What I’m reading right now
Bookworm on Jan 08 2009 at 5:13 pm | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Council Submissions
- Joshuapundit - It’s Hard Out There For A ( Hamas) Pimp
- Rhymes With Right - On The Conflict Against Hamas
- Bookworm Room - Taking Reagan’s Name in Vain
- The Glittering Eye - Money for the States?
- Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Portrait of an Arse as a Dead Man
- Soccer Dad - Nyt: hamas upgrades = success / israel defends = disaster
- The Razor - ‘Physician Shortage’ and the Free Market
- Right Truth - It’s a Terrifying World
- Mere Rhetoric - Concise List Of Middle East Failures That Were Going To Happen Anyway But That Foreign Policy Experts Will Now Blame On Israel
- The Colossus of Rhodey - Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week
- The Provocateur - Jews, Israel and the Democratic Party
Non-Council Submissions
- Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Natan Sharansky/WSJ - “HOW THE U.N. PERPETUATES THE ‘REFUGEE’ PROBLEM”
- Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Debbie Schlussel - Schlissels of Israel Report: HAMAS Missile Missed Us By That Much; My Cousins’ School Hit
- Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Ron Rosenbaum.com/Pajamas Media - Some differences between Hamas and the Nazi Party
- Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Michelle Malkin - Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
- Submitted By: Cheat-Seeking Missiles – Commentary - Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
- Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Daled Amos - Surge: Israeli Style
- Submitted By: The Razor – The AnarchAngel - The Most Basic of Differing First Principles
- Submitted By: Right Truth – Middle America News - A Warning for America from South Africa
- Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – The Terror Wonk - Managing Gaza
- Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The New Criterion - Introduction: The dictatorship of relativism
- Subnmitted By: The Provacateur – Dennis Prager, TownHall – A Question for My Friend Alan Dershowitz
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It’s good, very good:
I suspect even you are getting tired of having to constantly write something like “all of these posts are worth reading” every time you do one of these, Book ; )
‘Course, if you want to read something besides the legal stuff you work with, or the political stuff we’re inundated with, there’s always my historical novel, y’know.
I’m just sayin’.
A Warning for America from South America is . . . terrifying. Wow.
Deana
This is off the side and I apologize, but it does involve reading. My yellow dog Democrat wife this morning announced that she may let her subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle/Socialistche Beobachter lapse.
She’ll do it for reasons of economy (the rates keep going up even as the number of pages shrinks) and efficiency (why read yesterday’s news today when she can get yesterday’s news yesterday online?).
Nevertheless, it will be one more small nail in the coffin of one of the most badly written, amoral, head-up-its-ass newspapers in America.
“Hey, thanks for recognizing my name. Yes, I did use to write a column for the Chron. What? Ten dollars an hour to start? That would be super!”
Hey Charles…
Here’s your chance! Nature (and readers) hate a vacuum, right? So, when the SFC subcription expires, you wife will have to get news from _somewhere_, right? Online awaits. And with your expert guidance, no doubt she’ll find some excellent sites! Obviously, they’ll have to be fairly non-recognizable to start with, or she’ll know what the plan is…!
By the way…if you haven’t checked out AT today, here’s a “not to be missed” article. Add _that_ to your “what I’m reading” list!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/why_soros_wants_norm_coleman_o.html
From the Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_04-2009_01_10.shtml#1231474494
By David Bernstein:
“The USSR’s Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole: One thing I find interesting in reading various authors who discuss the history of the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflict is how the role of the USSR in exacerbating the conflict, and the role of its demise in providing an opportunity for a potential settlement of the conflict, is generally completely, or almost completely, ignored.
…Then consider that the East bloc secret services recruited, trained, and financed Yasser Arafat to create the violent Palestinian nationalist movement that became the PLO, starting around 1964.
After Israel emerged victorious beyond its wildest dreams in 1967, the influence of the USSR was apparent in several ways. First, the Soviet bloc led an international campaign of boycott and defamation, larded with anti-Semitism, against Israel, creating a siege mentality that has stayed with Israel ever since, and made it that much more difficult to persuade Israel, already traumatized by the Holocaust and the expulsion of Jews from Arab lands, that the “international community” is to be trusted.”
Read the whole thing, as some obscure blogger is fond of saying.
gpc31: the malign influence of the former Soviet Union both in the monsters it created and in the anti-American propaganda it disseminated – that remains the lingua franca of the left – will unfortunately linger on well into this century. Google Ion Mihai Pacepa.
And this one goes with it…
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/01/indymac-bank-sale-proves-two-things.html
Though the warning about the U.S. going the way of South Africa makes good points, the more likely analogy is our going the way of Argentina, methinks. Argentina was once the richest country in South America and a model first-world economy until two charismatic demagogues (the Perons….think Chicago Machine) took over. It’s now one of the most bankrupt, over-regulated and overall messed-up countries in the world.