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May 12, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
Tracing Economic Blight: The Case of the Black Castle
May 8, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryThe collectivism practiced by the goverments of Eastern Europe following World War II is best described as an effort to bring about "the greatest damage to the greatest number."
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May 5, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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April 28, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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April 21, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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April 14, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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April 8, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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March 31, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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March 24, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryReflections on the week that was.
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March 16, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery reviews the week that was.
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March 10, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryReflections on the week that was.
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March 2, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryGeorge Handlery on the week that was.
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February 23, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryReflections on the week that was.
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February 17, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryReflections on the week that was.
American Guilt
February 15, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryWhile the Germans were inclined to crush the source of their problems, and the Russians tended to conquer and then annex the source of their discontent, America's favorite culprit is herself. She prefers to try to weasel out of predicaments by claiming that she has caused them. From this pseudo-fact of self-hate, the US inclines to conclude that […]
An Outrageously Good Idea
February 5, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryHolding those who have society's power delegated to them accountable for the misuse of their position is laudable.
States, Their Borders and Our General Security
January 23, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryExperience teaches that the systematic denial of fundamental rights occurs when imposed borders incorporate unwanted populations in a structure these reject. If the EU is to fulfill its intended purpose, it better consider itself as the protector of the wellbeing of all of its member peoples.
Migration, Racism and Tolerance
January 2, 2008 | George de Poor HandleryTo move into a community with a divergent tradition and then to insist that it must conform to rigidly advocated alien ways, contradicts reason, fairness and threatens the rights of the hosts.
Lawless Legality
November 26, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe Hungarian Ministry of Finance and National Bank for decades have hidden the fact that the country’s post-1945 governments embezzled most of what was left of the Jewish fortunes confiscated in 1944-45 by the Nazi Sztójay and Szálasi governments.
Assorted Absurdities Assembled to Please the Palate
November 19, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryA report from Central Europe.
How to Achieve Extremist Status
October 21, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe largest political party in Switzerland, the Swiss People’s Party, wants to do something about the 21% of Switzerland’s inhabitants who are foreigners. For that they are labeled "extremists" by the parties of the Left and Right.
Advanced Societies: Their Sense of Guilt and External Foes
August 30, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryIf the developed world wishes to help the masses stuck in deprivation, it needs to transfer to them its wealth-creating techniques, not money.
When Tolerance Becomes Criminal
August 6, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryGiving in to aggression might evade a fight initially, but it will not avoid the risk of ultimate slaughter.
The Creep of a Crisis
July 17, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe European Union seems blissfully unaware that community rights are a vital component of individual freedom.
Transatlantic Turbulences
July 9, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryA weak Europe creates a vacuum that needlessly overextends US power, and being able to count on America when the need arises weakens Europe.
Common Sense and Accepted Wisdom
June 27, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe folks who live by accepted wisdom respond to Iran’s belligerence with a studied under-reaction as they hope for a “dialogue” with her “moderates.”
Playing With Words is Serious Business
June 19, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe emasculation of the meaning of concepts is thriving in democracies as well as in dictatorships, and fact-denying and reality-obscuring tags can do more than to hide snake medicine in opaque bottles.
News: Unadulterated, Approved and Those Who May Make Them
May 30, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryAre bloggers creating the crisis or just reporting it uncensored?
What Next?
May 3, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryWhen Europe acts against the USA it does not really wish to compete with her or anyone else. What Europe wants is not primacy but a world in which, in the spirit of brotherhood and “we-are-all-alike,” conflicts are subdued enough to be treated by transfer payments.
Bureaucracy and Eurocracy
April 18, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryInstead of striving for higher efficiency at a lower cost, the EU has committed itself to the protection of inefficiency — for a share of the loot.
Replace the USA?
March 28, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryRegardless of the curses and complaints fired at her, America remains the last resort separating Europe from subjugation.
Life, Discreet Lies and a Postscript
March 8, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryMore on the pending release of Monica Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar.
Life, Death, Justice and the Meaning of Words
February 23, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryIs a life sentence in lieu of death an honest equivalent once “life” in practice means fifteen years, or reaching an age at which jail becomes unpleasant?
Drifting Apart
February 16, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryThe time is nearing for thinking aloud about the US disengaging from commitments such as defending Europe without the Europeans.
Party Thoughts: Too Good Means Too Stupid (Let Europe Be On Its Own)
February 1, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryContrary to popular belief, blank checks have a way of undermining security. They remove the inhibitions that prevent irresponsible moves and so provoke frivolity.
Terror as Policy: Absurd Recollections and Reality
January 17, 2007 | George de Poor HandleryConnecting times and places, Stalinist terror represents an often-denied continuum of, and parallel to, National Socialism’s crimes. The story of Recsk, Hungary's most notorious political prison camp.
The Perilous Luxury of Provincialism
November 29, 2006 | George de Poor HandleryMany American foreign policy reverses are rooted in her provincially induced willingness to let happen what could be avoided abroad for "it does not really matter." But "going home" while seeking "better understanding" will not convince the Iranians and North Koreans that America needs not to be feared for she is not intent to subjugate them and […]
The Un-erased Communist Past is Back to Rule the Present
November 1, 2006 | George de Poor HandleryI went to Budapest to celebrate an occurrence of a half-century ago that, regardless of its defeat, led to the re-establishment of democracy. What I witnessed suggests that the substance of democracy has still not arrived.
A Chronic Crisis in the Context of Confusion
October 19, 2006 | George de Poor HandleryHungary’s problem is not just that it has a Prime Minister such as Gyurcsány. It is the reaction to him that suggests an ailment.
The Politics of the Gulyás Democracy in the “Country Without Consequences”
October 4, 2006 | George de Poor Handlery"Obviously we have muddled through the last years by lying. It has been quite clear that what we say is not true. I cannot name one action we could be proud of." – Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány.
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