Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It has taken Robert Huth longer than he expected to make his debut for Stoke City. His debut, that is, as a centre-half, the position in which he played for Chelsea and Middlesbrough, and in which he won his 17 caps for Germany before being bought by the Potters for a club record £5m last summer.
Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steyn: My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president.” It was a low but effective crack and I didn’t pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true. I don’t just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial...
Andy's Angle (Free subscription) | yesterday
...aside from a good natured shout of "How 'bout them Buckeyes!!!" Perhaps the Coolest Picture EVER -- Courtesy of Boston.com, the most amazing picture of the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga I've ever seen. Thanks to John Phipps for the tip. There are some amazing before and after pics of Berlin and the Wall. Also a good time to remember Ronald Reagan, the greatest American President of the 20th...
Iowa Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kent Sorenson, who is running against Staci Appel in Senate District 37, is touting that he had Ron Paul appear at a fundraiser. But what he didn’t mention is Ron Paul thinks that fall of the Berlin Wall was a bad thing. Two weeks ago, Ron Paul voted against a resolution that celebrated the fall [...]
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | yesterday
On our eminently unqualified president:Along with his choreographic gaucherie goes his peculiar belief that all of human history is just a bit of colorful backstory in the Barack Obama biopic — or as he put it in his video address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:“Few would have foreseen on that day that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Talk about bad taste... The November issue of easyJet In-flight contained two pictures of models posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Field of Stelae. The memorial is Germany's most prominent monument to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. The pictures accompanied a feature marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Denis MacShane,...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite the release of dozens of emails between British climatologists discussing how to fudge their data to keep the myth of global warming alive, the New York Times chooses to keep the faith, albeit blindly: The documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists. But the evidence pointing to a growing human contribution...
Sepia Mutiny (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
W hile on the topic of why India didn't liberalize sooner , an article posted to the SM's News column points at one important factor. In his "Letter from India" column in the NYT, Akash Kapur reflects on the 20 yr anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the impact it had on India - Most of the media coverage has, quite understandably, focused on Europe. But the tremors from Communism's...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
MOSCOW - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback. Gorbachev said...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hitchcock could not have done better (or am I thinking of Mel Brooks'). Last week, on November 9 to be exact, Europeans, amidst much hypocritical hoopla, celebrated the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, an event of great importance only to those who had been sequestered behind the wall, and those for whom Communism (and its current incarnation - anti-racism) represent a major nefarious and limiting...
Some landscapes (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The best landscape art book of 2009? Possibly the new edition of Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koerner, first published in 1990. Written in three parts, the first, 'Romanticizing the World', begins by addressing the reader directly as "you" and imagines an encounter with Friedrich's Trees and Bushes in the Snow (1828), and the last discusses Friedrich's...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Back in the summer, Twitter announced that it was working on an API to give developers the ability to geotag tweets. The company has now made that available. There is no geotagging on Twitter.com yet, but Twitter apps will now be able to support it. So potentially, you will be able to geotag tweets and show the location from where you tweeted. "The added information provides valuable context...
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of communism in eastern Europe ushered in an era of unparalleled US dominance, Mr Obama’s first visit to China 20 years later arguably marks another once-in-a-generation revolution in...
Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mikhail Gorbachev got credit, and even President John F. Kennedy got a mention, but nothing for former President Reagan. How soon we forget! Let’s not allow the revisionists to reverse true history.
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