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For perhaps the first time, a minister in Binyamin Netanyahu's government has admitted that the Prime Minister plans to give away most of Judea and Samaria to an incipient Arab state, with Israel retaining only the settlement blocs. During a tour of Gush Etzion, Michael Eitan, whose title is Minister for Improvement of Government Services, said that “enacting the Prime Minister's policies will lead to the annexation of the settlement blocs, including Gush Etzion, with the intent of giving up other parts of Judea and Samaria for the benefit of a Palestinian state.” Gush Etzion Council head Shaul Goldstein, who...

NOTE The following text is a quote: Top FARC Commander Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Import Tons Of Cocaine Into The United States JUL 22 -- (Manhattan, NY) - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Field Division ("DEA") and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and, announced that GERARDO AGUILAR RAMIREZ, a/k/a "Cesar," a former front commander in the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or "FARC"), was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for conspiring to...

The Peter Principles: Hitler Democrats? By PETER ROFF, UPI Senior Political Analyst WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Almost every recent national campaign has included discussions of a targeted voter bloc that allegedly represented the key to victory. One year it was soccer moms -- middle- to upper-income suburban women concerned about values issues such as education and abortion rather than pocketbook matters. In another election it was waitress moms -- single, working mothers living from paycheck to paycheck. It was the so-called "angry white males" in 1994. These voters, lately renamed "NASCAR Dads," are auto-race loving, beer-guzzling, cigarette-smoking Midwestern and...