Plenty of Shame to Go Around

Some Palestinian kids ( Jonah Goldberg calls them "teens," but that's not specified in the article he linked) set fire to the tomb of Joseph in retaliation for their Israeli-imposed house arrest. Shame on them. Thank goodness those historic-preservationists and...

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Farm Aid

Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski on farm policy in Iraq: Orchard bulldozing is part of "a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking U.S. troops." Is it really a U.S. policy? I might credit this designation...

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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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Blowback…told you so

Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says Can't say I'm surprised...in fact, I and many other critics of the war on Iraq used just this very scenario as an argument against intervention. I suspected that those who supported the march to war understood that this...

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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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