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The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states at the Durban II gathering in Geneva is pushing for "a new world order" that would expand and impose "nondemocratic and illiberal values on the West," says the Danish editor who in 2005 commissioned and published a series of cartoons, one of which depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that led to worldwide Muslim rioting.... Flemming Rose, editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's largest-circulation newspaper, is visiting Israel under the auspices of the Hebrew University's Shasha Center for Strategic Studies, headed by former Mossad director Efraim Halevy. He's here to...

By John C. Armor From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 3/13/2003 7:40 PM HIGHLANDS, N.C., March 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate is conducting an episodic filibuster against the nomination of Miguel Estrada to be a U.S. Circuit Court judge. But the Senate is not voting, only arguing about the subject for four weeks and counting --- interrupted occasionally by other business. What's happening here? Doesn't the Constitution require a majority vote for judicial nominees? Yes. Don't most Senators favor confirming Estrada? Yes. The Senate's filibuster rule requires 60 senators to end debate. Absent that, Senate opponents can...