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The Blue Pelican (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120202044.html The president's party will not support his new policy, his budget will not accommodate it, our overstretched and worn-down military will be hard-pressed to execute it, and Americans' patience will not be commensurate with Afghanistan's limitless demands for it. This will not end well. A case can be made for a serious...
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Real Clear Politics (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
George Will doesn't pull any punches in his latest column: Having vowed to 'finish the job,' Obama revealed Tuesday that he thinks the job in Afghanistan is to get out of Afghanistan. This is an unserious policy. And: George Orwell said the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. But Obama's half-hearted embrace of a [...]
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Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
by Katharine Wroth In this corner, we have PETA, a shameless animal-rights organization that uses boobies to make its point at least—what, once or twice a minute? To wit: this latest, uh, holiday-themed ad featuring Polish Playboy model Joanna Krupa . In the other corner, we have FOX News and angry Christians : For a higher purpose?PETA.org “It’s totally inappropriate,” said...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
At first, it appears as though the collection of 24 pieces by George Packer will be all Iraq, all the time. It is only after about 170 pages that readers will discover Packer writes just as compellingly about other parts of the world as he does about Iraq.
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Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
George Will: According to Robert Hughes, author of “The Shock of the New” (1980), during World War I’s nation-shattering and culture-shredding carnage, no photograph of a dead soldier appeared in a German, French or British newspaper. But the Sept. 23,...
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THE STROUMBOULOPOULI (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
It's guaranteed to be a wild and crazy week, as always, so let's get down to the facts... Sunday, November 15th Don't forget to tune in to CBC2 for the second edition of the newly reincarnated Strombo Show . With a mixture of the best music, the show will help you start your week off on the right note. Check out the CBC2 website to listen live online or to find out the frequency of your local CBC2....
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The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Initial plans for the 64th annual Ojai Music Festival, held June 10-13 in beautiful Ojai, California, were unveiled today. British composer and conductor George Benjamin will serve as music director. The Ensemble Modern, considered one of the world’s preeminent new music groups, will make its West Coast debut. All concerts take place outdoors in bucolic [...]
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The conservative columnist George Will once said football combines the two worst things about America: violence punctuated by committee meetings. As a designer who occasionally gets caught up in the fury of the game, I'd like to add graphic design to what's wrong with football. With the help of Skycam I spend as much time enjoying the color, patterns and graphics that add to the spectacle of the sport,...
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Environment II by mark andrew york (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
At the Washington Post, didn't care for my poke George Will in the eye punditry it seems. Alas, this was no contest at all, but a diversity of mediocrity festival that resembles applying for any job if you happen to to over 50 and not already a Stanford perfessor like one of the winners. Thank you for entering the first season of the America’s Next Great Pundit contest. You didn’t make...
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News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Where there’s a Will … there’s another Will. We’ve lost William F. Buckley Jr. and now William Safire. Stay well, George Will. Betty Foster Prairie Village
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I am not who I think I am or is I whom? (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE KGB BAR, 7-9pm 85 E 4th Street, E Village, NYC: Karen Garthe, Jefferson Hansen, Erica Lazure Plouffe, and M. E. Parker. See link for details. Also see Jefferson Hansen's blog to read his comments on some writings by his fellow readers. ________ SUNDAY October 4th, 2009, 5:30 pm Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry, trendy Tribeca, NYC (hot hot hot!) Curator: George Spencer I will...
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All Hands On Deck! (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
President Obama has a major decision to make regarding the war strategy in Afghanistan and rightly is being criticized for his sudden hesitance and indecisiveness. After two years of debating the issue on the campaign trail and 8 months in office, it is embarrassing and inexcusable for the President to state that he has not yet settled on a strategy. Oddly, he seems to have simply put aside his announcement...
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The Humble Libertarian (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
By: Ryan Jaroncyk , T H L Contributor In my recent blog, " Make a choice: contain Al Qaeda or nation build in Afghanistan ," I endorsed George Will's proposal for a more limited and focused mission. Now, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Ralph Peters, has issued a similar proposal in the New York Post . Like Will, Peters advocates a more narrowly defined mission, one that specifically targets...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The sirens and other orchestral sounds singular to Times Square will have some competition on Monday night. The Metropolitan Opera’s opening-night gala performance of Puccini’s “Tosca,” which begins at 6:30 p.m., will be transmitted onto multiple screens in Times Square and to a large screen at Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza. The new production, with Karita Mattila,...
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Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
I rarely fisk anything; too often, it's like shooting drunks in a barrel. But I simply couldn't resist this David Harsanyi column... it's such a target-rich environment. I looked him up in Wikipedia and discovered he's a movement libertarian and an atheist; dang, you could have knocked me over with a wrecking ball: There is a certain je ne sais quoi about many contemporary libertarians and the "arguments"...
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