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July 3, 2008 - 03 Jul 2008
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Pickings has devoted much space to the al-Dura affair which is the modern day version of the Protocols of The Elders of Zion. Those Protocols were created for the Czar’s secret police in 1903 and have become a staple of anti-Semitism since. (Hitler referred to them in [...]
July 2, 2008 - 02 Jul 2008
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Daily Telegraph blogger says the left is responsible for Mugabe.
A few years ago, when the tyrant of Zimbabwe was moving from being wicked to being downright evil, I wrote that we should invade Harare, depose him, and supervise free elections. Invited to appear on a BBC programme [...]
Read Full Post »July 1, 2008 - 01 Jul 2008
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Onions will help us fight economic nonsense today. Fortune has a short piece on the lack of an onion futures market and the subsequent wild ride for prices.
Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food [...]
Read Full Post »June 30, 2008 - 30 Jun 2008
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Stuart Taylor has words for those who accuse Bushies of war crimes.
… Among those calling explicitly or implicitly for criminal investigations are 56 House Democrats; retired Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba, who headed the Army’s investigation into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal; liberal groups including Human Rights Watch, [...]
Read Full Post »June 28, 2008 - 29 Jun 2008
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Gerard Baker of the London Times says, “Cheer up. We’re winning this War on Terror.”
“My centre is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I shall attack!”
If only our political leaders and opinion-formers displayed even a hint of the defiant resilience that carried Marshal Foch [...]
June 26, 2008 - 26 Jun 2008
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David Warren offers a prayer for Mugabe’s removal.
… The West, and in particular, former Rhodesia’s departed imperial master, Britain, can take no satisfaction in the turn of events. In the Lancaster House Agreement, of almost thirty years ago, Lord Carrington and the panjandrums of the British Foreign [...]
Read Full Post »June 25, 2008 - 25 Jun 2008
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Daily Telegraph editors say there is finally some movement against Mugabe in Africa, and that it’s time for Nelson Mandela to do the same.
John Stossel wonders if McCain understands how markets work.
… This is not the first time McCain has displayed what I would call an anti-capitalist mentality. [...]
Read Full Post »June 24, 2008 - 24 Jun 2008
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David Brooks says finally Bush got something right in Iraq.
Let’s go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The [...]
Read Full Post »June 23, 2008 - 23 Jun 2008
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Today is Kelo Day. We have contemporaneous columns from three of our favorites Mark Steyn takes us back with his July 3rd, 2005 column for the Chicago Sun-Times.
… A couple of days beforehand, the majesty of the law turned its attention to “eminent domain” — the fancy term for [...]
Read Full Post »June 22, 2008 - 22 Jun 2008
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Don’t forget, Monday is Kelo Day at the Institute for Justice.
David Warren reduces Israel’s current problem to one simple right, that of self-defense.
It will be recalled, by readers who follow world news, that the President of Iran has on many occasions unambiguously declared both the desire to [...]
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