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The Lunatic Mainstream Had Better Start Worrying Fast By Mark Steyn Well, they may be Little Englanders, but they're getting bigger, and the big parties are getting littler. In Sunday's results, the only two governing parties most Britons have ever known couldn't muster 50 per cent of the vote between them.> In a functioning party system, you're never going to agree with your party on everything. You might, for example, be opposed to wind farms or in favour of toppling Robert Mugabe. But, even if you are, it's unlikely to be the big political priority in your life. So you...

Abu Ghraib Worse Than 9/11? By Joseph D'Hippolito FrontPageMagazine.com | May 20, 2004 In the spirit of Jonathan Swift, perhaps the Bush Administration should consider placing the Vatican on the list of rogue states that support terrorism. Such a modest proposal might arouse Rome from the esoteric philosophizing, latent anti-Americanism and attitude of appeasement that characterizes the Holy See’s response to jihadism and Islam. The Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, became the latest prelate to embarrass himself and his superiors with absurd public remarks. On May 12, Lajolo told the Roman newspaper La Repubblica that the Abu Ghraib scandal...

Genesis: Chapter 16 Verses 1-16 /Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children. She had, however, an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram: "The LORD has kept me from bearing children. Have intercourse, then, with my maid; perhaps I shall have sons through her." Abram heeded Sarai's request. Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine. He had intercourse with her, and she became pregnant./ /When she became aware of her pregnancy, she looked...

<p>But if Dean doesn't yet wish that the 4th Infantry Division soldiers who captured Saddam had tossed a grenade down the spider hole first, he soon will. <Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Kobe Bryant, step aside. Saddam's trial will be the trial of the year, perhaps of the century, with a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions. It will change the nature of news coverage from Iraq, to the grave detriment of Dean and other antiwar Democrats. <The news media and the Democratic presidential contenders have been doing their best to ignore the evidence of Saddam's crimes.</p>

Doing the right thing is often the shrewdest political move. President Bush got an uproarious welcome from 600 surprised soldiers assembled for Thanksgiving dinner in the mess tent at Baghdad International Airport. "For two hours, the president walked among us, not a receiving line where we came to him, stiff and formal, but coming to us, reading our name tags on our uniforms and greeting us by name," a soldier who was there said in an email to Andrew Sullivan. "He looked me in the eye when he shook my hand, he joked with some, whispered to others, spoke a...