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Forget about that famous Ben Franklin quote about losing a little liberty for security deserving neither. Read this: Give Me Liberty Or Let Me Think About It By Michael Kinsley Friday, January 13, 2006; A21 Most of us are not Patrick Henry and would be willing to lose a great deal of...

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I can only hope that I enjoy future spankings from Peapod, buy a Euro from neocon-hunter, support Colpy more often, try to have a love sandwich with Reverend Blair and Hugo Chavez, not upset Ocean Breeze, blather on in riddles to jjw1965, encourage Moghrabi to replace headache medicine and...

OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which...

Our Civil Disagreement By William Raspberry Monday, December 19, 2005; Page A23 "You may well imagine that we will at some times differ. But it is because of your clear and cogent explanations of your viewpoints that I am able to understand why some people hold opinions and values...

He also converted his country's $10 billion reserve fund with the IMF into euros. Saddam was pillored for what then seemed like a silly move --- he was letting politics get the better of economics. But the euro has appreciated by 17% against the dollar since then, and the dictator has...

Perhaps questioning the detainee could cause mental turmoil ? Perhaps not scheduling permission to question could unduly upset the integrity of the detainee? Perhaps only certain hours for questioning, if allowed itself is allowed, could upset the mental balance of the detainee ? Perhaps...

Here's a thread for predictions. 1. America will be humbled. Again and again. Believe it or not, folks, America is very divided. Until we have a charismatic leader that will unite all sides, we will continue to have close elections. But each time, Americans will reconsider their unilateralism...

jimmoyer wrote: Had Saddam been left alone you would have seen even more support for him than ever before. As a David against Goliath, you would have seen him continue to finance Palestinian suicide bombers, continue to build his palaces, continue to provide substandard education and...

washingtonpost.com Democracy Under The Veil By Anne Applebaum Post Wednesday, May 25, 2005; A27 She looked nice, Laura Bush, in her black veil and modest dress, touring the Dome of the Rock, smiling sweetly at the protesters outside. She sounded nice, too, in her keynote speech at the Dead...

The Puzzle Of the Suicide Bomber By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, November 16, 2005; A19 In the four years since the most famous suicide bombing in history, our explanations of what motivates suicide bombers haven't grown any simpler. Certainly the old stereotype of a suicide bomber as someone...

The idea here is that before the Iraq war and before the building of the wall in Palestine, the Middle East seemed destined to maintain the status quo of NO CHANGE. Middle East Surprises By Jim Hoagland Sunday, November 27, 2005; B07 Israel's warrior-politician, Ariel Sharon, is abandoning...

A Dream of Cairo Reborn An Architect Reflects on What Could Have Been in Egypt By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 27, 2005; A01 CAIRO As Abdelhalim I. Abdelhalim recalls it, the power of the vision struck him, as if he had been on a modern-day road to...

In some ways the least discussed matter is the SOLUTION on Iraq? There is a lot of merit in many of the arguments posted on this board. There is a lot of merit in much of the criticism posted on this board. I'd like to hear proposals that involve the least damage to all. That the damage be...

Here's how the morality play is: It is the natural food chain with each self righteous predator eating up the one below. Ready? Here's a sample food chain of the self righteous: The liberal Left eats the Radical Christian Right who eats the Fanatic Muslim radicals. Another sample food...

Here I go again. None of you may believe this. None of you may give it much importance. But here it goes anyway. I've enjoyed this board immensely, and despite disagreeing with many of you and thinking us conservatives (the debatable label I use to describe my position these days) are in the...

Rationalizing torture By David R. Irvine Published November 2, 2005 washington times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib became public more than a year ago, the world has been...

washingtonpost.com Amnesty's Amnesia By Anne Applebaum Post Wednesday, June 8, 2005; A21 A few years ago I spent several days sitting in the back of a library in London, reading through newsletters, pamphlets and other accounts of Soviet prison conditions published in the 1970s and '80s by...

washingtonpost.com The Discreet Charm of the Terrorist Cause By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, August 3, 2005; A19 Since the bombing attacks in London last month, a welter of columnists, writers, talking heads and ordinary people have puzzled over the mystery of British Muslims, one in four of...

The Rumor Mill By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, October 5, 2005; A23 Did you know that a monster crocodile was fished out of the New Orleans floodwaters? Had you realized that sharks were swimming through the submerged streets of the Lower Ninth Ward? Did you see the photographs of Katrina, the...