Month: December 2007
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Jessica Wilson and Benj Hellie are killing "For the Record," their outstanding political blog. Is this a dominant trend for political-type blogs that are (more or less) solo efforts? Now, four years and 1200 posts later, we feel it is time to hang up our blogging pen. Thanks to the herculean efforts of many of…
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In my reading of numerous articles about Benazir Bhutto in the last 24 hours, I came across a common thread running through several columns by journalists who knew or had met her in person. All mention Bhutto’s remarkable and unusual physical courage. It is interesting that Indian journalists have noted this fact prominently, perhaps because…
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A spectacular and heartwarming declaration of love and gratitude.
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It’s not just the Israelis and Palestinians who form the feuding factions in the Holy Land. Territorial aggression among Christian priests who tend some of the holiest sites of Christianity is legendary. In this season of peace, a vicious donnybrook erupted on Thursday between Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic priests in the Church of Nativity…
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Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister and popular political leader of Pakistan was assassinated at a political rally in Rawalpindi today. This is horrible news for Pakistan as well as the entire troubled region of Pakistan-Afghanistan. RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters…
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Indian sand sculptor Sudarshan Patnaik has created a twenty foot statue of Jesus and other Christmas figures on the sands of a beach near the eastern Indian city of Puri. Not quite lasting images but certainly spectacularly painstaking. Nearby is a figure of Santa. An older statue of Jesus from Christmas of 2004.
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There will be light or no blogging for the next week to ten days. I expect that most readers as well as our bloggers, will be busy with travel and family get-togethers in the coming days. Even if there are new posts during the holidays, please expect to see more links than commentary. Hopefully, blogging…
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Nick Anderson, the editorial cartoonist of the Houston Chronicle sums up nicely what I described in a recent post regarding the attack on Barack Obama by Hillary Clinton’s campaign machine.
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(Cross posted from Fluff ‘n’ Stuff) Of late, I have been assiduously adopting a laissez-faire attitude to the dust bunnies breeding in the corners, ceiling cobwebs, pasta sauce and chocolate stains on the floor.What is life, but a giant round of cleanup, followed within minutes by dirt from the muddy outdoors, spilt milk and cookie…
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign is currently in the sliming mode even though her mother, daughter and other well wishers continue to appear at campaign events with stories of the soft and compassionate side of her nature. Ever since Barack Obama overtook her in the polls in Iowa and closed the gap in New Hampshire, the Clintonites…
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