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Kudos to Klein for carefully making the argument that the nation will not return the Democrats to power as long as the voters don't trust them with U.S. national security. Liberals couldn't be any further away from getting voters' trust...
Even Russia and China, with economic ties to Tehran, now seem convinced that it may all add up to a nuclear-weapons program. Rice won those countries' support at a dinner in London last week, hosted by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. "She made the argument," says U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, "that we all have an interest in not introducing another nuclear power into the Mideast...
...staff’s outlined reasons. The editorial stated that Bakshi’s ordeal should not concern Harvard because it was self-financed and because, under the current policy, it is debatable whether research in a country like Zimbabwe would be eligible for Harvard funding anyway. This argument ignores the main reason why, last spring, we helped rally 400 students across the campus to call for a more open travel policy. We argued that academic research into global trouble-spots is imperative today, especially as international tensions rise. We, as students, refused to sit idly by, and rallied...
...Administration's main stated argument against the FISA court process is that obtaining warrants beforehand is simply too time-consuming in today's fast-paced world. But if speed were the only issue, there are some relatively easy fixes. The legal standard Justice Department lawyers must meet to obtain a FISA wiretap warrant could be lowered from the current threshold that there's "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed or about to be committed. The paperwork required with a FISA warrant application could be trimmed. In emergencies, FISA now allows the attorney general to approve a wiretap...
...only a minor kerfuffle. Finding any artistic representation of the Prophet inappropriate, and that some of these images conveyed disrespect against him and against Islam as a religion, Arab ambassadors in Copenhagen quickly demanded meetings last autumn with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He demurred, making the bulletproof argument that government doesn't control the free press. But it has broken out with new and somewhat mysterious force since a Norwegian periodical reprinted the cartoons on January 10. Arab Ambassadors were recalled from Denmark, protest marches were under way in Kuwait and Damascus, and armed gunmen shut down...