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Does the health care bill mark an inflection point to American history?

By / Leave a Comment / 2 June 2013

Summary:  putting recent events in a historical context. Many conservatives describe the health care bill in almost apocalyptic terms, a slippery slope on steroids (much as leftists do with climate change). Hat tip on the following quotations to Brad Delong. Mark Steyn, “Happy Dependence Day“, National Review Online:  “Longer wait times, fewer doctors, more bureaucracy, …

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Today’s volleys in the domestic battle about Afghanistan

By / 17 Comments / 3 September 2009

The battle continues, and heats up.  Prominent people are chaning sides.  Others double down, advocating that we expand the war.  The stakes are high.  Is the public paying attention? Contents Three prominent conservatives turn against the war. General McChrystal expected to seek more troops  A debate in the Washington Post A clearer look at our …

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The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand the world

By / 16 Comments / 10 February 2015

Summary:  This post examines our broken mainstream media, a vital component of America’s observation-orientation-decision-action loop (the OODA loop).  Mark Steyn provides a a current illustration; Lewis Lapham shows that this results from a long period of decay.  At the end are links to other articles on this subject. The apparatus by which America sees the world, the news …

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Reading recommendations – about demography

By / 12 Comments / 30 December 2016

Important and interesting articles and reports published recently about demographics, one of the invisible yet almost irresistible forces re-shaping our world. “Happy Warrior“, Mark Steyn, National Review, 21 April 2009 — A great little note about demography. “The Graying of the Middle Kingdom Revisited“, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 22 April 2009 “Drunken Nation: …

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Demographic note for today…

By / 10 Comments / 30 December 2016

For today’s demographic note we present the chipper consensus viewpoint of the UK government and the mainstream media, followed by a realistic perspective from Mark Steyn. “Warning on Britain’s grey population“, The Telegraph, 6 December 2008 — “Evidence of the challenges posed by the ageing population will be unveiled by Britain’s statistics chief this week.   …

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