Category Archives: Islam

20070129 World Watch Iraq- Iraq and the Greater Context

The recent liberal media hyperventilation about the state of affairs in Iraq and what the next move for America should be there has really only served to distract Americans, and really the rest of the world, from the nature of the Iraqi conflict and its place in the greater context of the general conflict with fundamentalist Islam. Continue reading

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20061114 I Told You So

I told you so. Ok, some of you will agree with the point I am about to make, but for the rest, ‘I told you so.’ Good, now that is out of the way. Continue reading

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20060928 Daily Web Roundup

The Daily Web Roundup is a collection of links to the news, commentary, and information I found interesting or useful today. If you want to read more of what is found in this post, find links to my favorite news, commentary, and information sites at Dennis L Hitzeman’s News Reading List. Continue reading

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20060911 A Solemn Promise to Remember

Today marks the fifth anniversary of a day that changed the course of American and world history for decades, perhaps centuries, to come. The radio, TV, print, and internet media will be full of retellings of the tragic events that took place in New York City, Washington DC, and over Eastern Pennsylvania, and rightly they should be. We cannot forget what happened to American on the 11th of September 2001 because that was the day a certain innocence was forever taken away from our great nation. Continue reading

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20060829 World Watch Focus: Doing Something About Something

The headlines of recent months have been full of dire news and more dire predictions about a host if international issues, mostly swirling around Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, with a lesser focus on places like Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These headlines and their associated articles, however, point to a real fact that even these articles, their authors, and their readers often miss, and that is the fact that all of these places are part of real problems that really need to be dealt with. Continue reading

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