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• Supreme Court Will Review Vince Foster Photos

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SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW VINCE FOSTER PHOTOS...

The suit was brought by AIM (Accuracy in Media).

This article quotes the independent counsel’s office as saying “overwhelming weight of the evidence compels the conclusion that Vincent Foster committed suicide.” This misses the point that hiding or destroying evidence was one of the Clinton White House’s tactics.

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether photographs relating to the 1993 suicide of White House deputy counsel Vince Foster were properly withheld by the independent counsel's office.

A lower court has ruled the photos are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, and should be released.

FLASH: Senate Releases Secret McCarthy Transcripts...

This is the Leftist interpretation. The Left wants to discredit McCarthy by any means, foul or fair. They have perverted the term “McCarthyism” into a derogatory term for those who oppose socialism.

According to Christopher Andrews’ The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, there were Soviet spies in every department of the Roosevelt Administration. If so, many should have still remained when Truman because president.

It’s ironic that the transcripts were made public on Karl Marx’ birthday.

Fifty years after Sen. Joe McCarthy conducted some of the most infamous hearings in Senate history, thousands of pages of his secret probes into alleged Communist subversion will finally be made public.

For a more realistic commentary on McCarthy see:

Fettman, Eric. “The Real Menace.” FrontPageMagazine.com. May 8, 2003.

Japanese police arrest man disguised as schoolgirl...

Yoshikuni Moriwaki, 24, admitted carrying out a series of robberies clad in a navy blue miniskirt, white blouse and shoulder-length brown wig, police said.

PAPER: England's Prince William wants to live in USA...

With all his privileges and wealth you’d think that he wouldn’t mind staying in Britain to fulfill his duties as a royal.

Prince William has told courtiers planning for his future that he would prefer to spend a few years living in the States after he finishes his degree.

He says he would enjoy a "free and easier" lifestyle there away from the Royal spotlight in Britain.

Such a move was described as unprecedented by constitutional experts last night.

Colorado Uses Mosquito-Eating Fish To Control West Nile Virus...

The gambusia (Gambusia affinis and Gambusia holbrooki) is a less colorful North American version of the tropical guppie. There is a similar fish in the same family, Heterandria formosa, called a mosquito fish.

Gambusia are aggressive and introducing them into new environments can be bad for the native species.

El Paso County health officials will use an aggressive fish known as gambusia or mosquitofish this summer to try to control mosquito populations that can spread West Nile virus.

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Last month marked the 20th anniversary of the release of "A Nation at Risk," the devastating 1983 report on the state of education in America. We all remember its key conclusion, that the "intellectual, moral and spiritual strength of our people" were threatened by a failing education system:

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Although "A Nation at Risk" did not recommend it, we have devoted a lot more money to education. …

But in regard to most of the recommendations of the 1983 report, there has been no progress at all.

Bork doesn’t believe in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, nor does he believe in a constitutional right to privacy. He deserved what he got.

To judge by the headlines, the GOP is suffering an epidemic of "gaffes." But if you read further, you find what Republicans call "Borking" and Democrats call "the politics of personal destruction."

And while I don't want to appear to pick more nits than a father-and-son Spider Monkey team who know they're being followed by a National Geographic film crew, Mr. Mailer's wrong when he says that only one-half of our country was for the war: 70% is one-half only if the whole is considered to be 140%.

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• Left’s False Predictions About Iraq Operation Due to Fundamental Misunderstanding of Foreign Policy

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Note that the Leftist journalists belief that the demonstrations were an accurate reflection of the will of the American people is one of the major factors that led to the American defeat in Indochina.

The reelection of Nixon in 1972 conclusively repudiated this falsehood. This is why it isn’t mentioned in the “histories” of the so-called “anti-war” movement of the Vietnam Era.

… Rather, an examination of these predictions reveals the Left’s fundamental misunderstanding of almost every aspect of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century.

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On the other hand, as correctly predicted by the White House, the liberation of Iraq had an immediately positive effect on the War on Terror. Days after arriving in Baghdad, allied forces quickly captured Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship that resulted in the murder of an wheel-chair bound Jewish man. If Abbas’ arrest did not offer convincing enough evidence that Saddam sheltered terrorists, the Los Angeles reported soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Regiment found "a large-scale terrorist training camp for the Palestinian Liberation Front, as well as documents indicating Iraq recently sold weapons to the terror group for its fight against Israel.⁴"

All of the foregoing statements were, of course, remarkably consistent with those of Ba’athist Party officials in Saddam’s government. As Iraqi presidential adviser Amer Rashid put it, "There’s no connection between al Qaeda and Iraq." Singing the same tune, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told ABC television, "Everybody in the region and in the world knows Iraq has no connections with al Qaeda. This false accusation [has been] repeated many times." And Iraqi lawmaker Hazem Bajilan vehemently denied all "allegations . . . raised by Mr. Bush" of an Iraq-al Qaeda partnership – allegations he characterized as disingenuous excuses for starting a war whose ultimate aim was to gain control of the Gulf region’s economy.

Now, no matter where you lie on the political spectrum, it's not hard to distinguish President Bush and our government from fascism. To compare the two is either to lie or be deluded. I'm with Dennis Miller on this one. As he joked on the February 25th episode of the Tonight Show, "If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign that says 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass."

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Do these people have any love for their country whatsoever? …

Who in their right mind would make Clinton Administration official the president of a major university. They should stick to football.

University of Miami (UM) President Donna Shalala has permitted an official UM agent to deny recognition of a student organization that seeks to advance conservative philosophical ideas. UM takes the position that the campus chapter of the College Republicans speaks for all “conservatives.”

'Al-Nidaa, a website affiliated with Al-Qa'ida, recently published a series of articles about the war in Iraq. The eleventh[1] part of the series dealt with the dangers facing Sunni Islamists in the region. The article names a few such dangers, and refers to the emerging threat of the Shi'a to Sunni Islamists as "greater than the threat posed by the Jews and the Christians." The following is a summary of the main points of the article:

It’s easy to see why the way in which the German National Socialists, i.e., Nazis, disposed of the bodies of Holocaust victims would be abhorrent to religious Jews.

Jewish law regards the human body as holy. Identification and proper burial of human flesh is a sacred task at the core of the Jewish religious doctrine. The Torah reserves the phrase ‘chesed shel emet’ – ‘kindness of truth’ - for the observance of the rights of the dead, a favor that can never be repaid, and by definition altruistic. It tells of Moses pausing to collect the bones of Joseph, before leading the exodus of Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. The modern theology translates it in more secular terms –‘respect for the living demands respect for the dead’. …

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that if the terrorists can recruit suicide bombers in Britain they might be able to do it here as well.

The two suicide bombers who on April 30 bombed Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv, leaving three dead and 60 injured, were not Palestinians. Asif Mohammed Hanif, aged 21, born and raised in Britain and living in an outer conurbation of London, and Omar Khan Sharif, 27, brought from Pakistan when he was six and raised in the industrial town of Derby, were British citizens.

IT'S ENDLESSLY FASCINATING to watch the interactions between U.S. patrols and the residents of Baghdad. It's not just the love bombing the troops continue to receive from all classes of Baghdadi--though the intensity of the population's pro-American enthusiasm is astonishing, even to an early believer in the liberation of Iraq, and continues unabated despite delays in restoring power and water to the city. It's things like the reaction of the locals to black troops. They seem to be amazed by their presence in the American army. One group of kids in a poor neighborhood shouted "Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson" at Staff Sergeant Darren Swain; the daughter of a diplomat on the other hand informed him, "One of my maids has the same skin as you."

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But you won't see much of this on TV or read about it in the papers. To an amazing degree, the Baghdad-based press corps avoids writing about or filming the friendly dealings between U.S. forces here and the local population--most likely because to do so would require them to report the extravagant expressions of gratitude that accompany every such encounter. Instead you read story after story about the supposed fury of Baghdadis at the Americans for allowing the breakdown of law and order in their city.

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Indeed it's striking that while many of the troops I've accompanied find themselves feeling some sympathy for the inhabitants of "Typhoid Alley" and other destitute neighborhoods and their attempts to obtain fans, furniture, TVs, etc., the press corps often seems solidly on the side of those who grew fat under the Saddam regime. …

… Liberals hated the likes of Ronald Reagan. They prefer the style of the Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton types, somehow able to shrug off little lapses of courage and character as "their personal life", such as leaving the scene of a drunken accident and allowing a girl to drown at Chappaquiddick and debauchery in the oval office and lying about it while sanctimoniously looking squarely into the camera lens in front of millions. No, they sure aren't cowboys, and their character lapses sure don't square with my idea of heroes.

North Korea (news - web sites) has at least 100 nuclear missiles aimed at the United States and will use them if new economic sanctions are imposed against it, a propagandist for the Stalinist state claimed.

This seems to be a gross exaggeration, but North Korea’s belligerent tone is disturbing.

The al Qaeda terrorist network is recruiting in the United States, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday.

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Human-rights groups have said they believe Iraq is dotted with mass graves, many containing what they say could be victims of Saddam’s various purges, retribution and crushing of any opposition to his absolute power. Access to such suspected sites was prohibited before Saddam’s government fell.

Experience with capital city boards of directors having made a first-class skeptic of me, let me restate that I need to see how the board intends to address the Little Rock-Now proposal before handing out any attaboys. By that I mean the language of any proposal put before the people. It needs to be unambiguous in every respect, leaving the board absolutely no wiggle room to do what it will rather than the people’s will.

Mind you, I’ve got my doubts that this can be done. Just about any word can be left open to legal interpretation, as no doubt the namesake of Arkansas’ first presidential library would be quick to tell you.

Little Rock residents’ taxes are too high already.

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