March 30, 2011 Measuring Force By Thomas Sowell You don’t just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. Otherwise, you are better off to leave him alone. Anyone who grew up in […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson March 28, 2011 President Obama just gave a weird speech. Part George W. Bush, part trademark Obama — filled with his characteristic split-the-difference, straw-man (“some say, others say”), false-choice tropes. His support for those “yearning for freedom all around the world” was the sort of interventionist foreign policy
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MARCH 29, 2011 Cairo’s liberals tell a different story than Team Obama. By BRET STEPHENS Cairo Talk to top U.S. officials here about how things are going in Egypt, and the gist of the answer reminds me of what Apollo XI astronaut Michael Collins told Mission Control while sailing over the Sea of Tranquility: “Listen,
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CANADA FREE PRESS We owe Pete King a debt of gratitude for defying those who would have shut his hearings down The King Hearings were Taboo-Busters By Frank Gaffney Jr. Tuesday, March 15, 2011It is not everyday that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation. Last Thursday,
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MARCH 26, 2011 The regime has killed more than 100 people, but protesters press on. By AHED AL HENDI A few days ago, my friend Hussam Melhim, a Syrian blogger jailed for writing a poem criticizing Bashar al-Assad, was released after five years in prison. I too was jailed by Assad’s regime. After 40 days
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MARCH 26, 2011 By FARNAZ FASSIHI And JAY SOLOMON WSJ’s Farnaz Fassihi reports a crowd of 50,000 protesters was fired upon by Syrian troops as they marched to Danaa. Also, Sam Dagher has the latest from Libya as NATO takes over No-Fly Zone patrols. Thousands of protesters demanding political liberalization marched in cities across Syria
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Charles Krauthammer: The professor’s war By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-24 President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of
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IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series
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DAILY MAIL By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd March 2011 Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction Italians accuse French of backing NATO in exchange for oil contracts
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