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Nazis for Me, but Not for Thee

Why shouldn’t socialized medicine prompt comparisons to National Socialism? Continue reading

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This is for your own good…

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Sacred Secularism

Many folks have pointed out that Barack Obama has been treated by his supporters in and out of the media like a new messiah, the savior, the chosen one. Many other folks, including me, thought that this was not only sacrilegious but a case of downright overblown rhetorical politics. Now I’m not so sure. Continue reading

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Valkyrie

A Film Review By James Bowman My first impression of Valkyrie — starring, as everyone knows, Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg — is how unexpectedly not-awful it was.

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The Purpose of Defiance

A few days ago, I went to see Defiance, a fine movie about Jewish resistance fighters in the forests of Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation during World War II. To put it mildly… Continue reading

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Speak Up

In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade … Continue reading

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