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By LAWRENCE SWAIM, Columnist
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The U.S. Air Force Academy just can’t seem to get it right. Six major cheating scandals in four decades. Endemic sexual harassment against female cadets. Christian evangelical officers proselytizing non-Christian cadets. But in February 2008, on the occasion of their fiftieth annual assembly, the Academy brass outdid themselves. They presented three discredited Islamophobes who spewed religious bigotry and advocated religious war, in the process trampling on the First Amendment and exposing the Air Force to international ridicule. |
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By CHRIS GELKEN, Guest Writer
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As the movement for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes grows on an almost daily basis, how bitterly ironic is it that the White House would instruct its diplomats overseas to compare the military kangaroo court process at Guantanamo to the Nuremburg War Trials.
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By REV. CONNIE REGENER, Columnist
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WHERE THE CROSS MEETS THE CRESCENTReflections on Muslim and Christian Spirituality in the Southland
Sometimes we learn the greatest lessons from making the biggest mistakes.
A Hispanic hotel maid was complaining to me about an unjust situation with her employer. I listened carefully and then replied, "Just go in there and tell them what you’ve told me, and tell them what you want. Don’t take no for an answer." |
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By ABDUS SATTAR GHAZALI, Guest Writer
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On Feb. 17, Kosovo broke away from Serbia and declared its independence. Not surprisingly, it was instantly recognized as a state by the United States, Germany, Britain and France. With an area of 4,203 square miles, Kosovo may be a tiny territory. But in the great game of oil politics, it holds great importance, which is in inverse proportion to its size.Kosovo does not have oil, but its location is strategic as the trans-Balkan pipeline - known as AMBO pipeline after its builder and operator, the U.S.-registered Albanian Macedonian Bulgarian Oil Corporation, will pass through it.
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