Further to the Beslan/Chechnya question, this Washington Post article must be one of the first western articles to consider that those we side with might sometimes be the wrong ones.
An expert witness for the prosecution testified Tuesday that Islamic charities based in Saudi Arabia, including the one an Oregon tree surgeon is accused [...]
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Beware the pod people
Blair really needs to be seen in context.
If the malaise infesting western society can be characterized as a malignant cancer, then Blair is just a visible melanoma, a growth, a manifestation of that cancer.
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Do you know this man in the photo? He’s Tony Windsor, not related to the Queen but might as well be because he might still decide who governs Australia.
With the concession of the last seat, Brisbane, to the Lib-Nationals [Conservatives], they now are evenly poised with Labor. Hence the independent in the photo taking until [...]
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The sun has broken out on this Bank Holiday Monday [I'm working today] and I do not wish to rain on anyone’s parade but here is the state of play:
Economics
Firstly via Jesse:
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Lovely to see some intelligence in at least one paper. The article was:
Are we trying to keep people in poverty?
Plans to ‘protect the poor’ are in fact jeopardising their ability to escape the trap, says Janet Daley
Here are three comments:
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UAF members
It’s clearly going to take a long time for the misrepresentation by Ken Livingstone, David Cameron and their cronies to be seen through by the community and for the UAF to be seen for what it is – an extremist organization, promoting violence in the streets on behalf of Muslim radicals.
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There are three generally accepted positions towards the metaphysical – believer [calm and rabid], non-believer [calm and rabid] and agnostic:
a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena
There is a fourth position, I’d suggest, which is:
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Steve Hayes has written a post about C.S. Lewis and makes a good point that some try to press gang his name to their ideology. Steve then falls into the same error as many, IMHO, when he attempts to define political terms, particularly that of “the liberal”.
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This is the current situation:
At the close of counting at 2.00am (AEST) on Sunday the Australian Electoral Commission had Labor and coalition each winning 71 seats with three independents and an Australia Green.
Four other seats are too close to call.
Two of the independents whose vote appears crucial to forming a minority government have expressed loathing [...]
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Is Karl Denninger onto something here? The questions, of course, are:
1. Was there, in fact, insider trading?
2. If so, was it legal?
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The train rag today had a bit of a naughty headline: “Blair brought to book,” and the play on words was pretty obvious. For them to run that and for Blair to go through all that security for his book launch, with more henchmen than Al Capone, it must be fairly obvious that a sizeable [...]
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