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Spyridon Mitsotakis

My Personal Ranking: The Best People of 2011

Posted by Spyridon Mitsotakis Dec 31st 2011 at 9:55 am in Open Thread, Other | Comments(88)
Person of the Year: The NAVY SEALS!!! – and our intelligence personnel who make what they do possible. Rock on! “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday” Commenter of the Year: Cowboy Logic – for all his brilliance. Talk Show Host of the Year: Mark Levin, a TRUE Constitutionalist – both for leading the legal charge against Obamacare and [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Remembering Christopher Hitchens: Debate With George Galloway on Iraq War, 2005 – Open Thread

Posted by Joel B. Pollak Dec 15th 2011 at 10:22 pm in Foreign Policy, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Open Thread | Comments(16)
In the darkest of days, against the most corrosive of opponents, Christopher Hitchens stood for freedom, for America–and, quite simply, for who he was. Part 1 of 12 is embedded below; links to parts 2 through 12 are below the fold. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt jQuery('#lazyload_post_1 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Joel B. Pollak

Village Braces for Conflict as Indians, Jews Face Off in Twelfth Annual Football Contest

Posted by Joel B. Pollak Nov 24th 2011 at 8:00 am in Open Thread | Comments(22)
Authorities in the obscure prairie village of Skokie, Illinois are bracing for ethnic and sectarian strife as local Indians and Jews prepare to do battle in a bizarre conflict known as the “Indo-Jew Bowl.” The clashes, which flare up annually around the Thanksgiving holiday, have caused widespread injuries in years past, and consume the energies of a [...]
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Kerry Patton

Is America Truly The Land Of The Free?

Posted by Kerry Patton Apr 24th 2011 at 4:41 pm in Communism, Culture/Art, History, Open Thread, Politics, human rights | Comments(15)
America is the land of the free. This is the very first statement written in the meat of my children’s book American Patriotism. As simple as it sounds, this statement is extremely complex. Stickers can be found on the back of vehicles that state “Freedom isn’t free.” So, when an individual thinks of America being [...]
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: North Korean Delegation Visits Google Headquarters

Posted by Sun Tzu Apr 5th 2011 at 3:30 pm in North Korea, Open Thread | Comments(26)
According to South Korean media sources, a North Korean economic delegation paid a visit a couple of days ago to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.  No transcripts of their conversation is available.   So what did they talk about?  How did the conversation go?  Be creative. jQuery('#lazyload_post_4 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: Libya

Posted by Sun Tzu Mar 22nd 2011 at 3:45 am in Open Thread | Comments(20)
Words of Wisdom: The American president defined the mission in Libya for himself and for the world: Protecting the Libyan people from the brutality of their leader, who massacred them on the streets of Tripoli and at the outskirts of Benghazi. Obama embarked on a war with a humanitarian mission, assuming there is such thing, and [...]
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: Best Description Yet of Gaddafi?

Posted by Sun Tzu Mar 1st 2011 at 4:10 pm in Open Thread | Comments(68)
“A cross between Michael Jackson and the deranged music mogul murderer Phil Spector…”–Daily Mail,  6/12/09 jQuery('#lazyload_post_6 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: Pentagon Duty…

Posted by Sun Tzu Feb 16th 2011 at 7:03 am in Open Thread | Comments(15)
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: Democracy in the Arab World? Is It Possible?

Posted by Sun Tzu Feb 3rd 2011 at 2:55 pm in Africa, Middle East, Open Thread | Comments(85)
President George W. Bush said, “Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe — because, in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.”  Is he right? jQuery('#lazyload_post_8 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: Davos

Posted by Sun Tzu Jan 25th 2011 at 2:31 am in Open Thread | Comments(15)
The global elite gather in Davos, Switzerland this week. Basic Membership at the World Economic Forum costs $52,000. A ticket to the actual gathering is another $19,000. Ostensibly the event is about solving the world’s problems. Black Swan author Nassim N. Taleb is more accurate when he describes the event as  “chasing successful people [...]
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