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Joy Behar likens Rumsfeld to Hitler. This is the same babe that suggested that the GOP caused Tom Johnson's illness. She is a 'great thinker'

08:07 PM CST on Thursday, November 10, 2005 A lot of armed people are running around who are too stupid, too dangerous or too hotheaded to own a firearm. If you favor more stringent gun laws, they're the people who come to mind: drug-addled stickup artists, dimwits who keep loaded weapons with kids in the house, bad-tempered drunks and psycho stalkers and cop-killers with nothing to lose. But there are less-celebrated people who could make a pretty good case in favor of responsible gun ownership. Susan Gaylord Buxton, the Arlington woman who shot and wounded a housebreaker early Wednesday, might...

(CNSNews.com) - Young liberals this week flocked to the nation's capital to hear, among other things, liberal television pundit and Democrat political strategist Paul Begala accuse Republicans of wanting to kill him and his children to preserve tax cuts for the rich. Begala was featured at the first-ever Campus Progress National Student Conference, which was designed to provide campus liberals with the tools necessary to fight the conservative movement. The event also drew former President Bill Clinton, for whom Begala once worked as an advisor. A panel discussion entitled "Winning the War of Ideas" centered on topics discussed in the...

The bandwagon is starting to fill--and thank goodness for that. Those of us who spent much of 2003 and 2004 urging Americans not to give up on Iraq can attest that those two years were stained with many harsh attacks, much niggling criticism, and abundant disdain for America's aggressive efforts to reshape the dysfunctional governments of the Middle East into more humane and peaceful forms. From the very beginning, of course, the Bush administration's left-wing enemies in the U.S. and Europe were hysterically opposed to the push for Middle Eastern democracy. A significant number of right-wing pundits also proved themselves...

Dissident Arab Gets the Treatment By Ahmad Al-Qloushi FrontPageMagazine.com | January 6, 2005 I am a 17-year-old Kuwaiti Arab Muslim and a college freshman studying in the USA. I was three years of age when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. My parents still remember what it was like for us during the invasion. Waiting for long hours in line for a few pieces of bread. We had darkness 24 hours a day from the burning oil wells. My two uncles are still traumatized from being kidnapped and tortured in Iraqi prisons. Most of all we remember our one-week-old baby cousin...

LONDON, 30 July 2004 — Ever since Sen. John F. Kerry emerged as the Democrat Party’s presumptive presidential nominee last spring, his Republican opponents have been accusing him of harboring the dream of restoring the Clinton era. The Democrat Party’s platform document, “Strong At Home, Respected In The World”, however, envisages a Kerry presidency that would resemble more that of Jimmy Carter than Bill Clinton — at least in foreign policy. Nearly half of the pages of the document, just approved at the party’s convention in Boston, are devoted to foreign policy, twice more than its predecessor for the 2000...

Ronnie Reagan, Jr.: Stated his dad never wore his heligion on his sleeve, and never felt he had a mandate from God.......unlike some other politicians. This was in his tribute to his dad at the funeral.

The Shame of It Fawaz Turrki, disinherited@yahoo.com Terrorism has had a bad press recently. That is, literally. One’s concern here is to explain that no discerning analysis of the origins, complexity and nature of terrorist acts in our time, perpetrated by individual Arabs, has yet surfaced in the public debate; and how marginal the “essentialism” of Islam should be in that debate. Arab terrorists may consider their pursuit of terror a career of high note, but do they, and we, know how mockingly remote their acts are from Islam, how uniquely rooted instead these acts are in the pathology of...

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpede233638311jan23,0,3528514.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines There is a young man in Georgia who almost beat the odds. An African-American born to a 15-year-old, drug-addicted mother and an absent father, Marcus Dixon nonetheless went on to become an honor student and all-state football star. His football skills, 3.96 grade-point average and 1,200 score on his SAT won him a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University. Dixon, 19, was supposed to enter Vanderbilt last fall. Instead, he is serving a 10-year prison sentence with no chance of parole for having consensual sex when he was 18 years old with a white girl who was three months shy...

Behind the physical attacks on the West and its allies is an intellectual attack -- an assault not just on what America does but also on what America is. So far the Bush administration's military response -- in Afghanistan, in Iraq and elsewhere -- has been reasonably effective against al Qaeda and its sponsors. But our intellectual response has been weak. This matters, because ultimately it is not enough to shut down the terrorist camps. We must also stop the "jihad factories," the mosques and educational institutions that are turning out tens of thousands of aspiring suicide bombers. We cannot...

And now the dominos begin to fall The Vietnam War, waged for the sake of falling dominos, gave the chain reaction a bad reputation as a reason for public policy. When the United States troops departed by helicopter from the roof of our Saigon embassy, the world held its breath waiting for Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore to fall to the relentless Red Tide. Didn’t happen. But now, the reverse domino theory is coming true. As a result of President Bush’s war in Iraq, peace and even freedom seem to be breaking out in the most unlikely of...

Has anybody seen Al Gore's mother? Where is she in all this fracas? Why is she under wraps? I am just curious, as we see the Bush family with W, supporting their candidate...but Pauline LaFon Gore is absent and silent. Why?