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Entries from August 2006

Counterfeit News

David Frum wrote on August 26th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Perhaps you saw the images in your newspaper or on television:
“A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the   more

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Terrorism’s Enablers

David Frum wrote on August 19th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Attention nervous flyers: Don’t think you can escape the terrorists by taking the train.
On July 31, an alert German train conductor spotted an abandoned suitcase on a regional train as it passed through the city of Dortmund, in western Germany. That same day a similar suitcase was found near Koblenz, in the German south.   more

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Flying Blind

David Frum wrote on August 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Airport Screeners Treat Everyone the Same. They Shouldn’t.  more

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How Far Will Obrador Take This?

David Frum wrote on August 5th, 2006 at 12:00 am

At first, it seemed like a mariachi version of Bush v. Gore. On July 2, the Mexican presidential election ended in a teeth-chatteringly close final result: 35.89% of the vote for winner Felipe Calderon to 35.32% of the vote for loser Lopez Obrador.
As in the United States, the left-of-centre loser had started with a   more

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