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It’s Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced this week to yet another round of talks with the mullahs.

It’s Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced this week to yet another round of talks with the mullahs.

Heightened and "vitriolic" political rhetoric is being blamed by some for the kind of violence that landed Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in intensive care following a mass casualty shooting on Saturday, but others say a blame game is hardly appropriate or useful right now.

It is now emerging from intelligence sources that the reason the United States was able to give Saudi Arabia the heads-up it ignored on the terror bombings in Riyadh, is because the CIA had been intercepting communications between al-Qaeda operatives in Arabia and Iran. The hits themselves helped to clarify co-ordinates; and there is thus little doubt remaining in American minds that Iran is sheltering senior al-Qaeda leaders. The ayatollahs are most likely trying to integrate surviving al-Qaeda resources with those of Hezbollah, their own main horse in terror international. I read some hint of that into the strange remarks...

At the dog-racing tracks in Florida, there are men and women whose job it is to sweep up after the greyhounds. Greyhounds are highly excitable animals, and they can leave a stinking mess. I would rather swap jobs with a greyhound-track flunky than have the mission that some Liberal MPs from the Toronto area have assumed as apologists for one of the most wicked human swine to deface this planet, Saddam Hussein. While some are propagandists for Saddam's genocidal empire, others have poured scorn on our best friends and allies, the Americans, and taken cheap shots at the Israelis. And...