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Race Issues in Maryland?
The Hill has this story today: “Race issues dog Cardin and Mfume in Senate primary. Perhaps I was up too late last night, but I’ve scanned the story a few times, and can’t figure out what the race “issues” are in Maryland – except that blacks will vote for Mfume and whites will vote for…
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Lieberman-Lamont Roundup: Parade Blues
Senator Joseph Lieberman ends up in the back of the Labor Day parade. Speaking of Labor Day, now it’s official: NYT says Lieberman-Lamont Round II has begun. Is there such thing as a Ned Lamont boost? Cindy Sheehan says people power at work in Lamont victory. Lamont’s swan behind the scenes.
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War Names
Now that the fighting in Lebanon has ended, at least for the time being, what shall we call it? Israel’s five-week war with Hizbullah does not have a name yet — or, rather, it has many, none of which is clearly in the lead. Wars may take years, or even decades, to get their permanent…
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Showdown Set in ‘Genocide’ Debate
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is threatening a confirmation fight in an effort to press the Bush administration to reverse America’s longstanding policy of avoiding the use of the word “genocide” to describe the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote…
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Groups Push For Sanctions, Fear U.S. Will Falter on Iran
WASHINGTON — Jewish organization are seeking to mobilize the international community, through direct meetings with foreign diplomats and by lobbying the Bush administration, to impose sanctions on Iran for defiantly carrying on with its nuclear program. With the arrival of the August 31 deadline for Iran to stop its enrichment of uranium, pro-Israel groups are…
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GOP’s Fla. Recount Diva Gives Dems Ammunition
Democrats are hoping to swing several tightly contested congressional races by seizing on controversial comments made by Rep. Katherine Harris, best known for her role during the 2000 recount in Florida. Harris, who as Florida’s secretary of state was hailed by conservatives and reviled by liberals for her efforts to certify then-Texas Governor George W….
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Antisemites Hit in Tacoma After Messianic Raises Flag
On July 12, the day that two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah, setting into motion Israel’s war in Lebanon, Rebecca Yale lowered the commemorative 9/11 flag she had flown alongside her Stars and Stripes and replaced it with the flag of the State of Israel. It was only a matter of weeks…
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Wave of Bias Attacks Sweeps Diaspora
JERUSALEM — Jewish leaders of five different continents around the world headed to Israel this week to discuss what they described as the deteriorating security situation in their regions following the war in Lebanon. The New York-based World Jewish Congress, which organized the trip, issued a statement last week saying that the visiting Diaspora leaders…
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Evangelicals Launch Voter Drive To Boost Conservatives
With Democrats threatening to take back Congress in November, Christian conservative leader James Dobson has launched a multifaceted campaign to mobilize religious voters in eight battleground states. The effort, coordinated by Dobson’s Colorado-based group, Focus on the Family, will include church-based voter registration and education drives aimed at combating “voter apathy” and encouraging “Christians to…
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In Nasty Brooklyn Fight, Candidates Vie To Be Russian Trailblazer
Since the fall of communism, immigrants from the former Soviet Union have transformed the ethnic landscape of southern Brooklyn. Radiating out from Brighton Beach, known as “Little Odessa,” Russian-speaking immigrants — most of them Jewish — are a major presence in many areas of the borough. But one area in which the immigrants have yet…
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Bush, War Veterans Dive Into San Diego Cross Fight
SAN DIEGO — For the past 17 years, a concrete Latin cross that crowns a picturesque hilltop in La Jolla, Calif., has been the object of a convoluted local legal battle between the city of San Diego and an atheist who contends that the 29-foot monument cannot stand on public land. But this month the…
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