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WASHINGTON "President Likens Dewey to Hitler as Fascist Tool." So ran The New York Times headline on Oct. 26, 1948, after what Dewey biographer Richard Norton Smith called a "particularly vitriolic attack in Chicago" by Harry Truman. What brings this to mind is President Bush's assertion that we are "at war with Islamic fascism" and "Islamofascism." After the transatlantic bomb plot was smashed, Bush said the plotters "try to spread their jihadist message I call -- it's totalitarian in nature, Islamic radicalism -- Islamic fascism. They try to spread it, as well, by taking the attack to those of us...

Saturday, February 25, 2006   Should we discriminate on ports deal? You bet!   Posted: February 25, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern  By Patrick J. Buchanan   © 2006 Creators Syndicate Inc. "This Dubai port deal has unleashed a kind of collective mania we haven't seen in decades ... a xenophobic tsunami," wails a keening David Brooks. "A nativist, isolationist mass hysteria is ... here." The New York Times columnist obviously regards the nation's splenetic response to news that control of our East Coast ports had been sold to Arab sheiks as wildly irrational. In witness whereof, he quotes Philip Damas of...

Comments by freed nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu that Israel was behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy failed to bring smiles to government officials Sunday. One would expect that such claims would portray Vanunu as a man with a credibility problem, but as far as the defense establishment is concern, the former nuclear technician still has secrets to reveal and a declared goal of ending Israel's nuclear program. He shouldn't be talking to the media and is actually barred from meeting with foreigners. Nevertheless, the London-base al-Hayat published Sunday an interview is claims it had with Vanunu. According...

NEW YORK - American Jewish leaders have asked UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a special advisor on Jewish affairs to be his liaison with American Jewish organizations. The request was made at a meeting with Annan last week. According to a UN source, the Jewish leaders said that they made the unusual request because Annan is surrounded by aides and advisors - many of them from Muslim countries - who are hostile to Jews, and they have therefore found themselves unable to access him. "We have no one to talk to in the secretary-general's entourage," explained one. As...