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Arab upheaval shows our limits
February 28, 2011In Washington, the Obama administration is agonizing over how it was taken by surprise by the dramatic events unfolding in the Arab world, first in Tunisia, then Egypt, now Libya. Where was the C.I.A.? The State Department? Isn’
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Muammar ‘Hearts’ Barack
February 24, 2011Apparently, Colonel Qaddafi digs President Obama. In a speech published on Saturday, Qaddafi called Obama “a friend.” Speaking in Sirt at an event marking the 24th anniversary of President Reagan’s retaliatory attack on Libya after a Libyan terrorist strike, Qaddafi said, “At the time, we were the target of the American cannon, the American navy [...]
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Our Not-So-Stealthy War on Yugoslavia: New Chinese Fighter Jet has Technology from U.S. F-117 that was Downed in 99
February 23, 2011It recently came out that parts of the radar-elusive F-117 plane the Serbs shot down in 1999 (and cleverly commented, ‘
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Does The Patient Need A CT Scan?
February 18, 2011While Congress debates the pros and cons of Obamacare, a silent revolution proceeds apace in American medicine. Actually, it is not totally silent; it is heralded by the low hum of the CT scanner. Studies indicate patients are receiving more CT scans than ever before in emergency rooms, hospitals, and outpatient settings. This burgeoning [...]
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Albanian Memory Loss over what Started the March 2004 Pogroms
February 16, 2011Mentioning the March 2004 riots in the midst of the organ-trafficking story breaking was an Albanian journalist living in Brussels. The article in the EU Observer starts out uncharacteristically reasonable, then devolves into the usual creative chronology and inverted cause-and-effect when it gets to the part about the 2004 riots being [...]
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A Trillion Here, A Trillion There
February 15, 2011Happy Valentine’s Day. You may want to grab a box of chocolates, because what I’m about to tell you will otherwise leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Let’s contemplate the numbers we got bombarded with today. $3.7 TRILLION. That’s the total cost of President Obama’s new budget, which he dropped on us today. If [...]
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The Last Bastion of Discrimination
February 12, 2011“More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make HIV/AIDS a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health costs and encourage healthier living….There is no reliable data on how many businesses have adopted such policies. But people tracking the issue say there [...]
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Fleeing the Scene of the Accident
February 8, 2011Last year, the American people were crossing the street, minding our own business, when the Democrats came speeding down the road in a souped-up jalopy. They turned the corner on two wheels and plowed right into us. After they mowed us down, they fled the scene of the accident, evading the authorities in an egregious [...]
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Council of Europe Adopts Organ-trafficking Report: Investigation to be Pursued; CoE MUST NOT SHARE SOURCES’ NAMES with WASHINGTON!
February 8, 2011In Strasbourg on January 25th the Council of Europe voted to formally endorse Swiss senator Dick Marty’
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After President Mubarak, Vice President Suleiman?
February 3, 2011No, VP Omar Suleiman does not need to become a Mubarak redux ruling Egypt for decades to come. He should merely hold the country together until the promised September elections. Worse things can happen. A Suleiman directed election may be even better provided it permits moderate elements to present a real alternative to the Muslim [...]
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The 3am Phone Call
February 2, 2011Remember during the waning days of the 2008 Democrat primary race, when Hillary Clinton was particularly flailing and desperate as her impending loss to Barack Obama became clearer? She ran a TV ad showing sleeping children. In the background, you could hear a telephone ringing. It ended up being the phone in the president’s private [...]
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You Say You Want A Revolution
February 1, 2011This is a tale of two revolutions. The first, unfolding now across the Middle East, primarily in Egypt, where 30 years of brutal, despotic rule have finally pushed the people too far. Nearly a week ago, Egyptians began pouring into the street, demanding a greater voice in how they were governed, greater economic opportunity, and [...]
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Dutch to Bosnian Muslims: We’ll Pay You to Go Back to Bosnia
January 31, 2011Bosnia: Dutch offer Bosnians monthly repatriation benefits The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home, Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees said on Wednesday. The ministry said it was informed by Netherlands authorities that the [...]
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We didn’t start the fire
January 29, 2011The unrest in Egypt (and also in Tunisia) has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel or the Jews, the experts are saying. Today. I’m writing this today, Jan. 29, 2011, just to make sure that this fact is on the record, because I know as certainly as I know anything, that at some point, someone’s [...]