Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Springs of Moral Conduct

Good eats

Books on the Civil War

Something to keep in mind concerning gun deaths: half are from suicide

An example of a misleading use of gun death statistics

Obama and infanticide

Denmark is the world’s happiest country

Another terrorist from Saudi Arabia

George Washington as a leader

How to fight terrorists within the limits of the law and the Constitution

A book on the Mufti of Jerusalem

The conquest of India

A history of Jihad

A history of dhimmitude

A brief history of jihad and dhimmitude

Review of A History of Palestine and other discussion of this book

Books and articles or lectures by Bat Ye’or

Robert Spencer’s book on Islam

Pryce-Jones: Why are there no Arab liberal democracies?

From the beginning Bryant had believed that "the emotions raised by poetry," as Mr. Muller puts it, "could guide readers to the springs of moral conduct." In his editorials at the Evening Post he believed he was simply using a different medium to do the same job for the country's democracy.

A bizarre case of judicial restraint

Are speculators responsible for high prices? No, but in some cases politicians are

US produces a little more than half the oil it produced in 1971

Listening to Naxos and here for Beethoven Sonatas

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