2012 archive

Jeremiad of a radical ideologue

Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech

By Justin Raimondo, September 28, 2012   It’s no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Bibi’s wackiness doesn’t bear…  [more]

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Pic = 1K words

Mitt Romney holds a baby September 27 in Springfield, Viriginia (AP Photo).  http://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/08/the-smiling-and-crying-babies-of-2012/000356-006180.html or http://politi.co/SoX34y [more]

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The need to generalise

Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’

By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07   I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World…  [more]

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Flying Jihad Terror Babies invade America

A Conservative History of the United States

By , September 19, 2012   1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought  the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of  onerous…  [more]

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Reality is far more complex and nuanced

Don’t let extremists determine we are in a ‘clash of civilizations’

By Khaled Diab, Sep.23, 2012 11:35 AM   Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling…  [more]

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The pieces are all in place

The persecution of John Kiriakou

By Peter Van Buren, 23 Sep 2012 12:35   Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s…  [more]

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In defiance of messy reality

The ‘Jesus’s wife’ papyrus reveals another version of the Christian story

By , Wednesday 19 September 2012 13.30 EDT   Our sources for the ancient past are often the merest shreds and patches, and peculiarly challenging is to…  [more]

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