tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58241822012-01-14T11:55:33.029-06:00No man can be a Politician, except he be first an Historian or a Traveller; for except he can see what Must be, or what May be, he is no Politician: Now, if he have no knowledge in story, he cannot tell what hath been; and if he that not been a Traveller, he cannot tell what is: but he that neither knoweth what hath been, nor what is; can never tell what must be, or what may be. <br />- James Harrington, <a href="http://www.constitution.org/jh/oceana.htm">THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA</a>, 1656S. Schunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00652114644324900847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824182.post-71731415472041625292010-06-18T12:31:00.000-05:002010-06-18T12:32:37.064-05:00

Ryan Streeter on Texas vs. California.

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The Breckenridge Autumn Ale .... yumm...The Great Divide's Saint Bridget's Porter.... mmm mmm mmm!

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Churchill in 1925:Public opinion is formed and expressed by machinery. The newspapers do an immense amount of thinking for the average man and woman. In fact they supply them with such a continuous stream of standardized opinion, borne along upon an equally inexhausible flood of news and sensation, collected from every part of the world every hour of the day, that there is neither the need nor

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Related to my lower post on Sowell and Williams, here now is the source of their thinking, at least one of the more important ones.Veronique at The Corner links to these podcasts by Daniel Klein on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. I hope to find them a good introduction to Smith, to what I was told was the beginning point for understanding his major work, The Wealth of Nations, the

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Instapundit posted this graphic from Heritage Institute to put Obama's recent attempt to show fiscal restraint into context of his proposed budget: cutting $100 million even as he wants to spend $3.69 trillion. It reminds me of the astronomy video demonstrating the size of the Earth, not to the Sun but to a real star....

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Courtesy of Drudge comes word of the latest unemployment information (March to March) for all the states in this handy map. Click on it to get to the interactive at Wall Street Journal.Contrary to what I expected, Wyoming is in the top 5 least changed unemployment in the last year (1.2% increase). Texas faired not as well, 13th at 2.1%. For family in Indiana, the news isn't good: unemployment

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A list of Thomas Sowell's most recent columns is here. Below are a few special pieces to consider:- from Thomas Sowell's "Who Really Cares?": One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. It is liberals who advocate "forgiveness" of loans to Third World countries, a "living wage" for the poor and a "safety net

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Pictures of the folks' new cabin.

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Matthew Continetti in today's Weekly Standard online:Tom Wolfe, lamenting the current state of American fiction: "Writers come from master-of-fine-arts programs now. If you add up the college education of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner, you get to spring break of freshman year."

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We've been moving right along. Just after Thanksgiving, Steve moved us into the kitchen with new appliances, and we were out of the garage to cook and clean just before the cold weather hit.Then it was new oak countertops that require every other day oil treatments for awhile. The color and texture change is wonderful. The island and island lights were next, and now we find ourselves spending

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Dan and Nate assemble the IKEA cabinets. Hanging the cabinets.One of several applications of leveler followed by many hours of dry time. Thus begins Steve's chant, "Never again." Floor and counters complete. This is the stove and pantry wall.

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All right, so the ceiling goes too. We couldn't do it without Rosie and Ed Mark, Ed and Steve cut holes, attach drywall and mud. Mark is our texture master. Just a man and his brush.

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And so the project begins. I found the best picture I had of the kitchen before any work was done. Just imagine the back wall having an elevated, knobless black oven and beside it a flat black cooktop in the counter. Then we have the blank slate after a half day of demo. Nice work, guys!

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Peter Lawler's report of the American Political Science Association's conference produced this thread of comments about Straussians and Straussians. See, all Straussians are said to be atheists, ergo, if you're a Straussian you must be an atheist. But such a view overlooks a full spectrum of differences. And in a panel on new books on Strauss, all stripes of Straussians descended to try and

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Mom just sent these pictures of Stump Ridge of the Big Horns. A good part burned off in '96 but it sounds like another lightning strike found more to burn.Evidently the fire lines set at the top could not keep it from coming up the far side and come burning down the valley side of the ridge.I don't believe it has burned any buildings yet. But it could threaten some if it comes low enough.Click

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The 'old-timers' around school here say the last time they saw the waters this high was (depending on who you talked to) '88, '89, or '90. That should make it the 19 or 18 or 17-Year Flood. Here are some pictures from in front of school.

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John at Powerline comments perfectly on Paris Hilton leaving jail.

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Michael Barone provides some historical perspective of immigration and border control.

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Peter Lawler posts this: Greatness of SoulHere's a comment I got on the thread below:A quick and obvious point in light of the discussion on No Left Turns: Aristotle's treatment of the magnanimous man in the Ethics for the most part oscillates between a report of what he thinks of himself and what other non-magnanimous men say about him. Unlike the discussion of Socrates' magnanimity in the

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By way of Bill Bennett's radio program this morning came notice of former Democratic Senator and Presidential candidate now New School President's, Bob Kerrey, commentary on liberals and supporting the War. It is must reading. It is entitled "The Left's Iraq Muddle". He begins with a concise restatement of the justifications for deposing Saddam and he does so by invoking the tried and true

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Joe Knippenberg points out Will McClay's recent speech on how bad times have, in the past, always called out the best in America. And in particular, he sees our current struggle against Islamic extremism as our generation's challenge. Here is the concluding paragraph: The lesson for Americans is clear. There may be today, just as George Kennan famously observed 60 years ago of the Cold War, a

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According this report, novelist Thomas Wolfe challenges the popular image of Bush: “Bush is portrayed as a moron. I’ve only conversed with him a couple of times – not for very long – but I found he was more literate on literature than the editor of the New York Review of Books, Bob Silvers. I’ve talked to both of them, and he makes Bob Silvers look like a slug.”

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In his latest blog entry, "The Crazy Middle East", Victor Davis Hanson offers, among other things, a summary of displacements, oppressions, and occupations of people far worse than that of the Palestinians. His conclusion? The media has created and has elevated the crisis over and beyond much worse. His reasons? Oil. Fear. Anti-semitism.But I think he misses something. And its strange that he

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Rich Lowry has been posting salient points from Tenet's new book. Here is a key one (emphasis mine):Exactly [Rich Lowry]Here's a key point about the debate over Iraq—it was always fundamentally about how much risk we were willing to tolerate in a post-9/11 environment (page 328): The absence of evidence and linear thinking, and Iraq’s extensive efforts to conceal illicit procurement of

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From Glenn Reynolds comes this pointed reply to the question "Is the war lost?"It's up to you The Iraq war is lost or won if the American people choose to lose or win it. With the way things are going at the moment, I perfectly understand why they might choose to give up on the war. But that is not because the war is inherently unwinnable by a country as great and rich and powerful as the United

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This is pretty cool. (ht: S. Hayward at NLT)

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Nathan Hale over at The American Thinker articulates a principle that should be guiding our national legislators in their daily deeds and talk. It is pretty simple.Does this action weaken or strengthen our opponents' will to fight? And the corollary: Does this action strengthen or weaken OUR will to fight?The key, Hale points out, is that the point of war is not to kill people but to break his

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Has Bush reversed the pro-democratic and pro-western reform he brought about in north Africa? So says this AEI scholar, Jeffrey Azarva, in his assessment of the work that Bush has done over his two terms. This would be a great misfortune. It would seem to indicate doubt in the central Bush doctrine of the universality of the love of freedom. Further, it indicate a return to realism, the

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Kathryn at The Corner was one the first to point out this editorial, in today's Post, putting a fine point on Pelosi's foolishness. You know, visiting Syria and inciting peace talks and understanding with the West and Israel.As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but

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Commentary's Contentions has been the site for several good exchanges between specialists regarding Iraq and historical precedents. The first was Victor Davis Hanson and Max Boot and now Arthur Herman and Max Boot. I'll dig up the VDH/Boot exchange next. But first, Herman submitted an article in Commentary comparing the experience of the French in Algeiers in the late '50's with our experience

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James Taranto of WSJ's Best of the Web has real doozer: Guess which stalwart Senators would have penned the column "Iraq: the Decade After" in the Washington Post back in 2002? Here's an excerpt for a clue (emphasis added): Although no one doubts our forces will prevail over Saddam Hussein's, key regional leaders confirm what the Foreign Relations Committee emphasized in its Iraq hearings last

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In his latest entry over Works and Days, Victor Davis Hanson talks about the importance of Jimmy Carter and 1979 in the unfolding contemporary events involving the 15 abducted British soldiers.

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Trying to post a YouTube... And this one is good. Evan Sayet is a political satirist for Bill Mahrer of all people, but he is a 9-13 Republican. His speech is "How a Modern Liberal Thinks". It is long but good. Click on the picture:(ht: lgf)

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As his introductory post on Commentary's blog, Contentions, Wilfred McClay posts on his experience of teaching a history of American religion class to Italian students at the University of Rome. It is a delightful piece, as most of his writings always are. But its interesting to hear what fascinates his students and, more importantly, what they help him, an American, see about American

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Today, Bush quoted two Iraqi bloggers (Iraq the Model) and their report that the surge is working. More at Pajamas Media.UPDATE: Michele Malkin documents some disapproval in the MSM that Bush would use "unverified statements". Michele responds: And never mind that Iraq the Model isn't merely an "opinion" blog reacting to news, as the snobs at the AP would have you believe. They are reporting

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Kathryn Lopez at the Corner posts these comments of Lieberman made today, in response to the Senate's deliberations of the Iraq War spending bill which includes an imposed exit date from Iraq. If I find more of his statements, I'll post them or a link. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing for eliminating Iraq withdrawal language from the supplemental appropriations legislation, Senator Joe Lieberman (

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Here it is.

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"Wait for me guys!"

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This is discouraging. VDH's post at The Corner this afternoon.A Lot at Stake in Iraq [Victor Davis Hanson]Much of the debate over Iraq is framed over "perceptions" of power. That is, if we fail, others will immediately capitalize on the newfound sense that the United States is weakened and a window of opportunity has opened up. Lose in Iraq, the conventional wisdom goes, then Iran will

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Most people heard John Kerry's faux paux of a couple weeks ago--I posted on it below. Did you also see how some troops stationed in Iraq responded?Evidently now, Charlie Rangel, in last Thursday's NY Times' article, brings it a little closer to home, the South that is.“Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel

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Carol Iannone at NRO's Phi Beta Cons launched this interesting thread. It picked up over at NRO's The Corner. The Vanity Fair article, in which one of posters below, Michael Rubin, is quoted, that Carol refers to is here.#1Freedom Isn't Free, Right?[Carol Iannone 11/10 01:58 PM]I was very upset with what I've read of the Vanity Fair interviews with seven neoconservatives who have distanced

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This morning, on Bill Bennett's show, someone clarified Kerry's fauxpaux from Monday. Here is what he said:- "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."And what he meant to say:- If you study hard you can do well in life, otherwise, you'll have to marry a rich heiress.

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From Instapundit, comes this Telegraph story that the BBC apparently doesn't want to a report to be made public. Why? Because, if reports are accurate, it indicts their coverage of the Middle East. In particular, it might just show that it covers Israel negatively (big surprise).

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From Tim Blair comes this news and picture in The Age.Any theories on how the veil is liberating? I am confused. Forty years ago, women were taking off their bras in the name of liberation....Photo: AFP

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From today's The Corner, an interesting observation regarding current reporting. It reminds me of George Orwell's essay on politics and English language.Press Passivity [Michael Rubin]A writer with whom I spoke about two weeks ago pointed out a very interesting trend in the press reporting and political commentary about the war on terrorism. All too often, reporters and politicians use the

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Contrast"No general education should be timeless," he said. "There’s no question it’s [education] a response to the world we live in now."With[1.22]. . . . But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, he shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable. And it is compiled rather

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From the guys at Powerline comes news of this letter Steele directed to several Democrats regarding the latest of a train of low, partisan tricks trying to discredit a black Republican's run for US Senate from Maryland. I don't think it needs any further introduction. Its pretty self-explanatory.October 4, 2006Dear Congressman Cardin, Governor Dean, Chairman Lierman and Senator Schumer:For

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Glenn Reynolds pointed out a news story on this speech by Howard, given at the 50th Anniversary celebration of Quadrant, an Australian conservative journal of literature and ideas. I found it at the Prime Minister's website. It looks good. Though it really doesn't seem to focus on what the news story says it does.As a matter of fact, the Australian article focuses unduly on what it calls

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If you haven't noticed, Victor Davis Hanson is now blogging over at PajamasMedia.com.This is indeed good news. For me, his columns at his Private Papers website (over 2 million hits per month) have always been a valuable source of historical and military perspective so often missing in analysis of our wars and our times, but now, with his move to a blog, I hope we can see more spontaneous

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Here it is, from the UN website: Address byHis Excellency Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nej adPresident of the Islamic Republic of Iranbefore the 61 st Session of the General assemblyNew York, 19 September 2006Madam President, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Heads of Delegation, Excellencies, Ladies and GentlemenI praise the Merciful, All-Knowing and Almighty God for blessing me

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Michael Rubin encourages readers to consult Khaleel Mohammed in order to educate themselves to the differences in the English translations of the Koran. I didn't even know there were different versions. Here is Khaleel's intro: Multiple English translations of the Qur'an, Islam's scripture, line shelves at book stores. Amazon.com sells more than a dozen. Because of the growing Muslim communities

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Just discovered Steve Hayward's post on this, a Middle East Forum's publication of a US military intelligence's report of the long-term threats to global security in 1946. In that then classified report, we apparently get an unvarnished assessment of the factors foreseen to give rise to the Islamic threat from the Middle East to the rest of the world in the not too distant future. And, guess

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Over at my other blog, I've posted on AEI scholar Mark Falcoff's review of Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief. I note i t here because of its contemporary poltical relevance--the interaction of western ideals and 3rd world realities.Read it here: Philomythos: Waugh's Black Mischief.

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Reynolds draws out attention to a Rod Liddle and a Shelby Steele column on "white guilt" or multiculturalism myth that blinkers westerners in our war on terror. Here is Liddle in the Times:Quick, somebody buy a wreath. Last week marked the passing of multiculturalism as official government doctrine. No longer will opponents of this corrosive and divisive creed be silenced simply by the massed

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Niall Ferguson in the latest Foreign Affairs looks back to the 20th Century before looking ahead: The twentieth century was the bloodiest era in history. Despite the comfortable assumption that the twenty-first will be more peaceful, the same ingredients that made the last hundred years so destructive are present today. In particular, a conflict in the Middle East may well spark another

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The latest Cox and Forkum is an appropriate response to this news from Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union and a leading Islamic group on Wednesday accused security officials at New York's JFK airport of racially profiling Muslims."The price to pay for racial profiling is too high," Dennis Parker of the American Civil Liberties Union told a news conference. "All

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This is making waves....Newsbusters has transcripts and video clips of Christopher Hitchens (not, by the way, your typical Bush-supporter to say the least) flipping off Bill Mahrer's audience for frivolously equating the political goals of Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Bush just because they share similar apocalyptic visions of the end times.Hitchens called such understanding as "frivolous".

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Paul M. has some good news in Israeli politics.More than a few people say how different (that is, better) Bush is outside D.C.And related to that, Peter Schramm points out that Bush isn't as uncuriousier as he is made out to be.Peter also links up Juan Williams with Bill Cosby. What will they think of next?.....Michael Barone talks about ABC's 5-hour special on 9-11, scheduled for the 10th and

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I can confirm Scott's strong encouragment to read Jules Crittenden's column in the Boston Herald today. It offers, I want to propose, a good antidote, invoking Sharansky (below), to the blindness of our time to see evil. There are men out there who want us dead. This is undeniable. They want to see us all dead. Each and every one of us. They don’t know our names, they don’t know what our thoughts

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Cliff May points out that Omar Fadhil, co-founder of the blog Iraq the Model, in the Philadelphia Inquirer proposed the same idea last Friday that Bernard Lewis does today in the WSJ (immediately below).As an observer of the conflict from Iraq, I see the signs that Iran may be starting to launch the mullahs' version of an Armageddon, exploiting the religious beliefs of devout Shiites in the

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Here's Lewis' sobering opinion column that alot of people have been talking about, published today in Wall Street Journal. It is behind a subscription wall, but I believe this version is complete. Thanks DFME. During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction. Similar constraints have no

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It is interesting to read things like this in a column of a newspaper in the Middle East, The Arab Times to be exact. The writer is apparently the Editor-In-Chief.Nasrallah’s dictatorship will sink like those of Saddam Hussein and other regimes, which did not know their true ability. Egyptians suffered under the dictatorship of the late Gamal Abdul Nasser who led them to war in 1967. The late

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Today's Jerusalem Post has the story.According to the blogs, perhaps the most suspicious element in the Kana affair was the fact that the dead children whose photographs appeared in the media displayed virtually no signs of blood, bruises or broken bones and, with one exception, were not caked with debris or pulverized cement.For example, according to the antiliberal Conservative Yankee blog, "

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In today's Boston Herald, Boston Red Sox's Third baseman Mike Lowell says this about life under Castro:“My dad had to pack up his suitcase at 10 years old with his three brothers, who had nothing. And my mother was 11 years old and my grandfather, who’d been a dentist for 15 or 20 years, had to go back to school to be (politically) re-educated,” Lowell said. “My cousins were political prisoners.

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And here is Harry Kriesler's interview with Michael Oren (also mentioned below, two posts below to be exact). Also discovered as a result of VDH's recommendation. The date of the interview is November 8 2005.Soldier. Historian. Novelist. Advisor. Sounds like an interesting fellow.

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Post immediately below prompted me to a do a google on Fouad Ajami and I found his piece, The Autumn of Autocrats, on Lebanon in Foreign Affairs. It seems helpful for background, right now, on the showdown between Israel and Hezbollah (in Lebanon). The piece is dated June 2005 and refers to events earlier that year.Here is the magazine's summary:Summary: If the assassins of former Lebanese Prime

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A Reader's Question:Q. What reading would you suggest for someone wanting to understand the historical origins of the conflicts in the Middle East, as well as general reading on the history of the Middle East.A. I reviewed Fouad Ajami's The Foreigner's Gift for the next issue of Commentary and found it very insightful. Michael Oren's Six Days of War has valuable information well beyond the 1967

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John Derbyshire points out John Podhoretz's must read column today.July 25, 2006 -- WHAT if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?Derbyshire seconds Podhoretz with this quote of George Orwell written

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I just now caught this article by Hitchens on Plamegate. It is good. In sum, in Hitchens' fashion: When one thinks of the oceans of ink and acres of paper that have been wasted on this mother of all nonstories, one wants to weep for the journalistic profession as well as for the trees.Read the rest here.

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Pajamas Media has a link to an Alan Dershowitz column in the LA Times. In it, he recommends that we need to think of casualities and deaths of civilians and terrorists who hide and work among civilians differently than we do. Says he:We need a new vocabulary to reflect the realities of modern warfare. A new phrase should be introduced into the reporting and analysis of current events in the

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Click to enlarge.More here.(ht: Powerline)

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His column at TCS is here. He lists sites to buy directly from wineries and from dedicated online stores and the states they ship to.

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Over at In From the Cold, Spook 86 advises we take with a grain of salt the report from Japanese papers that Kim Jong's TP 2 was headed to Hawaii. Read it here.

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Professor of the Vine shares this one: EncycloWine, the wiki encyclopedia for wine enthusiasts.Here is their article on sangrias, a wine-punch I made for our 4th of July celebration. It was the rave of the party. Sugar might be nice, but we enjoyed it without. Here is the recipe I found and slightly modified. Besides being wine, it's a refreshing beverage for the hot weather. More, there are no

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Herb Meyer's "What Kim Jong-il is Really Up To" at The American Thinker: . . . the unification of Korea under his control.

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John at Powerline has got the most devasting argument that I've yet read against the defense ("The terrorists knew") of NY Times' Eric Lichtblau's article which revealed the classified means of tracing terrorist's financial networking through the program called SWIFT.He draws our attention to an earlier Lichtblau piece titled "U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Terror Funds." It was published November

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Despite cheap digs at Bennett on Meet the Press today, Bill Bennet wades into it with Bill Safire. MR. BENNETT: Well, we’re still talking about basic right and wrong here. And is there any question that people—I think I’m the only one here who signed a nondisclosure agreement when I was—when I was director of national drug control policy, maybe some of you have—it’s a pretty serious matter.

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From the guys at Powerline: which President do you suppose appealed to journalists and editors to apply two tests when it came to running stories dealing with national security? Consider:I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed

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Here, (via Powerline) from the Oregonian, is Dave Reinhard's great response to Keller's latest "press-convention bromides".

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Guess what, NY Times does in fact have standards for publishing sensitive material after all, as Wretchard over at Belmont Club reminds us. After a painful and careful deliberation, they refused to publish the Danish cartoons lampooning Muhammed. Good for them. We were beginning to wonder if they would publish anything. Wretchard says: New York Times editor Bill Keller said that he and his staff

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In dictatorships, you need courage to fight evil; in the free world, you need courage to see the evil."From Natan Sharansky's review of Melanie Phillips' Londonistan.

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Responding to NY Times' Editor Bill Keller's latest rationalization of the SWIFT leak, Glenn Reynolds' says it best: BILL KELLER ISN'T VERY BRIGHT, or else he thinks you aren't. How else to explain this passage in his apologia for the Times' publication of classified information about the terrorist financial surveillance program:Some of the incoming mail quotes the angry words of conservative

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Newsweek has an article about Hugh Hewitt and his unique web and talk-radio presence in the New Media. But really, its about taking what Hugh does and kicking it up a notch. Salem Communication, one of the nation's largest radio station owners and stable of a great set of talk show hosts--Hewitt, Medved, Bennett, others--teaming up with Townhall.com, hitherto a clearinghouse of conservative

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Professor Bainbridge is both an expert on law and wine. So, he has dedicated a blog to each. And here he has a lengthy post on port, its origins, styles, etc. All very good.But I wonder if he has tried Sella & Mosca's Cannanou Di Sardegna Riserva, 2002. It was refreshing, mild and smooth, complex but delicious, unlike any wine I've had.

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Paul over at Powerline says that parts of Diana West's piece, "Deluded America", comes about as close to being the purest distillation of the liberal soul as he has seen. It is good.I do wonder what passage of Churchill's she is thinking about....UPDATE: I emailed a quotation request to the Churchill Centre (since Ms. West never did respond) to see if they knew where Churchill might have said

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Adding to Andrew McCarthy's piece (post directly below) today on the NY Times, Michael Ledeen says this about the journalists of Main Street Media:These people are not acting like journalists at all. They are acting as a fourth branch of government, co-equal with the others. They arrogate to themselves the power to classify and declassify, to protect or reveal secrets and sources, as they see fit

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Despite appeals from the White House and Director of Intelligence Negroponte, the NY Times and the LA Times (and others?) published a story exposing the apparatus that has successfully has allowed us to track the financial connections of terrorist. Here is Andrew McCarthy's reaction:Yet again, the New York Times was presented with a simple choice: help protect American national security or help

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The teaching moment that Andy McCarthy asked for came and went today at the White House press briefing. In the 2nd to last question one question was directed to Stephen Hadley. It doesn't seem all that helpful, and it looks like that not only does the WH know but that they think they don't need to say any more--it is a self-teaching moment. Q This document that was unclassified yesterday,

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Today Senator Santorum and Representative Hoekstra had a press conference to announce, with the support of recently declassified information, that WMD's have indeed been found in Iraq. Here is an offical transcript of the presser.And here is Senator Santorum's press release: Senator Santorum Makes Major Announcement Regarding Newly Declassified Information Concerning Chemical Weapons Discovered

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Michael Barone draws attention to this very intellectually interesting letter, written by Blair when he was an aspiring 29-year old politician only recently rejected in a bid for a seat in Parliament. It was written to his mentor and then Leader of the Labour Party, Michael Foot. As Julia Langdon in the Telegraph speculates, it may reveal the "mainspring" of Blair's politics, not exactly as

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The guys over at No Left Turns have resurrected this Kissinger piece on soccer and character. I offer it up as good reading during the World Cup.

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Because it was so hard to find, and would not permit itself to be linked to, I have taken the liberty of pasting it in in full. Links to pdfs below.Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I can't help but comment on my good friend Mr. Murtha's eulogy for the first gulf war. The problem we have had there is we quit too soon. We quit before the victory was

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It will be a great loss to the House and Congress when Hyde retires (this term?), but today it looks like the great statesman from Illinois delivered a great speech. I got the last few minutes on a replay on CSPAN. Jason Barnes over at BeltwayBlitz thought the same here. And he is hoping to get a transcript soon. So far, all I can find is that he has introduced the bill H Res. 861 that was the

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Every now and again, the guys over at the Corner get going on a good thread. Today was such a day. It would be helpful for more people to read this because I know these sorts of thoughts, questions, and disputes lurk in conservatives as well as liberals.#1 post that started it:Bush at the Press Conference [John Podhoretz]One pretty strong moment (I'm paraphrasing):Ann Compton: Is this Vietnam?

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Who is John Mackey? He is the CEO of Whole Foods Market, the world's largest natural and organic foods grocery store. In this piece, in addition to giving hope to us liberal arts types, he explains his switch from liberal to free market principles. Here is a key excerpt:At the time I started my business, the Left had taught me that business and capitalism were based on exploitation: exploitation

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You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson. Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist

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I just got this as I was heading to bed. According to this BBC report, Zarqawi has been killed. Praise the LORD! Killed in air raid. (ht: Michele Malkin)Reminds me of what the F-15E strike pilot Rush had on last week said was his squad's motto: "Raining down fire from above, for the freedom that we love."UPDATE: I have since learned that the pilot was a hoax, but, ala Dan Rather, this information

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Over at Nihilist in Golf Pants, they've posted the Top 11 Things That Anti-War Protesters Would Have Said At the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (Had There Been Anti-War Protesters At Normandy)8. All this death and destruction is because the neo-cons are in the pocket of Israel . . . 5. We are attacked by Japan and then attack France? Roosevelt is worse than the Kaiser!(ht: John Podhoretz at Corner)

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Bias? In the NYT? What if John F. Burns were recalled from Baghdad to cover this week's Yankees-Red Sox series? Wouldn't that be fun? Here is how I imagine that report of Game 1 at Yankee Stadium would go: like this(ht: Instapundit)

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Jonah Goldberg posted this yesterday: Ouch [Jonah Goldberg]This is from a Canadian:This week the US “is prepared to provide Iran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium, diplomats said Tuesday”.And if I understand correctly you’re deciding on whether or not to give Hawaii away.All this in addition to having a debate as to the extent foreigners will be able to freely enter your

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