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WHY IRAN WANTS THE BOMB By Richard Reeves LOS ANGELES -- Let me ask you a question: If you were running Iran, would you try to develop nuclear weapons? I would. Apparently the editors of the Los Angeles Times would also answer "Yes." The lead editorial in Friday's Times was comment on the release of the U.S. government's latest "National Security Strategy." That's the one in which President Bush's introduction begins, "America is at war," and then goes on to specifically name Iran as an enemy of the United States. The document also reiterates the U.S. commitment to pre-emptive or...

Phins Tix Ads! Miers did Bush Texas-sized favor By Tom Blackburn Palm Beach Post Columnist Monday, October 17, 2005 President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, did battle with the Constitution once, in 2000. And she won. Her task as a lawyer was to show that what looked like a duck, walked like a duck and quacked like a duck was a grizzly bear. She convinced a Texas federal judge. More from Opinion • Sound off in the blog • Columnists • Editorials/Letters • Don Wright cartoons The bear in question was Richard Cheney. He sure looked like...