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Arthur Beare's Posts
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Consider the lowly quotation mark (“). It, or “air quotes,” are often used to indicate a degree of disbelief or outright derision. Since, as I have noted earlier, the “antifa” are doing a pretty good imitation of the brown shirts of pre-WWII Germany, I suggest that we here, and indeed the whole conservative media, enclose […]
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In the fall of 1964, a shy, fat, rather oddly dressed freshman struck up a conversation with a pretty girl perched on a rock. It wasn’t a long conversation, and I don’t think we ever spoke again, but she said something that has stuck with me: Preview Open
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VDH on DJT
For those of us who are not followers of National Review, NRO currently has a fascinating article titled “The Endless Ironies of Donald J. Trump” by Victor Davis Hanson, as sensible a commentator as can be found anywhere. I don’t recall whether he was a never, or a reluctant Trumper, but his current observations are really a must-read. His concluding paragraphs:
Never have so many bright people proved so dense. Never have polls and politics proved so unreliable or partisan. Never have unintended consequences so replaced predictable results.
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This is not a problem that I have personally experienced, but I suspect many of our ladies have. . . . there doesn’t seem to be a hatpin in the world that will make a halo sit comfortably. Preview Open
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There is a quote that is popping into my mind with increasing frequency as I enter my eighth decade. Indeed, it has passed my lips on occasion, and been self-censored on many more. This particular nine-syllable utterance is familiar to all Ricochetti of a certain age, so familiar that it is hardly necessary to write […]
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The former Soviet Union was famous for its practice of airbrushing individuals who had fallen from favor with the party out of photographs. More recently, Churchill’s cigars have been removed from photos appearing in some text books. Preview Open
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I’m sure we all agree that it is a good thing that the authorities (at least those in English-speaking countries) use deadly force only as a very last resort. Many (probably most) hostage situations are ended through negotiation, without bloodshed. However the man in Sydney hostage situation was early on identified as a radical Islamist […]
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