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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MAX BOOT: … Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we'd be called imperialist oppressors, then. — UPDATE: Various people …
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Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Filling tanks, funding dictators — FREE-MARKET purists are getting a lot of mileage out of scoffing at all the hysteria about rising oil prices. From a strictly economic point of view, they've got a point. Even with crude selling at more than $71 a barrel and gasoline at about $3 a gallon, the U.S. economy continues to expand.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Man Who Won't Sell His Soul — BRUSSELS — Sen. John McCain likes the moral high ground, and he takes palpable pleasure in delivering zingers to errant Russians, Iranians and Europeans, as he did at a conference here last weekend. But as the apparent front-runner in the 2008 presidential race …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist — And, "We don't Want Your Stinking War! — Christopher Hitchens owes me a big apology. — I belong to a private email discussion group called Gulf2000. It has academics, journalists and policy makers on it.
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Reuters:
Britons find media hard to trust — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may have a sophisticated media industry but it also has some of the most sceptical consumers, with nearly two-thirds (64 percent) believing the media does not report all sides of the story. — A 10-country opinion poll for Reuters …
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cis.org:
New Poll: Americans Prefer House Approach on Immigration — Poll is First to Offer the Public a Choice — Between House and Senate Plan — WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) - A new Zogby poll of likely voters, using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer …
Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Hearing vowed on Bush's powers — Senator questions bypassing of laws — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ''very blatant encroachment" on congressional authority, said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's assertion …
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Michelle Malkin / Jewish World Review:
Reconquista is real — Uninformed political observers delude themselves into thinking that these sentiments are relegated to the fringe. But the core concepts of reconquista (the "re-conquest" of the Southwest by Mexico) have spread wide and deep-from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Milwaukee to Arkansas and beyond.
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison — A federal jury decided Wednesday al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui deserves life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, on Sept. 11, 2001. — On the seventh day of deliberation, the jury of nine men …
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:
Justice for a Traitor — Sami al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor, has been a master manipulator for years, gaining strong and vocal support for the American Left. But his luck has now completely run out. When he pled guilty not long ago to "conspiracy …
CNN:
Tsunami warnings lifted after massive quake off Tonga — (CNN) — All tsunami warnings issued after a major quake in the southern Pacific Ocean have been canceled, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. — The alerts for the southwestern Pacific Islands were issued early Thursday …
Susan_Spencer-Wendel / Palm Beach Post:
Limbaugh denies arrest, charge on radio show — WEST PALM BEACH — Conservative king Rush Limbaugh opened his talk show Monday with an account of the agreement he struck with prosecutors and his quick trip to the Palm Beach County Jail Friday. — "There was no arrest. There were no handcuffs.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Administration Is Singing More Than One Tune on Spanish Version of Anthem — President Bush declared last week that the national anthem should be sung in English not Spanish, but he evidently never told his own government or campaign organizations. — The State Department posts four Spanish versions of …
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter — Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked …
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South — TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan, April 27 — Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving their insurgency into a new phase …
Foreign Policy:
The Failed States Index — By FOREIGN POLICY & the Fund for Peace — Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FOREIGN POLICY and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse. — Visit the Fund for Peace Website for more data and analysis.
kpho.com:
Sheriff to Start Posse Patrols to Curb Illegal Immigration Flow — (CBS 5 NEWS) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that approximately 100 volunteer posse and Sheriff's Deputies will soon begin randomly patrolling the desert areas and main roadways in southwest Maricopa County …
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