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Monday, April 06, 2009

Boston Globe: Larry Summers Fired Harvard Hedge-Fund Whistleblower

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As Bob Dole used to ask me: Where's the outrage? From Beth Healy's Boston Globe article on April 3, 2009: Back in 2002, a new employ...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

Did Larry Summers Brief Obama on This Question?

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John Crace, in The Guardian (UK) , (ht Drudge) de-coded Obama's wandering response to reporter Nick Robinson's question about the gl...

Larry Summers Paid Millions by Hedge Fund

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No wonder Wall Street executives are getting their bonuses and bailouts... Reuters reports: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawrence Summers, a top ...
Friday, April 03, 2009

Did US President Obama Bow to Saudi King Abdulla?

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This clip was on Jihad Watch today, and it unfornately looks like it-- bad news (unless President Obama stoops to conquer...). IMHO the Whi...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Jorge Preloran, 75

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An Argentine friend just informed me of the death of ethnographic filmmaker Jorge Preloran, who had been one of my teachers at UCLA Film Sch...

Dr. Robert Jarvik on Dr. Willem Kolff

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Someone just told me about this tribute to my cousin's mentor in Time Magazine: WILLEM KOLFF By Dr. Robert Jarvik Thursday, Feb. 19, 200...

Kosuke Koyama, Theologian

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We met Kosuke Koyama's daughter Mimi on Christmas Day, 2004 (Western calendar) at the St. Sergius Monastery, while we were living in Mos...

Geithner Resigns As Treasury Secretary

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(April Fool)
Monday, March 30, 2009

Daniel Pipes on British Crusaders' Propaganda in 1917

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From DanielPipes.org : Reporting on General Edmund Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem on December 9, 1917, the New York Herald announced in...

Robert Kuttner: Federal Reserve Has Become Slush Fund

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From the Huffington Post : Even more alarmingly, the administration is now using the Federal Reserve as an unlegislated, all-purpose slush f...

FoxNation Blog Debuts

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So far, it looks like a conservative version of The Huffington Post, IMHO...meanwhile you can read Rupert Murdoch's latest venture for ...

I Liked Little Dorrit...

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...on Masterpiece Theatre last night , although some of the direction was a little too dark and grotesque (I prefer a lighter touch with Dic...

Jonathan Jones: How Art Killed Our Culture

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Someone I know sent me a link to this interesting article from The Guardian (UK) blog : No sphere of high culture is implicated in the fall...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Amil Imani: Safeguarding Cyrus the Great Cylinder

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Amil Imani asked me to pass the word on protecting the Cyrus the Great Cylinder: Please Sign-Safeguarding Cyrus the Great Cylinder Tuesda...

Taking a break...

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Please Stay Tuned...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

No Wonder Newspapers Are Dying...

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Michael Calderone, writing in Politico, explains the vast left-wing conspiracy that has made all newspapers sound the same--it's called...

Why Irish Eyes Are Smiling...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is going green for St. Patrick's Day. The water in the fountains on the n...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Ali Alyami's Letter to the Washington Post

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Received by email this weekend: While reasonable people can understand and empathize with President Obama’s efforts to address the gargantua...

Roger Simon on Roger Cohen's Love Affair With Teheran

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Roger Simon went to see Roger Cohen speak to Iranian Jewish exiles at LA's Temple Sinai and filed this report : I was puzzled by Cohen’s...

Robert Kuttner on the AIG Scandal

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From the Huffington Post : But the outrage over the AIG bonuses is a sideshow. The larger problem, both financially and politically, is the ...
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