Friday, April 30, 2010

Nick Clegg v David Cameron v Gordon Brown

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For those following the British election debates, the BBC has a good aggregator of election news, here. UPDATE: There's also a Facebook ...

Florida Congressman Wants Chechens Added to Terror List

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So far, the State Department has said: "No." Despite the fact that the group has officially declared war on the United States, as ...

Charles Crawford on Pope-gate, Cont'd...

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Charles Crawford, Britain's former man in Warsaw, wants answers to some questions about the latest Foreign and Commonwealth Office anti-...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

The New Republic on Human Rights Watch's Jihad

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Benjamin Birnbaum writes: As [Robert] Bernstein and his allies saw it, Whitson and others in MENA consistently ignored the context of Israel...

NJ Court Rules Blogger Not "Journalist"

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

PA Consulting Produced Joke Afghanistan Strategy Powerpoint

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Clearly stated on page 31 of the Pentagon Powerpoint slide from "Dynamic Planning for COIN in Afghanistan" titled "Afghanist...

President Obama Visits Ottumwa, Iowa

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According to the Ottumwa Courier, the President has just been in Ottumwa, Iowa. I was there at Thanksgiving with someone I know and a friend...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

What Did Billy Graham Say to President Obama?

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According to Christian Web News, among other things, topics included Franklin Graham's blacklisting by the Pentagon... President Obama m...

General Jones' "Macaca" Moment of Truth...

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I saw this video on YouTube yesterday, and was willing to give General Jones the benefit of the doubt. It is an old joke, one I had read yea...

Apple iPhone Search Raises Question: Are Bloggers Journalists?

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If so, Gizmodo argues, bloggers such as Jason Chen are protected by California's journalism shield law: Police Seize Jason Chen's Co...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Charles Crawford on the British Foreign Office's "Pope Memo"

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Read it here: So the point is that this sort of crass behaviour did not arise incidentally or through a fleeting engorging of poor Steven Mu...

Ross Douthat on the Significance of South Park

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From the New York Times: Across 14 on-air years, there’s no icon “South Park” hasn’t trampled, no vein of shock-comedy (sexual, scatalogical...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Lang Lang's iPad Recital

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(ht HuffingtonPost)
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Click Here for Live Volcano Footage From Iceland

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Simon Johnson: Break Up the Banks!

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(ht Huffington Post)

How Volcanic Ash Shuts Down Jet Engines

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Arianna Huffington on SEC v Goldman, Sachs

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Arianna, who has a pretty good head for business herself, says Wall Street has "shorted" America's Middle Class: After reading...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bring Back Transatlantic Steamers...

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That's what a friend of mine suggested to me today, to solve the air traffic shutdown caused by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Ey...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Huffington Post-1, Goldman Sachs-0

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Today's Huffington Post appears to be chock full of the Goldman Sachs Fraud Charges Story....

Iceland's Uzbek Connection...

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The volcanic eruption dominating the news today reminded me that Iceland's First Lady, Dorrit Moussaieff, comes from a prominent Bukhar...