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Monday, August 06, 2007

Ann Althouse on "Honey, I Shrunk the NY Times!"

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I saw the notice the other day saying that The New York Times was going to get a little smaller, but reading today's paper, the first sm...

Charles B. Hall, WWII Flying Ace, Memorialized

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In Brazil, Indiana, according to This 'n That: The Brazil Times of Brazil, Indiana reports that Charles "Buster" Hall will hav...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

Senate Revises Freedom of Information Act

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Good news for those seeking information about the activities of the federal government, according to this report from the National Security ...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

Inside the Scottish Parliament

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After completing our Hadrian's Wall walk, we rented a car to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh. Glasgow made a strongly favorable impression, ...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

US Holocaust Museum to Feature Bergson Group

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Jackie Trescott reports in the Washington Post that the US Holocaust Museum is planning to present an exhibit on the Bergson Group--feature...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Back online...

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In case anyone missed us during the last few weeks, someone I know and yours truly were off on a walking holiday along Hadrian's Wall. W...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Bush's Libby Clemency Means He Must Fire Cheney to "Move On"

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President Bush's press conference today is a reminder that the Scooter Libby commutation was not about Libby, but about Vice President ...

Ken Burns Surrenders Yet Again...

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According to Lisa de Moraes in today's Washington Post : Ken Burns is adding about 29 minutes of new material to his seven-part document...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The War on Britain's Jews

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Richard Littlejohn reports on the rise in anti-Semitism in the UK, for Britain's Channel Four (ht lgf): More video clips posted at Litt...

Ed Lasky on Rudy Giuliani's Foreign Policy Gurus

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From The American Thinker : Giuliani's adroit choices for his foreign policy team are likely to enhance his popularity among members of ...

Rod Dreher Jumps Ship

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The Republicans seem to be running like Remy's family in Ratatouille . Last night, I saw Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher (whom...

Where's the Outrage?

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China executes the hapless corrupt official in charge of food and drug safety-- but not a word to be found on the Human Rights Watch website...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Herbert E. Meyer: US Losing Iraq Because Bush "Splitting the Difference"

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From The American Thinker The 9-11 attacks did more than start a war; they started a war about the war. No sooner had the World Trade tower...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Ratatouille

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Saw the new Disney picture yesterday and was reminded that a friend of mine from film school in the 90s had predicted that "synthespian...

Youssef Ibrahim on "Weaponized" Islam

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From the New York Sun (ht JihadWatch): The bare facts are there for all to see: Over the past 40 years or so, Islam's millions of fanat...

Julia Gorin on Kosovo

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Julia Gorin has given permission to reprint the text of her recent article on Kosovo from the American Legion magazine: The 'Successful ...

Vote Early, Vote Often...

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The mother of someone I know has a friend whose daughter has a video competing in an online contest. I couldn't figure out how to vote f...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

MEMRI:$5 Million Ransom Paid for BBC Reporter Alan Johnston

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Plus a million bullets, according to this report from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida in the Palestinian Authority (ht LGF): Sources close to Jaysh Al-I...
Friday, July 06, 2007

Paris Hilton--Beer-Budget Living on a Champagne Budget

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Someone I know has explained the continuing interest in Paris Hilton's adventures to me. It's beer-budget living on a champagne bud...

Biased BBC

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