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	<title>GregNews &#187; illiberal democracies</title>
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		<title>Not so &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslim Brotherhood.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2011/02/not-so-moderate-muslim-brotherhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great commentary from the Bret Stephens: It&#8217;s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a &#8220;Times Classic.&#8221; On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law at Princeton, under the headline &#8220;Trusting Khomeini.&#8221; &#8220;The depiction of [Khomeini] as fanatical, reactionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paging Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Danny Glover.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/09/paging-oliver-stone-sean-penn-danny-glover/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/09/paging-oliver-stone-sean-penn-danny-glover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d be curious to see the retorts from every Hollywood Chavez loving Leftist: Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why By SIMON ROMERO CARACAS, Venezuela — Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out. In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral inversion: Aggressors are victims, victims aggressors.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/06/aggressors-are-victims-victims-aggressors/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/06/aggressors-are-victims-victims-aggressors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Draw a cartoon or write a novel offending Islam, and you must go into hiding; defame Jews and earn accolades.&#8221; &#8212; Victor Davis Hanson. &#8220;The consequence of this moral and cultural relativism is that people are increasingly unable to make moral distinctions based on behavior. Such moral equivalence rapidly mutates into moral inversion, in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What of Mexico&#8217;s immigration policy?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/05/what-of-mexicos-immigration-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/05/what-of-mexicos-immigration-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s William Bennett in a must-read commentary regarding the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law: [Mexican President] Felipe Calderón has simply no business lecturing us, lecturing America, about our immigration policies. How does Mexico treat illegal immigrants? See Article 67 of Mexico’s General Population Law: “Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal . . . are required to demand that foreigners prove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaCare &amp; &#8220;Demon Pass&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/obamacare-demon-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/obamacare-demon-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Um, &#8220;Deem and Pass&#8221; that is, although the American public, of whom only 25 percent polled actually want the existing version(s) of ObamaCare (and a CNN poll at that!) might one day argue to the Democrats&#8217; demise that it was &#8220;Demon Passed&#8221; &#8212; given the amount of obfuscation and chicanery Democrats are exhibiting to enact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four parting shots from Thiessen&#8217;s &#8220;Courting Disaster.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2010/03/four-parting-shots-from-thiessens-courting-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following excerpts are taken from Marc Thiessen&#8217;s book Courting Disaster &#8212; and relevant to the discussion post below regarding Obama Justice Department officials who worked previously defending terrorists (point #3 is huge): Others say that the lawyers at these firms are in fact following a  great American tradition, in which everyone gets a lawyer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Your Health Care (and decision making).</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/free-your-health-care-and-decision-making/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/free-your-health-care-and-decision-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gregnews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop. Go to Free Our Health Care Now, and sign the petition demanding among other things that the U.S. Congress &#8220;stop any increased role of the government in my health care decisions.&#8221; Far from Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s accusation that such protest is somehow &#8220;unAmerican,&#8221; and no matter that the White House asked citizens to report suspicious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elected by whom?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/elected-by-whom/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/08/elected-by-whom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the words of Michael Goldfarb, the Obama Administration officially &#8220;certified&#8221; the Iranian &#8220;election.&#8221; Nice. &#8220;He&#8217;s the elected leader,&#8221; says Obama press secretary Gibbs. Elected? Really? Who elected Ahmadinejad? Does a council of 12 unelected religious clerics with absolute omnipotence over all legislative and judicial ability make an election? Every time the Obama administration attempts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian rule.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/07/iranian-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/07/iranian-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Francis Fukuyama on the political architecture of Iran. Basically, imagine if the Bill of Rights had included an Amendment 10b that stated, &#8220;an unelected council of religious clerics lead by a supreme leader may at will define, qualify or overrule all these previous amendments.&#8221; Political scientists categorize the Islamic Republic of Iran as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Presidential backbone.</title>
		<link>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/07/wanted-presidential-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gregnews.com/2009/07/wanted-presidential-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Bret Stephens: In other words, Mr. Obama seems to have thought that a considerable part of America&#8217;s Iran problem was simply an America problem, to be addressed by various forms of conciliation: Mr. Obama&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s greetings to &#8220;the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8221;; the disavowal of regime change as a U.S. objective; the offer [...]]]></description>
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