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"Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially forthe holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me inan army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can maketoys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmasfor the kids. That's something that would create jobs. So you see Ithink out of the box like that. It's not something a typical personwould bring up. That's something that could happen, that makes sense.It's not a joke," - A...

Death By Stoning

The execution of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian mother of two accused of adultery, is imminent:

She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, humanrights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interviewfrom Tehran. She later retracted that confession and has deniedwrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on thedetermination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She hasasked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to...

Hewitt Award Nominee

"Who is Obama? Why is he doing this? Why? Why is he doing it? Is he stupid? Is it an accident? Is he doing it on purpose or what have you? ... I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is internal... That word 'payback' is not mine, [but:] it is exactly how I think Obama looks at the country...

America: Where The Poor Often Stay That Way

Frum notes that class mobility in the US is not what it is sometimes imagined to be:

This is not an argument in favor of the European way of doing things. I agree with Lowry and Ponnuru – and Charles Murray too – that American freedom and individualism are important national values to be celebrated and defended.

But let's not flatter ourselves: Those values exact a social cost –and they would be easier to defend if the cost were less high. And thefact that this cost is not being paid by my...

American Opinion On Israel - And The Congress's, Ctd

Chait answers my question:

Congress is representing the generalized pro-Israel feelings of the public, which are strong, as opposed to their ambivalent views of the Flotilla incident, which are weak. In an environment where public opinion is overwhelmingly pro-Israel, and when asked about a specific incident involving Israel, two-thirds of the public is either favorable to Israel or uninformed, the expected outcome is for Congress to support Israel.

And when the US public was clearly divided...

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Say It Ain't So, Levi, Ctd

Chris Good explains why the news is significant:

Because Levi Johnston represented a liability to Sarah Palin. He maderepeated claims about her home life, representing her as a genuinelyawful and selfish person. Regardless of whatever axe he had to grind,Palin's critics don't think she has any credibility either, and hisclaims were probably, mostly, believed by the people who don't supporther. Even if you think he was lying, his public spat with the Palinsadded an unwanted bush-league...

Netanyahu Wins Again

Yesterday struck me as a humiliating spectacle for the president of the United States. What did he get out of the meeting? Netanyahu did not utter the words "Palestinian state" and made no pledge to continue even the freeze on new settlements in the West Bank after September. For this, he was feted and personally walked to his car. Maybe, as the NYT suggested, there has been a private deal to extend the settlement moratorium on the West Bank. If so, that makes this explicable. Or maybe...