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Tom Friedman had a pretty good day yesterday. Worth reading: America vs. The Narrative
What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood?
Here's my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced -- I assume anyone who shoots up ...
Law
Clarence Thomas
Very bad says Robin Shepherd: Is British anti-Semitism in danger of getting out of control?
Last week, Oliver Miles, Britain's former ambassador to Libya and a pillar of the country's foreign policy establishment, put his thinking cap on, put pen to paper and came up with the following ...
World
Libya
Iraq
A very interesting vote: Switzerland Approves Minaret Ban In Referendum
Swiss voters have approved a move to ban the construction of new minarets in the country.
Final results show that over 57 percent of voters backed the proposal in a referendum that was held today following an ...
World
Switzerland
A finger in the eye of the West :
The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program.
The decision comes only two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran, ...
World
Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Alan Dershowitz debated an empty chair (reserved for Richard Goldstone) at Fordham University a week or so ago. His address and his handling of questions is well worth checking out, here .
[via: Noah Pollak ]
Other
St. Peter's Episcopal in Cambridge, MA becomes one in a long string of political churches turning religion into a temporal matter of campaigns for the fad of the moment.
Today, the first day of Advent, St. Peter's held a fund-raiser to send a congregant to the " Gaza Freedom March ." This is ...
World
Episcopal Church
Peter DeFazio
Gaza
Hamas
Rachel Maddow
It's not every day we get to highlight something good coming from the colleges out in Western Massachusetts, but there is a professor out there fighting the good fight, and he has a series of posts on the recent anti-Israel conference held at Hampshire College, as well as the "BDS" (Boycott, ...
World
You never lived to see
What you gave to me
One shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
With a host of brave unknown Soldiers
For your company, you will live forever
Here in our memory
In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price
Young men who died for old men's wars ...
Congress
Don Young
Bloomberg: Dubai Crisis May End in 'Major' Default, BofA Says
Dubai's debt woes may worsen to become a "major sovereign default" that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said.
"One cannot rule out -- as a tail risk ...
Congress
Bailout Plan
Bank of America
It's a subtly important, and positive, statement :
Today's announcement by the Government of Israel helps move forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can mutually agree on an outcome which ends the conflict and ...
White House
Barack Obama
Israel
Hillary Rodham Clinton
How about Cold Wars, where one country funds "NGO's" to undermine the other (and is it an NGO if they take government funding)? Do the Europeans even do this to countries like Iran, for instance? Gerald Steinberg takes on the idea of European funding for "Israeli" anti-Israel NGO's: ...
World
Israel
Nothing like those spiritual priorities on the road to Mecca: Iran pilgrims stage hajj protest
ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Iranian hajj pilgrims carried out a peaceful protest without incident on Thursday as millions of Muslims amassed for the peak of the world's largest annual pilgrimage. ...
World
Iran
Israel
No, Europeans just think that, and I'd say that even if I knew any Europeans, which I don't, or even knew where this thing called "Europe" was, which I don't, and don't care to quite frankly. But seriously, anyone over undergraduate age knew that nothing of substance was going to change with ...
World
Fellow travelers. CiF Watch delves in to the parallel comment threads again: The Parallel Universe of "Comment is Free" and Stormfront .
The latest Benny Morris thread provided a veritable collection of comments that underscore just why "Comment is Free" is a cesspit of ...
Other
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! This is one of my favorites as it's generally a nice relaxing day, one of those full-on holidays where I don't have that internal debate over whether to open my office or not, like Presidents Day and the like. No one expects me to be there to answer the phone. ...
Other
Judith Klinghoffer may be a bit unfair here: A Coward Called Nicholas Kristof , but there certainly is an elephant in the room in Kristof's column yesterday , and it's a Muslim elephant. Judaism and Christianity have had and are having their internal "wars" on a regular basis. Kristof couldn't ...
Other
Netanyahu has announced a partial "settlement" freeze: Statement by PM Netanyahu on the Cabinet Decision to suspend new construction in Judea and Samaria .
The Arabs have rejected it as not going far enough (of course!): Palestinians reject settlement construction freeze .
It's not ...
Other
Benjamin Netanyahu
Miss Kelly has some interesting observations and a link to a good Guardian column summing up "the strange case" of Aafia Siddiqui: Update on Aafia Siddiqui Story, Upcoming Trial Jan 2010 . Siddiqui is a darling of the anti-Western Left and the Islamists, the supposed "Grey Lady of Bagram" whose ...
Other
CIA
Many of us were simultaneously touched and disturbed by the story a few days back of the Belgian man, Rom Houben, who, after what was thought to have been 23 years in a persistent vegetative state, was found to have been conscious, but paralyzed, the entire time. Shocking, right? There's a ...
