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jihad review
"Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia"
or are you just happy to see me
"President Bush doesn't believe in polling---just ask his pollsters."
notochordata
"It isn't treason for a party out of power in wartime to talk about these matters. If anything, it's the Democrats' patriotic responsibility not just to hold up their end of the national dialogue over the war's means and ends, but to say where they want to take the country in peace. Yet now that they've capitulated on issues ranging from fuel-economy standards to gun control, the sum of a Democratic social vision these days often seems to have dwindled down to a prescription drug program for Medicare patients. For the party itself, however, nothing short of a spine transplant may do."
the stone-eaters
theres a parable in here somewhere.
intercontinental divide
"In most of the world, it is the Palestinian narrative of a dispossessed people that dominates. In the United States, however, the narrative that dominates is Israel’s: a democracy under constant siege. Europeans and other Palestinian partisans point to the fact that the Israel lobby in America is one of the strongest anywhere, and Jewish individuals and organizations give millions of dollars to political candidates in order to reward pro-Israel policies and punish those who support the Palestinians. Another reason, however, is the near-complete domination by pro-Israel partisans of the punditocracy discourse."
big hack attack
"CopVCia Site Hacked Down"
she blows me away
"A teenage girl's path to suicide bomber"
'Face Of Teen Girl Suicide Bomber"
"At 18, bomber became martyr and murderer"