tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51863002011-11-11T14:05:55.060+01:00Hayek in SlovakiaA Senior Fellow from the F. A. Hayek Foundation, in Slovakia. Courageous Thinking -- Successful Reforms
Nadacia F. A. Hayeka, niekedy po slovensky. [Ale chudny char codes]Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.comBlogger2731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157802898392065372006-09-09T13:54:00.000+02:002006-09-09T13:54:58.393+02:00BBC NEWS | Africa | Baidoa warlord warns government: "A Somali government member and militia leader has called on the interim government to leave Baidoa, the town where it is based.Transport Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade told the BBC that militiamen would eject government members by force if they did not withdraw peacefully.Mr Habsade's militia have clashed with government troops in Baidoa Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157802699471277352006-09-09T13:51:00.000+02:002006-09-09T13:51:39.473+02:00BBC NEWS | Europe | Cartoons row hits Danish exports: "A Muslim boycott of Danish goods led to a 15.5% drop in total exports between February and June. Trade to the Middle East fell by half, statistics show."The Cartoon war costs in trade are more clear in the trade figures:"National statistics show that exports to Denmark's main market in the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia, fell by 40% following theTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157802497341813332006-09-09T13:48:00.000+02:002006-09-09T13:48:17.353+02:00BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian town buries bomb victims: "Muslims in India have begun burying their relatives after bomb attacks near a mosque killed at least 37 people."The city Malegaon is NE of Mumbai (Bombay), and has had prior riots between its Muslim majority and its Hindu minority.Bombs by one group against another group will become a greater problem until there is more tolerance of Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157801867365414452006-09-09T13:37:00.000+02:002006-09-09T13:37:47.433+02:00BBC NEWS | Europe | Europe diary: The great re-entry:Mark Mardell of the BBC says "the next most interesting booklet to plonk on my desk is a manifesto for an independent Flanders by a Flemish think tank, (Reflection Group 'In de Warande'). Its basic argument is that the Flemish part of Belgium and the French-speaking part have grown further apart, not closer together, since the nation was formedTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157798934341299622006-09-09T12:48:00.000+02:002006-09-09T12:48:54.353+02:00BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN warns of Gaza 'breaking point': "Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza have reached breaking point, a senior UN official has said."Karen Abuzayd is head of the UN Relief and Works Agency, and has said"The pressures and tactics have not resulted in a desire for compromise... but rather have created mass despair, anger and a sense of hopelessness and abandonment" ..Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1157798060025801012006-09-09T12:34:00.000+02:002006-09-09T12:34:20.116+02:00BBC NEWS | Middle East | Battle lines drawn in Iraq federal row: "The live television feed from the Iraqi parliament was cut on Thursday amid rowdy scenes over federalism."There is a 22 October deadline for resolving the process on achieving federal autonomy. The main issues are two main issues, power and oil. Power sharing can run from a single Iraq, strong government in Baghdad with some Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com75tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1141911454942337392006-03-09T14:37:00.000+01:002006-03-09T14:37:34.960+01:00 The Belmont Club The Cold War in the Phillipines; Lots of notes, ending: "Leafing through history, one realizes that it is possible to write an account of warfare without mentioning a single weapons system other than the human mind. The reader can try to expunge from the tale all reference to the human heart, but in vain: for man is at the center of warfare. His will is its ultimate prize; his Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1141908550564848572006-03-09T13:49:00.000+01:002006-03-09T13:49:10.566+01:00 Media Lies -Cartoons - After a long note by a poli sci prof on shwoing and discussing the cartoons: "If students whose concentration is politics and media are ignorant of facts, then the media has failed them in a fundamental way. If the media's failure to inform stems from a political bias, it is all the more insidious, because it seeks not only to inform but to influence by refusing to Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1141908405161337352006-03-09T13:46:00.000+01:002006-03-09T13:46:45.343+01:00 normblog Lying as speech: "When David Irving was sentenced to a prison term for Holocaust denial I stated the view that he shouldn't have been. I stated it without much argument, appealing simply to standard free speech principles. Here I want to defend that view by considering the two main ways of challenging it I've come across in the discussion that has been going on since Irving was Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1141393530191782872006-03-03T14:45:00.001+01:002006-03-03T14:45:30.200+01:00OpinionJournal - Black Flight The only way blacks will get better schooling?: "Something momentous is happening here in the home of prairie populism: black flight. African-American families from the poorest neighborhoods are rapidly abandoning the district public schools, going to charter schools, and taking advantage of open enrollment at suburban public schools. Today, just around half of Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1141393503085757442006-03-03T14:45:00.000+01:002006-03-03T14:45:05.290+01:00OpinionJournal - Black Flighta> The only way blacks will get better schooling?: "Something momentous is happening here in the home of prairie populism: black flight. African-American families from the poorest neighborhoods are rapidly abandoning the district public schools, going to charter schools, and taking advantage of open enrollment at suburban public schools. Today, just around half of Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1140820608032568432006-02-24T23:36:00.000+01:002006-02-24T23:36:48.106+01:00Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq -- NRO framing the issue correctly: "Again, the question now is an existential one: Can the United States — or anyone — in the middle of a war against Islamic fascism, rebuild the most important country in the heart of the Middle East, after 30 years of utter oppression, three wars, and an Orwellian, totalitarian dictator warping of the minds of the populace? And can Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1140454429806706972006-02-20T17:53:00.000+01:002006-02-20T17:53:49.816+01:00 The Belmont Club on Rumsfeld's info war: "Some commenters believed that information warfare should be used to goad the Muslim street into a final, apocalyptic confrontation. Pork Rind for Allah seriously argues for the use of ridicule 'to drive them insane', reflecting the view that the mental struggle between Islam and the West was between two irreconcilable camps, in which perhaps the jeer is Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1140453771514376842006-02-20T17:42:00.000+01:002006-02-20T17:42:51.516+01:00Belgium should become two countries in a velvet divorce.Times: Cupid's wicked arrow splits Belgium : "HE IS a senior conservative politician, she a young Socialist MP, but it is not only a political clash of allegiances that has turned the love affair between Hendrik Daems and Sophie Pécriaux into such a big scandal in Belgium.Nor was it the announcement by Daems, 46, that he is divorcing the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1140453415469049852006-02-20T17:36:00.000+01:002006-02-20T17:36:55.523+01:00Is terrorism defined by its purpose?normblog: Terror's victims and the UN: "The Madrid Declaration of 2004 states the matter in a clear way: 'Terrorism is never justifiable... Whatever its form, terrorism is always an unjust and unjustified, cruel, abominable and repulsive crime. It is an affront to the most basic rights of individuals and communities.'.....I would like to look at how the mostTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139487669547656412006-02-09T13:21:00.000+01:002006-02-09T13:21:09.563+01:00 "Bonfire of the Pieties" Jeff writes that: "the “branding” of what is “official” Islam can only be settled by a will to power, and by an adherence to identity politics that allows for the strong (often armed or more devoutly militant) within a particular identity group to claim control over that group’s narrative and become its public face. Dissenters, once internecine battles have been settled,Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139485326848404882006-02-09T12:42:00.000+01:002006-02-09T12:42:06.860+01:00 Austin Bay Blog: "The cartoons seemed familiar to our Egyptian blogger. …they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn’t a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt…Read the whole thing. NoTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com87tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139483019928319202006-02-09T12:03:00.000+01:002006-02-09T12:03:39.940+01:00In From the Cold: An Idea That Simply Won't Work MAD with Iran fails: "Mr. de Borchgrave spends about 500 words tracing the mystical beliefs of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, including his efforts to hasten the return of the 12th Imam, known as the Mahdi. According to Shiite tradition, the Mahdi went into 'occlusion' in the 9th century (at the age of 5). Ahmadinejad calculates that the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139425395220289532006-02-08T20:03:00.000+01:002006-02-08T20:03:15.346+01:00Andrew Sullivan | The Daily DishWorth reading, again.Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139250238711550452006-02-06T19:23:00.000+01:002006-02-06T19:23:58.776+01:00Remembering a great man: Americans for Prosperity : "Ronald Reagan -- who would have turned 95 today -- will forever stand out as the pre-eminent leader of my lifetime, whether as the man who lost the 1976 nomination battle but won the war of ideas . . . or the fiery candidate who gave America purpose again in 1980 . . . or the President who restored the American economy and won the Cold War Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1139016423319414462006-02-04T02:27:00.000+01:002006-02-04T02:27:03.373+01:00 The Irish Trojan's blog - Brendan Loy's homepage: "The NAACP chairman is a bigoted idiot, and the media doesn't care:Here's a question for you. If the chairman of the NAACP were to equate Republicans with Nazis, compare conservative judges to the Taliban, and call Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell "tokens," that would be pretty newsworthy, don't you think?"MSM covers for Black Racism in black Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138816025386653132006-02-01T18:47:00.000+01:002006-02-01T18:47:05.386+01:00 La Shawn Barber’s CornerNew Justice Alito: "“He said first of all it was different then,” she said. “He said, ‘I was an advocate seeking a job, it was a political job and that was 1985. I’m now a judge, I’ve been on the circuit court for 15 years and it’s very different. I’m not an advocate, I don’t give heed to my personal views, what I do is interpret the law.’” (Source)"LaShawn doesn't know Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138815276687384122006-02-01T18:34:00.000+01:002006-02-01T18:34:36.736+01:00 neo-neocon Anti-War folk: "Ah, to have perfectly clean hands! To obtain a magic bullet that targets only the guilty is a wonderful goal indeed. But it is, unfortunately, an unrealistic dream at the moment--although the smarter and smarter the bombs (and intelligence) get, the closer it is to being realized.The United States, Israel, and most Western states who engage in combat all aim mightily Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138726453511953112006-01-31T17:54:00.000+01:002006-01-31T17:54:13.520+01:00 The Belmont Club Looks at Hate Speech on Religion: "Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson has launched a comedians' campaign against a government bill to outlaw inciting religious hatred. ... Mr Atkinson told a meeting at the House of Commons on Monday night there are 'quite a few sketches' he has performed which would come into conflict with the proposed law.He added: 'To criticise a person for their Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138725144053087252006-01-31T17:32:00.000+01:002006-01-31T17:32:24.066+01:00Danish Paper Apologizes. Dutch Cartoon on Its Way | The Brussels Journal: "As The Brussels Journal reported earlier radical Danish Muslim organizations toured the Arab world three weeks ago and themselves added three additional pictures to the original twelve. One of them shows Muhammad as a pedophile demon, another the prophet with a pigsnout, while the third one depicts a praying Muslim being Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138723484676468482006-01-31T17:04:00.000+01:002006-01-31T17:04:44.733+01:00 The Anchoress writes of her friend of 20 years, Jane. Now gone:"Two days after a wonderful Christmas she has a backache that sends her to a doctor.Jane was not doctor-phobic. Being the sole provider for her children, she understood that she needed to stay healthy. She ate right, she had yearly check-ups, mammograms, etc.There was no clue that anything was wrong, and yet the doctors last week Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138705486234833322006-01-31T12:04:00.000+01:002006-01-31T12:04:46.236+01:00 La Shawn Barber’s Corner: "Until a thing negatively affects us, we generally don’t pay much attention to it. To many blacks, Hispanics were just another minority group, united as brothers-in-arms against “white oppression.” Now that employers are skipping over American citizens to hire people who ought to be in a jail cell instead of an employment office, I hope to see all Americans, especially Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138704938043542752006-01-31T11:55:00.000+01:002006-01-31T11:55:38.053+01:00 Dean's World Google sucking up to Commie China: "I have a simple proposal: the apartheid government in South Africa, in the 1980s, asks internet search engines operating in South Africa to block any sites regarding anyone named Mandela, the African National Congress, the notion of democracy, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or even the Declaration of Independence. Google rolls over Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138704234915488332006-01-31T11:43:00.000+01:002006-01-31T11:43:54.916+01:00 Media Lies : "Is spying on US citizens........when they're in public unconstitutional? The ACLU says so, but I kind of doubt it."I don't know the law, but if it's legal to videotape "johns" visiting prostitutes, I think getting every protest on film is good. Even digital filmTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138703949126806382006-01-31T11:39:00.000+01:002006-01-31T11:39:09.126+01:00 Media Lies Unhappy at all the attention on Woodruff: "I heard Paul Harvey mention that Woodruff has four children and his cameraman has three, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice if just once in a while they reported these types of things about our soldiers when they're injured.'In the coming days, Woodruff will get an inordinate amount of attention from our media. Meanwhile our troops will Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138703729656083052006-01-31T11:35:00.000+01:002006-01-31T11:35:29.656+01:00 Media Lies US - Canada mine safety: "I immediately wondered why we don't have similar safe rooms in American mines. Eleven of the twelve Sago miners that died may have survived if they had had such a system. (The twelfth was killed in the original explosion, according to media reports.)In a related story, Willisms looks at the claims surrounding the Sago fire and finds them wanting. The supposedTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138703582567868582006-01-31T11:33:00.000+01:002006-01-31T11:33:02.580+01:00 Grim's Hall - SWAT kills unarmed Doctor: "'In my opinion, there are no accidental discharges,' said John Gnagey, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association. Gnagey was not familiar with the Fairfax case but said that in general, 'Most of what we see in law enforcement are negligent discharges, fingers being on the trigger when they shouldn't be.'"More training; suspension, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138698121765590502006-01-31T10:02:00.000+01:002006-01-31T10:02:01.826+01:00normblog - Shalom Lappin of Engage: "Regardless of what one thinks of Zionism and the creation of Israel in historical terms, Israel is a country that has existed for close to sixty years, and it now has a population of 6,869,500. Of these, 5,529,300 (80%) are Israeli Jews, who constitute a clearly recognizable national entity characterised by a language, shared culture, and common history. UsingTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138293717349937172006-01-26T17:41:00.000+01:002006-01-26T17:41:57.426+01:00 Michael J. Totten is on his way to Iraq, maybe: "In the meantime, the Lebanese Political Journal fisks a silly op-ed about Iran's nuclear weapons in the New York Times by Flint Leverett. Leverett gets everything wrong. It's hard to get everything wrong, but some people manage to find a way"Lebop starts with a huge error (lie?) by Leverett:1) Leverett argues Iran offered to assist in the invasionTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138190676016748492006-01-25T13:04:00.000+01:002006-01-25T13:04:36.030+01:00AEI - Short Publications: "Out of a long, long list of irritants, two stand out as the most fateful moments in the weakening of Washington's once enthusiastic admiration for Paul Martin.The first came in February 2005, when the Martin government announced that Canada would not after all join the US missile defence plan. At the Bush-Martin summit meeting in Ottawa in November 2004, Martin had led Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138189977882791962006-01-25T12:52:00.000+01:002006-01-25T12:52:57.883+01:00 normblog: "Iraqis and Afghans are [among the] most optimistic people in the world when it comes to their economic future, a new survey for the BBC suggests. ..... Canadians are bullish not just about their own finances (64%), but also about the economic prospects of their country (63%). They are joined in their optimism by the people of two countries devastated by war and civil conflictTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138189875375811402006-01-25T12:51:00.000+01:002006-01-25T12:51:15.386+01:00 La Shawn Barber’s Corner--March For Life: "Update II (1/24): It was amazing to be surrounded by so many pro-life people! As expected, I didn’t see many black people in the crowd. But no matter. I care more about their pro-life stance than whether they were represented at a rally.I’ve never felt more like a “minority” than I did yesterday walking through the crowd. Some people did double-takes Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138186019198535282006-01-25T11:46:00.000+01:002006-01-25T11:46:59.200+01:00 neo-neocon Joan Baez likes Michael Moore: "Ah, Vietnam! Those were the days, my friend, we are determined that they'll never end. Here's Joan again:'If they're honest with themselves, says Baez, veterans of the peace movement, of the war itself or of any great struggle for social change must admit that for all the woes they suffered, there is a terrible anticlimax when it ends. 'Afterwards Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138185721815623772006-01-25T11:42:00.000+01:002006-01-25T11:42:01.890+01:00The Belmont Club on Iran: "If American society really wanted the capability to covertly upend mentally disturbed dictators it would take the trouble to build up the mechanism to do it. Instead, General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency recently had to explain before a hostile audience at the National Press Club why it was necessary to wiretap Al Qaeda. Nobody in thatTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1138153314169793162006-01-25T02:41:00.000+01:002006-01-25T02:41:54.226+01:00Media Lies -NSA legal -: "GEN. HAYDEN: Let me talk for a few minutes also about what this program is not. It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about....................So let me make this clear. When you're talking to yourTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137676282358600282006-01-19T14:11:00.000+01:002006-01-19T14:11:22.426+01:00Men "thirst" for vengence, or at least are pleased to see it occur JustOneMinute: Now Ask Them About Coercive Interrogation: "On scans, both men and women seemed to feel the pain of partners they liked. But the real surprise came during scans when the subjects viewed the partners they disliked being shocked. 'When women saw the shock, they still had an empathetic response, even though it was Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137594002916880592006-01-18T15:20:00.000+01:002006-01-18T15:20:02.926+01:00 SHEEN AIKIDO : "After every grading there are some students disappointed, and even upset, if they have not been successful in obtaining their next grade. Gradings are not rewards for training hard or attending sessions regularly, although both of these elements are necessary if your Aikido is to develop properly. Gradings are but an assessment of the student's ability to move on to the next Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137593006476805132006-01-18T15:03:00.000+01:002006-01-18T15:03:26.540+01:00 Grim's Hall: "Francis J. Beckwith has a review of a new book on the separation of church and state. I was not aware of the Ku Klux Klan's role in the move of that doctrine to the fore of American jurisprudence, as a result of anti-Catholic prejudce -- if the book is correct in its assertion, that is ...I tend to think that the American courts have taken the doctrine of separation a bit too far, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137446993322174562006-01-16T22:29:00.000+01:002006-01-16T22:29:53.383+01:00Victor Davis Hanson on Iran on National Review Online: "we all agree on the extent of the crisis, but not on the solutions, which can be summarized by four general options.First is the ostrich strategy — see and hear no evil, if extending occasional peace feelers out to more reasonable mullahs. "This seems to be the one the Dems favor. Bush should be pointing out how well it worked in Rwanda; Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137440673916122692006-01-16T20:44:00.000+01:002006-01-16T20:44:33.983+01:00On the Latin America summit, some lessons Hemispheric threads - Washington Times: "The first is to recognize that we are once again in a battle of ideas and ideals. As shown spectacularly by the elections in Bolivia, the populist agenda has been resurrected, promising a quick fix and 'independence' from U.S. economic 'imperialism.'"Yep. "Socialism is back."Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137199902716450672006-01-14T01:51:00.000+01:002006-01-14T01:51:42.730+01:00 PressThink: "'CNN is so empty-handed in documenting how it knew the men were alive that the producers resort to playing audio tapes of a dispatcher's voice at some unidentified ambulance service, and someone named 'caller' is saying... that's what we heard, yeah, 12 alive.'"Jay has more facts and quotes on how a responsible paper avoided the mistake -- showing up the media hot dogs.Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137198249461596972006-01-14T01:24:00.000+01:002006-01-14T01:24:09.463+01:00Eve at normblogwhy Kuper singles Israel out for criticism: "an implication of his view is that we should cut much more slack to countries which are unashamedly oppressive and tyrannical, and be far harsher to countries which explicitly endorse liberal values. (And indeed quite a few of those who think it's OK to single out Israel for criticism do appear to be acting on that principle.) This is a Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137197817434383362006-01-14T01:16:00.000+01:002006-01-14T01:16:57.433+01:00 David Corn is critical of Dems: "S/he predicted there would be no Democratic filibuster against Alito, that Alito will handily win approval on the Senate floor, and that Alito will go on to become a justice as conservative as Antonin Scalia. Unfortunately, these are not daring predictions. I still don't know what the Democrats were thinking. It seems to me they had one strategy--the gotcha Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137197704464846782006-01-14T01:15:00.000+01:002006-01-14T01:15:04.466+01:00 neo-neocon: "That's the difference between states that act as terrorists and those that sometimes have to cause loss of life with deep regret. The former, such as Iran, not only sponsor outright terrorism of various kinds, but deliberately expose their civilian populations to harm, counting on the reluctance of countries such as the US or Israel to harm innocent civilians. All the while, Iran Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137197689198264272006-01-14T01:14:00.000+01:002006-01-14T01:14:49.260+01:00Marc Cooper on the Mexican border: "The jokes around the border this morning have changed: 'Hear abut the new jobs for us?' asks one Mexicn ditty, 'who do u thin’s gonna wind up building that wall?' Another story now circulating: 'New Wall 50Ft, New Ladders for Sale 51ft.'"Gotta increase the number of legal guest workers, increase the fines for employers of illegal ones, and push immigrants to Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137148791187522152006-01-13T11:39:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:39:51.200+01:00 normblog on International Law & Iraq War: "If this is indeed the state of international law, if a regime which murders hundreds of thousands of its own people (to say nothing of the other cruelties the Baathist dictatorship was responsible for) may not be overthrown by outside intervention, then that is a law that needs to be opposed and changed - just like legal hangings, or amputations, for Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137148172856441642006-01-13T11:29:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:29:32.866+01:00 Grim's Hall - perhaps the only interesting post on Alito: "Biden apparently asked if the President 'can just go ahead and violate international law ('that's the administration's position,' said Biden).'The answer to that question, as I understand it, is that it depends on what is meant by 'international law.' If it refers to anything informal, or treaties we haven't ratified but which have been Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137147519012957952006-01-13T11:18:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:18:39.013+01:00 Media Lies - NYT Hypocrites -: "Meanwhile, responsible news organizations might also want to consider explicitly endorsing a joint congressional investigative committee's call for the extension of such surveillance to U.S.-based targets. 'The CIA and the National Security Agency, which does electronic eavesdropping, will also have to devote more of their efforts to analyzing international Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137147196970000182006-01-13T11:13:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:13:16.970+01:00 Media Lies -The first traitor comes forward -: "Russell Tice, a former NSA employee, as publicly admitted to being one of the sources for the Times' NSA revelations."I hope he gets jail time real soon.Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137147029512762622006-01-13T11:10:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:10:29.513+01:00 neo-neocon on Haj and other Stampeded: "It seems to be an almost inevitable part of the ritual of the Haj, despite all the efforts (and they've been considerable) of the Saudi government to prevent it: a stampede that kills large numbers of pilgrims.I wrote this post back in September on the subject of stampedes. The following words are as relevant today as they were then"Go read it.Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137146909099070472006-01-13T11:08:00.000+01:002006-01-13T11:08:29.146+01:00 neo-neocon on Iran: "Recently the situation there has been escalating, both in pronouncements (see this and this, as well as this), and now, of course, in action: Iran's bold and brazen breaking of the nuclear seals.I wrote back here that I hoped Europe was at least beginning to awaken to the danger. And now someone who knows far more about Iran than I, Dr. Zin of the blog Regime Change Iran, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137143758432674322006-01-13T10:15:00.000+01:002006-01-13T10:15:58.486+01:00AIDS and HIV -- the establishment might be wrong. Dean's World - -: "If the papers that Duesberg cites are not misrepresented — and it is difficult to see how hundreds of papers could be misrepresented without the AIDS establishment coming down mercilessly on his misrepresentations — then his points are indeed compelling. For example: Why is the amount of HIV present in most AIDS patients so Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137110706369088532006-01-13T01:05:00.000+01:002006-01-13T01:05:06.423+01:00Austin Bay Blog » Iran’s Uranium Mullahs, Again: " On returning to Iran from New York, Ahmadinejad recalled the effect of his UN speech: One of our group told me that when I started to say “In the name of God the almighty and merciful,” he saw a light around me, and I was placed inside this aura. I felt it myself. I felt the atmosphere suddenly change, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137026846793300592006-01-12T01:47:00.000+01:002006-01-12T01:47:26.793+01:00La Shawn Barber’s Corner against Black Thug Culture: "If American blacks, as a group, don’t start: 1) marrying before they have children, 2) stigmatizing illegitimacy as they once did, 3) ostracizing immorality and decadency, 4) holding themselves accountable for their children’s low educational achievement, 5) shunning criminality, and 6) resisting the “racism” hustle — moral decay, social Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137026247974944242006-01-12T01:37:00.000+01:002006-01-12T01:37:27.996+01:00 The Anchoress on Teddy: "Even when I was a Democrat, I didn’t much like Ted Kennedy, but I’ve always kind of felt bad for him. He may have power and money but the rest of the picture is pretty grim. I don’t believe he has any business sitting in judgement of Sam Alito or John Roberts or Clarence Thomas or any other public figure, for that matter (my whole turn rightward can be traced to the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137025564280309282006-01-12T01:26:00.000+01:002006-01-12T01:26:04.290+01:00The Anchoress quotes Pope Benedict XVI: "“Europe is infected by a strange lack of desire for the future. Children, our future, are perceived as a threat to the present, as though they were taking something away from our lives. Children are seen - at least by some people - as a liability rather than as a source of hope. Here it is obligatory to compare today’s situation with the decline of the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137024941996558802006-01-12T01:15:00.000+01:002006-01-12T01:15:42.006+01:00 neo-neocon thinks about bloggers when reading: "Creative and manic thinking are both distinguished by fluidity and by the capacity to combine ideas in ways that form new and original connections. Thinking in both tends to be divergent in nature, less goal-bound, and more likely to leap about or wander in a variety of directions. Diffuse, diverse, and leapfrogging ideas were first noted thousandsTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137022460287024402006-01-12T00:34:00.000+01:002006-01-12T00:34:20.330+01:00Media Lies - Journalists must testify -: "Justice Byron White’s opinion for the five-to-four majority began, “The issue in these cases is whether requiring newsmen to appear and testify before state or federal grand juries abridges the freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment. We hold that it does not.” White’s opinion was a scathing dismissal of the journalists’ position. “The Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1137016120767805212006-01-11T22:48:00.000+01:002006-01-11T22:48:40.883+01:00On Objectivism.who was Ayn Rand? - a biography, Playboy interview, 1964: "RAND: It begins with the axiom that existence exists, which means that an objective reality exists independent of any perceiver or of the perceiver's emotions, feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Objectivism holds that reason is man's only means of perceiving reality and his only guide to action. By reason, I mean the facultyTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136986450425358332006-01-11T14:34:00.000+01:002006-01-11T14:34:10.483+01:00 normblog- reviews Richard Dawkins : "I have to say, despite my periodic criticism of his one-sided anti-religious tirades, most of what he said about the importance of reason, evidence, the need to test ideas and so forth, didn't come amiss. The value of these things was brought out by the character of most of those he was interviewing, who were their living negation."I don't think most Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136774445033929042006-01-09T03:40:00.000+01:002006-01-09T03:40:45.043+01:00 Ann Arbor bank creates subsidiary for Muslims: "Among the laws of Shariah is a ban against paying or receiving interest.The bank's Islamic deposit accounts allow Muslims to open accounts where any profits are shared rather than paid as interest.(Via Michelle)University Bank also offers a mortgage alternative loan transaction program - or MALT - which replaces a traditional home loan with a Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136768552232985192006-01-09T02:02:00.000+01:002006-01-09T02:02:32.233+01:00 GM's Corner on Abramhoff: "This isn't to say we agree with the media hype that the Abramoff scandal is of 'historic proportions.' That's true only if your 'history' starts around 1994, after Jim Wright sold his 'book' in bulk to the Teamsters, after Tony Coelho of 'Honest Graft' fame, after Abscam, the Keating Five, Clark Clifford and BCCI, and any number of other famous episodes of Capitol HillTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136768082860302762006-01-09T01:54:00.000+01:002006-01-09T01:54:42.873+01:00The US Military is hostile to Christianity GM's Corner on a Chaplain's Hunger Strike: "he said if the Navy would allow him to wear his uniform in public and pray in Jesus' name he would end his fast. Klingenschmitt told WND this evening he has received a letter from his commanding officer giving him permission to do so."Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136764026590859572006-01-09T00:47:00.000+01:002006-01-09T00:47:06.613+01:00 The Belmont Club on the World's Reaction to Sharon: "Are we talking about the same man who Belgium wanted to try for war crimes? The same Ariel Sharon who Amnesty International wanted investigated for crimes against humanity? Their absolution should be as worthless as their condemnation. And if so, what yardstick of opprobrium or praise can a man bear with him to eternity if he wants more than Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136762782400473582006-01-09T00:26:00.000+01:002006-01-09T00:26:22.413+01:00Can't miss any opportunity to laugh at Pat Robertson David Corn: "I will say this about Pat Robertson: he doesn't let profit get in the way of religious kookery. Two postings below, I commented on the recent news that Israel was cutting a deal with Robertson to create a fundamentalist Christian theme park by the Sea of Galilee. Now as his business partner Ariel Sharon may be nearing death, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136761937524441632006-01-09T00:12:00.000+01:002006-01-09T00:12:17.540+01:00 Austin Bay Blog: "I heard several rumors in Iraq, from friends of mine, about the quantity of intelligence material we captured. (See the quote below from the Weekly Standard Stephen Hayes’ article, referencing “two million” items.) Here is the essence of a memorable if short conversation I had with a young intelligence officer in June 2004: “Colonel Bay, we have so much stuff we can’t even Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136760919687134852006-01-08T23:55:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:55:19.686+01:00neo-neocon Lies and the lying liars who hear them: "In truth, the hallmark of a lie is that its locus is in the speaker. To be lying, the speaker must be aware of the falsehood of the utterances. So whether or not something is a lie has nothing to do with the listener, and everything to do with the teller.But many listeners in our day and age have lost sight--not just of truth vs. relative truth,Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136760644343483102006-01-08T23:50:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:50:44.346+01:00 neo-neocon A New Leak -- Iran shopping for nukes: "The leak consists of a report that has amassed evidence that Iran is planning a nuclear future that includes nuclear weapons, and not just a peaceful reactor. Is there anyone naive enough to have doubted that, even before this report? Well, my guess is the answer is 'yes;'probably much of the Guardian's readership would have fallen into that Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136760547727994682006-01-08T23:49:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:49:07.736+01:00 neo-neocon on the Miners: "So, what happened? It seems that 'sources' said the miners were alive, but who those sources were and what information they were relying on is still unclear. One thing is clear: there was no official announcement by those in charge of rescue operations, and the AP was heavily involved in pushing the premature story into many newspapers via the wire service."Neo then Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136759560831187842006-01-08T23:32:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:32:40.833+01:00 Marc Cooper skewers a WaPo PC whitewash of the crooked Indians who paid Abramoff: "No question that the Louisiana-based Coushattas – who Casino Jack referred to in e-mails as “monkeys,” “troglodytes,” and “morons” — got sleazed by Abramoff. But let’s slow down for a moment.The 837 member tribe was perfectly willing to hand over a barge load of cash to Abramoff –$32 million to be precise—in hopesTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136759432396403352006-01-08T23:30:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:30:32.396+01:00Marc Cooper refers to ex-Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda's Newsweek piece: "Jorge argues that with most Latin American nations now under left-of-center government, it’s a primitive notion to lump all the new leaders together into one, single species of 'lefist.' There’s one 'left,' he points out that comes out of a Marxist past and, therefore, has successfully assimilated the failures Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136759013496907942006-01-08T23:23:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:23:33.506+01:00Venezuela is about to successfully seduce Bolivia. Plan Colombia and Beyond: Where is Washington's counter-offer?: "In a signed agreement, Chávez committed Venezuela to providing Bolivia with the following: * An immediate $30 million donation to pay for social programs. * According to Bolivia’s La Razón newspaper, “Venezuela will supply all of the fuel that the Bolivian population consumes,Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136757878538444142006-01-08T23:04:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:04:38.536+01:00 Marc Cooper on Arnie: "So, about 60 seconds after Schwarzie got his ham-sized glutes handed to him in his disastrous special election two months ago, he radically shifted course. With a shit-eating grin on his face, the Gov quickly scurried back to the center. Since then, it’s been all Goodness and Light he’s been beaming from Sacramento: apologizing to voters for not understanding their issues,Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136757784308775932006-01-08T23:03:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:03:04.310+01:00Marc Cooper: "I’m republishing the excellent chart on the Abramoff graft flow from the Washington Post. Click on the image to get a zoom, detalied view."Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136757701487859892006-01-08T23:01:00.000+01:002006-01-08T23:01:41.496+01:00Outrage at genetic monopoly Marc Cooper: "you could argue that the lobbying/legislative-bang-for-the-buck generated by tribal funds is of a rather spectacular level. A few tens of millions handed out to primarily Democratic officials has created, and protects, a booming and lightly-regulated $20 billion a year industry –an industry that is legally sanctioned, no less, as a genetic monopoly. That’Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136752161188372122006-01-08T21:29:00.000+01:002006-01-08T21:29:21.200+01:00 La Shawn Barber’s Corner on Philly: "The only bright spot was clerking during the summers for a hilariously nasty, old-school, prosecution-leaning criminal court judge. I loved when he’d yell at grown men who dared enter his courtroom wearing a hat, with his booming voice ricocheting against the walls. I don’t care how “street” or sophisticated the men were. They were all humbly embarrassed."Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136751478691970492006-01-08T21:17:00.000+01:002006-01-08T21:17:58.703+01:00Media Lies - Two Polls -: (Via Dayfdd) " 'Another point the 'two' polls share: they both wildly overpolled Democrats — 52% of the respondents were Democrats, 40% were Republicans, and 8% were independents; that is, they polled almost a third more Democrats than Republicans.'It's obvious that the AP wasn't attempting to accurately gauge public opinion, or they would have done a better job of Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136750445949247362006-01-08T21:00:00.000+01:002006-01-08T21:00:45.950+01:00Are you a Vet??? Michael Yon wants YOU "Call for Volunteers: Any retired military personnel interested in the Frontline Forum, please email to michaelyonmagazine@hotmail.com, and put “Volunteer” in the subject heading. Please describe briefly your military experience and an estimate to the number of hours per week you can spend reading stories from troops. If you have skills that are in some way Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136750325014173522006-01-08T20:58:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:58:45.016+01:00Media Lies -Saddam trained terrorists -: "THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136750216208602852006-01-08T20:56:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:56:56.210+01:00Media Lies -Ignoring stories -: "There is a major story around the world that is being reported by many other countries. This story is not in the MSM and there has been no mention of the story though it is about America and involves our safety. Italy has broken a terror plot aimed at the United States. Here are headlines that appeared everywhere but the USA: * “U.S. terror attacks foiled,” Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136750112571451862006-01-08T20:55:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:55:12.583+01:00Media Lies -Dem Politics over truth -: "Jane Harmon, who was a strong supporter of the NSA program as little as three weeks ago, has now announced that, in her opinion, the program was illegal. You can read the legal discussion at Michelle's blog. Be sure to follow the link to JunkYardBlog's 'Who Got to Rep. Jane Harman?' for an interesting take on what's going on.It's clear to me that Democrats Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136747764970735512006-01-08T20:16:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:16:04.970+01:00Her son was killed today. Grim's Hall on Murtha-Moran: (via Greyhawk) General Wagner: "And I'll tell you the reason I came at 7:30 is because I want an answer to a letter, to a friend of ours. She wrote this letter to Mr. Murtha, where she pointed out to him that he was causing the insurgents to bring more activity against the soldiers in Iraq, just as the traitors did during the Vietnam war. I Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136747525321334472006-01-08T20:12:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:12:05.323+01:00 Grim's Hall on Immigration & Julie Myers: "Mr. Lieberman said Congress had intended the position to be held by someone with at least five years' management experience.'In my opinion, she lacks the management background,' he said. 'And one of her key responsibilities is to enforce immigration laws, and she has virtually no immigration experience.'"Later Grim points out the White House talks Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136747402676657842006-01-08T20:10:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:10:02.690+01:00 Grim's Hall comments on Steyn: Doc Russia responds "Actually, in a lot of the world, I think we have more in common with Muslims than we do with anyone else. The Muslims of Xinjiang province, China, for example -- they're about as happy with Communist China as we are. I read Malaysian and Philippine newspapers regularly as part of my job (and so can you, if you want; Bernama, the state news wireTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136741459928132882006-01-08T18:30:00.000+01:002006-01-08T18:30:59.940+01:00Norm interviews Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution Tyler likes to read Brad DeLong, among other blogs.Then Norm highlights how the Islamofascists we're fighting murder teachers.normblog: "Armed men burst into the home of Malim Abdul Habib in Qalat, the capital of restive Zabul province, on Tuesday night. They dragged him into a courtyard and forced his family to watch as they cut off his head, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136740521197671352006-01-08T18:15:00.000+01:002006-01-08T18:15:21.196+01:00Norm highlights a silly Mary Robinson in support of doing nothing against genocide (implicitly). normblog: Sackur: "One fascinating insight into human rights attitudes round the world I had in recent weeks was chatting to Mary Robinson who till very recently was the UN chief running the Human Rights Commission. She said the problem is that, because of what has happened, post-Iraq in particular, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136740029912811532006-01-08T18:07:00.000+01:002006-01-08T18:07:09.913+01:00Norm refers to the Lebanon Daily Star on the Egyptian elections, and the lie about favoring democracy. normblog: "During the final round of elections in early December, and facing gains by its foes, the Egyptian regime gave up all pretenses of openness and resorted to brute force. Some towns, particularly Muslim Brotherhood strongholds, were placed under virtual occupation. Everywhere, Egyptians Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136739733937597132006-01-08T18:02:00.000+01:002006-01-08T18:02:13.940+01:00Norm supports Dawkins and secularism against a reasonably good attack. normblog: "Madeleine Bunting is having a go at Richard Dawkins today and for once I've got to hand it to her, she makes some valid points against him. So let me begin with those, as summarized by me: first, any serious approach to religion has to start from its centrality throughout history and try to make some sociological Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136739252678879682006-01-08T17:54:00.000+01:002006-01-08T17:54:12.690+01:00Norm on a Leftist and PC Heresy normblog: "Joanathan Freedland, not noted for being a fan of George W. Bush, poses a heretical question: For a left liberal like me, it is not easy to commit heresy. After all, we are meant to be open-minded free thinkers, unshackled by taboos. Nevertheless there is one thought so heretical, merely to utter it would ensure instant excommunication. I hesitate Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136738642484389322006-01-08T17:44:00.000+01:002006-01-08T17:44:02.580+01:00Dean's World -P11 and Depression -: "This is interesting: a gene called P11 and its related proteins may play a role in chronic depression. Those of us who have problems with this particular malady are always on the lookout for stuff like that.There's an old question when it comes to the brain: if you see differences in brain construction associated with a behavior or malady, does that mean the Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136638616792042772006-01-07T13:56:00.000+01:002006-01-07T13:56:56.803+01:00Austin Bay Blog » UPDATED: Death of Israel’s “New Center”?: In November Austin Bay wrote "a column examining Ariel Sharon’s attempt to forge a new “political center” in Israel. The column appeared a couple of days before Shimon Peres agreed to join Sharon’s new centrist party. When I read that Peres and Sharon had linked up for the new election I thought “Finally. Give’em eighteen months. We’ll Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136635662075374242006-01-07T13:07:00.000+01:002006-01-07T13:07:42.086+01:00The US Liberation is a success. The Opinionated Bastard: Analyzing The Brookings Numbers from December.: "The war in Iraq has ceased to be the US vs. the insurgents, and has become an Iraqi vs. Iraqi battle.The deaths of Iraqi police seem to be reflecting this:"Nation building and human rights are not yet fully part of the success, but they're moving in.Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136631747474385412006-01-07T12:02:00.000+01:002006-01-07T12:02:27.476+01:00A better way to catch the corrupt? Political Wire: Cunningham Wore a Wire: "Sources tell Time that disgraced ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) 'wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.''The identity of those with whom the San Diego congressman met while wearing the wire remains unclear, and is the source of furious -- and nervous -- Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136631561992868632006-01-07T11:59:00.000+01:002006-01-07T11:59:22.080+01:00Mrs. Gurdon writes about how Hollywood is increasing the number of BIG families shown in movies, although mostly in zany, out-of-control kind of comedic disorder. OpinionJournal - Taste: "Some adults flare their nostrils with distaste at the sight of even one child. Little wonder then, that large families will come in for hard looks from those who believe that they are overpopulating the planet, Tom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5186300.post-1136503665800224352006-01-06T00:27:00.000+01:002006-01-06T00:27:45.896+01:00Stem cell research is not the only path to a cure for spinal cord injuries; and prolly not even the best path. Wired News: Hwang Woo-suk No Great Loss: "Young's approach is a five-part combination strategy involving a bridging substrate, growth inhibitor blockers, remyelinating substances, molecules that guide axons to reconnect to their proper targets and something that would entice the axons toTom Greyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15046612425809449502noreply@blogger.com0