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SQUADDIE "TOO ENGLISH" FOR THE POLICE! Sunday, 23 March 2008 Yes, it could only happen in Labour's La La land. A patriotic Englishman, returns from the privations of Iraq, keen to continue with his public service and applies to join his local police force. A commendable and public spirited act most right thinking people would conclude. Well, not if you are Greater Manchester Police. Oh no, just by having a tattoo on your arm extolling your love of country - England, is enough to consign you to the unemployment scrap heap, so infested with political correctness has the force now...

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Two Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers were kidnapped and seven others were killed Wednesday in attacks on Israel's northern border by Hezbollah, a terrorist group with close ties to Iran. [1] Hezbollah's Al Manar TV station reported that the abduction occurred just after 9 a.m. and the soldiers were transferred to a safe location. [2] Just two days before the Hezbollah attacks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, while speaking about Israel on Iran News Network TV, "It will not be long before this intense fury will lead to a huge explosion." [3] Ahmadinejad has also said Israel should be "wiped...

...if the civilized society is to prevail over the barbarous one, it will necessarily and tragically be degraded by the experience as a vital cost of victory. Partly, this is because civilized war tactics are apt to fail against barbarous war tactics, thus requiring civilized society to break the "rules" if it is to survive a true death struggle. It is also because the clash itself -- the act of engaging with the barbarous society -- forces civilization to confront, repel and also internalize previously unimagined depredations. This is degrading, too.

KERRY CLAIMS: 53% OF CHILDREN DO NOT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL Wed Feb 01 2006 10:43:40 ET Sen. John Kerry claimed this morning on NBC TODAY that 53% of America's children do not graduate from high school -- a claim that raised eyebrows in the NBC control room, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. Kerry made the comments after host Katie Couric asked the former presidential candidate about Bush's State of the Union call to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science. COURIC: He wanted to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science. KERRY: That's terrific. But 53 percent...

PAPER: Sen. Kennedy was member of all-male club Wed Jan 11 2006 22:40:10 ET Conservative activists are eager to point out that Sen Ted Kennedy was on shaky ground accusing the Judge Alito of associating with people opposed to the inclusion of women in private institutions, the WASHINGTON TIMES is fronting on Thursday. The eight-term senator belonged to an all-male social club -- the Owl -- at Harvard University. The Owl refused to admit women until it was forced to do so during the 1980s, according to records kept by the HARVARD CRIMSON, the student newspaper. A Kennedy spokeswoman said...