July 2010 archive
Friends:
Over the past few days, there has been some interesting debate going on about the relative merits of the ‘spy swap’ concluded with the Russians. I have my own views of the case, and thought I’d share them with…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/07/11/we-did-it-right/
Robert Fisk’s commentary on CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr for a tweet praising Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (who died this week):
Poor old CNN goes on getting more cowardly by the hour. That’s why no one cares about…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/07/10/fisk-on-fadlallah/
Words and music by Arlo Guthrie:
Living now here but for fortune
Placed by fate’s mysterious schemes
Who’d believe that we’re the ones asked
To try to rekindle the patriot’s dreams
Arise sweet destiny, time runs short
All of your…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/07/04/patriots-dream/
By Jacques d’Nalgar, Fourth of July, 2010
This I write, Octavius Fuluvim, humble servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the august occasion of a rare conjunction of our weekly gathering of Roman believers with the empire’s annual festivities…
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Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2010/07/04/it-was-a-festive-occasion/
