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| Jul 15, 2005 |
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Size matters? |
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In Critical Mass, Philip Ball indirectly addresses a criticism that Timbro et al. often make about one characteristic of the Swedish economy —...
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| Jun 25, 2005 |
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The master race |
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I went in search of rowhouse architecture in Schoten, the Antwerp suburb where my farmor lives (grandparent sounds so vague nowadays), but found...
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| Jun 22, 2005 |
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Cut the CAP |
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I am currently a little proud to be living in a country with a sane policy towards the EU budget mess: Swedish PM...
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| Jun 16, 2005 |
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Branding Sweden II |
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I'm not done yet blogging the branding of Sweden. A couple more points.You can read the first part here. What was interesting about...
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| Jun 12, 2005 |
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Branding Sweden |
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Last Wednesday I attended a half-day conference in StockholmAt Rival. on public diplomacy, nation branding, and Sweden's image abroad. Speakers included Olle W‰stberg,...
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| May 29, 2005 |
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Early notes from Bloggforum |
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After Bloggforum's last panel debate of the day, one of the SVT24 Direkt cameramen, who earlier had commented on how he thought the...
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| Apr 10, 2005 |
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Initiativ till initiativ |
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F! Det synes vara l‰tt starta upp ett eget politiskt initiativ som F!. Man samlar ihop nÂgra likasinnade m‰nniskor, skriver ett manifest, leker...
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| Apr 7, 2005 |
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They like me! They really like me! |
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It would appear that my learned treatise On the applicability of the Juche Idea to the Nordics has found an appreciative audience. In...
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| Apr 4, 2005 |
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Testing the limits, again. |
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In Dagens Nyheter this past Sunday, a TT newswire article about what looks likely to become the next battle for the free speech...
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| Mar 15, 2005 |
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Infrequently asked questions |
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In the wake of Sweden's Social Democrats floating a trial balloon regarding the possibility of running on a tax-even-more-and-spend platform for the next...
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| Feb 26, 2005 |
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The semantics of terror |
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This blogging week in Sweden, an incipient but promising debate about the semantics of terror soon morphed into a heated argument about motive,...
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| Dec 22, 2004 |
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Jinge.se |
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Ikväll försökte jag lämna en kommentar till ett inlägg hos jinge.se om Bloggforums förment fördomen. Det fanns 19 kommentarer redan. Jinge påstådde att...
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| Dec 9, 2004 |
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The obstruction industry, part III |
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Argument 1:The blockade is good for the LatviansArgument 2:The blockade is good for SwedenArgument 3: The blockade is good for Swedish construction workers....
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| Dec 5, 2004 |
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The obstruction industry, part II |
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Part I should to be read first.Argument 2: The blockade is good for Sweden: Let's imagine for a moment that these pesky Latvians...
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| Dec 5, 2004 |
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The obstruction industry, part I |
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Dear Social Democrats, LO umbrella union members, Byggnad union construction workers: So which is it? Nine months ago, your organizations prophesied the end...
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| Nov 21, 2004 |
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Vlaams Belang: Not in the Flemish interest |
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I'm not sure if anyone who normally reads my blog is particularly interested in this, but I needed to get up to speed...
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| Nov 11, 2004 |
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Culture is not ideology |
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Earlier relevant writings on free expression and Islam:2004-02-13: Oops!... I did it again, on banning of headscarves in European schools.2004-01-21: France's theatre of...
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| Oct 14, 2004 |
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Regeringens l‰nkningspolicy |
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The website of the government of Sweden has a linking policy which states: "Specify the link to www.sweden.gov.se and www.regeringen.se in a neutral...
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| Oct 4, 2004 |
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A liberal dose |
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Another week, another libertarian/classical liberal blogger joins the Swedish blogosphere. It's an unmistakable trend that both JKL Blog and Media Culpa [English] pick...
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| Sep 17, 2004 |
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A trial for Leopold II |
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If King Leopold II were alive today, there is no doubt he would be on trial alongside Milosevic at The Hague for genocide...
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| Sep 9, 2004 |
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Asymmetric accounting |
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The rather lax updating schedule around here has had to do with a string of long weekends on the archipelago and a move....
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| Aug 26, 2004 |
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Murder by numbers |
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Via Strang's Blog: Olle Wästberg, until just now Sweden's consul general in New York, returns to Sweden on the wings of an an...
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| Aug 17, 2004 |
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Sweden's population reaches 8,999,993 |
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Sweden passed the 9-million registered inhabitant mark last week. This fact is only of interest to those who are simultaneously enthralled by the...
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| Aug 4, 2004 |
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I think, Darfur I blog |
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Just a quickie, I hope, before I head off for a final bout of summer travel (to Oxford for Charles's and Pamela's wedding!),...
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| Aug 3, 2004 |
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The winning ticket |
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This is why we love blogging, and bloggers, so: I can unplug completely from Swedish media for the duration of the summer vacation,...
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| Jul 27, 2004 |
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Correction |
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Johan Norberg, on a blog that now commendably has permalinks but not yet commenting or trackbacks,Allowing feedback on posts is like encouraging free...
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| Jul 14, 2004 |
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Tabun |
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In this post, I build a theory as to why it is incredibly rude to ask a Swede which party they voted for...
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| Jul 11, 2004 |
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≈ke Green Redux |
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This week I forwent the pleasures of the internet for a stint of unwired living on Sandhamn, with moss and pine needles underfoot...
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| Jul 2, 2004 |
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Insult isn't injury |
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Last summer, on an island off the coast of Sweden's bible belt, Pentecostal pastor ≈ke Green said some very nasty things about homosexuals...
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| Jun 9, 2004 |
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Swedish cleavage! |
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I think there is an interesting realignment underway in the Swedish party political system. Parties, and even factions within parties, are no longer...
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| Jun 6, 2004 |
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Bernard Mengal |
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If I can stop laughing long enough I would like to offer Swedes who read this an apology on behalf of us Belgians...
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| May 31, 2004 |
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My long weekend reading list |
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If you haven't already, first read NYT Public Editor Daniel Okrent's own assessment from Friday on that paper's dealings with Chalabi before and...
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| May 29, 2004 |
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The first quinquennial Swedish EU parliamentary election poster slogan review |
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I'm not going to vote in the EU parliamentary elections on June 13 because I cannot. I found out too late I am...
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| May 23, 2004 |
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Decrying spilt milk |
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The British and Irish are censoring this film on account of the nipple. Ranting about their prudishness is something the Brits and Hibernians...
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| Apr 28, 2004 |
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Behˆvs civil olydnad? |
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Is there a role for civil disobedience in a democracy? Tough question, especially when you have to answer in Swedish. In short, I...
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| Apr 21, 2004 |
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Fˆrsenad fyran |
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The Swedish alcohol monopoly system is once again the topic of debate, this time precipitated by the news that hard liquor is being...
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| Apr 20, 2004 |
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When gridlock is good |
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It now seems likely that Sweden will be the only EU member not to have immigration controls [Swedish] in place when 10 new...
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| Mar 17, 2004 |
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You will like the post after this one. I promise. |
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So here I go and stick my neck out, wear my heart on my sleeve, write several earnest posts about political matters at...
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| Mar 13, 2004 |
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Status quo vadis? |
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The Swedish government on Friday announced it intends to restrict immigration from the new EU member states for at least two yearsThe proposal...
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| Mar 12, 2004 |
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Immigrants or welfare? |
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On Thursday I set out to blog a panel discussion at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on a topic dear to my...
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| Mar 4, 2004 |
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When good Swedes go bad |
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On Monday I attended a "debate" in the press room of the foreign ministry, topic Hur ser dom p Sverige? — How do...
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| Feb 17, 2004 |
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Dumpa Byggnads |
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An advertising campaign by the Swedish contruction worker's union has the temerity to suggest that preventing immigrants from competing on price helps them...
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| Feb 13, 2004 |
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Oops!... I did it again |
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What a stunning coincidence. In many nation-states around Europe, simultaneously, laws are being debated that ostensibly have no connection to one another —...
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| Feb 11, 2004 |
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Free Brunei |
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When it comes down to it, if somebody were to put a gun to my head and credibly demand to know my one...
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| Jan 27, 2004 |
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Marshall in The New Yorker |
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Joshua Micah Marshall, of Talking Points Memo fame, has what he calls "a review essay on the new literature of empire" out in...
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| Jan 21, 2004 |
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Secular Israel, cont. |
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Didn't see it until just now on A&L Daily, but this is a fine fine article by Brian Klug, a symphony to my...
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| Jan 17, 2004 |
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Whining and dying in NYC |
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There is, of course, little sympathy from these quarters for complaints from New York about how damn cold it is. Why exactly kids...
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| Jan 15, 2004 |
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For a secular Israel (dream on) |
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Sometimes posts I read bug me longer than expected. This tells me I should have blogged them to begin with. Here is a...
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| Jan 7, 2004 |
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Illiberal liberalism |
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The madness spreads to Belgium. And I'm not talking about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer....
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| Jan 7, 2004 |
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Backdoor into Europe |
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It happened very quietly, but as of Jan 1, 2004, Turkey is a full participant in the Socrates/Erasmus Europe-wide educational cooperation and exchange...
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| Jan 7, 2004 |
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Mijailo Mijailovic confesses |
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Mijailo Mijailovic confesses he murdered Anna Lindh. The specter of the botched Palme police investigation lifts; and with lots of false courage Aftonbladet...
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| Dec 22, 2003 |
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The Perle vs. Marshall debate |
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A week ago, Richard Perle got up and said: Defined as a robust approach, I think it is fair to say that not...
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| Dec 15, 2003 |
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EUseless |
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My friend Marc Young in Berlin berated me at the time of the Swedish EMU referendum for contributing to the event being, in...
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| Nov 13, 2003 |
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Mark Steyn on Europe |
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I am fated to defend the US in Europe and to defend Europe in the US. The task is usually one of leaning...
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| Nov 9, 2003 |
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Brave News World |
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Ten days or so ago, Felix had a screed against long, elaborate stories in the New York Times. He makes some good points,...
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| Nov 3, 2003 |
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Sunday morning |
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My Statue of Liberty postcard went missing overnight, 3 days after I put it up. Any suggestions for the next step? I...
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| Oct 29, 2003 |
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Biting the bulletin |
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The entrance to my apartment building in Stockholm has a bulletin board. On it you will find a memo about the drying cabinets...
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| Oct 26, 2003 |
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What is Sweden's murder rate? |
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I've been sent an English translation of an official body-by-body investigationStrangely, the English translation is more detailed than the Swedish original conducted earlier...
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| Sep 26, 2003 |
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Reality check |
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Dagens Nyheter gives up on the silly Swedish press code and goes public with the name and picture of Anna Lindh's new murder...
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| Sep 26, 2003 |
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Blame Sweden? |
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In light of the little flurry of comments here on whether the murder of Anna Lindh proves anything about Swedish society, I decided...
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| Sep 24, 2003 |
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Feed me |
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Aftonbladet has now also noticed that an English-language AFP newsfeed about Swedish news published on Sweden.se contained a story which names the [now...
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| Sep 20, 2003 |
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O-Per-ah |
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This whole self-imposed Swedish press censorship phenomenon I've come across this past week doesn't cease to amaze me. I'm not done yet with...
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| Sep 19, 2003 |
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Lindh suspect named |
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The Guardian has named the suspect held for the murder of Anna Lindh. It's a very typical Swedish name. Other wire services are...
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| Sep 16, 2003 |
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Decisive result |
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Here is an interesting take on the the Swedish referendum results I haven't seen elsewhere: Undecideds routed in Swedish EMU referendum Sun September...
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| Sep 14, 2003 |
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It's Nej |
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The no side won by a wider margin than expected — 56.2% to 41.8% with 2.1% blank — especially after polls in the...
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| Sep 12, 2003 |
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Wall Street Jeckyll |
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I take it back, my approving mention in the preceding post of The Wall Street Journal's "gracious" op-ed piece lauding Anna Lindh as...
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| Sep 12, 2003 |
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US/UK press review: Lindh |
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The New York Times obit of Anna Lindh is a straightforward affair, with nothing much we didn't already know; more surprising perhaps is...
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| Sep 11, 2003 |
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Anna Lindh |
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Anna Lindh didn't make it. She died at 5:29 am; the announcement was made half an hour ago. Other posts about the murder...
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| Sep 11, 2003 |
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September 11 in Stockholm |
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Stockholmers went to work with a leaden step this morning. From my 46 bus, as it drove along Sˆdermalm's northern shore, you could...
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| Sep 10, 2003 |
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"Gud, han har knivhuggit mig i magen" |
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I heard of the knife attack that seriously wounded Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in Stockholm's NK department store this afternoon as I...
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| Aug 30, 2003 |
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Please vote yes, some of you |
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Argh. I can't take this. The no side is going to win in Sweden's euro referendum, and for the first time in my...
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| Aug 24, 2003 |
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Rˆstkort |
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Having resigned myself to cajoling from the sidelines in the upcoming referendum on whether Sweden should join the EMU, I was surprised and,...
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| Jul 28, 2003 |
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Wolfowitz: In plausible denial? |
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Wolfowitz today provided new justifications for the war in Iraq: I think the lesson of 9/11 is that if you're not prepared to...
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| Jul 14, 2003 |
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Hopefully, Hitchens: Tempes in a teacup |
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Christopher Hitchens has written a review of SAIS Professor Patrick McCarthy's latest book, Language, Politics, and Writing: Stolentelling in Western Europe, and it...
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| Jun 18, 2003 |
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Shifting allegiances |
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I've been down on the United States for the past few weeks. When the missing-WMD meme hit mainstream on the weekend of May...
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| Jun 14, 2003 |
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The Economist, the euro, Sweden, Germany |
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The Economist focuses on the Nordic region in a special report this week. I scanned the part where it reports on Sweden's upcoming...
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| Jun 10, 2003 |
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EU: A bigger picture |
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How do get from where we are now to the ideal global society? But first, what is the ideal global society? For me,...
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| Jun 9, 2003 |
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Sweden in EMU: Better late than early |
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I would like to break out a comment posted in response to my arguments against Sweden joining the EMU from a few weeks...
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| May 27, 2003 |
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Iraq Reloaded |
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Is it still too early to assess the justifiability of the Iraq war? Can we at least draw some provisional conclusions? There's been...
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| May 19, 2003 |
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State of the (Swedish) blog |
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The Swedish blogging community is still in its infancy, yes, but a made-for-blog event is looming: The September 14 referendum on joining EMU....
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| May 16, 2003 |
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In defense of Swedish exceptionalism |
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A comment by Charles Kenny on a post of mine last year has stuck with me: One possible measure for innovation per capita...
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| May 14, 2003 |
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Why Sweden should vote against joining EMU |
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So far there is nothing to worry about. With every passing day, Swedes are less and less likely to be choosing EMU when...
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| Apr 30, 2003 |
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Lawrence of Arabia: The Interview |
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Mr. Lawrence, gentlemen, thank you for taking the time to talk with me. If an indication of greatness in a work of art...
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| Apr 27, 2003 |
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Andrew Sullivan, label whore |
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This blog has at times been quite obsessed with the musings of Andrew Sullivan, mainly because if there is one thing which exasperates...
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| Apr 10, 2003 |
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Iraq |
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It's too early to decide with hindsight just how just this war on Iraq will have been, but events are certainly tilting in...
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| Apr 7, 2003 |
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Holy Cow: The Crisis of Islam and its Discontents |
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It's April, so I must be reading another Bernard Lewis Book. The first Lewis Book I read—The Middle East: A Brief History of...
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| Mar 26, 2003 |
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The demise of the blog |
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Another day glued to CNN, with a pinch of Fox TV and Al jazeera. Furloughs in the blogosphere have been most disappointing, however;...
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| Mar 24, 2003 |
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Rules of engagement? |
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Predictably, both pro- and anti-war opinion mongers have found much in the war to date to bolster their respective moral high grounds. But...
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| Mar 13, 2003 |
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A blog on both your houses |
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WWII was brought home via the radio. Vietnam via TV. Gulf War I via live TV. Gulf War II will be blogged. We've...
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| Jan 23, 2003 |
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Tired trade tirade rated, go loon? (6) |
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There is something that bugs me about articulate people who get things profoundly wrong. Perhaps it is because I normally associate the ability...
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| Jan 5, 2003 |
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2003 is prime |
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Welcome back to my blog. Let's get back to business. Ever willing to stick my neck out, here are my predictions for 2003:...
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| Dec 15, 2002 |
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Recommended reading from the weekend |
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The New York Review of Books hits Stockholm a week late (but this is a lot better than The New Yorker, with an...
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| Dec 14, 2002 |
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Bush and the Republicans, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G.E.R |
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Kissinger resigns! The wily realist realized that he'd rather continue running his own private consulting practice than return to public office in this...
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| Dec 12, 2002 |
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The KKK and the Nazis |
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It was an interesting day for the law in the US. The Supreme Court hearing of a challenge to a Virginia law banning...
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| Dec 12, 2002 |
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Trent's Lott is not a happy one |
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On to Trent Lott, who by staying on is helping the Democrats more than they can help themselves right now. Some more journalistic...
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| Dec 2, 2002 |
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Mean to me |
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I came across this quote on a Baghdad blog and it got me thinking:"the West won the world not by the superiority of...
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| Nov 23, 2002 |
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Sullivan's New York Times watch watch |
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Andrew Sullivan raises a very interesting question, but inadvertently so, in the process of another rote excoriation of the New York Times. (It's...
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| Nov 21, 2002 |
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Bob Bartley looks back |
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"Optimism pays" are the concluding words of Bob Bartley's going away speech, and it is certainly true he has just given us his...
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| Nov 18, 2002 |
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d'Estaing's Child |
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I was in New York all last week, which both explains the relative scarcity of posts recently, and the vehemently pro-unfettered-movement-of-goods-and-labor stance of...
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| Nov 18, 2002 |
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Al Italia |
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I've just come back from a hectic week in New York so it is time to catch up. First off: That protest march...
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| Nov 7, 2002 |
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I also do requests... |
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Matthew wants to know why I hadn't blogged the US election results. I did in fact make a mental blog this evening, as...
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| Nov 5, 2002 |
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Media bias watch |
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The Belgian ambassador to Israel gave an interview to an Arab-Israeli newspaper, and it has been garnering some attention these past few days....
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| Oct 30, 2002 |
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Scrap crap CAP, carps cross Blair. Chirac crass. |
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Good for you, Tony. Blair's told Jacques Chirac what we all know: That the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a hypocritical, selfish disgrace....
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| Oct 25, 2002 |
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If Jesus saves, don't give Orwell credit. |
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I think Andrew Sullivan's secret is that he wishes he were Christopher Hitchens. But Hitchens is smarter than Sullivanóthe former is anti-religious, the...
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| Oct 21, 2002 |
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Krugman, continued. |
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The Krugman article I blogged just below has elicited this response, from an anonymous economist, on Andrew Sullivan's letters page. Because this page...
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| Oct 20, 2002 |
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Money Money Money |
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Economic laissez faire apologists seethe whenever Paul Krugman engages them with facts. He must be on to something, because the conservative blogosphere feels...
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| Oct 15, 2002 |
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The agony and the ecstasy of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece |
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An extremely silly opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal argues against the legalization of soft drugs such as ecstasy on the grounds...
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| Oct 14, 2002 |
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Bin Laden's plan |
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I was never really sure until this weekend whether Al Qaeda had it in for Americans or for the West. I have always...
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| Oct 11, 2002 |
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Autumn reading list |
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The past few months have seen some fascinating new cleavages emerge in the post-September 11 policy community. I hadn't chronicled them here through...
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| Oct 6, 2002 |
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Media watch: Somebody please shoot the messenger |
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The World Health Organization put out its first annual World Report on Violence and Health last week. Reuters used the data annex to...
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| Oct 6, 2002 |
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No really, some of my best friends are French |
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The French government has banned my iPod from store shelves because it's too loud, according to French Law. I'm only allowed to hear...
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| Sep 30, 2002 |
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Stockholm Stories I |
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Milk cartons here have public service announcements, like they do in the US. Sometimes it's a poem. Sometimes it's a tip for healthy...
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| Sep 30, 2002 |
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Please kill me |
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The Swede of Tunisian origin who tried to board a plane for London last month with a loaded gun on him has been...
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| Sep 29, 2002 |
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Naive Impressionist |
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What a moron. Jews knew beforehand about the September 11 attacks, says New Jersey's poet laureate, because he read it on the internet....
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| Sep 6, 2002 |
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Nationalist Geographic |
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We went to Jericho two days ago, and then on to Qumran, where they discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls. In Jericho we visited...
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| Sep 2, 2002 |
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You're all wrong |
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The first comprehensive study of this blog has been conducted by Matthew Rose. Here are the findings: You wondered once why some of...
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| Aug 20, 2002 |
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Israeli gallows humor |
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From Ha'aretz today. I think it's hilarious....
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| Aug 15, 2002 |
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Bushmore, or less? |
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er, I don't think so....
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| Aug 13, 2002 |
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Smoke-free markets |
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I can't find the original results or the methodology behind this poll, and it sounds fishy too me, but the NYC Coalition For...
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| Jul 29, 2002 |
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Liberals are stupid, conservatives are evil |
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A Charles Krauthammer column was the topic of debate between some republican friends and me this weekend. It's convincing, at first, but fails...
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| Jul 29, 2002 |
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If I don't get on that plane, the terrorists have already won |
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Is this a clever ploy by the Wall Street Journal to make democrats look stupid? Whine, whine, whine. Mr. McGovern seems to be...
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| Jul 25, 2002 |
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I told you so |
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A mere 37 days after my entirely facetious prediction, comes the headline: Ailing Man Sues Fast-Food Firms...
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| Jul 25, 2002 |
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Bull's Eye, cont. |
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Today's Ha'aretz editorial calls the Gaza strike an act of state-sponsored terrorism. I don't agree, but only because I like to quibble semantically...
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| Jul 24, 2002 |
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Bull's eye revisited |
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Some warbloggers are curiously quiet amid the fallout of the Israeli strike in Gaza, which is being questioned by many Israelis. That's probably...
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| Jul 23, 2002 |
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Bias watch: Why the New York Post is beneath contempt |
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Reuters: Israeli Strike Kills 15, Including Hamas Commander New York Times: Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills a Hamas Leader and 14 Others Washington...
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| Jul 16, 2002 |
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Andrew Sullivan watch |
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Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London, regarding the AIDS epidemic devastating the Third World: Why not simply rip off the formulae...
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| Jul 11, 2002 |
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Wall Street Journal watch |
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Fatuity watch indeed: The Wall Street Journal's opinion page blog Best of the Web Today, by James Taranto, took to task a piece...
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| Jul 11, 2002 |
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Bias watch |
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Vindication is a wonderful thing. The only thing I want to know is, shouldn't environmental groups have wondered why they were being so...
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| Jul 8, 2002 |
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The glibalization of globalization |
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Ex-World Bank chief economist Stiglitz's Globalization and its Discontents is quite the flawed masterpiece. It's too breezy in its outrage (it even uses...
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| Jul 3, 2002 |
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Un-American activity |
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Ooh, this is good stuff, from the letters page on AndrewSullivan.com: Contrary to one of your other reader letters, the pledge in schools...
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| Jun 27, 2002 |
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Pledge of Allegiance, II |
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All this outrage, but no competent counterargument. Legal experts agree that the ruling draws the logical conclusion from previous case law. The one...
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| Jun 26, 2002 |
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Pledge of Allegiance, I |
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Honest libertarians everywhere will be rejoicing at the news that the pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional because it refers to the US as...
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| Jun 26, 2002 |
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Interesting Israel-Palestine analysis |
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A remarkable (and brave) analysis of the divergent perceptions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz....
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| Jun 26, 2002 |
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Belgo-Israeli relations |
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A Belgian appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit accusing Ariel Sharon of crimes against humanity, on a technicality. I know at least...
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| Jun 24, 2002 |
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Bush on the Middle East |
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Bush's policy statement on the Middle East had some articulate flourishes: Notably, he separated the current Palestinian leadership from the aspirations of the...
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| Jun 17, 2002 |
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New drug ads |
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I've seen this TV ad several times now, and it galls me every time: "Drug money supports terror. If you buy drugs you...
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| Jun 17, 2002 |
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Fence sitting |
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How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb? It depends. How many Israelis does it take to put up a...
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| Jun 12, 2002 |
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Lies & Statistics |
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A poll out Tuesday will be grist for the op ed pages Wednesday: "A majority of Palestinians believe the aim of their 20-month-old...
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| Jun 5, 2002 |
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Wolfie Watch |
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A gem from Matthew about our Dean of old. The New York Times issued this correction today: Because of a transmission error, an...
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| May 22, 2002 |
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Europe's illiberal liberalism |
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Why does this sound familiar: Western liberal democracy is threatened by an illiberal doctrine; some supporters of this doctrine live in western liberal...
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| May 17, 2002 |
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Giuliani on immigration |
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Hereís yet another example of mainstream American social conservatives putting on their silly hats when it comes to parsing Europeís lurch towards illiberal...
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| May 15, 2002 |
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WSJ Op-Ed supports Netanyahu |
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Amazing. The Wall Street Journalís Op Ed page today has found a way to support Netanhayuís latest efforts to further radicalize the Middle...
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| May 12, 2002 |
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Andrew Sullivan Watch: Credit due |
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Andrew Sullivan Watch: Give him credit for a post called Bias Check (perhaps because I emailed him). I've also amended the size of...
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| May 10, 2002 |
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Sullivan Watched |
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I can't help myself: On Andrew Sullivan today: first a piece on how blogs are a lazy reporter's worst nightmare. Followed instantly by...
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| May 7, 2002 |
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Sullivan loses it |
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I find myself in a strange position vis-a-vis Andrew SullivanóI'm defending core American values from someone who has suddenly adopted the continental European...
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| Apr 1, 2002 |
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Conspiracy for idiots |
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Successful conspiracies require means, motive and opportunity. Successful conspiracy theories require only creative thinking about means, motive and opportunity. Conspiracy theorists have stock...
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| Mar 20, 2002 |
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SAIS Professor Marco Biagi gunned down |
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SAIS Professor Marco Biagi gunned down in Bologna....
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| Mar 19, 2002 |
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Headless body |
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I never want to hear another British complaint about silly EU directives. This one tops them all, so to speak. I don't care...
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| Mar 17, 2002 |
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John Harper's thought experiment |
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SAIS professor John Harper has an interesting thought experiment. Imagine if the President of the United States ran his country like a certain...
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| Mar 7, 2002 |
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Bless Colin Powell |
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Bless Colin Powell for finally stating the obvious: "If you declare war on the Palestinians and think you can solve the problem by...
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| Feb 11, 2002 |
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Paul Wolfowitz, velociraptor |
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Our fearless SAIS leader of old crops up in this week's Economist as something more hawkish than a hawk, hence "Paul Wolfowitz, velociraptor"....
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| Jan 28, 2002 |
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Belgians are to blame |
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Belgians are to blame for many a nefarious act. So it only figures we were also responsible for September 11....
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| Jan 18, 2002 |
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Fuck Enron |
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Simon Clark swears this song by Liz Phair is called Fuck Enron....
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| Jul 11, 2001 |
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When is a home not a home? |
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When is a home not a home? When it's a structure. While Palestinian reporting has long given up trying to present an unbiased...
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| Jun 19, 2001 |
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From Kyoto to missile defense |
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In the Week in Review section of last Sunday's New York Times an article quoted a lovely question by a flummoxed European reporter...
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