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Where the New York Times is coming fromOne of the great imponderables of our time is how, for example, a revered institution in the heart of Western (classically) liberal civilization like the New York Times manages to editorialize on the murder, firebombing and threatened assassination attending Pope Benedict's remarks about Islam by tut-tutting Benedict for "insult[ing] Muslims"...
September 19, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
Security profiling deserves a more thoughtful discussion than it's gettingMuslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown, reports the Times Online: THE [U.K.] Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk. The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously,...
August 15, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Vote for the crazy manPapers like the Akron Beacon Journal, not to mention state Democrats, are trying to have their cake and eat it too on the gubernatorial election. Ted Strickland, the Democrat, is an ordained Methodist minister (ask... well, you don't have to ask, it'll come up) who runs campaign ads on --...
August 13, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Allies do matterThe Hezbollah-Israeli war is not World War II (it's not even World War III yet). At stake isn't the future of Christian civilization, as Churchill called it on the eve of the Battle of Britain. I know this and don't mean to imply otherwise. But having said that, if you...
August 1, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Hezbollah becoming better armedHezbollah has a new rocket. Hezbollah launched a new kind of rocket Friday that made its deepest strike into Israel yet, rattling Israelis as their warplanes and artillery blasted apartment buildings and roads gunning for guerrillas.... Israel said the Khaibar-1 rockets were renamed, Iranian-made Fajr-5s. They have four times the...
July 31, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Juvenile crime is up, and you could knock me over with a canoe paddleA cynic or a thoughtful observer -- take your pick, though both may be true -- might draw a line of causation between these two developments. (Possible) effect first: Violent crime rates on the rise nationwide The latest preliminary FBI statistics show murders in the U.S. jumped 4.8 percent last...
July 15, 2006 Author: Matt Barr What is it? I'm stupidI don't think any phrase in entirely too common usage irritates me more than "it's the _____, stupid." It began 14 years ago as a prod to keep Clinton campaign staffers from losing focus on the fact the economy, which filled in the blank then, was what voters cared about...
May 11, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
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