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Welcome Back, Andrew
February 17, 2011Yes, he makes me crazy sometimes (sometimes more than sometimes), but it’s not the same around the Atlantosphere without him. I’m glad he’s feeling better, and back riding the Intertubes.
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Honey Badger Dont Give a Shit
February 17, 2011Nothing can stop the honey badger. What a bad-ass! (h/t Jack Shafer).
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Maybe This Nir Rosen Person Should Reconsider Tweeting
February 17, 2011A journalist named Nir Rosen doesn’t like Lara Logan, the CBS News reporter, because, he argues, she is a “warmonger.” Therefore, Rosen found humor in the the fact that Logan was sexually assaulted in Cairo. Apparently, Rosen doesn’t understand much about violence against women; he also doesn’t seem to understand much about Twitter. From The [...]
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Mysterious Blog Post Disappearance (Updated)
February 17, 2011For some reason, my recent post on Nir Rosen, specifically on his radical tweeting, has disappeared from my blog. I’ve asked Julian Assange to look for it. I’m also asking other people to look for it. Seriously, it just up and vanished. Stay tuned. Update: Here’s a piece of the post, pulled off of Contentions:Many [...]
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The America-Bashing, Pro-Taliban Tweets of Nir Rosen
February 17, 2011(I’m reposting this after it vanished from our site for a moment) On September 11th of last year, Nir Rosen, who yesterday found great humor in the sexual assault of Lara Logan, tweeted that it was “hard to disagree with much of the Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Statement Regarding The Anniversary Of The 9/11 Event.” [...]
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Dan Snyder, the NFLs Hosni Mubarak
February 15, 2011The Washington City Paper’s editor, Michael Schaffer, on the unlikely David-vs.Goliath fight he finds himself in with Redskins owner Dan Snyder, who is seeking to put the City Paper out of business:The owner of the Redskins is no Hosni Mubarak. All the same, Dan Snyder’s efforts to put City Paper in its place are worth [...]
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Could a New Age of Repression Be Coming?
February 15, 2011I’ve been worrying (yes, I do that) these past few days that the events in Egypt, while convincing many Arabs that they can take charge of their futures, and while convincing foreign policy realists that autocrats cannot repress their way to stability forever, have also convinced Middle East dictators not to make the same mistakes [...]
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What Do We Really Know About Egypt?
February 15, 2011David Frum wins the prize for the smartest thought of the day:80 million people in the country. 17 million in Cairo. 200,000 protesters in Tahrir Square. Only the ones who speak English appear on our TV. When we talk about the reach of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian society – or conversely the appeal of [...]
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Khomeini Believes That Iran Should Become a Parliamentary Democracy
February 15, 2011Via Cliff May, this gem of analysis from Time Magazine in 1979. I only post this to make the point that we don’t really know much about what will happen in the future, because it hasn’t happened yet. This is Time discussing Ayatollah Khomeini’s plans, shortly after he arrived back in Iran:Those who know the [...]
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Jeremiahs Tragic Relevance
February 12, 2011Daniel Gordis on reading Rabbi Benny Lau’s Jeremiah: Fate of a Prophet:Jeremiah’s was a world of national Jewish folly. Successive kings of Judah all imagined themselves infinitely more powerful and much less vulnerable than they actually were. With massive powers surrounding them, Egypt to the south and Assyrian and Babylon to the north, they consistently [...]
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In Egypt, Now Comes the Hard Part
February 12, 2011The Egyptian people have won a startling and historic victory. It is perhaps the most difficult thing in the world to do, to force a Pharaoh from the palace, but they did it, and without bombs. Now, though, comes a series of terrible challenges that could undo what the people have achieved. The Egyptian economy [...]
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Unadulterated Bleakness From an Egyptian Blogger
February 10, 2011Via Michael Totten:I don’t know how to start writing this. I have been battling fatigue for not sleeping properly for the past 10 days, moving from one’s friend house to another friend’s house, almost never spending a night in my home, facing a very well funded and well organized ruthless regime that views me as [...]
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Glenn Beck Is Right
February 10, 2011Pete Wehner has launched another of his intemperate attacks on the American patriot Glenn Beck. This latest scurrilous attack was prompted by Beck’s criticism of Bill Kristol, a Wehner ally and an advocate, like Wehner, of a worldwide Muslim caliphate. (To be sure, Wehner and Kristol have spoken out against a worldwide Muslim caliphate, but [...]
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ElBaradei vs. the Muslim Brotherhood Over the Bomb?
February 8, 2011Jared Bernstein:If (ElBaradei) is part of a new government that emerges, one hopes that his attitude towards nuclear proliferation will not change, though the Muslim Brotherhood–which is known to be hostile to Israel and which has in recent years called for Egypt to acquire a nuclear deterrent–could put new pressure on the government to pursue [...]
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A Reason to Worry
February 8, 2011From David Gregory’s interview on Meet the Press yesterday with ElBaradei: MR. GREGORY: And yes or no, should Egypt in the future always maintain the peace treaty with Israel? MR. ELBARADEI: I, I think so, but it’s not just dependent on Egypt, David, it also depends on Israel. Israel should not continue to apply a [...]