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August 2, 2010
Stockman's Diagnosis: Still True
It's the kind of op-ed that has one sitting up straight with the sting of fresh memory. Back in the 1980s, I was a Thatcherite. I believed in low taxes but I also believed in - you know - balanced budgets as a core principle of, you remember, conservatism. It was odd coming to America to be told that here, for the first time in human history, you could cut taxes and raise revenue at the same time! It was triply odd, coming from green eye-shade Thatcher-land, to hear that "deficits don't...
The Neocons And The Cordoba Mosque
Abe Foxman is not alone in his conflation of Islamist terror and peaceful American Islam. The New York Sun, in an editorial that sounds as if it was written by Palin-admirer Seth Lipsky backs the anti-Muslim campaign:
We mentioned to him that we'd been impressed with the way Sarah Palin articulated her early opposition to the
"She's got seichel," we remarked to Mr. Foxman. It was a reference to the Yiddish word that has no single-word English translation but means a combination of...
Unready For Government
The American Spectator hosts a symposium on whether the right has learned its lesson from the Bush years. Mercifully, a few see that it hasn't. James Antle III:
Is the Republican party ready to regain power? Probably not -- we have seen that how Republicans behave in the minority, especially under a Democratic president, is no predictor of how they will act in the majority. As steadfast as they have been against President Obama, relatively few Republicans who voted for the TARP bailout...
9.1 Billion Mouths To Feed
Nature details the agricultural challenges ahead. On the latest crisis:
The world currently has more than enough food, but some 1 billionpeople still go hungry because they cannot afford to pay for it. The2008 food crisis, which pushed around 100 million people into hunger,was not so much a result of a food shortage as of a market volatility —with causes going far beyond supply and demand — that sent pricesthrough the roof and sparked riots in several countries. Economics canhit food supply...
Antoine Dodson: Instant Global Star
From local news (worth watching first) to autotune in a matter of hours:
Now, he's doing media interviews.
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Stopping Blood Diamonds Won't Fix Congo, Ctd
Texas In Africa gets into the history of the region:
The perception that anyone who speaks Kinyarwanda is not a
Congolese citizen - and therefore not entitled to own land in
region - is widespread and hugely problematic. The 2006
guarantees citizenship rights to ethnic groups that were in the
at the time of independence, which includes most Rwandaphones in
Kivus, but the constitution doesn't list the groups by name
leaves them vulnerable.It's...
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