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Charges of hypocrisy

Posted by Tod Lindberg on 29th March 2005

The Washington Times

Our subject today will be political discourse, and our purpose will be hygiene. We shall attempt to police the charge of hypocrisy as it occurs on the Op-Ed pages of major newspapers and opinion journals. We will offer this attempt in memory of Terry Schiavo. We will expect it to be just about as effective as the effort to keep her alive.

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A Cheney candidacy in 2008?

Posted by Tod Lindberg on 22nd March 2005

The Washington Times

President Bush famously rewards loyalty and competent service. There is one more promotion logical for him to make in his second term: engineering the 2008 GOP presidential nomination for Dick Cheney.

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ICC offers Darfur hope

Posted by Tod Lindberg on 15th March 2005

The Washington Times

For years, painstaking diplomacy was inching its way toward creation of an international criminal court for dealing with such vexing matters as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. But by 1998, a slew of forward-leaning non-governmental organizations, working through a coalition of “like-minded nations” principally in Europe and Canada, got hold of the process and produced what sits in The Hague today as the International Criminal Court – without the United States as a party to the treaty that created it.

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New breeze blowing across the pond

Posted by Tod Lindberg on 1st March 2005

The Washington Times

Could be a case of “been down so long it looks like up to me,” but I felt a new and distinct breeze blowing though trans-Atlantic relations here, and for a change it is warm. I think there are two main reasons, one broadly understood in outline but perhaps not in detail, one not yet much appreciated at all.

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