Comments on: What I’m reading right now

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:31:49 +0000

Though the warning about the U.S. going the way of South Africa makes good points, the more likely analogy is our going the way of Argentina, methinks. Argentina was once the richest country in South America and a model first-world economy until two charismatic demagogues (the Perons….think Chicago Machine) took over. It’s now one of the most bankrupt, over-regulated and overall messed-up countries in the world.

By: suek

suek — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:11:01 +0000

And this one goes with it…

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/indymac-bank-sale-proves-two-things.html

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:56:19 +0000

gpc31: the malign influence of the former Soviet Union both in the monsters it created and in the anti-American propaganda it disseminated – that remains the lingua franca of the left – will unfortunately linger on well into this century. Google Ion Mihai Pacepa.

By: gpc31

gpc31 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:26:42 +0000

From the Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_04-2009_01_10.shtml#1231474494

By David Bernstein:

“The USSR’s Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole: One thing I find interesting in reading various authors who discuss the history of the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflict is how the role of the USSR in exacerbating the conflict, and the role of its demise in providing an opportunity for a potential settlement of the conflict, is generally completely, or almost completely, ignored.

…Then consider that the East bloc secret services recruited, trained, and financed Yasser Arafat to create the violent Palestinian nationalist movement that became the PLO, starting around 1964.

After Israel emerged victorious beyond its wildest dreams in 1967, the influence of the USSR was apparent in several ways. First, the Soviet bloc led an international campaign of boycott and defamation, larded with anti-Semitism, against Israel, creating a siege mentality that has stayed with Israel ever since, and made it that much more difficult to persuade Israel, already traumatized by the Holocaust and the expulsion of Jews from Arab lands, that the “international community” is to be trusted.”

Read the whole thing, as some obscure blogger is fond of saying.

By: suek

suek — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:53:32 +0000

By the way…if you haven’t checked out AT today, here’s a “not to be missed” article. Add _that_ to your “what I’m reading” list!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/why_soros_wants_norm_coleman_o.html

By: suek

suek — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:47:00 +0000

Hey Charles…

Here’s your chance! Nature (and readers) hate a vacuum, right? So, when the SFC subcription expires, you wife will have to get news from _somewhere_, right? Online awaits. And with your expert guidance, no doubt she’ll find some excellent sites! Obviously, they’ll have to be fairly non-recognizable to start with, or she’ll know what the plan is…!

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:42:33 +0000

This is off the side and I apologize, but it does involve reading. My yellow dog Democrat wife this morning announced that she may let her subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle/Socialistche Beobachter lapse.

She’ll do it for reasons of economy (the rates keep going up even as the number of pages shrinks) and efficiency (why read yesterday’s news today when she can get yesterday’s news yesterday online?).

Nevertheless, it will be one more small nail in the coffin of one of the most badly written, amoral, head-up-its-ass newspapers in America.

“Hey, thanks for recognizing my name. Yes, I did use to write a column for the Chron. What? Ten dollars an hour to start? That would be super!”

By: Deana

Deana — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:39:18 +0000

A Warning for America from South America is . . . terrifying. Wow.

Deana

By: benning

benning — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:20 +0000

‘Course, if you want to read something besides the legal stuff you work with, or the political stuff we’re inundated with, there’s always my historical novel, y’know.

I’m just sayin’.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:42:49 +0000

It’s good, very good:

I suspect even you are getting tired of having to constantly write something like “all of these posts are worth reading” every time you do one of these, Book ; )