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Thrilled to Hear the Words of My President
We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you… To […]
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Honeymoon-Over Watch: Obama Treasury Secretary Draws Scrutiny on Taxes
Joe owed a hell of a lot less tax than Timothy Geithner. (Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP) (Instalanche! Welcome Instapundit readers, and readers from TigerHawk and Living al Dente.) There’s already plenty of opposition to Obama in the right-wing fever swamps of the Internets, of course. (I would link that sentence to Ann Coulter’s […]
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Hamas Deploys Children in PR Offensive
A debate is raging over civilian deaths, some of them children, at a Palestinian school. GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli mortar shells exploded Tuesday near a U.N. school in Gaza that was sheltering hundreds of people displaced by Israel’s onslaught against Hamas militants, killing at least 30 Palestinians, tearing bodies apart and staining streets […]
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A Centrist Obama May Help Moderate the Democratic Party
Today’s edition of Obama Silver Lining Watch (hereafter OSLW) starts with a trip down memory lane. In my very first substantive post on this blog, way back in July 2008, I discussed how Obama was, inevitably, moderating his stance on multiple issues after finally knocking Hillary Clinton out of the race: But it turns out […]
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An Off-Season of Renewal and Hope
My friend Dennis was wandering with his camera one day in late December and snapped this photo of Shea Stadium, in the process of being disassembled. Gone already is the outfield fence, over which Kevin McReynolds hit a homer in the 14th inning to beat the Expos in August 1989. It was by far the […]
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Slain Hamas Leader Was Raising Next Generation of Terrorists
My satisfaction at the news yesterday that Israel had taken out a top Hamas leader was tempered somewhat by the fact that his family died with him — today’s stories put the toll at four of his wives and 10 of his children. On the face of it, that sounds like a lot of “collateral […]
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If You Haven’t Seen Slumdog Millionaire Yet …
… turn off the damn comp and go see it, right now. (Or, whenever it’s showing in a theater near you.) It’s a thriller. It’s a love story. It’s a music video (don’t miss the dance scene after the credits start rolling). It’s a Bollywood-to-Hollywood crossover. It’s a multi-cultural morality play for the ages. It’s […]
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Bush Punts Auto Bailout to Obama’s Team
Color me unsurprised. The Bush administration said it would lend $17.4 billion to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, buying them a few weeks of financial relief but leaving the biggest decisions about the industry’s future to President-elect Barack Obama. Another WSJ article suggests, contrary to the opinion flagged by my new BFF Mickey Kaus, […]
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Sorry, No Tears Here for Madoff’s Clients
(After learning more about Madoff’s victims, I recanted in a later post — KP) Apparently regulators ignored warning signs for more than a decade while Bernie Madoff stole and/or lost as much as $50 billion of his clients’ money. Holman Jenkins explains why we should not waste our sympathy on the clients: There are costs […]