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The Surprise Witness

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Editorial Board - Nov. 13 (Editorial) - One place President Obama, Speaker-To-Be John Boehner, Congressman Paul Ryan, or Sarah Palin could turn to for wisdom on the current dollar crisis is the editorials of the New York Times. Not the editorials of today, but those that were issued during the mid-1940s, when the nations about to become victorious in World War II were meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to lay the groundwork for a post-war monetary system. The Times issued editorial after editorial critical of the Bretton Woods negotiations and their architect, John Maynard Keynes. It turns out that the editorials were the work of a single, prophetic editorial writer, Henry Hazlitt.

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Greenspan’s Warning About Gold Echoes After Fed Speaks - September 22, 2010 - The New York Sun

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Sun - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Only days after the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned that “fiat money has no place to go but gold,” the dollar has collapsed to a new low. The remarks of the former Fed Chairman were made a week ago at the Council on Foreign

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After 74 Years, FCC Starting To Flex Its Muscles

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Sun - By Harold Furchtgott-Roth - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - By many accounts, the FCC is just beginning to flex its muscles. During its first 60 years, the FCC was one of the more obscure federal agencies. In recent years, however, editorial pages -- some with praise, some with a tut-tut, and some with uncontrolled hysterics -- have commented frequently on FCC decisions, or lack thereof.

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Senate Okays Telecom Immunity in Secret Surveillance

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Paul Kane - Feb. 13 (News Report) - The Senate yesterday approved a sweeping measure that would expand the government's clandestine surveillance powers, delivering a key victory to the White House by approving immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with intelligence agencies in domestic spying after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

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Study: Africa's Highest Death Rates in Congo

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By CRAIG TIMBERG/Washington Post - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Death rates in Congo remain far higher than elsewhere in Africa despite years of relative peace and elections that were designed to bring stability to the beleaguered nation, according to a report released yesterday by the International Rescue Committee.

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Communist China Aims For a Pipeline in Burma

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Joseph Goldstein - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Communist China is aiming to satisfy its growing energy needs with a pipeline through Burma, an effort that will complicate American attempts to change the regime in Rangoon, which has been widely condemned for its human rights abuses.

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Obama's Bewitching Charm

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Alicia Colon - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Exactly what is so exciting about Barack Obama? Is it his charm, oratorical skills or just simply that he is an African American with support from white Americans?

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Slight of King Could Linger for Voters

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Seth Gitell - Jan. 10 (News Report) - "It was hard to escape the distasteful implication that a black man needed the help of a white man to effect change."

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Obama's Hypocrisy

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Robert Samuelson - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take care of our children.

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The Upside of Bush's Foreign Policy

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Arthur Brooks - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - And here's what fellow rocker-activist Bob Geldof has to say: " ... the Bush administration is the most radical -- in a positive sense -- in its approach to Africa since Kennedy."

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In Kenya, Rape Is Latest Weapon of Ethnic Gangs

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Adrian Blomfield - Jan. 04 (News Report) - As ethnic hatred mounts in a country teetering on the brink of catastrophe, disturbing reports are emerging that angry mobs are adding rape to their arsenal of revenge.

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Giuliani Will Back a 'Surge' in Afghanistan

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:15:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Eli Lake - Jan. 02 (News Report) - Mr. Giuliani will call for a new military surge in Afghanistan, a change in the way America's spies are promoted so that officers are rewarded for finding actionable intelligence and not just the number of agents they recruit, and a new war on Al Qaeda's intricate network of Web sites, sites used both to communicate with its agents in the field and to recruit new jihadis.

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Journalist: U.S. Should 'Rape' Israel

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Staff Reporter - Dec. 27 (News Report) - "Israel, after 40 years of failing to resolve its problem of occupation," needed a push from America. "Rape it into resolving the problem," he told Ms. Rice.

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Bush's Very Good Year

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

New York Sun - By Lawrence Kudlow - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - The troop surge in Iraq is succeeding. America remains safe from terrorist attacks. And the Goldilocks economy is outperforming all expectations.

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Giuliani Begins Retreat From New Hampshire

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:05 -0800

New York Sun - By Nicholas Wapshott - Dec. 18 (News Analysis) - Rudolph Giuliani's decision to largely abandon the early voting state of New Hampshire and concentrate his efforts on the Florida primary three weeks later reflects an uncomfortable truth for the former New York mayor: The more he campaigned in the Granite State and the more he spent on advertising there, the more his poll numbers dropped.

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Hillary Clinton's Radical Summer

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:44:32 -0800

New York Sun - By Josh Gerstein - Nov. 26 (Special Report) - In a life marked largely by political caution, one entry on Senator Clinton's résumé stands out: her clerkship in 1971 at one of America's most radical law firms, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. One partner at the firm, Doris Walker, was a Communist Party member at the time. Another partner, Robert Treuhaft, had left the party in 1958, several years after being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and labeled as one of America's most "dangerously subversive" lawyers. The Oakland-based firm was renowned for taking clients others rejected as too controversial, including Communists, draft resisters, and members of the African-American militant group known as the Black Panthers. To this day, Mrs. Clinton's decision to work at the unabashedly left-wing firm is surprising, even shocking, to some of her former colleagues there and to those supporting her bid for the presidency. To the former first lady's enemies and political opponents, her summer at the Treuhaft firm is yet another indication that radical ideology lurks beneath the patina of moderation she has adopted in public life.

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Giuliani's Hold on Lead Spot Is Eroding

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:41:20 -0800

New York Sun - By Russell Berman - Nov. 12 (News Report) - Mayor Giuliani's hold on the front-runner's perch in the Republican presidential nomination is eroding, with two new polls showing that Mitt Romney is opening up a widening lead in New Hampshire, site of the first primary.

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'This Pretty Much Kills the Iran Democracy Program'

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:25:03 -0800

New York Sun - By Eli Lake - Nov. 08 (News Report) - The former director of President Bush's flagship democracy program for the Middle East is saying that the State Department has "effectively killed" a program to disburse millions of dollars to Iran's liberal opposition.

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We're way past 2006

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:14:48 -0700

New York Sun - By Michael Barone - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - Things are not working out as Democratic congressional leaders expected. For the first eight months of this year they struggled to find some way to shut down the American military effort in Iraq. They took it for granted that we were stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, with continuous high casualties and very little to show for them. They pressed hard to get the Republican votes they needed to block a filibuster in the Senate and were cheered when some Republicans, like John Warner, seemed to lean their way. They worked hard over the August recess to pressure Republican House members to break ranks and vote with them. But the Republicans mostly held fast. ... Democrats are coming face to face with the fact that there's a war on -- and that Americans prefer success to failure. If the choice is between stalemate and withdrawal, as it seemed to be in November 2006, they may favor withdrawal; but if the choice is between victory and withdrawal, they don't want to quit -- or to undermine the effort. Last week, Democrat Niki Tsongas won a special election with only 51% of the vote, in a Massachusetts district where John Kerry won 57% in 2004 and would have run much better in 2006. History doesn't stand still -- we're not in 2006 anymore.

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Confronting 'The Israel Lobby'

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:32:02 -0700

New York Sun - By Seth Gitell - Sep. 10 (Review) - For people who say their ideas can't get heard, those who contend "the Israel Lobby" has a poisonous grip on American foreign policy are getting a lot of airtime these days. Stephen Walt, co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," appeared on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" on Tuesday. Another NPR program, "On Point," featured Mr. Walt of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and his writing partner, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, on Wednesday. In her heavily promoted " God's Warriors" series, CNN's Christiane Amanpour featured a one-two punch of Mr. Mearsheimer and President Carter, the author of " Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," in a special, "Jewish Warriors," broadcast three times in the week following its August 21 premiere. Into this environment steps the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, whose new book, "The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control," attempts to counter the allegations and claims, errors and hyperbole of "the Israel Lobby" set. Mr. Foxman, who spent his early years in Vilna, Lithuania, hiding from the Nazis with his Roman Catholic nanny, is challenging calumnies that many believed to have been eradicated from polite discussion in America and elsewhere around the world. The book contains highly detailed and well-sourced refutations of the charges of Messrs. Carter, Walt, and Mearsheimer, as well as a new account of his involvement in last year's controversy surrounding a speech of historian Tony Judt, from whom Mr. Foxman is demanding an apology for being called a "fascist." The book also contains a powerful foreword by George Shultz, a secretary of state in the Reagan administration.

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Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:35:00 -0700

New York Sun - By Eli Lake - Aug. 06 (News Report) - E-mail addresses for American individuals were found on the same password-protected e-mail chains used by the United Kingdom plotters to communicate with Qaeda handlers in Europe, a counterterrorism official told The New York Sun yesterday. The American and German intelligence community now believe the secure e-mail chains used in the United Kingdom plot have provided a window into an operational Qaeda network in several countries. "Because of the London and Glasgow plot, we now know communications have been made from Al Qaeda to operatives in the United States," the counterterrorism official said on condition of anonymity. "This plot helps to connect a lot of stuff. We have seen money moving a lot through hawala networks and other illicit finance as well." But this source was careful to say that at this point no specific information, such as names, targets or a timeline, was known about any particular plot on American soil. The e-mail addresses that are linked to Americans were pseudonyms

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Terror Whistleblower Aid Advances on Capitol Hill

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:30:01 -0700

New York Sun - By Russell Berman - Jul. 25 (News Report) - A provision aimed at providing whistleblower protection to Americans who report suspicious activity has advanced on Capitol Hill despite opposition from some Democrats, as top Republicans announced an agreement last night.

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Hamas Goes 'on Trial' in Texas in Case Over Muslim Charity

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:30:06 -0700

New York Sun - By Josh Gerstein - Jul. 16 (News Report) - The federal government's largest and most aggressive effort to prosecute alleged Hamas financiers in America is to be put to the test beginning today in a Dallas courtroom.

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Imam Accused in JFK Plot Wanted Help From Iran

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:05:05 -0700

New York Sun - By Joseph Goldstein - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A Shiite imam accused of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport wanted to seek Iranian backing for the terrorist plot. The disclosure came yesterday in a court decision denying bail to the Trinidadian-based cleric, Kareem Ibrahim. Mr. Ibrahim, 62, is one of four men arrested last month on charges connected to the plot. At the time, American law enforcement officials said Mr. Ibrahim encouraged his co-conspirators to seek funding for the attack from outside their home countries of Trinidad or Guyana. While American authorities have not provided more details, a judge in Trinidad wrote that evidence, including tape recordings, suggests Mr. Ibrahim intended to seek backing for the plot from individuals in Iran or Britain.

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Libby Case May Aid Hamas Suspect

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:35:13 -0700

New York Sun - By Josh Gerstein - Jul. 05 (News Report) - An alleged Hamas operative is likely to be among the first criminal defendants to try to capitalize on President Bush's commutation of the 2 1/2 year prison sentence imposed on a former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., for obstructing a CIA leak investigation. Mohammed Salah, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago next week on one count of obstruction of justice. In February, a jury convicted Salah and a co-defendant, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, of obstruction, but acquitted the pair of a far more serious charge of racketeering conspiracy in support of Hamas's terrorist campaigns in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.

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