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Sunday, February 22, 2009

OBAMA KEEPS AFGHANISTAN VERSION OF GUANTANAMO AT BAGRAM AIRBASE GOING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT I am sorry to read of this. But it is America that Obama leads, not Ronald Reagan's fanta...

MORE ANTI-MUSLIM GARBAGE IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DENIS MACEOIN IN THE TELEGRAPH Denis MacEoin, this piece lacks any perspective, save that of uninformed, para...

TONY BLAIR'S PEACE AWARD: WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ANDREW PIERCE IN THE TELEGRAPH Andrew Pierce couldn't be more right in his main theme. Blair is a ghoul, ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A FORMER GUARD WRITES OF GUANTANAMO BUT SADLY MAKES THE ERROR OF SAYING IT IS AGAINST WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY BRANDON NEELY IN THE INDEPENDENT Thank you for this, Brandon Neely. But your statement near the end that ...

ON ISRAEL AND GAZA AND THE TIRED CHARGE THAT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITISM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT Howard Jacobson, Yours is a shamefully dishonest article. You are playing word games with mas...

ON AL JAZEERA'S EFFORT TO GET A LICENCE FOR THEIR NEWS SERVICE IN CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I hope they get their licence. I've followed Al Jazeera on the Internet, and...
Monday, February 16, 2009

ON OBAMA'S EFFORT TO GOVERN BY CONSENSUS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The political divide in America is more visceral than it is in many other ...

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AND STEPHEN HARPER ONE OF CANADA'S "MEMORABLE DUETS" ?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DAVID MITCHELL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Yes, but they form an entirely new kind of "memorable due...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

ISRAEL'S TRAGEDY IS ITS POLITICIANS: A FALSE THESIS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LIAM FOX IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH This makes no sense. In a democracy, in the final analysis, you must put resp...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

IRAN'S REVOLUTION: ITS VIOLENCE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL TRUE REVOLUTIONS AND THE ROLE OF AMERICAN POLCY IN CREATING THIS ONE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ROBERT FISK IN THE INDEPENDENT But this is the story of every genuine revolution. By genuine I'm excludin...
Sunday, February 08, 2009

ON CELEBRITY ACADEMIC, RICHARD FLORIDA, AND HIS REPORT FOR DALTON MCCGUINTY, CIRCUS RINGMASTER OF ONTARIO

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Already Richard Florida has become a kind of academic celebrity, and so far as I...

SCIENCE AS RELIGION?

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CHRISTOPHER BROOKER IN THE TELEGRAPH A rubbishy playing with words, Mr. Booker. Science cannot be a religion. Scienc...
Thursday, February 05, 2009

JEFFERSON AND THE CATO INSTITUTE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The Cato Institute is an American think-tank, which is the same thing as ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

THE EXTREME DANGER OF AMERICAN PROTECTIONISM TODAY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES This is just fundamental economics. The problem in these matters is the di...

SEEKING EXCUSES FOR BUSH'S AND BLAIR'S WAR CRIMES

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES I can't agree, Daniel. Tony Blair is the perfect example of a politician...
Monday, February 02, 2009

THE IDEA THAT OBAMA'S ELECTION SHOULD HELP RAISE GRADES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES It would be nice to think this idea had some validity, but I fear it is just ...

THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS IN CHILDREN'S DRINKING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Yes, indeed, peer influence on young people has been demonstrated again and a...

JOHN UPDIKE

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JENNY MCCARTHY IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Updike was an elegant writer of the second rate, a sophisticated entertainer. ...

WHEN IS CANADA'S OBAMA MOMENT?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, Jeff Roberts, this is not very insightful writing. First, already it is b...
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...