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Summary Washington's spending has recently been higher as a percentage of the nation's economic output than at any time since World War II. But by the same measure, Washington's revenues are the lowest in more than 60 years.
Review of Richard Evans, Lying About Hitler
For about a decade Richard Evans's (1987) book Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 had been on my "read someday" list. But at the beginning of 2000 I ran across his name again. He was to be an expert witness for author Deborah Lipstadt in her defense against David Irving's charge that she had libeled him by calling him a "Holocaust denier." Irving had sued Lipstadt because her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust , had called him a "discredited" historian with "neofascist" connections, an ardent admirer of Hitler who "on some level... seems to conceive himself as carrying on Hitler's legacy," who skews documents and misquotes evidence to reach historically untenable conclusions in the interest of exonerating Hitler (see Evans (2000), p. 6). Irving demanded that Penguin Books, Lipstadt's publisher, withdraw her book from circulation. Penguin refused.Holocaust Deniers and their Motivation
The Holocaust may be a matter of debate but the question of whether it happened is most certainly not. Thousands of personal testimonies, tens of thousands of documents, and documentary films are all testaments to it and the horrors it represented. Hundreds of books have been written about the Holocaust and any clear commentary is usually welcome.
(Objective historian standard applied to determine libel in Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd). - Free Online Library
Noun David Irving's libel action against American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin Books, press coverage frequently referred to the spectacle playing out in England's High Court as "history on trial."(1) It would be closer to the mark, though undeniably less catchy, to call it "historical methodology on trial." The judge hearing the case, Justice Charles Gray of the Queen's Bench Queen's Bench n. 1) the highest court in Great Britain during the reign of a Queen, so that opinions are identified as a volume of Queen's Bench (QB). 2) in the United States, organizations of women lawyers, dating from when women were a small minority of practicing , stressed this distinction in his opinion,(2) where he relied on an "objective historian" standard in judging Irving's scholarship.
My Decision to Testify for David Irving
Irving approached me to testify in the trial because I had included the suppression of his book on Goebbels as an example of Jewish tactics for combating anti-Semitism in Separation and Its Discontents. Actually the suppression of Irving goes far beyond what I included in my book. Irving has been prevented from publishing his original archival research, from traveling to several countries, and even from giving lectures. The second defendant in the case, Deborah Lipstadt, has contributed to this effort at censorship. My statement to the court and my entire testimony in court involved this issue, not the Holocaust or the culpability of Hitler.
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Out To Lunch: Meet The Real David Irving This scathing 'New Republic' article (21st October, 1996) examines David Irving's historian credentials and personal morality in the wake of public defences by Christopher Hitchens and others. A solid example of typical critical press coverage of Irving. Hero: David Irving
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Inquiring minds want to know: Where's the cheapest gas? GasBuddy can tell you. The site collects real-time prices from some 750,000 volunteer price "spotters," who send in daily updates from their local stations. With prices varying by up to 50 cents from one station to the next in some cities, it pays to stay informed. A heat map displays where prices are currently the highest (California) and lowest (Wyoming).
What we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but cosmology. People treat the digital universe as some sort of metaphor, just a cute word for all these products. The universe of Apple, the universe of Google, the universe of Facebook, that these collectively constitute the digital universe, and we can only see …
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Two For One: Crackpot Physics and Crackpot Set Theory : Good Math, Bad Math
I was asked by a reader to take a look at yet another crackpot theory of everything. This time, it's the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe . This one is as cranky as any, but it's actually got some interestingly silly math to it.Front Page - The Long Now
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More... Next Seminar :The TED conference has been helping to blow people’s minds for many years now, and that’s in large part because they put videos of many of the TED talks online for anyone to watch, share, and spread for free. But there are a number of other conferences held each year around the world that also bring together visionaries, intellectuals, and luminaries from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss innovative ideas. With that in mind, below is a list of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action.
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Our picks for the hottest Web sites and Web trends of the year, plus some old favorites to enjoy. It's been a strange year on the Web. In the 12 months since our last installment of Top 100 Web Sites, I'm betting you signed up for a Twitter account (and likely abandoned it), browsed the Web on a mobile phone (if you haven't yet, you soon will), and read 3.4 online news stories about Michael Jackson and watched 5.8 MJ videos on YouTube (I like this one ). In other words, some things about the Web are changing incredibly fast, others seem like they'll stay the same forever. Our list of the Top 100 Web Sites reflects that: We've selected 50 classic Web sites that we all know and love, and 50 new and/or undiscovered sites that you may not have heard of yet. Deciding upon our list of 100 sites is a months-long process.