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August 2008

August 22, 2008

This could make China go ballistic

Update to our discussion about whether the Chinese gymnasts are really 16, as the rules...

August 22, 2008

No second place in Kung Fu

Here is a fascinating article on how cultural--and I would say political--differences show up in...

August 22, 2008

Read what can earn you capital punishment in Egypt

Last year, the Egyptian scholar Saad Eddin Ibrahim published a column in the Washington Post...

August 21, 2008

Russia threatens the U.S. base in Poland

Russia warns of response to US missile shield: Russia says its response to the further...

August 18, 2008

Ukraine wants in

Now Ukraine wants to be part of U.S. missile defense system. Adding insult to injury,...

August 15, 2008

Russia threatens nuclear retaliation

An update to the post below about Poland accepting the US anti-missile defense installation in...

August 15, 2008

Poland defies Russia & gets US protection

Russia may have thought its invasion of Georgia intimidated its other neighbors, but instead it...

August 14, 2008

Chinese gymnasts and the tooth fairy

So, controversy builds over whether those little Chinese girls who have been sweeping up the...

August 14, 2008

Russia sticks around

Well, despite its announcement, Russia is still in Georgia, with reports of looting, rape, and...

August 13, 2008

Tyranny as art

George Will, in an insightful column on Russia's invasion of Georgia, Russia's Power Play, makes...

August 13, 2008

The spirit of the Olympics

In case you missed it, a great comment from my former student,The Jones: I have...

August 13, 2008

Russia finishes its war

Having routed the Georgian army, secured South Ossetia, and "punished" the Georgian state, Russia has...

August 12, 2008

Towards World War

This British newspaper gives a full, detailed account of what Russia is doing to Georgia,...

August 11, 2008

Russia goes to war

So Russia invades Georgia, our staunch ally. Its president plantively says, “It’s not about Georgia...

August 11, 2008

Watching the Olympics

OK, I find myself watching the Olympics, though I hadn't really planned to. It gets...

August 07, 2008

China vetoes the President’s worship plans

President Bush had planned to worship at an unregistered house church when he visits China...

August 07, 2008

Absolutes or Relativism

In a tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Masha Lipman describes two worldviews: Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a...

August 05, 2008

Olympic fever

Well, do you have it? Can you hardly wait for the Olympics to get going...

July 2008

July 30, 2008

The world vs. nations

Victor Davis Hanson dissects Barack Obama's speech in Germany. Hanson's point is that the "world"...

July 29, 2008

The 20th century’s butcher’s bill

More from the CIRCE conference, from a talk by think-tank veteran Barbara Elliott: From 1901-1987,...

July 25, 2008

President of the World

Some 200,000 Germans came out to hailBarack Obama . Does that make you like him...

July 25, 2008

Orthodoxy & culture

The Russian Orthodox church is calling on the Russian government to denounce communism. OK, it's...

July 21, 2008

Obama as foreign policy conservative?

Fareed Zakaria argues that Barack Obama, who has said how he admires the first George...

July 04, 2008

The happiness index

Those melancholy Danes have now cheered up, to the point that Denmark is now the...

July 04, 2008

Raw materials

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson points out that it isn't just oil that is skyrocketing....

July 01, 2008

Imposing our morality on other cultures

A Ugandan pastor and AIDS worker, the Rev. Sam L. Ruteikara, writes in "The Washington...

July 01, 2008

Canada is still a free country

The columnist Mark Steyn, who was hauled before a Canadian human rights commission for criticizing...

June 2008

June 27, 2008

New date for the End Times

More evidence that secularism is becoming an actual religion, complete with the weird parts, from...

June 12, 2008

The way out of Iraq

Read this, about negotiations with the Iraqi government about the terms for our troops being...

June 11, 2008

After Israel, Spain

In Islam, a country that once was Muslim must always be Muslim. Spain used to...