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Save a dog ... buy a book -- any book:

by -NO AUTHOR- -- Racing greyhounds work only for the first two to five years of their lives. Once they stop winning, literally truckloads of greyhounds -- most of them healthy young more…

Chinagate and Red-tainted commerce

by Charles Smith -- During the first four years of the Clinton administration, People's Liberation Army Gen. Ding Henggao, along with his top two PLA assistants, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo and Lt. more…

Congress lets the bacon fry

by Jane Chastain -- Last week, Bud Shuster, the king of pork in the U.S. House of Representatives, added another star to his tarnished crown. The Republican from Pennsylvania, who chairs the more…

The haves and the have-nots

by Joseph Farah -- America is rapidly becoming a society of haves and have-nots. By this I refer not to general wealth or material possessions. Instead, I refer to those who are more…

Readers recommend websites

by Judy Lowe -- This week on the Web, you can chat with Evander Holyfield, laugh about those ubiquitous orange traffic cones and find out how to avoid banner ads. Reader Response. more…

The war's first casualty

by Geoff Metcalf -- I'm sitting in my parent's living room. It is the last day of a one-week vacation. My son is on the floor at my feet and most of more…

The Communists continue to fight

by J.R. Nyquist -- It is widely believed that Communism died with the fall of the Soviet Union. But the world's most populous country -- The People's Republic of China -- is more…

George W. and foreign policy

by -NO AUTHOR- -- Like it or not, George W. Bush is looking more and more inevitable, at least as the Republican nominee. Although he has something of a record as governor more…

NATO's bloody hands

by John N. Doggett -- In March, NATO started a war to prevent Slobodan, "the Butcher of the Balkans," Milosevic from exterminating ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo province of Yugoslavia. Last week, NATO more…

The Ten Commandments bill

by Joseph Farah -- The House of Representatives is considering legislation that would permit the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools and other government buildings. Perhaps members should read the Commandments more…