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Remembering 35 of Qaddafis Victims
February 22, 2011Reading about Colonel Qaddafi and his efforts to murder those who seek democracy in Libya, my mind inevitably turned to some of his other victims, the 259 people aboard Pan Am 103, and the 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, who died when a Libyan bomb blew the plane out of the sky. [...]
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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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Why Egypt May Be Different Than Tunisia
January 27, 2011Interesting analysis: In Egypt, teacher salaries are so low that it’s common for students to pay for private tutorials (often from the same teachers), and social critics have lamented that poor education has deprived generations of the skills needed to think critically – and to dissent. “The 80 million people have no power, no knowledge, [...]
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Glenn Becks Jewish Problem
January 23, 2011It’s become clear to me that the Fox commentator Glenn Beck has something of a Jewish problem. Actually, he has something of a modernity problem, and people with modernity problems tend to have problems with Jews, who more or less invented modernity (Einstein, Marx, Freud, Franz Boas, etc.) This is not, by the way, a [...]
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Would you like a chaser with your psalm?
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The Rise of Violent Rhetoric
January 10, 2011It is not true that the Left uniformly despises violent rhetoric (you should see my e-mail in-box after I say something nice about Israel or, horror of horrors, George W. Bush), but it does seem, at times, that the Right revels in bloodily martial imagery. Andrew discovers this gem from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. She [...]
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You Know That Big Snowstorm Over Christmas? It Was the Mossad
January 8, 2011Michael Totten with a useful reminder of just how nuts the Middle East is:Iran and Egypt are in many ways each others’ opposites. Egypt’s government doesn’t believe this crap, but many if not most of its people do. Hysterical nonsense like this is the molten core of the Iranian government’s ideology, but vastly fewer people [...]
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Single Jews: What Will We Do?
January 1, 2011Somehow, a copy of the Jewish Week Singles Supplement found its way into my apartment, and because I am a glutton for punishment, I looked at it. Here’s the breakdown: There are places other than the Upper West Side to meet people and find Jewish community. Orthodox Jews who are divorced would like to [...]
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Nazis Everywhere
December 15, 2010As a way of giving back to the community, Goldblog is going to start compiling lists of people who are not Nazis but who have nevertheless been called Nazis in public, as a way of proving the obvious point, which is that people reaching for insults should find something better than Nazi. Those people who [...]
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Bennet Insults Goldblog, Apologizes to Foxman
November 20, 2010From James Bennet’s Twitter feed: I think he meant “grrrrl.” Bennet has also referred to me as “Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,” which I kind of like, though officially, I am offended, offended, offended! You know, one day, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman is going to retire, and then who will be ready to accept [...]
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Huis Clos
November 12, 2010That Carnival Lines toilet-free cruise truly sounds like the worst trip ever:Cruise Director John Heald said in comments posted in a blog on Carnival Lines website that the people aboard “have risen to the obvious challenges and difficult conditions onboard.”He said he’s been making a lot of announcements from the bridge to keep everyone informed [...]
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A Word from the Iron Lady
November 7, 2010Before she was elected British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher grew increasingly appalled by the suffocating statism inflicted upon the United Kingdom by the socialists and progressives. High unemployment, recession, industrial collapse, growing entitlements and debt, higher taxes, and a dispirited people: these were not qualities of the once-great British people. [...]
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Golda is still right
November 4, 2010To paraphrase Golda Meir, the world will make headway against international Islamic terrorists when it – the Muslim world in particular – learns to value its own people more than it hates Israel and the Jews. The freedom-loving people of the world need to put old prejudices aside and recognize that the enemy of my enemy is, in [...]
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What It All Means
November 4, 2010Several guesses about the meaning of the mid-term elections:1) Once again we learn that this is a center-right country, that voters in 2008 were repudiating a President and his party-chosen successor, not embracing center-leftism. I covered McCain; great American hero, terrible candidate, with a wackadoo running mate, and he still won almost 46 percent of [...]
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The Non-Surprising Attempt to Bomb Chicago Synagogues
October 30, 2010More on this later, but the only surprising aspect — and obviously this is a pleasantly surprising aspect — of the attempt to mail-bomb two Chicago-area synagogues is that the bombs were discovered so far from Chicago, one in Dubai and one in England. People were paying attention, obviously, at the shipping hubs. One other [...]