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Re: 'Al Qaeda' - The invention and the myth	30 Apr 2005 11:16 GMT	1
"Vaughan Sanders" <jamie@chalkwell-windsurfing.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:... > "LawsonE" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
Blair Defies Critics To Stand By U.S. Alliance	29 Apr 2005 22:40 GMT	8
Why is this man, Prime Minister Blair, so much BETTER, SMARTER and STALWART than so many of his slack-arsed, whinging, hand-wringing, weak-willed fellow countrymen and women? DSH
Re: The Battle Of Algiers [1965]	29 Apr 2005 22:07 GMT	6
Yes, I suspect it is the same film your DLIWC instructors were enthusiastic about in 1970. The Criterion release is superb ---- three discs. French and Arabic.
Re: Friendly Fire Incidents	29 Apr 2005 20:48 GMT	6
\| "It looks like the Americans killed yet another Canadian in \| theatre..." \| \| "Sheila J."
'Moral Values' Myth	29 Apr 2005 20:44 GMT	7
'Moral Values' Myth By Charles Krauthammer Friday, November 12, 2004 "In 1994, when the Gingrich revolution swept Republicans into power,
Appeasing Iran	29 Apr 2005 01:15 GMT	1
REVIEW & OUTLOOK "Appeasing Iran Europe seeks a deal even worse than Clinton's with North Korea." Friday, November 12, 2004
Re: Deep-Seated, Envious, Virulent Anti-Americanism Is Very Popular In Britain	28 Apr 2005 21:39 GMT	81
Has Pogue Cook ever even been to the United States? If he has, has he ever been to The Heartland? Or is all he knows about the United States and Americans what he reads and watches in the Left-Wing, Anti-American, British Media and on
Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work	28 Apr 2005 09:31 GMT	26
"Vaughan Sanders" <jamie@chalkwell-windsurfing.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:d4lbeb$bmp$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk... \| I've just heard Brian Sedgemore call Milburn a raving "Trot" and \| wardog Reid a dangerous Commie.
"Those Tolerant, Open-Minded, Inclusive Liberals"	28 Apr 2005 03:23 GMT	1
"Those Tolerant, Open-Minded, Inclusive Liberals" "I find it easier to explain the psychology of a suicide bomber than how it is that most Americans like Bush, think he's taking the right course."-- Melinda Ruley, Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.), Nov. 10."
Into the valley of death	27 Apr 2005 01:35 GMT	18
Rode the 600. 150 years ago today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3944699.stm
ANZAC Day	27 Apr 2005 01:23 GMT	4
Ninety years ago The Aussies, NZs, Brits, Canadians, Brits, Indians and even the French took on the Turks to find the "soft underbelly of Europe". They failed and died in their thousands. Through an outstanding display of generosity the Turks welcome us back every
Question on Constitution	26 Apr 2005 15:52 GMT	1
As I understand it, a new Minister cannot get access to correspondence or findings or advice received by a previous Minister. ("Yes Minister" had an episode involving this question)
Quotation concerning Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	25 Apr 2005 21:38 GMT	3
I remember that I've read a few years ago a rather funny sentence told to Edward Gibbon by one of his contemporaries, a nobleman to whom he had just given a copy of another volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It was something along these lines (perhaps a bit longer):
St George	25 Apr 2005 08:50 GMT	10
Can someone please tell me something about StGeorge? Also, as such a lot is made of StPatrick's day, yet very little of StGeorge's day, I hope a bit more publicity is made of StGeorge's day tomorrow!
Colonial Secretary or the Commander-in-Chief of the Colony	25 Apr 2005 05:30 GMT	9
Who outrank? The Colonial Secretary or the Commander-in-Chief of the Colony? around the 1800s an 1900s Thanks Michael