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Archive of posts published in the tag: Sultan Knish

DC Armageddon

Daniel Greenfield writes in his Sultan Knish, Government Shuts Down, Nation Descends into Riots, Looting and Cannibalism> Excerpts: With the fall of the government, citizen activists took it upon themselves to chronicle the culture of lawlessness. Men played Gibson guitars made

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Nonessential Government

Daniel Greenfield writes in his Sultan Knish, Wednesday, The Sun Sets on Washington D.C. Excerpts: The government shutdown has forced Obama to make do with only a quarter of his 1,701 person staff. That would leave 436 “vital” employees. The 90

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Very Little Forward Motion

From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: The oligarchy safeguards established interests. It is a mafia whose goal is to control and profit from all wealth. Even when it comes to power as the result of a revolution, it

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Unexamined Humanitarianism

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish Making the World  A Better Place, 3/10/13. Excerpts: The American taxpayer has his life largely run by humanitarians who want to make the world a better place. His civil rights have been stripped away from

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Whose Credibility are We Trying to Protect?

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish:  The Case of Obama’s Missing Pants Excerpt: The only real argument in favor of hitting Syria is that Obama laid down a red line and Congress is obligated to protect his credibility

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Soviet Style Business

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, Government Money, 3/17/13 Excerpts: And still some of the most greediest and most abusive companies, were invariably either created by the government or operate in close partnership with it. HMO’s were created by the government. Banks fed

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The Bane of Institutions

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Art of Building Things, 6/10/13. Excerpt: Creativity brings new things into the world, but new things are the bane of institutions which already have too many things to deal with and see such

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A Tale of Two Cities

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog, Sultan Knish, Savages of Socialism, Excerpts: A booming housing market in the city is built on runaway prices caused by artificial shortages. Manhattan is really two islands, one is being built up and torn down

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Replacing Confidence with Attitude

From Daniel Greenfield at his blog Sultan Knish, The Eagle Has Landed: Apollo 11 is nice and well, but we have other priorities now. We don’t focus on actual achievements, but on social remedies, never realizing that our social remedies

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Creating Government Monopolies

From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: The fusion of business with government leads to oligarchy. The rich are not going anywhere, but wealth becomes a factor of their government connections, rather than skill or even inheritance. Government control

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Why Institutionalism Fails

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Art of Building Things, 6/10/13. Excerpt: In the face of chaos, Muslims chose not liberal institutionalism but Islamic institutionalism.  What this means in practice, beyond women with covered faces and more bombs going

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Smartphones and Toilet Paper

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog, Sultan Knish, Savages of Socialism, Excerpts: In Venezuela, savvy shoppers are hunting down scarce supplies of toilet paper with a smartphone app. The smartphones, compact packages of electronics, are several generations more advanced than

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An Individual Act

Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Art of Building Things, 6/10/13. Excerpts: Creativity is an individual act. The act of building something, whether with hammers, blueprints, words, boards or plans is individualistic. Collectives can build, but not

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Racialization

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog The Sultan Knish, Government is the New Race, 6/7/13. Excerpts: While you might think that it would be impossible to run an entire cable news network around accusing people of racism, MSNBC has

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Sophisticated Deconstruction

Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Our civilization is sophisticated enough to deconstruct everything but incapable of constructing anything. We’re still capable of a certain amount of technological innovation in the consumer realm, but outside

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The Undoing of Power

From Sultan Knish, The Obama-Media War. Excerpts: The media these days doesn’t have much. Its numbers are bad in every medium from the tube to the inky pages of newsprint to the crackling AM radio waves. It isn’t very profitable.

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Exporting Bureaucracy

Daniel Greenfield writes Where is Our Panama Canal in his excellent blog Sultan Knish. 2/12/13. Excerpts: China can build things, for better or worse, because it has the manufacturing capacity to get things done. America no longer has manufacturing capacity,

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The Intellectual Savage

Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Savages can kill each other, but they can’t communicate with each other. You can’t prove anything to a savage, because a savage does not believe in objective standards of

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The New Glass Ceiling

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Inequality for All, 3/31/13. Excerpts:  Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is

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A Perversion of Free Enterprise

From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: In most countries, starting a business does not begin with a great idea. It begins with connections. Knowing the right people is still important, but in most places it’s the most

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