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OBAMA STILL MURKY ON LIBYA

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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NORWAY TO JEWS: YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE

MARCH 29, 2011 Norway to Jews: You’re Not Welcome Here Anti-Semitism doesn’t even mask itself as anti-Zionism. By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened. Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to

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THE LIBYA MISSION WAS ‘NEVER ABOUT REGIME CHANGE’

MARCH 27, 2011 Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn’t winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. By BRET STEPHENS Aboard the National Airborne Operations Center Robert Gates is a compact and unassuming man, but a U.S. secretary of defense does not travel

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REP. PETER KING: PROFILE IN CONGRESSIONAL COURAGE

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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THE WEST’S SLOW-MOTION DEMOGRAPHIC TSUNAMI

WASHINGTON TIMES March 21,  2011 The West’s slow-motion demographic tsunami We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions. Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst crisis since World War II. Yet, horrendous as it is, it does not, thus far,

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SYRIANS CRY “FREEDOM!” TOO

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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SYRIA REGIME ROCKED BY PROTESTS

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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KRAUTHAMMER – THE PROFESSOR’S WAR

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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WILL MEDEAST’S UPHEAVALS PUT EXTREMISTS IN POWER?

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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