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A Most Remarkable Declaration
By Larry Arnn
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Friday morning, July 4, our nation marks for the 232nd time the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which we have always regarded as the event that makes us what we are. Also we have regarded it as the event that marks us a special nation, a nation holding out a light to guide the rest of the world.
Always, that is, until lately.
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Why Israel is the World's Happiest Country
By Spengler
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Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands. But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation. If history is made not by rational design but by the demands of the human heart, as I argued last week , the light heart of the Israelis in face of continuous danger is a singularity worthy of a closer look.
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The Politics of Can't-Possibly-Do
by Daniel Henninger
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The site where the Trade Center towers fell that sunny morning endures as a cold testament to a truly brutal form of politics. For those of us who work near Ground Zero, it seems that half the world's people have come to look at the 16-acre hole, New York's grim tourist attraction.
Thanks to the diminished dollar, many are Europeans who bring whole families to see the ripped walls. This probably nets out as positive, if unmeasurable, global support for knowing what Islam's terrorists wish to do and why resistance matters.
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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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Why we remain safe
By Jack Kelly
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...In 2003, Canadian columnist David Warren hypothesized Iraq would be the flypaper that would lure in al Qaida, and where it would be destroyed. While I doubt this was a deliberate Bush administration strategy, that's the way it's working out. Al Qaida was right that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, but wrong about the outcome. America's Democrats have been wrong about both.
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A pariah leads the way to hell
by Wesley Pruden
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The only people who shouldn't be surprised by Zimbabwe's descent into the abyss are the people who put them on the road to hell.
The list is a long one, beginning with weak men in the British Foreign Office, always fearful and often duplicitous, eager to wash their hands of their legacy in Africa. They gave little thought to what would happen to the tribes who had trusted them. "A typical piece of British diplomacy," Ian Smith, who presided over the birth of the Rhodesian republic, once said of a similar betrayal. "Dishonest, but effective."
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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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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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A Man of Seasonal Principles
By Charles Krauthammer
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You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism." So why is he back to sporting pseudo-patriotism on his chest? Need you ask? The primaries are over. While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats that delivered him the caucuses -- hence, the Democratic nomination -- Obama not only disdained the pin. He disparaged it. Now that he's running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back. His country 'tis of thee.
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Smearing McCain
By Jacob Laksin
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DURING THE 2004 ELECTION, Democrats and their allies on the activist Left were adamant that a candidates military record was strictly off-limits to criticism. John Kerry was a war hero, and to suggest different was, as columnist David Ignatius averred, defamation. It turns out these partisans meant to exempt themselves from the rule.
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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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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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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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