I ran across word of this conference at Shakespeare?s Sister’s place. I?m really beginning to believe that there?s a small group of American Christians who?ve been studying at Slobodan Milosevic?s School of Serbian Victimhood. Look at the panels offered: The Gay Agenda: America Won?t Be Happy The ACLU And Radical Secularism: Driving God From The …

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How much influence did the Israeli lobby AIPAC have on the Bush Administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq? Quite a bit, say John Mearshimer and Stephen Walt in the London Review of Books. They make that point in the latter third of this article which attempts to explain the often inexplicable: how the …

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