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Please Sign This Petition

My friends at HAMSA (Hands Across the Middle East Support Alliance) are about to launch an online petition for Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman. Be among the first to sign. See below…

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Classical Liberal International Hootenanny

Several hundred friends of liberty have gathered in Guatemala City for the 2006 international meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. The Cato Institute is well represented, with numerous Cato authors,…

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Free Kareem

A young Egyptian blogger who has participated in programs of our Arabic liberal project, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, was arrested today. Some of the details are available at FreeKareem.org. When writing…

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Ahmad Chalabi

I highly recommend today’s New York Times Magazine essay on one of the sleaziest characters in the whole Iraq story.

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Will They Find Him Guilty? Hmmm…..

For another insight into what Iraqis are thinking about the forthcoming verdict in Saddam’s trial, visit Iraq the Model. (It’s not representative of all Iraqis, but it’s written by people…

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A Nice Twist

Television actor denies vicious rumors.

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Free Speech Gags Subjected to Scrutiny

The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform is, I believe, the best book available on one of the most important issues in American political science: campaign finance restrictions. I say that…

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NAE Site Being Updated…..

Whoops! I guess this is the equivalent of Bill Clinton’s “I didn’t inhale.” UPDATE: This interview is positively painful to watch. I feel sorry for his wife. And I would…

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Why Would I Not Be Surprised?

Today’s Message from Ted Haggard, NAE president The president of the National Association of Evangelicals has responded to an allegation that he had paid for man-to-man sex by resigning. The…

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Back in DC

After an exhausting bit of travel (I had to leave the hotel in Tbilisi at 3:30 am, but dinner with the Minister for Economic Reform, his aide, and our friends…

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