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Telling "Truths"By Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | June 16, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS THE CLINTONS WERE OUR FIRST PoMo PRESIDENCY, and their legacy is an increasingly Post-Modernist, Deconstructed America in which fact and fiction, truth and lie, honesty and dishonesty, right and wrong, good and evil are deliberately fuzzed, blurred and rendered irrelevant. In truth, one of the only three statements for which President Bill Clinton will be remembered in the books of quotations is his lawyerly sophism: “It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” Without ever giving the Clintons their due for this cultural and moral vandalism, the Arts and...
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The True Believer 2001: The Rise of Islam and Communism By Alan Caruba In 1951, a book by Eric Hoffer was published that remains a classic to this day. It is "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements." You can still purchase it as a Harper Perennial softcover. No one who wants to understand the last century and this new one should fail to read Hoffer's extraordinary examination of fanaticism and frustration when it is channeled into nationalism, religious movements, or the political perversion known as Communism. The individual to whom Hoffer referred as the "true...
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When Bob Edwards, the former host of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program, visited our city several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ask him why he thought so many conservatives see NPR as a voice for liberalism. Mr. Edwards was promoting his new book, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. Mr. Edwards has a good sense of humor, often at his own expense, but much more often that day at the expense of the Bush administration or of Fox News. He knew his audience—a group of about 120 people gathered for a fundraising luncheon for...
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FORMER chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that a shell containing sarin nerve gas used in an attack in Iraq was most likely a stray weapon possibly from the first Gulf War. Blix said today that the discovery of the nerve agent was not a sign that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war last year. The US-led coalition used that claim to justify the invasion even though UN inspectors failed to make any significant finds before the war. The former Swedish foreign minister said the 155-mm shell used to attack a US military...
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February 11, 2004, 9:14 a.m. Elimination LostWhat happened to abolishing the Department of Education? By Veronique de Rugy & Marie Gryphon Massive political realignments are often underreported because political insiders have no incentive to discuss them. When one political party co-opts a policy supported by the other, the outmaneuvered party can't acknowledge that its opponents are doing what it has pledged to do for years. The ascendant party gags disappointed loyalists by promising that any political capital gained will be spent on their causes. But that promise is rarely kept. Witness the realignment dynamic in George W. Bush's education...
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This is the story of Shays' Rebellion, which I contend is the most important falsified event in American history. It is a story of speculation in government bonds, political intrigue, propaganda, and systematic deception. But it is ultimately the story of John Hancock's big toe. As recently as 2001, only one historian knew that the event that is acknowledged as key political event in the success of promoters of the Constitution was not what it appeared to be. That lone historian, Leonard Richards, had not yet finished his revolutionary book, Shays' Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. In 2002, the...
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George Delano Bush Posted: January 26, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Vox Day © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com George Bush met with some skeptical listeners in his recent State of the Union address, but he truly convinced me of something. He convinced me that the Republican Party, as the party of small government, is dead. Oh, I understand very well that in terms of electoral votes, the Republicans have seldom had a future that looked more immediately promising, but the party is nevertheless a soulless zombie of an institution. Or rather, make that a vampire. For the Bush administration is sucking the lifeblood out of...
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<p>A new "hate-crimes" proposal supported by Democrats and key Senate Republicans, including Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, would vastly expand the federal government's power to prosecute such crimes committed anywhere in the country.</p>
<p>Opponents of one of the most contentious provisions ; the inclusion of "sexual orientation" as a protected category ; "have got to grow up," Mr. Hatch said earlier in the negotiations.</p>
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Curbing Big BrotherChristians urge Ashcroft to respect freedom in surveillance law.Tony Carnes in Washington | posted 08/15/2003 Both Christian conservatives and liberals are worried that proposed legislation to expand the surveillance powers of the federal government could undermine religious liberty. Responding to their concerns, Attorney General John Ashcroft says he is seeking the right balance between freedom and security in the post-9/11 world. After September 11, 2001, President Bush and Ashcroft shifted the Department of Justice's goal from prosecuting terrorists to preventing terrorism. "It's a fundamental and unprecedented shift," Viet Dinh, a former assistant attorney general who teaches at the...
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia have discussed ways of improving Arab cooperation as the two countries face U.S. accusations over alleged terror links, diplomats said Sunday. "They want to create some unified stances to present Arabs as a united front," one diplomat said after Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah arrived in Damascus late Saturday to meet President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian official media reported that the talks "tackled proposed ways of developing and activating Arab cooperation...in the face of the broadside that the Arab world is facing." The United States accuses Syria of supporting anti-Israel "terrorist" groups...
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CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait -- A U.S. soldier was being held early today in connection with a grenade attack on the 101st Airborne Division's infantry brigade. The attack killed one and injured about 15 soldiers. Eleven of the victims were airlifted to the combat support hospital in nearby Camp Udairi. The sergeant, whose identity has not been released, was himself wounded either before or during his capture, Army officials said. Early this morning (late Saturday night in Florida), the sergeant was being questioned along with two Middle Eastern civilians, Army officials said. Authorities declined to say whether the two civilians were...
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DEBKAfile - We start where the media stop Iran Hides Two Big Nuclear Facilities – Subcontracts for North KoreaAs first revealed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 85, Nov. 15, 2002December 13, 2002, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00) Satellite photo of secret Iranian nuclear installation at Natanz On October 25, 2002, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported in its No. 82 issue the suspicion in Washington that one of the two bombs allegedly hidden in Kim Jong II’s war chest was not North Korean at all, but Iranian. Our sources revealed that the Iranian bomb was delivered to North Korea in the third week of September under a secret agreement...
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Monday, December 2, five days after the event, Al Qaeda took formal responsibility for the two attacks against Israeli targets at Kenya’s Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa last Thursday, November 28, in which 16 people died - 13 Kenyans and three Israelis. Several hours before al Qaeda posted its admission, three prominent Israeli security figures suddenly found their voices on the dangers posed by al Qaeda and the grave implications as regards Israel’s abilities to fight back. For many months, Israeli spokesmen kept quiet about the international fundamentalist terror network’s presence in Israel, first exposed by DEBKAfile last April, despite...
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Cousin of Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan suspected in kibbutz massacre Margot Dudkevitch Nov. 13, 2002 Security forces arrested a number of Palestinian terrorist suspects in the West Bank on Tuesday as a manhunt continued for Tanzim terrorist Sirhan Sirhan, blamed for the shooting attack in Kibbutz Metzer on Sunday night. Security sources confirmed Wednesday that they suspect that Sirhan, a resident of the Tulkarm refugee camp, carried out the attack and Palestinian reports claimed that his uncle was among those arrested on Tuesday by security forces. The suspect is related to Sirhan B. Sirhan, the east Jerusalemite who assassinated US...
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dd Anarcho-Capitalism: An Annotated Bibliography by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Here is the essential reading on anarcho-capitalism, which might also be called the natural order, private-property anarchy, ordered anarchy, radical capitalism, the private-law society, or society without a state. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Indeed, only English-language works currently in print or forthcoming are included. Please note that suggestions are welcome, especially for Section IV: Congenial Writings. I. Murray N. Rothbard and Austro-Libertarianism At the top of any reading list on anarcho-capitalism must be the name Murray N. Rothbard. There would be no anarcho-capitalist movement to ...
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Frederic Bastiat on Government by Gary M. Galles[Posted November 22, 2001]This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of one of history's most ardent defenders of liberty: Frederic Bastiat. Writing just before and immediately after the French Revolution of February 1848, as France was rapidly moving toward socialism, he used logic and satire to expose the fallacies of socialist arguments in several works, including The Law, Economic Sophisms, and That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.His reasoning remains as relevant today as it was then. In fact, his 1848 essay, Government, may be the most insightful critique ...
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Washington - Worried about the future of the Republican Party, Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he thinks many Americans view the GOP as too intolerant. Nebraska Sen. Chuck HagelThe party has "a perception problem in this country, that we are a narrower-gauged party, that we are less tolerant," Hagel said in a conference call. Responding to reporters' questions, the Nebraska Republican, who had criticized his party, the Bush administration and himself in the wake of Vermont Sen. James Jeffords' recent departure from the GOP, said he fears the party could lose some of its base of political support. Hagel raised ...
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WARNING: MORE DANGEROUS KOOKS POISED TO STRIKE By NILES LATHEM June 11, 2001 -- The threat of deadly terrorist attacks from racist anti-government extremists will not go away with today's execution of Timothy McVeigh, counter-terrorism officials warn. There may be dozens more McVeighs drifting around the country - and under the FBI radar screen. Law-enforcement officials and terrorism experts say McVeigh has become the poster boy for a dangerous new breed of domestic terrorist. Known in the racist, anti-government movement as Phineas Priests, they are angry young men - often recruited in jail or on the Internet - who ...
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Home - Yahoo! - My Yahoo! - News Alerts - Help weather.com - driving weather Click here for Business information Home Top Stories Business Tech Politics World Local Entertainment Sports Science Health Full Coverage Politics News - updated 1:39 PM ET Jan 25 Add to My Yahoo! Reuters | AP | Elections | ABCNEWS.com | Videos Thursday January 25 1:39 PM ET Clinton Did Not Go Gently Into Post-Presidency Clinton Did Not Go Gently Into Post-Presidency By Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With his pardon of a fugitive commodities trader, acceptance of $190,000 in gifts and a spate of farewell pranks ...
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Fla. Postal Center Counts 447 Military Ballots By Dan Keating and Kenneth J. Cooper Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 15, 2000 ; Page A20 As the presidential race focuses on Florida's absentee votes, postal officials yesterday said they had logged fewer than 500 absentee ballots since Election Day from military personnel overseas. Enola Rice, a Postal Service spokeswoman for South Florida, said yesterday that the Miami postal center, where all military overseas mail is collected, has received only 447 Florida ballots from the military since Election Day. If that rate holds up, it would result in a total ...
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