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Thursday, December 29, 2005

"The Graveyards are full of indespensible men..." NY Daily News

Sharon's Forward march One of Ariel Sharon's doctors, after discovering a birth defect that may have caused his stroke, said: "Those enemies of the prime minister, who thought he had no heart, are wrong - he has a small hole in it." Underneath the doctor's one-liner lurks a truth about Sharon's enemies and, indeed, his friends: They never understood him. His enemies for 60 years slandered and libeled him as a killer and Jewish chauvinist who was dedicated to war against the Palestinians, a man... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was overwhelmingly "elected" as president of Iran......

http://www.slate.com/id/2133350/ (excerpt) Even though numerous American media outlets have fallen into the lazy trap of saying that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was overwhelmingly "elected" as president of Iran last June, the plain fact remains that his last-minute emergence was a manipulated fraud, concocted behind the scenes after the original list of candidates had been screened and purged, and was an even grosser fraud on the day itself, with no attempt made to hide the ballot-stuffing and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

From the pages of the New York Daily News

Absent full ringing Senate support for the renewal of those expiring sections of the Patriot Act - apparently it is beyond some of our good senators to comprehend that there really is a war on terror - we will, along with President Bush, settle for the temporary five-week extension that got okayed Thursday night as the pols beat it out the door for the holidays. Fine. Let them continue to wrangle over this and that technical detail for a few weeks when they return in January. Let some have a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 25, 2005

The reason Spielberg is under criticism for his latest movie "Munich".

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_24_05_KW.html Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

King George, by Ted Kennedy boston.com

EDWARD M. KENNEDY On wiretapping, Bush isn't listening to the Constitution By Edward M. Kennedy | December 22, 2005 THE PRESIDENT is not above the law; he is not King George. Yet, with sorrow, we are now learning that in this great land we have an administration that has refused to follow well-crafted, longstanding procedures that require the president to get a court order before spying on people within the United States. With outrage, we learn that this administration believes that it does not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/59115.htm One of the key provisions due to expire in two weeks is one that President Bill Clinton presented as the cornerstone of his response to the escalation of terrorism in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The measure allows "roving wiretaps" — so that the FBI can tap all phones a suspect uses, rather than just one specific number. Hillary's vote to let this provision expire is incredible....the Clintons excoriated the GOP for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 19, 2005

A pretty powerful signal that they aren’t afraid where this is heading RCP

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_19_05_JM.html With their publicly defeatist language, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean reinforce these “soft on security” steroretypes, a weakness that more sober-minded Democrats have been trying to mitigate since the late 60’s and 70’s. Unfortunately, this mentality dominates the Democrats’ political base and more accurately represents where the heart and soul of the modern Democratic party lies than the very tiny sliver of Joe Lieberman... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Spying on Americans, Dec. 18, 2005 WashingtonPost.com

Here's the link to this article. I will quote and then comment on the main points. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121701005.html "...the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires that national security wiretaps be authorized by the secretive FISA court. "A person is guilty of an offense," the law reads, "if he intentionally... engages in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by statute..." This is the law. However, laws... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 17, 2005

December 16, 2005 In Iran, Arming for Armageddon By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON -- Lest you get carried away with today's good news from Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran. The wild pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He subsequently amended himself to say that Israel should simply be extirpated from the Middle East map and moved to some German or Austrian province.... Sign in to see full entry.

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At this point the problems look too few to cast doubt on the overall result

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/opinion/17sat1.html Compared with any previous Iraqi election, with any reasonable expectation and with any other recent election in the Arab Middle East, Thursday's vote for a new Iraqi Parliament was an overwhelming and heartening triumph. Evidently there is a crack appearing in the fourth estate. Voter turnout was high in Sunni Arab areas as well as in Shiite and Kurdish districts. Hhmmm. Violence was down - not just lower than it was for this year's two... Sign in to see full entry.

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