From Joshua

• Covering up American war crimes from Baghdad to New York.
• No more blood for Israel?
• Right, left and palæo on Obamacare.
• de Tocqueville on the tyranny of the majority.
• Counterfeiting conservatism. In the 1980s, it was barely noted as peculiar that one of Ronald Reagan’s intellectual heroes was Thomas Paine — Edmund Burke’s bête noire. Increasingly, political conservatism has stood less for a defense of the principles articulated by Russell Kirk — custom, variety, prudence, imperfectibility, community, and restraint of power — and has instead allied itself with national and even international objectives destructive to custom, variety, and community.
• War crimes in Korea.

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