Category: History

Keep it up, America

The Liberal Media Strikes Again By William Rivers Pitt Tuesday 01 March 2011 … If I hear one more person talk about the “liberal media” in America, I will probably vomit on them. It was a stupid and ridiculous thing to say last week – take a long look at which mega-corporations own which news …

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National religion

Santorum: Left hates ‘Christendom’ By Andy Barr, 2/23/11 2:35 PM EST, updated 2/24/11 7:57 AM EST … Rick Santorum launched into a scathing attack on the left, charging during an appearance in South Carolina that the history of the Crusades has been corrupted by “the American left who hates Christendom.” “The idea that the Crusades and …

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Irhall, irhall, ya saffah

How the Arabs Turned Shame Into Liberty By Fouad Ajami Published: February 26, 2011 … PERHAPS this Arab Revolution of 2011 had a scent for the geography of grief and cruelty. It erupted in Tunisia, made its way eastward to Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, then doubled back to Libya. In Tunisia and Egypt political freedom …

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The little children died

Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare By Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2011 The Arab revolution is consigning skip-loads of articles, books and speeches about the Middle East to the dustbin of history. In a few months, readers will go through libraries or newspaper archives and wonder how so many who …

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We were only kidding

The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 26 February 2011 The Middle East earthquake of the past five weeks has been the most tumultuous, shattering, mind-numbing experience in the history of the region since the fall of the Ottoman empire. For once, “shock and awe” was the …

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Where the wind comes

… From Oklahoma to Tobruk By Roger Cohen, published February 24, 2011 … LONDON — Watching Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi do his Caligula thing in the ruins of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and reading about his son’s St. Barts fests with Beyoncé, I confess that disgust yielded to nausea: enough is enough. There are …

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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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