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Category Archives: Foreign Policy
Footage from Moscow Bombing Aftermath
Not particularly graphic, but lots of dead bodies: (Hat tip: NRO’s The Corner.)
23 31 35 Killed in Moscow Airport Bombing
“The Russian state RIA Novosti news agency says an explosion at Moscow’s busiest airport has killed 23 people and wounded 130.” Chechnyan separatists? Jihadists? (Remember that Jihaist suicide bombers have struck in Russia before.) Who knows? News is still coming … Continue reading
A Question for Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn is justly famous for many things: His stalwart opposition to Jihad, his grasp of demographics, his clever and eminently readable prose, and his once (and future?) gig on the last page of National Review (currently held by the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign Policy
Tagged China, demographics, Lawrence Solomon, Mark Steyn
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This Week in Jihad for January 13, 2011
Time for another installment of This Week in Jihad. Please note that these weekly installments are only a sampler of Jihad-related news from around the world, and that I skim a lot more stories than I post here. One reason … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Texas
Tagged Afghanistan, Benjamin Moore, CAIR, Christopher Hitchens, Ethan C. Hardin, Ground Zero Mosque, Hamas, honor killing, IED, India, Ira B. Laningham IV, Iran, Iraq, Jared Lee Loughner, Jihad, Lebanon, M. Shahid Alam, Nigeria, rape, Robert Near, Ryan Giese, Salman Taseer, Texas, This Week in Jihad
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This Week in Jihad for January 6, 2011
I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. Here’s a roundup from the world of Jihad, where things aren’t nearly so happy: Salman Rushdie explains the Islamist threat: One of the things that liberal opinion in the West doesn’t understand … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad
Tagged Egypt, Ground Zero Mosque, Hamas, Helen Thomas, honor killing, Jihad, Molly Norris, Salman Rushdie, This Week in Jihad
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Governor of Punjab Assasinated for Opposing Blasphemy Laws
This is not good news. Imagine if the governor of California or Texas were assassinated in broad daylight by his own bodyguard. Well, that’s what happened to Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in Pakistan. Of course, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad
Tagged assassination, Christopher Hitchens, Islam, Islamist, Jihad, Pakistan, Pakistani ISI, Punjab, Salman Taseer, Sikh
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More on China’s Housing Bubble
Last week I mentioned that China’s Housing bubble is already worse than America and Japan’s respective bubbles. Today the Wall Street Journal provides even more confirmation: It’s impossible to say definitively that a market has strayed into bubble territory until … Continue reading
Interesting Piece on Korea, Japan, and China
From Belmont Club. Covers not only the recent Korean artillery exchange, but also the strategic implications of China’s shipping lanes. Worth a read.
Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks
Bruce is a lefty sort, but there’s a whole lot of pithy interest and insight in this essay, as there usually is in Bruce’s essays. And also like many of Bruce’s essays, it’s very long. I hope to finish it … Continue reading