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In a carefully staged interview approved by the Saudi crown prince and in the presence of a government “minder,” the mother of Osama bin Laden lamented the career path of “a very good kid” who lost his way in college. The al-Qaida founder responsible for the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,996 people was a shy boy who underwent a radical transformation while studying economics at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Alia Ghanem told Martin Chulov of the Guardian newspaper of London. “The people at university changed him,” she said in the interview conducted at her Jeddah home in June. “He...

Bernie Sanders is a nice, avuncular character who seems to be harmless enough -- a nostalgic throwback to another era -- but his espousal of socialism, "democratic" though it may be, misleads an entire generation of American youth who have absolutely no idea of the economic or social ramifications of the senator's ideology. Lovable Bernie is essentially propagandizing a generation of gullible American young people who don't have anything near the education or experience to understand what is happening to them. His task is made simpler because his Democratic Party opponent is demonstrably and obviously corrupt and in danger of...