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You Go Girls! Saudi Women Risk Jail to Drive
No comments on You Go Girls! Saudi Women Risk Jail to DriveBut the 21st century’s most dangerous strain of barbarism has its center of gravity in a culture that produced 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers. A culture whose organizing figure consummated his “marriage” to…
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Lemme Get This Straight — BILL Clinton Thinks Weiner Should Resign?
Bill Clinton — he of the cigars and the perjury and the finger-wagging and the 14-month impeachment ordeal and the professed ignorance of the meaning of “is” — should leave it to his wife to…
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There Are a Billion Muslims — We Better Make Friends With Some of Them
America is at war with a global enemy motivated by Islam — but if Islam itself is the enemy, we’re all in trouble. Father Butler should be commended, not attacked, for working to build bridges…
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A Random Tweet That Caught My Eye
@iowahawkblog David Burge Did you know @RepWeiner uses the same brain when he’s in Congress? I don’t spend much time on Twitter — none, actually, although I flirted with it for a while — but…
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Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.” In a post about…
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Sex Assault Charges Against IMF Head Reveal Hypocrisy on the Left
Even if the charges against DSK are never proved, the fact that the head of an intergovernmental agency that makes development loans to poor countries thinks it’s OK to stay in a $3,000 hotel suite…
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Playing Chicken With the Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit will be reached on August 2, which reminds me of a sure-fire gag line. Next time a pregnant woman tells you her baby is…
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Processing bin Laden’s Death in a Spiritual Context
The Rev. Bernard Poppe, my priest and friend, is more liberal than I am. (Ditto for 98% of his flock in the deep blue town of Maplewood, NJ.) So when Bernie started his sermon on…
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Props to the Prez for Getting bin Laden
Despite the risks, despite not being certain that bin Laden was even in the compound, Obama signed off on the mission. It could have ended badly, but it did not, and Obama deserves enormous credit…
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Teacher’s Beard Was A Reminder of Bin Laden in More Ways Than One
Looking like that, he would have been ill-advised to visit Pakistan.