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I'm sure many of you are familiar with Brazil's decision to photograph and fingerprint American visitors to that nation as a lame rebuke to the fact that we do something similar to their citizens (and most other nations') when they visit the United States. We do it to try to track terrorists and others who […]

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The Alabama National Guard base commander who Democrats have cited as an authority on "Bush never showed up" claim, suffers from Alzheimer's. Retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed, the 187th's Tactical Reconnaissance Group's former commander, recanted his statement that he couldn't remember if Bush reported for duty, now saying his memory is faulty because he's in […]

Senate Democrats have revealed the party affiliations of these two types of people. A whistleblower is always a Democrat and a thief is always a Republican. And Democrats accuse Republicans of always seeing things in black and white.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer gave the annual Irving Kristol lecture last week at the American Enterprise Institute. You can find the text of his talk here. It's long, but I can't emphasize enough how worthwhile it is for every American in this post-9/11 world. Krauthammer divides foreign policy into four major schools of thought and the […]

Britain's Sun newspaper is reporting that the "other woman" in Sen. John Kerry's alleged affair has recorded a tell-all interview with an American TV network. According to the paper, the network is sitting on the tape until they can verify the woman's story to their satisfaction. I'm curious as to which network has the interview […]

From a reader in San Diego, Calif.: Hoystory is the best blog in the history of the Internet, nay the World. Never before has their been a Web site with such depth and breadth. Hoystory stands as a colossus astride the blogosphere, blotting out the inconsequential and overrated -- such as Instapundit, Altercation, Kausfiles and […]

Last weekend I finally got around to seeing "The Pianist." The movie is the story of Polish Jewish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and how he survived World War II through luck and the help of friends and other people who risked their lives to save him from the concentration camps. There are several scenes in […]

Well, it appears as though Sen. John Kerry has a a little Bill Clinton problem. According to Matt Drudge, Kerry apparently had a recent (read 2002 or sooner) affair with an intern. The question is, what does this mean for the primary campaign, assuming there is enough information to corroborate the reports? This could turn […]

A New York Times editorial today on the deteriorating situation in Haiti and calls on the United States to get involved -- without U.N. approval. Essay Questions: 1. Detail the differences between Iraq's and Haiti's "democratically elected" presidents and the treatment of their people. 2. Compare and contrast Haiti and Iraq's roles in the war […]