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The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 2008
Hitch On Helms like White on Rice
Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008
A Parabola mapping our American Trajectory
The St. Louis Arch represents all the Progress we made as a modern society in the 20th Century, we Americans, in technology, modernism, business, the arts, journalism, mass media, medicine, education, trade, politics, electrification and electrical generation, automobiles, airplanes, foreign policy, foreign trade, food, democracy, industrial and ...
Posted to Architecture by MichaelBernard1 on June 14, 2008