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According to this report from the Irish Times (ht Althouse): Europe's human rights court today threw out a complaint by two French Musli...

During his annual call-in TV show : OLEG BELAN: Good afternoon, Mr Putin. Nenets Autonomous Area. I am Oleg Belan and I am a deputy of the r...

According to the Washington Times , President-Elect Obama has given the green light to India (unlike President Bush): "President-elect ...

From today's Wall Street Journal:. I still remember the rabbi's first sermon, about the Valley of Dry Bones -- that amazing biblical...

Debt relief for developing economies was all the rage in the 20th century. The IMF and World Bank forgave oodles of debt, with the support o...

At Chabad.org, Jonathan Mark writes: Someone wondered: What effect would the Mumbai attack by Islamic terrorists have upon Chabad's pres...

From FrontPage : Conservatives need to get a grip. My email box is full of right wing trash talk (sorry, I'm peeved this morning) about ...

From Azure.co.il (ht LGF): The strategy outlined in this paper is not particularly uplifting. I doubt that it will thrill the public or wi...

From Haaretz : For the whole of my adult life, it irked me when my fellow Jews would routinely and without compunction, accuse anti-Zionists...

From Slate : I hope I am not alone in finding the statements about Bombay from our politicians to be anemic and insipid, and the media cover...

From today's Wall Street Journal: Since its creation 15 years ago, the Lashkar-e-Taiba has been linked to the ISI, the formidable Inter-...

Writes Tarek Fatah in the Calgary Herald : While the ISI-PPP tussle for control of the country's intelligence network was going on behin...

Obama said he didn't want "groupthink" when he introduced Hillary Clinton as his choice for Secretary of State, but given the...

India's national newspaper says authorities tapped terrorist cell phones. From The Hindu : The magnitude of the attack by suspected Lash...

The other night someone I know and yours truly watched Masterpiece Theatre's The Unseen Alistair Cooke with great interest. After all,...

Sidney Blumenthal is in line for a top State Department position, should Hillary Clinton get the nod, according to this item in The American...

According to Wizbangblog , her appointment as Secretary of State would be unconstitutional--therefore, illegal: Doesn't Barack Obama, a ...

From today's New York Times : Nonetheless, President Bush’s democratic approach to Iraq has, in many ways, succeeded. Iraq has the stron...

Someone I know told me the blogger known as Sudden Debt predicted the current financial crisis. Finance is essentially finished as a busine...

Bits of baggage have started to fall off the Hillary conveyor belt. Here's a link to The Politico's story about Hillary's Black...