Is this President still worthy of the hope we pinned on him? By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 23 May 2011 … President Obama arrives for a state visit to Britain this week, and there is much excitement at my gym where I am wearing my Obama T-shirt, his face on my chest as I wheeze and …
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May 23 2011
No such thing
From the lying lips of Mike Huckabee (a likeable liar), a man who has known Palestinians, who has children who were educated by a Palestinian: “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.” Haram… – Monsieur d’Nalgar [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYB5YGTFRg
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May 22 2011
What we’re working for
Our revolt is not Obama’s By Ahdaf Soueif, Saturday 21 May 2011 … This wasn’t slipping poison into the honey; it was smearing chemical sweeteners on to toxic pellets. Barack Obama listed what he sees as his country’s “core interests” in my country Egypt and my region; his country’s “core principles” governing how it will …
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May 21 2011
Fit the battle
Which chapter from the Book of Joshua? By Yitzhak Laor, 01:37 19.05.11 … Between 1949 and 1956, in what Israel calls “retribution operations,” thousands of Palestinians, who did not come to attack, were killed on the borders. Hundreds of others, probably fewer, who came to kill or steal or take what was theirs, were also …
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May 18 2011
You’ve got to wonder
Evangelicals making tracks in Hot Springs by Leslie Newell Peacock, May 18, 2011 … Hot Springs is the town where you gamble on the ponies, tread in the steps of gangsters taking the waters, and where a club on one of its most busy streets advertises “Strip Karaoke.” Hot baths, massages, the pleasures of the …
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May 18 2011
Refuse to do that
Stephen Hawking (and I) reject ‘the God of the gaps’ By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, May 17, 2011 8:44 AM … The God Stephen Hawking rejects is the God of what is called “intelligent design.” In discussing his argument from his book, The Grand Design, he says he rejects “belief in an omniscient Creator whose hands …
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May 18 2011
It may not be possible
Bibi and Barack By Thomas L. Friedman, May 17, 2011 … Reading the headlines from the Middle East these days — Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel — you get the sense of a region where the wheels could really start …
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