Bill's Nibbles // Open Post -- 2007.03.26
Contributed by Bill Faith
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Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post, some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. I occasionally move things from Bill's Nibbles to longer posts as the day goes on:
- March 26, 2003
"Critter" Crittenden: I used my GPS and walked tank to tank through the dust storm to Johnson’s tank to see how he was doing after his night out. I climbed up on the tank’s big deck and lowered myself down through the hatch into the turret. It was significantly more cramped than our luxurious Bradley digs, and smelled of rank sweat and grease down there. I guess it’s like houses. You don’t notice the smell of your own, but other people’s smell different. “I thought last night was the last night,” said Johnson, 26, a gunner from Panama City, Fla. ”I ain’t leaving this tank again unless I have to go to the bathroom, and then I’m tying cord around me.” ...
- Constitutional Relativity
Ed Morrissey: grad-school thesis has once again made its way into the 2008 Presidential race. Previously, a 40-year-old treatise by Hillary Clinton lauding a radical leftist caused a few moments of consternation for her campaign, mostly because her husband's administration kept it suppressed until now. This time, Barack Obama may have to answer some questions regarding his views from law school about the elasticity of the Constitution, views which are less than two decades old: ...
- Right Of Return Negotiable?
Ed Morrissey: For decades, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians foundered mostly on the demand for the right of return -- the right of refugees of the original partition that created Israel and their descendants to return to their lands inside Israel. The Israelis refused to consider it, as it would amount to nothing less than the destruction of Israel as a political entity, and the Palestinians refused to proceed without it. It helped caused the collapse of the Wye accord, even after Ehud Barak suggested further land swaps in exchange for dropping the demand. Until now, it has been a showstopper for both sides. Now, though, the New York Times reports that the Palestinians have begun to accept the fact that they will never return to those lands -- and many do not want to do so anyway. Instead, they seek recognition of their displacement and could accept a deal without the return: ...
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