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A.T.I.N Has a New Look and a New Address
6 comments on A.T.I.N Has a New Look and a New AddressAfter a lot more effort than I expected, I’m pleased to unveil version 2.0 of All That Is Necessary. For those who care about such details, I’ve migrated my original Blogger blog to the WordPress…
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Oliphant’s Cartoon Is Not Just Despicable, It’s Dangerous
At Israel Insider, Barry Rubin does the best job I’ve seen of describing precisely why Pat Oliphant’s recent cartoon — featuring a goose-stepping, headless swordsman pushing a Jew-shark-on-a-unicycle — is so powerful, and so powerfully…
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Funny, He Doesn’t Sound Like a “Greedy Bastard”
I’ve held my tongue about the AIG bonuses because I haven’t had the energy to take on the torch-and-pitchfork brigades. But although I can understand the populist anger, and maybe even share it a bit,…
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Responsible Economic Policy is a National Security Issue
John Bolton, who gets my vote for America’s best-ever ambassador to the United Nations (plus I love the mustache), describes how Rahm Emanuel’s never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste mentality will weaken the security of the United States, by devaluing…
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Financial Follies: Plenty of Blame to Go Around
A straightforward guide to the financial mess. I missed it when it first came out, but the New York Review of Books last month published one of the best comprehensive explanations I’ve seen of the…
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Current Recession Not (Yet) As Bad As 1982
After repeatedly invoking the specter of the Great Depression to frighten the public into supporting the “stimulus” bill, the Obama administration has moderated its rhetoric. Professor Mark J. Perry of the University of Michigan offers…
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Freeman Screed Shows America Dodged A Bullet
Chas Freeman — who would have been in charge of producing policy-neutral reports synthesizing the findings of America’s 16 intelligence agencies — described the opposition to his appointment thusly: The tactics of the Israel Lobby…
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Freeman Withdraws, And He Finally Makes Page 8
On page A8 of the New York edition, today’s New York Times finally publishes its very first article about Charles Freeman, after nearly two weeks of blogospheric controversy that was severe enough to scuttle the…
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Obama Honeymoon-Over Watch: Jon Stewart and Chas Freeman
I’ve been neglecting the “Honeymoon-Over Watch” category of my blog because the notion of “watching” for something implies infrequent sightings, not a target-rich environment. The media certainly has not been hounding Obama as mercilessly as…