Monthly Archive: December 2005

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Mesothelioma

Just for kicks I typed mesothelioma (the asbestos cancer disease) into Google and the results are quite impressive. The number of paid adverts on the screen seems limited only by the maximum length of...

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Getting Tough

The leader of Iraq’s most powerful political party has called on the United States to let Iraqi fighters take a more aggressive role against insurgents, saying his country will only be able to defeat...

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To Protect and Serve

The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers...

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Islamophilia

I was thinking a lot about the success of Islam in the 7th century during its emergence as a regional superpower. Divinely ordained or lucky break? I thik the Arabs got lucky. Right place,...

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Land of Welcomes

Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said [US Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice told him in Washington she expected allies to trust that America does not allow rights abuses — a sign she will avoid...

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Darwin Nominee

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday in connection with a Seattle man’s death … [Kenneth Pinyan] died of...

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Left Behind Thinking

“Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind,” LaHaye told me … “Sigmund Freud, Marx, these were Jewish minds that were infected with atheism …...