Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2025

Iran is now but a shadow of its former self

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  Iran's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

How the popular vote works

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  Look, as I blow this feather from my face, And as the air blows it to me again, Such is the lightness of you common men. -- William Shakes...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

These people are defeated before they even begin

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  Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment, that parchment, being scribbl'd o'...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings

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... by the middle of the Second Century ... there were few Greeks and Romans left. They had destroyed themselves by miscegenation, interneci...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

COVID-19 in the largest countries by population: Update for Sun 5/2/21

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Countries with 200 million population or more: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria. Data isn't available i...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

So what if Beto flubbed his Spanish, most of the illegal aliens are illiterate too

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Long gone are the days when to impress the ladies you had to "brush up your Shakespeare".
Monday, June 12, 2017

The libertarian peanut gallery sets the fashions and opinion of taste, wiping the slate clean

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Monday, May 9, 2016

Rush Limbaugh perverts conservatism, says there's no other kind of conservatism than "ideological"

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Earlier today on the show. Actually, conservatism is nothing if it is not at bottom suspicious of ideology, as Theodore Dalrymple remi...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Marco Rubio is just another liberal

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Marco Rubio, quoted here , wouldn't recognize conservatism if it bit him in the ass: "[O]ur country has always been about t...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Self-Described Moderate Rep. Justin Amash To Receive Primary Challenge From Conservative

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Grand Rapids businessman Brian Ellis is set to challenge Rep. Justin Amash in the Republican primary as a conservative because of Amash'...
Monday, January 21, 2013

5 Years Of Uncommon Snows Give London Mayor Boris Johnson An Open Mind

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Lord I wish Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, England, were my mayor, my governor, hell, my president for crying out loud. This guy, trained i...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

We Still Don't Know Obama's GPA, But We Already Know Gov. Rick Perry's

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From an important story about the Texas governor from Andrew Ferguson for The Weekly Standard, here : At Texas A and M he earned a grade poi...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Dr. Obama Prescribes The Same Old Medicine Of The Miserable

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"I always have hope. Don't you remember my campaign? [laughter] Even after being here for two and a half years, I continue to have ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Chris Farrell Speaks Up For Cash, Glorious Cash, and Shakespeare

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Here : That’s why the time-honored tactic of diversification remains one of the more powerful ways to protect finances from the downside. Sh...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

HOPE: THE LAST REFUGE OF THE MISERABLE

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The miserable have no other medicine, But only Hope: I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.      -- Claudio, William Shakespeare...

This is the Way Banks Go 'Round the QE Mulberry Bush

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James Hamilton for Fortune here  provides an excellent explanation and illustration of how the Federal Reserve "printed" money wit...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Fault Is In Ourselves . . .

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. . . that we are underlings. -- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar , Act I, Scene II

The Tyrant's Friends

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When I have most need to employ a friend, Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile, Be he to me. Shakespeare [e.g. Bill Ayers, Rahm Eman...