Category: Bits and Pieces

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You heard about Jumanah Imad Albahri, the Muslim young woman who found unexpected fame when she stated to David Horowitz that she was for Hezbollah’s genocidal policy against all Jews.  Uncomfortable in the spotlight, Albahri has now written a response explaining how she was tricked and misunderstood.  (H/t:  Brutally Honest.) 

England’s National Health Service is failing.  Yes, everyone gets treatment, but it’s lousy treatment, so its women die faster than women in just about any other European country.  Because the government is the only game in town, efficiency is nonexistent (no competition to stiffen bureaucratic spines) and women die. The

I was talking with someone the other day who is actually worried about the changes being wrought in the American health care system.  However, his touchstone, his security blanket regarding the socialization of American medicine is France.  France, he told me, has a great health care system that is the

My husband and I have a tacit agreement — I don’t give our money to conservative causes and he doesn’t give it to liberal ones.  The only way in which we do spend our money semi-politically is that he subscribes to The New Yorker, and I subscribe to Commentary. However,

I’m blessed to have made a lot of good friends in the blogosphere, and this morning I got a bunch of emails from them, all of which were intriguing, thoughtful and even exciting discussions of current affairs.  I pass them on to you: Kim Priestap and the Anchoress both think

As best as I can tell, the big objection to Arizona’s law is that, despite being facially neutral, it will primarily effect Hispanics.  This isn’t because Arizona is targeting only Hispanics, it’s because Hispanics are the only targets.  There aren’t a lot of blond Danes wandering around Southern Arizona’s border

The things we do for our kids. I was out of town yesterday and put in a two and a half hour drive around midnight last night to get my daughter to her sports event today. I’m tired, but I did the right thing. My daughter — appropriately — feels

It’s a nice hotel, but the live band and the vocal drunks on the plaza six stories below definitely detract from the ambiance. I will probably be incommunicado Saturday, so please open thread away.

This is my narrow but deep survey of this morning’s offerings.  (Aack!  Will this phone never stop ringing?  I wrote that first sentence more than half an hour ago and have been dealing with that devil’s instrument ever since.  Nor does that half hour include the time I’ve spent on

You’ll see a very effective video from Remember November here, and you’ll get a chance to sign up for an email service that will keep that memory alive.  My son watched the video and said “that’s creepy.”  He didn’t get the political references, but he sure caught the tone.