There's an article in the Jewish Daily Forward about an attempt to revive Aramaic as a living language for the Maronite Christians, one of the Eastern Rite churches in union with Rome. There are some interesting parallels to the Latin Revival movement, although the Maronites have the advantage that unlike Latin, there are several thousand people ( Read more... )

Could there possibly be a more lethal combination in economics than Koreans and Judaism? It's the second coming of the Fugu Plan, and this time they're not going to screw it up.

American Thinker: The Story of the Egyptian Revolution:One week ago, Egypt was a stable authoritarian regime, prospects of change were minimal and every expert in Washington would have betted on the endurance of its regime. Today, Egypt is in a state of chaos. The regime, even after using its mightiest sword is not able to control the country and ( Read more... )

Naomi Klein can't tell the difference between unconstitutional government action and entirely legal action by a corporation. What a complete retard. And she presumes to lecture conservatives on...well, pretty much anything?

(Via Computerworld, an excellent article about how the Egyptian protesters are managing to find ways around the government ( Read more... )

Mexico: The Flailed State:The Mexico-is-a-failed-state meme is cropping up again in the U.S. media. It does get attention, which is why the media types go with it. Mexico could be a failed state, but it is a long, long way from being in that condition. It is, however, a stressed state finally confronting many destructive long-term social and ( Read more... )

Good summary of all the various wars, insurrections, revolts, and just downright murderous crap going on around the world, as well as various places which aren't actively at war yet but are pretty damn close. A lot of these places, you probably haven't heard of and wouldn't want to visit for a million bucks.
(Ace of Spades)

Patriotic Hispanics Missed a Golden Opportunity During the Dream Act Debate | The Americano:The whole reason the Dream Act is necessary is because over the last four or so decades American politicians have not earned their tax-payer funded salaries when it comes to border enforcement. Now, our nation is starting to deal with the sticky and often ( Read more... )

Wikileaks cables reveal China 'ready to abandon North Korea' | World news | The Guardian:China has signalled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is privately distancing itself from the North Korean regime, according to leaked US embassy cables that reveal senior Beijing figures regard their official ally as a "spoiled child".
Seeing the ( Read more... )

An interesting collection of posts about what Afghanistan (and the world) might look like in forty years, Worth reading.

I probably should have posted this yesterday, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, but better late than never.
The annual whining in the press about the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki leaves me cold, but then, unlike most of the journalists and commentators, I actually know something about the war ( Read more... )