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Separation of Church and State

[source] The Boy Scouts have been denied permission by a federal judge to rent land in a local park because they are a religiously oriented organization. On the other hand, a Muslim Youth Camp is getting a lease on federal land. That's ok because that's from the Mosque, not the Church.

Ending the cycle of violence

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In the wake of the attack earlier this week that left Uday and Qusay Hussein dead, many in America's academic community came forward to encourage the remaining supporters of Saddam Hussein to "look past their anger" and try to discover the "root causes" of the American attack. Said Middle East correspondent and professional idiotarian Robert Fisk, "While it might be tempting for Saddam's supporters to lash out at the west, they would be better served by trying to understand why they are so hated throughout the world, including in their own country."

Closing in on the Saudi Entity

"??The New Republic??":http://tnr.com is now reporting that the "redacted portions":http://orbital-mind-control-laser.net/leo/archives/2003_07_22.html#000786 of the recent "investigation into the 9/11 attacks":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;$sessionid$GHVYRPWMFGBFZQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2003/07/22/do2201.xml contains links between Al Qaeda and key elements of the Saudi "Royal" family. [source] bq. But an official who has read the report tells The New Republic that the support described in the report goes well beyond that: It involves connections between the hijacking plot and the very top levels of the Saudi royal family. […] "If the people in the administration trying to link Iraq to Al Qaeda had one-one-thousandth of the stuff that the 28 pages has linking a foreign government to Al Qaeda, they would have been in good shape."