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WASHINGTON — The Republican congresswoman from Florida wanted to make one thing absolutely clear: Her argument was not whether the little house in Hope, Ark., should be designated as a national historic site. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite on Wednesday delayed for hours the House passage of a bill designating President Clinton's boyhood home as a national landmark. Brown-Waite said she wanted to draw attention to Clinton's involvement in a deal allowing a Dubai-owned company to help manage six U.S. seaports. "It is not against President Clinton, it is not against (the resolution), but rather I wish we had more time so...

"That needs to change" was Oprah Winfrey's reply to Nan Talese of Doubleday, publisher of "A Million Little Pieces," after James Frey's "memoir" was exposed as a tissue of lies. Doubleday had tried to escape responsibility by saying that publishers don't fact-check nonfiction books. To President George W. Bush's approval of the $6.5 billion sale of terminals at six of our most important ports to the United Arab Emirates, Americans are shouting, "That needs to change." We are fed up with the post-Sept. 11 failure (i.e., the refusal) of the Bush administration to secure our borders and ports. Bush's defense...

http://www.indepundit.com/archive2/2006/02/donat_dump_on_d.html# Don’t Dump on DubaiDECEMBER 1997 – I’m not quite halfway through my second deployment to the Middle East, when the ship pulls into port for some hard-earned liberty. It’s a chance for us to unwind after several weeks on patrol in the Gulf, and maybe get some Christmas shopping done. My buddy Eric and I catch a shuttle bus into town from the port, then take hire a cab to take us to the gold souq. When we arrive, we find ourselves blasted by blinding yellow light, reflected off the 21 karat gold chains hanging in the shop windows....