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You know how it is: Your family is super-rich, your older brother was president, and someday it'll be your turn. But you also like to party a little too much, and one night, wellll... Maybe you kinda-sorta make a little oopsie. Maybe a secretary ends up drowning, and okay, okay, it may or may not be all your fault. Is that really the sort of thing that should follow a guy around for life, when he spends all his non-partying time helping leftists get what they want? Is one woman's life really that much to pay for open borders and...

Don't get us mixed up Ahmadinejad is not, REPEAT not, the epitome of Iranian people's aspiration and their logic December 16, 2005 iranian.com There are countries of the world about which the world cannot afford to be ignorant. Iran is one such country and though the International community is slow in realising, it will have to be as informed and uncluttered in the their judgement about Iran as they are about France say. They would have to because Iran matters a lot and I am not saying that as an Iranian patriot but as an informed observer. It is precisely...

The words popularly used to characterize the war in Iraq were "cakewalk" and "victory." From the beginning, war supporters here liked to say it would be a cakewalk, which it wasn't, but also a victory, which it surely was. Our military men and women deserve great credit for their courage, imagination and decency in a wildly ambivalent theater of war. But there is a new word to apply to the next phase of the war, and it is an elusive one. The word is "legitimacy," and the success of occupation will depend upon its political application within Iraq. Consider the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. hawk on Friday defended an article in which he said a war with Iraq would be a "cakewalk" but said he underestimated the extent to which Iraq would use guerrilla tactics against U.S. forces. Kenneth Adelman, a former Pentagon aide, U.S envoy to the United Nations and arms control negotiator, said he stood by the February 2002 article written to counter critics who believed a war could lead to thousands of U.S. casualties. "They said that Scud missiles would obliterate Israel and American troops in...

No one can accuse me of having any heartfelt admiration for the press. As for the elite and dominant media, it would be more accurate to say that I hold it in contempt. Whether one is inclined to acknowledge their obvious leftward philosophical tilt or not, their tendencies to omit vital information, to ignore history, to sensationalize and actively create drama is not debatable. One week they might whip up hysteria over child abductions, though there has been no increased occurrence. Another they could dub a summer "the season of the shark", in spite of attacks remaining steady, but regardless...

No one can accuse me of having any heartfelt admiration for the press. As for the elite and dominant media, it would be more accurate to say that I hold it in contempt. Whether one is inclined to acknowledge their obvious leftward philosophical tilt or not, their tendencies to omit vital information, to ignore history, to sensationalize and actively create drama is not debatable. One week they might whip up hysteria over child abductions, though there has been no increased occurrence. Another they could dub a summer "the season of the shark", in spite of attacks remaining steady, but regardless...