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(QC RSS) QC RERUN TIME 2025: The Beginning
lmao that the first comic to pop up when I hit the random button on my site was Faye saying “why’s there always gotta be new people” Looking back at this year, I feel like Anh basically took over the comic? It’s wild how it’s always the unexpected o…
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(Policy of Truth) Ominous Parallels
Mutatis mutandis, that’s exactly what I think of Stephen’s own writing. First and second wave Hicks had some interesting arguments, but then came the decline.
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(xkcd.com) Hyperacute Interdynamics
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) The Contradictions of Institutional Neutrality
Coming Attractions in My Jihad Against Institutional Neutrality Over the last year or so, I’ve written about two dozen posts here critiquing institutional neutrality, and given maybe a half dozen conference presentations on the subject. But in some ways, the criticisms I’ve made so far are peripheral to the fundamental problem with the doctrine. The…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I get the sense that Henry is a lot pettier than we give him credit for
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dennis the Menace, 12/7/25 I feel like Henry’s “He’s gone too far this time!” line actually explains a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. In related news, I want to warn you about this dangerous jihadi phenomenon:https://morrisardoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ramada-1.jpg LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
I enjoyed your piece on Tariq Ramadan, but I do have one quibble. On p. 185, you criticise his non-literal approach to Qur’anic interpretation on the grounds that it contradicts a literal reading of the Qur’an. I do not see how it can be …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Yes, West Orange, This Is Your Business by Those “Drowned Out” Zionists | Policy of Truth
[…] those who are perceived as violating the IHRA definition of “anti-Semitism,” which is de facto employed even in jurisdictions where it has not formally been enacted into […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Those “Drowned Out” Zionists
Joshua Leifer’s “Conflictedly Connected” Liberal Zionist Center The well-regarded left Zionist writer Joshua Leifer has a much fawned-over piece in Ha’aretz that’s been adopted in some quarters as the expression of profound wisdom. In it he argues that there’s a “conflictedly connected” Zionist quasi-left “majority” that’s been “drowned out” by the extremist voices of the…
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(Policy of Truth) Questions for Princeton Council (1)
Public Comments and “Disruptions” My name is Irfan Khawaja. I’m a resident of Princeton. I have a question for the Council, to which I request a forthright answer. There’s a video now in the public domain which shows Councilwoman Fraga at the New Jersey League of Municipalities conference in Atlantic City, disclosing that this Council…
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