Monday, May 19, 2003

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More vandalized culture in Iraq? One of the greatest wonders of civilisation, and probably the world's most ancient structure - the...

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The Los Angeles Times reports this : At least 1,700 Iraqi civilians died and more than 8,000 were injured in the battle for the Iraqi c...

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EARTH TO SAFIRE ... EARTH TO SAFIRE .... Four Palestinian suicide bombings. Suicide bombings in Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Near-total...

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Your pro-war friends who smugly remind you that not as many museum artifacts were lost or destroyed in Iraq as originally feared need to rea...
Sunday, May 18, 2003

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Last month, I expressed skepticism about certain documents an ABC News correspondent found virtually undamaged in a Baghdad building, despi...

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If you've read a lot of his work, it's fairly obvious that Christopher Hitchens is repulsed by women -- but is his peculiar misogyny...
Saturday, May 17, 2003

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OK, this is fairly trivial, but it annoys me: VENEZUELA: U.S. AMBASSADOR CRITICIZED The government sharply criticized the American amba...

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Dumb terrorists in Morocco. Don't they know that if you want to get the attention of Americans you don't launch a vicious, brutal s...

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You probably read that article from yesterday's New York Times about the management of image in the Bush White House ( this is the lin...
Friday, May 16, 2003

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This (from The Independent ) is just appalling: Statistics unpublished until today reveal the stark facts: 242 people have died in Bagh...

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A lot of people (Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, the Rational Enquirer, Cursor) are citing this New Republic article , for good reason -- it...

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You know things are bad in Iraq when even the New York Post acknowledges it : ...soldiers see the reservoir of Iraqi goodwill draining ...

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When I heard that Bush won again in the Senate on tax cuts, I started to wonder: What would happen if lefties began to fight for a balanced ...

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In the hours before U.S. bombs began falling on the Iraqi capital, one of Saddam Hussein's sons and a close adviser carried off nearly ...
Thursday, May 15, 2003

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The Republican Party regards itself as "the party of ideas" -- and now those ideas are being articulated by a new voice. Joining...

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This is from The Times of London: BARONESS Thatcher returned to politics last night with an attack on the French, whom she accused of ...

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Chris Whittle promises profits soon, but I see that his "for-profit" company Edison Schools is still in the red, according to The ...

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Fox News, of course, calls itself "fair and balanced." It also posts billboards proclaiming that it delivers "real journalism...

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Yeah, the Drudge Report can be obnoxious -- but give the guy his due: every so often he gives you a story that doesn't reflect well on ...

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Howell Raines says Jews were responsible for the Holocaust! Outrageous! How can any decent person write for his paper? ...No, wait --...