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• U.S. Census: Hispanics Now Nation’s Largest Minority Group

• French Court Blocks Publication of Book on Corruption in France

• New Ann Coulter Book Defends McCarthy, Accuses Left of Disloyalty

• US Tells Europe That It Must Stop Anti-Semitism

• Air Academy Inquiry Finds No Cover-Up

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Boodhoo, Niala. “Hispanics Outpace Blacks as Largest Minority Group.”  Reuters. June 18, 2003.

Druge Report headline is “American Hispanic population up 10% since 2000....”

Broughton, Philip Delves. “Paris court blocks book exposing corruption.”  The Telegraph (UK). June 19, 2003.

A Paris court last night halted publication of a book by a former investigating magistrate that claims France is institutionally corrupt.

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The court ruled that publication of Is This The World We Want To Live In? might prejudice the trial of former Elf executives, now in its third month, which has already revealed the extent of political and financial corruption in France.

Sounds like France could use a First Amendment.

"The myth of 'McCarthyism' is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times," Coulter pounds. "Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie."

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The United States has said Europe must do more to tackle a resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world.

The plea was made by former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, representing the US at a conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

"Words do not suffice to turn the tide of anti-Semitism that is once again growing in Europe and other parts of the world," he said.

Attention among Air Force Academy leaders to the issue of sexual assault has dwindled in the past six years, but there is no ``systemic acceptance'' of assaults, an Air Force investigation found.

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Clegg, Roger. “Here, but Only Halfway.”  Wall Street Journal. June 16, 2003. p D8.

It has become unfashionable for our civic institutions -- notably our public schools -- to teach that America is an admirable country, with a way of life worth emulating. To the contrary, children are fed a diet rich in victimology and poor in patriotism. And of course it only gets worse in college.

A review of Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson

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Crossen, Cynthia. “Not Too Long Ago, Some Begged for an Income Tax.”  Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2003. p .

Less than a century ago, the U.S. Congress, responding to pressure from its constituents, voted to start collecting taxes on people's income.

Many Americans, especially small-business owners, farmers, trade unionists and people who lived in the Midwest, West and South, cheered the new tax. Finally, with this new tax, they might get some relief from their financial struggles.

This article fails to point out that Abraham Lincoln’s income tax was unconstitutional and that high tariffs were a Republican policy that were one of the causes of the Civil War.

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A photographer for Reuters news agency in Harare saw police forcing about 50 people, some of them women, to lie on the street while they beat them with batons and homemade whips.

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Mr. Mugabe was returned to power last year in an election so marred by violence, fraud and intimidation that many Western countries, including Britain and the United States, refused to recognize the result.

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U.N. food agencies estimate that 70 percent of the country's 12 million people now live under conditions of famine, blamed by the opposition on a coercive land-reform program by Mr. Mugabe begun two years ago.

This makes Mugabe a sort of African Bull Conners.

The June issue of National Geographic contains one of the rare honest looks at India. The article "India's Untouchables" gives a shocking picture of some of the most persecuted people on earth.

For far too long, India has been one of a number of countries used by the intelligentsia to denigrate the United States. The image or the insinuation has been that we are materialistic, they are spiritual; we are violent, they are peaceful -- and so on.

Instead of picturing every country as it is, warts and all, too often the picture of the United States has been warts only and other countries -- whether India, Cuba, China, or at one time the Soviet Union -- have had their blemishes and worse passed over in silence.

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• Argus Hamilton’s Political Humor

• Thomas Sowell on Eric Hoffer

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Simon & Schuster held a book party for Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York where guests enjoyed oysters on the half shell. You know what this means. Simon & Schuster was feeding Bill Clinton oysters in hope of another Hillary bestseller.

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Hoffer said: "The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

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In Iraq, no set of wheels is held in higher regard than the large, mostly white Toyota Land Cruiser sport utility vehicles long favored by government officials, intelligence agents and VIPs from Basra to Kirkuk.

Locals call the vehicles "Monicas," as in Lewinsky, after the former White House intern whose appearance meets Iraqi standards for both feminine and automotive beauty.

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"They are a very tempting car," said Marwan Shaban, a car dealer in the nearby northern city of Mosul. "Just as Monica tempted Clinton, they will tempt you."

Curiously, this article doesn’t say whether the Iraqi Muslims are put off by Ms. Lewinsky being Jewish.

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• US Hispanic Population Grew by 10 Percent Since 2000 Census

• Study Shows Y Chromomes Can Repair Themselves

• Criminal Bishop O’Brien of Phoenix Quits

• Ossuary Box of Jesus’ Brother Proved to Be a Fake

• Little Rock Cop Accused in Sexual Assault of 16-year-old Girl

• Prosperous Little Rock Blacks Returning to Predominately Black Neighborhoods

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Hispanics accounted for half of the growth in the U.S. population the past two years as a high birthrate and influx of immigrants helped secure Hispanics’ position as the largest minority group.

Hispanics numbered 38.8 million as of July 2002. That was an increase of almost 10 percent, or 3.5 million, since April 2000, the Census Bureau estimated Wednesday. During the same period, the national population rose 2.5 percent, or 6.9 million people, to more than 288 million.

The number of Hispanics grew at 4 times the rate of the general population; it’s unlikely that the number of jobs will increase rapidly enough to absorb the growth.

Scientists have discovered that the Y chromosome — the one that makes a man a man — has a remarkable ability to make do-it-yourself repairs.

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That ability may help keep the Y chromosome from rotting away over millions of years of evolution. …

On Wednesday, just over two weeks after admitting to sheltering alleged molester priests, Phoenix Bishop Thomas O’Brien resigned after his arrest in a weekend fatal hit-and-run accident.

An inscription that purportedly links an ancient burial chest to Jesus’ brother is a forgery, Israel said Wednesday, dashing excitement about an artifact that had been touted as one of the greatest archaeological finds of modern times.

A Little Rock police officer was arrested Wednesday in the sexual assault of a teenager he met at a camp for high school students.

Who does he think he is, a Kennedy?

A Little Rock woman had to be rescued Wednesday afternoon after a flash flood from a small stream near the entrance to Kanis Park turned her car sideways and swiftly moving water trapped her inside.

The street into the park has a large “dip” for the creek instead of a bridge, making it unsafe in flash floods.

The New Orleans-based company is only weeks from filing an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a permit to build a reactor next to one it already operates near Port Gibson, Miss. The permit would be a preliminary step toward building a new unit. Entergy says it has not decided to build the second unit.

Freeman, Helaine R. “Moving on back Many prosperous black families are moving from integrated neighborhoods back to predominantly black communities. Some never left.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. June 19, 2003.

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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In their trial, the primary witness against Ethel was her brother, David Greenglass. Greenglass was also convicted of spying and sentenced to prison, but he was released in 1960. Now, he's finally telling his side of the story. This is David Greenglass's extraordinary story, including the shocking revelation that he lied on the stand and sent his own sister to the electric chair! TV G

One wonders if the assertion that Greenglass perjured himself is true. The irony is that those sympathetic to the Rosenbergs thought that Bill Clinton’s perjury was trivial.

The “perjury” related to Greenberg’s testimony that Ethel Rosenberg typed Julius’ notes for submission to the Soviets. Even if this was false, there is ample evidence, including the Venona Transcripts, that Ethel was guilty.

This documentary also mentions that Greenberg openly expressed his Communist sentiments while working on the Manhattan Project (atom bomb) at Los Alamos.

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