http://www.hurryupharry.org Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:13:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en She'll step down by the end of the month, almost a year-and-a-half before her term expires. I invite you to watch her resignation statement in all its rambling strangeness. Call me a liberal elitist looking down my nose at Bible-believing, gun-owning Americans (which I don't believe I am), but leaving aside ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/palin-quits-as-governor-of-alaska/ This is a guest post by Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com The Shas Housing Minister Ariel Atlas is an opponent of Israeli democracy: “I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say the least, does not love the State of Israel,” Atlas told a conference of ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/living-together/ On a number of occasions, I have publicly questioned how the Quakers - an organisation that is famous for its Peace Testimony - could host meetings with genocidal racist terrorist movements and their supporters. My conclusion was that Quakers were not sincere in their beliefs, and were hypocrites whose commitment to ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/quakers-are-true-to-their-principles/ This is a guest post by Brian Henry A shorter version of this article previously appeared in the July 2, 2009, Jewish Tribune, a community paper published weekly by B'nai Brith Canada. Gary Goodyear, Minister for Science and Technology, recently called for the reconsideration of a $20,000 grant for a conference about ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/academic-freedom-or-academic-circus/ Cramner is a blogger who has a (possibly undeserved) reputation  for slightly zany conspiracy theories involving catholics.  I won't name him because he choses to blog under a nom de blogue, and I think that should be respected. He has chosen to publish today what may well me the maddest article ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/tin-foil-hat-time/ Paul Richards in the JC says: So it is pretty clear — a civil servant published a political attack on the government he serves, in what seems to be direct contravention of the Civil Service code which forbids “speaking in public on matters of national political controversy; expressing views on such ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/03/azad-ali-and-civil-service-neutrality/ Are these not the most pathetic bunch of amateur fascists you have ever seen? We may seem cold, or We may even be The most depressing people you've ever known At heart, what's left, we sadly know That we are the last truly British people you'll ever know We are the last truly British people you ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/02/your-arsenal/ Nadine Rosa-Rosso of Belgium describes herself as an “independent communist activist”. Presumably one reason she is independent is that her foray in Belgian electoral politics in 2003 ended in miserable failure. Her "Workers Party of Belgium" teamed up with fellow radicals, including Djab Abou Jahjah, a racist thug who has ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/02/comrade-nadine/ As someone for whom the role of Arab/Muslim Americans and women in the US military is a source of my pride in my country, I was pleased to see this segment on Stephen Colbert's program when he visited Iraq to entertain the troops there. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/02/colbert-in-iraq/ A recent Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin has triggered an entertaining catfight among Palin supporters like Bill Kristol and former operatives from the McCain-Palin campaign. Remember last fall when a McCain campaign official called Palin a "diva"? Asked directly if he accused [senior McCain adviser] Nicolle Wallace of being the source ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/07/02/those-bitchy-republicans/