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No to Judge Gorsuch and No to Evil Designs of McConnell By Mike Ghouse April 6, 2017, Washington, DC — Judge Gorsuch is a fine individual and perhaps will make a great judge despite his flaws. He is more for the corporations’ rights than individual’s rights. Perhaps, we can live with that, as we have…
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The first Cubs curse was by an Arab American The first Cubs curse was by an Arab American in Chicago, but it was for a good reason. It was issued by Abdullah al-Tidhatch in 1908 after the Cubs refused to reinstate the league’s first Arab player, Fareed Habibi, according to sources, myths and old wives’…
Time to Control Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisies Israel is doing everything it can to undermine any deal on nuclear energy with Iran, not to make the world safer but to preserve its hegemony in the world. Conflict is the engine that sustains and drives today’s Israel, which is governed by extremists and fanatics who thrive in…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in the United States on Jan. 19 this year, but he was born on Jan. 15, 1929. In his manifesto from Birmingham Jail, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. directly challenged his “fellow clergymen.” By Eileen Fleming I have taken a few liberties with King’s masterpiece, added a…
Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas by Ray Hanania (January 2003) (Click here to view PDF with sourced footnote citations.) Hamas is considered one of Israel’s greatest threats, but the Islamic terrorist organization found its beginnings in the misguided Israeli effort to encourage the rise of a religious alternative that would undermine…
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Op-Ed: 800 Lb war Gorilla hangs over Peoria Trial By Ray Hanania Posted Oct 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM. Updated Oct 4, 2008 at 3:23 AM. Published in the Peoria Star-Journal. Jeff Mazon triual skirts many of the important issues Although a Rock Island jury last April deadlocked on the Bush administration’s claim that a former Halliburton subcontractor, Jeff Mazon, inflated a fuel-related contract cost in…
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