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I came across this interesting article by Mohammad Qayoumi in Foreign Policy online, yesterday. It’s a photo essay of how life used to be in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in the 1950′s. I posted and excerpt of the article and I suggest you go to the Foreign Policy online to read the entire article. I didn’t [...]

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By rochester_veteran The Miami Herald had a spot-on editorial about Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s hypocrisy concerning his denunciation of the deaths in Israel’s raid on the Gaza flotilla. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using the Gaza flotilla episode to distract attention from the anniversary of his rigged reelection — and from a fourth round of U.N. [...]

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By rochester_veteran The Washington Post had an illuminating editorial published last evening. Titled “Obama’s diplomatic flop“, it points out Obama’ diplomatic failure concerning the sanctions on Iran. During the campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama made light of what he saw as his predecessor-to-be’s lack of diplomatic skill. As Wednesday’s U.N. Security Council vote on sanctions over [...]

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By rochester_veteran I was first made aware of this yesterday. While watching FOX News last evening, Charles Krauthammer commented on how Obama was photographed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this past March, Obama wouldn’t allow photographs to be taken. Gateway Pundit picked up on this [...]

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This commentary by Edward Bernard Glick, originally was published in The Oregonian. He is a professor emeritus of political science at Temple University in Philadelphia. We all have heard from the lefty “history according to Howard Zinn” crowd in this country and from other countries, that America is a racist and imperialist country. Although mistakes [...]

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No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I [...]

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By rochester_veteran Mark Steyn had an excellent commentary in the Washington Times this past Friday (2/26/2009) comparing the tenuous situation in Greece, where they’re on the verge of defaulting on their loans and going bankrupt, and the situation here in the US. We could end up in the same boat unless we get our entitlement [...]

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By rochester_veteran Where’s Al Gore? Ever since the “Climategate”, “Glaciergate”, “Amazongate” and “NASAgate” scandals broke, we haven’t seen much of him. He did post a statement to his website back on February 12, proclaiming that, “More evidence of the climate crisis is unfolding before our eyes. The situation in the Arctic is worse than data [...]

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By rochester_veteran John Murtha died unexpectedly yesterday. Murtha’s legacy was that of serving as congressman of the highly gerrymandered Pennsylvania’s 12th district for almost 40 years. He also leaves this behind: Mark Schenker from AssociatedContent had this to say: However, any successful advocacy over any number of years on behalf of the military was completely [...]

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India Times Climategate-I was the revelation that climate scientists crusading over global warming at East Anglia University had tried to censor inconvenient 1.jpg data and shut dissenters out of academic journals. Climategate-II is the revelation that the 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change, saying Himalayan glaciers might disappear by 2035, was not [...]

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