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Opinion Sub-Prime Protections
Hard on the heels of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that is rattling the world’s financial markets and threatening millions with homelessness, new troubles are brewing in the airline industry, one of the pillars of the economy. It’s getting to the point where flying is as risky as staying in your house. The mortgage crisis, alert…
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Opinion Settlement Freeze
A rash of reports coming out of Israel indicates that a spurt of new construction is under way in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The development should be alarming to anyone who cares about Israel’s welfare. It’s a violation of Israel’s public commitments, most of all to the Bush administration. It’s damaging to Israel’s…
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Opinion The President in Wartime
The Bush administration recently declassified a secret Justice Department memo from 2003 that shows just how serious a threat our democracy faces in the current war on terrorism. Unfortunately, the threat revealed in the memo is not from Al Qaeda, but from us. The memo was addressed to the legal department of the Pentagon. It…
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Opinion Our Debt to Tibet
China’s violent repression of Tibetan freedom protesters over the past few weeks is turning into a test of the world community’s ability to act with even a modicum of conscience in the face of outrageous injustice. So far, the results are dismal. The crisis began with a protest march by Buddhist monks March 10, the…
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Opinion A House of Cards
With the collapse of Bear Stearns, the cocky, hard-charging Wall Street investment bank, America and the world have turned a new page in their understanding of the financial and economic troubles unfolding around us. Ever since the so-called sub-prime mortgage crisis erupted last year, discussion has been centered mostly on questions of how long it…
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Opinion Murder in the Yeshiva
Last week’s terrorist attack on a religious seminary in Jerusalem was a crime against humanity, not an act of war under any civilized norm. No legitimate moral code can sanction the deliberate mass murder of civilians — to say nothing of students sitting in school, steeped in their studies. And this was no ordinary school….
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Opinion The Democrats’ Race To Lose
The sharp racial division among Democratic primary voters in Mississippi this week serves as a stark reminder of the pitfalls that lie ahead for Democrats as they slog toward the November presidential election. African American voters gave Barack Obama fully 92% of their votes, while Hillary Clinton won no less than 70% of the white…
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Opinion The Kids Are Alright
Fears of American Jewry disappearing, drifting into a velvet oblivion of assimilation, have given rise to a cottage industry of research, outreach and alarm-ringing in recent years. Most of this activity is aimed at maintaining the loyalty of the next generation of Jews, to save them from vanishing from the fold. It’s a complex job;…
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