January 2009
15 posts
Pajamas Media » How Can the World Be Blind to... →
“It is amazing to me, as an American who travels the world on a near-constant basis, that there is so much confusion over who the terrorists are.”
“But I think there is little doubt that at the end of the war, Israel had...”
– Did Hamas really win in Gaza? [Martin Kramer’s Sandbox]
The Volokh Conspiracy - International Law and the... →
One thing that’s clear from the recent Gaza conflict is that to many leftists, “violations of international law” is simply shorthand for “a country is engaging in military action that I don’t approve of.”
A 40-Year Wish List - WSJ.com →
Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus
This bill just gets worse and worse and worse
Priming the Pump - washingtonpost.com →
Only part of the idiocy of the so called “stimulus”
Many economists note Japan’s failed attempt to borrow and spend its way out of a recession during the 1990s. That country would have been better off, they say, if government had moved swiftly to recapitalize its banks instead of attempting repeated stimulus packages.
Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief →
But, but, but, I thought it was going to be okay to release everyone there! Close Guantanamo!
Kennedy Ends Bid for Senate, Informing Paterson of... →
Surprising. And I’m not buying the Uncle’s health excuse. I suspect that what she thought would be a cinch ended up not being and she realized that she didn’t want the hassle. Better for her to decide now than after she was chosen.
Update - Let me be clear - I think she was going to be given the Senate seat, but I think that she personally decided that she didn’t want it.
Dick Cheney: The Most Pro-Gay Vice President in... →
New York Was So Much Older Then →
We lived dangerously, I suppose. Everyone’s apartment was broken into. We were told that if we got out of the subway at East 116th Street to never, ever try to walk through Morningside Park back to Columbia. Women would go out to lunch and come back to the office to find their wallets somehow missing from the pocketbooks they had held tightly between their knees throughout the meal.
Ah, yes. New...
Lincoln, Churchill, Bush? by Thomas Donnelly on... →
George Bush saw that the 9/11 attacks were acts of war. “Global War on Terror” is now so much a part of our vocabulary that we forget how long it took to recognize that we were at war. Despite the Khobar Towers bombing, the attacks on American embassies in East Africa and the USS Cole, and the repeated war declarations of Osama bin Laden, the Clinton administration was paralyzed in its response,...
Petrol bombs hit French synagogue →
Sigh…
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop →
The authority of photography was such that people believed the photographs had gotten to a deeper reality.
The Believer Magazine had a similar article a few months ago…
Beware of Pity: A Critic at Large →
“When should Israel stop? When they think there is a good chance the rockets will...”
– Gazitis - Victor Davis Hanson