Category: America

Loopy

“The Moo-slims are coming!  The Moo-slims are coming!”  I normally reserve the photo below for Glenn Beck’s chalk-talk wackadoodlery, but today’s editorial by “motivational consultant” Jim Davidson is an occasion for making an exception. Here in the Natural State of hyper-fertility, where Quiverfull advocates like Jim Bob Duggar and his reality show puppy-mill family are desperately cranking out …

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Gaddafi is a nutter

These are secular popular revolts – yet everyone is blaming religion By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 20 February 2011 Mubarak claimed that Islamists were behind the Egyptian revolution. Ben Ali said the same in Tunisia. King Abdullah of Jordan sees a dark and sinister hand – al-Qa’ida’s hand, the Muslim Brotherhood’s hand, an Islamist hand – …

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Mahfouz’s prophesy

Note:  Raouf is a dear friend.  It is very likely our paths crossed in Lebanon, in the early 1960s.  We reconnected, after more than 30 years, on the eve of my son’s college education at the same institution where Dr. Halaby now professes… – Monsieur d’Nalgar Mahfouz’s Prophesy By Raouf J. Halaby, February 15, 2011 … During …

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Iranium

“Iranium” or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “Military Option” By Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib 26 January 2011, 2:47 The Israeli filmmakers who brought you Obsession and The Third Jihad are at it again. In just a week, they’re set to launch their new documentary, Iranium, an hour-long look at the …

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American exceptionalism

Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind By Carl Sandburg, 1920 “The past is a bucket of ashes.” . . . . . . . . . . 1 The woman named To-morrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time and does her hair the way she wants it and fastens …

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The rape of Lara Logan

Warning:  This post contains language that may be offensive  to some readers.  Not as offensive as the violation of women described herein, but nevertheless, consider yourselves warned… – Monsieur d’Nalgar … Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt By Jill, on 2.16.2011 … CBS Journalist Lara Logan was physically and sexually assaulted in Egypt this week (trigger …

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Alabama to Egypt in 50 years

Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic By Andy Khouri, February 11th 2011 While the world’s political pundits debate the role the United States has played in the historical events presently occurring in Egypt, one activist is crediting a specific American with playing a part in inspiring a generation of Egyptians to take …

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