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WaPo – IOC failing in its responsibility to the Olympics, by Sally Jenkins

As the Vancouver Games come to a close, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will call them a success. But it’s the IOC — so incubated in blue blazers, five-star accommodations, and shellfish buffets — that requires real assessment. Exactly what [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Der Spiegel – Christianity’s Modern-Day Martyrs

The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world. Paradoxically, their greatest hope could come from moderate political Islam. By SPIEGEL staff.

One [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This is amazing:

University of Cairo, class of 1959, and the class of 2004 (spot the difference!):

Class of 1959.Class of 2004.

Click to enlarge. Curtsy: Pajamas Media via Mark Steyn in The Corner who repeats this little anecdote I’ve tried finding before (so here it is again for ye olde external memory drive):

The other [...]

Categories: History

Citizens United (Hillary: the Movie) v. Federal Election Commission

I liked this video. I liked this Supreme Court ruling because it’s made my liberal acquaintances heads explode about eeeevil corporations. Apparently the thought is that if you can’t be thrown in jail, you shouldn’t be able to donate money to political parties. No word on whether [...]

Categories: Politics

Step one: Don’t ERASE THE ANTIQUITIES AND HERITAGE.

NRO – The War Against the Infidels Terrorism is only one of the weapons. By Clifford D. May

In 2001, the monumental 6th-century buddhas of Bamiyan were dynamited on orders from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. The United States and other Western governments issued protests. Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers [...]

Categories: History

Google Blogs – A new approach to China

First:

Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Brett McS and I were just talking about these x-ray things (prompted by one of Vanderleun’s reprints)…

In the wake of the foiled terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff tells National Review Online that the United States needs to “aggressively pursue” more whole-body imaging during primary searches [...]

Categories: Politics

National Post – Adrian MacNair: Jennifer Lynch gets human rights advice from Cuba, Kyrgyzstan

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has revealed the costly travel expenses of Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch, as she went abroad to consult dignitaries from such beacons of human rights as Cuba. In travels to Geneva, Dublin, Copenhagen, Malaysia, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

And they’re not money, power, and, uhh… oil, I guess.

NRO – Going Neocon<br/> Is Obama getting mugged by reality? By Abe Greenwald

1. No matter how technologically advanced and interconnected the world becomes, there will be bad actors, and their obstinacy will remain intact. Every regime cannot be made to acquiesce through appeals to common [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times – Suspicions over ‘heart attack’ death of Iranian doctor who knew too much

The official cause of death for the physician is heart attack but there is evidence that regime officials drove him to suicide or murdered him because he witnessed the brutality used against opposition detainees after the disputed election in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

What?

Telegraph Blogs – Tim Collard: How the Civil Service sabotages the campaign against forced marriages

As we know, there is a problem in this country regarding forced marriages. Some families, generally originating from the Indian subcontinent, attempt to remove their children, usually daughters, from the UK in order to marry them off to someone [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in exile: ‘I can’t sit and say nothing as Iran suffers’

He is far from sure that the West, notably America, is taking notice. “If they are holding up signs in English on the streets of Tehran it is not to practise their language skills, it is obviously [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

NRO – Debacle in Moscow<br/> Obama’s foreign policy is amateurishness, wrapped in naïveté, inside credulity. By Charles Krauthammer

About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award “premature,” as if the brilliance of Obama’s foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s getting late, but I’ve had a couple things stacked up, waiting to be posted…

The Times (Wednesday) – Colonel Gaddafi finally finds somewhere to pitch his tent – on Donald Trump’s land

“There is no legal way to prevent this as he is a head of state, despite the fact that he has a [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I don’t think RC2’s a fan:

Wheat & Weeds – In Which I Side Against The British PM

Why must we pretend that an organization which exists to misspend money, enrich apparatchiks, make sex-slave rings of girls in war zones, fund China’s forced abortion policy, give international venues to holocaust deniers, dictators and mass murderers, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs