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What is the UK Constitution: "Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum: What...
WHAT IS THE UK CONSTITUTION?Constitutions organise, distribute and regulate state power. They set out the structure of the state, the major state institutions, and the principles governing their...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Stalin’s Annexation of Western Ukraine a Major Error,...
Sunday, August 24, 2014Window on Eurasia: Stalin’s Annexation of Western Ukraine a Major Error, Russian Historian SaysPaul Goble Staunton, August 24 – Stalin made “an error” in annexing...
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What Will The Population Look Like In 2050? Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
What Will The Population Look Like In 2050? … One Word- Beautiful. See For Yourself People commonly wonder what the future will hold, what science will have discovered in the future, and how far...
View ArticleWhy Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi. Not for a...
Spectator BlogsFraser NelsonWhy Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi22 August 2014Now and again, America puts its inequality on display to the world. We saw it after Hurricane...
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US schools to have non-white majority: "Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
JB note: This British article fails to make the (silly, in my view) distinction that, according to the U.S. Census, not all hispanics are whites, and not all whites hispanics. This is because the...
View ArticleWill the American Gun Madness ever stop?
Christina Wilkie Become a fanchristina.wilkie@huffingtonpost.comEmailNRA: 'Children Can Have Fun At The Shooting Range'"But a nightmare is precisely what unfolded on Monday, when 39-year-old Charles...
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Satire: How to fix Russian-American Relations: a Sharpton-Zhirinovsky Debate
I cannot but express my constant doubt that the tragic situation between Russia and Ukraine -- and the similar (but, granted, not quite identical tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, USA) have more in common...
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“'Nones on the Rise" (on religion in the U.S.): Note for a lecture, "E...
"Nones" on the Rise - Pew ResearchOCTOBER 9, 2012The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults...
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Ukrainian Jokes from twenty years ago ...
In these tragic times for the people of Ukraine (not to speak of the people of Russia), I hope that Ukrainians' admirable Gogolian sense humor, as remembered by a "public diplomacy" U.S. Foreign...
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The Irony of history: Germans overrun Mariupol, in southern Russia
Like This Day In History on FacebookAlso on This DayLEAD STORYGreat Chicago Fire begins, 1871AMERICAN REVOLUTIONContinentals raid Unadilla, 1778AUTOMOTIVEFrank Duryea, winner of the first American...
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What suits your taste?
Visual footnote to the article, "That time Obama wore a tan suit and Twitter freaked out," CNN:Top image from; Below image from
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The principals (without principles?) at the Minsk talks ....
Via MT on Facebook; on the Minsk talks, see.
View ArticleAmerica's fastest-growing jobs
America's fastest-growing jobs, Robert Serenbetz, USA TodayThese are the fastest growing jobs in America:1. Industrial-Organizational Psychologists> Pct. change in employment 2012 – 2022: 53.4%>...
View ArticleAmerican diversity: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
"People say Americans are by nature isolationists, an odd thing to say of a people who came from everywhere on earth and stay in touch with everywhere. Maybe the truth is that America is so vast, so...
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A Different Idea of Our Declaration - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
A Different Idea of Our DeclarationGordon S. Wood, New York Review of BooksAUGUST 14, 2014 ISSUEOur Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equalityby Danielle...
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Apostrophe Catastrophe
Featured ColumnsPrepare for warWhy its not a hysterical idea. (Washington Post, August 30, 2014 9:00 am)
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Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order
ESSAYHenry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order, Wall Street JournalThe concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisisEmail Print 378 Comments Facebook Twitter...
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Boris Akunin speaks ...
From; via AM on FacebookВо субботу, день ненастный (Отвечаю на вопросы)АВТОРБорис АкунинписательЕстественно, много вопросов о том, как я оцениваю последние события на юго-востоке Украины и о том, что,...
View ArticleSeparated at birth? Dubya/Vova
Some of Putin's facial expressions/tics remind me of George W. Bush:Vova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xxAO-j9xLwDubya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5jQe6C01XUHaving noted, somewhat ironically,...
View ArticleFootball is America's war game
Football is America's war game: What exactly have we become that makes football the American game?By MARK EDMUNDSON Sharelines: Football is beautiful, and as American as shock and awe; How would Plato...
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