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Peace deal wouldn’t mean Iranians are our friends
Editors at National Review Online assess America’s relations with one of the worst political actors in the Middle East. In early March, the White House put out a document, posted…
Beirut
capital and largest city of Lebanon
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WSJ leads Hezbollah coverage with anti-Israel reporter
Chuck Ross of the Washington Free Beacon documents another instance of media malpractice. A freelance reporter who plays a leading role in the Wall Street Journal‘s coverage of Hezbollah has…
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Cultural Appropriation?
Were there Arabian motifs in California surf music? UK blogger Mick Hartley suggests that there were. He post this video of Dick Dale playing “Misirlou”: along with an extended discussion that begins:…
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N&R taking heat for gun ad
Yet another letter to the editor in today’s N&R taking our local paper of record to task for running a big-ass full-page ad for the Reidsville Ace Hardware holiday gun…
Law & Public Safety
Could NC’s controversial Map Act be on its way out?
The House Transportation Committee on Tuesday took the first step toward making the Map Act history by giving it a favorable report. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rayne Brown, R-Davidson,…
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Goldberg focuses on the Cotton letter’s content
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online looks beyond the liberal outcry surrounding U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton’s letter about American policy toward Iran. Right now, via its brutal proxies,…
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Doing a Potemkin on urban decay
This reminds me of Durham in the mid-’80s when city fathers were trying desperately to hide the Beirut-looking vacant store fronts downtown. They commissioned “artists” to do things like put…
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Hanson on the Libyan precedent
Victor Davis Hanson argues at National Review Online that the recent campaign in Libya represents new territory for the United States: The abrupt abandonment of hostilities after about two weeks…
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Zakaria’s move to TIME inspires some criticism
Now that Fareed Zakaria is on his way to TIME, the head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies feels the need to comment. Clifford May writes for National Review…
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Kofi Annan boed
The roundtable on News & Notes with Ed Gordon missed it’s token moderate yesterday. So when they talked about Kofi Annan getting booed in Beirut, they took it as evidence…
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Of Reuters and bad Photoshopping
Huge hat tip to Little Green Footballs for catching this and following up on it. Check out the repeating patterns in this picture of Beirut, which as of this writing…
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‘No Half-Measures’
Anti-Syrians have struck back in a counter counter-demonstration in Beirut, in much larger numbers: After a week in which the pro-Syrian forces had seized the momentum, yesterday’s massive turnout seems…