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For over a year after the murder of 3,000 innocent people in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, shell-shocked Americans were gripped by other horrific images of terrorism across the globe. Palestinian suicide bombers blew up Israeli civilians during a renewed intifada. Pakistani terrorists attacked India's parliament over the disputed Kashmir region. Other terrorists in Pakistan beheaded U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. Islamists killed over 200 at a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia. Chechnyan separatists stormed a Moscow theater and took over 800 hostages; over 100 died before the nightmare was over. In the U.S., John Allen Mohammed and his...

Down with divisiveness was the message Wednesday delivered by Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean as he told a group of Florida business leaders that Republican policies of deceit and finger-pointing are tearing American apart. Dean called President Bush "the most divisive president probably in our history."

"The most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin layer of air clinging near to the surface of the planet, that we are now so carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we are actually altering the relationship between the Earth and the Sun - by trapping more solar radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the entire world," Vice President Gore told the U.N. Global Warming conference of 159 nations this morning in Koyto, Japan. In what was one the most dramatic speeches in recent memory, Gore announced to world leaders: "Whether we recognize it...

A question of loyalty George Jonas National Post Friday, March 10, 2006 As a footnote to Martin Collacott's outstanding report on Canada's refugee system, excerpted in these pages, I'll revisit a topic I've touched upon many times since the mid-1980s. It's a topic of increasing importance, I believe. Until recent times, the West has been spoiled by the loyalty of immigrants, even from hostile regions or cultures. During the First World War, with negligible exceptions, immigrants from enemy countries as well as their children remained loyal to Canada and the U.S. throughout the hostilities. During the Second World War,...

When Michael Steele, a Republican, announced that he would seek the Senate seat long held by the popular liberal Democrat Paul Sarbanes, Marylanders should have welcomed his candidacy. He has shattered a considerable number of color barriers on the southern side of the Mason-Dixon line -- and he accomplished as much in a state where voters warm to Democrats and assail anyone attempting to whistle Dixie. But instead of encouraging a conservative-liberal, Democrat-Republican debate on the issues, Maryland Democrats have embarrassed themselves again.

The news out of Mississippi yesterday was astonishing. Surely everyone witnessed the outrageous display by the Ku Klux Klan, since the media covered it throughout the day. Grand Dragon Billy Bob Boyle had called a press conference on the steps of the Biloxi City Hall. Bearded, in full Klan regalia, with a pistol strapped to his side, he sneered at the assembled reporters and cameras. The turnout of news people was large for what normally would be a lightly covered story because of rumors of an ''explosive announcement.'' Nearby, police had set up a chain-link fence to restrain the mob...

A little research turned up the following items: Sen. Joe Biden, Delaware Democrat, opposed the Gulf War, intervention in Somalia, Haiti, and Lebanon. But, he was all for going into Kosovo, drafting a resolution to give Clinton open-ended authority to use ground troops if he wanted, instead of just airstrikes. The McCain-Biden resolution, brought forth in May 1999, “authorized the President to use all necessary force and other means, in concert with United States allies, to accomplish U.S. and NATO objectives in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).” Prominent Democratic co-sponsors included: John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Frank Lautenberg,...

Hollywood uncensoredBefore last Sunday's Oscars, arch-rival movie moguls Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Katzenberg amused themselves and 700 show business guests with a savage, over-the-top skit that left no titan untouched, least of all themselves. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Nikki Finke March 28, 2002  | You wouldn't believe what Hollywood titans do for fun when the cameras aren't on them and the reporters' pencils are put away: They call each other terrible names and insult innocent people and say exactly what's on their minds. And then they laugh about it. Last Saturday, on the...