Hot Damn!

An Alternet columnist evinces a bit of skepticism about the American welfare empire! Tell it, sister: What can we, in America, know of how it feels to be a citizen of any other country in the world? We do not have brigades of well-meaning volunteers from, say, the...

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An Exhibit for Joan and Alan

Peters and Dershowitz, that is, and all the other credulous souls whose historical knowledge of Palestine comes entirely from The Innocents Abroad. It's a Beirut photo exhibit called "Palestine Avant 1948": It was a land of bourgeoisie who loved racing from Jerusalem...

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Shameless Product Placement

Attention, bloggers: We love to be linked! Give us a permanent link on your site, and I'll put you on the Honor Roll, which currently includes the antiheroic Joanne McNeil, the collegial University blog, the erudite Liberty & Power, the dyspeptic Libertarian Jackass,...

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Amsterdam on the Mediterranean

This Village Voice article about the Green Leaf Party ("the only pro-cannabis legalization and public health party in Israel") may cause a reversal in U.S. Israel policy. Murder and theft are one thing, but pot? Unforgivable. (Link swiped from Cursor.org)

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In Equal Opportunity News

David Frum (scroll down) confirms that Jews can indeed be anti-Semitic. I think that covers just about everyone on planet Earth, David, with the possible exception of those Protocols-peddling Eskimos.

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RE “Come Again, Glenn?”

Interesting letter on the very legitimacy of weapons inspections, from Mr. Daniel Larison: Mr. O'Neill makes an excellent point. Though I must admit that I myself sometimes became caught up in what Blix said or didn't say as some kind of evidence in the argument over...

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