Jun 17 2011
Netanyahu and the Mystics of Safed By Carlo Strenger, 15:38 17.06.11 … Future historians looking back at Israel in 2011 will shake their heads with disbelief. They will note that there were voices of reason who called for constructive engagement with the Arab world; that these voices included some of the great luminaries of Israel’s …
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Jun 17 2011
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 17 2011
Note: The following video is posted in the spirit of what Aristotle called the ability “to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Kudos to Richard Hanna for the quotation from an old Greek guy who was even more opinionated than Christopher Hitchens. (A warning: some of Hitchens’ language is impolitely blunt.) – Monsieur d’Nalgar [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Si425yfNc[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Si425yfNc …
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Jun 17 2011
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST … Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish …
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Jun 16 2011
Michele Bachmann Isn’t Stupid, She’s Dangerous By Sarah Jones, June 16, 2011 … Michelle Goldberg appeared on MSNBC’s The Last Word detailing the origins of Michele Bachmann’s far right evangelical politics as outlined in her Daily Beast article yesterday. What madness is this? Will Americans wake up to the looming political threat of far right …
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Jun 16 2011
Birtherism is Alive and Well on World Net Daily By Hrafnkell Haraldsson, June 16, 2011 … Birtherism, by any normal standard dead since the release of President Obama’s birth certificate on April 27 and the mercy suicide of Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations, is alive and well on World Net Daily. In discussing conspiracy theorist Jerome …
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Jun 16 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explaining what went wrong with America’s economy in just 2 minutes and 15 seconds–with illustrations to boot.
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