julescrittenden.com - 1/6/2009
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You'd almost get the idea that this was all Israel's fault, from the coverage of new horrors emerging in Gaza. But before we get to the news, what looks almost like a Greenwald parody of Greenwald, while attempting to disparage Gaza war coverage, instead seems to have captured its spirit:
Last ...
julescrittenden.com - 1/11/2009
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All earnest, concerned warmalists, off the Internet now.
If you're serious about saving the planet, that is.
Times of London: Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a ...
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More Great News
julescrittenden.com - 1/5/2009
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It isn't exactly change you can believe in,
but here's the deal. Obama has advanced from trying
to be like Bush to trying to outdo him. WSJ, $300 billion tax-cut plan: WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are ...
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New Deal
julescrittenden.com - 1/2/2009
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New Year's Day is a time for reflection,
a time for charting new courses. I've advanced beyond
weight-loss concerns ... which is to say I've accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray hairs and the wrinkles, I've ...
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Destroying the School To Save It
Newshoggers.com —
... but the UN says that all the dead and injured were civilians. Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas' war crime by committing another war crime. You can't get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge.
And there are good reasons to believe that the ...
In Gaza, Horror Piled Atop Horror
Comments from Left Field —
... compelled to do the same.
… Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas’ war crime by committing another war crime. You can’t get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge.
The JPost ...
Death Dance
The Mahablog —
... troops who were firing on children.
Cernig:
Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas’ war crime by committing another war crime. You can’t get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge.
The Right’s ...
Rejecting COIN Wisdom
Newshoggers.com —
... Playing endless whack-a-mole just ensures you always have enemies to continue playing whack-a-mole with. What's so difficult about that concept? At what point does even the most rabid closet moral relativist or ...
What Some People Didn’t Learn in Kindergarten
The Mahablog —
... is doing it.
The other day I quoted Cernig:
Even if the IDF were correct, something the Right accepts unquestioningly because the IDF never, ever lies like their enemies do, then Israel would only be responding to Hamas’ war crime by committing another war crime. You can’t get to the moral high ground - let alone win a COIN operation - by allowing the rules of war to be set by barbarians, something that the intellectually and morally bankrupt Right never seems to acknowledge.
Whereupon some ...
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It’s Not What You Know
julescrittenden.com 2/13/2009 — It's what you plan to do about it. LA Times reads Obama's lips on Iranian nukes, notices he's admitted Iran's up to no good. This part is kind of funny, in a tragic, Middle East arms race, mushroom cloud kind of way:
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Two Down
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Lance Cpl. Kevin Preach of Bridgewater died of injuries sustained in an IED attack in Afghanistan.
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Of Tight Lips, Bleeding Hearts and Leakage
julescrittenden.com 2/11/2009 — Hopefully the Obama admin will be as tightlipped as the Bush admin was, Rove says. The lefty outrage is an indicator they're off to a good start. LA TImes with Rove's Loyola Marymount speech first:
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What?
julescrittenden.com 11/2/2008 — The military is apparently researching amnesia beams as a treatment for PTSD ... and probably other useful applications ... and scientists have already succeeded in making mice forget things. Danger Room rounds up military and civilian efforts:
A ...
It’s All Over
julescrittenden.com 10/26/2008 — Except for the voting. And the investigations. Roundup:
That it's over, a week and a half out, doesn't mean we get to know just yet who wins. Who's winning right now is irrelevant, though I suspect whoever is going to win is probably determined ...
Op-Ed Columnist - Bleeding Heart Tightwads
nytimes.com 12/21/2008 — This holiday season is a time to examine who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but I’m unhappy with my findings. The problem is this: We liberals are personally stingy. Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending ...
Joe the plumber headed to Middle East —
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Then-Sen. Obama's chance meeting with Wurzelbacher on the campaign trail in October turned the Ohio plumber into a nationally-known figure.
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