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Fleischer: Libby Told a Fibby
Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer testified today in the Valerie Plame leak case — and undercut I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s story (see report).
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A Get Law for Maryland?
What do you if you care about the fate of a “chained” woman, but your religious beliefs dictate that she can’t remarry until her estranged husband voluntarily signs a “get,” or bill of divorce? For the ultra-Orthodox group Agudath Israel of America, the answer is simple: Lobby state lawmakers to require the recalcitrant Jewish husband…
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Progressives to Dems: You Work For Us
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.dems28jan28,0,4218638.story Real Progress Comes from Within! by Donna Edwards for TWFU, Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:34 PM EST bumped – Matt I am a Democrat. I’m proud to be a Democrat. I couldn’t be happier that the Democrats control the House and Senate. But, I want a strong, progressive Democratic majority ruling the Congress,…
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Ken Stein Details His Case Against Carter
Kenneth Stein, the Emory University professor who resigned as a Middle East fellow at the Carter Center last December, just published his scathing analysis of “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” in the spring, 2007 edition of Middle East Quarterly. Carter’s book, Stein writes, “contains egregious errors of both commission and omission. To suit his desired ends,…
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U.N. Shoah-Denial Measure Aims at Iran
UNITED NATIONS – As part of its latest effort to ratchet up pressure against Iran at the United Nations, the Bush administration introduced a resolution this week condemning Holocaust denial. The U.N. General Assembly was expected to adopt the measure overwhelmingly. The resolution, tabled Monday, calls upon all member states to “reject any denial of…
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With Minnesota’s ‘Jewish Seat’ Up for Grabs, Comic Eyes Run and GOPer Runs From Bush
Al Franken is not yet officially running for the Senate, but the comedian-turned-liberal pundit already may have unleashed the best joke of his campaign. Franken’s favorite quip, the one he has repeated frequently at Democratic fundraisers over the past year, is that if he runs, he would be the only New York Jew in the…
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Peace in the Plural
Samuel Sherman from Cherry Hill, N.J., writes: “In the traditional Hebrew and Yiddish greeting of shalom aleykhem, literally, ‘peace be upon you,’ the ‘you’ [aleykhem] is masculine plural, but the greeting is the same whether one is addressing many people or just one. And in the Catholic church there is a Latin greeting, pax vobiscum,…
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Israeli Leaders Push for Diplomacy With Sunni Arabs
Herzliya, Israel – Israel’s most prestigious annual gathering of national security strategists, meeting here under the shadow of Iranian threats and Palestinian violence, heard a succession of Israel’s highest-ranking officials call for renewed diplomacy as the best way to keep Israel safe. Defying a rash of international speculation that either Israel or America is planning…
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Calif. Cops Pinch ‘Needle Nazis’ Gang
Escalating violence between black and Latino gangs in Southern California has generated national headlines of late, but for local law enforcement the main attraction in Disney-country has been the “Needle Nazis.” In recent months, authorities have launched a crackdown against the little-known gang “Public Enemy Number 1,” which also goes by the name PENI. Members…
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Business, Labor Eye Dem’s Bipartisan Bid
Washington – While President Bush was preparing this week’s State of the Union address, with its emphasis on reaching out to Democrats through small-bore domestic measures, one of the most liberal Democrats in Congress was moving forward with a far more ambitious version of bipartisanship: a “grand bargain” between business and labor to endorse each…
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Jerusalem’s Leadership Crisis Deepens
Herzliya, Israel – When Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke this week before the seventh annual Herzliya Conference on the Balance of Israel’s National Security, her dignified bearing and statesmanlike appeals to Israeli patriotism struck many observers like a breath of fresh air in a smoky room In the past week, Israel’s leadership scandals spiraled into…
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