links for 2007-05-20 Scott Wilson: Fatah Troops Enter Gaza With Israeli Assent: "Israel this week allowed the Palestinian party Fatah to bring into the Gaza Strip as many as 500 fresh troops trained under a U.S.-coordinated program to counter Hamas, the radical Islamic moveme E. P. Sanders: With the modern appropriation of Paul, I feel like I’m stuck. Readers have been appropriating him into their own contexts since at least the Epistle of James (which misunderstood him!). The epistle says [in argument with Paul], “Faith w Matthew Yglesias: The Truth About the English: For years, I assumed that every English person I heard speaking was incredibly intelligent. Then one day I realized it was just that English people speak with English accents and it's not the same thing. Case Movies: Away from Her Movies: Fracture Movies: The Lives of Others Movies: The Valet Movies: The Wind that Shakes the Barley Crooks and Liars » Colbert Debates Himself on the Future of Iraq: "The Pottery Barn Rule. At Pottery Barn, if you knock over a lamp, you have to glue it back together, even if when your done it looks terrible and it doesn't work. Oh, and you have to stay Their Master’s Voice - New York Times Editorial: The more of these White House psychodramas we get to witness, the more obvious it is that Mr. Bush’s warm embrace is really a payoff to yes-men who didn’t challenge his orders or question ideology-dri From the archives: I bet that if the Sandman and Spiderman could have just gotten away from their positional stances (“I need to take money” and “I need to catch crooks” respectively), to their underlying interests (“I need to help my little gir Rising Hegemon: Among the Joys of the Internets Has been watching reality-based conservatives like John Cole essentially become just another one of us eternally dismayed/bemused bloggers when looking at what passes for conservative on the blogosphere [Cul Think Progress » Unquestioning Clarence. “Justice Clarence Thomas sat through 68 hours of oral arguments in the Supreme Court’s current term without uttering a word.” The last time Thomas asked a question in court “was Feb. 22, 2006, in a death p David Frum: With the immigration * compromise * in the Senate, President Bush and the Senators have detonated the slow-motion trigger on a Republican debacle in 2008. Let's count the ways Wilkerson no like Wolfowitz: When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld picked Wolfowitz in 2000 as his deputy — to make all the trains in the Pentagon run on time — those of us who were familiar with Wolfowitz knew a train wreck would occur. It did, almo
