On Mother Theresa again: "Unfaith"
(Hat tip to C4 for the coverage He's got all the links you'd ever need or want...and more possibly).I'm loathe in a sense to bring this up again because it doesn't matter a whit obviously for Theresa....
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Iraq in a Nutshell
Recall that Talabani is a Kurd--a separate ethnicity from majority Arabs. He aligns with Shia (though Kurds are mainly Sunni). --So does Bush not actually realize this and is really that clueless?--Or...
View Articleintegral communication
A really important (I think) clip from Ken Wilber on IntegralNaked (subscription required--first month is free).Wilber's main point is how hard it is to both talk about and actually inhabit the...
View ArticleWalter Russell Read: Faith and Progress
A very sharp and interesting thinker (see his book: Special Providence where he coins the notion of the 4 schools of American foreign policy--Wilsonians, Hamiltonians, Jacksonians, and Jeffersonians),...
View ArticleJon Chait on Supply Side Economics
These are fighting words--many of them accurate. Cult, wingnuts, and crackpots: the founders of supple side economics and the Laffer Curve?But this is not a DailyKos like screed (although it is...
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How to Keep an Autocratic Government You Hate in Power
this should be surprising why? (Cuba calling....) clipped from www.nytimes.com average Iranians have endured economic hardships, political repression and international isolation as the nation’s top...
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Lie the Media will Tell You
Why are we even still having this argument? How does one fundamentally criticize ir-rationality? --Both "liberal" and "conservative" media fall for this one. clipped from news.yahoo.comWASHINGTON —...
View ArticleReality Check Fallujah
Fallujah which is being cited as the prime example of the new surge tactic in Iraq.John Robb on Petraeus taking Katie Couric through Fallujah as a modern day Potemkin village:Indications of calm and...
View ArticlePeace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
This is a tough film to watch. Warning: Graphic imagery.Covers the unequal and unjust depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the US media. In short, how the coverage is so lopsidedly...
View ArticlePossibly Best Piece on why Iraq will Continue
From John Robb:If you think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will end with this US presidency, think again. These wars will likely outlast the next several Presidents. The old Vietnam era formulas...
View ArticleMother Theresa Again Again: Promise Last Time
Just one more thought worth considering that I have not seen anyone in this on-going thread mention. The New Atheist Crew have jumped on this new piece of phenomenological evidence---i.e. that Mother...
View Articleintersubjective mysticism
A followup, sidepoint that sprang to mind while writing the last post. If we take the modernist, materialist view of mysticism (God=Brain Chemistry) and reduce all experience (mundane and/or mystical)...
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Duffy on post-surge
clipped from www.time.comWhenever they begin, then, the withdrawals are unlikely to last very long. Many experts believe the threat of a wider civil war — and the regional instability that would follow...
View Articlepinkercorn
If Wright-Kaus is #1 on Bloggingheads, then Pinkerton and Corn are 1A.These guys are gold.Question for Best Moment: 1)When Corn "defies" Pinkerton (or any reader) to find any article on Thompson that...
View ArticleBarone on 3 Americas
Great piece by Michael Barone summarizing a new book by Morton Keller (America's Three Regimes).Barone:His three regimes are the deferential-republican, from the colonial period to the 1820s; the...
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Review of Soulfully Gay
Full disclosure: Joe invited me to be a contributor to the now defunct IntegralChristian.com. I consider him a friend.Fuller disclosure: Joe's publisher sent me a free copy of the book on the condition...
View ArticleJon Chait Again
Here he is on Bloggingheads with Matthew Yglesias, on economic crackpots.One of the arguments Chait makes is that this "libertarian-tax cut" wing (along with DOC's "economic authoritarians") is the...
View Articlemove on ad
The General Petraeus=General "Betray-us" title from MoveOn.org is as bad in my book as the "Stab-in-the-Back" campaign Hugh Hewitt has run. I'm tired of the so-called political football being kicked...
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Eva Fairbanks on Ambd. Crocker
Why his testimony was far more important than Petraeus'. clipped from www.tnr.comCrocker is right that Iraqi leaders' intentions and how much actual power they wield is more important than whether...
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Lawrence on Wright on al-Qaeda in Iraq
Rhetorically they win either win. US stays, can swarm and bleed. US leaves, they claim victory. But events on ground, they haven't won, and will never win any real territory, but may (at most) be able...
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