Mar. 8th, 2007

monk222: (Devil)

In today's Roman circus, talking populist while enjoying the high life mixes no better for the left than mouthing old-fashioned virtue and living the low life do for the right.

... For both liberals and conservatives, the days of the simple-living Harry Truman and clean-living Dwight Eisenhower are apparently long gone - and for two reasons.


-- Victor Davis Hanson at RealClearPolitics.com

Mr. Hanson is on today, but he has long been good on hitting that cultural-curmudgeonly note on the decline and fall of America. At least he sees it's a bipartisan problem.

Hanson column )

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monk222: (Devil)

In today's Roman circus, talking populist while enjoying the high life mixes no better for the left than mouthing old-fashioned virtue and living the low life do for the right.

... For both liberals and conservatives, the days of the simple-living Harry Truman and clean-living Dwight Eisenhower are apparently long gone - and for two reasons.


-- Victor Davis Hanson at RealClearPolitics.com

Mr. Hanson is on today, but he has long been good on hitting that cultural-curmudgeonly note on the decline and fall of America. At least he sees it's a bipartisan problem.

Hanson column )

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monk222: (Mori: by tiger_ace)

I see things are still the same with good old Vladimier Putin:

Since becoming president in 2000, fourteen investigative journalists have died in Russia—some murdered outright, others perishing in mysterious circumstances—under Vladimir Putin’s watch. This is one area where there has not been significant improvement since the Yeltsin Administration.

The latest case is that of Ivan Safronov, a former Space Forces colonel who became a military-affairs reporter for the newspaper Kommersant, whose body was found last Friday and who was buried today.

Safronov is reported to have been working on an article about the sale of advanced weaponry to Iran and Syria as well as the means by which third parties would be used to transship the weapons, giving Moscow “plausible deniability” if pressed by the United States or Israel on this issue. Some have also speculated that Safronov had obtained information on how these sales might also generate profits for specific individuals.
We really need rebukes and lectures from him on good governance and the rule of law.


(Source: Nikolas K. Gvosdev at NationalInterest.org)

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monk222: (Mori: by tiger_ace)

I see things are still the same with good old Vladimier Putin:

Since becoming president in 2000, fourteen investigative journalists have died in Russia—some murdered outright, others perishing in mysterious circumstances—under Vladimir Putin’s watch. This is one area where there has not been significant improvement since the Yeltsin Administration.

The latest case is that of Ivan Safronov, a former Space Forces colonel who became a military-affairs reporter for the newspaper Kommersant, whose body was found last Friday and who was buried today.

Safronov is reported to have been working on an article about the sale of advanced weaponry to Iran and Syria as well as the means by which third parties would be used to transship the weapons, giving Moscow “plausible deniability” if pressed by the United States or Israel on this issue. Some have also speculated that Safronov had obtained information on how these sales might also generate profits for specific individuals.
We really need rebukes and lectures from him on good governance and the rule of law.


(Source: Nikolas K. Gvosdev at NationalInterest.org)

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monk222: (The LJ Icon)

The lasagna was not such a happy experiment. Maybe if it had a lot more beef? I may continue to get one on grocery days, but only out of desperation for variety.

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monk222: (The LJ Icon)

The lasagna was not such a happy experiment. Maybe if it had a lot more beef? I may continue to get one on grocery days, but only out of desperation for variety.

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