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The WSJ reports that the “Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain was hacked yesterday, apparently by Russian black hats, and thousands of sensitive documents, including emails from climate scientists dating back a decade, were posted online.”
Some of the old emails from scientists ...
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Money is the lifeblood of politics. The 2008 elections represented the first time the when the combined campaign fundraising of the two major political candidates raised more than a billion dollars. Barack Obama raised $750 million dollars. McCain raised $370 million. But that doesn’t ...
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Barack Obama
The New York Times published a joke in December 1942 about a soldier writing home to his mother from camp. “The food in this camp is absolute poison. And such small portions.” The Dean of the Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey S. Flier, writes that the same thing is true about health ...
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Gene Green
The UK Times says a top French counterterrorism judge has concluded from his investigations that the Pakistani had, until at least 9/11, close relationships with the Lashkar-e-Taiba with the knowledge of the CIA. However, his sources implied that the Pakistanis were reneging on their agreement ...
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Corruption and poverty in the Third World are
often observed together. But which causes which? Which is
the chicken and which the egg? Take the town of Juarez in Mexico, which is right across the border from El Paso, Texas. The BBC recently ...
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Forlorn hope
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Stones Cry Out
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The Telegraph explains what Lord Smith of Finsbury believes is necessary to Save The Earth. The idea is simple: everyone should be given a ration coupon corresponding to a carbon allowance. The free people of the world may thereafter go about their business, provided they pay out of their carbon ...
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Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post summarizes a report prepared by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which attempts to estimate the effect of President Obama’s healthcare “reform” efforts. The Center is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. ...
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Medicaid
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Barack Obama says he won’t be rushed into
making a decision about Afghanistan. The New York Times
reports that Obama wants to show that whatever he decides, whenever he decides it, that he has considered all of the options carefully. ...
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The Battle of the Irishmen
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The Hill quotes Rep. Pete Hoekstra as saying
the White House is withholding information on the Fort
Hood attack. It was not clear what Hoekstra was referrring to. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of ...
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The politics of detection
Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic thought Obama’s speech at the Fort Hood memorial was the greatest he had ever written. The full text is on Ambinder’s site.
Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won’t do it justice. Yes, ...
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John Derbyshire at the NRO does an extensive
review of Nicholas Wade’s The Faith Instinct. One of
the subjects Wade’s book discusses is survival value of a belief in God. Throughout their existence as a species human beings have devoted a ...
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Above all gods
The post Frame described the difficulties of circumscribing a problem. A lawyer who wanted an expert estimate of how much dope a smuggler might have been bringing into a certain airport found that the statistician could not answer the question so readily. The problem was finding the right ...
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Seymour Hersh has an 8 page article in the New Yorker which basically says that after nearly a decade of trying and despite any assurances from Washington, the nuclear weapons in Pakistan are far from secure. The wheedling, perpetually offended and self-righteous nature of America’s ally ...
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Pakistan
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ABC News reports that US Intelligence had been
aware for months that Major Nidal Hasan was attempting
to get in touch with al-Qaeda. It is not known what role the “Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia”. According to the Christian ...
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“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”
Although the world is fascinating place there are times when temporary escape is not only desirable but necessary. The princely sum of about eight dollars bought two rental downloads from another time and place. From 1938 there was the Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, ...
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What happened at Walter Reed? An article in USA Today suggests that events that have still to become public knowledge led Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan departure from the Walter Reed Army medical center.
At issue, S. Ward Casscells told USA TODAY, “is whether the Army missed a warning signal. ...
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U.S. Army
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When is religion indistinguishable from politics? When is politics indistinguishable from religion? An article in the Daily Mail describes an environmentalist who believes that his Green Views are ...
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Regarding the post, The Armies of the Right a reader notes:
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Recent news articles outline the extents of the debate over what constitutes a licit national defense. Those who are against using war as an counterterrorism method have argued that the US ought to use police and intelligence methods — rather than military solutions — when fighting ...
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There was a subtle difference between the slogans chanted by two groups of street marchers marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the US Embassy in Iran.
TEHRAN became a battleground again last night between supporters and opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as Iran marks the ...
