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Cheney Should Resign Now, and Go Shoot Something! Sarah Whalen, sawhalen@xula.com.edu US Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday “Faced the Nation” and told America he’s here to stay. “I’ve now been elected to a second term,” Cheney pronounced, as though he alone won the presidency, “and I’ll serve out my term.” Cheney added that his motives are pure because unlike most vice presidents, he has no presidential designs. If that’s so, mused CBS interviewer Bob Schieffer, then why not resign and make room for someone who does? “Nobody has suggested it to me,” was Cheney’s bland response. Well. Well, well,...

Panel presents a program calling for a "One State Solution. Columbia University’s panel “One State or Two: Alternative Proposals for Middle East Peace” presented a biased, tendentious Israel-bashing program on Monday, January 31, that provided more heat than light. The very title was a dead giveaway: a one-state solution is widely understood to be a code word for the disappearance of the Jewish state and its replacement violently and/or demographically by an irredentist Palestinian majority. The evening, nonetheless, began on a largely sober note with an overview of the Islamic Middle Ages by Professor Mark Cohen of Princeton. He spoke...