Tag: war
member name: Stephen Frug
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July 31, 2006 04:32 PM EDT --
Sometimes what implied is the real story.
Everyone seems to agree that, during its 48-hour "ceasefire" Israel has greatly diminished the number of attacks it is making, although it has not stopped . . .
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October 02, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
Given the incalculable damage that the Republican party has done to our Republic in recent years, I share the grim cheer of all people of good will about the recent Foleygate scandal. (Ongoing coverage . . .
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July 26, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Writing in the Washington Post, Philip Gordon reports (via):
According to retired Israeli army Col. Gal Luft, the goal of the campaign is to "create a rift between the Lebanese population and Hezbollah . . .
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August 02, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all . . .
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April 01, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
While I was off reading the NYT on health care, the entire liberal blogosphere (& beyond) has been talking about today's NYT interview with Mathew Dowd (who was Bush's 2004 campaign strategist) . . .
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October 19, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Not every crime is done out of evil motives.
Some people would go so far as to say that nothing, really, is done out of evil motives: that people always act out of an idea of the good, and sometimes they're . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:46 AM EST --
In his new digs at Obsidian Wings, in a post about the recent Marcotte/Edwards to-do, Publius wrote the following:
The issue is that Edwards would give the appearance of caving in to right-wing pressure. . . .
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July 12, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Via Andrew Sullivan, Jane Galt says that it was right to impeach Nixon and not Bush in part since
Nixon fell because his behaviour was inarguably criminal, and worse, petty criminal. And he had it all . . .
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October 09, 2006 12:57 PM EDT --
By way of extending a warm welcome to the newest confirmed member of the nuclear club, a quote fugue in the keys of Josh Marshall and Glenn Greenwald, with occasional grace notes from elsewhere.
For the . . .
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May 16, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
I tend to work for a long time on my blog posts before posting them, often deleting half-baked efforts that haven't worked out. So I hope you'll forgive some thinking out loud, some extremely tentative . . .
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July 14, 2006 03:48 PM EDT --
Another letter from my sister-in-law in Beirut (the first is here). This one arrived a few minutes ago.
Just to assure you, I'm FINE. In case you're up for a description of today, I've had . . .
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September 01, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
From tomorrow's New York Times:
Bush told the author, Robert Draper, in a later session, "I'm playing for October-November." That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally . . .
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September 18, 2006 04:09 PM EDT --
Sam Harris, in the old formulation which Isaiah Berlin borrowed from Archilochus, is a hedgehog. That is, he knows one big thing -- or, to put it another way, he has a tendency to view everything through . . .
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July 14, 2006 12:43 PM EDT --
The following is an excerpt from an email by my sister-in-law, currently trapped in Beirut by the Israeli siege. I thought that I would post it (with her permission) since it is a perspective I haven't . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
The following is from a third letter from my sister-in-law (who is trapped in Lebanon by the Israeli siege) which arrived a little while ago. The two previous letters can be read here and here.
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May 29, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
There's a great little fifteen minute animated film, to which I've already seen several links, and to which I expect to see many more -- and for good reason: it's terrific. Kevin Drumm describes . . .
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July 15, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
[This post has been temporarily removed. It will be restored at some future point.]
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July 16, 2006 09:17 AM EDT --
Updated - see below.
The latest letter from my sister-in-law, trapped in Lebanon, north of Beirut. Earlier letters can be found here: one, two, three. (The last of these was temporarily removed, . . .
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November 04, 2006 04:54 PM EST --
A glance at the list of articles I have published on Gather will demonstrate that I am interested in politics. Yet in the past two weeks, I have posted about inconsistencies in literature and religion, . . .
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September 11, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
I wanted, and hoped, to write something to mark today's anniversary. But the press of time and circumstance has not allowed me to do so. So I thought I would post something I wrote a year . . .
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