HORRORS

BRAIN OF NEWT

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In Sunday’s NY Times Magazine, the homework assignment from hell.  “What does Newt Gingrich Know?”  by Andrew Ferguson, who endeavored to read each of Newt Gingrich’s 23 books . . . and lived.  A great piece about a man who is a true legend in his own mind.   “As I write, a stack of … Read more

THE NEW YORKER: Uglie Olde England

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In this week’s New Yorker, a searing story by Lauren Collins about the town of Luton, which is blazing trails in the new frontier of Euro-racism. Unemployment, underemployment and culture have played parts in creating a festering mutual hate.  Muslims, for their part, contribute as well. Avery good read. Abstract here:

LETTER FROM LUTON about the English Defence League and the rise of the Islamophobic right in Great Britain. In February, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered a speech on Islamist extremism to the delegates of the forty-seventh Munich Security Conference. In Cameron’s

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2012 STARTING LINE

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With the first GOP debate tonight we begin our quadrennial exercise in self examination (or self abuse) known as the presidential campaign.  And they’re off.  Here’s my cover for this week’s National Journal.  Thanks to Ron Brownstein, editor and Jan Zimmeck AD. The stage is set, we have the candidates, wait . . . don’t tell Perry and Christie. And the woman from Alaska . . . I mean Arizona.


Here are some head studies done for the cover:

Mitt

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THE END OF THE WORLD AT LAST

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  Yesterday saw an ominous election win for Democrat Kathy Hochul in the upstate District 26 special election. This, in a district where rock-ribbed conservatives become flaming socialists when the subject is Medicare, is the apocalypse, for sure. No Rapture sightings as yet.