Category: Conservative Review
Our Man in Amman
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown that was invented by the British and then funded by the Americans. Constantly lies the head of state who claims to protect the Palestinians while cooperating with the Mossad. Abdullah II is the fourth king of Jordan, the state that Winston Churchill lopped off the Palestine Mandate in 1921 with, he said, “the stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon in Cairo.” The plan, as proposed by Lawrence of Arabia in 1918, was to install the three sons of Hussein, the Sharif of Mecca, as the Hashemite emirs, Britain’s proxies in the states it was carving out of Ottoman territory. Abdullah is the last Hashemite standing. He has a pronounced facial tic.
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Getting Intimate With Updike
Here’s a nice illustration of the personal and professional range of John Updike, the novelist, poet, essayist, critic, and short story writer who rose to singular fame (appearing twice on the cover of Time magazine, then the ultimate mark of celebrity) in the second half of the 20th century. During the year 1960, he volunteered to teach Sunday school at his local church. Meanwhile, he was fighting his publisher’s lawyers, who worried that the sex scenes in his latest novel, Rabbit, Run, were explicit enough to violate U.S. obscenity laws, which were still a thing.
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Tribe Mentality
The past few years have seen the almost unprecedented intrusion of politics into chick lit. It seems no novel about the life of wives or mothers can be complete without the occasional diatribe about systemic racism or Donald Trump or the genocide launched against transgendered people. For someone who is looking for a little escapism, the proverbial beach read is no longer a place to find it. But just as these authors are clearly under the sway of their political environment—or at least virtue signaling to show that they don’t just care about romance or drama in the PTA—they are also influencing the political environment as well. And they can use the broader audience they attract to plant information about niche ideological hobby horses.
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Dealing With Maduro Is No Distraction. It’s a Necessity.
With the latest American-led negotiation about Ukraine well underway, Beijing browbeating Japan’s new prime minister over her concerns about Taiwan’s security, and India rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin, the Beltway is consumed with… Venezuela. The Trump administration’s drone strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats have roiled Washington, and criminal accusations and constitutional challenges abound.
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The Drug Boat Incident, a Decision-Making Simulation
You are an experienced Navy SEAL Commander (rank 05) with a solid combat record in Iraq and Afghanistan. You have…
Keep On Truckin’ — If You Are Rightly Licensed
WASHINGTON — What happens when rules designed to ensure public safety fray so much that undocumented residents can obtain commercial…
Musk Delivers Blunt Message To EU Officials Who Slapped Giant Fine On X
‘Seem appropriate to apply our response not just to the EU’
Previously Deported Illegal Reportedly Stabbed Victim On Same Rail System Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska Was Killed
Alleged Illegal Reportedly Commits Attack On Same Rail System Refugee Iryna Zarutska Was Killed
