Author Archives: Max West

Buchanan: “Is Trump Joining the War Party?”

Pat Buchanan asks “Is Trump Joining the War Party?” By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to … Continue reading

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Elliot Abrams Emerges from the Crypt

‘He’s not a good influence on the president’ is the title of the #1 trending Politico article, which is an interview with Elliot Abrams, probably the most war-mongering Neocon there is. Step one, says Elliott Abrams: Get rid of Steve … Continue reading

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Textbook Definition of ‘Irony’

Regarding the recent terrorist incident in Sweden (it’s getting harder to keep track): A Belgian psychologist and mother to an 18-month-old son, who worked with asylum seekers facing deportation, has been named as the first victim of last week’s terror … Continue reading

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Blur – Parklife (1994)

Blur is considered a seminal Britpop band, and while I wasn’t a big fan of theirs, IMO this is their best tune, with a memorable video to boot. (That’s “Jimmy” from Quadrophenia doing the talk-singing.)

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NYT: ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says

They’re not likely to refer to it to today, but in Nov 2016 the NYT reported this: WASHINGTON — The Islamic State has used chemical weapons, including chlorine and sulfur mustard agents, at least 52 times on the battlefield in Syria … Continue reading

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Trump & Syria – Pt. 2

At the Jewish Daily Forward, Sam Kestenbaum has a piece titled “The ‘Alt-Right’ Is Blaming The Jews For Trump’s Syria Airstrike”: President Trump’s Thursday airstrike against Syria may strip him of the support and adoration of his “alt-right” and white … Continue reading

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Esquire: Profile of Pat Buchanan

In Esquire, Sam Tanenhaus has a lengthy profile of Alt Right legend Pat Buchanan (“When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again”). I never knew it was Pat himself who coined the phrase ‘silent majority’ for Nixon’s campaign.

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Jared Kushner’s Bed

The more one reads about Jared Kushner, the more intriguing things become. Kushner, it turns out, was the person responsible for who blocking Chris Christie from consideration for VP, and then (it is believed) purging Christie and denying him any … Continue reading

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Trump, Syria, & Other Things

Laura Ingraham’s Twitter feed is full of ‘WTF Trump?!’ tweets, as is Ann Coulter’s. Nigel Farage tweets: Military intervention has opened the door to ISIS across the Middle East. Many Trump supporters will be worried by talk of regime change. … Continue reading

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The New Normal – Pt. 52,915

With everything else going on, we had a few more instances of the so-called ‘New Normal’. In Sweden: STOCKHOLM –  The Stockholm truck attack suspect from Uzbekistan was a rejected asylum-seeker who eluded authorities’ attempts to deport him by giving … Continue reading

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