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No sooner does Israel announce that it's easing its land blockade of Gaza than Washington Post correspondent Janine Zacharia complains that it isn't nearly enough, while she turns a blind eye to the fact that Hamas is the real culprit for any deprivations in Gaza because it has turned the territory into a forward base for its war against the Jewish state.  ("Israel will allow more goods into Gaza Strip" June 18, page A18). Zacharia's anti-Israel, pro-Hamas bias is encapsulated in her third paragraph, when she writes about how the flotilla incident "drew the world's attention to the extent of Israel's...

Good news! The war being waged by U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and his allies against liberal activist judges who free criminals based on technicalities is bearing fruit. Take the case of State District Judge Pat Priest, a San Antonio Democrat. Some slick big-city lawyers from Houston wanted him to drop a felony money-laundering charge against their client based on what can only be described as a technicality. The $190,000 that was allegedly dry-cleaned, they noted, was in the form of a check, not cold hard cash. The peculiar wording of the Texas money-laundering law, the attorneys argued, did not include...