February 15, 2015

On predetermined parameters of debate

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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate wit...
February 6, 2015

No such thing as a bad jew! It’s just impossible!

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It seems that being jewish means never being wrong, let alone incompetent or even evil. And only someone who hates jews would note that some...
February 4, 2015

Don’t Blame Third-Party Voters

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To the Editor [ Valley News, Feb. 4 ]: If the choice between the two major parties is as clear as a letter of Jan. 8 claims (“Vote for Nad...
February 1, 2015

The left and the right, the past and the future

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The tidal flux of human history ( Vico’s Providence ) tends towards forcing those who defend privilege to share more of the common wealth wi...
January 28, 2015

Meet climate targets by halving beef and lamb consumption

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Rather than filling the world’s open spaces with giant wind turbines, paving them with solar panels (and access roads and substations and po...
January 20, 2015

Remember the Odessa Massacre: May 2, 2014

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39 people die after radicals set Trade Unions House on fire in Ukraine's Odessa ‘They beat us with bats and chains’ - anti-Maidan acti...
January 16, 2015

Mediæval crusaders, modern jihadis

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To all those hurling the epithet “mediæval” at Western-trained and -provoked “jihadis”: If only. During the middle age of Europe, after th...