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When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they're not corrupt. One of the complaints by many in the Middle East was the corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party. Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people. However, Carter's comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State. One of the first statements made by...

When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they're not corrupt. One of the complaints by many in the Middle East was the corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party. Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people. However, Carter's comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State. And now the fundamental-Islamic group Hamas triumphed...

Many throughout the country have clearly forgotten the events that happened on September 11, 2001. Now that the site of the world trade center resembles nothing more than an urbanized tract of land--as opposed to a symbol of American might and freedom--most of us have reverted back to basics: Political Finger-Pointing 101. We can all go back and say that America chose to forget--or ignore--the first world trade center bombing in 1993 as well--along with the scattered bombings against American interest and lives around the globe throughout the Clinton Administration in the 1990s. Did Bill Clinton drop the ball…fail to...