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As President Bush perambulated round Israel in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state, I listened on my public radio to snippets of his speech at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. I could have written a better...

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May 15 2008

The successor to dhimma is the Sharia.

When Ottoman Empire collapsed and western powers like France and Great Britain came in to administer the former territories of the empire, western values and ideas reemerged.

The idea of equality of...

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May 13 2008

Even crazy Benito Mussolini reacted like a normal human being when a group of Arab ambassadors informed him of their desire to build a mosque in Rome. “There will be a mosque in Rome,” the Fascist ruler said, “only when a Roman Catholic Church...

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May 11 2008

“Because God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.” – Jewish Proverb

Before I was a Spirit
You told the moon of me.
Before I was formed
You chose me out of the pack.
Before I was here
You were waiting for me.
That’s the...

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May 10 2008

... 18 Kids and counting

Some mothers do have them
Some mothers do use them-
The eggs.
Who said
They don’t live long anymore?
Who said
They need vitamins to grow?
Who said
They need microwaves to bake?
Who said:
They can’t hook up...

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May 10 2008

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,’ she said in an interview with USA Today. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article ‘that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white...

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May 8 2008

In February 2008, I wrote this article, Why Obama is My Man. It has been three months since, though it seemed like three years. The Obama that I saw then looked very different from the Obama of today.

He now look older. Maybe if we examined him...

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May 5 2008

Who can tell me how the Democratic Party got to where it is now? How did Super Tuesday end up as someday in June?

In 2000, 2004 and apparently this year, the Democratic Party has operated like people who never missed a chance to miss an...

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May 3 2008

If anyone had told me that Barbara Walters would be taking a page from the book of rapper, Bobby Brown, I would have said that would happen the day a woman wins a Grand Prix.

Not our Barbara – the classy, hard hitting reporter, the ex-Today Show...

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May 3 2008

If you are a horse but not a thoroughbred, you are out of luck today. And so are thoroughbreds older than three.

For two minutes in Louisville, Kentucky, the eyes of the world will be on the 1.25 miles of Churchill Downs. With thousands of bets at...

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