Aug 11 2012

Romney & Ryan

Now, what does that remind you of?   Photograph (modified) of 1979 Rolls Royce:  http://www.goldcanyonlimo.com/rolls.html…  [more]

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Aug 08 2012

The saving efficacy of killing

Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus

By , 08/08/2012  9:18 am   I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have…  [more]

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Aug 08 2012

Prutzah, whore

The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel

By , August 7   The rock hit Nili Philipp on the side of her helmet as she biked last year along the main road in this Jerusalem suburb. A few…  [more]

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Aug 07 2012

Something separate and not equal

Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One

By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012   The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli…  [more]

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Aug 07 2012

L’archipel de Palestine oreintale

Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator

By Frank Jacobs, March 30, 2009, 3:49 PM   The Bible contains at least two stories equating the aquatic with the amoral. As Red Sea pedestrians, Moses and…  [more]

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Aug 07 2012

Sacrifices to the god Terminus

The Elephant in the Map Room

By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm   My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series…  [more]

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Aug 06 2012

We are all victims

White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence

By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012   We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee…  [more]

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