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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15906)	11/12/2003 12:41:48 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793707

The Arabic service was not far from Al-Jazeera in its reporting, and was totally pro-Saddam The Iraqi Blogs keep indicating that Al-Jazeera encourages the Iraqis to demonstrate whenever they are filming a scene in Iraq. All TV crews tend to do this. But Al-Jazeera is notorious for it.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15906)	11/12/2003 3:57:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793707

Ahhh, if we could only do this! A free-trade union between new Europe and Anglo-America would probably make more sense than "harmonizing" solid growth with recession and high unemployment. ________________________________________________ The dissonance of harmony By Lawrence Kudlow THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published November 12, 2003 Is there an English-speaking interest-rate increase sweeping the world? More important, will English-speaking economic growth principles rule the waves? Most likely, both are correct. The Reserve Bank of Australia and the venerable Bank of England raised their policy interest rates last week. These precautionary moves to maintain price stability actually caused stock markets to rally in both countries. Using history as a guide (U.S. rates frequently follow British rates), the U.S. Federal Reserve may be next in line to raise its policy target — especially after the American economy, now firing on all cylinders, created nearly 300,000 new jobs over the past three months. Of course, the English-speaking countries have more in common than interest rates. Freedom-loving Great Britain and Australia have been integral in the global fight against terrorism. Seeing them in stride with the U.S. economically is also a good thing, particularly when they sound the pro-growth siren. The immediate implementation of President George W. Bush's supply-side tax cuts last May provided a huge jolt to domestic economic growth. You can rightly call it the Bush boom. Similarly, Prime Minister John Howard has jolted the Aussie economy with his tax-cut and deregulation moves: Australian unemployment is now an enviable 5.6 percent while Aussie economic growth has averaged nearly 7 percent annually over the past four years. Meanwhile in Britain, Finance Minister Gordon Brown has been teeing off on European Union (EU) bureaucrats for their missing-in-action growth policies. Mr. Brown noted that the European Central Bank has only lowered interest rates seven times (compared with 10 for Britain; 11 for the U.S.). He's right — EU monetary policy is too tight. Year-to-date gold prices in U.S. dollar terms have increased 10 percent — indicating a looser monetary policy — while Euro gold is essentially unchanged. Mr. Brown, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair, has also flatly told the European Union that Britain will never enter the Eurozone if English tax-and-welfare and labor-market regulations have to be harmonized with the EU. Such "harmonization" would clearly be an economic step backward. REST AT: dynamic.washtimes.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15906)	11/12/2003 5:35:03 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

Is Kerry a stand in for Teddy? "Dan Conley's Journal" Team Kerry Retools The greatest lagging indicator in a political campaign is the fired staffer, it usually comes four to six months too late. Watching the Kerry staffers abandon ship today only makes obvious that the hull of this ship was breached months ago. It now appears that the Kerry campaign has been taken over by Ted Kennedy's political team. I think that's a good start but Kerry has done himself enormous damage in New Hampshire this year and I don't know if he can recover. If he loses New Hampshire (which now looks highly likely), he'll need a spin job superior to Clinton's "comeback kid" line to stay credible. danconley.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15906)	11/12/2003 7:58:10 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793707

A columnist in the "Yale Daily News" gets off a broadside at the leftist censorship there. Excerpts ___________________________________________________ OFF THE FENCE \| JAMES KIRCHICK Published Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Campus left silences opposing views .....Start with the CampusTruth advertisements that appeared in these very pages, so provocative they elicited a letter on Monday signed by a smorgasbord of "concerned" campus organizations ("The News has still not explained CampusTruth," 11/10). These students specifically questioned the claim that on Sept. 11, 2001, "Israelis mourned in Tel Aviv," while "Palestinians celebrated in Lebanon," a proposition they deemed "racist." Contrary to what the signatories of the letter would have us believe, that Palestinians cheered the destruction of the World Trade Center has been widely documented in the international print and television media...... ....Most outrageous is that many of these professors have boycotted a federal initiative to strengthen national security. The National Security Education Program, or NSEP, provides government grants for students studying foreign languages who agree to work for government agencies upon graduation. Since Sept. 11, the NSEP has become increasingly critical to America's foreign policy interests as it strengthens the government's ranks of Arabic and Farsi speakers. Immediately after the NSEP was founded, however, the African, Latin American and Middle East Studies Associations called for an academic boycott of this program...... ......As these examples show, many Yale leftists are loathe to tolerate opinions different from their own. When their ideas are challenged or attempts are made to encourage intellectual diversity on campus, liberals tend to hurl epithets that have a chilling effect on discourse. Passion for one's ideas is well and good, but shouting others down with irrational cries of "racist" and "McCarthyite" is hardly liberal at all. REST AT yaledailynews.com