MOVED TO ANOTHER URL The Belmont Club has moved to this URL: http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/ . The underlying cause of the outage was probably that the blog had gotten too big. I finally go...
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CHOOSE YOUR GHETTO KC Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, asks whether a de facto test of political correctness is being required of prospective tea...
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GORGEOUS GEORGE GALLOWAY 2 A number of readers (JG) and commenters have written to say that the Senate only posts prepared statements. Therefore under those terms, Galloway will not have submitt...
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GORGEOUS GEORGE GALLOWAY Reader KM points out in a private email that the testimony of George Galloway before the US Senate has gone missing. According to VUNet: > The website for the Se...
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THE HIGH HAND Glenn Reynolds notes that the New York Times coverage of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan may not really be about prisoner abuse or even Afghanistan, but about maintaining the prestig...
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THE GREAT WHITE NORTH The drama surrounding attempts by Canadian PM Paul Martin to hang on to power by ignoring a no confidence vote and then offering a Conservative oppositionist a Cabinet post...
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THE ROAD TO PERDITION Two factors that are normally considered in evaluating the outcome of a contemplated action are encapsulated in the notion of an expected value. An expected value is calcul...
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THE AGENT 2 The Drudgereport carried a report of this strangely shrill exchange at a press briefing between Bush spokesman Scott McClellan and reporters. The words in the exchange are important...
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THREE WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Four apparently disconnected events in the past few days have served as the bellweather in the crisis called the Global War on Terror, a name now too narrow to be ap...
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THE AGENT The Agency Problem arises when a conflict of interest arises between a principal and his agent. The press often represents itself as an 'agent' of the larger society, a seeker after th...
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NOT GOOD ENOUGH Newsweek says Koran desecration report is wrong Incendiary Koran claim may be false, editor admits Newsweek Apologizes for Quran Story Errors Newsweek backtracks over Koran r...
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THE ACME BLOGGER KIT Glenn Reynolds is designing the 'Acme Blogger Reporter' kit, for guys who want to be citizen reporters, just as an intellectual exercise of indicating what they should have...
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MATDADOR 2 The Associated Press has this report originating from across the Syrian border on Operation Matador. > From their rooftops, Syrians in frontier towns watched airstrikes >�...
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MATADOR DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH MY IMAGE SERVER, THE MAPS WILL BE DOWN I can't do much better than refer readers to Chester , who has carefully plotted all the known incidents of Operation Matador...
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HEARTS AND MINDS Bill Roggio and Chester have come up with a refined map of what they believe to have happened in Operation Matador. Their map reflects their common scenario, whose general cha...
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BANDWIDTH LOW I've used up about 8 of the 12 GB in bandwidth available to host the map images. That should be enough to last today. I've ordered more bandwidth so things should be OK.
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BATTLE ON THE SYRIAN BORDER DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH MY IMAGE SERVER, THE MAPS WILL BE DOWN The Marine Battle on the Syrian border at which nearly 100 enemy have been reported killed now turns out ...
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SEARCH BOX In response to requests by readers for a search box, its probably good to point out that there's already a search box on the top left hand corner of this blog.
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SHORTS A mapgame by Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon's New Map. The Private Military Industry by P. W. Singer of Brookings. Preventing a War Over Taiwan , a Clinton-era Senior Dire...
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CRIES AND WHISPERS Bizarre news from Sweden. (Hat tip: M.S.) A preacher in Stockholm is under police protection after being threatened with death for calling the prophet Mohammed a pedophile. Th...
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FREEDOM FOR THE BALI BOMBER? American Expat in Southeast Asia reports that Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the spiritual head of the Jemaah Islamiyah, may be released early -- before the end of the year --...
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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Paul Volcker has asked the UN to instruct a former investigator probing the Oil For Food Program not to comply with a Senate subpoena to provide it with information on ...
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YALTA The United States has apologized for several of its Second World War actions, most notably the internment of Japanese-Americans. However, George Bush's apology for the 'sellout' at Yalta i...
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BACK TO THE FUTURE Max Boot describes on vision of 21st century US forces: the 19th century British Army. In Foreign Affairs article (hat tip: MIG), Boot argues that while Iraq has shown US for...
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EGYPT Egyptian Special Operations have arrested four leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. According to the Washington Post : > Abdel Moneim Mahmoud, a senior Brotherhood member,�...
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