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May 24, 2016 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

A remarkable autobiography by Anthony Inglis, the English conductor and musicologist, is titled, “Sit Down, Stop Waving Your Arms About!” Quite so. This admonition occurred while Inglis was conducting a musical. Someone sitting in the front row tapped him on the shoulder and told him to sit down and stop waving his arms about. My […]

How Fear Came to America in 2025

Llewellyn King

Of all the things that happened in 2025 — a year dominated by the presidency of Donald Trump — not the least is that fear came to America. It’s reminiscent of the fear that African Americans knew in the days of the lynch mob, or that Jews have felt from time to time, or that […]

MET Group Advocates for Europe-Wide Energy Bank

Llewellyn King

When Benjamin Lakatos speaks, energy people listen in Europe and increasingly farther afield. Recently Lakatos, chairman and Group CEO of MET Group, has been speaking out strongly in favor of a European energy bank to correct some of the chaos which often convulses European energy markets and leads to general instability. As laid out by […]

How Europe Stole Christmas and Promoted Snow

Llewellyn King

The Grinch didn’t steal Christmas. Europe did. Filched it, packed it up and moved it north, where it snows. In this wholesale looting of the world’s greatest holiday, the U.S., Canada and some other non-European northern habitats were also complicit. I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere in faraway Zimbabwe — then called Southern Rhodesia, […]

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