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Fouad Ajami / Opinion Journal:
Hostage to Hezbollah — Lesson for Nasrallah: "The violence done to Lebanon shall overwhelm you." — Pity Lebanon: In a world of states, it has not had a state of its own. A garden without fences, was the way Beirut, its capital city, was once described.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace — President Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East conflict that is sharply different from that of his predecessors. — When hostilities have broken out in the past …
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Pacifists versus peace — One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.
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Israel calls up army reservists — Israel has called up thousands of reserve troops and told civilians to quit southern Lebanon immediately, amid threats of a large-scale incursion. — Israeli troops are already fighting Hezbollah inside Lebanon and have been heavily shelling the border area.
Ben Stein / American Spectator:
Out of Disproportion — So, now I see that some commentators are saying that Israel's bombing of Lebanese Hezbollah strong points and neighborhoods is "disproportionate." The Israeli campaign, so this story goes, is bullying and terrorizing the Lebanese populace, and this is (so the argument goes) typical Israeli thug behavior.
Forkum / Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons:
Helter Shelter — After the Cedar Revolution, the Lebanese managed to eject Syria from their nest, but Hezbollah was allowed to stay, whether out of fear or sympathy or some combination of both. The Lebanese were supposed to disarm Hezbollah, but the "Party of God," supported …
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Juan / Informed Comment:Israelis Bomb Beirut, Baalbak Again — Tank Incursion in South
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Amos Harel / Associated Press:Four soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah; thousands of IDF troops in Lebanon
David Ignatius / Washington Post:To Save a Revolution — You could sense the hurt and anger …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Surveillance Bill Meets Resistance in Senate — A Senate surveillance bill personally negotiated by President Bush and Vice President Cheney ran into immediate trouble this week, as Democrats and other critics attacked the proposal while key GOP leaders in the House endorsed a different bill on the same topic.
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Centrist Democrats Ponder How To Counter Netroots — At a time when centrism has become a dirty word in some Democratic Party circles, hundreds of the party's avowed moderates are convening in Denver this weekend to discuss their agenda for this fall's election and the presidential contest in 2008.
Austan Goolsbee / New York Times:
Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs, to Tell if a Nation Will Recover From War — WITH repeated Shiite and Sunni killings in Iraq, the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel, Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, the assaults by the Taliban and counterassaults by American forces in Afghanistan …
Reuters:
Massachusetts same-sex marriage pioneers split up —Text+BOSTON (Reuters) - The lesbian couple whose landmark lawsuit helped Massachusetts become the only state in America where same-sex couples can marry legally have split up, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Top-Secret World Loses Blogger — CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line — Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it. — Only people with top-secret security clearances …
Michael J. Berlin / Washington Post:
A Secret the Media Kept — Toward the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organizations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring. The facts were confirmed, unassailably.
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Reuters:
Banned cleric begs UK: Save me — LONDON, England (Reuters) — A hard-line Muslim cleric barred from Britain for glorifying violence said on Friday he tried to get on board a British warship to flee Beirut but was turned back. — "The answer was, 'unless you have a British passport …
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Carsten Lietz / Reuters:
Germany seeks EU ban on stem-cell research funding — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany pressed its EU partners to ban European funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a day after President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded such work in the United States.
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Democrats ready to shake up primary; Lynch warns of chaos — WASHINGTON —Democrats are prepared to jumble the states in the presidential primary calendar to add more diversity in early voting, prompting the governor of soon-to-be-slighted New Hampshire to warn of chaos in the nominating process.
wsbradio.com:
Cynthia McKinney Missing In Action — Rep. Cynthia McKinney was a no-show this week in the U.S. House, as WSB Washington Correspondent Jamie Dupree reports that the Georgia Democrat missed all four days of legislative business and every vote on the House floor as well.
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