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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Quartet of ladies shows where we're headed — Have you seen a movie called ''Four Jills In A Jeep''? Don't worry, it's not at the multiplex. It came out in 1944. A wartime movie, about the contribution of the gals to the big existential struggle. Great title, and downhill after that.
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
THE 'EURABIA' MYTH — A RASH of pop prophets tell us that Muslims in Europe are reproducing so fast and European societies are so weak and listless that, before you know it, the continent will become "Eurabia," with all those topless gals on the Riviera wearing veils. — Well, maybe not.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
THEY REPORT, YOU DECIDE (WITH UPDATE FROM MARK STEYN) — Most of our readers are aware of Mark Steyn's "Demography is Destiny" theme, which he has elaborated in much of his recent writing. Steyn thinks that low birth rates among Europeans, in particular, will inevitably lead to their replacement …
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
U.S. involved in Iraq longer than WWII — WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in the war that President Bush's father fought in, World War II. As of Sunday, the conflict in Iraq has raged for three years and just over eight months.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So? — Is Iraq in a civil war? — Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of American and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq meets the standard definition of civil war.
Washington Post:Baghdad Braces For More Reprisals
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Jeffrey Bartholet / Newsweek:Sword of the Shia — He can deal out death through …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The "centrist" position on the war in Iraq — This Washington Post article on the inner workings of the bizarrely revered Baker-Hamilton Commission is notable for several reasons, the first of which is that neoconservatives are stomping their feet and whining loudly because they feel …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Iraq Group a Study In Secrecy, Centrism — In the history of U.S. foreign policy, there's been nothing like it: a panel outside government trying to bail the United States out of a prolonged and messy war. — The innocuously titled Iraq Study Group, which has evolved into a parallel policy establishment …
Los Angeles Times:
Do we need another T.R.? — If John McCain gets his way, you'll have your faith in the country restored ... or else! — YOU CAN READ 1,000 profiles of GOP presidential front-runner John McCain without encountering a single paragraph examining his core ideological philosophy.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rangel says men join the army only if they can't have "a decent career" — Hence his support for the draft. If even our volunteers are there involuntarily, why shouldn't everyone be? … This won't get as much attention as what Lurch said (or was understood to have said) a few weeks ago.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
No — Look, people who advocate adding "personal accounts" to Social Security are just stupid people. Really, just morons. There's no reason to do it. There's no reason to take any part of Social Security contributions and put them in a little fund account with my name on it.
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Abby Ellin / New York Times:
Big People on Campus — ASK Sheana Director for a detailed description of herself, and chances are the word fat will come up. It is not uttered with shame or ire or any sense of embarrassment; it's simply one of the things she is, fat. — "Why should I be ashamed?" said Ms. Director …
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Gateway Pundit:
Another Massive Anti-Chavez Protest in Caracas — Amazing! — It was the largest protest in Venezuelan history! — V-Crisis has the story and more photos from the demonstration today in Caracas. — (Hat Tip Instapundit) — Venezuela News and Views has video! — Wow!
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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Here Come the Economic Populists — FOR years, the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, exercising a lock on the party's economic policies, argued that the economy could achieve sustained growth only if markets were allowed to operate unfettered and globally.
Telegraph:
Britain wants UK break up, poll shows — The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. — A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence …
Laurie David / Washington Post:
Science a la Joe Camel — At hundreds of screenings this year of "An Inconvenient Truth," the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie. — The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film …
Washington Post:
Needed: A Big Stick — Iran and Syria are waging war in the Middle East. Will the West fight back? — ONE WAY TO understand the deteriorating situation in the Middle East is to contrast last week's assassination of Lebanese Christian leader Pierre Gemayel with the response to it.
Financial Times:
Markets rocked by sharp slide in dollar — By Neil Dennis and Chris Giles in London and Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt — A sharpening slide in the US dollar unnerved global markets on Friday as investors sought to protect themselves from the possibility of sustained dollar weakness.
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