Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The Volokh Conspiracy – Can You Tell a Sunni from a Shiite?:: Anderson (mail) (www): but do policy makers and administrators really need to know the origin of the split in Islam? Love the spin here. That’s not what Stein asked. A functioning knowledge of how the Sunni/Shiite split works in today’s politics was enough […]
MoreThe strange dust-up over ‘Beat the Press’ – News – The Phoenix: Personally, if blogging didn’t come with any media attention of any sort, I’d be happier. I deliberately followed my heart in my English BA and avoided the Journalism concentration like the plague. I liked poetry. That sort of writing you do in a […]
MoreFiredoglake 1976-1978: General Services Officer, Niamey, Niger 1978-1979: Administrative Office, Lomé, Togo 1979-1981: Administrative Officer, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. 1981-1982: Administrative Officer, Pretoria, South Africa 1982-1985: Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Bujumbura, Burundi 1985-1986: Congressional Fellow, offices of Senator Al Gore and Representative Tom Foley 1986-1988: DCM, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 1988-1991: DCM, […]
MoreAccusations Fly After the Pierre Gemayel Assassination: Accusations Fly After the Pierre Gemayel Assassination By Andrew McGregor In the aftermath of the war with Israel, Hezbollah and its allies (the Shiite Amal Party and Christian leader General Michel Aoun) are struggling to depose the Lebanese government of Sunni Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his March […]
MoreJust an abdication of any sense of journalism. Tip is twirling in his grave. Three things that are most troubling about this goddamned case lately: 1: Lawrence O’Donnell at the end of this summer, all of a sudden declares on Olbermann’s Countdown program that it’s all over(the Fitzgerald case) and that it was much ado […]
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