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August
5, 2005:
PALESTINE IS NOT A MUSLIM ISSUE...says a young Arab
journalist in a welcome analysis of the way in which Islamic extremists
of the Wahabist variety have tried to turn the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict to their own purposes.
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/
A
WAY OUT OF THE STEM CELL IMPASSE...is proposed, with his usual wisdom
and balance, by Charles Krauthammer who is a member of the President's
Council on Bioethics. Our recent conversation with Leon Kass, the
Council's chairman, can be heard
here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
VICTOR
DAVIS HANSON PONDERS, AS WE ALL DO...the motivated transformation
of Hillary Rodham Clinton. A recent Extension 720 conversation with
Hanson is available
here.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/
FOUR
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT EVOLUTION...are addressed and effectively
clarified in this valuable article from the Skeptical Inquirer.
http://www.csicop.org/
THE LATEST VENTURE OF AL GORE...is the new TV "news service"
called Current. We have looked at it as has the unidentified critic
from the Wall Street Journal. We agree with the WSJ..and
then some!
http://www.opinionjournal.com/
THE
CASE OF THE FORMER NAZI PROPAGANDIST...who taught at Yale until
his cover was blown (as Paul DeMan's was not) and who had Bill Buckley
pleading for him in letters referred to young John Roberts! It is
all explained in this interesting article from the New York
Sun.
http://www.nysun.com/
WONDERFUL
CUBAN MUSIC...in many categories (bolero, guaracha, son, guajira,
etc.) is available on this great site. Don't miss the Sexteto Occidente.
http://www.musica.cult.cu/
August
1, 2005:
"USEFUL IDIOTS" IN THE UK...are
making it possible and plausible for Islamic terrorists to ply their
trade. So says Anthony Browne, European Correspondent for the Times
of London in this strongly stated indictment.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
DOES
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL STRATEGY? Yes, of course.
She is "triangulating" and trying to move the DLC to the
left and the Democratic left to the right...and, that accomplished,
she will be the standard bearer for the newly unified party. Ron
Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times asks whether it will
work and thinks...uh, well maybe it will but, then again, maybe
it will wreck her march toward the nomination.
http://www.latimes.com/
WHY
DID WE DROP THE NUCLEAR BOMB ON HIROSHIMA? That question still sets
historians arguing over alternative interpretations. When we discuss
that on Extension 720 this coming Friday, we will need to evaluate
the revelations supplied in this stunning article from the current
issue of the Weekly Standard.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/
AND
SPEAKING OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES...when, if ever, will the conspiracy
interpretations of the Kennedy assasination be put to rest? Here's
how one "believer" was cured of his case of conspiraphilia.
The article is from a recent issue of the Skeptical Inquirer.
http://www.csicop.org/
KNOCKING
DOWN TWO OTHER CONSPIRACY THEORIES...is the job undertaken here
(and elegantly performed) by the British military historian, Sir
Lawrence Freedman.
http://news.ft.com/
HAROLD
EVANS LIKES THE U.S...and will be telling the world about us through
the vehicle of the BBC, as did his predecesor, Alistair Cooke. For
an earlier sample of his broadcasting prowess here is a short
excerpt of conversation that we had with Sir Harold a little
while ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
PAT
MOYNIHAN WAS RIGHT! When, forty years ago (!!) he told it like it
was about the black family...says Kay Hymowitz in this penetrating
analysis of the persisting problem of "mother-only families"
and the failure of liberal social scientists and politicians to
face reality. This important article has just appeared in the new
issue of City Journal.
http://www.city-journal.org/
IF
ONLY LARRY SUMMERS HAD HAD THE GUTS TO RESIGN!! That--or so thinks
the aggrieved academic who is proprietor of this place--would have
been the honorable and effective response once the p.c. battalions
at Harvard descended upon him. Instead, he stayed and tried to placate.
The consequences, as detailed here by Heather MacDonald, are wasteful
both of Harvard's wealth and its reputation. An earlier Extension
720 conversation with MacDonald--one of our favorite social observers--can
be heard
here.
http://www.city-journal.org/
THIS
REPLACES THE BEST NEWS CHANNEL ON CABLE TV? Why, exactly? We looked
at it today and were strongly underwhelmed. Here's the background
story on Al Gore's long-heralded venture into something called "internet
TV."
http://news.yahoo.com/
GRAND
THEFT AUTO AND THE "UNLOCKED SEX SCENES"...are providing
something like a political opportunity for Hillary Clinton and other
"liberals" who want to establish their bona fides as "traditional"
moralists. The BBC reports on this latest use of indignation as
a political gambit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
HOW
WINE (GOOD IF NOT GREAT) CAME TO CALIFORNIA...is a saga told by
some recent books here under review at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Or, are some of them great enough to challenge Chateau Millou le
Grenouille, 1964?
http://sfgate.com/
A
GREAT COUNT BASIE COLLECTION...is available here. Just be sure to
scroll down and then begin with the live and long-form recording
of Everyday I Have The Blues with Joe Williams.
http://www.tuxjunction.net/
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