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In a recent commentary, former New York Mayor Ed Koch - a Democrat with at least half a brain (which makes him the leading intellectual light of his party) - asked rhetorically, "Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism?" Because they're liberals? During the Spanish Civil War, as the climactic battle for Madrid approached, Nationalist leader Francisco Franco told a reporter: "I have four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth within the city ready to rise at my call." Franco's comment gave rise to the World War...

<p>The fighting in northeastern Congo has created "the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet," Jessica Lange said Tuesday. The actress spent a week in the volatile area last month as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund. The five-year civil war in Congo has all but ended, but fighting between the Hema and Lendu tribes, a disastrous byproduct of the conflict, continues throughout much of resource-rich Ituri province.</p>