Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)
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Dan Jenkins described Fort Worth and its characters so well that we figured everything he said about New York was just as accurate.
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Also, Semi-Tough was not a play. The other two are. And written by one of Marilyn Monroe's husbands.
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According to Edward Luce’s bio of Brzezinski, Zbig blamed the generals for giving them bad plan and misleading them on the chances for success and he never got over it. After he went back to teaching at Columbia he would reject military officers who applied to take his seminar.
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I was convinced that The Crucible and Death of a Salesman were being used to communize Grapevine High School. The teacher was open-minded and asked for an alternative book, but the only novel we had recently read was Semi-Tough and the girls vetoed that one.
Yesterday and today I’ve been seeing clips of King Harry’s St Crispin’s Day speech.
The American equivalent is Thomas Paine American Crisis. Best lede graf in journalism—and unlike Shakespeare written in real time, by campfires.
Paine made many mistakes but we owe him for this.
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True. But Carter later made a virtue of his incompetence because they never did make it to the target.
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I knew the son of one of the hostages: the one who, when asked if he’d ever return to Iran replied, “Maybe in a B-52.”
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I question your description that a third were "violent thugs." I don't think a screenshot is going to cut it for that argument, but as long as we're exchanging screenshots...
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LOL, indeed! You don't remember this pair, do you?
They with malice aforethought firebombed an empty police vehicle that was parked in the middle of a crowd. They got 12-month- and 15-month-sentences, but served less time.
This wasn't some random assault spurred on by the excitement of the crowd, but a planned attack that took significant preparation.
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If the sentences are proportionate, they didn't need to be pardoned. I pointed out that the sentences for the January 6th protestors, many of whom had no previous criminal records, were disproportionate. Many made note of that at the time.
The men who landed then were withdrawn from Desert One would have fired bullets had they reached their target.
Was it cowardly, though? Or was it misdirected moral vanity?
As for policy, I completely agree. But that's policy, not character. Carter believed himself to be a man of peace and that he had been put in the presidency to help ensure the spread of peace. He liked to say that his administration never dropped a bomb or fired a bullet.
There are far worse traits to have as a man.
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Crimes are crimes. Attacking a federal courthouse and the federal authorities/police in Portland over a span of two to three months is still a crime, as are disrupting other federal activities (like ICE operations). Your preference for heavy sentences toward one over the other only shows that you highlight the special uniqueness of crimes that happened in Washington DC on one afternoon over what happens in the rest of the country with regularity. That's your own bias, and no one else need share it.
