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The Iranian Mullahs either already have, or will very soon be in possession of, nuclear weapons. This reality is horrifying in the context of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s verbalized fantasy of annihilating.

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“The actions of this Beijing CEO tell the whole secret of the Chinese economy; that is, no billionaires or millionaires dare to make public how they have become so rich, even if their money is clean. Most money is “dark” money,” said Ms. Zeng who enjoyed a successful career within China’s booming [...]

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When all is said and done — when protestors junk their placards, when burning churches cool, when a murdered nun’s grave grows grass — “shut up” is the underlying message of Pope Rage, the latest fulmination to come from Islam, this time over Pope Benedict’s recent lecture on faith and reason. When [...]

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Ahmadinejad’s confidence was the overriding theme of his visit. He was like a picador, deftly sticking darts into a wounded bull. As he moved from event to event — TV and print interviews, a chat with the august Council on Foreign Relations, his lecture to the U.N. General Assembly — he displayed [...]

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With anyone who has ever taken a high-school history course, it seems, arguing about whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is auditioning to be the next Adolph Hitler, this might be a good time to put their method to work.
The course is summarized in their book Thinking In Time: The Uses of [...]

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When Hurricane Wilma struck Florida last year, the eye was so vast and the calm so reassuring we had a hard time believing the storm was not over.
Elisabeth went outside and started cleaning up debris in the yard. I dove into the pool to fish out fallen branches. Even after [...]

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The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we’ve read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below. –Daphne Durham
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Russia, pledging to complete the Bushehr reactor, has offered to sell a range of surface-to-air missile systems to protect Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Middle East Newsline reports.

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Fresh from their anti-American tirades at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Cuba, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s President Chavez brought their show to the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week. Toning down his rhetoric at the UN, Ahmadinejad tried to play the role of ‘statesman’ speaking out for [...]

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In a penetrating but largely forgotten analysis of the mainsprings of anti-Semitism entitled The Great Hatred (1940), Maurice Samuel observed that liberals and conservatives in the 1930s commonly failed to see in anti-Semitism anything more than an ordinary bigotry and political manoeuvre issuing from certain local grievances and economic conditions. In [...]

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In October 1973, with its forces battling to repel invasions by Egypt and Syria, Israel did what had previously been unthinkable: It briefly wheeled its nuclear-capable Jericho-1 missiles out of their secret silos.

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Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves and their leftist “anti-fascist” appeasers in the West is just too bad.

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By Niall Ferguson
Money’s disappearing, world leaders are blathering at the U.N., Thailand had a coup and Hungary’s prime minister was caught on tape.
It’s a mad world.
I was wondering why the antics of world leaders at the United Nations seemed so familiar last week. Then I realized it was just like a university [...]

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Japan is likely to accelerate moves to rearm after the inauguration of the country’s new premier, shrugging off concerns from neighbors about its reemergence as a military power.
Japan’s newly elected ruling party leader Shinzo Abe, who is set to be appointed prime minister this week, said recently that he aims to revise [...]

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As Middle East experts Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noel note in a fascinating recent National Interest article, with their power, confidence, and common interest in oil, the members of this new alliance probably will ensure that Iran obtains nuclear capacity. And Iran could be only the beginning. This alliance of authoritarian regimes–Leverett [...]

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BENEATH THE SHEEN of high-tech tranquillity that characterizes modern, conformist Japan stirs an angry, alienated and deeply pessimistic populace teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
So the ascendance of a hawkish new leader, Shinzo Abe, as the handpicked successor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday raises fears that the nation’s [...]

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Israel alerted the world to another wave of anti-Semitism in the early 1980s, just as it came under unprecedented criticism for its invasion and occupation of Lebanon. What distinguished the new anti-Semitism from traditional anti-Jewish racism of the kind that led to Germany’s death camps, said its promoters, was that this time [...]

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It’s the year 2031–one generation removed from Sept. 11, 2001–and Americans are commemorating the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. How well did America respond to that day, when viewed with the benefit of hindsight? How has history judged our leaders’ actions? [...]

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Historian Edward Gibbon blamed Rome’s decline on military overreach, social decadence, and barbarian invasion. Sound familiar? From the quagmire in Iraq to ballooning U.S. waistlines (and debt), to Europe’ immigration woes, the author shows why the sun is setting on the West
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What do Christian millenarians, jihadists, Ivy League professors, and baby-boomers have in common? They�re all hot for the apocalypse.
On the subway home, I read the essay in the new Vanity Fair by the historian Niall Ferguson arguing that Europe and America in 2006 look disconcertingly like the Roman Empire of about 406�that [...]

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