Spirited debate over President Obama's policies has little to do with race Sep 30, 2009
Gator wrote on Sep 26, 2009 8:34 PM:" Sparky, a last thought !! Freedom, ours to lose or keep.. Its really very simple. Its called accountability plain and simple. Its not being lazyand letting the Congress and Senate roll on and on and on!! Term limitsare one of the keys. Things like recall and impeachment are tools to ridthe Government of the leaches and blood suckers. People sit around andflap their jaw, P*** and moan and that is where it stops. It wont fix its selfyou have to... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Books of siege Sep 25, 2009
First published in print: Friday, September 25, 2009. Think of it as chance to sample some great literature, an introduction or reacquaintance with both books that have come to be classics and some that haven't attracted enough attention beyond the censors and self-appointed moral arbiters. (Albany Times Union)
Boycotting Obama's school speech: Is 'ignorance' 'strength'? Sep 24, 2009
George Orwell wrote a magnificent book titled "1984." This piece of literature is a cautionary tale against Big Brother and other forms of oppression. Big Brother's mantra is "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.". (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Reporters' Shield Bill Goes Ahead in Senate Judiciary Sep 23, 2009
(George Orwell s 1984 still appears to be the favorite Democrat bill naming guide. Doubleplussungood. (Human Events Online)
Where to Read Books Online for Free Sep 21, 2009
The site is well-organized with thousands of books ready to be read online for free including modern classics including books by Agatha Christie and George Orwell. The site features top books and top authors so readers can see what books other people are reading online. (Suite101.com)
Napoleon is always right Sep 18, 2009
Animal Farm, a novel authored by George Orwell, which is considered one of the bestsellers of all time, contains several truths and knowledge that are very fundamental in the understanding of human behavior in human institutions. In fact, Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005). (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Is America Hooked on War? Sep 18, 2009
"War is peace" was one of the memorable slogans on the facade of the Ministry of Truth, Minitrue in "Newspeak," the language invented by George Orwell in 1948 for his dystopian novel 1984. Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell's imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a number of ways, eerily applicable to the United States. (CBS News -- Politics)
Who Watches Big Brother? Sep 17, 2009
In George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984, government propaganda constantly says: Big Brother is watching you. In Britain today, he certainly is. (Human Events Online)
Top 10 Books Every College Student Should Read Sep 15, 2009
George Orwell, Collected Journalism Orwell was another professed Socialist who was in many ways conservative. For a college student, he s a great tutor on how to write and how to recognize (and avoid) the politicization of language, an area where many political conservatives seem utterly tone deaf as gender replaces sex, abstinence replaces chastity, and perception becomes relative rather than acute. (Human Events Online)
Stimulating DSM Investment as a Product within Utility Portfolios Sep 12, 2009
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Obama: 'Develop your talent' Sep 10, 2009
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945. NoGod wrote on Sep 9, 2009 12:41 PM:NB_REZ. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Media Watch- Obamas message loses its meaning Sep 10, 2009
That raised the specter of George Orwell s 1984, where citizens (and especially children) were urged to report people not on board with a particular way of thinking. So months later, when it was announced that President Obama would be talking directly to school kids, well, it sounded an awful lot like Big Brother bypassing parents to get to the little ones. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Get-Cheney Squad Sep 8, 2009
George Orwell s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the rough men who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too far in frightening Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the engineer of the September massacres. Yet, it seems now indisputable those CIA interrogators, with their rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently contended. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Labor day to celebrate man's man Sep 7, 2009
Observe, for example, George Orwell s novel 1984, which depicts a totalitarian state that still, somehow, is a fully advanced technological society. Orwell projects the impossible: technology without the minds to produce it. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
* Amazon offers to replace deleted Orwell books Sep 6, 2009
com invited some unflattering literary analogies earlier this summer when it remotely erased unlicensed versions of two George Orwell novels from its customers Kindle reading devices. Jeffrey Bezos, Amazons chief executive, apologized to customers for the deletions in July. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Idyllic grounds belie tussle over founder’s research Sep 6, 2009
The events leading up to this smack of science fiction, partly because of the backdrop of the conformist, paranoid 1950s, when some federal agencies seemed bent on achieving George Orwell s dystopian future, and partly because Reich coined names for his discoveries and inventions that could well have cropped up in a Vonnegut novel. But, as visitors to this singular museum learn, it all really happened. (Boston Globe)
Amazon offers to resend Orwell e-books Sep 5, 2009
com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. When Amazon erased the books from Kindles, citing a problem with the rights to the books, the company issued refunds to the buyers. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Amazon offers to replace deleted copies of 1984 Sep 5, 2009
In an email to the affected customers on Thursday, Amazon said it would provide owners of its Kindle electronic book reader with new copies of the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm for no charge. Amazon said customers could also choose to receive a 30 gift certificate or check instead. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Return from War: Steven Hunter, Longview Sep 3, 2009
marine38 wrote on Sep 2, 2009 9:56 AM:" When I read about Mr. Hunter's selfless service to his Country, I was reminded of the words of George Orwell: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. "Thank you, Steven, for a job well done.Semper Fi -G. MeyersUSMC Retired ". (Longview Daily News, WA)
It's time to reclaim patriotism from the racist narcissists Sep 1, 2009
Until recently, these feelings were largely consonant with the benign patriotism defended by George Orwell. Patriotism involved, as he argued, a ''devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Mutilated Book Sep 1, 2009
George Orwell knew how this worked. (See how history was constantly being rewritten in "1984" by the Winston Smiths at the Ministry of Truth. (Townhall.com)
Ruling Conservatives Crushed in Japan Vote Aug 31, 2009
"The word fascist is sometimes used to denigrate people, institutions, or groups that would not describe themselves as ideologically fascist, and that may not fall within the formal definition of the word. As a political epithet, the word fascist has been applied mainly to a broad range of people and groups on the extreme right, but also to groups on the far left and at points in between. It has also been applied to people of many religious faiths, particularly fundamentalist groups. The... (CBS News)
U.K. pub food: Scotch eggs, fish and chips, more Aug 31, 2009
He pointed me to a George Orwell essay about the perfect pub that never was, a made-up place called the Moon Under Water, where it was always quiet enough to talk, lunch cost three shillings, and the barmaids called you dear. In the real world, Parker Bowles likes a pub that sticks to local beer and booze-blotting food done well. (MSNBC -- Travel)
A Letter to Judge Dawson Concerning Rifqa Bary Aug 28, 2009
I state the obvious because as George Orwell noted at a moment of confusion the first duty of intelligent people is the restatement of the obvious. You, sir, are obliged to consider the case of Rifqa Bary, a young woman from Ohio, who left her Muslim faith and converted to Christianity. (Human Events Online)
Cracking Khalid Aug 28, 2009
George Orwell s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the rough men who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too far in frightening Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the engineer of the September massacres. Yet it seems now indisputable that those CIA interrogators, with their rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently contended. (The American Conservative)
Seventy Years After the Hitler-Stalin Pact Aug 27, 2009
George Orwell called it Newspeak in his classic novel, "1984." Even the revelations of the summer of 1989, when Eastern Europe began to slip from the Soviet Union's post-WWII grasp, failed to shake many of the Marxist faithful in the West ... George Orwell called it Newspeak in his classic novel, "1984.". (Townhall.com)
Joe Francis goes somewhat wild again Aug 26, 2009
" Porn Mogul Joe Francis Goes Wild Again in Deposition Soft porn mogul Joe Francis' disruptive antics in a deposition described by a judge as a waste of time and money almost resulted in plaintiffs winning a default judgment against him in a lawsuit that alleges he sexually exploited minors. Joe Francis After Francis was sentenced in 2007 to 35 days in jail for yelling obscenities during a mediation in an earlier case, his attorney at the time said he had changed from someone who was... (Harper's Magazine)
Just what is 'annualism'? Aug 25, 2009
George Orwell took a similar path in Down and Out in Paris and London ... George Orwell and Jack London wrote about living with the homeless. (BBC News -- UK)
Hedges’s ‘Empire of Illusions’ decries decline of American culture Aug 23, 2009
The genre that sustained the likes of Martin Luther, Emma Goldman, and George Orwell seems tired today, a shell of its once-formidable self. Perhaps it s a victim of this post-Freudian, post- 60s age: It s tough to smack slumbering readers awake when discontent is the new content, and the bourgeois shock themselves with fetishistic abandon. (Boston Globe)
Ethiopia: Orwellian Democracy Aug 20, 2009
We are living testimonies that George Orwell was more of a prophet than a writer when he wrote in Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." It is true that we cannot put all the blame for our poverty on our leaders. We have counted several decades when few years of positive development were completely wiped out by one year of drought. (allAfrica.com)
What should be done with health care? Aug 17, 2009
George Orwell was quite the visionary. wow Aug 11, 2009 3:53 PM I just can`t believe some of these comments is the OBAMA KOOLAID free. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
cartoon: Huxley v. Orwell (via Neil Postman) Aug 15, 2009
I also found about George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four writing process to be fascinating ... Aldous Huxley vs. George Orwell. (Harper's Magazine)
Top 10: Classic Novels Turned Into Games Aug 13, 2009
And there was perhaps no great dystopian writer than George Orwell, whose Animal Farm, a classic novel in the genre, is still being studied today. By reducing the grandest characters of Cold War politics to barnyard animals, Orwell provides a pre-made system though with to understand the personalit 00001C27 ies, conflicts and contradictions of the time. (IGN PS2)
China Keeps 2.75M Eyes on Public Aug 11, 2009
Go read or reread George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and think about it ... Starting to look like George Orwell wasn't wrong ... Need to reread "Animal Farm" by George orwell also. (CBS News -- World)
Fears of a clown Aug 9, 2009
When George Orwell calls you a concentrated essence of the common man, how does that not go to your head. The mold was set by Chaplin but the rigidity of the Hollywood studio system, in which moguls owned their stars outright, kept comedians in their place. (Boston Globe)
Newt’s New '2+2=4' Campaign Aug 6, 2009
This slogan, he explained, came from George Orwell s famous book 1984, in which the main character has a dialogue with the government officials who are torturing him trying to make him say two plus two equal five, and realizes that Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. (Human Events Online)
Rediscovering Orwell Aug 6, 2009
George Orwell's rise to near canonical status led us away from understanding the figure in the context of his own time; this essay argues this point while reviewing two recent books on the figure ... More than any other British author of the twentieth century, George Orwell has escaped from his own time. (The American Conservative)
Congress really doesn't want our feedback Aug 5, 2009
Specter, like so many of his same-side-of-the-aisle mates in Congress, are practicing what George Orwell called doublespeak in his book Animal Farm. . (L Observateur, LA)
Amazon Sued Over Kindle Deletion of Orwell Books Aug 2, 2009
Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for remotely removing copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from their e-reader devices. The company did so after learning the electronic editions were pirated, and it gave buyers automatic refunds. (Newsmax)
Amazon sued over deleted Orwell books Aug 1, 2009
com, which apologized last week for remotely deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers, is now facing a lawsuit over the Big Brother-like move ... com, which apologized last week for remotely deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers, is now facing a lawsuit over the Big Brother-like move ... "With an uncanny knack for irony, Amazon recently remotely deleted any traces of certain electronic copies of George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm' from... (Yahoo! Asia News)
Amazon Sued Over Kindle Censorship -- Here's What's Next Aug 1, 2009
com's Kindle e-book reader and the whims of a company that deleted two George Orwell novel s, "1984" and "Animal Farm," from Kindles without warning customers. I.. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Shooting an elephant called Amazon.com Jul 30, 2009
com remotely deleted digital copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" from customers' Kindle devices after learning that the electronic publisher of these works, MobileReference, did not have the rights to them. For a couple of days, observers in print and on the Web outdid themselves, noting that in "1984," government censors rewrite history by consigning offending news items to an incinerator chute known as the memory hole. (Albany Times Union)
How Wired Gadgets Encroach on Privacy Jul 29, 2009
Well, consider a recent incident involving the Internet bookseller Amazon () and two works by ironically enough George Orwell. Amazon had been selling the titles, "1984" and "Animal Farm," to owners of its Kindle reader, the special e-book device the bookseller developed. (BusinessWeek)
Federal Reserve: The consumer's new best friend Jul 26, 2009
Life imitates Orwell In his novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a surveillance state that restricts what people read. His protagonist, Winston Smith, works in an office that makes things vanish from the historical record, as if they had never existed. (Boston Globe)
What Kate did next Jul 26, 2009
WE'RE in Richmond, sitting around a table in her management's offices and Kate Ceberano is talking about Hunters and Collectors, Liza Minnelli, U2, Burt Bacharach and George Orwell ... " The way Ceberano describes it, I'm Talking fell foul of the same sort of tensions that Mark Seymour eloquently describes tearing apart Hunters and Collectors in his book Thirteen Tonne Theory. It gets down to the maxim stated in George Orwell's Animal Farm: all the animals are equal but some are more equal than... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident Jul 25, 2009
com CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos has apologized to Kindle customers for deleting pirated copies of George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm from their e-reader devices. Kindle users were surprised last week to find that Orwell works they had purchased were removed from their readers and their money refunded. (USA Today -- Tech)
Microsoft's Stunner, Zer01 Questions Jul 25, 2009
This week's ironic twist came from , which dealt with illegally sold copies of the George Orwell classics "1984" and "Animal Farm" and other novels for its Kindle e-reader by deleting the works from its e-book store and eliminating any digital trace of them. The move meant the books were not available to people who had bought them from Amazon, prompting a lot of comments about how that kind of thing does not happen with books bought at brick-and-mortar stores. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Quotables: On Sex, Health, Obama, Iraq, Russia, the Economy, Etc. Jul 23, 2009
George Orwell, author of "1984," in his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language": "The person who uses (words in a consciously dishonest way) has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.". Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School: "In Cairo, Mr. Obama said the U.S. had no permanent designs on Iraq and declared, 'We will support a secure and united Iraq as a... (Townhall.com)
Amazon redactson Kindle like its 1984 Jul 22, 2009
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork," George Orwell wrote in his 1949 tale of a totalitarian regime Nineteen Eighty-Four ... Last week, came upon the group realization that Amazon went and deleted their downloads of George Orwells and and the story ... Soon after the Orwellian George Orwell recall went public, Amazon... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Big Kindle is Watching Jul 20, 2009
I am probably the millionth person to note the irony that the books deleted in such a Big Brother fashion are George Orwell s 1984 and Animal Farm. I checked, and I have copies of both books still on my shelves. (The American Conservative)
Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm' Deleted From Kindles Jul 20, 2009
com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George Orwell works they had purchased, including "1984" and "Animal Farm," had been removed from their Kindle and their money refunded. It was conspiracy time on the Internet. (Fox News)
Infotainment Jul 20, 2009
Amazon fended off accusations of Big Brother like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers electronic book readers this week. Customers on Amazons web forums said copies of the British authors dystopian classics Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four were mysteriously. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
These Bank Profits Made Possible by Taxpayers Like You Jul 19, 2009
(AMZN) got itself into a bind by remotely erasing copies of George Orwell books from Kindle devices. This follows on the heels of a class action lawsuit over on the popular electronic book reader. (Slate)
Big Brother has a face Jul 19, 2009
Big Brother is a name in the book "1984" by George Orwell, published in 1948 ... Leonard wrote on Jul 18, 2009 6:55 AM:" Big Brother is a name in the book "1984" by George Orwell, published in 1948. The term became synonymous with total, one-man government.Which just goes to show that Mr Sayles completely misunderstood the novel. Much of the significance of Big Brother lay largely in the fact that he probably didn't even exist.Say what you will about Obama, he certainly does exist. ". (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole' Jul 19, 2009
Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole. AFP - Sunday, July 19. (Yahoo! Asia News)
When a Tweet Is Not Enough Jul 17, 2009
George Orwell, an earlier generation's touchstone for clarity, observed that "good prose is like a window pane." President Obama's eloquence, which so mesmerized the world only yesterday, may not be sound and fury signifying not very much, but nevertheless it may be something less than meets the ear. Liam Julian writes in Policy Review magazine that the president's speeches have become "loopy, lofty and often lubricious.". (Townhall.com)
Why Books are Banned Jul 12, 2009
Well known authors whose books have been banned include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, JD Salinger, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack London, for a small part of a long list. The American Library Association has lists of banned books online at their website. (Suite101.com)
Around Madison: New Hope for kids Jul 8, 2009
Also today at 4:30 p.m., the Young Adult Book Discussion Group will talk about "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. The book is required reading for upcoming sophomores, so students can get a head start on this literary work. (Athens Banner-Herald)
When the Rich Get Rich, Do the Poor Really Get Poorer? Jul 2, 2009
George Orwell (in The Road to Wigan Pier) saw it as poignant expression of working class anxiety during the painful recession that followed World War I. Citing the bittersweet lyrics he noted that all through the war and for a little time afterwards there had been high wages and abundant employment; things were now returning to something worse than normal, and naturally the working class resisted. The men who had fought had been lured into the army by gaudy promises, and they were coming home to... (Townhall.com)
Watch lists, guns and government Jun 30, 2009
6:00 am June 29, 2009, by Bob Barr. The secret government Terrorist Watch List, reportedly already swelled to more than 1. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Meet Italy's Version of Andy Warhol Jun 29, 2009
In 1944 (the year, coincidentally, that Marinetti died), George Orwell, master of linguistic clarity, quibbled with the term. The word "Fascism" is almost entirely meaningless. (Slate)
Click to read:Crackdown Drains Iranian Dissidents Jun 28, 2009
As George Orwell predicted: the Islamic revolutionaries who took over from the Shah learned a few of his lessons after all. Count them now as peas in a pod. (CBS News)
* Life with and without Steve Jobs Jun 26, 2009
Modeled on the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, it showed row upon row of gray-suited, gray-faced male automatons (read: PC users) sitting in front of a huge screen upon which Big Brother pontificates. A blonde woman in white and red running gear X Ms Apple by implication X hurtles toward him and hurls a mallet at the screen, which erupts into a fireball just as Big Brother is saying, We shall prevail. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Welcome to the USSA Jun 22, 2009
pwb wrote on Jun 21, 2009 5:31 AM:" Interesting quote about fascism from the wikipedia page: They quote none other than George Orwell on the subject:(begin quote)The word Fascism is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality,... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Orwell's time-tested warnings Jun 21, 2009
George Orwell s brilliant, bitter novel turns 60 this month, but after all these years it has lost none of its nightmarish chill. Its hero is the decidedly unheroic Winston Smith, a weak and wistful man who lives in the totalitarian police state of , which is ruled by the Party - personified in Big Brother, whose is everywhere - and in which the Thought Police ruthlessly suppress any hint of dissent. (Boston Globe)
