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...last three years. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's primary, A-list D.C. pundits were writing columns portraying Lieberman's possible defeat as some sort of cataclysmic event that might foreshadow a dark new phase in American politics - as though voters choosing new representation were on a par with abolishing the Constitution or condoning political violence. But those breathless plaints only showed how disconnected they are from what's happening in the country at large. They mirrored his disconnection from the politics of the moment...
...Keeley of the Center for Immigration Studies says the government should raise the level of enforcement high enough so that the fear of being caught or investigated by the immigration service is on par with the fear of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. He adds that seizure laws could be useful in preventing employers from hiring unauthorized workers much in the way that IRS audits dissuade businesses from cheating on their taxes. But the immigration service would need more funds and there would have to be real commitment on the part of the Administration, something Keeley says does...
...with “Annie Hall” and some of Allen’s other films, it is the director’s nervous tics that drive “Scoop” to hilarity. The other actors’ performances aren’t quite on-par with those of earlier Woody pieces—Jackman’s Australian accent occasionally surfaces, and Johansson’s Sondra is uneven—but they never cause the film to lose comic traction...
...Carrollton, Texas, U.S. Stengel's "No one gets a blank check" is the finest essay I have read for some time. It's a pity he couldn't station himself in Australia for a while to judge some of our pillars of society, whose double-talk is on a par with that of their ideological brothers and sisters in the U.S. Bill Sherriff Niddrie, Australia When a government official leaks classified information, it is a crime, and the person should be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Journalists should be held accountable if they aid and abet in a crime...
...that resulted in an exchange of the three soldiers' bodies for prisoners held by Israel. Yet this time Olmert reacted by declaring the hostage taking an "act of war," and Israel responded in kind. Within 24 hours, Israel conducted some 1,000 air missions over Lebanon--a number on par with the first day of the full-fledged war of 1982, when Israel moved to oust Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which had been using Lebanon as a staging ground for attacks on Israel...