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Jesse Helms died today at age 86. In his day, he gave the liberals fits of rage. And he gave back as good as he got.

September 01, 2006 The Unlearned Lesson of Katrina By Robert Tracinski In the press coverage of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we expect a fair bit of the usual throwing around of blame for political advantage, but to my surprise that has not been the main theme of the coverage (though Ted Kennedy couldn't resist a crudely partisan tirade). Instead, the dominant theme of the anniversary coverage is what is not being mentioned. Having reported the wrong story about the flooding of New Orleans one year ago, the press is trying to protect its distortion by excising from history...

Will Rosie save the world? Loren King On a recent trip to New York, I looked up to see one of the ubiquitous billboards towering over Times Square -- next to ABC Studios and, appropriately, Toys R Us -- bore a megasize Rosie O'Donnell impishly grinning while holding a bouquet of red roses. The ad, of course, touted Rosie's much-anticipated Sept. 5 debut as co-host of "The View." There she was, the most recognizable gay person on the planet, a woman who has crusaded for gay adoption and publicly wed her longtime partner, Kelli, in a San Francisco ceremony, hawking...

Ruben Navarrette: Marked by profiling By Ruben Navarrette Published 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Story appeared in Editorials section, Page B7 Is this a bad time to argue we shouldn't profile Muslim Americans? In light of a recent USA Today/Gallup poll that found that many Americans harbor anti-Muslim feelings, I had planned to make another plea that we stop blaming an entire community of people for the reprehensible acts of a few bad actors. And on the heels of a new study -- presented last week at a meeting of the American Psychological Association -- which found that...

THOMAS SOWELL: SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Look at ghetto economics ANDREW Young's statement that blacks have been "ripped off" by stores run by Jews, Koreans, and Arabs has been rightly criticized and he has apologized. But these irresponsible remarks have wider implications than Young and wider implications than their political repercussions. For decades, one of the biggest blind spots of most civil rights leaders and spokesmen for the black community has been their lack of economics knowledge.

Nobody Killed The Newspaper September 1, 2006 Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Every so often, the print media go into panic about the print media. Last week, The Economist magazine yelled “Who Killed the Newspaper?” on its front cover, while The New York Times looked into the sale of Knight Ridder, America’s second-largest newspaper chain, treating the story like a bellwether of the newspaper industry.

Friday, Sept. 1, 2006 1:32 p.m. EDT Ray Nagin: N.O. and N.Y. Understand Tragedy New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin opened a visit to New York on Friday by expressing regret for having criticized the slow redevelopment at the World Trade Center site, saying he will "never again refer to that site as a hole." Nagin was in town for a two-day pitch to the New York investment community to get business in his hurricane-ravaged city.

Walter Cronkite To Introduce Katie Couric On CBS News August 28, 2006 11:00 a.m. EST Maira Oliveira - All Headline News Reporter New York, NY (AHN) - Katie Couric is set to debut on CBS in early September as the "queen" of CBS News. To make her foray extra special, the former bubbly co-host of NBC's "Today" show-will be introduced on her first day on the newscast by legendary anchorman, Walter Cronkite.

Union claims Starbucks win August 31, 2006 A union claiming to represent Starbucks Corp. workers at a handful of coffeehouses said Wednesday that employees of the Logan Square store have declared their membership, becoming the first outside New York City to do so. The baristas at the Logan Square Starbucks, 2759 W. Logan Blvd., joined the IWW Starbucks Workers Union on Tuesday night, the union said. They issued a set of demands that included a living wage, guaranteed work hours and the reinstatement of IWW baristas fired for organizing activity. Starbucks, the world's largest specialty coffee maker, often is lauded...

Katrina, lies and videotape Spike Lee took his cameras and crew to New Orleans to film a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The four-hour production, which aired on HBO, is, unfortunately, about as destructive as was the disaster it depicts. At a time when we need light and understanding, Lee has delivered darkness, anger and hatred. Those who will be hurt the most by the distorted and untruthful picture that Lee has concocted are the poor blacks he purports to want to help. It's clear that Lee did not go to Louisiana in search of truth. He went...

Bird-Dogging Hillary Clinton By Nancy Kricorian In November 2005 Hillary Rodham Clinton sent out a fundraising letter to her constituents. “Part of my job is being a good listener,” she wrote, going on to describe all the good listening she does as the junior senator from New York. She concluded, “Now I’d like to listen to you.” In the envelope with the letter was a three-page, 18-question “2005 Critical National Issues Survey” addressing a range of topics from jobs to homeland security to separation of church and state. Not one question in the survey mentioned the war in Iraq—an omission...

Aug 31 2:35 PM US/Eastern By MARC HUMBERT Associated Press Writer SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, standing outside an abandoned knitting mill that will become the new home of the National Women's Hall of Fame, said Thursday she hopes America is ready for its first woman president. "It just depends on when and if that happens," the former first lady said. "Stay tuned." Clinton continued to duck questions about whether she will run for the White House in 2008, saying yet again she is completely focused on her re-election this year. But Clinton said that when it comes...

Commander in Chief has been pulled by ABC. I can't believe that they did this.