Rally Against Fear

The Washington Times headline said it all: "Hysteria runs riot; networks fuel the fear." London’s Heathrow airport is surrounded by what one UK newspaper called a ring of steel, and anti-aircraft missiles are in position around Washington to defend...

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Sliding off the Fence

Slowly, collossal China has shifted its weight and taken somewhat of a stand on the two rogue nation vs. superpower crisis currently holding the world's attention. China's stance, inevitably, has placed it in opposition to the superpower – but not exactly...

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Excuses and Justifications

Being the most destructive endeavor humanity has ever practiced, it is difficult to comprehend why wars seem like such a common phenomenon. That is, unless one realizes that the very root of the civic religion permeating the modern world is in human gullibility, and...

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Send Hans Blix to Nes Ziona

Some of the victims were demonstrators. Some were children in their homes, trying to get away from the gas seeping under the door. Some were old men walking down the street. One of the victims was a thirteen year-old boy, playing in a schoolyard when a gas canister...

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Misleading the Public

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dropped a bombshell at a Congressional hearing on Iraq and revealed that he had a transcript of an "upcoming" audio message from Osama bin Laden that betrays the links between bin Laden and Iraqi President...

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One Battlefield, Two Wars

Colin Powell launched a preemptive strike early Tuesday morning against the latest evidence that the alleged Bin Laden-Al Qaeda link is a lot of malarkey. The first indication that anyone had of a new message from Osama bin Laden was Powell's statement to a Senate...

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Hardly Even Au Revoir

One blank is filled in by \'France\', and the other by \'the United States\'; the writer is British, Eurosceptic, from the Conservative Party\'s right wing, and is writing in The Daily Telegraph. The two sentences are separated by the sum total of 58 words, and Mr...

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Antiwar Breakthrough!

Thanks to the editors of The American Conservative for putting my piece on the antiwar movement online – that means I don't have to write a column today! Not that I'm going to be idle. Because, you see, I have to get together yet another fundraising letter...

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