Research and Publishing in the Digital Age. Video. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 11, 2013. Posted by David Austin Walsh. History News Network, April 12, 2013. YouTube.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
The Hazards of Optimism in the Arab Spring. By Walter Laqueur.
Reality Check: The Hazards of Optimism. By Walter Laqueur. World Affairs, March/April 2013. Also find it here.
The False Scholarship of Edward Said. By Joshua Muravchik.
Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said. By Joshua Muravchik. World Affairs, March/April 2013. Also find it here.
Friday, April 12, 2013
The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi‘a-Sunni Divide.
The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi‘a-Sunni Divide. By Geneive Abdo. Brookings, April 10, 2013. PDF.
In Syria, an Alternative Iraq. By Abe Greenwald. Commentary, April 12, 2013.
In Syria, an Alternative Iraq. By Abe Greenwald. Commentary, April 12, 2013.
Historian Robert Caro: Today’s Conservative Media “Quite Horrible” And Venomous. By Joe Strupp.
Historian Robert Caro: Today’s Conservative Media “Quite Horrible” And Venomous. By Joe Strupp. Media Matters for America, April 1, 2013.
MSNBC’s PoliticsNation Highlights Historian Robert Caro’s Criticism Of Today’s “Quite Horrible” Conservative Media. Media Matters for America, April 2, 2013.
MSNBC’s PoliticsNation Highlights Historian Robert Caro’s Criticism Of Today’s “Quite Horrible” Conservative Media. Media Matters for America, April 2, 2013.
How Ancient Religions Can Help Us Transcend the Civilization of Greedy Money. By Ulrich Duchrow.
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Aristotle
warned about the dangerous illusions created by the accumulation of money, but he
and other Greek philosophers also laid the groundwork for the reductionist rationality
associated with capitalism. Aristotle and Plato appear at the heart of this painting,
Raphael’s School of Athens.
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How Ancient Religions Can Help Us Transcend the Civilization of Greedy Money. By Ulrich Duchrow. Tikkun, Spring 2013.
Fareed Zakaria’s Mideast Fictions.
No Accountability for Zakaria’s Fiction. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, April 8, 2013.
Fred Hiatt, Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post, Goes to Bat for Fareed Zakaria, Plagiarizer and Liar. By Jeffrey Grossman. JG, Caesaria, April 6, 2013.
Obama appeals to Israel’s conscience. By Fareed Zakaria. Washington Post, March 27, 2013.
Fred Hiatt, Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post, Goes to Bat for Fareed Zakaria, Plagiarizer and Liar. By Jeffrey Grossman. JG, Caesaria, April 6, 2013.
Obama appeals to Israel’s conscience. By Fareed Zakaria. Washington Post, March 27, 2013.
Does Israel Understand the Mideast Code of Honor? By Mitch Ginsburg.
The Middle East’s code of honor: Does Israel understand it? By Mitch Ginsburg. The Times of Israel, April 10, 2013.
Israel should be a start-up nation - for civilization and values. By Danny Schiff. Haaretz, April 10, 2013.
Israel should be a start-up nation - for civilization and values. By Danny Schiff. Haaretz, April 10, 2013.
The Moral Foundations of Society. By Margaret Thatcher.
The Moral Foundations of Society. By Margaret Thatcher. Imprimis, Vol. 24, No. 3 (March 1995). PDF.
Thatcher:
The Moral Foundations of the American Founding
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. The American founding bears ample witness to this fact. America has become the most powerful nation in history, yet she uses her power not for territorial expansion but to perpetuate freedom and justice throughout the world.
For over two centuries, Americans have held fast to their belief in freedom for all men—a belief that springs from their spiritual heritage. John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote in 1789, “Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” That was an astonishing thing to say, but it was true.
What kind of people built America and thus prompted Adams to make such a statement? Sadly, too many people, especially young people, have a hard time answering that question. They know little of their own history (This is also true in Great Britain.) But America’s is a very distinguished history, nonetheless, and it has important lessons to teach us regarding the necessity of moral foundations.
John Winthrop, who led the Great Migration to America in the early 17th century and who helped found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared, “We shall be as a City upon a Hill.” On the voyage to the New World, he told the members of his company that they must rise to their responsibilities and learn to live as God intended men should live: in charity, love, and cooperation with one another. Most of the early founders affirmed the colonists were infused with the same spirit, and they tried to live in accord with a Biblical ethic. They felt they weren’t able to do so in Great Britain or elsewhere in Europe. Some of them were Protestant, and some were Catholic; it didn’t matter. What mattered was that they did not feel they had the liberty to worship freely and, therefore, to live freely, at home. With enormous courage, the first American colonists set out on a perilous journey to an unknown land—without government subsidies and not in order to amass fortunes but to fulfill their faith.
Christianity is based on the belief in a single God as evolved from Judaism. Most important of all, the faith of America’s founders affirmed the sanctity of each individual. Every human life—man or woman, child or adult, commoner or aristocrat, rich or poor—was equal in the eyes of the Lord. It also affirmed the responsibility of each individual.
This was not a faith that allowed people to do whatever they wished, regardless of the consequences. The Ten Commandments, the injunction of Moses (“Look after your neighbor as yourself”), the Sermon on the Mount, and the Golden Rule made Americans feel precious—and also accountable—for the way in which they used their God-given talents. Thus they shared a deep sense of obligation to one another. And, as the years passed, they not only formed strong communities but devised laws that would protect individual freedom—laws that would eventually be enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
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The Moral Foundations of Democracy
Democracy is never mentioned in the Bible. When people are gathered together, whether as families, communities or nations, their purpose is not to ascertain the will of the majority, but the will of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, I am an enthusiast of democracy because it is about more than the will of the majority. If it were only about the will of the majority, it would be the right of the majority to oppress the minority. The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution make it clear that this is not the case. There are certain rights which are human rights and which no government can displace. And when it comes to how you Americans exercise your rights under democracy, your hearts seem to be touched by something greater than yourselves. Your role in democracy does not end when you cast your vote in an election. It applies daily; the standards and values that are the moral foundations of society are also the foundations of your lives.
Democracy is essential to preserving freedom. As Lord Acton reminded us, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” If no individual can be trusted with power indefinitely, it is even more true that no government can be. It has to be checked, and the best way of doing so is through the will of the majority, bearing in mind that this will can never be a substitute for individual human rights.
I am often asked whether I think there will be a single international democracy, known as a “new world order.” Though many of us may yearn for one, I do not believe it will ever arrive. We are misleading ourselves about human nature when we say, “Surely we’re too civilized, too reasonable, ever to go to war again,” or, “We can rely on our governments to get together and reconcile our differences.” Tyrants are not moved by idealism. They are moved by naked ambition. Idealism did not stop Hitler; it did not stop Stalin. Our best hope as sovereign nations is to maintain strong defenses. Indeed, that has been one of the most important moral as well as geopolitical lessons of the 20th century. Dictators are encouraged by weakness; they are stopped by strength. By strength, of course, I do not merely mean military might but the resolve to use that might against evil.
The West did show sufficient resolve against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. But we failed bitterly in Bosnia. In this case, instead of showing resolve, we preferred “diplomacy” and “consensus.” As a result, a quarter of a million people were massacred. This was a horror that I, for one, never expected to see again in my lifetime. But it happened. Who knows what tragedies the future holds if we do not learn from the repeated lessons of history? The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
Free societies demand more care and devotion than any others. They are, moreover, the only societies with moral foundations, and those foundations are evident in their political, economic, legal, cultural, and, most importantly, spiritual life.
We who are living in the West today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. Others before us have done so. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the wider world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.
Thatcher:
The Moral Foundations of the American Founding
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. The American founding bears ample witness to this fact. America has become the most powerful nation in history, yet she uses her power not for territorial expansion but to perpetuate freedom and justice throughout the world.
For over two centuries, Americans have held fast to their belief in freedom for all men—a belief that springs from their spiritual heritage. John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote in 1789, “Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” That was an astonishing thing to say, but it was true.
What kind of people built America and thus prompted Adams to make such a statement? Sadly, too many people, especially young people, have a hard time answering that question. They know little of their own history (This is also true in Great Britain.) But America’s is a very distinguished history, nonetheless, and it has important lessons to teach us regarding the necessity of moral foundations.
John Winthrop, who led the Great Migration to America in the early 17th century and who helped found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared, “We shall be as a City upon a Hill.” On the voyage to the New World, he told the members of his company that they must rise to their responsibilities and learn to live as God intended men should live: in charity, love, and cooperation with one another. Most of the early founders affirmed the colonists were infused with the same spirit, and they tried to live in accord with a Biblical ethic. They felt they weren’t able to do so in Great Britain or elsewhere in Europe. Some of them were Protestant, and some were Catholic; it didn’t matter. What mattered was that they did not feel they had the liberty to worship freely and, therefore, to live freely, at home. With enormous courage, the first American colonists set out on a perilous journey to an unknown land—without government subsidies and not in order to amass fortunes but to fulfill their faith.
Christianity is based on the belief in a single God as evolved from Judaism. Most important of all, the faith of America’s founders affirmed the sanctity of each individual. Every human life—man or woman, child or adult, commoner or aristocrat, rich or poor—was equal in the eyes of the Lord. It also affirmed the responsibility of each individual.
This was not a faith that allowed people to do whatever they wished, regardless of the consequences. The Ten Commandments, the injunction of Moses (“Look after your neighbor as yourself”), the Sermon on the Mount, and the Golden Rule made Americans feel precious—and also accountable—for the way in which they used their God-given talents. Thus they shared a deep sense of obligation to one another. And, as the years passed, they not only formed strong communities but devised laws that would protect individual freedom—laws that would eventually be enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
. . . . . . . . . .
The Moral Foundations of Democracy
Democracy is never mentioned in the Bible. When people are gathered together, whether as families, communities or nations, their purpose is not to ascertain the will of the majority, but the will of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, I am an enthusiast of democracy because it is about more than the will of the majority. If it were only about the will of the majority, it would be the right of the majority to oppress the minority. The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution make it clear that this is not the case. There are certain rights which are human rights and which no government can displace. And when it comes to how you Americans exercise your rights under democracy, your hearts seem to be touched by something greater than yourselves. Your role in democracy does not end when you cast your vote in an election. It applies daily; the standards and values that are the moral foundations of society are also the foundations of your lives.
Democracy is essential to preserving freedom. As Lord Acton reminded us, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” If no individual can be trusted with power indefinitely, it is even more true that no government can be. It has to be checked, and the best way of doing so is through the will of the majority, bearing in mind that this will can never be a substitute for individual human rights.
I am often asked whether I think there will be a single international democracy, known as a “new world order.” Though many of us may yearn for one, I do not believe it will ever arrive. We are misleading ourselves about human nature when we say, “Surely we’re too civilized, too reasonable, ever to go to war again,” or, “We can rely on our governments to get together and reconcile our differences.” Tyrants are not moved by idealism. They are moved by naked ambition. Idealism did not stop Hitler; it did not stop Stalin. Our best hope as sovereign nations is to maintain strong defenses. Indeed, that has been one of the most important moral as well as geopolitical lessons of the 20th century. Dictators are encouraged by weakness; they are stopped by strength. By strength, of course, I do not merely mean military might but the resolve to use that might against evil.
The West did show sufficient resolve against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. But we failed bitterly in Bosnia. In this case, instead of showing resolve, we preferred “diplomacy” and “consensus.” As a result, a quarter of a million people were massacred. This was a horror that I, for one, never expected to see again in my lifetime. But it happened. Who knows what tragedies the future holds if we do not learn from the repeated lessons of history? The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
Free societies demand more care and devotion than any others. They are, moreover, the only societies with moral foundations, and those foundations are evident in their political, economic, legal, cultural, and, most importantly, spiritual life.
We who are living in the West today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. Others before us have done so. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the wider world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.
The Iraq War and the Arab Spring. By Max Boot.
The Iraq War and the Arab Spring. By Max Boot. Commentary, April 8, 2013.
The Arab Spring Started in Iraq. By Kanan Makiya. New York Times, April 6, 2013.
The Arab Spring Started in Iraq. By Kanan Makiya. New York Times, April 6, 2013.
Did We Get the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong? By Marc Lynch.
Did We Get the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong? By Marc Lynch. Foreign Policy, April 10, 2013.
The U.S. and the Murders at the Cathedral. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, April 8, 2013.
Tired of the Brotherhood, Egyptians Want the Military Back—but Only Temporarily. By Eric Trager. The Atlantic, April 10, 2013.
The U.S. and the Murders at the Cathedral. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, April 8, 2013.
Tired of the Brotherhood, Egyptians Want the Military Back—but Only Temporarily. By Eric Trager. The Atlantic, April 10, 2013.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Margaret Thatcher: “There is No Such Thing as Society.”
Interview for Woman’s Own (“no such thing as society”), September 23, 1987. Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Also find it here and here.
“No such thing as society”: what it means for today’s welfare debate. By Isabel Hardman. The Spectator, April 9, 2013.
Thatcher:
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation and it is, I think, one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill there was a safety net and there was help, that many of the benefits which were meant to help people who were unfortunate—“It is all right. We joined together and we have these insurance schemes to look after it”. That was the objective, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system and so some of those help and benefits that were meant to say to people: “All right, if you cannot get a job, you shall have a basic standard of living!” but when people come and say: “But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole!” You say: “Look” It is not from the dole. It is your neighbour who is supplying it and if you can earn your own living then really you have a duty to do it and you will feel very much better!”
There is also something else I should say to them: “If that does not give you a basic standard, you know, there are ways in which we top up the standard. You can get your housing benefit.”
But it went too far. If children have a problem, it is society that is at fault. There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate. And the worst things we have in life, in my view, are where children who are a great privilege and a trust—they are the fundamental great trust, but they do not ask to come into the world, we bring them into the world, they are a miracle, there is nothing like the miracle of life—we have these little innocents and the worst crime in life is when those children, who would naturally have the right to look to their parents for help, for comfort, not only just for the food and shelter but for the time, for the understanding, turn round and not only is that help not forthcoming, but they get either neglect or worse than that, cruelty.
How do you set about teaching a child religion at school, God is like a father, and she thinks “like someone who has been cruel to them?” It is those children you cannot . . . you just have to try to say they can only learn from school or we as their neighbour have to try in some way to compensate. This is why my foremost charity has always been the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, because over a century ago when it was started, it was hoped that the need for it would dwindle to nothing and over a hundred years later the need for it is greater, because we now realise that the great problems in life are not those of housing and food and standard of living. When we have got all of those, when we have got reasonable housing when you compare us with other countries, when you have got a reasonable standard of living and you have got no-one who is hungry or need be hungry, when you have got an education system that teaches everyone—not as good as we would wish—you are left with what? You are left with the problems of human nature, and a child who has not had what we and many of your readers would regard as their birthright—a good home—it is those that we have to get out and help, and you know, it is not only a question of money as everyone will tell you; not your background in society. It is a question of human nature and for those children it is difficult to say: “You are responsible for your behaviour!” because they just have not had a chance and so I think that is one of the biggest problems and I think it is the greatest sin.
“No such thing as society”: what it means for today’s welfare debate. By Isabel Hardman. The Spectator, April 9, 2013.
Thatcher:
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation and it is, I think, one of the tragedies in which many of the benefits we give, which were meant to reassure people that if they were sick or ill there was a safety net and there was help, that many of the benefits which were meant to help people who were unfortunate—“It is all right. We joined together and we have these insurance schemes to look after it”. That was the objective, but somehow there are some people who have been manipulating the system and so some of those help and benefits that were meant to say to people: “All right, if you cannot get a job, you shall have a basic standard of living!” but when people come and say: “But what is the point of working? I can get as much on the dole!” You say: “Look” It is not from the dole. It is your neighbour who is supplying it and if you can earn your own living then really you have a duty to do it and you will feel very much better!”
There is also something else I should say to them: “If that does not give you a basic standard, you know, there are ways in which we top up the standard. You can get your housing benefit.”
But it went too far. If children have a problem, it is society that is at fault. There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate. And the worst things we have in life, in my view, are where children who are a great privilege and a trust—they are the fundamental great trust, but they do not ask to come into the world, we bring them into the world, they are a miracle, there is nothing like the miracle of life—we have these little innocents and the worst crime in life is when those children, who would naturally have the right to look to their parents for help, for comfort, not only just for the food and shelter but for the time, for the understanding, turn round and not only is that help not forthcoming, but they get either neglect or worse than that, cruelty.
How do you set about teaching a child religion at school, God is like a father, and she thinks “like someone who has been cruel to them?” It is those children you cannot . . . you just have to try to say they can only learn from school or we as their neighbour have to try in some way to compensate. This is why my foremost charity has always been the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, because over a century ago when it was started, it was hoped that the need for it would dwindle to nothing and over a hundred years later the need for it is greater, because we now realise that the great problems in life are not those of housing and food and standard of living. When we have got all of those, when we have got reasonable housing when you compare us with other countries, when you have got a reasonable standard of living and you have got no-one who is hungry or need be hungry, when you have got an education system that teaches everyone—not as good as we would wish—you are left with what? You are left with the problems of human nature, and a child who has not had what we and many of your readers would regard as their birthright—a good home—it is those that we have to get out and help, and you know, it is not only a question of money as everyone will tell you; not your background in society. It is a question of human nature and for those children it is difficult to say: “You are responsible for your behaviour!” because they just have not had a chance and so I think that is one of the biggest problems and I think it is the greatest sin.
The GOP Needs to Talk About Bush: Part One. By Walter Russell Mead.
The GOP Needs To Talk About Bush: Part One. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, April 11, 2013.
How Vladimir Putin Beat FEMEN. By Matt Gurney.
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How Vladimir Putin Beat FEMEN. By Matt Gurney. National Post, April 11, 2013.
Gurney:
It’s certainly true that under Putin, Russia has slid backward into autocracy, and Putin has serious human rights abuses to answer for. He is an entirely legitimate, even deserving, target of protest. But Shevchenko is more right than she knows when she huffs that no leader of a European country would react the way that he did. And that’s the problem with FEMEN: Its shock tactics work best in politically correct countries where they’re least needed. Polite, civilized societies may be unsettled by angry slogans written across bare breasts, but in the countries where human rights are weakest and women most oppressed, the whole thing comes across as an amusing absurdity, at best.
Whatever power FEMEN had was invested it in by the politically correct discomfort of Western leaders when presented with anything controversial or, especially, sexual. That’s not going to work on Putin, a guy who poses for pictures (while topless himself, no less) of animals he shot, to show off to his own people how macho he is. Indeed, Putin has now given voice to what a lot of people probably feel inside — even though FEMEN often targets worthy causes with their protests, their tactics are, well, silly. They don’t help their cause by getting naked, and can actually hurt it. Putin has laughed at them, and that’s made him more powerful.
“I liked it”: Putin takes a different view protesters after being confronted by angry topless activists in Germany. AP. National Post, April 8, 2013.
The feeling isn’t mutual: Topless protester hits out at “bastard” Putin after Russian president’s ogling. National Post, April 9, 2013.
Vladimir Putin topless protest: Femen activist speaks out. By Jeevan Vasagar. The Telegraph, April 9, 2013.
Put Your Shirts Back On, Ladies: The case against Femen. By Naheed Mustafa. Foreign Policy, April 8, 2013.
Femen attacks Putin in Hannover. Video. Russia Today, April 8, 2013. YouTube.
More on Femen here, here, and here.
USC Political Science Professor Darry Sragow: Republicans Are “Really Stupid and Racist.”
“Stupid and Racist”: Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party. By Oliver Darcy and Josiah Ryan. CampusReform.org, April 10, 2013. YouTube. Also at American Thinker.
USC Political Science Professor Darry Sragow Tells Students Republicans Are “Stupid and Racist.” Video. America Live with Megyn Kelly. Fox News Insider, April 11, 2013. Also find video here.
The far-left running wild again. Video with Charles Krauthammer. The O’Reilly Factor. Fox News, April 11, 2013.
USC Political Science Professor Darry Sragow Tells Students Republicans Are “Stupid and Racist.” Video. America Live with Megyn Kelly. Fox News Insider, April 11, 2013. Also find video here.
The far-left running wild again. Video with Charles Krauthammer. The O’Reilly Factor. Fox News, April 11, 2013.
Christmas Abbott, Jacksonian Pioneer on the NASCAR Frontier.
Christmas Abbott hopes to become Sprint Cup’s first female pit crew member. By Bob Pockrass. Sporting News, April 10, 2013.
Meet Christmas Abbott, NASCAR’s first female pit crew member. By Andrew Sharp. SB Nation, March 15, 2013.
Christmas Abbott is a NASCAR pioneer as fitness buff becomes the first female to step into the pits full time. By Jaime Uribarri. New York Daily News, April 11, 2013.
Meet NASCAR’s First Woman Pit CrewMember: Christmas Abbott. Video. ABC News, November 19, 2013. YouTube.
CrossFit: Meet Christmas Abbott. Video. CrossFitHQ, December 5, 2012. YouTube.
Meet Christmas Abbott, NASCAR’s first female pit crew member. By Andrew Sharp. SB Nation, March 15, 2013.
Christmas Abbott is a NASCAR pioneer as fitness buff becomes the first female to step into the pits full time. By Jaime Uribarri. New York Daily News, April 11, 2013.
Meet NASCAR’s First Woman Pit CrewMember: Christmas Abbott. Video. ABC News, November 19, 2013. YouTube.
CrossFit: Meet Christmas Abbott. Video. CrossFitHQ, December 5, 2012. YouTube.
Ann Coulter: Thatcher Wanted To Teach Palin How To “Speak Proper English.”
Coulter: Thatcher Wanted To Teach Palin How To “Speak Proper English.” Audio. Real Clear Politics, April 8, 2013. MofoPolitics. YouTube.
Coulter: Thatcher wanted to teach Sarah Palin “to speak proper English.” By Jeff Poor. The Daily Caller, April 8, 2013.
Did Margaret Thatcher diss Sarah Palin? By Robin Abcarian. Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2013.
Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don’t bother dropping by. By Nicholas Watt. The Guardian, June 7, 2011.
Margaret Thatcher refuses to meet with Sarah Palin. By Tony Pierce. Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2011.
Margaret Thatcher did not “snub” Sarah Palin: The truth about the Iron Lady and the former Governor of Alaska. By Nile Gardiner. The Telegraph, June 13, 2011.
Sarah Palin was not snubbed by Margaret Thatcher, former aide says. By Tony Pierce. Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2011.
Sarah Palin lines up UK trip – and a visit to Lady Thatcher. By Simon Walters. Daily Mail, June 13, 2010.
Thatcher and Palin? Out of frame, out of bounds. By Patt Morrison. Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2010.
Coulter:
One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw political talent, but wanted to teach Sarah Palin to do what she did.
To teach her to speak proper English. Palin did not meet with her, and just a year or two ago, when Sarah Palin was promoting some reality show or something, she went to England. And she announced to the press that she was planning on dropping by to see Lady Thatcher, and Lady Thatcher put out the word that she was not available.
What, I think, a lot of us saw, that Sarah Palin did have raw political talent. And if she had been willing to put her nose to the grindstone and pursue improving herself, speaking proper English, reading stuff, knowing lots of things, she could have been great. She’s a fine person, but that isn’t what she’s pursuing.
Coulter: Thatcher wanted to teach Sarah Palin “to speak proper English.” By Jeff Poor. The Daily Caller, April 8, 2013.
Did Margaret Thatcher diss Sarah Palin? By Robin Abcarian. Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2013.
Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don’t bother dropping by. By Nicholas Watt. The Guardian, June 7, 2011.
Margaret Thatcher refuses to meet with Sarah Palin. By Tony Pierce. Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2011.
Margaret Thatcher did not “snub” Sarah Palin: The truth about the Iron Lady and the former Governor of Alaska. By Nile Gardiner. The Telegraph, June 13, 2011.
Sarah Palin was not snubbed by Margaret Thatcher, former aide says. By Tony Pierce. Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2011.
Sarah Palin lines up UK trip – and a visit to Lady Thatcher. By Simon Walters. Daily Mail, June 13, 2010.
Thatcher and Palin? Out of frame, out of bounds. By Patt Morrison. Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2010.
Coulter:
One thing that I know, because I know people who know her, is when Sarah Palin first burst on the scene, the political scene, she wanted to have a meeting with Palin, because she saw raw political talent, but wanted to teach Sarah Palin to do what she did.
To teach her to speak proper English. Palin did not meet with her, and just a year or two ago, when Sarah Palin was promoting some reality show or something, she went to England. And she announced to the press that she was planning on dropping by to see Lady Thatcher, and Lady Thatcher put out the word that she was not available.
What, I think, a lot of us saw, that Sarah Palin did have raw political talent. And if she had been willing to put her nose to the grindstone and pursue improving herself, speaking proper English, reading stuff, knowing lots of things, she could have been great. She’s a fine person, but that isn’t what she’s pursuing.
Michelle Malkin Slams “Creepy” MSNBC Ad: “Hands Off My Kids!”
Michelle Malkin Slams “Creepy” MSNBC Ad: “Hands Off My Kids!” Video. Hannity. Fox News Insider, April 10, 2013.
MSNBC: Your Kids Belong to the State. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, April 8, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Mainstream Lib. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, April 10, 2013.
MSNBC-Melissa Harris-Perry says “kids belong to whole communities.” By Mike Shortridge. Washington Times, April 7, 2013.
Your Kids Aren’t Your Own. By Rich Lowry. National Review Online, April 9, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry “Doubles Down.” By Andrew Johnson. National Review Online, April 9, 2013.
A bizarre but revealing collectivist rant about kids. By Kyle Wingfield. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 9, 2013.
Why caring for children is not just a parent’s job. By Melissa Harris-Perry. MSNBC, April 9, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry: All Your Kids Belong to Us (Not the Parents). Video. NewsBusters, April 5, 2013. YouTube. Also at NBC.
MSNBC: Your Kids Belong to the State. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, April 8, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry: Mainstream Lib. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, April 10, 2013.
MSNBC-Melissa Harris-Perry says “kids belong to whole communities.” By Mike Shortridge. Washington Times, April 7, 2013.
Your Kids Aren’t Your Own. By Rich Lowry. National Review Online, April 9, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry “Doubles Down.” By Andrew Johnson. National Review Online, April 9, 2013.
A bizarre but revealing collectivist rant about kids. By Kyle Wingfield. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 9, 2013.
Why caring for children is not just a parent’s job. By Melissa Harris-Perry. MSNBC, April 9, 2013.
Melissa Harris-Perry: All Your Kids Belong to Us (Not the Parents). Video. NewsBusters, April 5, 2013. YouTube. Also at NBC.
How 1960s Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids. By Michael Moynihan.
How 1960s Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids. By Michael Moynihan. The Daily Beast, April 10, 2013.
The Crisis of Realism in Foreign Policy.
The Crisis of Realism. By Jonathan Levine. The National Interest, April 5, 2013.
Moralism and Realism. By Paul R. Pillar. The National Interest, March 26, 2013.
Moralism and Realism. By Paul R. Pillar. The National Interest, March 26, 2013.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tegan & Sara On Marriage Equality: “We’re Getting Closer.” By John Norris.
Tegan & Sara On Marriage Equality: “We’re Getting Closer.” By John Norris. Fuse, April 10, 2013.
Tegan and Sara: Closer [Official HD Music Video]. teganandsaramusic, November 29, 2012. YouTube. Tegan and Sara videos. Tegan and Sara YouTube channel.
More NJBR posts on the marriage equality issue here and here.
Tegan and Sara: Closer [Official HD Music Video]. teganandsaramusic, November 29, 2012. YouTube. Tegan and Sara videos. Tegan and Sara YouTube channel.
More NJBR posts on the marriage equality issue here and here.
Obama and Kerry Need a New Mideast Peace Map. By David Newman.
Obama and Kerry Need a New Mideast Peace Map. By David Newman. Real Clear World, April 9, 2013.
Obama Administration Matures on Middle East Peace. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, April 10. 2013.
Israel Defies Demographic Predictions. By Yoram Ettinger. Israel Hayom, April 5, 2013.
Israel’s Demographic Miracle. By David P. Goldman. inFocus Quarterly, Spring 2013.
Obama Administration Matures on Middle East Peace. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, April 10. 2013.
Israel Defies Demographic Predictions. By Yoram Ettinger. Israel Hayom, April 5, 2013.
Israel’s Demographic Miracle. By David P. Goldman. inFocus Quarterly, Spring 2013.
Sara Netanyahu, The Most Powerful Woman in Israel. By Neri Zilber.
The Most Powerful Woman in Israel. By Neri Zilber. Foreign Policy, April 9, 2013.
Pro-Gun Absolutism. By Will Marshall.
Pro-Gun Absolutism: The Gun Lobby’s Push to Privatize Law and Order. By Will Marshall. The Daily Beast, April 9, 2013.
The Arab Quarter Century. By Thomas L. Friedman.
The Arab Quarter Century. By Thomas L. Friedman. New York Times, April 9, 2013.
Anti-Semitism is why the Arab Spring failed. By Ahmad Hashemi. The Times of Israel, April 9, 2013. Ahmad Hashemi website.
Thomas Friedman, “The Arab Quarter Century”: 90% of Egyptian Women Have Had Their Clitorises Removed. By Jeffrey Grossman. JG, Caesarea, April 9, 2013.
Anti-Semitism is why the Arab Spring failed. By Ahmad Hashemi. The Times of Israel, April 9, 2013. Ahmad Hashemi website.
Thomas Friedman, “The Arab Quarter Century”: 90% of Egyptian Women Have Had Their Clitorises Removed. By Jeffrey Grossman. JG, Caesarea, April 9, 2013.
Thomas Friedman, the Arab Spring’s biggest daydreamer. By George Jonas. National Post, April 13, 2013.
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