RAN ACROSS A SUPERB ARTICLE BY SARA BECK IN THIS MONTH’S QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW…..SARA’S BEEN RESEARCHING THE IMPACT OF THE GOUZENKO AFFAIR AND SUBSEQUENT ANTICOMMUNIST POLITICS UPON QUEEN’S MATHEMATICIAN ISRAEL HALPERIN. THE STORY, LIKE SO MANY BETWEEN 1946 AND THE MID 1950S, IS AN UGLY REMINDER HOW FREE SPEECH AND CIVIL LIBERTIES SHUT DOWN […]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND AN EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF CIVIL DISCOURSE THAT ONCE CAME FROM THE RIGHT….ON SECOND THOUGHT, THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE BILL BUCKLEY…..
February 29, 2008
On TV, Buckley Led Urbane Debating Club
By ERIC KONIGSBERG
The relationship of William F. Buckley Jr.’s “Firing Line” to the partisan shoutfests that pass for evening […]
IF I COULD WRITE AN OBIT, IT WOULD BE THE ONE THAT FOLLOWS, A FAIR-MINDED CAPTURE OF THE MANY SIDES OF CONSERVATIVE AUTHOR AND RACONTEUR, WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, WHO DIED TODAY. FOR ME, IT WILL BE THE EYES, ROLLING CONSTANTLY, REPRESENTING SERIOUS THOUGHT AND MISCHIEF COMBINED — YES THE SMALL BOY WHO SUDDENLY DISCOVERED […]
SYLLABUS FOR THE KNPE/PHED 167 TERM PAPER ASSIGNMENT, SO, AGAIN, HERE IT IS ……..
KNPE167/PHED 167 – THE TERM ESSAY
The term essay provides the chance for you to work in depth on something interesting and important. The first key to a good essay is interest—your’s. Make certain to choose a topic that will hold […]
JUST WHEN IT APPEARS THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE POISED TO REGAIN THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONSIGN THE REPUBLICANS TO THE GARBAGE PIT FOR YEARS TO COME, THERE IS THE PROBLEM OF INTERNECINE OVERREACH…….REMEMBER THE DEMOCRATS WAY BACK IN 1964 AND AGAIN IN 1992…… AH, THE CLINTON RULES…….
February 11, 2008
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Hate Springs Eternal
By PAUL KRUGMAN
In […]
AND HIS POINT IS WORTH TAKING, VERY SERIOUSLY……
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
February 10, 2008
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War
By FRANK RICH
WHAT if a presidential candidate held what she billed as “the largest, most interactive town hall in political history” on national television, and no one noticed?
The untold story in the run-up to Super […]
FROM THE LA TIMES….
U.S. soldier gets 10-year term in Iraqi’s death
The sniper, who was directed to kill the man by a superior, had faced a life sentence for the May 11 shooting.
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
1:02 PM PST, February 10, 2008
BAGHDAD — A U.S. sniper was sentenced today to 10 years in […]