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Lovely thoughts from the Left

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

One of the most popular posts at WordPress today is musically entitled “America — F*** YOU.”  It’s an interesting post in that it’s a microcosom of everything that’s ugly about today’s Left.  This strain has always lived in the fringe Left, but it’s worth noting now, as these views move

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Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Democrats
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What’s wrong with this sentence?

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

What’s wrong with this sentence?  (Beware.  This is a trick question.) Your child should wear a good pair of sneakers so that they may participate in PE. Okay, here’s the answer:  Aside from the blatant grammatical error, what’s really wrong with this sentence is that a teacher wrote it.  How

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Education
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Best coverage of Al Qaeda’s “America, convert or die” invitation

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

Kevin directed me to the best, the absolute best, coverage of the “America, convert or die” invitation that Al Qaeda issued.  First, view this.  At the bottom, when you see the hyperlinked phrase “the invitation,” click on it.  You’ll be glad you did. FacebookTweet

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Bits and Pieces
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And the award for Best Opening Sentence goes to…

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

The award for best opening sentence definitely goes to Myles Kantor, writing about Günther Grass (novelist and Nazi), who opens his article with this: The line between moralist and schmuck is very thin. I didn’t find the rest of the article quite as good, but it’s interesting, and worth reading

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Literature, World War II
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It was a good weekend for US and Iraqi forces

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

While the MSM focuses on the deaths in Iraq, the successes, while not ignored, haven’t gotten as much play. So, I’ll add my bit to reminding all of us that our troops, working with the Iraqi troops, are succeeding in their mission, something they did quite well this past weekend:

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Iraq, Military
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Israel, on another learning curve

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Bookworm

Writing at National Review Online, Emanuele Ottolenghi makes a good case that, while Israel might not have won decisively in this last go round, Hezbollah did not achieve any of its objectives at all, and suffered some serious losses all around, both in terms of soldiers and materiels. Ottolenghi also

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Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
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RIP, Pied Piper of Saipan

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Danny Kaye had his first staring role in 1944’s Up In Arms. It’s quite a silly movie — with “silly” being a redundant adjective because we’re talking about Danny Kaye (whom I loved as a child and like as an adult). In the movie, Kaye plays a hypochondriac who is

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Uplifting stories, World War II
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Sadly, labor seems to be a necessary evil

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Many years ago, when I was in about seven months along with my first pregnancy, I begged my OB for a C-Section. I didn’t need one, but I’d had surgery before, and figured better the pain I knew than the scary and unfamiliar pain of labor. She refused my request,

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Health
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Whew! Calderon will be sworn in

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Mexico’s Leftists took a page out of the post-election Democratic guidebook — protest, deny, accuse and whine — and ended with the same result: the candidate who was declared the victor will, in fact, win: Mexico’s electoral court will name ruling party conservative Felipe Calderon president-elect on Tuesday, rejecting claims

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Mexico
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He couldn’t have done this before a war devastated South Lebanon?

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

After weeks of silence regarding the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, the execrable Kofi Annan has suddenly popped up to announce that he’s here to help: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday he would appoint a secret envoy to work for the release of the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by

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United Nations
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There’s a reason he didn’t pass his driving test

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Have you ever been driving along, perfectly safe and carefully, only to have some loony-toonz driver almost hit you? Often, if visibility ought not to be a problem, you’ll wonder to yourself, in a very un-PC way, “What is that driver? Blind or something?” In at least one case, in

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Silly Stuff
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A glimpse at war in a pre-digital age

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

I think this is a pretty cool story about codes and code breaking: German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released on Monday. Nazi agents relayed sensitive

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Media matters, World War II
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Buy the DVD

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

If you read this article, you may well become convinced that it would be a very good thing to go out and buy the United 93 DVD, which has just been released. FacebookTweet

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Bits and Pieces
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“Steve unfortunately was in a bad position and copped it.”

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Steve Irwin, the maniacally energetic, cheerful, enthusiastic “Crocodile Hunter,” died yesterday when a stingray gored him in the heart. It was truly a freak accident because, had the barb gotten him anywhere else in the body, it’s likely he would have survived. It’s also a freak accident in that he

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The conversion conundrum

Posted on September 3, 2006 by Bookworm

Although the MSM has been assiduously ignoring the deeper meaning behind Centani’s and Wiig’s forced conversions, the conservative press has (rightly) been very worried about it. Mark Steyn devotes a whole column to the problem with the following, I think, getting to the core issue: Don’t bet on it. In

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Islam
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