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Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You So
9 comments on Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You SoPresident Bush salutes in front of General David Petraeus and Admiral William Fallon, September 2007, in Iraq President Obama today announced an Iraq withdrawal plan that George Bush would be proud to call his own.…
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My Kind of Dangerous Muslim Jihadi
Mad props to Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr. Fadl, for attacking al-Qaeda from the jihadi perspective. (Hat tip: Cliff May) Half an hour ago I had not heard of Dr. Fadl, but apparently…
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Million, Billion, Trillion… Let’s Settle on "Zillion"
I’m becoming a fan of Politico, which has intelligent writing on politics without any overwhelming left or right tilt. Today the site notes that all of the big numbers start to blur together: Human beings…
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Murdoch Apologizes for Cartoon But Says it Was Not Meant to be Racist
I’m not a big Rupert fan, but I think he got it exactly right. I’ve been involved in a lively debate over this at Conservative Black Woman’s site, btw, if anyone is interested… check the…
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Al "Thug" Sharpton Takes His Incendiary Show on the Road
Al Sharpton, and the logos of some of his extortion victims It is POSSIBLE, of course, to construe the NY Post “chimp” cartoon as a racist slam at President Obama — even though neither Obama…
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How NOT To Talk About Race
This week brings two reminders of the fact that it is possible to make statements that are both a) intellectually defensible, and b) really, really stupid. Reasonable people can disagree about whether Americans focus too…
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The Beheading Victim Was Also Muslim
Nearly a week after her husband allegedly cut off her head, Aasiya Zubair Hassan still smiles confidently into the camera for the high-resolution publicity photo available on the website of the TV station the couple…
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Ready, Fire, Aim: Obama Signs "Stimulus" Bill
No worries — Sasha and Malia’s kids will pay for it Michael Gerson describes the porkulus legislation signed by President Obama yesterday: The bill was written in monopartisan secrecy, weighed down by irrelevant spending, considered…
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Britain Bows to Terrorism by Banning Geert Wilders
Basmallah, 3 1/2, shares what she has been taught about Jews,in the short film Fitna Last week, Great Britain shamefully denied entry to Geert Wilders, an elected member of the Dutch parliament, who had been…
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Live, From Maplewood:Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
OK, enough with the financial crisis, the porkulus bill, the new president, Iraq… we’re going local here. Next weekend, Feb. 20-22, a talented troupe from my church, St. George’s Episcopal in Maplewood, NJ, will stage…