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FLASHBACK: Conservatives Do Fine on Campus
According to this professor who cites you prominently in this review of his own book.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11002/1114681-109.stm
No Christmas or Easter in Europe
Hour 3: 11:30 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. His new book is Honoring the Child Spirit: Inspiration and Learning from Our Children
http://www.amazon.com/Honoring-Child-Spirit-Inspiration-Learning/dp/1593156049/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295242967&sr=1-1
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Steeped in God talk. The passage Lee read to us is 4 paragraphs from the bottom.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Here’s the Context
Makes it even more powerful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail
Tunisia Erupts
A seemingly spontaneous outbreak of dissatisfaction overturns the government. Social media key to spreading the word. The key question: what comes next? Freedom or Islamism?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/africa/16tunis.html?_r=1&hp
What Kind of Government Will Emerge?
Big opportunity. Things could get a lot better in Tunisia. Or Worse. We’ll track it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/world/africa/17tunis.html?_r=1&hp
WSJ: Let’s Hope for Something Better
But who knows?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959104576081760185554194.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
The Dysfunctional Arab World
He’s had major roles in Die Hard, License to Kill (a Bond film), and An American Carol (a David Zucker comedy) and many others. And starring parts in TV series like Profiler and Criminal Minds.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001108/
He’s also a classically trained musician and singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davi
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Video: Obama Gives Memorial Speech
The speech was quite good, but the atmosphere was strange. More like a pep rally than a memorial service. You’ll get the idea right from the very beginning. Why was it held in a sports stadium and not a church? Was it because one of those murdered was Jewish?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/12/full_speech_obama_addresses_tucson_shooting_memorial_service_.html
Obama Attends Memorial for Arizona Victims
Here’s how the WaPo reported the speech.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011206134.html?hpid=topnews
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A Good Collection of Idiotic Democratic Comments
A rogue’s gallery.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/137141-stunned-lawmakers-struggle-for-answers
James Taranto Provides an Even More Thorough Breakdown
Includes politicians, commentators and talk show hosts — all calling for the death of a politician they dislike.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791904576075660624213434.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
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Arizona Assassin a Registered Independent
Honest WP writer sums it up at the end of this short piece. Think the Left will apologize?
He’s had major roles in Die Hard, License to Kill (a Bond film), An American Carol (a David Zucker comedy) and many others. And starring parts in TV series like Profiler and Criminal Minds.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001108/
He’s also a classically trained musician and singer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Davi
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Krauthammer: Why Reading Constitution Was Important
Can Republicans create a new cultural of smaller, less intrusive government?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010604379.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Environmentalists Exaggerate Wildly Again
You know that big plastic island of garbage floating in the Pacific the size of Texas? Huh, it’s barely there.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8241265/Great-Garbage-Patch-in-the-Pacific-Ocean-not-so-great-claim-scientists.html
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Even French Socialists No Longer Support 35 Hour Work Week
Another socialist experiment that didn’t work.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14750246,00.html
Local Fox Reporter Sues Station for Firing Him for Using the N Word.
PC distorts everything it touches — office life, the courts, the media. The last thing the Left believes in is free speech — except for themselves.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20110105_Trial_set_for_firing_over_use_of__n__word.html
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Your Column Made RCP
Still up on main page as of 8pm Tuesday. Worth revisiting, even though you talked about these ideas last week.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/01/04/from_yale_to_the_nfl_are_we_still_the_home_of_the_brave_108416.html
This WSJ Article Is on the Same Theme as Your Column (didn’t make RCP)
More news analysis than opinion piece. Don’t miss last two paragraphs.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576061931478655322.html?mod=WSJ_hps_editorsPicks_3
FLASHBACK:NY Times Expresses Its Admiration for Justice Stevens’s Death Penalty Stance
But as they relate that stance, it doesn’t make much sense to me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12sun2.html?ref=opinion
FLASHBACK: Here’s the Stevens’ Argument
Stevens reviews Garland’s book. Long, dull and specious. I suggest starting with the last paragraph.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/death-sentence/
WSJ: What the Republican Mandate Should Be
Some very valuable guidelines for the new Congress.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704723104576061922890057168.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
