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Desperadoes in diapers ILANA MERCER
Desperadoes in diapers ILANA MERCER finds a minor problem on the US-Mexico frontier First they came: thousands of unaccompanied illegal minors rushing the south-western border. Then came the theories as to why they came. Determined not to miss a trick, … Continue reading
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Tagged Central America, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, George Washington, idiocracy, Ilana Mercer, illegal immigration, John McCain, John Quincy Adams, Mark Zuckerberg, Notes on Virginia, open borders, President Camacho, Rupert Murdoch, Thomas Jefferson, US immigration, US-Mexico border
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Go East, Young Woman, LESLIE JONES
Go East, Young Woman LESLIE JONES discovers that women are equal to men Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Chatto & Windus, London, 270 pp, £18.99 In Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood and Soil, Erna Petrie, Hitler's Furies, Leslie Jones, Wendy Lower
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ENDNOTES Proms, patriotism and pacifism STUART MILLSON
ENDNOTES News from conductor Owain Arwel Hughes * Major new Sibelius cycle from Chandos * ‘Owen Wingrave’ at Aldeburgh * Piano music by Panufnik Orchestral conductor Owain Arwel Hughes, CBE, is approaching one of his busiest times of the year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldeburgh Festival, Britten, Endnotes, Holst, Owain Arwel Hughes, Owen Wingrave, Panufnik, Robin Milford, Sibelius, St. David’s Hall, Stuart Millson, Welsh Proms
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Don’t know Shiite from Shinola ILANA MERCER
Don’t know Shiite from Shinola ILANA MERCER wonders why people are surprised by Iraq’s tragic fate Almost unanimous on the right is the mystifying notion that a reduced American footprint in the world, President Barack Obama’s doing, has brought about … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Qaida, Ilana Mercer, Iraq, ISIS, neoconservatism, Saddam Hussein, Shiite, Sunni
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To Hylas M. W. DAVIS
To Hylas M.W. Davis They don’t know what to make of all this flesh, The clear blue eyes, as nature intended. With no such charm to keep those dark locks fresh Someday he’ll wade the pool to cool his joints. … Continue reading
Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER
Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER reads a fictional evocation of US-Mexican borderline personality disorder The Education of Hector Villa Chilton Williamson, Jr., Rockford, Illinois: Chronicles Press, 2012, pb. 208 “Roads fade out before you reach the line, And the signposts … Continue reading
Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER
Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER’s heart sinks at the prospect of President Hillary Hillary Rodham Clinton has done some “conscious uncoupling” from reality. The term was disgorged by a celebrity, Gwyneth Paltrow, to announce a … Continue reading
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Tagged Benghazi, Bill Clinton, George Reisman, Hillary Clinton, Ilana Mercer, Libya, Syria
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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading
Subduction HAMISH WOOD
Subduction HAMISH WOOD Elihu fronts the storm. behold, I am vile. something moves. revolutions of the air. rain has this smell. static. the world, too, is electric. the world, too, is moving. then, the Lord answered Job, … Continue reading
To Richard II M.W. DAVIS
To Richard II M. W. Davis Which hooligan would think to scrawl that name Across the soundwalls of the M40? Let sleeping tragedy lie. What a shame They couldn’t stay awake in English class. What’s the half-life now … Continue reading