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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…
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Captured Hamas Map Shows "Human Shield" Strategy
Further proof that Hamas deliberately puts Palestinians in harm’s way. The only thing more valuable to Hamas than dead Israelis is dead Palestinians. (Hat tip: Jonah)
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"A Sickness in the Soul of Middle-Eastern Islam"
I don’t agree with every syllable of Ralph Peters’s column in today’s New York Post, but this part works: Israel hasn’t killed a single civilian in the Gaza Strip. Over a hundred civilians have died,…
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Gaza: A Time for War, a Time for Peace
At Pajamas Media, Middle East commentator Eli Bernstein examines Israel’s war against Hamas in the context of the ancient doctrine of a “just war.” He concludes, of course, that Israel has the right to use…
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Israel vs. Hamas: How Much Violence is Enough
A law professor considers the notion of proportionality in Forbes: The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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G.W. Bush Better Than Clinton on Gay Equality
Have 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]…
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Quick Takes on Gaza & Hamas
Wired magazine’s Danger Room defense blog is covering the Gaza conflict — today comes the grim news that Hamas has obtained Chinese rockets with a range of 22 miles, doubling the terrorists’ reach into Israel.…
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The Unholy Union of Automakers and Financing
Time to smack the auto industry and the UAW again. From a column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: The collective bargaining agreement with the UAW is a heavily negotiated document the size of a small…