tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39567122011-04-21T14:50:44.843-04:00Mr. Bragg's Homework Blog Mr. Bragg's Homework BlogJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-31332943673322400952008-09-12T19:40:00.001-04:002008-09-12T19:50:04.180-04:00Zinn Questions
1. What responsibility do historians have for accurately representing the truth? Historians must focus on some facts and place less emphasis on others. When does selection become flat-out distortion? (In your opinion.) What must a historian do to avoid this charge? 2. What perspective does Zinn take on Columbus, what evidence does he cite, and how does he support his positionJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1096483832915955872004-09-29T14:49:00.000-04:002004-09-29T14:50:32.916-04:00September 28, 29 Current Events Project Interim Check
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902582066032332004-09-22T21:21:00.001-04:002004-09-22T21:23:02.066-04:00September 24, 27
Test--Basic Vocabulary, Judaism, Christianity
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902501088164652004-09-22T21:21:00.000-04:002004-09-22T21:21:41.086-04:00Due September 23, 24
Homework #5
Page 260 #1-3
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902464966021102004-09-22T21:20:00.000-04:002004-09-22T21:21:04.966-04:00September 20, 21
Geography Quiz
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902442653905192004-09-22T21:19:00.000-04:002004-09-22T21:20:42.653-04:00September 15, 17
Homework #4
1. Cover textbook in something non-adhesive.
2. Page 200 #1-3
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902387735314182004-09-22T21:18:00.000-04:002004-09-22T21:19:47.736-04:00September 13-14
Homework #3 Do a little bit of research and list
1. The 5 largest Christian denominations in the United States.
2. How many people each denomination has
3. Your source for the information, including the year
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095902262704642512004-09-22T20:44:00.000-04:002004-09-22T21:17:42.703-04:00September 7-8
Religion Project Due
Current Events Check
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1095900266192839822004-09-22T20:43:00.000-04:002004-09-22T20:44:26.193-04:00September 2-3 Test #1. Geography, Religion Vocabulary
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1084799510101464052004-05-17T09:10:00.000-04:002004-05-17T09:11:50.103-04:00LSN 4th Quarter Project
You will research, write and present on a foreign country, both the history of that country and the current issues in that country today.
1. Research. Find 5 newspaper articles and 5 other sources of information on your assigned country.
Type your list of sources. (You do not need to hand me the articles, only the name and title of the source."
For websites, John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1074203146470529702004-01-15T16:45:00.000-05:002004-01-15T16:47:38.093-05:00
http://www.mdk12.org/mspp/high_school/look_like/2001/government/intro.htmlJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1069367636939396082003-11-20T17:31:00.000-05:002003-11-20T17:35:12.013-05:00Due December 1, 2003
ECR (Extended Constructed Response) question.
“The list below contains three of the six principles of the American government:
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
Describe how each principle makes our government work
Explain the relationship between these principles
Include details and examples to support your descriptions and John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1068672804541898982003-11-12T16:33:00.000-05:002003-11-12T16:33:50.920-05:00Congressional Vocabulary--Test Thursday--November 13
1. Bill
2. Chairman
3. Speaker
4. Vice President
5 Constituents
6 Rules Committee
7 Gerrymandering
8 Census
9 Seniority
10 Incumbent
10 Majority Leader
11 Minority Leader
12 Unanimous Consent
13 Filibuster
14 Cloture
15 Bicameral
16 Conference Committee
17 Veto
18 John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1068215230816432282003-11-07T09:27:00.000-05:002003-11-07T09:27:30.403-05:00Due November 10, 2003
Second Quarter Homework Test One
Type your answers or submit them neatly written on looseleaf paper.
This counts as both a homework assignment (complete or not) and a test (evaluated, graded and returned).
Examples can be real or hypothetical.
1. In a paragarph, describe the order of events by which an idea becomes a law. Use an example of an idea for a law in John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063726742444580332003-09-16T11:39:00.000-04:002003-09-26T16:49:30.940-04:00Due Monday, September 15
HW # 15. What do you think is the Democrat's most popular issue? The Republicans' most popular issue?
Due Thursday, September 25.
HW # 14. Members of which party are more likely to be regular churchgoers?
Wednesday, September 25 Notebooks collected from Periods 4,6
Due Monday, September 22.
HW # 12. Which Amendments to the Constitution expanded voting John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664536396317902003-09-15T18:21:00.000-04:002003-09-16T11:38:40.606-04:00Due Wednesday, September 17. HW # 11. What Article and Section of the Constitution is a list of Congress' powers?
Notebooks collected from 1st, 2nd PeriodsJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664354585652802003-09-15T18:18:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:27:06.726-04:00Due Tuesday, September 16 HW #10. Find, from the 2000 U.S. Census, the percentage of the US population that is African-American. John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664271927293022003-09-15T18:17:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:26:03.403-04:00Due Monday, September 15
Own an Almanac with the 2000 election results.
Notebooks collected from 7th, 8th periods.
HW #9 Would you rather live with democracy and no rule of law or rule of law and no democracy?
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664135611252422003-09-15T18:15:00.000-04:002003-09-17T11:13:24.156-04:00Due Friday, September 12.
HW #8. Why of the six aims of the Preamble to the Constitution is most important, and give a reason why. 2 sentences or less.
Due Wednesday, September 10
HW #7. Find the years of
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Articles of Confederation
3. Constitution
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664106250657922003-09-15T18:14:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:22:58.406-04:00Due Tuesday, September 9 HW #6. Which of the 6 aims in the Preamble is most important. Give one reason why.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063664056997583212003-09-15T18:13:00.000-04:002003-09-15T18:22:09.166-04:00Due Monday, September 8
Mini-Project For display, “translate” one phrase (comma to comma) of the Declaration of Independence.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063642052941508032003-09-15T12:07:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:07:32.933-04:00Due Friday, September 5 Notebooks collected.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641998599066302003-09-15T12:06:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:06:38.580-04:00Due Thursday, September 4 HW #5.
Give one reason that people would disagree with your answer from last night.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641955242266382003-09-15T12:05:00.001-04:002003-09-15T12:05:55.200-04:00Due Wednesday, September 3 HW #4. Does “all men are created equal” include everyone? Give one reason why or why not.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641925659065482003-09-15T12:05:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:05:25.600-04:00Tuesday, September 2 Test on Frederick DouglassJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641796573364262003-09-15T12:03:00.001-04:002003-09-15T12:04:24.860-04:00Due Thursday, August 28 HW #3. What is a Referendum?
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641841903940572003-09-15T12:03:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:04:01.810-04:00Due Friday, August 29 Summer Packet Outlines
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641768748194742003-09-15T12:02:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:04:46.000-04:00Due Wednesday August 27 HW#2 Tape syllabus into notebook, parent signs syllabus
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-1063641711966096122003-09-15T12:01:00.000-04:002003-09-15T12:01:51.820-04:00Due Tuesday August 26
Bring a Notebook
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-930542852003-04-22T12:29:00.000-04:002003-04-22T12:29:48.483-04:00Link. Mini Tests One and TwoJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-922443732003-04-08T17:00:00.000-04:002003-04-15T10:18:21.000-04:00John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-922442872003-04-08T16:59:00.000-04:002003-04-08T16:59:18.153-04:00Link. The 2002 LSN State Assessment. Also, Part II of your LSN Spring Packet.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-884876372003-02-03T15:00:00.000-05:002003-02-03T15:02:11.000-05:00Link. State of the Union Address, 2003.
Tuesday's BCR quiz question: Name one goal President Bush mentioned in his State of the Union speech and one proposal he made to achieve that goal.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-875899902003-01-17T09:19:00.000-05:002003-01-17T09:21:35.000-05:00Link. Follow the link to the online LSN Government practice test. Oh, joy!John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-859105482002-12-12T15:44:00.000-05:002002-12-12T15:46:00.000-05:00Link.
Bush's Comments on Lott:
Now, to read the tea leaves. Bush didn't say a word in defense of Lott. No, "I know Lott and he's no racist", no "His record over many years proves his commitment to the rights of Americans of all races," nothing. Is this Bush's signal to the Senate Republicans to dump him? It certainly could be. John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858724612002-12-11T22:04:00.000-05:002002-12-11T22:04:22.436-05:00Link. Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed places the Center in the same league as National Review and Andrew Sullivan. In your face, Space Coyote!!John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858723052002-12-11T22:01:00.000-05:002002-12-11T22:01:08.543-05:00Link. The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism has a form to email your Senator calling for Lott's removal as leader and censure by the SenateJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858722462002-12-11T22:00:00.000-05:002002-12-11T22:00:00.653-05:00Link. Nick Provenzo, Chairman of the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, on Lott's appeasement of the Democrats on Hannity.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858720232002-12-11T21:55:00.000-05:002002-12-11T21:55:50.916-05:00How can you tell a politician is lying? He's apologizing.
Senator Lott’s latest apology quotes Jesse Jackson, who in 1984 referred to New York as “Hymietown,” and then apologized and said that he wasn’t anti-Semitic. Senator Lott and the very Reverend Mr. Jackson were quoted as saying, “This was a mistake of the head, not of the heart.” Now the issue is clear— Senator Lott is no more John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858029892002-12-10T17:01:00.000-05:002002-12-10T19:57:56.000-05:00Link. My op-ed rejecting Lott's limp apologies is at the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism website.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-858023622002-12-10T16:47:00.000-05:002002-12-10T16:47:28.470-05:00 A little Lott-e-fisking. Lott's Monday apology, annotated.
“A poor choice of words [if only I'd said "progress" instead of "problems"!!] conveyed [revealed] to some [to anyone who read or saw the comments] the [correct] impression that I embrace the [sadly] discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.”John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-857988112002-12-10T15:31:00.000-05:002002-12-10T15:41:57.000-05:00EVOLUTION OF A SENATE WEASEL
Lott's Friday (12/6) Apology "Senator Lott's remarks were intended to pay tribute to a remarkable man who led a remarkable life. To read anything more into these comments is wrong."
Lott's Monday (12/9) Apology. "A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-857984902002-12-10T15:24:00.000-05:002002-12-10T16:54:49.000-05:00Link. The Center for the Advancement of Capitalism prints my piece.
Link. NRO: National Review's Robert George, opens with "Can George W. Bush and the Republican party really afford to have Trent Lott (R., Miss.) be its face in the United States Senate?"
Link. NRO:National Review's Byron York. The Congressional Black Caucus held a news conference. Besides several members calling for John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-857308712002-12-09T10:52:00.000-05:002002-12-09T10:52:06.103-05:00Link. David Frum, in NRO, on the Lott comments.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856808932002-12-08T10:37:00.000-05:002002-12-08T10:37:32.273-05:00Link. The Washington Post noticed Lott's comments, and ran an article. Where is the New York Times?John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856688182002-12-08T00:53:00.000-05:002002-12-08T00:55:02.000-05:00Link. Washington Post article on Isreali settlement expansion, on the new hilltop settlements of questionable legality and dubious wisdom.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856686062002-12-08T00:47:00.000-05:002002-12-08T00:54:20.000-05:00Comment. Are the Lott comments to blame for the Republicans losing the Senate and House elections today in Louisiana? On the one hand, in a race that close every factor is a deciding factor. On the other hand, black turnout was high--did word of the Republican Senate leader's comments filter into the black community? BraggLog--Today's Irresponsible Speculation is Tomorrow's Conventional John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856673442002-12-08T00:10:00.000-05:002002-12-08T00:10:38.723-05:00Link. Center for the Advancement of Capitalism calls for Lott's resignation or removal.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856333722002-12-07T04:24:00.000-05:002002-12-07T04:24:51.570-05:00Comment. Lott is going down this time. There will be 51-52 Republican Senators, so it will take at most three Senators to hold the caucus hostage. The urge to grandstand here is irresistable. This is a hill that no one wants to die on. Chris Bond, Arlen Specter, George Voinovich, and Richard Shelby are up for reelection in 2004, and I don't think any of them wants to lose their elections John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856331242002-12-07T04:10:00.000-05:002002-12-07T04:10:56.716-05:00On Thursday, December 5, 2002, Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said:
“When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.”
In 1948, Strom Thurmond ran for president as the segregationist candidate. That is not to say that support John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-856325572002-12-07T03:41:00.000-05:002002-12-07T03:41:09.600-05:00Link. Trent Lott endorses Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat platform:
I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't of had all these problems over all these years, either.
We wouldn't have had all these problems over the years.
What problems is John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-855879482002-12-06T07:15:00.000-05:002002-12-06T07:15:01.820-05:00Heresy. Re: the Central Park Jogger case, in which a gang of teenagers who had gone out to rob and beat people, "wilding", confessed to and were convicted of the 1989 rape and near-fatal beating of a woman, in which, recent evidence has pretty much proven that the rape was done single-handedly by a different rapist altogether who confessed to the crime in jail. Between the rape of the Central John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-855775872002-12-06T00:20:00.000-05:002002-12-06T00:20:20.810-05:00Link. Sharon's Peace Plan. The plan is conditional on an absolute end to terror, on the dismantling of the Palestinian militias, and on the removal of Arafat. So, basically, it won't happen.
Unless Sharon sends the IDF in to remove Arafat, dismantle the militias, and end terrorism.
But anyway, the plan is for a provisional Palestinian state in Areas A and B next year, with final borders John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-855636522002-12-05T19:01:00.000-05:002002-12-06T00:11:17.000-05:00Link. Jerusalem Post analysis of Sharon's recent declaration. Says that Sharon, while accepting an eventual Palestinian state and that the IDF will withdraw from Areas A and B, is trashing the "road map" backed by the Quartet of the US, EU, Russia and the UN. More specifically, by Powell (not W), the EU, Russia and the UN.
By the way, how's this for a measure to bring peace closer: If theJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-855620022002-12-05T18:24:00.000-05:002002-12-05T18:25:15.000-05:00Link. American Academia Jew-Hating Watch. Concordia University in Canada has revoked all funding for Hillel, and banned Hillel meetings from campus, allegedly because Hillel passed out statements recruiting for the IDF, which operates in the illegally-occupied territories, you know, where they have been in 1967 for no reason at all disrupting the traditional Palestinian activities of, er, John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-854768222002-12-04T06:35:00.000-05:002002-12-04T06:35:22.070-05:00Cardinal Law took time off Sunday from shuffling pedophile priests from parish to parish and went to a Muslim prayer service. Partial fisking tonight.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-854400972002-12-03T14:45:00.000-05:002002-12-03T14:58:37.000-05:00Link. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Ibn Abd Aziz, in an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper, said that he thinks that Isreal committed the September 11 attacks, that al-Quaeda couldn't have done it, not by themselves anyway, and if they did they might be Zionist agents.
Some choice quotes, courtesy of Memri.org:
Prince Naif said, 'we put big question marks and ask who committed the John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-854381672002-12-03T14:03:00.000-05:002002-12-03T14:03:58.103-05:00In the old days of red-baiting, the term "Moscow gold" was used to refer to money given by the Soviet Union to those who served their purposes, out of Communist allegiance, socialist affiliation or simple cupidity. How long until the concept is revived, and we can ask for an accounting of George Sr. and the Carlyle Group's ties to Saudi gold?John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-852827702002-11-30T00:23:00.000-05:002002-11-30T00:23:16.793-05:00So, what does this mean for the next Isreali government? Sharon is in the driver's seat, having won a landslide in the Likud primary against Netanyahu. Taking the Haaretz results as the election results, Likud would have 41 seats, National Union 7, the "religious-national-center" bloc (NRP, UTJ, Isreal Ba'aliyah, Shas) 20, Shinui 13, and Labor 20.
National Union has been calling for Arafat John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-852820922002-11-30T00:00:00.000-05:002002-11-30T00:01:08.000-05:00Link. Haaretz Daily has a poll out.
Likud is projected at 41 seats (up 22), Labor at 20 seats (down 6), Shinui at 13 (up 7), the Arab parties at 10, Shas at 8 (down 9), Meretz 7 (down 3), National Union 7 (down 1), United Torah Judaism 5, Ysrael Ba'aliyah 4 (down 2), National Religious Party 3 (down 2), One Nation 2.
48.6% "Definitely oppose" or "oppose" negotiations with Arafat, plus John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851723672002-11-27T13:28:00.000-05:002002-11-27T13:28:39.283-05:00Just lost a long post. From this, I learn to edit in MS Word and only post in Blogger.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851701572002-11-27T12:38:00.000-05:002002-11-27T13:35:54.000-05:00Link, login aaaaaa314 password aaaaa. Salman Rushdie, the man who made Fatwa a household word for Islam-driven savagery, is in the New York Times today. He writes about his name becoming a household word for victims of Islamic savagery. Go read it.
Update: Link works now. Credit to OxBlogJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851699842002-11-27T12:35:00.000-05:002002-11-27T12:38:45.000-05:00Link, login aaaaaa314 password aaaaa Thomas Friedman's pretty good today. Letter from GWB patiently lecturing rulers of Islamic states that they must decapitalize their posteriors. (Learn your Latin roots, folks--capita for head, post for after).John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851663122002-11-27T11:11:00.000-05:002002-11-27T11:11:53.633-05:00Link. Colbert King in Saturday's Washington Post on the Saudis. Thanks to OxBlog for the heads up.
Email to Colbert King:
I applaud you for your column on the one-sidedness of the Saudi relationship with the United States. Saudi Arabia is a standing afront to American values of democracy and freedom, and the "realist" argument that Saudi policies serve our interests is increasingly John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851597242002-11-27T08:27:00.000-05:002002-11-27T08:27:26.896-05:00Link. The Washington Post has a story about Saudis unhappy over US treatment of Saudis since September 11. I think this is the first time I'm bloggin while angry.
Less noticed in Washington, though, was the changing view on this side. The United States now looks ungrateful and unwelcoming, so willing to toss aside decades of friendship that it rousts Saudi students from their classrooms, John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851051752002-11-26T07:37:00.000-05:002002-11-26T07:37:48.790-05:00The previous article does again reference one of the fundamental facts of the Isreali-Palestinian situation. By some time around 2010, there will be an Arab majority in Isreal-Palestine.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851051142002-11-26T07:35:00.000-05:002002-11-26T07:35:54.976-05:00Link. Yossi Beilin, leader of the extreme peace wing of the Labor Party, and not a member of the government, has been meeting with Palestinian Information Minister Rabbo and negotiating a pretend peace agreement. Which, I suppose, is less surprising than it ordinarily would be--Beilin negotiated pretend peace agreements with Palestinian cabinet ministers all the time. John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851049122002-11-26T07:28:00.000-05:002002-11-26T07:31:21.000-05:00Link. Jerusalem Post on the National Religious Party. The NRP largely represents settlers in the West Bank. Since their party leader died in 1998, the party has been increasingly under the control of their Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu and went from 9 seats to 5. Last year, the party picked up a new chairman, General Effi Eitam, who had big ideas about using the NRP as a springboard to realign John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-851046282002-11-26T07:17:00.000-05:002002-11-26T07:17:58.416-05:00Link. Haaretz Daily on the real issue of the campaign--how Netanyahu and Sharon will interact in a Likud government together. Remember, kiddies, Sharon is currently Prime Minister, Netanyahu is Foreign Minister. Netanyahu has promised that Sharon will be his Foreign Minister, but Sharon has only said that he'd be happy if Netanyahu continues as Foreign Minister. Which means that Sharon will John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-850079912002-11-24T09:56:00.000-05:002002-11-24T09:59:06.000-05:00Link. I'm sure you've all seen this through Instapundit, but for anyone that didn't follow the link, MSNBC reports that U.S. intelligence has information that the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar was passing money to Saudis in the US who were paying rent and/or living expenses for the September 11 hijackers. Is it time to investigate the Bush family's financial dependence on John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-849493162002-11-22T19:47:00.000-05:002002-11-22T19:47:17.896-05:00Link. The husband of the Christian missionary who was murdered in Lebanon yesterday for being a Christian missionary has forgiven her killers. Some would say that he did a noble thing. I disagree. He did a morally obscene thing. Her killers shouldn't be forgiven, they should be killed. But I guess that's the difference between a religion of peace and a religion of martyrs.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-849452592002-11-22T17:49:00.000-05:002002-11-22T19:20:42.000-05:00Link. Jukebox From Hell is back from vacation, with my quote on Sweet Home Alabama, thank you.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-849443762002-11-22T17:27:00.000-05:002002-11-22T17:43:10.000-05:00Link. Steven Den Beste writes that on December 8, when Iraq sends its final report of lies about its weapons programs to the UN, that that will constitute a "material breach," of Resolution 1441, which is UN-speak for casus belli, which is diplo-speak for grounds for war. Eurodiplomats say that lies in the report, coupled with Iraqi obstruction are required for a material breach. My reading of John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-849423092002-11-22T16:35:00.000-05:002002-11-22T16:40:51.000-05:00Link. Well, the Homeland Security Department bill will do a little bit of good after all. There is a clause requiring every Saudi application for a United States visa to be reviewed by a Homeland Security officer in Saudi Arabia. In the interest of keeping up relations with Our Good Friends the Saudis, State had approved 97% of visas from Saudi applicants, inculding 15 of the 19 September 11 John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848898602002-11-21T16:59:00.000-05:002002-11-21T17:26:21.000-05:00Link. Great amicus curiae brief by my buddies at the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, found on the web at www.capitalismcenter.org. Every link counts in those Google results!!
The Center makes two revolutionary arguments--no shock there. What's exciting is that I think there's a prayer in hell of the Supreme Court coming down on the same side as the Center. One is that there John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848890172002-11-21T16:40:00.000-05:002002-11-21T16:40:43.353-05:00 Link. Good news for the Isreali Labor party--Ben-Eliezer's supporters have agreed to delay fratricidal undermining of their new leader until after his crushing defeat in the Knesset elections in January. The bad news for the Labor party is that right now that counts as good news.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848888402002-11-21T16:36:00.000-05:002002-11-21T16:36:23.540-05:00Link. American Academia Jew-Hating Watch.
The English "poet" Tom Paulin, who has stated in the past that Brooklyn-born Jews on the West Bank "should be shot dead," will be speaking at Harvard after all in the spring. He was invited, then disinvited when the gutless weasels at Harvard withered under an assault of bad publicity. After the disinvitation, the withering assault stopped, and the John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848876392002-11-21T16:09:00.000-05:002002-11-21T16:12:39.000-05:00 Link. American Academia Jew-Hating Watch.
I sent the following letter to the editor of The Hoya, Georgetown University's student newspaper:
Georgetown professor claims Jews want to control Arab world
If a student group at Georgetown were to declare that “the international Zionist movement is leading the United States to wage war against the Arab world with the intentions of colonizing John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848570622002-11-21T01:28:00.000-05:002002-11-21T01:28:45.630-05:00Tommorrow, the Labor party in Isreal decides whether to choose their parliamentary list by primaries or by having the Central committee do it. Far left figures in the party have promised to leave the party if the primaries are cancelled, the new leader wants primaries. We'll see if the party committee, which is full of adherents of Fuad Ben-Eliezer, who just got the boot, cripples Mitzna or John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848569562002-11-21T01:25:00.000-05:002002-11-21T01:25:00.486-05:00Link No rest for the Jew-killers.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848569032002-11-21T01:23:00.000-05:002002-11-21T01:23:29.503-05:00By the way, can someone explain to me why Catholic bishops (or any clergyman) who pays an abuse victim to remain silent is not legally guilty of obstruction of justice? Isn't obstruction of justice a felony that people go to jail for? John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848562812002-11-21T01:05:00.000-05:002002-11-21T01:06:55.000-05:00Let's try that again.
Link Nifty NYTimes Op-Ed, saying that the UN Charter prohibition on the use of force has gone the way of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Link requires registration. (I use "aaaaa314" and my password is "aaaaa")John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848561122002-11-21T01:00:00.000-05:002002-11-21T01:00:23.933-05:00 LINKNifty NYTimes Op-Ed, saying that the UN Charter prohibition on the use of force has gone the way of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848560132002-11-21T00:57:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:57:03.476-05:00By the way, was anyone surprised that Roger Ailes, former professional Republican consultant and Fox News chief, secretly advised President W. on media strategy? Does a lie that obvious even count as a lie?John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848556932002-11-21T00:48:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:48:29.063-05:00Well, the NWA-TNA pro wrestling promotion just shot itself in the foot. They had a new star as their champion, Ron "The Truth" Killings who was very entertaining (in my opinion) in the WWF a year or two ago. They just had him lose the belt to Jeff Jarrett, who is an okay wrestler but didn't need the belt to build himself up. Killings does need the belt, he's still not an established star. AndJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848551972002-11-21T00:35:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:35:27.990-05:00Not sure exactly why they thought they needed to tell us, but Hamas says that the election of Mitzna as the new Labor leader is no reason to stop killing Jews. Jerusalem Post
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848547092002-11-21T00:22:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:23:04.000-05:00If the Template change took, then this message will have been posted by John Bragg.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848545932002-11-21T00:19:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:19:49.853-05:00More on the Council for a Community of Democracies: basically, it's a talking shop and sort of a support group for all of the world's democracies. One proposal is to create a Democracies Caucus at the U.N., which would be nice for embarrassing France when they suck up to dictators. One of the things that the Community wants to do is set up OAS-like regional bodies in other regions. This is John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848538652002-11-21T00:00:00.000-05:002002-11-21T00:01:09.000-05:00Dammit, sometimes Blogger ignores whitespace, sometimes it creates modern crap poetry.
"Found it through
Oxblog.
Meditated until
the incense set the curtains on fire."
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848537632002-11-20T23:58:00.000-05:002002-11-20T23:59:11.000-05:00Saw an
editorial
today by
Jack Diehl of the Washington Post.
Found it through
Oxblog.
Quick summary is that the Administration downplayed and Secretary Powell blew off the second meeting of the Community of Democracies initiative. I sent the White House a note saying that we should have sent a prominent, if unemployed, representative. This was the note:
I think that the John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848534382002-11-20T23:49:00.000-05:002002-11-20T23:49:59.173-05:00There were problems with the post on the Isreali Labor Party. Anyway, the predictions for the next Knesset:
Likud 39. The single-ballot system and the security situation means a big win for Sharon.
Labor 16. Disaster for the party of the Ashkenazi, secular, educated elites who know more and better than you do.
Shinui 12. The party for the Ashkenazi, secular educated elites who aren'tJohn Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-848527412002-11-20T23:33:00.000-05:002002-11-20T23:50:54.000-05:00
My latest
on Initium,
the blog of the
Center for the Advancement of Capitalism.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-847880902002-11-19T19:19:00.000-05:002002-11-19T19:32:33.000-05:00 Haaretz Daily analyzes Mitzna's chances as the new Labor Party leader in Isreal. Short version of the article is that he his leadership will be short-lived, as squabbling Labor Party chieftains might ambush him at a party convention (next month?), he will lose the election by a landslide and Labor will lose a good number of seats, he will then face a hostile parliamentary caucus divided John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-847860622002-11-19T18:32:00.000-05:002002-11-19T18:32:00.946-05:00Posting?John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-847860512002-11-19T18:31:00.000-05:002002-11-19T18:31:43.460-05:00Beginning yesterday, the Good Bragg Goodness is online and publicly available.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-847859402002-11-19T18:29:00.000-05:002002-11-19T18:29:26.836-05:00[11/19/2002 3:25:59 PM | John Bragg]
Haaretz Daily on the new Isreali Labor Party leader and his likely future.
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Haaretz Daily on the new Isreali Labor Party leader and his likely future.
John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956712.post-847367922002-11-18T20:34:00.000-05:002002-11-18T20:34:08.863-05:00Beginning today, the Good Bragg Goodness is online and publicly available.John Bragghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02572341050529523488noreply@blogger.com