"By writing off more than half of its normal price, it
encouraged the publication of a nasty hit piece on the honor of a
serving commander in a theater of war. The Paper of Record helped call
Petraeus a...
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NowPublic contributor phrolen is a veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom and Joint Taskforce Katrina. His commentary is based on actualexperience. The recent...
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"Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to ''punch'' the US, in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported...
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"As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of...
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My favorite part of a martial-arts film is when the protagonists use non-weapons as weapons: umbrellas, chairs, lamps, fans. A tub of baked beans, though, is Jackie-Chan caliber."Hugh Grant has been arrested and...
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"The University of Illinois is investigating online threats made against an American Indian student on a Web page that defended the use of the school's Chief Illiniwek mascot, the university's chancellor said Tuesday.
In a letter sent Tuesday to faculty and others on campus,...
" US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19...
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" US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19...
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"By way of attacking his position, the atheist often hears the line from theists that, âYou canât prove thereâs no such thing as god.â The wholly logical response, of course, is to admit the theistâs point. However, it is important to note that the...
"Although there is no doubt that after September, 1939, Roosevelt
definitely preferred to get into the war directly in Europe, he had
always kept Japan as an ace in his sleeve ever since his meeting with
Stimson in January, 1933, and the first meeting of his Cabinet in
March,...
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"This was done to undermine the Japanese peace party that was still
in office, and to strengthen the war party. This aim was fully
accomplished when Roosevelt and Hull unceremoniously brushed off the
impressive effort of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye of Japan to reach...
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* OWEN JOSEPHUS ROBERTS, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court * WILLIAM HARRISON STANDLEY, Admiral * JOSEPH MASON "BULL" REEVES, Admiral * FRANK ROSS MCCOY, Major General * JOSEPH TAGGART MCNARNEY, General
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"The attack was a surprise to our men at Pearl, their families, the
American public, and the world at large. But while the extent of the
human toll may have come as a shock to him, FDR was hardly surprised by
the attack itself."
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