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Monday, August 04, 2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89

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The Moscow Times has published a very interesting obituary of the great Russian novelist by Alexander Osipovich : After the 2000 election o...

Glenn Greenwald on the Latest Anthrax Death

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Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald is tracking the strange death of Ft. Detrick anthrax scientist Bruce Ivins while under survelliance by the F...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83

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Benbo Ritchie was a psychopharmacologist and friend of my father at Albert Einstein Medical College, so I was interested to see his obituary...

Treasures of the Nukus Museum Now Online

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( Sergei Luppov, Woman in Black ) Thought I'd share this email with readers: WEBSITE- Savitsky Collection, Nukus Museum, Nukus, Uzbekis...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Barack Obama's 21st Century "Era of Good Feelings"

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That what I think the Democratic Presidential candidate has to offer, in contrast to Bush (a reminder of the Adams dynasty) and McCain's...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Joe Postell on the Dimness of Jim Glassman

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From the Heritage Foundation blog, The Foundry , an analysis of the media strategy proposed by America's Top Propagandist (and author of...

Robert Gates on US Defense Strategy

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This document lays out how the US military sees the world . ..at least until January 20, 2009: "Iraq and Afghanistan remain the central...

Is Obama the Democratic Reagan?

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Chuck Raasch seems to think so, and wonders if Obama should run on the same question, "Are you better off now than you were four years...

Poem of the Day

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While in college, someone I know and I saw this poem by Philip Larkin posted on the refrigerator at the then-home of novelist Diane Johnso...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Adam Garfinkle on the Dimness of Jim Glassman

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Secretary of State Colin Powell's former speechwriter takes on the author of Dow 36,000 and America's new Top Propagandist to task...

Bubbl.us

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In a course I taught for a day, one of the better students told me about this cool site for online brainstorming sessions...

Finally! A MacArthur Foundation-NEA Program I Like...

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It's called RE:FRAME : Reframe is a program of Tribeca Film Institute, and is funded by John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ...

Obama's Prayer at the Western Wall

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From Haaretz: Obama reportedly wrote in the note: "Lord - protect my family and me. Forgive my sins, and help me guard against pride an...

Eugene Robinson: Investigate Bush's Torture Policies

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From today's Washington Post: The whole thing would be laughable if it were not such a rank abomination. No government obeying the law ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

John C. Coughenour: Try Terrorists in Ordinary American Courts

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I agree with this sentiment: I have spent 27 years on the federal bench. In particular, my experience with the trial of Ahmed Ressam, the ...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Remembering Jim Beckwourth

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The Puryear sculpture exhibition at the National Gallery of Art discussed below displayed a large mixed-media tributed to Jim Beckwourth. I ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Obama's Morning Minyan

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Before flying to Berlin, Obama He davened at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, apparently at a Shaharit morning service, according to Jeff Zele...

From Obama's Berlin Speech--on Russia

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This sounds pretty good to me... This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from ...

Robert Spencer on James Glassman's Dimness

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Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer doesn't seem to think the author of Dow 36,000 is any more credible when it comes to the "war of...

Ann Coulter on John McCain

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I emailed Ann c/o one of her speaking agencies to ask her about a story that I vaguely remembered her telling me about a confrontation with ...
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