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More analyses I like about the Israeli-Hezbollah war

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Bookworm

My prior “updates” post was getting too long and unwieldly, so I’m starting a new one which, again, I’ll move to the top whenever I update it. So, if this is at the top, be sure to scroll down for new posts you may not have seen yet. WEDNESDAY UPDATES:

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Work in Iraq goes on

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Much attention right now is focused on the border between Israel and Lebanon, but that doesn’t mean the US isn’t continuing to do its work in Iraq. It looks as if there’s another fairly big initiative going on to drive out terrorists from one of their local bases. What’s interesting

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Bits and Pieces, Iraq
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The Left’s anti-Semitism infects a new country

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Spain distinguished itself after the 3/11 train bombings by instantly backing down from the fight and infecting itself with Leftism. The fallout from this infection is clear: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain and Secretary General of the Socialist Party, arrived to power at a time nobody expected,

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The morals of romance novels

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Bookworm

I’ve already confessed to my weakness for chick lit, and expanded upon my disgust with the recent imports from Britain, which assure incompetent, drink-sodden women that the best looking guy in the room will see through the miasma of failure that hangs about them and sweep them off in a

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A modest proposal to decrease air pollution

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Let’s get rid of carpool lanes.  As far as I can tell, they are completely counterproductive. Carpool lanes were created to give people an incentive to band together so that there wouldn’t be so many lone cars on the freeways guzzling fossil fuel.  The theory was that people stuck in

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And the religion of pieces marches on

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

The well-disciplined Islamists are making headway in Somalia: Heavily armed militia loyal to Somalia’s Islamic courts have arrived in Burhakaba, a town 60km from the base of the interim government in Baidoa. Somalia’s interim prime minister says it is clear the Islamists, who control the capital, plan to advance on

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Has the ground war begun?

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

I don’t know if this was just an isolated sortie, or if the ground war has finally begun: Two Israeli soldiers and a Hezbollah militant have been killed in fierce fighting in southern Lebanon. Clashes erupted after Israeli tanks and infantry crossed the border in search of Hezbollah weapons and

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“Disproportionate force” explained

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

Sometimes, a picture is worth way more than a thousand words. Michael Ramirez gets it. This goes to the point I’ve been trying to make, which is that the anti-American/anti-Israel groups are willing to countenance a war only if they can assure that there is no possibility that the USA

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Anti-Americanism, Anti-war, Hezbollah, Iraq, Israel, Military
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Everything you need to know about temper tantrums

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

My policy, when my children were little enough to have temper tantrums was, as I always said, “to walk over the body.” I simply won’t deal with someone behaving that way. One of my all time favorite videos shows beautifully how even children are wise enough to use temper tantrums

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Some people really aren’t mentally equipped to vote

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

Next time you read that your fellow citizens have, by signing petitions, put something totally ludicrous on the ballot (such as Arizona’s initiative to use lotteries to bribe people into the voting booth), think of this video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE] Hat tip: PalmTree Pundit FacebookTweet

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Good news at two levels

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Bookworm

One of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces is being turned over to the Iraqi government: MOSUL, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers will turn over control of the former Saddam Hussein presidential compound here to Iraqi government officials in a ceremony in Mosul July 20. The Mosul VIP Residence site,

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Places to go for analysis about Israel’s situation

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Bookworm

I’ve decided to place this post at the top periodically as a good way to publish links that I find interesting in analyzing the situation in the Middle East. Scroll down for any new posts I may have put up. Here are two good places to go for information about

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One of the great pulp fiction writers has passed on

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Mickey Spillane, who created Mike Hammer, died the other day.  NPR has a nice obituary.  The late Mr. Spillane comes across as a great American eccentric. FacebookTweet

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African-American men and women

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Here’s a fascinating NPR radio story about relationships between African-American men and women: A clip from the upcoming film Diary of a Tired Black Man is generating a great deal of buzz in the African-American community. The scene features a man arriving at the house of his former spouse with

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Up and running

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Just to let you know that Bardseyeview, which looks at current events through a Shakespearean lens, is up and running again after a hiatus.  This site is always interesting and a reminder, if one is needed that there is nothing new under the sun. FacebookTweet

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