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Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has an article running on CNN.com that purports to dispel five myths that conservatives have been nefariously spouting about the Ukraine. Now, Miller is certainly a tight writer, and has some advantage on the rest of us because he was a diplomat, albeit his expertise was in the Middle East from 1978 to 2003, not in countries of the former Soviet bloc. But after reading his apologia for Obama regarding the Russian seizure of the Crimea, I think it would be better if he brought more...

Banning handguns is all the rage. Mayor David Miller's push for a national ban has been joined by other Canadian big-city mayors. Yet, dissatisfied with progress at the national level, Miller successfully asked city council this week to approve measures to further discourage gun ownership in Toronto, such as shutting down city-owned gun ranges. While it may seem obvious to many people that banning handguns will save lives and cut crime, the experience in the United States suggests differently. Two major U. S. cities -- Washington, D.C., and Chicago --have tried banning handguns. (The U. S. Supreme Court is soon...

Toronto is often the subject of derision in other parts of Canada. The city has a reputation for arrogance. And its leaders habitually demand more money from the provincial and federal governments, claiming that their city is the engine of the national economy, and so what's good for Toronto is good for the country. It is an attitude that causes people in the rest of Canada to roll their eyes. But as Toronto's City Council descends into a political circus, with a Mayor accused of acting like a dictator and histrionic councillors nearly coming to blows over fiscal issues, Toronto's...

THE mayor of Toronto, David Miller, has ambitions to turn Canada's largest metropolitan area into a city state. Earlier this year he persuaded Ontario's government to grant Toronto more powers to raise money and govern itself than other cities. But his first attempt to use those powers has backfired. This month city councillors refused to approve new taxes on home sales and vehicle registration. The catcalls of estate agents, who crowded the council chamber on the morning of the vote, clearly rang louder in some councillors' ears than the mayor's urgings. This comes at a delicate time for Toronto, a...

Sometimes I wonder whether Toronto Mayor David Miller actually listens to himself talk. Probably not. Nothing original ever issues forth from the man's mouth. Instead, he seems only to function as a funnel for every fashionable theory about "root causes" and social engineering advanced in the past quarter century. Consider the drivel His Worship has produced since the murder last Wednesday of 15-year-old Jordan Manners at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, a high school situated in a violence-plagued north Toronto neighbourhood. Mayor Miller blamed Ottawa for letting law-abiding citizen's own handguns. Apparently, the problem couldn't be the prevalence of father-absent upbringings...

T.O. mayor determined to bring Live 8 to town CTV.ca News Staff Stung by earlier reports that the historic July 2 Live 8 concert could be hosted in Barrie, Ont., CTV News has learned the Toronto mayor's office is scrambling to bring the prestigious event to his city. Barrie's Park Place, formerly Molson Park, is an option, the main organizer and Toronto-based concert promoter Michael Cohl said in an earlier statement. The venue is expected to be confirmed in an announcement on Tuesday. Toronto Mayor David Miller and city officials have swung into action in efforts to negotiate a deal...

NEWARK, Aug. 20 (AP) - The authorities on Friday questioned the mental competence of a doctor who told reporters this week that he had had an affair with the man accusing Gov. James E. McGreevey of sexual harassment. A state judge said he found a "pattern of aberrant behavior" and ordered a psychiatric evaluation for the doctor, David Miller, 51, who was arrested on Thursday night on unrelated charges, including impersonating an F.B.I. agent. County law officers said their investigation had begun before Wednesday, when Dr. Miller told news organizations that he had had an affair with Golan Cipel,...

Livingston MD arrested on charges of impersonation and causing alarm The Livingston doctor's picture was splashed all over the New York tabloids. He made the evening news, enthralling some members of the media with tales of being the gay lover of the central figure in the McGreevey sex scandal. But in addition to his sex claims, police reports reviewed by The Star-Ledger yesterday show Michael David Miller has falsely told police he is a CIA operative and that the satellite dish on his house is used for CIA communication. In a series of phone calls to police and Essex County...

NEWARK — A doctor who told reporters he had an affair with a man accusing Gov. James E. McGreevey of sexual harassment was arrested at his Livingston home and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday. Officers took Michael David Miller into custody about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, the Essex County Sheriff’s Office said Friday morning. Miller was reportedly charged with impersonating an FBI officer and causing false public alarm. “His behavior was so bizarre that I felt compelled, after discussing this with the prosecutor, to take this action to protect the community and Mr. Miller,” Sheriff Armando Fontoura told the Star-Ledger...

I was Cipel's lover... ...and he's still in love with the gov, says prof BY RALPH R. ORTEGA, ALISON GENDAR and NANCY DILLONDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS The mystery man who claims to be Golan Cipel's ex-lover said yesterday that not only is the handsome Israeli gay - he's also still in love with Gov. Jim McGreevey. "Golan says he's not gay? He could have fooled me," Dr. David Miller of Livingston, N.J., told the Daily News yesterday, as he claimed that he had a gay affair with the ex-McGreevey aide. "We love each other. Is that a crime? We're...