June- Paul Craig Roberts, of whom Lefalcon so memorably exclaimed “I savor his golden words!,” writes on “The Decline and Fall of the American Economy.”  Roberts writes: “John Williams, proprietor of Shadow Government Statistics (www.shadowstats.com), has been following US economic indicators for decades.  He notes that each administration has tinkered with the official statistics in orderto make itself look a little better; the cumulative effect over the decades is that the statistics greatly understate the problems.  Williams finds that the real rates of inflation and unemployment are about twice the reported rates.”  Here is Roberts’ article; here is W. John Williams’ inflation calculator.

July- Lefalcon’s beau ideal, Srdja Trifkovic, looks at John McCain and George Soros and sees “The most dangerous man in America, bankrolled by the most evil man in the world.”  Kenneth Zaretzke presents the moral issues surrounding the question of abortion in as clear and dispassionate a way as anyone could; unfortunately, Zaretzke’s article is not online.  George McCartney reviews Iron Man, seeing in it a film that teaches the young an important lesson.  “This movie teaches youngsters that it’s righteously cool to kill Middle Easterners by the caravanload.”  After a progressivley more outraged exposition of the plot, McCartney writes:

I suppose I wouldn’t mind all this if it were happening in some comic book never-never land.  But this action takes place in present-day Afghanistan where, in pursuit of a just goal, our actual Armed Forces have inadvertently wrought incalculable havoc on innocent people.  This is not fantasy land; it is the sorry site of our failure to capture Osama bin Laden andhis Al Qaeda forces because of our current administration’s infamously wrongheaded decision to wage a larger war in Iraq.  To make this the background of a children’s fantasy is flatly obscene.

August- George McCartney joins the ranks of those film critics, like Stuart Klawans of The Nation, who have written love letters to the suit Cary Grant wore in North by Northwest.  Well, it is a great suit. 

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