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What’s Left of Communism
David Priestland, New York Times, Feb. 24, 2017Image from article, with caption: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Red Square, Moscow 1918A hundred years after the Russian Revolution, can a phoenix rise from...
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Hell-icopter noise over the imperial capital ...
[The below JB e-mail message slightly edited for clarity]Robert Grotell <robert@planenoise.com>1:10 PM (5 hours ago)to meDr. Brown,Per our recent conversation, I contacted the Helicopter...
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America’s Best Picture? All of Them - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
By PETER SUDERMAN FEB. 25, 2017, New York Times image from articleFor years, the Academy Awards reliably recognized movies that attempted to capturethe sweep of the American idea — in earnest films...
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Two Consonants Walk Into a Bar … --- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.comHere's a New York Times column by Frank Bruni:Two Consonants Walk Into a Bar …Frank BruniThe New York TimesFEB. 25, 2017Credit Ben WisemanAt this point the...
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Most colleges enroll students who aren’t prepared for higher education
pbs.org; via MA on FacebookBY SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ, THE HECHINGER REPORT January 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM EST [Original article contains additional images and charts, as well as interesting comments from its...
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Ivan and Porgy
Ivan and PorgyBy MARK SLONIM, New York Times (December 2, 1958) [JB - regrettably am unable to gain internet access to the original article.]THE MUSES ARE HEARD An Account by Truman Capote.A year ago,...
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Moscow-based observer Mark H. Teeter - Russia From Reel to Real
Mark H. Teeter8 hrs · MOSCOW TV TONITE: Russia From Reel to RealНастоящее – прошедшее. Временный комитет у руля революции/The Present Is the Past: The Provisional Committee at the Helm of the...
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The Oscars - Sloppiness-as-a-sales-pitch? (a Facebook comment)
image fromJohn Brown10 hrs · Pardon my conspiratorial mind (blame it on spending a U.S. Foreign Service career in Cold-War/post-Cold War Eastern Europe) but I can't help but think that the...
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‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing This Country Today?’...
By GREGOR AISCH and ALICIA PARLAPIANO FEB. 27, 2017, New York Timesimage (not from article) fromSince the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Gallup polling organization has asked Americans an...
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Donald Trump's Congress speech (full text) - Note for a discussion, "E...
cnn.com; for reactions/evaluation of the speech, see.image fromPRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP'S ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESSRemarks as prepared for deliveryTO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:Mr....
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Trump’s Use of Navy SEAL’s Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S....
Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.com [Original article contains links.]image from articleExcerpt:This is standard fare in U.S. war propaganda: we fixate on the Americans who are killed, learning their...
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The Largest Religion In Every State Other Than Christianity - Note for a...
Christina Sterbenz, businessinsider.comThe United States is a majorly Christian nation. But this map, first seen on Mark J Perry's Twitter, answers the burning question of what faiths come in second...
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Yale: The History We Can’t Erase - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, nybooks.comImage from article, with caption: Students protesting at Yale, April 2016As the present changes, so does the look of the past. We know that’s true with regard to...
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A Modest Proposal: Recreating/Renaming the USA
image fromBecause Thomas Jefferson was a slaveowner, the document he drafted, the Declaration of Independence (1776), should be declared null and void.Because at its foundation the "United States of...
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A third of Americans wouldn’t miss California if it seceded: Poll - Note for...
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 1, 2017 [Original article contains links.]Image from article, with caption: Marcus Ruiz Evans (center) of The Yes California Independence...
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Has Trump Already Sidelined His Secretary of State?
Romesh Ratnesar, bloomberg.com [original article contains links]Tillerson image from articleRex Tillerson’s effectiveness depends on his shedding some of the instincts that led to his hire.After...
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What Trump’s New National Security Advisor Should Worry About Now
Douglas A. Ollivant, fortune.comImage from article, with caption: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster (L) as his national security adviser at his...
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America's 'Complacent Class': How Self-Segregation Is Leading To Stagnation -...
Heidi Glenn, wknofm.orgImage from article, with caption: Tyler Cowen argues, in his new book The Complacent Class, that Americans are in a period of stagnation because we are doing less and less of...
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Moscow-based commentator Mark Teeter on Predatory Kleptocracy (from Facebook)
John Brown shared Mark H. Teeter's post.16 mins · Mark H. Teeter added 3 new photos.49 mins · PREDATORY AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY. Well, yeah. And the New Great America's Here To Help!"From Trump’s...
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Fax and Facts
image fromI perhaps too cynically thought in 'em good old days, in the pre-internet age, that a "fax" had not necessarily much to do with "facts,"unless you checked its contents very carefully...
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