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America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants
Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...
Tags: Passover, Illegal Immigrants, Migration, Rome (Italy), Immigration
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Leadership vacuum, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague
A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every...
Tags: Islam, Epidemics and Plagues, Entertainment Events, Mohamed Morsi, Moody's Corporation
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Jewish families donate leavened food in observation of Passover
Passover is seen traditionally as a holiday of the spring, not usually marked by snow. But Howard Kaplan and his wife, Roberta, of Baltimore, wouldn't let Monday's inclement conditions deter them from coming to the Pimlico Race Course to dispose of...
Tags: Bernard C. Young, Pimlico Race Course, Passover, Breads, Judaism
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We should not be aiding Egypt when Maryland needs help
What! I can't believe it. The Sun reports that Secretary of State John Kerry promises to give Egypt $190 million to help the government pay its bills ("Egypt deal with IMF of paramount importance: Kerry," Mar. 2). Last week I heard it was $60 million....
Tags: John Kerry, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mohamed Morsi, Illegal Immigrants, Interior Policy
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60 Minutes serves the president some softballs
In the days of the late Mike Wallace, "60 Minutes" was known for hard-hitting, aggressive journalism that asked the questions viewers wanted answered and held the powerful accountable. The Jan. 27 program on which Steve Kroft interviewed President Obama...
Tags: Libya, Hillary Clinton, The Washington Post, Dominican Republic, Russia
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Middle East mess was born in the U.S.A.
Titillation over David Petraeus and political posturing over Susan Rice aside, here is the most important unasked question: Why did we foster regime change in Libya and Egypt that gave the Muslim Brotherhood control in the latter and produced a gaggle...
Tags: Islam, U.S. Military, Lebanon, Bashar Assad, Ruhollah Khomeini
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Netanyahu's choices
As President Barack Obama begins his second term, he faces a series of Middle East challenges far more daunting than when he began his presidency in 2009. These problems include: •what to do about the Arab-Israeli conflict, with peace talks between...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), West Bank, Barack Obama, Government, Knesset
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In Egypt, it is darkest before dawn
The images shown on the news media are startling: violence rages on the streets of Cairo while a divided government continues to sow seeds of discord. I have spent some time in Tahrir Square this past week and have seen a very different perspective. I...
Tags: Islam, Hosni Mubarak, Political Dissent, Johns Hopkins University, Cairo (Egypt)
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Who needs reform most: Egypt or America?
Prior to leaving Egypt for the United Nations General Assembly, Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi told The New York Timesthe United States needs to "fundamentally change" its approach to the Arab world. That includes, he said, showing greater...
Tags: Islam, Jihad, USA Today, Interreligious Dialogue, Saudi Arabia
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Childish behavior, deadly consequences
I was not aware of a film insulting to Islam until American embassies were attacked in Libya and Egypt. Thus, Muslim extremists managed, through the expedient of riot and rampage, to bring attention to the very thing they loathe, a thing which, but for...
Tags: Libya, Islam, Abusive Behavior, Movies, John Ritter
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Ambassador to Syria keeps profile low in Bolton Hill
When the violence in Syria began spinning out of control last year, the Obama administration made the unusual decision to bring its ambassador to the troubled country home.
And for Ambassador Robert Ford, coming home has long meant returning to...Tags: U.S. Military, Barack Obama, Syria, Bashar Assad, Safeway Inc.
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For Israel, it's different this time
Until this year, the world would have been looking at the intensifying armed confrontation between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with a sense of deja vu all over again. But this is 2012, and the political map of the Middle East has changed...
Tags: Islam, West Bank, Bashar Assad, Government, Wars and Interventions
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