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Is the Russian language being "banned" from Facebook?
OK - A "provocative" headline to bring attention to those (and not only "those") enamored of linguistic diversity ... image fromFrom Facebook 4/12/2017John Brown5 mins · A Notice -- if you haven't...
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The Casualties of Class Warfare - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Michael Greve, wmsj.coApril 12, 2017 6:30 p.m. ETEvidence from around the world strongly suggests that liberal constitutions don’t fare well in countries with oligarchic social structures. Michael...
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Vladimir Safronkov, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN, lets it all hang out...
Vladimir Safronkov image from; see also; JB note: not the kind of Russian I studied in college ...via Vrubel Dmitry (on Facebook)9 mins · Чьё это?"Интервью с заместителем постпреда РФ при ООН...
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A Letter From An Ivy League Admissions Dean
wsj.comA young woman was accepted at Brown—and then the other note arrived.Students protest on the Brown University campus in November following the election of Donald Trump as president. PHOTO:...
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France in the End of Days
Roger Cohen, New York Times [original article contains more photographs]Image from article, with caption: A Marine Le Pen supporter at a rally in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, on April 8Marine Le Pen’s...
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Don't worry about Russia -- it will survive in the eternal life ...
pinsk.groby.beey: I hope the honor to post this piece (sorry, I meant humor) will be self-evident to "still-alive" every "body," [I dare not mention a "gender" term]:)Крупнейшее предприятие в Европе по...
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Why Trump’s wall contradicts today’s immigration trends
Samuel Granados, Washington Post, April 12wSame border, different challengesPresented themselvesat ports of entryand were declaredinadmissible400kCrossedlegally andoverstayed300k200kCredible...
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Which state sends most taxes to DC? Hint: It’s not a state - Note for a...
AP, wtop.comIn this photo taken Jan. 4, 2013, from Air Force One, with then-President Barack Obama aboard, shows the White House, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, downtown Washington and Ronald...
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Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea
Bob Alvarez via Facebook16 hrs · In November 1994 I paid an early morning visit to my old boss, Sen. John Glenn, in his office. I had just returned from North Korea, as part of the US/DPRK Agreed...
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The Intellectual’s Bargain - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Terry Teachout, New York Review of BooksNorman Podhoretz; drawing by David LevineIn 1967 Norman Podhoretz published Making It, the story of how a “filthy little slum child” (as one of Podhoretz’s...
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Young Americans aren’t moving like they used to - Note for a discussion, "E...
Ryan Streeter, aei.org; see also. [JB comment: Perhaps the author of this piece could have considered the possibility that with the internet-based "communications revolution," the desire/need for...
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Can the Holocaust Be Explained?
Josef Joffe, April 14, 2017, wsj.comA new batch of books by Laurence Rees, Peter Hayes and David Cesarani tries to crack the puzzle: Why the Jews? And why the Germans? Josef Joffe reviews.THE...
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How America Is Losing the Credibility War
Antony J. Blinken APRIL 18, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption President Trump speaking to reporters on Air Force OneIn times of crisis, credibility is an American president’s most...
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This guy convinced cities to cater to tech-savvy millennials. Now he’s...
Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post; via ACPP III on Facebook; see also.image fromRichard Florida is rethinking things.Since publishing the best-selling book “The Rise of the Creative Class” in 2002,...
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"Leader of ‘Cal-Exit’ Drops Bid for California to Secede, Instead Moves to...
Mark H. Teeter (from Facebook)1 min · AHAHAHA! Ed Snowden's Roommate Search Is Over!"Leader of ‘Cal-Exit’ Drops Bid for California to Secede, Instead Moves to...
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Millennials differ from other generations in almost every regard. Here's the...
William Cummings, USA TODAY; see also.uncaptioned image from articleThere is nothing new about comments on how "kids these days" are different from the generations that came before them. In the case of...
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Of course adults sneer at Millennials: Christian Schneider - Note for a...
Christian Schneider, USA Todayuncaptioned image from articleHating younger generations is an American tradition, but the kids always turn out fine.In 1749, a cantankerous Benjamin Franklin engaged in a...
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‘In God We Trust,’ Even at Our Most Divided - Note for a discussion, "E...
wsj.com; for more on "On God We Trust" as the official motto on the United States (so established by Congress in 1956 during the Cold War, defined by many as a struggle between God-believing capitalism...
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