in the popular consciousness that Barack Obama is a do-nothing president.Saturday Night Live recently poked fun at this image in a much-discussed skit, with comedian Fred Armisen as Obama admitting, "When you look at my record,...
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August 10, 2009
Something FishyThe Obama administration has made a terrible mistake. On Tuesday, August 4, the White House posted a blog entry enjoining Americans to spy on one another, and to report any "disinformation" which might undermine the administratio...
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August 5, 2009
Tell The Government: 'Out Of Our Light'After Alexander the Great had conquered Greece, he was besieged by visitors; businessmen, politicians and scholars came from across the Greek isles to kiss the ring of the new king, and to wish him well on his coming Persian campaigns.But Diogenes, t...
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August 1, 2009
Congressman Admits: Congress StupidIt was an astonishing admission.Last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told an audience at the National Press Club that, not only had he not read the House health-care bill which would reorganize 1/6th of the ...
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July 19, 2009
Walter Cronkite Has Blood on His HandsOn February 27, 1968, Walter Cronkite delivered his verdict on the (ongoing) war in Vietnam. The most trusted man in America pronounced that it was "...more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam War is to end in a stalemate....