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Obama Silver Lining Watch (Gitmo Edition)
No comments on Obama Silver Lining Watch (Gitmo Edition)“The single best thing about the election of Obama may be that we now have a chance to view the terror threat without the distorting lens of Bush hatred.” So says Jack Goldsmith, a former…
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Revisiting “What’s the Matter With Islam?”
Commenter McDaddyo caught me in a bit of bloggish sloppiness in my recent post titled “What’s the Matter With Islam?” In that post I quoted Phyllis Chesler: Have the Princes of Saudi Arabia, the mullahs…
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What’s the Matter With Islam?
Six days after the 9/11 attacks, the President of the United States went to the Islamic Center in Washington, removed his shoes in accordance with tradition, and urged Americans to treat Muslims with respect. “Islam…
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Never Forget
Some day soon I need to write more extensively about the name of this blog. It comes from something that English statesman Edmund Burke apparently did not actually say, so I’ve felt free to modernize…