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Saturday, September 23, 2006

Rumors About Bin Laden's Death

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Rumors coming out of the Saudi Intelligence services via French Intelligence claim that Osama bin Laden has died of typhoid. There's no ...

Don't Shoot Unless You're Sure

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Mike Metzger who writes for the Clapham Institute does consistently outstanding columns. I can't find the link to his latest which was...

World's Most Reprehensible Man

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This week the president of Iran was invited to speak at the U.N., an opportunity he used to insult and attack the President of the United St...

The Heartlessness of Withdrawal

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Lawrence Kaplan of The New Republic , interestingly enough, delivers a few body shots and a couple of solid upper cuts to the chins of the L...
Friday, September 22, 2006

The Forgotten War

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Strategy Page gives us a quick update on the war in Afghanistan: So far this month, NATO forces in the south have killed over a thousan...

Petty Tyrant

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Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, comes to the U.N. and, having been listening to Howard Dean, Al Gore and the Democratic congressional c...

Cutting Taxes Raises Revenue

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Some people have a hard time getting their minds around the idea that a tax cut actually generates more revenue than had the cut not been en...

Agreeing With an Atheist

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Sam Harris is a prominent antitheist with whom I find myself in fundamental disagreement most of the time (see here , for instance), but in...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Dionne's Dhimmitude

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E.J. Dionne thinks the Pope was wrong to slap the Muslims in the face. Of course. For those with a dhimmi mind-set it's always wrong to...

Good Casting

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Here's a funny news story: Actor Sean Penn may wind up portraying legendary physicist Albert Einstein for a joint U.S.-Italian TV f...

The Demise of "Never Works"

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One of the chief arguments in favor of absolutely prohibiting torture ( whatever constitutes torture ) is that it doesn't ever work. Sin...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Dos Amigos

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The following pics explain everything you need to know about why Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez feels the way he does about George Bush an...

A Skeptical Mathematician

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Mathematician and computer engineer Granville Sewell explains why he's skeptical of the Darwinian explanation for life's origin and ...

Climbing GOP Approval Rating

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The President's approval rating continues its upward trend which is good news for Republicans running for office this November and bad ...

Red States Rising

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George Will reflects on a book written by Thomas Edsall of The New Republic who offers what is, from his point of view, a dispiriting ass...

Re: What Makes it Torture?

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JB brings his military and police experience to bear on the question I addressed in What Makes it Torture? His insightful response is featu...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Speechalist

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Even those who admire President Bush for his strength and resolve have to admit that his admirable virtues do not extend to public speaking....

Into the Pit of Hell

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One irony of enlightenment modernity is that in the move to exalt human kind and to liberate man from the shackles of guilt and repression i...

What Makes it Torture?

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The controversy over interrogation techniques has once again emerged in our public discourse. Unfortunately, politicians and media types, s...
Monday, September 18, 2006

The Euston Manifesto

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A large group of British leftists have put together what they call the Euston Manifesto in which they criticize the direction that much of...