Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Stuff below the fold

correcting cliches: HNN Blog points out that the seige of Vienna included Protestants and other Christians fighting on the side of the Ottoman army.
And a lot of folks back then thought that the Ottoman was a good foil to keep the Austrian empire in it's place.

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GetReligionBlog discusses "The Voice" of the Iranian revolution: some photos show her wearing a cross...


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Michael Yon has a long article on the Philippines war in the south.

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Will Inspector Generals in the US now be political appointments?

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Did Joe Biden essentially Okay an Israeli take out of Iranian bomb making sites? And it sounds like the Saudis were okay with the deal, at least until a UK newspaper spilled the beans.

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