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Iran’s leaders have promised something huge for today to “punch the West.” Lots of speculation about what they have planned. Iran expert Michael Ledeen believes that the regime plans massive and violent repression.
How much is a college degree worth?
Quoting the historian Arnold Toynbee, “Civilizations die from suicide, not from murder,” Mark Steyn contemplates the danger for and from American timidity and decline.
According to liberals, the latest racist codeword was to describe Obama as “articulate.” But that has been supplanted by “professor,” a term by which Sarah Palin referred to Obama. Never mind that Obama was, in fact, a professor (or at least an adjunct associate professor).
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Daily Briefing 06/24/10
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