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Iraq’s terrorists had vowed to derail their nation’s U.S.-backed parliamentary elections, and shortly after dawn it looked like they might succeed. In Baghdad, there were as many as 100 explosions — mortars, rockets, bombs — but, urged on by loudspeakers from the mosques, Iraqis flocked to the polling places; at least 38 of them would pay for it with their lives.In the end, the turnout was about 62 percent of eligible voters, roughly equivalent...
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It is an indication of how far the economy had fallen that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid termed as “really good” the news that “only” 36,000 Americans had lost their jobs in February. It is good only in the sense that the monthly figures over the past 27 months have generally been so much worse.President Barack Obama was more measured in reacting to the latest jobless rate: “actually better than expected” — then again, not much was...
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The United States would like to attract more foreign visitors, but it is going about it in a funny and perhaps counterproductive way.President Barack Obama this past week quietly signed a bill that would impose a $10-a-head tax on visitors from the so-called “visa waiver” countries, basically our best friends. The 35 visa-waiver nations include most of Europe and several Pacific Rim nations like Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.The...
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