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Why did the Egyptian Military Attack the Copts?
Monday saw clashes yet again between Coptic Christians and Egyptian police, when a crowd of mourners gathered outside a hospital where the bodies of some […]
Ballen: Terrorism Can’t be Taken out and Shot
Ken Ballen, author of Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment : The policy of […]
Tawakul Karman, Yemen mother of 3, among winners of Nobel Peace Prize
One of the three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year is Tawakul Karman, 32, a Yemeni activist and mother of 3. Aljazeera has […]
Pro-Perry Evangelical Leader says Romney not a Christian, Mormonism a Cult
The evangelical pastor Robert Jeffres, introduced Rick Perry at the Values Voters conference on Friday, He strongly implied in his introduction that evangelicals would have […]
Palin was Right About those Government Death Panels
Well, the death panel has nothing to do with universal health care. But apparently it does exist, sited in the National Security Council. I discussed […]
Best of the Web on Widening Wall Street Protests
The Occupy Wall Street protests spread Thursday to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia, though these rallies were relatively small compared to the estimated 20,000 […]
Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer
The culture wars kicked off by the 1960s are still with us. Indeed, much of the discourse of contemporary American conservatism can be boiled down […]
China and Iran, Green Together
China says it is planning joint projects with Iran on solar and wind energy. This news is potentially very important. I once took a 24-hour […]
Amanda Knox and Troy Davis
The overturning of the conviction for murder of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by an Italian court on Monday contrasts with the fate of Troy […]
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