Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Michael D is miffed at Obama for suggesting that the solution for oil supply problems is to find more. Apparently to him, that’s not painful enough for us.
Look, I know that there are people who are suffering because of
Jim Rutttenberg, New York Times, is shocked that John McCain is painting BO as ill-informed, arrogant and out of touch:
WASHINGTON — After spending much of the summer searching for an effective line of attack against Senator Barack Obama
- Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;
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(From The Conservative Reader)
Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate
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John R. Bolton, in the Los Angeles Times:
First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” Having earlier proclaimed himself “a fellow citizen of the world” with his German hosts,
- I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
- for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to
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- This has been on my radar screen for a while. But that’s where it has stayed. I’ve been frozen by it and haven’t written a word on it. Apparently that is also where it has stayed, if it got that
Quick, name me a terrorist who isn’t Islamic
You can’t.
Nor can I.
But check Hume, last night:
A coalition of American Muslim groups is demanding that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain stop using the word “Islamic” to describe terrorists.
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Uh-oh. CNN has a small problem, this morning. The NZ Herald… not CNN, of course… is reporting:
One of CNN’s star journalists is allegedly embroiled in a bizarre tale of ‘drugs ‘n’ debauchery’.
Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and
Over at OTB, James has noted that TV watching just isn’t the same. He notes an AdAge article:
Just because your favorite dramas and comedies are back on the air after the writers strike doesn’t mean you’re necessarily watching them.
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Limbaugh likes to say on his radio program, that he IS balance for the liberal press. And in many ways, he’s quite right. So an interesting angle on this shows up today in an article by John Harris and Jim
Aliza Shvarts,Yale ’08, wanted to make a statement, Martine Powers. Yale Daily News:
Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Construction union thugs used the state Department of Motor Vehicles database to target nonmember workers and their families for violence, property damage and threats of sexual assault, federal officials said Tuesday as they announced the arrests
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There’s a lot to this story, that I’m not quite sure how to tap into. But let me attempt to lay this out properly, by first reminding you of our post earlier this week, as regards Jimmy Carter, and his
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