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[Reason Magazine] Up from Serfdom - Reason Magazine: Increasingly, both sides inthe debate on the Iraq war slime the motives of their opponents,and that tactic is poisoning the political discourse...Looking atliberal outlets one finds a comparable number of allegations thatBush "lied" America into war, "...

[TEXTBOOKS COLLECTION] TEXTBOOKS COLLECTION: Daftar Teksbook 36 (LumbungBuku.com): Order and Chaos Laws of Energy and Entropy;Angrist S.W. Hepler L.G. -;Order of Hermes (Mage: The Ascension);Allen Varney, Beth Fischi -;Order of Terror, 1996-11;Wolfgang Sofsky -;Order out of Chaos - Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World ..... Origins of Phrases, Sayings, Cliches And Quotes;x-humanoid -;Origins of the English language, a social and linguistic history;Joseph M Williams -;Origins of the Knife: Early Encounters with the History of Surgery (Vademecum) ...

[World Affairs] World Affairs Journal - Life On Venus: Europe's Last Man: He knows too much about the evil of the Saddam Hussein regime to join the protestors in their self-righteous certitude: “by definition, none of the people now milling around Warren Street tube station happens to have been tortured by the regime, or knows and loves people who have, or even knows much about the place at all.” At the same time, when he discusses the war with his squash partner and fellow surgeon, an American named Jay Strauss””whose name codes his Jewishness and his allegiance to neoconservatism””Perowne feels repelled by Strauss’s bellicosity. “He’s a man of untroubled certainties, impatient of talk of diplomacy, weapons of mass destruction, inspection teams, proofs of links with al-Qaeda and so on .

[protein wisdom] a little over four years ago”¦: wrote in part that we should start to consistently refer to the dems as the Social Democrats as they are no longer distinguishable from the Socialist parties of Europe. That’s one of his points and the whole article is worth reading.

[Spectrum Blog] Outside the Garden: An Adventist Midrash: Reflections on Genesis ...: (Many Adventists make a further move to "balance" Jesus' teaching and example of nonviolent enemy love, appealing to the genocidal passages in the Hebrew Bible as the other side of God's character we must bare in mind lest we find ourselves tempted to an ethic of nonviolence ourselves. I'll leave aside the genocide passages for now other than to note that they pose as great a problem for "just war" theorists as for pacifists).

[Harriet] Political Poetry: An Epistolary Conversation : Forrest Gander ...: For myself, I think another aspect that is interesting is that if there is indeed a recognition by Ms Nye of Jonson’s work””when I say that this may be a form of compliment in a peculiar way, it is because at this moment such “avant” writers as Charles Bernstein and appear in Harpers and the New Yorker, while denying the importance of the works Johnson and others who are participant in the same poetic circles. The compliment implied, if there is one, to me at any rate, is that Johnson’s work finds its way to an audience outside the “friendly confines” of the “avant world” without having to “play it safe” or perhaps even pander, in the way that others do to arrive at the recognition of the very mainstream journals they have made a career out of attacking as “official verse culture” and the like.

[Evangelical Realism] How God really “works” « Evangelical Realism: But God does not, in fact, show up in the real world, an absence that the Marine finds frustrating and infuriating. He seethes with inner rage and helplessness, because God consistently fails to behave as though He believed the same things the Marine does, and yet the Marine cannot confront God about this nor can he admit, even to himself, that there’s anything wrong with God’s behavior.

[Fiction Matters] On Genre - Confessions of a Fantasy Nerd | Fiction Matters: When we choose to look at the total body of any particular genre, modern literature included, the worth of the body is reduced to the median quality. When genres are considered, that median quality is easily reduced to the clichés - be it dragons and swords for fantasy, buxom women and buffed men for romance, hard boiled and scheming folks for mysteries, lasers and cybernetics for science fiction, or drug addicts and divorced children of modern lit.

[Reports - Chris Hedges' Columns | Truthdig] Chris Hedges: The Pictures of War You Aren't Supposed to See ...: Last year, the Iraqi casualties were HALF what they were last year, and last month there were NO American soldier deaths. Of course, you probably don’t know any of that because you get your news from left-wing Defeatocrats like Chris Hedges, who is obviously disappointed we’re winning and is cherry picking as many tragic incidents like that boy’s death to create the illusion of defeat.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Whirled Views 04.12: This is always astonishing to me, that someone who would look at the Babylonian stories about the origin of the world and say, “Oh, yeah, that’s a creation my from a time before man had developed science.” And say the same about the Greek stories and the Norse stories and the aboriginal stories and the American Indians stories, and so on.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What'll be the impact of the ...: My take is that it was the right war (as you note, getting rid of Saddam), at the right time (Clinton's policy of containment was falling apart at the seams), fought the right way (a quick strike to the heart), ....

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Print | TomDispatch: She sent an essay in to Tomdispatch in 2003, not long after the invasion of Iraq began, just as so many who had demonstrated against the onrushing war were packing their bags and heading home in despair. It was called Acts of Hope: .

[HBR.org] The Social Media Bubble - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review: It started long before the use of torture in the so-called “War on Terror,” the fabrication of evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq, the felonious exposure from within the White House of an agent of the CIA, and everyone she ever worked with, etc.

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