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May 07 2011

Been there, done that

Good advice. Been there; done that (1957).  Seemed like a good idea at the time, according to Eisenhower and two good old Presbyterian Princetonians named Dulles. Bad idea, however.  We don’t do intervention very well. Result: more harm than good!  …  [more]

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May 05 2011

Amir Taheri: Persian prognosticators

…and presidential priorities.

Note:  Amir Taheri is a contributing editor for FamilySecurityMatters.org and writes for the NY Post and the Wall Street Journal (detect a slight, right-ward slant here?).  His latest book is The Persian Night: Iran Under …  [more]

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May 02 2011

Mirror, mirror

Stop blaming Israel for every grievance in the Middle East

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 2 May 2011 … First came the Arab spring (followed, in some lands, by the harshest of winters) and now Hamas and Fatah have signed a…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Close encounters

A close encounter with the man who shook the world

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 … One hot evening in late June 1996, the telephone on my desk in Beirut rang with one of the more extraordinary messages…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Is this what we wanted?

How the U.S. ‘Won’: Torture, Secret Prisons

By Jack Stuef, 3:09 pm May 2, 2011 … In the midst of all the celebrations that good finally defeated evil yesterday, there is this fact: the U.S. got the leads that allowed…  [more]

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May 01 2011

Impeached, or something

Daily Mail Launches Weird Attack On Obama’s Father

By Jason Linkins, 04/29/11 11:40 AM ET … Here’s a clever thing the the U.K.’s Daily Mail did in response to the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate: a brief…  [more]

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Apr 30 2011

Southern weed

It’s official.  We know now that there is nothing that will ever appease the nutters who desperately hate our President.  Frenzied conspiracy theories have always thrived in the fertile imaginations of America’s fringy shadowlands, those dark, squishy places just beyond…  [more]

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