Daily Archives: 11/19/2007

Muslim street smarts

James Kirchik in the LA Times writes Don’t bow to the ‘Muslim Street’ America’s firebombing of Dresden during World War II surely “angered” many Germans, and our bombing of Belgrade during the Kosovo war perturbed Serbians. Did the fact that … Continue reading

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NotHous vs. Bernanke, with a dash of Ron Paul

No, this is not a typo. If you need to check, look again here. Federal agents, in a move that could have an impact on the presidential race, raided the Indiana office of the issuer of a private currency known … Continue reading

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UN-helpful

Yesterday there was a conference, “Hijacking Human Rights: The Demonization of Israel by the United Nations,” in New York. The Jerusalem Post reported with a headline so obvious, it’s almost funny, US conference: UN biased against Israel. The less obvious … Continue reading

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Hi-tech Israel

AOL, which, in 1998, bought the Israeli company, Mirabilis (ICQ), is buying Israeli again. When US Internet giant America Online wants to go shopping for new Internet technologies, it heads to Israel. In less than a week, the Time Warner … Continue reading

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Anna-policy

Glenn Kessler reports that the current state of the Annapolis conference seems to be very up in the air. “No one seems to know what is happening,” one senior Arab envoy said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity to … Continue reading

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