Month: December 2010

Orthodox Religion Invoking Hatred

. Wave of Jewish racism worries Netanyahu, activists Jerusalem police said they had arrested a gang of young Jews accused of multiple hate-crime attacks against Arabs, shortly after the publication of a letter signed by dozens...

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We Are Not Needed in Iraq

I’m not sure who is writing the New York Times’ unsigned editorials these days, but they are demonstrating once more a lazy support for thoughtless imperialism. We are all happy that the Iraqis have cobbled together...

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Nutty Christians

Gary Bauer is cute, like a hobbit. But he’s not very bright. He’s trying to convince us that Christians are treated worse than Muslims in America, and here is part of his proof. If Christianity were treated like...

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How Democratic? EIU’s Bi-annual Index

It is year end, and The Economist Intelligence Unit has just released its bi-annual report on the state of democracy around the world. The results, unfortunately, are not uplifting. According to the study, a full third of the...

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Idle Thoughts

I am trying to take a little mental holiday in preparation for a season of nuttiness that will probably require me to brush up on more arcane rules of procedure. I went and saw Tron tonight with CG. It’s in 3-D which is...

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