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Immediately following two separate strip-searches of grandmothers well into their 80s last year, the Transportation Security Administration initially said they merely followed screening procedures. But in a letter discussing the cases of both Ruth Sherman, 89, and Lenore Zimmerman, 85, the federal agency admitted that their agents deviated from standard practise. While they apologised for the treatment of these two elderly women, both Ms Sherman and Ms Zimmerman stick to their stories and said they were forced to strip in humiliating circumstances.

With Democrats and Republicans alike tap-dancing around the entire issue of illegal immigration, little hope for a true fix will be found until the root causes are addressed. And those causes go directly to the cultural rot that has run rampant in America over the past several decades. But while society in general has been severely degraded by it, its effects are being manifested in the illegal situation to a greater degree than seemed possible only a few years ago. It is no wonder that California, with obsessively “progressive” attitudes dominating every public institution from the local animal shelter to...

By Edward L. Daley On September 23, 2004, Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Below are some excerpts from that speech, and the hurried and predictably pessimistic response to it by John F. Kerry from a firehouse in Columbus Ohio. I am also including a few other recent statements by Senator Kerry concerning the Iraq War, the alternative positions of President Bush, and my own comments (preceded by the * symbol) regarding the issues raised. Furthermore, flecked throughout this article are quotes from several historical figures, added for the purpose of sharpening...