Perguntas a fazer sobre a Palestina (ou qualquer país) feição da soberania

When you click through to this blog piece on the Palestinian issue, scroll down to the English translation if that’s more convenient.  Source: Perguntas a fazer sobre a Palestina (ou qualquer país) feição da soberania

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Perguntas a fazer sobre a Palestina (ou qualquer país) feição da soberania

Excellent. You could have stopped the bullet list at “When was it founded and by whom?” and “What were its borders?” It’s a great piece but perhaps there is a bit too much at once, so it feels a bit too much of the eye for an eye. But does it get us to peace? I wonder. Every one of your sentences could be another paragraph or a separate blog post. Try to get MEMRI to post it.

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Waiting for control

You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.

R. S. THOMAS, The Echoes Return Slow

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User interface

You sir will be speaking to your computer.  Will you allow your computer to set up how your life is run?

Or, when software is installed, will you be in control?

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The end of EPA’s regulation of CO2

PETITION FOR RULEMAKING ON THE ISSUE OF GREENHOUSE GASES AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

“Petitioners Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, and four individual members of the latter’s Board of Directors hereby petition EPA to initiate a rulemaking proceeding on the subject of greenhouse gases and their impact on public health and welfare.”

“EPA addressed this matter in 2009 in its “Endangerment Finding.” EPA, Final Rule, Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, 74 FR 66,496 (Dec. 15, 2009). However, as explained below, since that finding was issued, evidence has continued to mount that directly contradicts it. For these reasons, we request that EPA commence a new proceeding on this matter.”

http://www.sepp.org/key_issues/CEI_Petition_Endangerment_2017.pdf

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Defiance for science?

“A total of seven shots were fired into our National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) building here at UAH over the weekend.”
 
“All bullets hit the 4th floor, which is where John Christy’s office is (my office is in another part of the building).”
 
“Given that this was Earth Day weekend, with a March for Science passing right past our building on Saturday afternoon, I think this is more than coincidence.”…”Local news reports that UAH police have classified this as a “random shooting”. So, the seven Belgian 5.7 millimeter bullets which hit windows and bricks around John Christy’s office from 70 yards away were apparently deemed to be “random” occurrence. (Despite my personal defense training, I probably would have struggled to get that tight a “random” cluster with a semi-automatic pistol.) Nothing to see here, move along.”
defiance-for-science
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How to think about Putin

“Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics.”

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/think-vladimir-putin/

At this link above, there is an excellent perspective by Christopher Caldwell, who  is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. A graduate of Harvard College, his essays, columns, and reviews appear in the Claremont Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, the Spectator (London), Financial Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, and is at work on a book about post-1960s America.

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End of Global Warming Debate By the most qualified real climatologists. It really is as easy as 1-2-3.

http://columbia-phd.org/RealClimatologists/

 

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Plant growth is increasing

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Disarming Minorities (repost)

And this will be my last post tonight, honest.

The only objection consistently raised to the seemingly modest and sensible sounding idea of requiring that voters present a photographic id is that it is discriminatory toward minorities. In fact, while I think that’s both a little silly and a lot condescending, it’s actually the only specific objection I’ve *ever* heard.

I would encourage anyone who believes that this criticism is valid to consider the extensive identification requirements associated with gun purchases. Because I think it is logically inescapable that, if the requirement of a photographic id from a voter is discriminatory against minorities, then so must be the requirement of a photographic id from a gun purchaser.

Which begs the obvious question, my dear pro-gun-control friends: why are you comfortable with differentially disarming black people?

~ Hank Racette

 

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