Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Monday, August 22, 2022

Every time you silence someone you make yourself a prisoner of your own action, because you deny yourself the right to hear something

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 -- Christopher Hitchens, in Fire in a Crowded Theatre   . . . from Da...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Denise Spellberg is making much of a young Thomas Jefferson's tolerant views of Islam at the expense of the older's war on it

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Here : As a 22-year-old law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, Jefferson bought a Qur’an – 11 years before drafting the Declaration of...
Friday, June 1, 2012

The British Knee Is On The March!

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“It’s quite impossible that the man who had invented Sir Roderick Spode in 1938 was prey to any covert sympathy for fascism.” -- Christopher...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

The Hitch on G.K. Chesterton as Fascist Fellow Traveler

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Seen  here : "[Chesterton's] idea of a body [the Roman Catholic Church] that actually did all the official thinking was probably no...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Economy is NOT Improving: 3rd Estimate of Real GDP Falls to 1.8 Percent from 2.0 for Q3 2011

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What a joke the news is today. GDP is revised down and all you hear on the news is Ho! Ho! Ho! Q2 GDP was 1.3 percent, and Q1 0.4 percen...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Or Else Tyranny Wins

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From Aaron MacLean here : If one wanted to be unkind to Hitchens, a claim could be made that, as a natural belligerent and contrarian, he wa...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Kim Jong Mentally Ill Leaves Terrestrial for Celestial North Korea, Meets Christopher Hitchens!

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The Associated Press announces tonight , tonight!, that Kim Jong Il has died. What a week for Christopher Hitchens. The Iraq war ends, he di...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hitch: A Stalinist to the End . . .

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. . . at least in the mind of George Eaton, in the  New Statesman : In his boisterous advocacy of the [Iraq] war there was more than a hint ...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

I'm With Hitch: Secret Scripts and 3D Glasses are Kooky and I Don't Want a President Who Believes In Them

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If Rick Perry had any brains, he'd have said as much: [W]e are fully entitled to ask Mitt Romney about the forces that influenced his po...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Christopher Hitchens: You Can Take the Liberalism out of the Brain Dead Liberal . . .

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. . . but he'll still be brain dead. "From a playwright, however, one might also have expected some discussion of what the Attic tr...