Alexander Dugin is a nationalist intellectual whose pronouncements often represent the darker id of the Russian policy élite.
It didn't take seventy-two hours following the publication of a reasoned and respectful JAMA editorial on physicians counseling patients about guns before the self-appointed NRA medical sycophant, Timothy Wheeler, issued his usual pronouncement that doctors represent the enemy when it comes to anything having to do with guns.
Whether Brito's recent pronouncements of loyalty represent the majority thinking of the officer corps only time will tell.
My reaction back in 2003 was that the then-new DOJ guidelines represented a step backward, because the pronouncement of a ban only formalized what had already been a de facto ban and, worse, an explicit pronouncement of an exemption for national security had the ironic effect of institutionalizing racial profiling in federal law enforcement.
Perhaps John Cage, represented here by "A Chant With Claps" (1940), had it right: as the performer claps arhythmically, almost spasmodically, he makes pronouncements about the inevitable transformation of Greek civilization by later cultures.
As with all Schäublerian pronouncements over the past three years, the first question on the lips of policy makers was whether he was speaking just for himself, as he often does, or also for his boss, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and thus represented a new red line.
The fatwa represents the most significant political pronouncement in the postwar period by the cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who adheres to a moderate strain of Shiite Islam that traditionally separates religion and politics.
They represent a mix of science pronouncements and media as well as scientific hype.
Such a definitive pronouncement could be premature.
We made a decision not to include serving central-bank governors, because their pronouncements are also the official views of the institutions they represent.
