18 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  5. “The daily newspaper industry stands at a precipice.”
    Standing in the bow of the boat, precipicing into the wind, with its “Crisis” chart blowing back in its “Phases”.
    The “turnaround specialist and professor” says: Read all about the “group therapy”.
    …-
    “CEO Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis”
    “How precarious is each company’s position?
    “Crisis Curve
    According to James Shein, Ph.D., turnaround specialist and professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, companies should start by plotting their place on a “Phases of a Crisis” chart.”
    http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resources/2008/11/ceo_summit_on_saving_an_indust/

  6. (PDF warning) Lt. Col. Robert A. Downey, Lt. Col. Lee K. Grubbs, Cmdr. Brian J. Malloy, and Lt. Col. Craig R. Wonson, How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan?
    The security situation in Afghanistan has steadily deteriorated since 2006 largely due to the lack of forces required to execute an effective counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy. As the U.S. struggles to find a viable solution to this problem, calls for an Iraq-type surge of forces to help stabilize security and set conditions for political and economic improvement in Afghanistan have increased. President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have both acknowledged that additional forces are needed in Afghanistan but have not specifically outlined how many or what type. Although the goal of executing a surge in Afghanistan would be similar in nature to that of Iraq, the challenges presented by a larger, rural-based population with unique tribal dynamics, a harsher geography, and an enemy operating from bases outside the country will require a different focus and force structure…

  7. (Via SWJ) Richard A. Serrano and Sam Quinones, Mexico drug wars spill across the border
    The drug violence that has left about 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
    The involvement of the top four Mexican drug-trafficking organizations in distribution and money-laundering on U.S. soil has brought a war once dismissed as a foreign affair to the doorstep of local communities…

  8. An article entitled “Dumb eco-questions you were afraid to ask”. It’s got some tips for the econut crowd. Not much of interest, until you read the following:
    ”
    What is the single most effective thing I can do for the environment?
    Over a 75-year lifespan, the average European will be responsible for about 900 tonnes of CO2 emissions. For Americans and Australians, the figure is more like 1500 tonnes. Add to that all of humanity’s other environmentally damaging activities and, draconian as it may sound, the answer must surely be to avoid reproducing.
    ”
    Wow.
    Link

  9. Muslim jihad “has a lot to do with modern European and Soviet totalitarianism.”.
    Socialism = Stalin + MohAllah = Muslim jihad.
    …-
    “Know Thy Enemy
    Inside the Mind.
    By Michael Ledeen
    Laurent Murawiec’s The Mind of Jihad is, at last, a book on radical Islam that does it all. Unlike many engaged in the heated debate over the nature of our enemies, Murawiec does not believe that ancient texts tell us all we need to know. He insists that all ideas change over time, even those believed to have been dictated by God’s angel. He has therefore immersed himself not only in the sacred texts of Islam but also in the richly variegated speeches, writings, and actions of its most extremist practitioners: the jihadis waging war against us.
    He candidly admits that it was not easy, that many of his initial ideas turned out to be wrong, and that his current understanding of “the mind of jihad” surprises him. This understanding holds that the current doctrine is far more than the resuscitation of medieval commandments, and in fact has a lot to do with modern European and Soviet totalitarianism.
    As Murawiec tells us in fascinating detail, the jihadis have been willing to collaborate will all European totalitarian movement and regimes. And although we have heard quite a lot about their collaboration with the Fuhrer (in the person of Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), there was a constant, intimate and extremely important alliance with the Soviet Union, which gave some of the key jihadis training in organization (and, most likely, intelligence as well).”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132966/posts

  10. Michael Auslin, The Rise of the West
    As conservatives ponder a long exile in the political wilderness, many voices are calling for a period of contemplation, a returning to roots, so to speak.
    They could do worse than return to William H. McNeill’s 1963 magnum opus, The Rise of the West, which celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. The lessons of that 900-page survey of human history have as much urgency today as they did at the height of the Cold War, and they make a sweeping case for economic and political freedom…

  11. Rick Richman, Philip Roth’s Wager
    What is Philip Roth doing? Now age 75, this is the third novel he has written in three years. He has written 29 books — and his pace is accelerating…
    I think the reason may lie in a theme that underlies his last three books. The books may properly be understood not as separate novels, but as a trilogy. Let’s see if we can draw some connections…
    So we have one novel in which a conversation with dry bones is the climax of the book; a second in which the central message is “find meat on bones” before death takes you, and a third in which the bones themselves are the narrator: the narrator in “Indignation” is already dead, and is speaking from the afterlife…

  12. “A walk in the Parc
    When I asked my wife who Valerie Jarrett was she immediately produced the October issue of Vogue, a magazine which in its own way covers events more deeply than the Washington Post. The first paragraph begins:
    One day in the summer of 1991, when Valerie Jarrett was Chicago mayor Richard Daley’s deputy chief of staff, the woman who worked in the office next door to Jarrett handed her the resume of one Michelle La Vaughn Robinson. … On the cover letter, someone at City Hall had written something like THIS WOMAN IS NO LONGER INTERESTED IN BEING AT HER LAW FIRM. SHE WANTS TO BE IN GOVERNMENT AND GIVE BACK.
    Michelle La Vaughn Robinson of course, is now Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett is now Barack Obama’s senior White House adviser. The Vogue article passingly mentions Jarrett’s career at the Habitat Company, which she joined after leaving City Hall in 1995 in breatheless terms. But the Boston Globe’s description of Jarrett’s stint at Habitat is far less flattering.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/11/15/a-walk-in-the-parc/#comments
    …-
    Commenter: “JFSanders:
    The “spice” of socialism is strong, addicting, and subversive to the mind. It clouds the mind and blinds the eyes.
    Witness the actions of people who are continually subjugated and exploited by socialistic governance. They vote for their pimp just as the whore gives up her hard earned money.
    It will take a violent, slap to the mouth to wake these people from their stupor. Even then a considerable number will remain numb and lay there and take death in a cold embrace.
    But for those that awaken the sheep dogs are there waiting for the call.”

  13. [ .. draconian as it may sound, the answer must surely be to avoid reproducing. Johann
    How many kids does Suzuki have ?

  15. “Jim Jones and Barack Obama COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS”
    “On Thursday, CNN aired “Escape from Jonestown,” presented by CNN special investigations unit corespondent Soledad O’Brien. This week marks thirty years since the horrific deaths of more than 900 people, roughly a third of them children, at Jonestown. The massacre was orchestrated by “Reverend” Jim Jones. What CNN barely referenced was Jones’s connection to several leading Democratic politicians of the time. O’Brien did identify Jones as a believer in socialism and, with a survivor, passingly alluded to his influence in the Democratic Party:
    O’BRIEN: In 1975, Jones moved his church headquarters from Redwood Valley down to San Francis, to a larger stage, where he became a political force and a face in photo-ops.
    GOSNEY: Roslyn (sic) Carter was campaigning for Jimmy Carter. I believe that was 1976. And there was going to be a rally downtown. Literally, we stuffed the building. We were — we were the rally.
    Jones was much more than a face in a photo-op. Democratic San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed him to the city’s housing authority. Willie Brown, who later served as Democratic Speaker of the California Assembly, in 1976 introduced Jones as a combination Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein and Chairman Mao.
    That same year Senator Walter Mondale, later elected vice president, invited Jones to meet with him on his campaign plane. The People’s Temple chief also had a personal meeting with Jimmy Carter’s wife, Rosalynn.
    Jones referenced that in 1977 when he wrote to the First Lady and recommended the U.S. government give Cuba medical supplies. He mentioned his “deep appreciation for the privilege of dining privately with you prior to the election.” She replied by saying she’d enjoyed the experience and hoped the U.S. would adopt his suggestion on Cuba.”
    http://tinyurl.com/626vcz (newsbusters)

  16. Katherine Mangu-Ward, Tor’s Worlds Without Death or Taxes
    High in Manhattan’s famous Flatiron Building you’ll find the headquarters of Tor Books, the most successful science fiction publisher in the world. The Flatiron is a monument to mad Belle Epoque futurism, with a wedge shape that makes right angles rare. Inside Tor’s cramped office, drifts of books cover every horizontal surface and most of the vertical ones. The mind boggles at the destruction that could be wrought here by a dropped match, let alone a misfired laser gun…
    So is this the most successful libertarian propaganda venture in modern history? Publisher and founder Tom Doherty denies any ideological agenda. “First comes the story,” he says. His only stated goal is to “do a story in a way that’s honest.”…

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