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The times, they are a-changin'. I started FWG in late 2002 to provide myself a written outlet for my 9/11-inspired political awakening. Instantly it was a lot of fun. My thinking brought me to some scary and stimulating realizations about the inextricability of utopian thinking and anti-Semitism, and how this was shaping left-wing thought, especially since the Second Intifada and 9/11. I

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Ezra Klein dumps some righteous excrement on the crazed cotillion of vigilantes whirling around Graeme Frost and his family for daring to advocate SCHIP: This is the politics of hate. Screaming, sobbing, inchoate, hate. It would never, not in a million years, occur to me to drive to the home of a Republican small business owner to see if he "really" needed that tax cut. It would never, not in a

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Even leaving aside the manipulative mis-translations [sic] by neoconservatives of Ahamdinejad's [sic] statements -- even if one accepted their mis-translations... Glenn, This is extraordinary. Do you seriously believe that Ahmadinejad's exhortation -- "The regime currently occupying Jerusalem must be wiped from the pages of time" -- means something substantially different from the common

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To lead the world, we must lead by example. We must be willing to acknowledge our failings, not just trumpet our victories. And when I'm President, we'll reject torture - without exception or equivocation; we'll close Guantanamo; we'll be the country that credibly tells the dissidents in the prison camps around the world that America is your voice, America is your dream, America is your light of

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I watched about half of the Democratic debate at Dartmouth. These debates are interesting to a degree, but ultimately they’re like the executive dog-and-pony shows we’re subjected to every Quarter at the Fortune 100 company I work for, where upper management gets up on stage and makes positioning statements and you’re supposed to read the tea leaves, but half of it is full of shit and the other

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Virtually all of the swirling war dances towards Iran are rooted in [the belief that Israel's enemies are our enemies], but advocates of war with Iran are too dishonest to acknowledge it openly. Glenn, I support your call for honesty in foreign policy debate. Attacking Iran would be a humanitarian catastrophe and anyone advocating it should clearly say so and why. While we're on the subject of

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Hi. In case you were wondering, I'm spending most of my time these days here at Flickr. I bought a Canon EOS 400d with a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM lens and I can barely contain myself. I've got about 750 photos uploaded to Flickr and I'm not flagging yet. Enjoy.

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Charles Krauthammer Meerkat

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Every year I listen to this and it actually gives me chills, and it's no wonder, considering the shit that passes for a speech these days. "I Have a Dream" I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the

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Saddam's execution has been an occasion for hand-wringing, by some who are opposed to the death penalty on principle, and others who point to the lack of due process in Saddam's trial and execution, and furthermore, the squalidness and brutality of the latter. Broadly I am in favor of capital punishment, although I respect the opposition; and I acknowledge the considerable shortcomings of

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Still on a reading vacation. Idly, I just checked my traffic logs and found a gem. It seems not even the thigh-thrumming arousal one experiences after seeing pictures of Maureen Dowd's feet was enough for this lonely Internet surfer: john straining on the toilet photos.

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I've been on a reading vacation for two months, trying to finish Thucydides. Part of me regrets not writing, but part of me is so bored and disgusted with the crustacean level of quality at which most blogs wallow that I feel good about stuffing something nutritious into my brain for a change. I couldn't let pass without comment the candidacy of the sub-scholarly, soft-Marxist anti-Semite Juan

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Hamas announces candidates for parliament speaker, faction chair: Hamas announced Wednesday that it intends to appoint Abed al-Aziz Duaik to head the new Palestinian parliament. Duaik is considered one of the most senior members of the organization in the West Bank and a member of the movement's more pragmatic wing. Earlier Wednesday, the group announced that Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior

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Finally, some or all of the long-promised second round of Abu Ghraib photos have been released. SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian television station broadcast on Wednesday what it said were previously unpublished images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, stoking more Arab anger against the United States. The Special Broadcasting Service's "Dateline" current affairs program said

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The Iranian establishment rag Hamshahri has released its call for cartoon jihad. As usual, freedom of expression is used to serve as an excuse for westerners to attack sanctities of the Muslims in blatant disregard for moral principles and respect for opinions of others. The attack comes despite the fact that it is an unforgiven crime in the West to debate and critique many issues

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The inevitable fruits of occupation. A SHOCKING breakdown of military discipline is caught on video as eight burly British soldiers rain 42 kicks and blows on four puny young male Iraqi civilians, one of them a child. The victims’ helpless cries for mercy and howls of pain and terror are ignored by groups of troops casually passing by. One man is heard to say: “In the f***ing head.” The most

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Hitler Youth, Nuremburg, 1934 Cartoon Jihadis, Istanbul, 2006

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Someone's provoking us! From No Pasaran.

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Here's one for the What the Fuck Files: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said today. Harry Whittington, 78, was 'alert and doing fine' [although still hospitalized] after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday. Thanks to Amy Sullivan, guest-poster at Kevin Drum's Washington Monthly.

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Sol of Solomonia draws attention to this post by David Bernstein of the The Volokh Conspiracy. Bernstein writes about a review of Spielberg's Munich by Edward Said's most earnest epigone, Columbia professor Joseph Massad. The rhetorical device around which the review turns is an analogy between Munich and Exodus, the 1960 Otto Preminger film based on Leon Uris's novel of the same name. The

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Journalists at Iran's top-selling newspaper Hamshahri work at their desks in thier offices in Tehran in a 2003 file photo. Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi [Check out the Che photo on the back

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The nouveau conservatives who intone solemnities about the multi-culti hypocrisy of the "MSM" reproducing Piss Christ, but refusing to republish the Mohammad cartoons, have got it wrong. While there are important points to be made about the cultural backwardness of many Muslims today, as well as free speech and the culture-clash between our civilizations, the fact is that news organizations have

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It's no "cambodian filipino circumcized", nor does it match the peerless and God-horrible "Maureen Dowd pics feet", but it's worth mentioning that someone seeking a "girl in diapers" just visited.

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