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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Wimmin at War - Review - Times Online

Fear of a backlash was no reason for shrinking from the fight. "The backlash against women is real. This is the book [Backlash] we need to understand it, to struggle through the battle fatigue and to keep going." So on that basis, why are some radical feminists sympathetic with the likes of Hezbollah against Bush and Blair on the pretext that they are "creating more terrorists? asks Sarah Baxter.

The Chronicle: 6/9/2006: The Last Judicial Idealist?

Ronald Dworkin is a "vicarian," a thinker who expends "mental energy dissecting what another type of person does," says Carlin Romano in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Still the greatest story ever told

From a Guardian review by Nicholas Lezard of Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
by Jaroslav Pelikan"There is enough in here to have Bible-belt pea-brains howling for his head and shovelling copies of his book on to a bonfire."
Making fundamentalists morally equivalent never needs justification.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Excuse After Excuse

Victor David Hanson on the supposedly anti-Muslim bias of the US: "...without the United States, Kuwait would be the 19th province of Iraq, the Taliban would rule Afghanistan, Saddam and his sons would still slaughter Kurds and there might not be any Muslims left at all in Kosovo or Bosnia."

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Left and Crime: Part II

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Left and Crime: Part II: "If the choice between policy A and policy B is regarded as a badge of personal merit, either morally or intellectually, then it is a devastating risk to one's sense of self to make empirical evidence the ultimate test."

Sowell's thought here builds on something Krauthammer once wrote: conservatives think that liberals are stupid; liberals think that conservatives are evil.

The Islamic Way of War

The Islamic Way of War: "What the Islamic Way of War does mean to both Israel and to the United States is this: the Arabs now possess—and know that they possess—the capacity to deny us victory, especially in any altercation that occurs on their own turf and among their own people. To put it another way, neither Israel nor the United States today possesses anything like the military muscle needed to impose its will on the various governments, nation-states, factions, and political movements that comprise our list of enemies. "