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Keeping it simple this week, I'll let what is being Left speak for themselves. Because, even in the aftermath of recent savagery, what is being Left has more righteous indignation for the President of these United States, than they have for the instigators of mass murder for the sake of jihad. From The Boston Globe's Thomas Oliphant, on Al Franken's Air America show, Thursday morning: (HT: Hugh Hewitt) Franken: So these are monsters. We are dealing with monsters. Oliphant: Yes we are, but not very well in my opinion. And, um, what I think is so awful, in the short...

PARIS (AFP) - Outgoing Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato emerged as a leading European candidate to head the IMF, but his chances of getting the nod were later thrown into doubt on reports that France would not back him. French President Jacques Chirac informed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in talks Tuesday that he would not support Rato to become the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reported in its Thursday edition. The French government declined to comment on the report. But a presidential spokesman said: "The priority is that the managing director be...