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Matt Labash Makes Kim Jong Ill
The hardworking staff has long been an un(L)abashed fan of Weekly Standard feature writer Matt Labash, and his latest piece makes us even more so. Troublemaker for Tyrants Thor Halvorssen hammers the Kims From the moment his dead-of-night emails, texts, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Brooks, Davos for Dissidents, Hugo Chavez, Human Rights Foundation, Ji Seong-ho, Jimmy Wales, Kang Chol-hwan, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong Un, Kin Jong-il, Leopoldo López, Matt Labash, North Korea, Now Action Unity and Human Rights, Oslo freedom Forum, Park Sang-hak, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Sidney Awards, South Korea, The Interview, The Weekly Standard, Thor Halvorssen, Yeon-mi Park
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NYT Ad/News Vortex (Korean Ferry Disaster Edition)
From our Coincidence Not Irony desk Sunday’s New York Times featured this collision of viewpoints on last April’s South Korean ferry tragedy that took hundreds of young lives. First, this full-page ad on Page 5 (New England Edition). … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Cathoholic Czar, John L. Allen Jr., New York Times, Pope Francis, Sewold Act, South Korea
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Whatever Happened to ‘The Captain Goes Down with the Ship’?
First there was Francesco Schettino, the idiot captain who literally showboated the Costa Concordia onto some rocks, then fell into a lifeboat before the ship sank. He was the Italian Captain Coward. Now comes the South Korean shipcarnation. From Friday’s Boston Globe … Continue reading