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Archive for September, 2009

Breaking News! National Endowment for the Arts Renamed National Endowment for Propaganda. Stay Tuned. “This is Only the Beginning.”

By Roger Kimball | September 21st, 2009

Andrew Breitbart is a national hero. Not only was he the impresario who brought the exposure of ACORN by filmmaker James O’Keefe and actress Hannah Giles to public attention, but he has just followed it up with a blistering exposé of how the White House has endeavored to use the National Endowment for the Arts [...]

Irving Kristol, 1920-2009

By Roger Kimball | September 18th, 2009

I just heard the sad news that Irving Kristol, “the godfather of Neoconservatism,” died today. I will have more to say about this remarkable man elsewhere, but I wanted to take a moment now to register my sorrow at the passing of a friend whom I greatly admired and a man whose intellectual labors [...]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (Bureau of Gov’t-Run Health Care)

By Roger Kimball | September 18th, 2009

OK, here we go: the tendentious statistics brigade, underwritten by an Ivy-league university:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on [...]

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