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...attempt to unite North Koreans by arousing their fear of imminent attack by foreign aggressors. In one example, a soldier surging out of a red globe declares, "Our Guns Are Merciless for American and Japanese Invaders!" Apparently produced in response to U.S. President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech, another poster shows a giant finger pointing at a tiny image of an exploding Pentagon, along with the battle cry "Let Us First Attack the Stronghold of U.S. Imperialism!" There is even a poster that disingenuously suggests South Korea is targeting the North with nukes, along with the plea...
...President can get away with calling himself a Christian. Bush may see the pre-emptive use of force as an acceptable form of self-defense, but Jesus said those who live by the sword will die by it. Jesus taught us to love our enemies, judge no one as evil, pray modestly in private and value humility over self-righteousness. These teachings seem contrary to Bush's worldview. Adam Franklyn Rogoyski Pflugerville...
...shared certain traits, feeding a mutual cynicism. Each scorned the other as excessively ambitious. In his secret diary, or Anas, Jefferson recorded a story of Hamilton praising Julius Caesar as the greatest man in history. (The tale sounds dubious, as Hamilton invariably used Caesar as shorthand for "an evil tyrant.") Hamilton repaid the favor. In one essay he likened Jefferson to "Caesar coyly refusing the proffered diadem" and rejecting the trappings, but "tenaciously grasping the substance of imperial domination...
...said Jefferson; the ploughman will decide it as well, and often better, "because he has not been led astray by artificial rules." This idea lay behind Jefferson's belief in the natural harmony of society and his advocacy of minimal government. Government, especially monarchical government, was the source of evil in society. Get rid of its power to create distinctions and monopolies, said Jefferson, and people would be able to come together naturally in social equality and benevolence...
...will counsel Catholic public officials that their acting consistently to support abortion on demand risks making them cooperators in evil in a public manner." U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, in a statement that allows individual bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion...