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inoljt wrote a new diary post: How Japanese and Americans Save Differently
In America a dollar today is worth much less than a dollar in 1980. Americans marvel at how much cheaper things used to be in the past, when Coca-Cola and movies only cost five cents. In Japan the story is quite different. For long periods in the past two decades, nominal prices have in fact declined. [...] -
inoljt wrote a new diary post: Do Tourists Get Sick When They Visit the United States?
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/It’s a common thing when Americans visit other countries. They get sick. An American visits a friend in a foreign country, consumes everything on the plate her friend has prepared (out of politeness, not because she actually likes the food), and spends the rest of her week sitting on top of a toilet. It’s [...] -
inoljt commented on the diary post Did You Know that the United Kingdom Censored Animal Farm? Here’s Why: by inoljt.
elismattu: Yep, I was definitely surprised when I found out about this too.
Synoia: LOL!
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: Did You Know that the United Kingdom Censored Animal Farm? Here’s Why:
Animal Farm is one of the most famous tracts of the 20th century. It’s a prescient warning against totalitarianism. Its influence is such that phrases such as “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” are still used today. Yet for several years before its publication in the United Kingdom, Animal Farm was [...] -
inoljt commented on the diary post Japan’s Strange Isolation, and How It Hurts Us and Japan by inoljt.
I think that you have an absolutely fundamental lack of understanding of international relations in both modern Western Europe and modern East Asia.
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: Japan’s Strange Isolation, and How It Hurts Us and Japan
Japan is one of the world’s most advanced economies. In some ways, however, its economy is quite isolated. This is a result of both geography and history. Japan is both an island alone and a former colonial power heartily disliked by its immediate neighbors.
This is different from most other advanced economies. Any Western country has [...] -
inoljt commented on the diary post The Hillary Clinton Gender Gap by inoljt.
I’m sure that the Democratic Party is healthy today.
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inoljt commented on the diary post The Hillary Clinton Gender Gap by inoljt.
Nope, I’m not saying that.
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: The Hillary Clinton Gender Gap
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/Four years before the 2016 presidential election, and before we even know who is running, some enterprising pollsters have released polls matching Hillary Clinton against an assorted group of potential Republican candidates. Clinton does well; she leads in a number of red states. In these polls, one interesting constant is the massive gender gap [...]
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inoljt commented on the diary post What Foreign Language Do North Koreans Learn? English! by inoljt.
To the moderators:
Thanks for posting the page on the front!
How did you succeed in embedding the youtube video? I tried to do that for a long time, but I couldn’t figure it out.
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: What Foreign Language Do North Koreans Learn? English!
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/ North Korea has been in the news in the past few days and weeks. Most of the attention has been negative; tensions have risen between North Korea and the United States. Not that this is new. The two countries have had bad relations – to say the least – for many decades now.
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: What Exactly Was the Popular Vote in 2012?
I was recently writing a post on how news organizations still haven’t updated their election results . As part of that post, of course, I tried to track down the “real” popular vote. That is, how many votes did President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney actually win, in reality?
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: Idiocy at the State Department
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/ I recently had the opportunity to watch a presentation by the State Department. Making the presentation was an intense, broad-shouldered diplomat. He talked about his recent posting in Pakistan and the department’s attempts to improve America’s image in a country where it’s less popular than Osama bin Laden. He showed pictures of events he’d [...] -
inoljt wrote a new diary post: The Socially Conservative State of … California?
California is generally thought of as a very liberal place. The Democratic Party is certainly doing well; Republicans are at an all-time low almost everywhere in the state.
This applies to social positions as well. The stereotype is that Californians are very socially liberal. California is, after all, home to San Francisco and Berkeley – [...] -
inoljt wrote a new diary post: Thoughts About the Pope’s Resignation
In many ways Pope Benedict XVI has not been as influential as his predecessor Pope John Paul II. John Paul II was highly loved and good at playing with the media. Benedict XVI, not so much. Yet if Benedict XVI sets a precedent with his resignation, it may be he who is more remembered by [...]
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inoljt commented on the diary post Three Important Moments in America’s Economic History (in Pictures) by inoljt.
To be fair, we did save Europe from Hitler.
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inoljt commented on the diary post Three Important Moments in America’s Economic History (in Pictures) by inoljt.
Thanks!
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inoljt wrote a new diary post: Three Important Moments in America’s Economic History (in Pictures)
The previous post looked at the economic history of the United States over the past two centuries. In that post, what stood out most was the fact that the economy of the United States has always been one of the strongest in the world. There are three defining moments of American history after 1800, and this [...] -
inoljt wrote a new diary post: A History of the United States Economy (in Pictures)
The United States economy is a subject that is very much on the mind of Americans today. It’s also a very obviously influential part of the world; the American consumer market, for instance, often sets trends around the world. Let’s take a look at the history of the United States economy. How did the American [...] -
inoljt wrote a new diary post: A Typical Example of Leftism in Latin America
By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/
One of the best ways to learn about the politics of different places is to read their newspapers. To that extent, I recently had the pleasure of reading a Bolivian newspaper supportive of, or published by, the government. The topic was the Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro, a conference devoted to fighting global warming. [...] - Load More
