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8 deaths 2008-03-06 16:45:11 In Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, a religious school for Torah study, a group of terrorists opened fire with an automatic weapon, murdering in cold blood 8 civilians and injuring many more besides, before thankfully being killed by an Israeli paratrooper on the scene.
Rabbi David Simchon, director of the yeshiva, bravely declared that “No terrorist [...] Read more:deaths
Why I should have the vote 2008-03-06 04:25:18 “Just as I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This is my idea of democracy.”
This idea expressed by Abraham Lincoln is a simple but fundamental one to the workings of a democracy. In order for it to function properly, it must include everyone capable of voting, and take them [...]
Chastising Chavez 2008-03-05 16:06:00 Today, Venezuela ramped up the size of the military force on the Colombian border in an effort to show President Uribe of Colombia that President Chavez
is tough, and means business. What Chavez didn’t realize is that the world now thinks of him as a posturing, menacing bully who is throwing a tantrum over an [...]
Christian, Schmistian 2008-03-03 16:55:50 How often do we hear from know-nothing Christian
pundits that the United States of America is founded on “Judaeo-Christian ethics” or “Christian morals”? In short, that the US is “a Christian country”? (I would supply a link, but I don’t really fancy trawling through Bill O’Reilly clips to come across one, thank you [...]
Why I love Lost In Translation 2008-03-01 17:17:26 My mother and father snuck me into Lost In Translation
in 2003. It was a wet London evening, I had come home from school and was not very excited about seeing the film. I had homework to do, and I fretted about missing something on TV that night. But at 8 PM we went to [...]
From Slate V: Life Imitates The West Wing 2008-02-27 15:52:30 It has been said in the past that the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Robert Kennedy stole hope, idealism, youthful vigour, and inspirational politics from the US in the 1960s. That has to be tempered with reality, because those three men were not the only idealists in politics but had [...] Read more:Slate
The tech industry got HD-DVD all wrong 2008-02-26 15:23:48 There are two very important reasons why the entire tech industry
got HD-DVD completely wrong. One, as Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow ought to be advocates of, is HD-DVD not having region coding or as much DRM as Blu-ray. The second, which the entire Wall Street Journal editorial board should support is the fact that [...]
United Nonsense 2008-02-26 14:38:39 The United
Nations is often (although not always) ineffectual, time wasting, spineless and bureaucratic. We all know that. But perhaps the United Nations would do better for itself if it actually sought to solve the real issues facing our world and not waste a disproportionate amount of its time slating Israel.
Issues such as genocide in [...] Read more:Nonsense
Greek Words: Kudos 2008-02-25 19:16:54 The second in a series in which Leo examines the modern uses and abuses of certain words from the Greek
lexicon.
The Oxford English dictionary tells us:
/kyoodos/
• noun praise and honour.
— USAGE Despite appearances, kudos is not a plural form: there is no singular form kudo, and use as a plural, as in he received many [...] Read more:Words
Israeli Democrats pick Clinton 2008-02-25 13:42:18 Senator Hillary Clinton
won the Israel vote in the Democrats
Abroad Global Primary, but was defeated in the international race by Senator Barack Obama, who captured the majority of the votes cast by American expatriates who voted in the Democratic Global Primary held earlier this month.
Israel, which is home to an estimated 200,000 U.S. Citizens, [...] Read more:Israeli
Yeshiva boys or soulja boys? 2008-03-12 09:21:49 Some Palestinian “journalists” have responded to the recent murders in Jerusalem with something less than condemnation. One article in particular, by “Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem”, left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. The title, which fairly sums up the piece, reads “Soldiers (not innocent students) killed at settler center”.
It [...]
24 hour online protest against Internet censorship 2008-03-13 14:30:24 Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based international non-governmental organization which advocates freedom of the press, has today launched a one-day protest againstInternet
censorship in the nine worst offending nations. While they include obvious ones like China and Cuba, RSF also shines a light on the offenses of Turkmenistan and Eritrea, both nations which cripple Internet [...] Read more:online
, protest against
Nationalising Bear Stearns 2008-03-19 07:38:08 We’ve had major surprises in the past few weeks. Politically, the Eliot Spitzer revelation and resignation caught everyone totally unaware. Socially, some of us witnessed a gory geek-led attack on Sarah Lacy for soft-balling an interview with Facebook’s notoriously-shy Mark Zuckerberg. Culturally, France’s foreign minister suggested an EU boycott of the Olympic opening ceremony as [...] Read more:Stearns
Prefab Modular Homes: Aesthetic & Affordable 2008-03-22 21:17:34 For the last thirty years one of the loudest way to demonstrate wealth was by building a McMansion. These ostentatious homes could be built on a budget while retaining a grand appearance. Building with pre-fabricated materials, not hiring an architect, and skimping on design by only having the face built in stone - or even [...] Read more:Modular
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Hello Terminal 2008-03-27 05:57:19 Today was a momentous day for British aviation and the airline industry, as Heathrow’s long awaited, and desperately needed Terminal 5 opened for commercial flights.
Whilst the day is a great accolade for the Terminal’s sole occupant, British Airways, it is a triumph for airport owner BAA. The project was delivered on time and on budget. [...] Read more:Hello
Jean Nouvel wins architecture’s Holy Grail: the Pritzker Prize 2008-03-31 10:40:57 Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for his innovative works such as the Torre Agbar tower in Barcelona, a precursor to London’s very similar 30 St. Mary’s Axe, has received architecture’s top honour, the Pritzker Prize. Informally known as the ‘Nobel prize for architecture’, a jury chosen by the Hyatt Foundation awarded the $100,000 [...] Read more:Grail
, Holy Grail
In Memoriam - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2008-04-04 11:29:58 This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of [...] Read more:Martin
, Luther
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, Martin Luther King
Good People Day: The People of BuzzTown 2008-04-02 22:25:42 Gary Vaynerchuk asked us all to make today Good People
Day, which is a wonderful idea. It’s not naive to decide to think about what we appreciate in others, and it isn’t unfair to turn our eyes away from the mainstream media’s flow of death and destruction. Sometimes we should talk about good news, sometimes [...]
Mandatory Intelligence Testing for Government Positions 2008-04-06 13:30:09 Indisputably, any citizen of the United States would want politicians that accurately represented them and worked for the benefit of the nation. That said, the qualifications for office are, at best, adequate. Most of the requirements are reasonable standards. Each potential Congress member must be an American citizen for at least nine years and be [...] Read more:Mandatory
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