Today, even after the evidence of massive man-made famines in the Communist world, after Solzhenitsyn’s revelations about the gulags and after the horrors of the killing fields of Cambodia, the useful idiots continue to deny or downplay staggering human tragedies under Communist dictatorships. Or else they engage in moral equivalence, as Newsweek editor and [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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This won’t work.
With a week to go before The Da Vinci Code is released in India, there are protests asking for a ban on it. Christian bodies are demanding a ban as they see the film as ‘blasphemous’.
In fact, there were reports that the movie’s release may be postponed in India. However, Sony Pictures’ [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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I’ll pass, thanks.
AMMAN, JORDAN – The three middle-aged men sitting in an Indian restaurant in Jordan’s capital scarcely look like Islamic revolutionaries. They are smartly dressed in Western-style suits and sip thoughtfully from cans of Pepsi as they share their plan to reshape the Muslim world.
“[President] Bush says that we want to enslave [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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This is funny:
Howard Fineman at Newsweek is the latest to express this fear in a piece aptly titled (at Real Clear Politics) “Rove’s nightmare election strategy.” What nightmarish illegitimate issue does Fineman fear a desperate Karl Rove will raise this cycle? He’s going to “paint Democrats as the party of tax [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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The QandO Blog:
This irritates me every time I see it. Breathless accounts of a high infant mortality rate in the US have again hit the front pages of morning newspapers:
An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2006 by pwyll
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