Developer: Plans For N.Y. Mosque Moving Forward : NPR So what’s the status of the Islamic Cultural Center now? Rauf is no longer involved with Park51. His wife, Daisy Khan, says they are developing their own vision for a…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
O is fixing W’s gross strategic error
NationalJournal.com – Obama’s War – Thursday, May 5, 2011 As Wall Street Journal reporter Alan Cullison wrote in a little-noted article in The Atlantic in September 2004, on the eve of 9/11, al-Qaida was a small, fractious group whose…
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Long day’s blogging into evening – pre-game festivities
Am about to disappear into Lakerdom – either a further descent into tedious misery, a temporary revival on the way to even deeper misery, or the Turning Point we’ve been waiting for and falsely identifying this whole desperately non-compelling season…
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Like I said, we’re no angels
A further observation on the rather tired “celebration of the death of OBL” question. I sometimes pride myself on an unusual ability to happen actually now and then to manage to notice the obvious, but it’s false pride, I know.…
Obama + GZ + Old Glory = Premature Ejerkulation in the Dextrosphere
No, President Obama Didn’t Have A Flag Removed From Ground Zero | Media Matters for America Doug Ross, in a post headlined, “WTF at WTC? Obama Has American Flag Removed From Ground Zero Site Moments Before Photo Shoot!”: …
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Brought us the head of Osama Bin Laden
Though I felt the need to correct Scott’s quote – he fell victim to a widespread quotation mangling – I don’t want to trivialize his perspective. As I’ve noted, I sympathize with it. I just feel it’s incomplete. When some…
Incomprehensibly, White House sitting on most interesting aspect of OBL raid
Hero Dog Helped Nab Osama Bin Laden A Navy Seals dog was probably lowered in this fashion to the hiding place of Osama Bin Laden Sunday to help snare the world’s most hunted man (Photo: Andy Anderson/K9 Storm) The…
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How about this celebratory tide?
zombie contentions – A Modest Alternative Perspective Here, I’m just pointing out that the diversity of our cultural reality is something I enjoy and that sometimes it’s better not to get swept up in a morally questionable celebratory tide. Just…
Go ahead, make a mistake, you’re human
You’ve probably noticed for yourself that whenever someone says “make no mistake,” there’s a high probability that whatever he or she says next is going to be dubious. If it was certain or near-certain before the speaker pointed it out,…
Another Day That “Everyone Would Remember”
Transferred from exquisite Kodachrome 16 MM: VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.