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Monday, October 17. 2005Driving the EU Nations Nuts: This kind of thing must be totally exasperating - LGF, "Send in the clowns." Equally absurd is the way they calculate their poverty statistics: Samizdata. What's wrong with these people? Correcting some of the Mao story: New Criterion Elian's friend, Fidel. Cafe Hayek Cutting taxes for the "little guy"? View from 1776 Did El Baradei get Bush's Nobel? Debka Austin Bay analyzes the Zawahiri letter. Here.
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Saturday, October 15. 2005Voting In Iraq It's the news story of the day, if not of the year. We use Iraq the Model to follow the inside story in Iraq, as do many others. Update: here. Thanks Instap. Happy Birthday, Maggy (Thatcher), with quotes: Right nation Commerce Clause, by an amateur: Protein Classical Music has 3% of the internet music market. Not bad, really, considering our junk culture. MR More fake TV news: Owner's Manual Lock 'n load in Alabama: Pennywit. I always figger that the sound of a pump gun chambering a shell in the dark would make anyone run like hell. Now airguns? See where gun control leads? Ridiculous. FMFT. When will they outlaw pea-shooters? 4000 year-old noodles. Yum. Norm
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Friday, October 14. 2005Pinter? Schwartz: "Pinter is an exhausted English playwright whose sole and obvious current qualification for the prize is his strident participation in the America-baiting, Israel-hating protests against the liberation of Iraq." Harsh negativity also from Ace of Spades, Guardian naturally more positive. AP more neutral. North Country - A Bowl of Cliches - LLBS Dutch ban burquas: maybe they are getting smart. LGF Brady Campaign Against Guns tries to freak out Florida travelers, here: Click here: http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000061/006111-p.htm More on the wetlands litigation: Click here: Supreme Court Takes Up 2 Cases Challenging Powers of U.S. Regulators to Protect Wetlands - New York Times Journalism and poverty: Buzzmachine. What is this idea that it is somehow noble not to make a decent living? California touts its ghosts to tourists. Very lame. Ducks Unlimited and Katrina restoration, here.
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Thursday, October 13. 2005"Insurgent" We looked up “insurgent” in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, which defines it as “a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially : a rebel not recognized as a belligerent.” The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines “insurgent” as “someone who is fighting against the government in their own country.” We query the use of the term “insurgent” in Iraq, where it is pretty clear (to all but the mainstream media) that the terrorists or jihadists or Islamofascists, or whatever one chooses to call those pigs, are not Iraqis. They are not revolting (in the military sense); they are attacking and they certainly are “recognized as belligerent”; they are not in their own country and are not rebelling against their own government. They cannot therefore be “insurgents”. We also note that the pigs who bombed the subways in London were legally resident in England, and therefore were truly “insurgents”, but are referred to by the mainstream media as “terrorists” (which was also appropriate). It seems to us that we should henceforth reverse the terminology. Perhaps the mainstream media themselves are “insurgents” – they seem with great vigor to be “fighting against the government in their own country. As an aside, we are also deeply disappointed in the Cambridge’s mixing the singular “someone” with the plural “their own”! Was Jesus a Marxist? Huh? View from the Right Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. RWRH Stevie Wonder back at work. Pennywit. A new James Bond? This guy looks like Putin. Ex-Donk. Remember the Cole. Michelle
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Wednesday, October 12. 2005
And two from neo-neocon. I am very fond of her, and believe she should have Maureen Dowd's job, but for some reason this good lady ignores our emails. But we must not be thin-skinned, and she has two recent pieces to recommend: first, her piece on how New England Yankees delay turning on the heat as winter approaches, here, and second, a wise piece on originalism and the Constitution, here. Re the first, my first fire in the fireplace will be tonight, but I'm not sure about turning on the heat just yet. Need a bit more time to appreciate and enjoy God's good air-conditioning blowing in through open windows. We have no A/C in our old Connecticut farmhouse and consider it decadent, so October is a delight. Too much comfort and ease soften the character and weaken the spirit, do they not? As does too much time. (Photo is the fireplace at the hunting lodge in Canada. Yes, an old log cabin, but spacious.) Zawahiri's letter to Zarqawi It's remarkable that the US intercepted this highly revealing letter, which discusses terrorist strategy, tactics, and goals, including their manipulation of the media and, implicitly, their manipulation of the anti-war crowd. Powerline has a bit of it, with discussion.
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The Baltimore Sun ran this photo of Ed Koch: "For me, the single most important issue the world faced in 2001 and now, trumping all other issues, is international terrorism. President Bush’s willingness in the face of all the attacks, so many unfair and ad hominen, to continue to stand up and exhort the world to continue the ongoing battle against international terrorism is why I admire and respect him so much." Read entire. Miers: No Oil says she's not good enough. But Dunn at American Thinker feels conservatives are getting too rigidly doctrinaire. Steyn on Bush, religion, and the self-hating Left: "We hear endlessly about "systemic racism" in British institutions, but the really rampant contagion seems to be systemic auto-racism, a psychologically unhealthy predisposition to believe the worst only about one's own culture. And the trouble with the Anne Owers school of pre-emptive misinterpretation is that the perpetually aggrieved interpret it all too accurately. Thus, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, already feels Ms Owers's ban is insufficient. The cross of St George, he explains, is offensive to Muslims because it was carried by English crusaders in the 11th century. Hmm. Would that be the 11th century that ended nine and a bit centuries ago? When a fellow's got hang-ups about things that happened a millennium ago, there's no point trying to assuage them; he'll only unearth some earlier grievance, demanding the Natural History Museum be dismantled because some stegosaurus was disrespectful to Muslims back in the Jurassic era." and "Why is George W. Bush's utterly unremarkable evangelical Christianity so self-evidently risible but complaints from British Muslims hung up over the 11th century are perfectly reasonable and something we should seek to accommodate? Where is the secular Left's "insensitivity" when you need it? " Read entire.
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Tuesday, October 11. 2005Freeh on Clinton, with video, at Atlas LBJ ordering a pair of custom pants - audio here. Thanks, Patterico, for this important piece of American history Antisemitism of the Left. Moonbat Central Proof of intelligent design, plus comments on the Nobel, from Shape of Days: "I mean, s--t. Take one look at this and tell me that Intelligent Design has no place in schools." Teach for America is useless. Nyhan. Taking lawyer jokes seriously, here. Churchill and the "Anglosphere" Am. Thinker Flat Tax debate at Town Hall Harriet's job application. Iowahawk Does high oil mean the death of the suburbs? The Commons Seattle Closes Strip Clubs; Gay Bathhouses, Animal Sex Farms to Remain Open: Blame BushDeath of the EU: The National Interest
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Monday, October 10. 2005Al Quaida moving into Gaza. Powerline Why to support Miers. Mirengoff. Rick Moran on the risks of the Miers appointment. Why a Federal appointment is more than a hassle: WSJ Wallace and Gromit history is on fire. Guardian FEMA contracting was a mess. Who picks up the bodies? WaPo Europe bans Turkish birds. Guardian National Novel Writing Month - write one this November. Paxety Star of David banned in Norway. LGF Cabdriver stories from US immigrants. Anatomy of a Photograph - Press bias and distortion via a photo. Zombietime. George Will praises Tancredo. Town Hall Calvin and Hobbes: An appreciation, and a New Collection
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