In a story out of the UK’s Guardian, it’s being reported that President Bush refused to support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites earliier this year:
Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it [...]

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Vlad!
Who’s the badass PM
Who’s part machine and part KGB?
(Vlad!)
You’re damn right!
Who is the man
That could break your neck with just one hand?
(Vlad!)
Can ya dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When NATO’s troops are all about?
(Vlad!)
Right on!
You see this cat Vlad is a bad mother–
(Shut your mouth!)
But I’m just talkin’ about Vlad!
(Then we can dig [...]

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You can find it over at Inside Catholic.
Students of history will always find the month of August a little ominous. In August 1920, the Red Army invading Poland (led by neoconservative hero Leon Trotsky) nearly captured Warsaw and spilled into central Europe, whence it might well have conquered a prostrate Germany, Austria, and Hungary — [...]

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The Pew Research Center has an online quiz to test your News IQ on current events and public figures. It’s only a 12 question quiz, so mistakes are costly.
I got two wrong (I’m a bit surprised on one of them) and wound up with a score of 83%. I’m well above the average nationally, demographically, [...]

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In Jerusalem, a terrorist entered the library of a Yeshiva and opened fire, firing off over 500 rounds of ammunition before he was stopped. Who stopped him?
Yitzhak Dadon, a student, said he was armed with a rifle and waited on the roof of a nearby building. “He came out of the library spraying automatic fire … the [...]

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It looks like the current one child policy may be coming to an end.
The bad news is that this lessening of the restrictions still sounds like it’s not going to be providing much additional breathing room. The communist government remains devoted to controlling population through coercive means.
What strikes me as most odd about this piece [...]

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Yeah, I know. Nobody likes to hear the trite clichés about starving people in the world when they’re having a bad day. I can’t speak for anyone else, but people of my generation have been inundated our whole lives with this kind of thing, from the famine in Ethiopia to those Sally Struthers commercials - [...]

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Foreign Policy tackles a handful of countries who are beefing up their military programs rather than downsizing them. Far and away, the U.S. is at the top of the list, with spending in excess of $400 billion dollars annually - and that’s the budget, not the extra expenses of war.
At only a quarter of that [...]

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Putin and Pals are forcibly tipping the scales in this weekend’s parliamentary elections so he can remain in power as Soviet Premier “National Leader”:
Asked whether the Kremlin was planning to manipulate Sunday’s election Vladimir Churov, the head of Russia’s central election commission, told the Guardian: “They will be the most free, most transparent, and most suitable [...]

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