Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Boo!

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  Happy Halloween! (apologies to Richard McGuire & The New Yorker )

Karen Hughes Quits Public Diplomacy Job

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The BBC has the story (photo from nl.DanielPipes.org). US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she had accepted Ms Hughes's resigna...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

My Neighbor, Barack Obama...

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Today's New York Times reported that Barack Obama lived at West 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in 1981, while attending Columbia Uni...

Laura Bush 's Submission

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Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick interprets Laura Bush's abaya photo-op in Saudi Arabia as a symbolic surrender to Islamist...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Carnegie-Mellon's Top Blogs

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Here (ht Michelle Malkin): k PA score Blog NP IL OLO OLA 1 0.1283 http://instapundit.com 4593 4636 1890 5255 2 0.1822 http://donsurber.blogs...

Rudy Wins World Series in 4 Games

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Hizzoner called the Series for the Boston Red Sox --while Hilary dithered and refused to take sides. Which makes Giuliani a winner, too...

Nicolas Sarkozy Bests Lesley Stahl

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

A New Translation of Bunin

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Leila Ruckenstein's review of Graham Hettlinger's COLLECTED STORIES OF IVAN BUNIN in today's Washington Post Book Review is a g...

The Mysterious Death of Charles Jordan

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I received a copy of an email from Raymond Lloyd in my inbox today with this subject line: "2008 centenary of Charles Jordan: question...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Magdi Khalil on "Islamophobia"

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From The American Thinker : The term "Islamophobia" is a tool of deception that serves to mislead the world, blackmail the West, t...

Amil Imani on Islamism

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From AmilImani.com : Another thought: let’s separate arguments that impugn Islam on the basis of the (weird to me) liturgical conduct that i...

Drawings of Leonardo

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Recently started a drawing class. When our teacher recommended studying the masters, I was lucky to stumble across this website dedicated to...

Daniel Pipes on the Annapolis Summit

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Pipes sounds even more strongly opposed to the proposed Middle East summit meeting in Maryland than Henry Kissinger: The Bush administration...

Giuliani's Policy Guy

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Today's Washington Post profiles William Simon, Jr.: That Forbes and the Giuliani campaign had ever gotten together was largely the work...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Christopher Hitchens v. Dinesh D'Souza

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My father sent me a link to this debate on the question: Is Christianity the Problem?. It took place at Cambridge University, video on Richa...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Big Picture

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Saw Le Monde correspondent Corine Lesnes speak at SAIS yesterday evening about "le divorce" of Nicolas Sarkozy, when host Justin ...

John Bolton: Bush Will Bomb Iran

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John Bolton made his prediction at a lunch with Financial Times Washington bureau chief Edward Luce: ... As we wait for the bill, we finally...

Robert Lantz, R.I.P.

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Talent agent Robert Lantz died last week, aged 93. His passing was noted in Variety, the show business bible , and in the New York Times. ....
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Alchemies of the Eye

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A plug for an exhibition at New York's Amsterdam Whitney Art Gallery featuring paintings by my cousin, Louise Link Rath. It's called...

Henry Kissinger on Condoleeza Rice's Middle East Summit

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From the Khaleej Times (UAE): Arab opinion is far from uniform. At least three points of view are identifiable: a small, dedicated but not v...