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Israel Faces a Threat Far Greater than Did the United States in 2001

September 13th, 2012

By Dan Miller The damage done to the United States on September 11, 2001 was horrific. Yet we are able each year to hold somber Nine-Eleven remembrances. Should the greater and more obvious threat now facing Israel not be countered, there may be no one left in Israel to hold similar remembrances. I had set […]

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Tags: appeasement, Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, terrorism, threat, U.S.
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Can a Nuclear Attack on Israel Be Compared Legitimately with the Holocaust?

March 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller It can be and should be. According to this article by the editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech moved closer than ever to the point of no return en route to war with Iran. Netanyahu compared Iran to Nazi Germany, its nuclear facilities to death camps, and […]

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Tags: Holocaust, Hormuz, Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, oil, terrorism, U.S., war
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Pros and Cons of the U.S. Higher Education System

January 20th, 2012

By Justin Herbert American education and higher education has taken a hit in the media in recent years. Education professionals continue to flood our news reports saying that America has fallen behind and that our education system needs to be radically reformed. The fact is, however, that higher education in the U.S. is actually gaining […]

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Tags: funding, higher education, improvement, online, rankings, U.S., world
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Should We Change the Republican Candidate Debates?

January 11th, 2012

By Dan Miller An article about debates among candidates for election as Venezuela’s president made me wonder whether this is a good idea: This week Globovision started a new series of shows, with a real debate that is not a debate. In short: they taped on the same day the 6 candidates with more or […]

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Tags: candidates, debates, election, Republican, U.S., Venezuela
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Iraq: Hot News and History

December 29th, 2011

By Jan Barry “Crisis plagues Iraq as U.S. troops depart — As the last U.S. soldiers exited Iraq Sunday and debate was raging about the nation’s future, political crisis erupted in Baghdad that raised fears of more sectarian strife to come. Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that draws support largely from Sunni and more secular […]

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Tags: Britain, casualties, costs, democracy, hubris, Iraq, U.S., violence
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