Daily Archives: 05/21/2008

Distractions

I think it’s time for some different news items. You’ll never get me to talk, Copper: A lost parrot wouldn’t talk to the cops, but he talked to a vet. Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from … Continue reading

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They hate me! They really hate me!

The Jew-hating bastards on yet another Holocaust denial site (based in the U.K., there’s a surprise) have linked to one of my old teaching posts (and not in a good way). And they don’t like my No Israel-Bashing Zone policy, … Continue reading

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Karsenty on his win over France 2 on the Al-Dura hoax

From an email I received today: Philippe Karsenty gave the following statement regarding his victory: “Today a French court ruled that I did not defame France 2 when I said that its news report was a staged hoax. Because I … Continue reading

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Update on the Al-Dura case

A source has told me that Philippe Karsenty has won his case against France 2. I’ll post further information when I get it, but this is a pretty well-connected source. This is huge. Update: Carl has more.

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Dura-bull

Knowing that the verdict in the Karsenty-Enderlin trial is due today, I looked for some news. But when I googled “Karsenty” I got precisely one result in the news section. It had to do with a talk Phillipe Karsenty gave … Continue reading

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Staying in the center while everyone else moves left

Sen. Lieberman on what’s wrong with the Democratic Party: By contrast, in 2000, Gov. George W. Bush promised a “humble foreign policy” and criticized our peacekeeping operations in the Balkans.Today, less than a decade later, the parties have completely switched … Continue reading

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War and peace

Now, I am far from an expert on Lebanon, and I’ve been reading Tony Bey and the others who know a lot more than I do, but I have a suspicion that this cannot be at all good: Hizbullah strikes … Continue reading

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