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The Washington Post has attempted to go after a slice of the blogging pie. This seems only fair. The blogsphere has seemingly spent the last five or so years producing the closest thing out there to fair and accurate reporting of the news. Unfortunately, the Washington Post seems to have used The Huffington Post as their model. If William M. Arkin’s Early Warning Blog indicates their intended direction, they won’t be telling us anything that hasn’t already shown up writ large in the bulk of their “reporting”. Mr. Arkin seems to think our troops should be thankful that all the...

Editor's note: In 2004, Richard D. Lamm, former governor of Colorado, addressed a conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington. The following remarks are reprinted with his permission. Richard. D. Lamm I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise...