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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

THE STUPIDEST THING YOU EVER HEARD OF?

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POSTED RESPONSE ON A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES I have this one, hands down, Daniel. That Oliver Kamm regards himself as clev...

A FORMER RALPH KLEIN ASSOCIATE ARGUES AGAINST RE-ENACTMENT OF THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ROD LOVE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Rod Love does have a point, something I thought I would never grant ...

MORE WORDS ON ETHICS FROM CANADA'S MOST BORING SCHOLASTIC, MARGARET SOMERVILLE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARGARET SOMERVILLE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Ms. Somerville surely qualifies as one of Canada's mo...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

ON OBAMA'S TAKING THE OATH TWICE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES This would be funny, but it does point to something in American society that is not funny ...

ON THE CLOSING OF GUANTANAMO AND THE CIA'S TORTURE GULAG

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES It cannot come a moment too soon. And the only people who truly deserve trials are the adm...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

OBAMA'S CORONATION?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Katty Kay has it right. A noted European historian decades ago said of the...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

PLANS FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES I believe there is a basic economic problem with all of the stimulus plan...

AN AMERICAN THINK-TANK HACK ON PEOPLE PROJECTING THEIR HOPES ONTO OBAMA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHN O'SULLIVAN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL John O'Sullivan, this is juvenile analysis. Of course...
Monday, January 19, 2009

NOAH RICHLER ON HARPER'S GOVERNMENT SENDING BACK AMERICAN DESERTERS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NOAH RICHLER IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Mr. Richler, I am ashamed our government has sent these brave re...

WAR FROM A DISTANCE? GAZA?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JON SNOW IN THE INDEPENDENT War? Military conflict? Did this piece have to reviewed by Israeli censors? No se...

ANOTHER PATHETIC COLUMN ON HISTORY'S SEEING BUSH AS LARGER THAN WE DO TODAY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY BRUCE ANDERSON IN THE INDEPENDENT "In their abuse, hid critics demonstrate their own weak hold on realit...
Friday, January 16, 2009

BRITISH WRITER ASKS IF THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR WHY ARE OUR BOYS DYING?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CON COUGHLIN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Good question that you, as a responsible newspaper, should have asked yea...

MARCUS GEE TELLS US WHAT AMERICANS - ALL THREE HUNDRED MILLION - ARE FIXATED BY: NOT THE FINANCIAL MESS - NOT AMERICAN TROOPS ABROAD - BUT TERROR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS GEE IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Here is another mighty labor by Marcus Gee for the birth of a mouse....
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

IS A ONE-STATE SOLUTION POSSIBLE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES I believe that, over the long term, it is inevitable for a single state to emerge. The rea...

COMPARISONS TO NAZI GERMANY ARE EXCESSIVE BUT ISRAEL'S WAY OF THINKING HAS CERTAIN PARALLELS AT WHICH MANY ARE HORRIFIED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Daniel, I believe your remarks are short-sighted. Comparisons with Nazi Germa...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

HERE'S TO AN UNGRACIOUS AND INACCURATE OLIVER KAMM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A FOLLOW-UP REMARK BY OLIVER KAMM IN THE TIMES The ungraciousness I'll ignore; it's puerile. But you are clearly ...

A THOUGHTLESS RECOMMENDATION FROM ONE COLUMNIST TO A COLUMN BY ANOTHER (WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE HIS BOSS), A COLUMN JUSTIFYING ISRAEL'S SAVAGERY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY OLIVER KAMM IN THE TIMES Daniel's (Finkelstein) piece was well put, but it was still wrong in logic and i...

THE PROPORTIONALITY OF ISRAEL'S RESPONSES: AN ARGUMENT BY SCHOLASTICS DEVOID OF HUMANITY AND ETHICS - AND THE ONLY WAY TO END THE HIDEOUS VIOLENCE

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES This is like scholastics counting the angels on the head of a pin. Only here, miser...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

ENGLAND'S RABBI LERNER SPEAKS OUT ON GAZA AND AN ATTEMPT TO POLITELY DISCREDIT HIM BASED ON HIS 9/11 BELIEFS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY OLIVER KAMM IN THE TIMES The Rabbi speaks reason, both about the current savage violence in Gaza and the hist...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

SHOULD ISRAEL TALK TO HAMAS?

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January 6, 2009 SHOULD ISRAEL TALK TO HAMAS? John Chuckman It is so elemental a question, yet one rarely mentioned in the mainline press. Ha...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

FURTHER TO ISRAEL'S ASSAULT ON GAZA - A TOUGH ANSWER TO AN UNINFORMED ASSERTION OF BIAS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO ANOTHER'S COMMENT ON A COLUMN IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES BY CLIVE CROOK "John Chuckman, Hamas has the option to reno...
Monday, December 29, 2008

ISRAEL'S CELEBRATION OF THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHT: MORE THAN 300 DEAD AND STILL COUNTING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES We are witnessing the most wanton war crimes by Israel, but people are afraid to speak up....
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT - A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS TALE

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AND TO ALL, A GOOD NIGHT A Contemporary Christmas Tale (reposted for the season) John Chuckman It was only a matter of time before Santa Cla...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

A PROPOSAL TO FIX CANADA'S POLITICAL PROBLEMS FROM THE SAGE OF THE ATHABASCA TARSANDS

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PRESTON MANNING IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Manning’s old-granny image tends to disguise the underlying, unpleas...

THE DEATH OF CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN AND THE DISPARAGEMENTOF ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY OLIVER KAMM IN THE TIMES Mr. Kamm, We agree on the greatness of gentleman and scholar Conor Cruise O'Brie...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

THE AMERICAN SENATE AS A DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Daniel, until 1913, the Senate was entirely an appointed body. The U.S. government w...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

BERNANKE AND HIS STUDIES OF JAPAN APPLIED TO THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The writers are trying to glorify what amounts to a cheap trick on all America...