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Setting Limits on Tolerance By Charles Krauthammer Friday, August 12, 2005; Page A19 In 1977, when a bunch of neo-Nazis decided to march through Skokie, a suburb of Chicago heavily populated with Holocaust survivors, there was controversy as to whether they should be allowed. I thought they should. Why? Because neo-Nazis are utterly powerless. Had they not been -- had they been a party on the rise, as in late-1920s Germany -- I would have been for not only banning the march but also for... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday August 9 2005 TO PROFILE OR NOT TO PROFILE?: Colbert King is confused. Two days after the 7/7 suicide bombings in London King argued that we're still woefully unprepared to face another attack by Muslim fanatics here in America: "Islamic jihadists, we seem to forget, haven't limited themselves to creating havoc in Iraq and Afghanistan. America and the West remain on their list of targets. Yet until and unless some horrific event such as London comes along, Americans don't act like a... Sign in to see full entry.

PIRRO VS. CLINTON: A REAL FIGHT FOR HILL August 9, 2005 -- WESTCHESTER DA Jeanine Pirro is about to formally announce her candidacy for Senate from New York, which will pit her against Hillary in a battle royal. This is just the kind of fight that Sen. Clinton would have hoped to avoid. While Hillary would have no problem dispatching an opponent like Nixon son-in-law Edward Cox or Yonkers Mayor John Spencer (the two other possible GOP contenders), Pirro presents a real problem. Jeanine Pirro is... Sign in to see full entry.

// Dynamic Date Dreamweaver Object (c) 1999 Michael West, webmaster@mwwebdesign.com // Please report any bugs or improvement suggestions. document.write(" ") var mydate=new Date() var year=mydate.getYear() if (year ") Tuesday, August 09, 2005 August 9, 2005 Can GOP Moderates Exert Power in Party Dominated by Right? By Mort Kondracke Political moderates predominate in the U.S. electorate, but the two parties are increasingly captives of their extremes. Will the moderates ever rise up and assert... Sign in to see full entry.

Bush 44 Jeb for president? Don't write him off just yet. BY BRENDAN MINITER Tuesday, August 9, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT He denies he's even interested, and a long list of political analysts have already written him off with the belief that the appearance of political nepotism would be too unseemly for voters to put the brother of the current president in the Oval Office. But in politics timing is everything, and as the clock advances towards 2008, things are starting to fall into place to give Jeb... Sign in to see full entry.

The Sunday Times - Review August 07, 2005 Interview: Sarah Baxter talks to Bill Clinton The Comeback Kid isn’t finished All political careers end in failure, the saying goes, and for a while Bill Clinton seemed destined to follow that path. He won two American presidential elections — a breakthrough for the Democrats — yet he let himself down over Monicagate and baffled his greatest supporters by issuing pardons to shady characters on his way out of the White House. Hillary would have been... Sign in to see full entry.

August 05, 2005 60 Years Later Considering Hiroshima. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online F or 60 years the United States has agonized over its unleashing of the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 2005. President Harry Truman’s decision to explode an atomic bomb over an ostensible military target — the headquarters of the crack Japanese 2nd Army — led to well over 100,000 fatalities, the vast majority of them civilians. Critics immediately argued that we should have... Sign in to see full entry.

DANGEROUS TIMES Nuclear Explosion A portrait of our scary world, 60 years after Hiroshima. BY FRED C. IKLE Saturday, August 6, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT Sixty years after Hiroshima's fiery destruction by only one bomb, here is where we have arrived: The proliferation of nuclear weapons continues apace, and stopping it is now a top priority of our foreign policy. It was a driving motive for the war against Saddam Hussein, it ceaselessly fuels our conflict with North Korea, it exacerbates our relations... Sign in to see full entry.

Why Did Joseph Wilson Lie? By Cliff Kincaid | August 2, 2005 When Wilson went public with his column in the New York Times, he had to know that such an article would lead to scrutiny of his wife. One of the fascinating questions about the Valerie Plame affair is why Joseph Wilson lied about his wife's role in sending him on that mission to investigate the Iraq-uranium link. In his own book, ironically titled, The Politics of Truth, Wilson admits that if she played such a role, that might be a... Sign in to see full entry.

// Dynamic Date Dreamweaver Object (c) 1999 Michael West, webmaster@mwwebdesign.com // Please report any bugs or improvement suggestions. document.write(" ") var mydate=new Date() var year=mydate.getYear() if (year ") Wednesday, August 03, 2005 August 2, 2005 Will Bush Abandon Promise to Upgrade U.S. High Schools? By Mort Kondracke President Bush once made improving American high schools a top priority for his second term. It's a task widely regarded as vital to the nation's future. But his plan... Sign in to see full entry.