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Nicholas Kristof is one of the better writers on the New York Times, and has not been shy in support of humanitarian causes. He's tumbled to the sordid truth about Israel, and has been on the receiving end of brickbats from Zionists--many of whom seem increasingly deranged to me. Of course, it could just be me. Here's his latest column on the subject, his blog post with comments, and his Facebook

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Mongol is a wonderful movie. Part of a projected trilogy directed by a Russian, it describes the early life and rise to power of Temujin, later to be known as Genghis Khan. It has many things Mongol, from gers (yürts) fermented mare's milk to throat-singing, to stews with lots of bones in them. It also has a love story, lots of scenes of people crossing the wilderness on horseback and on foot,

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This story depicts the reality of Israeli-Palestinian relations. In this one, the Israelis are the bad guys. The converse is also true. Excerpt:In the industrial neighborhood of Wad Al-Joz in Jerusalem, a group of Israeli Special Forces troops on motorcycles along with police and army reinforcements were stationed on the path the bus from Tiberias was taking to get its passengers, all legal

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The full-blown lycanthropic yowling of some for an air attack on Iran is well-known in the media and the blogosphere, but considering the nature and extent of the threat, moral and physical, that such an adventure poses, it has not drawn enough attention. Much of the yowling comes from Jewish Americans who sympathize with the most aggressive and hysterical forms of Zionism. These are the people

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Obama's dropping in the polls. His lead's down to 1 per cent in Rasmussen's tracking. This drop could be ephemeral. They've both had a lousy two weeks. But, then again, perhaps not. Barack needs to get his groove back. Meanwhile, the electoral college map still favors BHO. UPDATE (7/19)--back up a little, then down. Tied in Rasmussen. Odd, because the McCain campaign is invisible.

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Am I the only one out there that despises the Partnership for a Drug Free America and their stupid ads? They set my teeth on edge.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive

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Abe Greenwald, the Deputy Hack-in-Chief of connections, Commentary Magazine's warmongering blog, had an interesting post for once. Pointing out that the Chinese, in the face of the state's one-child policy, have slaughtered their female fetuses in the womb or allowed them to die of neglect in babyhood, and are now facing a huge excess of males over females, creating problems of frustration and

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Young BHO has orated from a lectern decorated with the pseudo-seal on the left. It is the color of Wedgwood. The non-messianic blogosphre is agog. If one were to remark that the bird is a Popeye's fried chicken and the sphere a watermelon, all Hell could break loose. It's GOOD to be the Messiah, but it can be hard. HT: Larison, J. Rubin.

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From Kyriakos Markides, The Mountain of Silence: “Marriage, for example, is considered by the Ecclesia [basically Eastern Orthodox teachings] as a form of askesis [method of spiritual exercise], an arena for transcending one’s ego absorption of the sake of the other. It is a mistake, Father Maximos argues, to consider marriage, as many traditional Christians do, as first and formemost a means for

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Here, on the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars lander. This is an amazing achievement. Who cares of one of Barack's ex-minions got a sweetheart loan from Countrywide?

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An airbus in Khartoum skidded off the runway and burst into flames. Many escaped, but dozens burned to death.

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I just listened to Hillary's concession speech. She didn't say anything a loyal Democrat wouldn't say on such an occasion, but she makes my gorge rise. I just can't stand her pieties, her identity politics, her nasality, and her nostrums. I notice that Chelsea approached, Bill got a peck, but as they walked off, he was the runt, sucking the hind teat. How long will that marriage last? And who's

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You all know Lanny Davis, that unctuous little weasel whom HRC anointed as one of her TV avatars. Mark Cooper finds him particularly repulsive, and wrote a snarky ave atque vale, or "hail and farewell." The obvious pun popped to mind, and I offered my contribution, which I immortalize in these bytes and pixels: Lanny Boy, is CNN still calling? From tow’r to tow’r, and up the aetherside?

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There's something painfully ironic about Pfleger's (if temporary) ouster. He's been thumbing his nose at authority -- secular and sacred -- for years in pursuit of what he believes God has called him to do: fight for the poor and the oppressed; battle injustice in whatever form it appears, be it racism, sexism, or classicism; and to above all present the God of revolutionary love and radical

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True, Abe Burrows said that Miami was Flatbush with palm trees. But why does Sadr City remind me so much of Queens Boulevard?

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This one's for dog castration protest poetry. Memory still foggy-- Car ride; vet; deep sleep; now pain. What's this 'round my neck? So I humped your leg. It's my duty as a dog. A bit drastic, no? Tell me it ain't so. I thought I was "man's best friend".. Better hide your shoes... - dave

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I had some thoughts about two poltical events this week--the California Supreme Court's discovery of a constitutional right of gays to marry if breeders do, and the Congress's passage by a veto-proof majority of a pork-filled farm subsidy bill. I'm also experimenting with a service called Scribd, which allows one to upload documents to the Web much as flickr allows it with pictures. See the

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Father of girls that I am, this made me cry, but it's most inspiring. It's a story of the friendship of two little girls in dire circumstances.

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Blogging has been very light, as I've been preoccupied with business and personal matters. It's time, though, after the Indiana and NC primaries, to muse some more about Barack Obama, now the likely candidate and very possibly, after years of GOP fecklessness and in a troubled economy, our next President--with a comfortable majority in Congress. I've got to confess that although I don't share

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Fleming's curmudgeonly post moves from expressing irritation at the foibles of bloggers to the difficulty of fathoming a basis for a revived conservative coalition. There is a lot of conservative chatter out in the blogosphere. Much of it can be reduced to Rodney King’s question: “Why can’t we all just get along.” Unfortunately, most of these would-be peace-makers, drunk on their own

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Thomas Fleming is the grey eminence of Chronicles, a paleocon site inhabited by a variety of fairly rare political fauna, united by a distaste for interventionism and the federal gummint. He likes to write about topics like Beowulf and the early fathers of the church, rather than today’s Rasmussen poll (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Today Fleming put up a post that had two themes,

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Silly me. I thought the Presidential campaign would be dull. It's depressing (as Mr. Roach says, like watching the Iran-Iraq war), but has had quite a few twists and turns more than faintly amusing. I watched the debate last night. Both BHO and Hillary lost. The questions were terrible. Here are 10 questions I'd like to ask. I don't think any of them was. Ten questions I’d like to hear, but

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Nelson Rockefeller ate his Nathan's hot dog, Gerald Ford his tamale, and Barack Obama tried to bowl. Hillary Clinton did not profit by their example. HT: Lonewacko.

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"Oh my God! There's an ax in my head!" in over 100 languages. There's a board game, too. Don't ask.

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