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December 12th, 2009 · Uncategorized

It seems that I have a lot of read­ing for the next few days. These arti­cles look interesting:

From For­eign Policy:

Why is the United States let­ting jihadists have free reign online?

How Israelis see Barack Obama

How Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora while surrounded

From the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Monitor:

Are more Amer­i­cans are join­ing jihad?

High-school civics courses are teach­ing nation-building — at home

More col­lege stu­dents are drop­ping out because they need to work

Ayn Rand’s grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity among U.S. conservatives

The Mus­lim Pub­lic Affairs Coun­cil released rec­om­men­da­tions on com­bat­ing extrem­ism among Mus­lim youth in the United States

From the Asia Times:

Spen­gler thinks the recent, pos­i­tive eco­nomic sta­tis­tics are a load of bunk

Other sources:

Michael J. Tot­ten high­lights a report that Hizbol­lah now has dan­ger­ous delu­sions of grandeur

Is the Inter­net destroy­ing cul­ture and inter­per­sonal relations?

A friend for­warded an arti­cle on how twen­tysome­thing jour­nal­ists in the United States are actu­ally less eager to “rock the boat” in regards to new technologies

The Day After Tomor­row” might be more likely than you would like to think

Why an 85-year-old, Israeli man avoided doc­tors for sixty-five years until he had a heart attack