Barbarians on the Thames: The always eloquent Theodore Dalrymple dispenses with the silliness of attempts at liberal explanations (income inequality!) for the rioting in England this past summer...a lot of these lessons can be applied here.
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| Mid-summer stroll in olde London towne. |
I am generally not a fan of 60 Minutes - but if you missed this episode, you missed a sad but critical piece of our problems in Washington:
A lot of that material came from this book:
I am working through it right now - have to keep the blood pressure meds up, so I'll get back to you.
Illinois: State of Embarrassment - Joel Kotkin's analysis of the underlying problem with Barack Obama...it's the culture of Chicago politics. This short piece lays it out in excruciating detail. But hey, at least Blogo got sentenced!
The Dangers of Democracy: An excellent piece to hand to those who want to gush about the "Arab spring." Bottom line - we got it way wrong in Iran 30 years ago...we almost certainly have it wrong in Egypt, Libya, Yemen....
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| Democracy for Mohammed and a few of his friends... |
Enough to keep you busy...
Rumble on!
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