![]() History as Obama's imperfect guide (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - The new millennium may have begun in 2000, but in the US at least, 2009 looks like an historic threshold: An African-American becomes president in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and during a long war on Islamic jihadism whose unconventionality still challenges the White House and its allies. Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT There's Something About Harry (Pat Buchanan) Pat Buchanan - About the appointment by Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, somebody big is lying, big-time. It is either the governor or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Letters to the Editor (The Christian Science Monitor) The Christian Science Monitor - Hamas and Israel: problems in comparing their actions Regarding the Dec. 31 Opinion piece, "Israel, Hamas, and moral idiocy": It seems to me that the distinction drawn in author Alan Dershowitz's commentary between the deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas rockets and the collateral civilian deaths caused by Israel's military strikes is an important distinction. Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT |