Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain “Cameron would later deny being there that night. He was ambushed by a BBC interviewer who drew uncomfortable parallels between his old club and the actions of disaffected young people during the London riots, for wh[...]
Archive for April, 2016
April 9th, 2016 - 1:57 am § in Misc.
Black Service to the Confederacy
April 9 1865 .. end of the civil war[...]
April 8th, 2016 - 10:16 am § in Misc.
Of Sanders, Cruz, and Romney .. the religous tradtion of poltical campaign
Bloomberg Politics Reports That Sanders is Trying to Wrap Himself in Pope Francis’ Robes “A senior Vatican official accused Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of showing a “monumental discourtesy” in his lobbying for an invitation to a church-sponsored conference on eco[...]
April 8th, 2016 - 8:56 am § in Misc.
Krugman Disses Sanders
“From the beginning, many and probably most liberal policy wonks were skeptical about Bernie Sanders. On many major issues — including the signature issues of his campaign, especially financial reform — he seemed to go for easy slogans over hard thinking. And his political theory of change[...]
April 7th, 2016 - 10:19 pm § in Uncategorized
The Republican End Game
No one but Trump can accumulate enough GOP delegates in the remaining primaries and caucuses to win the nomination. That’s a mathematical fact. If he falls short, he still might get enough unpledged delegates and delegates released by other candidates to put him over the top, because many Rep[...]
April 7th, 2016 - 8:50 pm § in Uncategorized
The Democratic End Game
Bernie Sanders probably won’t win the Democratic nomination, even though he’s the Democrats’ most successful insurgent candidate in modern history. Sanders is riding high thanks to overwhelming support from an entirely new cohort of voters: The huge Millennial generation, who sudde[...]
Buchenwald 106, Another year has passed and Hugh Schwartz is still destroying the pictures of Buchenwald.
Ken Waltzer 4 new photos from Buchenwald Dear Ken, You post yesterday meant so much to me! I do not know if you have followed my story, the story of an effort by my brother Hugh Schwartz and sister, Stephanie Quick, to destroy a remarkable Buchenwald heritage? It is also 71 years since my [...]