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No backbone in Rollback

by Arnold Beichmanvia Washington Times
Saturday, October 28, 2006

As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising in the fall of 1956, one event, or rather one nonevent, is ignored: the dishonorable role of the United States during the bloody insurrection by Hungarian patriots against Soviet occupation of their war-torn country...

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Democracy with Chinese characteristics

with Larry Diamondvia Asia Times
Friday, October 27, 2006

In 1976, chairman Mao Zedong died after leading a decade of the murderous Cultural Revolution that nearly broke China…

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Intervening militarily in Darfur compared with Iraq

by Kenneth Andersonvia Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog
Friday, October 27, 2006

A few days ago former Clinton senior national security staffer Susan Rice (likely headed for an even higher post in a future Democratic administration) was on some NPR talk show discussing the question of intervention in Darfur - military intervention of some kind....

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Hoover Institution Press: The Second Twentieth Century: How the Information Revolution Shapes Business, States, and Nations, by Jean-Jacques Rosa

with Hoover Institutionvia Business Wire
Thursday, October 26, 2006

The worldwide wave of democratization and the nearly total disappearance of communism at the end of the twentieth century were major economic and political changes of our time…

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A liberal who prepared the ground for Thatcherism

with Milton Friedmanvia Financial Times
Friday, October 20, 2006

Lord Harris of High Cross, who died yesterday at the age of 81, played a decisive role in the free-marketcounter-revolution of the 1980s…

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Hoover Institution Press: Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906–1915 by Stephen F. Williams

with Hoover Institutionvia Business Wire
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Stephen F. Williams's book provides an authoritative account of the last important reform undertaken by the tsarist government prior to the Revolution…

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Censoring ideas

with Dinesh D’Souzavia Boston Globe
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Did the Ottoman Turks commit genocide against the Armenians in 1915…

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Liberals gone wild!

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days…

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'The Common good' is the preservation of liberty

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom News Networks
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Liberal Democrats are having a conniption fit about the lack of any vision that unites the Democratic Party…

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North Korean Fuel Identified as Plutonium

with William J. Perryvia New York Times
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

American intelligence agencies have concluded that North Korea’s test explosion last week was powered by plutonium that North Korea harvested from its small nuclear reactor, according to officials who have reviewed the results of atmospheric sampling since the blast…

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