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Grant the President this: There is more than a little anti-Arab sentiment in the uproar over a Dubai firm purchasing the British operating company running terminals at six major American seaports. Otherwise, how do you explain the LACK of concern over Chinese companies running terminals at two major West Coast ports and New Orleans, the locus of much of our energy imports? Or about the original British company when there are probably as many jihadists in Britain today as there are in Dubai? Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security was still trying to figure out the ownership of terminal management...

Tom McNamara/ KVOA Television Arizona/ August 13, 2004 The stories are compelling and the evidence is frightening, and just this week, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo released a report showing that the problem is worse than anyone thought. Here's what the Eyewitness News 4 Investigators uncovered. "It's a Muslim prayer blanket. It was found about a mile and a half west from the Douglas port of entry in 2001." Vance says, "Other log books, diary-type things, other bits and pieces of paper with Arabic written on them found in the area over the last few years. They pay to learn Spanish...

Closing the open door Posted: August 2, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Vox Day © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Individual freedom is at the center of all libertarian thought. Ever a lover of human liberty, Ronald Reagan hailed libertarianism for that very reason. Unlike the neosocialist Democratic Party and the neoconservative Republicans, the Libertarian Party is driven by a devotion to an idea instead of an unprincipled pursuit of power. But as is the case with academic theories whose connection to the real world is precariously tenuous, the sad state of freedom in America means that too many libertarian ideas go untested...