Category Archives: Media

Updated: ‘Inflation 101 for Women Pundits & Other Tyrants’

Economy, Media, The Zeitgeist

“Libertarians have a keen appreciation of how governments monkey with the money supply. This is but one of the reasons principled libertarians abhor the optional war pursued in Iraq. By and large, the war accounts for the $9 trillion in national debt. It’s a debt that has been increasing ‘average of $1.47 billion per day since September 29, 2006.’ At the time of writing, every one of us owes $28,921.”

“Yet, never once have the war harpies and their hombres in the ideological trenches indicated they comprehend how and WHO is paying for all this. I know they believe we’re not being taxed in lieu of the debt, a faith they base on Bush’s promise not to raise taxes…”

Here’s hoping that “Inflation 101 for Women Pundits & Other Tyrants” —a primer about inflation at home and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe—will persuade ‘the distaff side of the commentariat,’ especially, to stop whooping it up for war.

Update: Related reading: “Lethal Weapons: Neocon Groupies“

Updated: 'Inflation 101 for Women Pundits & Other Tyrants'

Media, The Zeitgeist

“Libertarians have a keen appreciation of how governments monkey with the money supply. This is but one of the reasons principled libertarians abhor the optional war pursued in Iraq. By and large, the war accounts for the $9 trillion in national debt. It’s a debt that has been increasing ‘average of $1.47 billion per day since September 29, 2006.’ At the time of writing, every one of us owes $28,921.”

“Yet, never once have the war harpies and their hombres in the ideological trenches indicated they comprehend how and WHO is paying for all this. I know they believe we’re not being taxed in lieu of the debt, a faith they base on Bush’s promise not to raise taxes…”

Here’s hoping that “Inflation 101 for Women Pundits & Other Tyrants” —a primer about inflation at home and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe—will persuade ‘the distaff side of the commentariat,’ especially, to stop whooping it up for war.

Update: Related reading: “Lethal Weapons: Neocon Groupies“

Updated ‘Reza Aslan’s Pogrom Amnesia’

Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Media, Middle East

About Reza Aslan, the darling of the media on all things Muslim, Myles Kantor observes the following:

“Last night I watched Sam Harris and Reza Aslan’s January 25 debate on religion at the Los Angeles Public Library. Toward the end, Harris noted the anti-Semitic character of the Middle East before the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Aslan responded in reference to pre-state Israel, ‘Before 1948, of course, there were tens of thousands of Jews living alongside their Arab neighbors without any problem at all.’

Without any problem at all? How about the Jerusalem pogrom in 1920 and the Jaffa pogrom in 1921? Or Arab massacres of Jews in Hebron and Safad in 1929? Or the Tiberias pogrom in 1938? (There was a reason the Sephardic Jewish sage Maimonides wrote in 1172 regarding Arabs, ‘Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they.’)

If Aslan is ignorant of this recurrent savagery, then the Harvard graduate’s study of pre-state Israel has been amazingly selective. If not, his misrepresentation of Arab-Jewish life before 1948 is revisionism in the same gutter as Holocaust denial.”

Or down at curb level with the New Historians’ output.

Update: the post was mentioned favorably at Jihad Watch.

Updated 'Reza Aslan's Pogrom Amnesia'

Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Media, Middle East

About Reza Aslan, the darling of the media on all things Muslim, Myles Kantor observes the following:

“Last night I watched Sam Harris and Reza Aslan’s January 25 debate on religion at the Los Angeles Public Library. Toward the end, Harris noted the anti-Semitic character of the Middle East before the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Aslan responded in reference to pre-state Israel, ‘Before 1948, of course, there were tens of thousands of Jews living alongside their Arab neighbors without any problem at all.’

Without any problem at all? How about the Jerusalem pogrom in 1920 and the Jaffa pogrom in 1921? Or Arab massacres of Jews in Hebron and Safad in 1929? Or the Tiberias pogrom in 1938? (There was a reason the Sephardic Jewish sage Maimonides wrote in 1172 regarding Arabs, ‘Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they.’)

If Aslan is ignorant of this recurrent savagery, then the Harvard graduate’s study of pre-state Israel has been amazingly selective. If not, his misrepresentation of Arab-Jewish life before 1948 is revisionism in the same gutter as Holocaust denial.”

Or down at curb level with the New Historians’ output.

Update: the post was mentioned favorably at Jihad Watch.