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...best way for a man to die is with the sword." - In an e-mail defending the beheading of a Polish engineer by Taliban fighters in Pakistan (New York Times...
...might as well be telling me my nephew is being charged with 9/11. That's like pouring cold water inside me. He's been in trouble before, but we thought something like this was beyond his character." - William Headley, David Headley's uncle (New York Times...
...would clearly state he had contempt for infidels. He kept talking about the return of the 14th century, saying Islam was going to take over the world." - Lorenzo Lacovara, a former worker at a Philadelphia bar run by Headley's mother (New York Times...
...This new Obama, long past his Panglossian dreams of new Beltway comity, used fighting words because, quite frankly, he is trapped in a political tight spot, wedged between sky-high unemployment and lingering public worries over government spending. Almost 10 months after signing the $787 billion stimulus, the largest such federal program in U.S. history, he announced on Tuesday that the Federal Government needed to spend even more, a prospect that polls poorly, as concern about spending and the budget deficit continue to fester...
...down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other," he said. "This is a false choice." But as pointed as the speech was at times, it was also notable for what it did not say. Obama didn't call his new package of government spending a stimulus, which it clearly was. He didn't say how much it would cost. He gave few details of how it would be paid for, and he declined to explain exactly when it should go into effect...