Monday, September 11, 2006

Ann Althouse on The Path to 9/11

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She got bored...

The Path to 9/11: Not Bad

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It's half-time for the ABC mini-series that began last night and ends tonight. So far, it's not bad. It's about the bureaucrats ...

Bumper Sticker, Semptember 10, 2006

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   It reads: "I'm the proud parent of a blue-blooded legacy child with mediocre grades."

Christopher Hitchens on the 5th Anniversary of 9/11

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From today's Wall Street Journal : The time for commemoration lies very far in the future. War memorials are erected when the war is won...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Farmgirl Fare

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Someone I know recommended this blog dedicated to the simple life in the country, artesanal baking, and photography--there's a daily far...

Background Reading for The Path to 9/11

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The controversy over ABC's 9/11 mini-series fits into a theory about the role of television movies in American culture discussed in an ...

Is Democracy the Answer?

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David Yerushalmi doubts the Bush democratization agenda presents a strategy for victory: (ht The American Thinker) President Bush has built...

Zero Tolerance for Intolerance

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In a penetrating review of Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance , Dutch novelist Leo...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Omran Salman on CAIR

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Omran Salman, an Arab journalist from Bahrain, took on CAIR in the Philadelphia Inquirer on August 31st (ht Daniel Pipes): Rather than just...

Come and See (1985)

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Elem Klimov's film, written by by Alex Adamovich, is sort of a Russian response to Gunter Grass's "The Tin Drum." A ...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Islamists and the Naive

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A reference in a New York Times article today about anti-terror raids in Denmark to a book by two Social Democrats titled "Islamists a...

Robert Spencer on CAIR

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From JihadWatch (ht LGF): But consider it from the infidel point of view for just a moment. Here you are in the Chicago Sun Times wringing ...

From Agustin Blazquez

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Speaking of movies, our favorite Cuban-American filmmaker, Agustin Blazquez, just sent us this: VERY INTERESTING In a recent interview, Ge...

When is TV Censorship Not Censorship?

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Apparently when TV shows like The Path to 9/11 are cut to suit Democrats, if the current controversy over ABC's two-part docudrama is a...
Thursday, September 07, 2006

Anti-Chechen Pogrom Rages in Russian Town

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RIAN.ru reports that days of violence have driven Chechens from the Karelian town of Kondopoga following a double killing: Violence shook t...

Christopher Hitchens on Niger, Uranium, and Saddam Hussein

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On Slate, Hitchens has more to say about Niger's uranium business: This is not the only such contact or approach that has been uncovere...

Bye, Bye, Blair...

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Tony Blair has announced that he will step down as British prime minister, according to Reuters. What will he do next? Here's a suggest...

Newt Gingrich: How Bush Resembles Lincoln

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From today's Wall Street Journal, a reminder that Newt Gingrich is a trained historian. Unstated subtext: Rumsfeld resembles McClellan....

Ann Coulter on Joe Wilson

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Ann Coulter argues that Scooter Libby fell into Patrick Fitzgerald's "perjury trap." But why did Judy Miller go to jail? Some...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Melanie Phillips on Britain's Fifth Column

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From her column in the Daily Mail: Warning bells are sounding across the Atlantic, with an article in America’s New Republic magazine claimi...