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Archive: Dec 2007

Who Killed Alisher Saipov?

In a rite common both to the Slavic and Muslim cultures of Central Asia, the family and friends of a departed gather on the fortieth day following his death. A…

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NRO and TNR’s Bogus Bloggers

Last night, I posted an email that Chris Allbritton, an American reporter based in Beirut, had sent to National Review Online in early October. In it, Allbritton called W. Thomas…

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Fascist Dictator Chavez Wins Sham Vote Extending Powers!

Actually, scratch that headline. Chavez lost, in a close vote. What will Roger Cohen and Jackson Diehl write about now? “Fascist dictator loses sham vote” just doesn’t have the proper…

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Goethe’s ‘Zauberlehrling’

Hat der alte Hexenmeister Sich doch einmal wegbegeben! Und nun sollen seine Geister Auch nach meinem Willen leben. Seine Wort’ und Werke Merkt ich und den Brauch, Und mit Geistesstärke…

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Austen on the Novel

“I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is…

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“He’s a Liar”: October email to National Review Exposed Smith’s fictional writing from Lebanon

Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan, and the Huffington Post have been following the case of W. Thomas Smith Jr. and the idiotic stories out of Lebanon he’s written for National Review…

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Kidnapping Not a Crime, Claims Bush Justice Department

Continuing its recent spree of criminality in the alleged pursuit of law enforcement, the Bush Justice Department formally advised a British Court last week that it is fully entitled to…

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The Justice Department’s On-Going ‘State Secrets’ Charade

When is information a “state secret” and thus completely exempt from disclosure in legal process, even if its exclusion will produce a manifest injustice? In previous episodes, we have gotten…

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General Clark Excoriates Justice Department Over Siegelman Case

Delivering the keynote speech at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner of the Alabama Democratic Party in Birmingham last night, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley…

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Eckehart’s Just Man

Justus in perpetuum vivet et apud dominum est merces eius. (Wisdom 5: 16) We read a short dictum in today’s epistle spoken by the wise man: “The just [or righteous]…

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The Modern Sorcerer

One of the more intriguing accounts of the life of the inimitable Jane Austen emerged in the pages of The Times in 1926 with the publication of a letter which…

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‘Is Barack a Vegetarian,’ ‘Rumsfeld on Chávez’ and Other Stories from a Newspaper in Decline

The Washington Post continues to be a curious blend of abysmally bad editorial and op-ed writing and far more serious reporting. Perhaps someday this ship will right itself, but for…

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Questions for Pollster John Zogby About the 2008 Campaign

John Zogby, president and CEO of Zogby International, is one of the country’s best-known pollsters. I recently interviewed him at his Washington office about next year’s elections. What is current…

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A Nation That Tortures

Is America a nation that tortures? The question is being asked all around the world. It’s not a matter of idle speculation. Under international treaties, which many nations, not being…

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Voltaire on the Modern Sorcery

Le conseiller Courtin lui demanda de quel charme elle s’était servie pour ensorceler la reine: Galigaï, indignée contre le conseiller, et un peu mécontente de Marie de Médicis, répondit: «…

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