So, controversy builds over whether those little Chinese girls who have been sweeping up the gymnastic medals are at least 16 years old, as the rules require. The American coach pointed out that one of them has a tooth missing, looking as if she is
So, controversy builds over whether those little Chinese girls who have been sweeping up the gymnastic medals are at least 16 years old, as the rules require. The American coach pointed out that one of them has a tooth missing, looking as if she is
Well, despite its announcement, Russia is still in Georgia, with reports of looting, rape, and other atrocities (apparently by Chechen and Ossetian militias that accompanied the army). The Russians have occupied the Georgian (not Ossentian) city of Gori, cutting the country in two. Charles Krauthammer
George Will, in an insightful column on Russia’s invasion of Georgia, Russia’s Power Play, makes the best comment I have seen on the opening ceremonies of the Olympics: For only the third time in 72 years (Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980), the Games are being hosted
In case you missed it, a great comment from my former student,The Jones: I have decided that I do not appreciate the Olympics as a sports event. I gain unmatched joy from watching the U.S.A. beat the ever living daylights out of other countries through
Having routed the Georgian army, secured South Ossetia, and “punished” the Georgian state, Russia has halted combat operations. The ramifications, though, remain. It isn’t just Islamic terrorism we need to worry about.
This British newspaper gives a full, detailed account of what Russia is doing to Georgia, including some agonizing photos: Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begin. With reference to one of the comments on the related post yesterday, the only ones hungering
What really galled me about John Edwards acknowledging that his affair with a woman while his wife was struggling with cancer was his protestation that he didn’t love his mistress, as if that someone made it better. I was glad to find Richard Miniter explaining
Diana West writes a telling contrast between the courage of the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the cowardice of today’s literary establishment, as evidenced by Random House withdrawing at the last minute a book about Muhammad’s 9 year old bride due to fears Muslims will not
So Russia invades Georgia, our staunch ally. Its president plantively says, “It’s not about Georgia any more,” Saakashvili said. “It’s about America, its values: we are a freedom-loving nation that is right now under attack.” What if George had been admitted to NATO recently, as
OK, I find myself watching the Olympics, though I hadn’t really planned to. It gets absorbing. On the opening ceremony, of course it was spectacular. It was also a model of totalitarian, collectivist art. Notice how individuals were subsumed into vast patterns of mass identity.
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