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Actions tomorrow will speak louder than words today, but something interesting came out of the mouth of a UN representative — namely, the admission that the UN is focusing a disproportionate amount of its attention on condemning Israel. You don’t believe me? It’s true:

The UN Human Rights Council has failed to handle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...]

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The date of publication of Atlas Shrugged is the twelfth of October. October 12, 1957…fifty years ago. Here’s where I found out about that…
Even though many reviewers weren’t impressed with “Atlas Shrugged,” it still left a major mark. Ayn Rand inspired many, many people; most of them highschool or college students when they first read [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about the fact that, in Israel, the military solution is working against the Intifadah. Today, Roy Robison points out that the same is true in the war against Al Qaeda. (He also notes that there is no truth to the anti-War charge that the Bush Administration is so busy in [...]

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This article is cross posted at Newsbusters
There was a time when professional journalists were driven toward their profession out of a desire to protect the interests of the public through thoughtful and informative information gathering and reporting. It was an honorable job in a profession that was kept on course by a civic responsibility and [...]

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Obama is and, to date, always has been a small timer. Although he’s aiming for the highest office in the land, which is pretty much the highest office in the world, his practical experience is minimal, and it keeps on showing. His latest move, to support the DREAM act which will encourage in-state [...]

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One method that spammers use to cull e-mail addresses from websites is by programatically parsing your web pages looking for e-mail addresses withing your posts and site code. It’s a form of screen scraping that is pretty simple from a conceptual point of view. Basically these bots read your site looking for e-mail addresses, sending [...]

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Give Coulter credit. She is usually spot on with her insights and has a knack for getting under the skin of people who don’t like the way she exercises her right to freedom of speech. Thus modern day liberalism takes another blow as Americans speak truth to power and expose the hypocrisy that is inherent in the rank and file of the Democrat Party base.

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I am not conversant with the details of the Patriot Act, nor am I a Constitutional lawyer. I simply find it interesting that, more often than not, when a Federal District Court judge rules something about the Patriot Act unlawful, that judge is a Clinton appointee. The most recent case in point is a decision [...]

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Last month, when a Colorado school issued an edict banning tag because someone might get emotionally hurt, I did a long post about how I thought the long-term consequences of that decision were infinitely worse than the short term issue of kids having a playground conflict. In the last couple of paragraphs of that [...]

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I see that readers from Memeorandum are finding their way here thanks to a linkup. Welcome! Please relax, enjoy yourselves, look around and drop us a line with suggestions (be nice :)
Update: Finkelstein is on the case! Shuster apologizes in an uncharacteristic on air break in during Tucker. The tone of the apology is much different than [...]

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