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pajamasmedia.com - 1/7/2009
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Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review cites a former CIA person who thinks Leon Panetta is a good appointment for DCI simply because he’s an outsider to the agency and would be in a position to break its culture. Panetta wouldn’t be the first appointee to the CIA whose primary ...
theatlantic.com - 1/5/2009
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theatlantic.com —
Israel has just embarked on a land invasion
of the Gaza Strip after a week of aerial...
bombing. Gaza is bordered by Egypt, and was under Egyptian military control from 1949 through 1967. And yet in a startling rebuke to geography and recent history and ...
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Iran's Postmodern Beast in Gaza - The Atlantic
(January ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Transition officials confirm that President-elect Obama has asked
Dennis Ross , Richard Haass , and Richard Holbrooke...
, to serve as his chief emissaries to world hot spots. It's expected that Ross will get the Iran portfolio, that Holbrooke, the ...
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Ross, Holbrooke, Haass To Serve As Envoys
pajamasmedia.com - 1/5/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
After years of refusing to see Iran’s aggressive
intentions, most sensible observers of things Middle Eastern now...
recognize that the most important terrorist organizations, from Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah and Hamas, are essentially Iranian ...
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Is Iran in Trouble?
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Stones Cry Out —
... beauty discussion.
Lessons from Detroit for the Church … maybe.
In but not of … or not.
Traps for the converts to avoid.
Democrats and the MTB crowd.
On hard times … but whence “celebrate your sufferings” (Rom 5:3)?
Nature celebrated.
Challenge/response and Theophany.
Brave and principled … or not.
Mr Fernandez considers Mr Panetta’s appointment.
For the Catholic, the only ...
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