Colombia hostage rescue sidelines Chavez

Hugo Chavez, once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe after this week's bold rescue.

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Latin American Leftists Redefine Politics

These aren't the hide-in-the-hills leftists of yesteryear, ready to take up arms against the oppressor. A new wave of Latin American leaders — variously labeled leftist, populist, nationalist or socialist — is redefining politics in a region where U.S.-backed, right-wing dictatorships spent decades crushing their mostly leftist opponents and supporting corporate interests amid fears of inroads by the Soviet Union and its Cuban proxy.

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Recently the monthly Herald published the results of an elaborate survey that it undertook to determine the extent of anti-Americanism in Pakistan. The findings suggest nothing that we do not already know. The percentages in this case hold only an academic interest.

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Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others.

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[Manila, Philippines] What's really the difference between a so-called tradpol and a non-tradpol?

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Welcome to Boston, Mr. President. Stand by for the angry moonbat demonstrators.

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I listed the three things they were saying about us to try to discredit the network. That's when it hit me: They're the same three things progressives use to discredit their opponents on every issue.

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The world seems stunned that President Obama was chosen as this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. But given the worldview of the selection committee, this really should come as no surprise at all.

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Evidence continues to accumulate from far and wide that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is lousy with corruption. The latest revelations come from Louisiana and Oklahoma. In the former, the local ACORN Housing Corp.

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Hollywood moguls are pressuring California lawmakers to do what they can to stop the extradition of Roman Polanski, aiming to prevent the Oscar-winning director from being forcibly returned to the U.S. to do time for raping a 13-year-old girl in the 1970s.

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Imagine this scene, one that we imagine is familiar to many readers: you've just done something of which your parents do not approve. Perhaps you've tracked mud into the house. Perhaps you were playing ball indoors and smashed a prize lamp.

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•Was the UN commission's approach one-sided against Israel, or unbiased and objective as commission chairman Richard Goldstone contended? Statements of Palestinians recorded by the commission and posted on the UN website provide authentic evidence of the commission's methodolog …

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Stone says "South of the Border" is meant to illustrate "the sweeping changes" in South America in recent years as a direct counterpoint to what he sees as Chavez's depiction as a dictator by U.S. and European media.

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Even though his dogged pursuit of the Van Jones story helped topple the 9/11 communist "truther" who served as President Obama's green jobs czar, Glenn Beck refused to take any of the credit on his TV show Tuesday.

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And the only thing lower than the agent provocateur is the group which sent him:

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Obama, Divided, He stands

What's happened to the Obama we knew and luved?

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Democrats, bloodied over their attempt to force health care 'reform' on Americans, are looking more unreasonable and hysterical by the day. This isn't healthy for the republic.

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Half-a-century ago, a band of Leftist thugs violently took over the administration building at Columbia University and hijacked the American education system.

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Democrats' Blame Game Keeps Backfiring

Dana Perino - FOXNews.com - August 03, 2009 Democrats' Blame Game Keeps Backfiring No one expects the Democrats to have a crystal ball but they do expect them to have some basic answers.

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IF you were hiring a lawyer to help pro tect Americans from terrorists, you likely wouldn't choose a left-wing ac tivist who's been a champion of the killers held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Four Stages in Subverting a Nation: Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, Normalization. (His Thesis: Leftists are the Useful Idiots of Socialism)

Interviewer, G. Edward Griffin: Our conversation is with Mister Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov. Mr. Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow. He was the son of a high ranking Soviet Army officer.

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Pity the Jews. The world is about to abandon them—again. They are staring at another Holocaust. And the West, led by President Barack Obama, is willing to sacrifice them at the altar of appeasement. This is the real meaning of Mr.

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Iran situation has left the political left in the United States confused as it is unsure how to say no to American intervention in affairs of sovereign nations, but still support the ending of the 30-year-old theocracy. Some are even blaming the CIA.

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A California nonprofit dedicated to "teaching about Islam & Muslims" at U.S. high schools and college campuses features a board of advisors that is stacked with some of the most controversial activist professors in the field of Middle Eastern studies today.

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There are 70 conflicts worldwide, so why do we focus on just one?

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The arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich in December cast a shadowy light on the relationships among four leading players in the Illinois Democratic Party—Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod.

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