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:: Friday, September 29, 2006 :: Now that's a relief. ANTI-W. $OROS: I QUIT POLITICS By MAGGIE HABERMAN - New York Post Online Edition: Seven: "'In the future, I'd very much like to get disengaged from politics,' Soros said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the Upper East Side. 'I'm interested in policy and not in politics.' ":: Friday, September 22, 2006 :: Russion governor launches "Give birth to a patriot" campaign.:: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 :: Federal judge declares boating illegal in all US navigable waters: "Judge Robert G. James of the United States District Court, Western Division of Louisiana, has said that it is criminal trespass for the American boating public to boat, fish, or hunt on the Mississippi River and other navigable waters in the US.":: Friday, September 15, 2006 :: FOXNews.com - Religious Leaders Across Mideast Rage Against Pope's Comments on Islam - Europe: "'Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence,' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.":: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 :: CONSPIRACY CRANKS By JAMES B. MEIGS - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion: "In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified. ":: Monday, September 11, 2006 :: OpinionJournal - Featured Article: "The second point makes me queasy, but cannot be ducked. 'We'--and our allies--simply have to become more ruthless and more experienced. An unspoken advantage of the current awful strife in Iraq and Afghanistan is that it is training tens of thousands of our young officers and soldiers to fight on the worst imaginable terrain, and gradually to learn how to confront, infiltrate, 'turn,' isolate and kill the worst imaginable enemy. These are faculties that we shall be needing in the future. It is a shame that we have to expend our talent in this way, but it was far worse five years and one day ago, when the enemy knew that there was a war in progress, and was giggling at how easy the attacks would be, and 'we' did not even know that hostilities had commenced. Come to think of it, perhaps we were a bit 'innocent' after all. "
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