John Paul II: Anti-Communist, Antiwar

Thomas Woods reminds us of a forgotten quote by John Paul II: "Then there are the other social forces and ideological movements which oppose Marxism by setting up systems of 'national security,' aimed at controlling the whole of society in a systematic way, in order...

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Horowitz vs. John Paul II

Does David Horowitz, the Commie-turned-neocon, even read his own website? From the looks of two posts on their appropriately named "Moonbat Central" blog -- one by Richard Poe complaining about how "left-wing" French Catholics are attacking John Paul II, and the other...

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Serbian envoy delivers Post smackdown

Serbia-Montenegro’s ambassador in Washington finally managed to deliver a proper smackdown to the Washington Post, castigating the publication for its vulgar misrepresentation of the situation in Kosovo. The Post’s editorial of March 24 was basically a rehash of ICG...

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Recent Letters

In Backtalk: Pete Komen's Law of Politics: Never believe anything until it is officially denied. Marcia Schneider: Ralph Nader should talk about us. Peter Yff: We don't know what really happened in Halabja. Greg Cunneen asks: If the purpose of "rendition" is not...

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Shameless/Speechless

Israel's the former, I'm the latter. From Ha'aretz:After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country's history. Israel...

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All-New Fallujah Brigades?

64 Sunni clerics of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party gave a fatwa calling for Iraqi Sunnis to join the military and police. Juan Cole comments that , "Unlike Sistani's this ruling does potentially change things," which is rather an...

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