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This week on the podcast, we take a look back at Margaret Thatcher with someone who knew and worked with her: the great John O’Sullivan. We discuss her policies, how she changed Britain, her relationship with this country and with Ronald Reagan, and the country Great Britain would be without her. Then, Mark Krikorian checks in to discuss immigration and what the Republican response and strategy ought to be. Hint: it doesn’t involve the “A” word. Also, spring in Minnesota blows, Rob has a new pilot, and Peter has about a dozen ‘one last questions’.
Music from this week’s show:
I‘m In Love With Margaret Thatcher by Notsensibles
Cheerio, EJHill.
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On the subject of illegal immigration it’s worth revisiting Louis Malle’s 1986 documentary The Pursuit of Happiness. I caught it on a DVD as a special feature to one of his films many years ago. I was pleasantly surprised but it was 1986. Here’s a good background to the film written Nov 22 last year. Louis Malle had become an American citizen before making the film. Not bad for a Frenchman.
It wouldn’t be our money, of course. It would be Chinese money. Which is fitting, in many ways, because the North Korean state is a wholly-dependent client state of the Chinese.
Either way, they would have an incentive to issue more threats down the road. There must be some way, short of nuking them, to punish them for bad behavior and reward them for good.
I don’t much like Rob’s solution of giving more money to the North Koreans. While it might solve the immediate problem, it would reward them for their belligerence, giving them incentives to do more of the same. Better to face them down now than latter when they have used the money to build more and better nukes.
This was Rob’s best podcast ever.
Agreed, Ben; seconding Peter’s remarks about the Breadth and Depth of Long.
It wouldn’t be our money, of course. It would be Chinese money. Which is fitting, in many ways, because the North Korean state is a wholly-dependent client state of the Chinese. ·9 hours ago
We should just tell the Chinese to cut out the middleman.
It wouldn’t be our money, of course. It would be Chinese money. Which is fitting, in many ways, because the North Korean state is a wholly-dependent client state of the Chinese.
May I offer the first comment? I can’t think when I’ve enjoyed two guests more. And thanks to John O’Sullivan, who knew her for 40 years, listeners can learn more about Margaret Thatcher–what that great lady was truly like–during the first half hour of this podcast than anywhere else in print, on radio, or in cyberspace.
If I say so myself, today Ricochet glistens.
John Sullivan cheered me up about Thatcher, along with all the interesting questions. I just had to smile at the long riff on sexiness (Rob’s question with James commenting, and now we have the boxers or briefs section) and drinking whiskey and was Gorby maybe attracted to her. Fantastic and I thought Maggie deserved These two speech writers ( who are such good men) walking through the good times of Margaret Thatcher helped remind us about the power of one good leader to turn around a whole ship going the wring way. Thank you for making me smile.
I love the picture!!
If we are going to have a president call the North Korean Ding Dong’s bluff, let it be Obama. He might just develop an appreciation for diplomacy’s best back up …. the US military and its missile defense.
That’s what I like, optimism!
Would Mr. Robinson’s Clare Booth Luce sentence be, “The man who had just one more question.”
On that note, in an older interview that Peter had done, asking the same question of the late Christopher Hitchens in regards to Josef Stalin, I remember bursting out laughing at the response, “Firm, but fair.” Man, I miss him.
What a neat podcast, gentlemen.
May I offer one tiny speck of constructive criticism?
Please, please stop spending the opening four minutes of the podcast discussing the weather in your respective locales. We get it–the weather in California is usually nicer than the weather in Minnesota. It’s just not that interesting.
Other than that, my compliments!
Can someone explain to me why we don’t assume that if the NorKs have nuclear weapons, Iran hasn’t bought them already? I mean, why all the focus on Iran home-brewing nukes? Iran has some money, and the NorKs need money…