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Alberta Premier Ralph Klein doesn't have to clean out his office immediately. His Progressive Conservatives, at the time I wrote this, were on track to win 63 seats and 46 per cent of the popular vote. But he really should step down ASAP for reasons of ill health — presuming disinterest and boredom are medical conditions. [...]
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Here is another snippet of analysis in the wake of what I like to call Apocalypse 2004, this time from the NYT's David Brooks. He thinks it's Republicans who are going to be the bane of Dubya's existence over the next four years. Here's why: Republicans have banded together over the past few years because [...]
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I know I was wondering why Stockwell Day, the Tories' foreign affairs critic, hadn't penned a letter to the Palestinian Authority expressing condolences for Yasser Arafat's death. This Canadian Press article answers a few questions: “Some of you have asked why I have not released a statement of condolence or sympathy,'' the Conservative party's foreign affairs [...]
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NYT correspondent Dexter Filkins has written about the urban combat experience of U.S. marines in Fallujah. This excerpt particularly caught my eye: On one particularly grim night, a group of marines from Bravo Company's First Platoon turned a corner in the darkness and headed up an alley. As they did so, they came across men [...]
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