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Quantum Leap to Evil
— By Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski
How — and why — the grounded, successful become (self-) destructive
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...If a person is overtaken by envy, one escapes the natural order of the world. One is no longer bound by logic. The passion of envy can be so great that it can overwhelm all rational thought, and leave one vulnerable to the Evil Inclination's seduction to behave in the most irrational manner. Envy indeed removes a person from the natural order of the world.
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The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama
— By Charles Krauthammer
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...I have never had any illusions about Obama. I merely note with amazement that his media swooners seem to accept his every policy reversal with an equanimity unseen since the Daily Worker would change the party line overnight -- switching sides in World War II, for example -- whenever the wind from Moscow changed direction.
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How A Black Can Oppose Barack Obama
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...Dear Former Supporter,
Do you have any Republican friends, let alone black ones? If so, how many want to make it harder "for the underprivileged"?
You also might want to familiarize yourself with the history of the Democratic and Republican parties, and see which one has stood up longer for the rights of people of color.
Do you know that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively?
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2008-06-27 12:00:17
Listen to John Derbyshire on illegal immigration, Imus on Pacman, the firing of Columbia's "noose" professor, and much more.
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The Army that Likes to Go to Iraq
— by Shaun Walker
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Davit Mukeria, a lanky 22-year-old sergeant in smart American-made fatigues, has just come home from Iraq. He is part of the Georgian Army, perhaps the only fighting force in the Coalition of the Willing that is begging to send more troops to Iraq, rather than attempting to extricate itself from the quagmire, and is volunteering to go into Afghanistan too.
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— by Jack Kelly
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You've probably heard the permanent ice cap in the Arctic has receded considerably, because the people who are worried about global warming talk about it all the time.
You may not know ice in Antarctica is growing. This is an awkward topic for global warming alarmists, because if global warming were, ah, global, this shouldn't be happening.
So how could ice be melting at the north pole while it's building up at the south?
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A Clean Slate for North Korea
— By Jacob Laksin
The Bush administration goes soft on Kim Jong Ill
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YOU KNOW THE BUSH administration’s North Korea policy is fatally flawed when even Barack Obama, last heard pledging to meet with the world’s dictators “without preconditions,” judges it naïve.
And yet, the presumptive Democratic nominee sounded all too sensible yesterday when he suggested that the Bush administration’s baffling decision to strike Pyongyang from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring states and to lift trade sanctions against the tyrannical regime – in exchange for an alarmingly incomplete “declaration” of its nuclear plants and materials – may have been premature. Concessions to Kim Jong Ill, Obama stressed, should be “based on North Korean performance.”
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Demonizing Canada
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It was the second time Obama tried to cast our friendly northern neighbor as some sort of problem. On Wednesday, he indicated that Canada's prized Alberta oil-sands extractions were "dirty" and his energy adviser called it an "open question" as to whether oil-sands production, already 47% of Canada's output, would be used to resolve $4 a gallon gas at the pump.
Cloaking himself in environmental virtue, he cited global warming. So goodbye Canadian oil-sands — and Canadian oil.
This follows Obama's outrageous statements last February, where he blamed Canada, our No. 1 trading partner, for problems imagined with the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Obama vowed to go after Canada "with a hammer," if it didn't renegotiate the 1994 treaty to his diktat — statements so outrageous and ignorant he had to backtrack on them.
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Clearing the Kultursmog
— By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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...The way the Kultursmog glorifies its loved ones and spatters on its outcasts is done both by pumping out epithets and practicing neglect -- both benign neglect and malign neglect. It simply does not acknowledge its loved ones' failings (benign neglect) or its outcasts' achievements (malign neglect).
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Victimized Families must not be Allowed to Dictate Policy
— By Caroline B. Glick
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...It is impossible to know precisely how many Israelis will be killed in the future if the deals now on the table are approved. But past experience shows that at a minimum, dozens of Israelis now innocently going about their business will be murdered by the terrorists Israel releases. And at a minimum, one or two Israelis will be abducted by Hamas or Hizbullah or one of their sister terror organizations. They will be abducted in Israel or while they are travelling abroad and they will be brought to Lebanon or Gaza and the cycle of blood extortion and psychological warfare will begin anew.
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Polyclinics: a Soviet triumph
— by Chris Bowlby
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There can't be many New Labour policies that have Soviet origins. But the large scale health centres or polyclinics currently under discussion as part of Lord Darzi's proposals for the NHS in England do have very surprising historical roots. Polyclinics, which house GPs under the same roof as other medical professionals, have been discussed in British health care circles ever since 1920 when Lord Dawson wrote a report recommending a comprehensive health system. He suggested Britain might look more closely at how the new Soviet Union was organising its medical facilities.
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| So Wrong, So Often, For So Long, Yet It's Europe We Want To Copy
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If anyone suggested that Tiger Woods should try to be more like other golfers, people would question the sanity of whoever made that suggestion.
Why should Tiger Woods try to be more like Phil Mickelson? If Tiger turned around and tried to golf left-handed, like Mickelson, he probably wouldn't be as good as Mickelson, much less as good as he is golfing the way he does right-handed.
Yet there are those who think that the United States should follow policies more like those in Europe, often with no stronger reason than the fact that Europeans follow such policies. For some Americans, it is considered chic to be like Europeans.
If Europeans have higher minimum wage laws and more welfare state benefits, then we should have higher minimum wage laws and more welfare state benefits, according to such people. If Europeans restrict pharmaceutical companies' patents and profits, then we should do the same.
Some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court even seem to think that they should incorporate ideas from European laws in interpreting American laws.
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What the Counterculture Has Joined Together
— By George Neumayr
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"A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down," wrote Soren Kierkegaard, "but a revolutionary age that is at the same time reflective and passionless leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance."
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What the open radicalism of the 1960s sought to accomplish overtly its more circumspect successors achieve subtly, leaving state marriage standing but trivializing and discrediting it. The Golden state that first took a cudgel to marriage with no-fault divorce takes a final swipe with same-sex marriage.
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