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As a rule, Europe has not been well-served by its public intellectuals. German philosopher Martin Heidegger was a Nazi apologist; French writer Jean-Paul Sartre was famously soft on Stalin; German novelist Günter Grass opposed German reunification; Portuguese novelist José Saramago supported an aborted Communist coup d'etat, and . . . well, it's a long list.
But an exception was Jean-Francois Revel, the French political theorist and commentator who died last week at the age of 82.
In books such as "The Totalitarian Temptation," "How Democracies Perish," "Democracy Against Itself" and "Anti-Americanism," Revel dissected the psychological weaknesses of liberal-democratic culture that made it dangerously prone to self-destruction. "The totalitarian phenomenon," he wrote in National Review in 2000, "is not to be understood without making allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or -- much more mysteriously -- to submit to it. Democracy will therefore always remain at risk."
And peace will guide the planets. Liberal Larry from the BlameBush web site says that a new day will dawn when Hilliary nationalizes the Oil industry. Hey you can’t argue with the facts! Believe me I know. I watched Meet the Press this week and I saw Tim russert try. He actually asked this question to the assembled panel. He actually said on TV and this was not a rhetorical question. He repeated it several times.
MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Secretary, if, if demand is up but supply is down, why are the profits so high?
It’s at the bottom of the page. You can see the video there too.
So check Larry out. He may have a point. Looks like he is just as smart as Russert
"Thankfully, politicians are finally taking steps to punish greedy corporations that profit at the expense of the consumer. In California, wise Democrat leaders are proposing heavy fines on the petroleum companies should their obscene earnings rise any higher. With their costs shooting through the roof, Big Oil would then be forced to lower prices at the pumps. If they took it once step further and confiscated all of Big Oil’s profits, logic dictates that gas prices would then drop to mere pennies a gallon (plus state and local taxes). Only a Democrat could think up such a brilliant idea. But it’s not rocket science folks. It’s simple economics. "
Inside, Valerie Plame and husband Joseph Wilson were in the crowd spilling out of the ABC News party (they are guests of the network at the dinner). Plame was pleasant, but asked by E&P why she came tonight she said, “I’m sorry,” adding in mock-red carpet lingo, “I’m wearing Armani.” Her gown was ivory.
Asked what might happen if she met the president, she repeated, “I’m wearing Armani.”
Off that subject, she explained that since leaving the CIA in January she’d een taking care of the couple’s kids. “It’s more fun and more difficult” than working at the agency, she said.
“We thought it would be fun,” she finally said about the dinner. “We look forward to a delightful evening.”
Read more: Outside it was even more fun more at the Correspondents Dinner
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think we should move beyond calling Bush incompetent for the way he is running the war in Iraq and accept that the war was only for Oil. Let's be ok with that, unless you want the price to go up even more. Bushco, by actually making the price go up to the point everybody hates him and the republicans, and thinks the economy is in the dumper has failed in the blood for oil department. His plan to steal the Arabs oil is an utter failure. He can't even steal oil correctly! What kind of a Texan does that? His big oil friends must laugh at him behind his back all of the time. I am willing to bet his grades at big oil man school were really low. With the way this Iraq war for oil has gone you would think that the only way he got through Big Oil man school was because of his father. He most likely didn’t even go to class. He didn't just dodge Vietnam. He dodged Big oil man school by saying he had to do his national guard time. At least that is that way I heard it at the film festival. I’m going to be looking into it because, Man! This gas thing sucks. I can barley afford to run my boat on the weekends.
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