Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Ayers Bombing Victim in Public Email

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John Murtagh, who said his home was firebombed by the Weather Underground in 1971, has gone public in an email. Murtagh's father was a N...

Africom Foreign Policy Blunder: Another Rummy Move

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Another foreign policy blunder, the new United States Africa Command (Africom) became fully operational. This is the last major action propo...

Emergency Filing Blocks Release of Terrorist Trainees

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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals granted the Bush administration's motion for an emergency stay to prevent the release o...

Chinese Plead for Release from Taliban

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Graphic source: Afpax Insider Two Chinese engineers kidnapped 29 August appeared on a video released by the Taliban. They pleaded for their...

Call Those Two Running for President

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Someone should be informing those guys who are running for President. Interior ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf said toda...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A Second Attempt at Analyzing the 2nd Debate

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The second debate will go to Obama since he is exercising the better strategy. He is running against Bush c. 2003 and he has effectively pai...

Who Is Qualified?

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As an analysis piece of the second Presidential debate, a town hall setting, I would like to explore the question: who is qualified? 1) Brea...

Muslim Chinese Uighurs Terrorists Released in U.S.

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U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina today ordered that seventeen Chinese Uighur Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison be rel...

Churchill Quote

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Graphic source: Cotswolds.info.com "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Sir Winston Churchill

Koranic Training Children: To Die For

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Graphic source: AfPax Insider The Taliban are back at it again and they have reconstituted a Spinkai Ragzai, South Waziristan camp that tra...
Monday, October 6, 2008

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John Palfrey, a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has co-written two books exa...

Note on Norman Podhoretz, World War IV

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This is a quick and easy read but one to stir up controversy if you follow his argument. There are not many people willing to take a positiv...

U.S. Asks Allies/Euros to Pay for Their Defense

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In a move that I've long advocated here the U.S. is asking allies such as Japan and NATO allies who have not sent troops to Afghanistan...

Presidential Candidates At the Bailout Trough

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The bloated rhetoric of the two presidential candidates is only exceeded by the nonsense they have both expressed about the financial crisis...

Bailouts Work, Sorta'

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An important question to ask during these days of bailouts is to ask how things have worked out in the past. The U.S. bailout took place in ...

Judge Considers Release of International Terrorists

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The Uighur (pronounced "WEE-gurz") people are Muslims inhabiting the Western region of China. Five of the Uighurs, and twelve more...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Sharia-Compliant Citi Seeks Taxpayer's Money

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Obamics and Sharia compliant, the code of law based on the Koran, Citigroup was blocked by a Judge in the Wachovia-Wells deal. However, New...

Obama's Favorite Domestic Terrorist

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The wonder of the William Ayers terrorist connection to Obama is not that Palin finally unleashed it, it lies in the fact that the mainstre...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

How Obama, McCain, Bush, Congress, and the Federal Reserve Benefit Egypt

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While the House of Representatives adopted a wide ranging intrusion into the nation’s beleaguered financial sector, it is instructive to see...

Note on Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know

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I'll admit it, this was a book I did not get around to reading at first because of its style and a misunderstanding of the book's p...
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