So far, this has been the summer of brown. As in rusty brown oil and the devastated brown pelicans it has cast helpless upon the beach. But it’s Louisiana’s rich palette of wading birds, and the fate of the bayous and salt marshes they live in, that should concern us …
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10 November
Class Warfare May Make Good Politics But Is It Fair to the American Taxpayer?
With the Senate passing the new tax bill today and the House soon to follow, many liberals are up in arms about not increasing the income tax rates for higher income individuals. According to Democrats, these are the wealthy… the rich… the millionaires and billionaires. And it is only fair …
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10 November
What YOU Have In Common With Rush and Elton
“What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage… I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should …
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10 November
Israel Shouldn’t Be Forced to Bow to U.N.
President Obama has now blackmailed the government of Israel into submitting its defense forces to the toxic oversight of the United Nations. Today U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created, with Israel’s approval, a UN investigation of last June’s flotilla incident in which Turkish-backed extremists sought to shatter Israel’s lawful naval blockade …
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10 November
Homegrown Terrorist Offers a Vivid Reminder of the Threat We Face On U.S. Soil
In counterterrorism, patience can either be deadly or its own reward. In the case of Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, a 21-year old New Yorker from Staten Island, it has proven to be a virtue. The New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation watched Shehadeh, born in the USA …
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10 November
How to Take Down North Korea, Without Waging War
The options for dealing with North Korea from President Obama and the Washington foreign policy establishment have ranged from mediocre to bad. Securing a region vital to the United States, and protecting the freedom won at the cost of tends of thousands of American lives, can only be achieved in …
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10 November
A Democrat's Advice for Both Parties
This weekend’s health care debate in the House of Representatives underscored the deep divisions between Democrats and Republicans on the issue. There were legitimate fundamental and philosophical differences on both sides that were expressed, for the most part, in a civil manner. If you leave out the excessive rhetoric from …
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10 November
We Are At War With China, Too and We Can't Let Them Win
Are we at war with China? Yes– we are engaged in a struggle with China that will ultimately prove far more important to the security of the United States than will our skirmishes in Iraq or Afghanistan. The weapons involved are commercial rather than military, and the toll will be …
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10 November
A Wish List for 2010's Fab Five
1) A federal shield law in the U.S. to enable journalists to protect sources without going to jail (thanks to the intensive efforts of Congressman Mike Pence and Senators Arlen Specter, Chris Dodd and Pat Leahy, and others who have helped protect independent reporting) and a new libel law in …
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10 November
10 Questions About the NYC Car Bomb Plot That Demand Answers
OK. We New Yorkers got lucky again. Another terrorist plot failed. But once we stop breathing those proverbial sighs of relief and stop congratulating ourselves, let’s ask some tough questions: 1. How did an FBI surveillance team tracking suspect Faisal Shahzad in Connecticut manage to lose him before he drove …
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