Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Speaking of What's Left Out...

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William Easterly writes on AidWatch about NOT being invited to the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in NYC: Last week, some people wanted ...

Gabriel Pieterberg on Shlomo Sand's Invention of the Jewish People

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A friend just called to tell me about this book review in New Left Review , which finally explains to me why Claude Lanzmann's filmed in...

Defund ACORN and Halliburton!

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Since according to my understanding of Gen. McChrystal's interview with 60 Minutes, Halliburton is part of the reason we're losing A...

General McChrystal's Sunday 60 Minutes Interview

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Copyright Alliance Begins Petition Campaign

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I signed this letter--and you can, too, at this link: Dear President Obama and Vice President Biden, We, the undersigned, are just a few of ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Benjamin Netanyahu's UN Speech

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(ht ShiratDvorah) Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Arianna Huffington Reports from Israel

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Now, Arianna Huffington is visiting Jerusalem. JERUSALEM -- I arrived in Tel Aviv, at the Ben Gurion Airport, at 6:30 Sunday evening and wen...

Lockerbie Families Protest Gaddafi UN Speech

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Fox News reports: Relatives of those who died in the Lockerbie bombing will protest outside the United Nations in New York when Libyan Colon...

Joshua Foust on American Interpreters in Afghanistan

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From the New York Times : American officers and enlisted soldiers repeatedly told me how vital interpreters are. Yet there remains no standa...

Why is The Washington Post Playing Games with McChrystal's Report?

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According to today's paper, the Post sat on its copy of the leaked McChrystal Afghanistan report for 24 hours while consulting with Obam...

FBI Destroyed Walter Cronkite Files

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From USA Today (ht FOIABlog): A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cron...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Daniel Pipes on the Nature of War

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Pipes is writing about the Israeli-Arab conflict in Middle East Quarterly , but IMHO he could be writing about the US in Iraq or Afghanistan...

Charles Crawford on the Crisis in the Balkans

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From Diplomat Magazine: In 1991 Western capitals were stunned by the abrupt collapse of the Soviet Union. Above all they wanted someone to b...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

What Happened to 60 Minutes?

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Tuned in after the football game tonight, hoping to see a new edition in its entirety--and found that not only was the episode a repeat, it ...
Friday, September 18, 2009

In Praise of Central Aisles

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Seating plan of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Yesterday, I had an unexpected argument with a working architect about theatrical seating plans...

President Obama's Rosh Hashanah Greeting

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(ht Huffington Post)

Charles Crawford on Obama's Missile Withdrawal

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Yesterday I said what I thought. However, The former British Ambassador to Poland (and other places) has a different view : So the problem w...

Erev Rosh Hashanah, 9-18-09, Washington, DC

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Another Good Move by President Obama...

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Cancelling "missile defense" in Poland and the Czech Republic. These were symbolic, token, "tripwire" installations--whi...

Bin Laden's Book Club

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A friend just sent emailed this link to Bin Laden's Book Club...from Foreign Policy Magazine: http://rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com/posts/20...