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January 2004

1/31/2004   Our Real Reasons for Going to War By Edward I. Koch, newsmax.com US Intelligence Official Stands by Iraq WMD Report – Reuters Hamas Plans to Seize to Israeli Soldiers  - Associated Press KAY DID FIND CAUSE FOR FEAR By JOHN PODHORETZ, NY Post Bush made the right choice By BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, The Miami Herald Dubya for Secretary General The human-rights champion in the White House.  By Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO Absence of evidence...   By Mark Alexander, townhall.com Saddam's Cash: And the journalists and politicians he bought with it.  By Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard Kerry actually stood on both sides of the first Gulf war  Found By TNR reporter-researcher Josh Benson Colorado eyes limit on benefits for aliens  By Valerie Richardson, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Medicare Drug Cost Estimate Increases Prescription Benefit's Price Tag Rises 33% By Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin,Washington Post Motives questioned in public release of Limbaugh records By Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

1/30/2004   Rolling Over on Judges - The Hatch problem. By Timothy P. Carney, NRO Kerry's Vietnam Stance Irks Veterans - T. Garlock, Atlanta JC Bad Intelligence, But No Lies - Jonah Goldberg, Philadelphia Inquirer The Real Scandal is the Democratic Memos on Judges – WSJ Transcript: David Kay at Senate hearing – CNN Saddam’s Gifts - Document: Saddam Supporters Received Lucrative Oil Contracts  By Brian Ross, ABC News Democratic Candidates Harmful to U.S. Security By Wilson C. Lucom, newsmax.com Soros prepared to dig deep to oust Bush By Mark Tran, The Guardian Georgia may shun 'evolution' in schools - Revised curriculum plan outrages science teachers By MARY MacDONALD, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution North Korea offers Nigeria missile deal By Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Democrats for Bush By Oliver North, townhall.com Silence in the press trenchesBy R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., The Washington Times UN Resolution and Has Blix Update on the inspections   UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – UN Document "An update on inspection"  Delivered by Dr Hans Blix, executive chairman of Unmovic 27 January 2003

1/29/2004   ABC's Stossel Rips Network for Hostility to Conservatives By Robert B. Bluey, CNSNews.com Wage law will hit restaurants hard S.F. diners likely to bear burden of pay hike By Carol Ness, San Francisco Chronicle Baghdad Hotel Car Bomb Kills 4, Wounds 17 By SARAH EL DEEB, AP Flashpoint city shuns Islamists in council elections - Anbar, Iraq Press U.S. Takes Possession of Libyan Nuclear Equipment - White House Says Shipment Is Part of 'Real Progress' With Gaddafi By Reuters Europe Resisting Islam's Dark Ages By Alexis Amory, FrontPageMagazine.com U.N. Iraq adviser issues vote warningBy Betsy Pisik and David R. Sands,  THE WASHINGTON TIMES Revolt or revolution?  By Bruce Fein, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Kerry, strong on defense??  Disturbing discrepancies  By Peter Huessy, The Washington Times Don't you know there's a war on?  By Tony Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Fog of WMD - Peter Feaver, Washington Post So Where's the WMD? - Wall Street Journal Bonus!!   Clark and Edwards Vie for Third — Big Test in South Is Next  By ADAM NAGOURNEY, NY Times DEMOCRATIC DEATH WISH – NY Post Opinion Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations  -  April 23, 1971 David Kay Is Right By George Neumayr, The American Spectator Case Closed - From the November 24, 2003 issue: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.  By Stephen F. Hayes,  The Weekly Standard Liberals at the wheel - 'Enemy Within' excerpt: Savage says wrong drivers steering nation's course By Michael Savage

1/28/2004   We Must be Firm with Saddam Hussein  -  What John Kerry said, circa 1997. Judge dismisses slave reparations suit  BY MIKE ROBINSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS U.N. Will Go to Iraq if Safety Proven By PAMELA SAMPSON, AP Chrirac Faces Opposition Over Scarf Ban By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER, AP Flat, Fair and Forever  BY Edwin J. Feulner, townhall.com Limbaugh's pill use not extraordinary, lawyer says  BY DANIEL de VISE Europe's Wishful Thinking - The European Union wants to have a bigger economy than America and their welfare state, too. By Irwin M. Stelzer, Weekly Standard Jihadists in Iraq: An unwelcome Saudi export. By Stephen Schwartz, Weekly Standard General Malaise - Democrats, for the good of the country: Stop Wesley Clark! By Peggy Noonan, WSJ Bush Merely Shrugs As Democrats Raise Health Care Issue By Mort Kondracke, RealClearPolitics.com The Jobless Recovery - Washington Post Democrats Critical of Bush's Budgets Offer Little Relief - USA Today Bonus!!   Iran and Castro: October surprises  By Constantine C. Menges, The Washington Times As President, Not Candidate, Bush Renews Criticism of Suit By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, NY Times SADDAM'S MISSING WEAPONS – Opinion, NY Post Unions lend voice, might to back gay marriage By Raphael Lewis, Boston Globe Kay: Bush Was Right to Attack Iraq - Newsmax.com Vetting the Vet Record: Is Kerry a proud war hero or angry antiwar protester?  By Mackubin Thomas Owens, NRO

1/27/2004   Bush Seeking to Limit Malpractice Awards By AP Back to Earth By Paul Greenberg, townhall.com Clinton jabs president in Broward talk BY ASHLEY FANTZ, Miami Hearld Pakistan TV: A New Look at the News By AMY WALDMAN, NY Times The Kennedy Comeback By WILLIAM SAFIRE, NY Time Kerry Doesn't Deserve Vietnam Vets' Support - Stephen Sherman, WSJ Kerry surges to the head of the pack, beating even Bush in a hypothetical election. By Brian Braiker MSNBC DEAN SAYS IRAQIS LIVED BETTER UNDER SADDAM By VINCENT MORRIS and DEBORAH ORIN Gwyneth's weird world By Michelle Malkin, The Wahsington Times When is a scarf not just a scarf?  By Diana West, townhall.com The unmaking of a terrorist - Palestinian blows whistle on culture that turned him toward Jew-hatred By Joseph Farah Kerry: Bush Misled Congress Democrats Cite Ex-Inspector's Statements on Lack of WeaponsBy Walter Pincus, Washington Post Bonus!!!   Primary Pass - John Edwards and the Power of Trial Lawyers, Inc.  By Jim Copland, NRO TEACHERS CHEAT By CARL CAMPANILE, NY Post Scouts must pack their tents By Seth Stern and Randy Dotinga Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Nuclear war danger highest ever? - U.N.'s nuclear chief cites North Korea, Iran, underground trade  - Mohamed El Baradei, in an interview in today's edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel

1/26/2004   War of Ideas, Part 6 - Thomas Friedman, New York Times Democrats Are Wrong About 'Unilateralism' - J. Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Bush Agenda: Pre-Emptive Politics - John Pitney Jr, Newsday Iran Hard-Liners Veto Election Bill TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Kerry passes Bush in poll By Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Arabs and the cuckoo clock By James D. Zirin, The Washington Times Dennis Miller to give Bush a free pass By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer The Nuclear Market: An Array of Vendors By DAVID E. SANGER STATEMENT BY DAVID KAY ON THE INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IRAQ SURVEY GROUP  CIA Bush 'Desertion' Charge Debunked  newsmax.com Anti-Semitism: The French Crisis By Michel Gurfinkiel,New York Sun Exclusive: TSA’s Email Threat ‘Last Straw’ for Congressman By Jeff Johnson, CNSNews.com

1/24/2004   Saudi religious chief condemns woman's action By Roula Khalaf, FT.com The Dean dream is gone  By Charles Krauthammer, townhall.com Labor Secretary Chao: U.N. a Threat to U.S.  By Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Self-Reliance vs. Self-Esteem - Michael Knox Beran, City Journal Mishandling Terrorism - The law-enforcement mistake.  By Laurie Mylroie British MP Would Consider Becoming A Suicide Bomber By Mike Wendling, CNSNews.com Companies Apply for Permits for Alaska Gas By MIKE CHAMBERS, AP DAVOS-Annan says 'laws of jungle' threaten world order By Reuters Iraqi Cleric Urges End to Demonstrations By SAMEER N. YACOUB The Awfulness of Wesley Clark - The candidate for people who want a really bad candidate.  By Byron York, NRO Winning the Peace By Clifford D. May, townhall.com Critics of the Commander in Chief By Oliver North, townhall.com

1/23/2004   Probe of Intercepted Messages Focuses on Shelby By Dana Priest and Allan Lengel, Washington Post Democrats get a dose of reality By Emmett Tyrrell, townhall.com Now it's Us vs. Them By Larry Kudlow, townhall.com Cold Facts on Global Warming - James Schlesinger, Los Angeles Times That Iranian Nuclear Headache  The IAEA's key role., By Henry Sokolski The Patriot Act – read the bill for yourself. War of Ideas, Part 5 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, NY Times Two Visions of America - David Broder, Washington Post When the Trends Bend Values - Suzanne Fields, Washington Times Clark to gay mag: 'Marriage is a term of art’ By Jon Barrett , The Advocate AWOL in the Fight Against George W. Bush - It's all in the Kerry record. By Byron York, NRO The Book of Jobs - Employment is a campaign issue, but what do the surveys really tell us about the jobs market? By Irwin M. Stelzer Bonus Section!!   Kerry/Rescue-ee 'Surprise' Reunion Well Planned  - newsmax.com Wide philosophical differences but a close political question    Ross Mackenzie, townhall.com Hard Times Life and death in Baghdad.  By Martha Malone, NRO

1/22/2004   UK cluster bombs may be war crime by Peter Apps, Reuters UK The Library Lie by Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard EU says Europe falling behind on economy By ROBERT WIELAARD, AP DEATH BY NEGATIVES By Dick Morris, NY Post Prez Calls Dems Patriot Games Bluff - Taking on demagoguery.  By Barbara Comstock George W. Bush, Preservative  Has government become the answer?  By Jonah Goldberg, NRO Shiite Leader May Soften Iraq Vote Demand By VIJAY JOSHI, AP Kelly said Iraq was immediate threat  BBC Osama bin Laden a 'narco-terrorist' By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES Dems Prepare to Blast Bush Over Pickering Appointment  ByFox News' Julie Asher and Sharon Kehnemui contributed to this report. The Cowards of Baghdad  By Rand H. Fishbein, FrontPageMagazine.com Most Iran VPs, Ministers Quit in Protest By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, AP

1/21/2004 State of the Union Address Did 'Junk Science' Make John Edwards Rich? By Marc Morano, CNSNews.com Democrats' response rips tax cuts, 'go-it-alone foreign policy', Washington Post What You Don’t Know About John Kerry by Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com More body-bag bait? By David H. Hackworth Fuel Cell Technology Has Combat Uses by MATTHEW KORADE, AP Bush's Comments on Marriage Draw Praise, Criticism By Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Bush Defends Iraq War, Economic Policy-State of the Union Address Includes Few New Initiatives By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, Washington Post DISASTER FOR DEAN IN IOWA By DEBORAH ORIN, VINCENT MORRIS and BRIAN BLOMQUIST, NY Post Labor Among Iowa's Big Losers By Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post Kerry finds he's not in Iowa anymore By Stephen Dinan, THE WASHINGTON TIMES 9-11 is no reason to suspend the Constitution By Floyd J. McKay, Seattle Times Yell in Iowa may haunt Dean camp By Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe

1/20/2004   Keep an eye on China and its emerging power by Lee Hamilton, indystar.com Judge's Border Patrol reports criticized By Susan Spencer-Wendel, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Global legal action looms over use of Linux By Richard Waters, Financial Times The witless challenge the wits by Suzanne Fields, Townhall.com Kerry Wins Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses By John F. Harris and William Branigin,  Washington Post Staff Writer Wes loves Michael, Michael loves Wes; the meaning of Sharpton; my kind of diplomat — and more by Jay Nordlinger, NRO Doctors act against malpractice premiums By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY War of Ideas, Part 4 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, NY Times Decades After Holocaust, Anti-Semitism Prevails  By Matthew McAllester, newsday.com Clark Backer Questions Bush Guard Service by BY TOM RAUM, The Associated Press FDA: U.S. generics better buy than Canada drugs, CNN Ted Kennedy's Iraq lunacy by Rich Lowry, townhall.com

1/19/2004   Mustang engineer lives American dream Inspired by auto icon as a boy in Vietnam, he drives 2005 launch By Eric Mayne / The Detroit News How Much Does Dean Get?  The frontrunner's understanding of the terror threat. By Joel C. Rosenberg, NRO Why I Stood Up to Wen By MEGHAN C. HOWARD The Routinization of Terror  by  P. David Hornik, FrontPageMagazine.com Marriage, the best welfare reform  Rich Lowry, Townhall.com Social Security Gamble  Robert Novak The Latest Judicial Power Grabs - Wall Street Journal Libya's black market deals shock nuclear inspectors Ian Traynor, The Guradian Muslim Radicalism Flowers in French Town By ELAINE GANLEY How Clinton Let Al-Qaeda Go By Richard Shultz Jr., Weekly Standard A Dishonest War By Edward M. Kennedy, Washington Post Reality check  Oliver North

1/16/04   The Mayflower Gasbag Disaster of 2004 - Ted Kennedy flips out on President Bush — again.  Jonah Goldberg, NRO The man with 'television addiction' threatens to sue cable company  Larry Elder, townhall.com 'Bush Lied' and the Lying Liars Who Perpetuate It - Jonah Goldberg, Townhall President Bush, Critics Wrong on Migrants - Robert Robb, ArizonaRepublic Bush Gets it Right on Space Exploration - C. Krauthammer, Houston Chronicle Clark testimony to Congress contradicts antiwar positionBy Brian DeBose, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Democrats Wrestle With 'Electability' By John F. Harris, Washington Post U.S. Scrambles to Salvage Transition By Robin Wright and Daniel Williams, Washington Post Mexico Awaits Hague Ruling on Citizens on U.S. Death Row  By ADAM LIPTAK, NY Times Cheney Warns Against Complacency on Terrorism  By Maura Reynolds, LA Times Official: Israel to Kill Hamas Founder, By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer What Makes a Terrorist? - James Wilson, City Journal

1-14-2004   Iraqi Goose, U.N. Gander Time for Kofi Annan to go.  By Andrew Apostolou Soros turns up heat on Bush - Billionaire says of vote: 'The future of the world hangs in the balance' WorldNetDaily.com Patriot Games Wesley Clark tries to push ahead. Rich Lowery, NRO Dean urged Clinton to take unilateral action in Bosnia By Steve Komarow, USA TODAY MoveOn stays on Bush-Hitler theme worldnetdaily.com Lies About the Presidentﾒs Policy in Iraq By Eleana Gordon FrontPageMagazine.com Tom Brokaw Outs Himself By L. Brent Bozell III Townhall.com Ohio Cleric Arrested; Terror Link Is Cited By ERIC LICHTBLAU NY Times The Kurdish Question By WILLIAM SAFIRE, NYT The Specter of Outsourcing - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp: Bad, Getting Worse - Investor's Business Daily Some victories have been won in the West's war against al-Qaeda. But the danger persists The Economist

1/15/2004   ANTI-BUSH AD CONTEST SUBMITS SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL By Ira Teinowitz ,adage.com Clarkﾒs message to the Arab World: No al-Qaida connection to 9/11 aljazeera.net The money behind MoveOn.org speaks: The Bubble of American Supremacy CNSNews.org The Joke Is on Liberals, Says Dennis Miller, Host of His Own Show Again By BERNARD WEINRAUB, NY Times Kennedy: Iraq war based on politics CNN.com The Democrats' Idea of a General By Ann Coulter FrontPageMagazine.com Homeowner defended family but charged for violating handgun ban WorldNetDaily.com Conservative Ad Campaign Seeks to Counter MoveOn.org By David Thiba Is lawful polygamy next? By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Massive extinction of logic By Patrick J. Michaels, The Washington Times Bomb-ma madness She blows up and kills 4 Israelis By MAHMOUD HABBOUSH in Gaza City and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York, DAILY NEWS WRITERS War of Ideas, Part 3 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, NY Times

1/13/2004   Bolting for Bush By EDWARD I. KOCH, Forward.org Strange Bedfellows? ACLU Supports Rush Limbaugh By Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Becoming a Feminist in Baghdad By Steven Vincent FrontPageMagazine.com Civil Rights Lawyer Files Suit Challenging Utah Ban on Polygamy By Alexandria Sage Associated Press Writer Wesley Clark's Loose Lips- Six quotes overheard in New Hampshire. By Chris Suellentrop, Slate The Palestinian Culture of Hate By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com The Bush Democrats By DAVID BROOKS, NY Times Bush, Aides Respond to OﾒNeillﾒs Criticisms By Warren Vieth, LA Times Staff Writer U.N. Anti-Terror Sanctions Face Struggle By EDITH M. LEDERER, AP The Year of Putinism's Wretched Triumph  by Andrei  Piontkovsky Bush, Campaign Team Operate as if 2004 Will Be Close Race By Mort Kondracke New Intel Source on Al Qaeda Led to Orange Alert   Fox News' Liza Porteus, Anna Stolley and Kelly Wright contributed to this report.

1/12/2004   'Spinning Into Control' By WILLIAM SAFIRE NY Times Ruling clouds Iranian Election by By Ken Ellingwood  LA Times Caucuses don't have history of timely results By John McCormick  Chicago Tribune Dean rebukes a GOP questioner By By Glen Johnson Globe Staff, 1/12/2004 Let's retire the Hitler comparisons By Cathy Young, 1/12/2004 Bush boosts illegals Bill O’Reilly Lay off the fence By SHLOMO SLONIM Cable TV made wife fat, kids lazy, says man who threatened to sue AP Iraqi Shiite Cleric Demands Elections By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press Writer Paul O'Neill is angry that the world has passed him by. John Fund, WSJ Hugo and Fidel: Destabilizing Democracies - Houston Chronicle Watch Your Wallet - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

1/11/2004   E-mail Traffic in Iraq Shows the Positive newsmax Campaign in Iowa Is Called Pivotal and Still Close By ADAM NAGOURNEY Saddam Ouster Planned Early '01? CBS News The Halliburton Huff - Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette War of Ideas, Part 2 - Thomas Friedman, New York Times Bush launches election-year push on tax cuts The Associated Press Can French Secularism Survive Islam? - Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard North Korea bares nukes By Jae-suk Yoo ASSOCIATED PRESS Economists chide Dean on jobs By Charles Hurt  THE WASHINGTON TIMES W.'S WIDE WEB MAY ZAP DEAN E-MACHINE By DEBORAH ORIN NY Post Iraqi mortar shells containing chemicals found The Associated Press The Democratic candidates have continually tried to rewrite the October 2002 resolution to use force against Iraq.  Here is the resolution:  US, Congress, "Joint Resolution to Authorize the use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq," New York Times, 11 October 2002

1/10/2004   When it Comes to Abortion, Democrats Hate Democracy - William McGurn, WSJ Face it, We Surrendered on Immigration - William F. Buckley, Houston Chronicle Hard Truths in Iraq - Bill Johnson, Rocky Mountain News Paper: Texas map ruling is good for Colo. By Peter Roff UPI Space Plan Envisions Apollo As Model Eric Pianin Washington Post Staff Writer Libya to Pay $170 Million In Bombing of Airliner in '89 Keith B. Richburg Washington Post Foreign Service Wishful Thinking on Korea By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Workers in the Shadows By DAVID BROOKS Seif al-Islam al-Qathafi: Israel does not threaten Libya's security Libya-Israel, Politics, 1/9/2004 Palestinians threaten their own unilateral initiatives By JPOST.COM STAFF Maximum charge of ﾣ3,000 'will be set by all universities' By Richard Garner, Education Editor The Politics Of 'Holy Moly' In Iowa By David S. Broder

1/9/2004   War of Ideas, Part 1 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Pakistan's Nuclear Metastasis: How Widespread is the Cancer? by Mansoor Ijaz Clark says he can keep U.S. safe from attacks - By ANNMARIE TIMMINS  Concord Monitor Why We Are Safer - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Lawsuit Culture Drives Doctors Away, Costs Up - Bill MacDonald, Seattle Times Halliburton Price-Gouging Report Sent to Pentagon - WASHINGTON (Reuters) N. Korea Hints It Won't Renounce Weapons By JAE-SUK YOO  Associated Press Writer Senator Tom Harkin, Iowa Power Broker, Endorses Howard Dean By CARL HULSE, NY Times Latin American Allies of U.S.: Docile and Reliable No Longer By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, NY Times Lefties for Terror By Kris W. Kobach, NY Post CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup Poll Virtue in Toughness By Major Craig Wonson FrontPageMagazine.com