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BOOK REVIEW – DECONSTRUCTING OBAMA: THE LIFE, LOVES, AND LETTERS OF AMERICA’S FIRST POSTMODERN PRESIDENT

April 02, 2011 Simon & Schuster’s Revenge By Douglas Hackleman In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations

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VIDEO INTERVIEW – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON AND PETER BERKOWITZ – MIDEAST TURMOIL

Human Event’s Uncommon Knowledge interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute

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BERNARD LEWIS – ‘THE TYRANNIES ARE DOOMED’

APRIL 2, 2011 ‘The Tyrannies Are Doomed’ The West’s leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections. By BARI WEISS Princeton, N.J. ‘What Went Wrong?” That was the explosive title

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KARL ROVE – OBAMA BUNGLES THE LIBYA SPEECH

MARCH 31, 2011 Obama Bungles the Libya Speech The president seems irresolute and unreliable, even when doing the right thing. By KARL ROVE Wars, even good ones, require worthy explanation and justification. Both were missing in President Obama’s address to the nation on Monday night. While the president’s speech on Libya was adequate at times,

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THOMAS SOWELL – MEASURING FORCE

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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ANCIENT BOOKS UNCOVERED IN JORDAN MAY DATE TO START OF CHRISTIANITY

FOX NEWS March 30, 2011    | FoxNews.com One of the largest and best-preserved collections of ancient sealed books has been discovered in a cave in Jordan and are believed to be some of the earliest Christian documents, according to the BBC. The 70 tiny books could date back to the first century. Carbon dating tests

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DETROIT’S DECLINE AND THE FOLLY OF LIGHT RAIL

MARCH 25, 2011 The country needs to unleash entrepreneurs, who will only be held back by tax-funded make-work projects. By EDWARD GLAESER The Census just reported that Detroit’s population dropped by 25% between 2000 and 2010, a stunning fall that is even larger than the 20% drop Detroit experienced during the 1970s. The story of

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WHAT GE WAS THINKING IN 2011

MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo

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THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN AMERICA

The Muslim Brotherhood in America: Part II: MB History & Their Arrival in America by John Guandolo (more by this author) Mr. Guandolo is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a former active duty Infantry/Reconnaissance Officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a former Special Agent of the FBI in Washington, D.C.

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