A Turn Right at the Left Forum

“It’s like the CPAC of the Left.” Someone told me that as I was making my way to the Left Forum at Pace University in lower Manhattan Saturday morning. Since I’ve been a virtual connoisseur of the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference, that annual running...

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All Quiet on the Southern Front

“What have you learned in school today, my son?” “There was no school today. There is an emergency!” “And what have you learned from that, my son?” Actually, quite a lot. This week’s “round," as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as formal...

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Obama, Iran, and the Price of Gas

ThinkProgress, the online semi-official apologists for all-things-Obama, touts the news that “even” the War Street Journal and the libertarian Cato Institute say “it’s not Obama’s fault gas prices have increased.” In their typical...

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A New Age of Enemies

Just a couple of days after “Sergeant Massacre” left his base in southern Afghanistan and single-handedly perpetrated the My Lai of the Afghan War, shooting and evidently in some cases stabbing to death 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, a district police...

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Iraq Militia Group Releases Captive American

According to senior officials working for Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, an associated militia group has released an American captive who may have once been a U.S. soldier. Meanwhile, at least six Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in the latest violence.
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