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G.W. Bush Better Than Clinton on Gay Equality
No comments on G.W. Bush Better Than Clinton on Gay EqualityHave you heard about the (pro-) gay-rights bill our President signed right before Christmas? Probably not, if you rely on the mainstream media for news. In fact, even the blogosphere has been strangely quiet about…
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Gaza, and Obama Derangement Syndrome
Photo: Associated Press via Yahoo! News Caption: Muslim protesters wearing masks of, from left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, take part in a rally against Israeli…
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Zbigniew Zblows Smoke at Joe Scarborough
I got a little carried away commenting on another blog, so to justify the research time I’m repurposing the comment here. 🙂 At Politics After 50 (having been born in 1958 I think this is…
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Moral Clarity on Hamas and Gaza, from Krauthammer
Time and again, after reading a Charles Krauthammer column, I find myself thinking, “why couldn’t I have written that?” It’s a combination of my admiration for the man’s craft and my nearly complete agreement, more…
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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…
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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…
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Precision Strike Kills a Top Hamas Goon in Gaza
“A senior Hamas leader, Nizar Rayan, was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics said,” according to an account in The National, an…
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Good to See: Arab Leaders Criticize Hamas
Via Taranto (third item) comes the welcome word that some Arab leaders understand the cause of the Gaza conflict better than the Episcopal Presiding Bishop does: Nimr Hammad, an adviser to [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud]…