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U.S. Faces Tough Choice in North Korea

By Ted Galen Carpenter, North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons is one of the most serious security challenges the United States faces.  The most recent six-party talks (China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, United States) made, at best, incremental progress toward a solution to the crisis. Throughout the negotiations, the U.S. goal has remained the same: a complete, verifiable and irreversible end to North Korea’s nuclear program. North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons is one of the most serious security challenges the United States faces.  The most recent six-party talks (China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, United States) made, at best, incremental progress toward a solution to the crisis. Throughout the negotiations, the U.S. goal has remained the same: a complete, verifiable and irreversible end to North Korea’s nuclear program.

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Pa. Republicans See Moore Movie for Free

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Maurice Brubaker probably wouldn’t have gone to see “Fahrenheit 9/11″ on his own, but free admission helped change the Republican’s mind. Brubaker, chairman of the Bush/Cheney campaign team in Union County, was among at least 40 people who went to the Campus Theatre on Saturday to take advantage of a free showing for card-carrying GOP members. I don’t think you can consider it a documentary, because I don’t think both sides were represented,” Brubaker said of the Michael Moore film that criticizes the Bush administration’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

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U.S. Addiction to Foreign Oil Deepens

By Timothy Gardner, NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. domestic oil production has dropped five percent since this year’s peak in February and near-record oil prices are unlikely to inspire drillers to slow the country’s deepening dependence on foreign oil, experts say. “Why on earth would you drill here when we’ve been drilling here for 120 years and when there’s vast untapped regions across the globe?” said Kyle Cooper, analyst at Citigroup Global Markets in Houston.

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Kerry sets conditions for troop withdrawal from Iraq

Middle east Online, Conditions are: To measure level of stability in Iraq; outlook for stability to hold; Iraqi security forces’ ability to defend Iraq. WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he would set three conditions for withdrawing US troops from Iraq if he were elected, and warned that President George W. Bush might cut troop numbers ahead of the November 2 vote. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Kerry said the conditions were “to measure the level of stability” in Iraq, “to measure the outlook for the stability to hold” and “to measure the ability … of their security forces” to defend Iraq.

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Ron Reagan Wrong on Stem Cells

By Steven Milloy, Fox News, Ron Reagan, the younger son of the late Republican president, announced this week that he would give a prime-time address in support of stem cell research (search) at the Democratic National Convention in Boston later this month. “Ron Reagan’s courageous pleas for stem cell research add a powerful voice to the millions of Americans hoping for cures for their children, for their parents and for their grandparents,” said a spokesman for John Kerry to the Associated Press.

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Passing Freedom’s Torch

Saturday, July 10, 2004

By Oliver North


One of the most poignant moments to occur in the U.S.-led global War on Terror occurred when National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice passed a note to President George W. Bush during the recent NATO conference in Turkey.


Her message informed him that Iraq was once again a sovereign nation. He smiled and instinctively wrote, “let freedom reign,” and passed it back. Those three words say a lot about the man and the country he leads.


Two hundred and twenty-eight years ago, a committee of five patriots, headed by a farmer from Virginia, prepared the final draft of a radical document. On the morning of July 4, they presented the results of their work to the body that had set them to the task: the Second Continental Congress.


The larger group made just 86 changes in Thomas Jefferson’s (search) “fair draft” and then, pledging “to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor,” all 56 members signed their names to this Declaration of Independence (search). In so doing, they created something that was then unique on the planet earth: a country based on the concepts of individual liberty, private property and democratic government. Since then, the people of this nation have taken great risks to offer others the hope of that same freedom.

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A Sovereign Iraq: Now, the Hard Part

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

By Patrick Basham
In the 1920s, Winston Churchill (search) described Iraq as an ungrateful volcano. President Bush, who keeps a bust of Sir Winston in the Oval Office, probably agrees with Churchill

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Knowing the Enemy

By Col. Oliver North

The ancient Chinese warrior Sun Tzu (search) taught his men to “know your enemy” before going into battle. For if “you know your enemy and know yourself,” he wrote, “you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”


But, Sun Tzu warned, “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”


In my 22 years as an officer of the Marines

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