Month: September 2009
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Encouraging Signs of Al Qaeda’s Decline
I just hope that Islam can reform itself more quickly than Christianity did. More than 130 years of religious violence passed between the 95 Theses and the Treaty of Westphalia.
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Ahmadinejad Seems to Have a Death Wish
It has become hard to imagine a peaceful ending to the Iranian nuclear problem. I’ve gone back and forth on this, but it seems highly likely that Israel, which twice before has launched pre-emptive attacks on nuclear facilities in hostile countries, will do so again.
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Time for Obama to Step Up in Afghanistan
Now parts of the President’s party, desperately seeking a war to lose after being thwarted in Iraq, will turn up the pressure for surrender and retreat.
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Ajami, on Taking the War into the Arab World
President Obama, who seized hold of the "good war" as a club to batter Bush’s "bad war," has little choice other than to give the strategy that succeeded in Iraq a chance to succeed in Afghanistan.
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Never Forget
The events of 9/11 were the legacy of more than two decades of doing nothing, or next to nothing, in response to attacks from fascists in Islamic guise.
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Anti-National-Debt Ad is Free Speech, Not “Evil”
I pledge allegiance to America’s debt…and to the Chinese government that lends us money… And to the interest… for which we pay… compoundable… with higher taxes and lower pay… until the day we die.
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Thank You, Mr. President, For Your Message to Kids
The kids just saw a highly accomplished black man, who lives with his wife and plays an active role in raising their delightful young children, tell students of all races that it’s important to stay in school and do their best. Any excuse for staging such an event is a good enough excuse for me.
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Clintonite Matt Miller Makes the Case Against the Public Option
No system will be perfect, but to me it’s axiomatic that competing, regulated insurers will be more responsive to change and innovation than a government bureaucracy.
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MSM Discovers Van Jones — After He Resigns
Can you imagine the wall-to-wall coverage that would have ensued if a Bush appointee were discovered to have views that far out on the opposite fringe?
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Recovering from a Hacker
You can’t currently use certain internal links on my blog successfully, because of a hacker. Any blog using a non-current version of WordPress software is vulnerable to this hacker. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/307660?replies=1 for more info. There should be a special place in hell reserved for computer hackers… Update: This now appears to be fixed — a […]