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Monday, October 01, 2007

Georgian President Accused in Murder Plot

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The bloom appears to be coming off Georgia's "Rose Revolution," according to Eurasianet: After days of silence, Georgian Presi...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Mark Horowitz on Nordhaus & Shellenberger

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From Wired.com : Nordhaus, 41, and Shellenberger, 36, didn't set out to infuriate their former colleagues. On the contrary, they were go...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Exercise Makes Us Fat...

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Someone I know sent a link to this article from New York Magazine by Gary Taubes: The one thing that might be said about exercise with certa...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Youssef Ibrahim on the Saudi Lobby

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From the New York Sun (ht Melanie Phillips): Take the famed case of Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi prince whose $10 million check for the Tw...

Gordon Brown's Labour Party Conference Speech

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Heard part of this stem-winder on the car radio yesterday , thanks to C-Span. My eyes misted over... Honoured and humbled by the trust you h...

Ann Althouse on Columbia University President Lee Bollinger

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From Althouse : Back to excerpts from Bollinger's speech: [T]his event has nothing whatsoever to do with any “rights” of the speaker but...

Shelby Steele on Little Rock, Arkansas--50 Years Later

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From OpinionJournal.com : But on this 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis, it is important to remember that this evil did happen in A...

Rudy Giuliani on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Caught this exchange with Sean Hannity in my car yesterday. Giuliani's main point, highlighted below, struck me as the most important co...

Amil Imani on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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From The American Thinker : Ahmadinejad, a man driven by his religion, has a spiritual advisor in Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi (the...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Babi Yar, Remembered...

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The European Jewish Press reports on a memorial service in Kiev, Ukraine: Relatives of the victims laid flowers, candles and small stones ac...

Agustin Blazquez: An Open Letter to The History Channel en Español

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About ommissions and errors in a recent documentary on the life of Che Guevara: History Channel en Español Sirs, Below is the list of docum...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Ann Althouse: NY Times Lied, Covered-Up, Petraeus Ad Facts

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Violated their own advertising standards, to boot...

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Video Podcast on The War by Ken Burns

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You can watch in Quicktime here , before, during, or after the PBS broadcast...

Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? on Wikipedia

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Here. I don't know who did the writeup, but it is very good. Also, just learned the DVD is stocked by Target as well as Barnes & No...

Kiss of Death (1947)

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Five stars for this Ben Hecht-Charles Lederer-Henry Hathaway collaboration based on a story by Eleazar Lipsky. All-Stars Victor Mature, Rich...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Speaking of Special Relationships...

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Here are some photos recent of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's trip to London, from the campaign website with Prime Minister Gordon Brown with fo...

Richard Pipes on Academic Politics

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I saw this quotation from Richard Pipes on Daniel Pipes' weblog , and it seems worth posting: Academic life is not all sweetness and lig...

Is France the New Britain?

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With Tony Blair bogged down making peace between Arabs and Israelis, will France take the same role vis-a-vis Iran as Britain has done vis-a...

Jena Protests Sweep US

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I saw a demonstration in front of the University of the District of Columbia, just last night. The Jena protest movement has hit a nerve aro...

Melanie Phillips on a New Twist in France's Karsenty Case

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From MelaniePhillips.com : Well, waddya know. The hitherto unthinkable has happened in the al Durah libel appeal in Paris (see here and here...
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