Of Elephants and Albatrosses

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John J. Mearsheimer.  Lecture, “Greater Israel’s Bleak Future and the Consequences for the United States.”  Sunday 10 April 2011, Indianapolis. 

Everybody has read the late Stieg Larsson’s best-seller about the girl who kicked the hornet’s nest. But what about the guys who kicked the hornet’s nest – John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt? 

Turns out they’re . . . → Read More: Of Elephants and Albatrosses

An Equal and Opposite Reaction?

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It’s called cognitive dissonance – the confusion you experience when you try to hold two contradictory ideas at once.

One of them?  That despite the financial meltdown, everything’s going to be all right. Why? Because many of the same Wall Street financiers responsible for most serious economic depression since the 1930s are now working in the . . . → Read More: An Equal and Opposite Reaction?

Indiana Lawmakers Confirm Earth Is Flat

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Indianapolis, Feb. 16 – In a stirring announcement from the state’s capital, a joint session of the Indiana legislature announced today what many Hoosiers have long believed – that the earth is flat, and the sun revolves around the earth.

“We initially hoped this would bring us up to the Middle Ages,” a Senate . . . → Read More: Indiana Lawmakers Confirm Earth Is Flat