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A contrarian view on wind power?
Below an informal note (slightly edited) to an admirable, dedicated advocate of "clean" wind energy:image fromThank you for your note. I do worry re wind power for four reasons (1) How does it...
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More Is More
nybooks.comDeborah CohenMAY 25, 2017 ISSUEEmpire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-Firstby Frank TrentmannHarper, 862 pp., $40.00Lauren...
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Biking for diplomacy
U.S. Embassy Seoul Staff support a #bikediplomacy tour in the Republic of Korea. For more details, see.
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America’s Most Segregated Cities - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum?...
original text atimage (not from article) fromBy Michael B. Sauter and Thomas C. Frohlich September 8, 2016 11:31 am EDTOf the 28.7 million black Americans living in the nation’s largest metropolitan...
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Россия и США в глазах друг друга
МАКСИМ РУССО, polit.ruИван КуриллаПолит.ру19 мая в проекте «Публичные лекции "Полит.ру"» в рамках совместного с Европейским университетом в Санкт-Петербурге цикла состоялась очередная лекция. Доктор...
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law:...
Book cited at.Hitler's American Model:The United States and the Making of Nazi Race LawJames Q. WhitmanHardcover | 2017 | $24.95 | £19.95 | ISBN: 9780691172422224 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 7...
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A Debate on America’s Role—25 Years Late - Note for discussion, "E Pluribus...
By Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street JournalMay 22, 2017 6:43 p.m. ET image from article, with caption: Air Force One landing in Tel Aviv, May 22.Watching Donald Trump on the world stage must be...
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Top 10 highest-paid CEOs - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
USA TodayRutledge image fromNEW YORK - The typical CEO at the biggest U.S. companies got an 8.5% raise last year, raking in $11.5 million in salary, stock and other compensation last year, according to...
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Redcoats and War Crimes - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
wsj.comByStephen BrumwellMay 19, 2017 4:38 p.m. ETIn the early hours of Sept. 28, 1778, several hundred British redcoats stealthily approached the village of Old Tappan, close to New Jersey’s border...
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Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New...
MAY 23, 2017, New York Times; see also, which includes a video of the speech, as well as below article by Charlotte mayor Michael Signer.Image from Washington Post, May 21, with caption: A statue of...
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Martial - Marshall: A plea for help from the kind readers of this blog
From a Facebook entry:John Brown27 mins · Question to the very knowledgeable persons on Facebook:Would you know if President Trump referred to the Marshall Plan during his current overseas visit? I ask...
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Some levity from Facebook ...
Roger Simon18 hrs · Colbert: "Trump put a prayer in the Western Wall, can you tell us what he prayed for?"God: "No, unlike some, I don't share intelligence from Israel."
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Breasts and our modern world ... [be warned: MSM stuff] ...
"The 'underboob' trend pops off beaches on to red carpets, catwalks, social media," Maria Puente, USA TODAYuncaptioned image from articleYou must have heard of "sideboob," and naturally you know about...
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A Facebook comment on Montenegro (slightly edited) ...
image fromSee also, on "working" for Holbrooke in the Balkans ...John Brown In the Balkans as a US dip in the tragic mid-90s (for the Balkans, if not for the world) I had the pleasure/honor/torture...
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The Four American Narratives - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
David Brooks May 26, 2017, New York Timesimage from articleAmerica has always been a divided, sprawling country, but for most of its history itwas held together by a unifying national story. As I noted...
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Pavel Palazhchenko (on Facebook)1 hr · Мавзолей Пушкина(пост оскорбления чувств всех)Когда Пушкин умер, русский народ буквально весь страшно расстроился. Люди не хотели отпускать его на тот свет и...
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The way to restore American self-reliance: Make kids work harder
washingtonpost.comJB comment: "The way to restore American self-reliance: Make kids castrate bulls [see below] ..."?Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.). (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)By George F. Will Opinion writer...
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How do I stop facebook from automatically translating my Russian-language...
Google "elucidation" via Dr. IL forwarded by a kind email [JB comment on the below "information": "Stop making sense"!]image (not from IL) from; music of song atLiba Waring StambollionSharing &...
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Axis of Envy
The Weekly StandardTHE MAGAZINE: From the May 29 IssueAxis of EnvyMAY 29, 2017 | By PARKER BAUERWhen the cage isn't big enough for literary lions.Vladimir Nabokov Photo credit: NewscomIn January 1944...
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Alabama governor signs law protecting Confederate monuments from removal -...
By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Saturday, May 27, 2017 Image from article, with caption: In this Aug. 25, 2016, file photo, a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis sits the grounds...
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