America

The Christian Brotherhood (ie, The Muslim Brotherhood)

כ״ד בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 29 January 2011)

Somewhere in the world, in a troubled region, there are riots on the streets and an organization called the Christian Brotherhood is poised to succeed in seizing power as that country’s military dictator eventually flees. The Christian Brotherhood is a potentially frightening organization. Its members have been involved in a lot of political violence over [...]

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Investing in Divorce

כ״ח בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Sunday 5 December 2010)

From the New York Times, I’ve just learned that other people’s divorces are a sound and even profitable investment opportunity: “Balance Point Divorce Funding [is] a new Beverly Hills lender that offers to cover the cost of breaking up – paying a lawyer, searching for hidden assets, maintaining a lifestyle – in exchange for a [...]

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World AIDS Day: AIDS is a Niche Concern

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Wednesday 1 December 2010)

This post is in honor of World AIDS Day. According to Ynet, 382 people contracted HIV in Israel in 2009. On a side note, one of the eeriest things about moving from the United States to a tiny country with socialist medicine is that statistics like this can be announced with some authority and even [...]

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Aretae’s Election Roundup

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תשע״א (Thursday 4 November 2010)

Aretae put together a list of posts from blogs he reads about voting in the US elections. It’s thorough, interesting and awesome. Check it out.

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Jewish Monarchy in Israel

כ״ה בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 7 July 2010)

Will S. asked these questions: I’m Canadian, and an ardent monarchist myself; to me, it ties in with my patriotism, and my faith as a Christian (of the Protestant variety), and my disposition as a Canadian. Monarchy, though, is always at least outwardly religious; whether the Christian monarchs of Europe, or the Islamic kingdoms like [...]

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How to Cheat on a Test

כ״ד בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 6 July 2010)

If you came here looking for instructions on cheating, you won’t find them. I am a reformed cheater and think cheating is despicable, so please don’t do it. In my high school, virtually everybody cheated (I know of two students who didn’t), but in retrospect I would have been much better off if I’d not [...]

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