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With election battles on the horizon, senators layered on the body armor by voting to require the president to provide quarterly progress reports on the war.

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Timken High School in Canton had 64 student pregnancies last year.

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has managed to offend just about everyone on the planet including Osama bin Laden. He caused anti-al Qaeda demonstrations in Jordan by mass-murdering Muslims there. The Evil One's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had already reprimanded Zarqawi for this sort of behavior in a lengthy intercepted letter.

Sending a husband and wife team to blow up a wedding party in Amman also had unexpected consequences. His went off, hers didn't. He's now fooling around with however many virgins this sort of transaction entitles him, while she is a liberated woman here on earth.

Give Zarqawi credit. By causing the Jordan demonstrations he trashed Zawahiri's  claim that, "The Muslim masses-for many reasons, and this is not the place to discuss it-do not rally except against an outside occupying enemy, especially if the enemy is firstly Jewish, and secondly American. "…

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Last week the senate hauled in five oil industry fat cats for stressful interrogation and threatened them with a mock windfall profits tax.

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French vehicles became the new freedom fries as Arab and North African immigrants went on a car burning rampage. French leaders proved not to be Franks, who were early German tribes, but weenies.

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Ohio issue's 2-5, designed to end corruption by taking the money and the politics out of politics, went down in flames. The issues took pages of explanation on the ballot.

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Muslim head scarves were banned in French schools a while back. Europe's growing Muslim population isn't going mainstream. In the Chicago Sun Times Mark Steyn observes that Europeans have to deal with an "alienated domestic population". "All we have to do is straighten out Iraq."

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If the proposed public smoking ban passes, Akron addicts will be denied their right to associate with like minded wheezers in restaurant and saloon smoking sections. No similar assault is planned on the Ohio concealed weapons law. Keep an eye out for the twitchy trigger fingers.

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How serious was International Woman of Mystery, Valerie Plame, about protecting her secret spy status when her husband was spilling his guts in the New York Times regarding his CIA sponsored mission in Niger to expose Bush's lies?  If anything this compromised the vast majority of Times op ed writers whose spouses are not spies.

Christopher Hitchins makes the point in Monday's Wall Street Journal …"what was to inhibit an employee of the Bush administration from calling attention to these facts, and letting reporters decide for themselves?  The CIA had proven itself untrustworthy or incompetent on numerous occasions before, during and after the crisis of Sept. 11, 2001.  Why should it be the only agency of the government that can invoke the law, broken or (as in this case) unbroken, to protect itself from leaks while protecting its own leakers?"

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"The indictment merely demonstrated that the cliche' about the cover-up being worse than the crime is especially true when there was no crime to begin with". That's what John Tierney said in Saturday's NYT about Scooter Libbey's indictment by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for lying .

When prosecutors couldn't get Martha Stewart for insider trading they nailed her for lying to a cop. Judith Miller went to jail for not giving up the source (Libby) of a story she didn't write. And now Libby is indicted for lying about who fingered a non secret CIA agent, a non criminal act. The real crime is being a  grown man named "Scooter". He should have a dignified handle like "Chip".