Third entry in one day... I know it seems like a lot, but it's mostly cut and paste. Jay Nordlinger had two great entries in his Impromptu column today ( Read more... )

There are an estimated 200 political prisoners in [Chinese-occupied] Tibet, almost all monks and nuns whose only crime is to have pledged support to the Dalai Lama, the head of the Buddhist faith, who leads a government in exile in India but whom Beijing regards as a separatist threat ( Read more... )

Well it's almost Shabbos and I have a ton of stuff I've been meaning to post so I want to unload some of it before I go on hiatus. Make sure to read the two posts before this one; I separated them from this post because I felt they merited their own entries. (And there's a lot of my own commentary!) Anyway, here goes:

1) A statue of Darth Vader is ( Read more... )