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Remember that Canada thought the Mounties needed "sensitivity training" in order to capture terrorists.

Canada's Tolerance is No Deterrent to Terrorism: No nation is more tolerant than Canada. No nation is more multicultural than Canada. Provincial authorities in Ontario have even considered permitting Muslims in the province to be governed by Sharia, rather than Canadian, law. Canadians oppose the war in Iraq. Canadians want the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. So how could Muslims not love Canada, like every one else does?
Could it be that radical Islamists want to kill Canadians simply because Canadians aren't radical Islamists? This a concept which Canadians who once thought they could kibitz the war on terror safely from the bleachers are now having to come to grips with.
"An Associated Press dispatch on the bomb plot noted that Canada, with America, Britain, Spain and Australia, was listed by Osama bin Laden as a 'Christian' nation that should be a target for terrorism," the New York Sun noted in an editorial Monday. "Nothing short of dropping Christianity and converting to Islam will satisfy the Islamic terrorists."
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"Canada has been the doofus who keeps getting shoved into lockers, but still figures that if he gives up more lunches and bus money, the haranguing will end.
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Nurse G graduated from Elmira College on Sunday with her degree in nursing. It was her 2nd BS degree from EC. After earning her first, she went to work for Corning Inc. in their research facility. Several years later she decided to quit and return to college to become a nurse. She and Little H are standing in front of Mark Twain's study, which sits in the middle of the campus. For some reason, neither one would smile until I said, "Say poopyhead!" Little H is in that phase when the mere mention of the *P* word sends him into fits of laughter.
The guest speaker was Eileen Collins, America's first female space shuttle pilot and mission commander.
Elmira native, Eileen Collins, was the guest speaker: It was Collins' turn in the role-modeling department Sunday as she addressed 408 graduates, their families and friends.
"I want to assure you that dreams do come true," she said. All it takes is five H's, she added: hard work, humility, honesty, health and happiness.

Eileen Collins received an honorary degree in science.

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Another honorary degree was given to Barbara Riggs, Elmira native, who protected President Ronald Reagan: Barbara Riggs was the first woman to serve as deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service and protected Presidents Gerald Ford through George W. Bush before retiring in January.
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When President Reagan died June 5, 2004, Riggs was asked by her boss to represent the Secret Service during observances in California. Riggs and three others flew to California aboard Air Force One.
She was with Nancy Reagan aboard Air Force One when her husband's body was flown to D.C. where Riggs took part in all of the ceremonial events. "Because I had such a close relationship with him, that was very meaningful to me," she said.

Today is the 2nd anniversary of Reagan's death.
Ronald Reagan, Teacher: Reagan's poll numbers in January of 1983 stood at 35% as he was pummeled for a policy that declared the Soviets an "evil empire." Because he stood by his principles, because he understood the nature of human beings, their eternal yearning for freedom and had a keen grasp of what he called America's "historical role as the spiritual leader of the Free World," there is no Soviet Union today.
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POSTHUMOUS HIT: BETTER late than never? Rudi Vbra, author of "I Escaped from Auschwitz," died three months ago, never knowing his book would become Britain's No. 1 bestseller. The book tells how hundreds before him had tried to escape and been captured, tortured and killed. Vbra, who was a registrar in the death camp, knew the SS procedure for capturing the runners and so was able to outfox them. Vrba brought documentation about what was happening in the camps to President Roosevelt, the pope and the British - the first proof of genocide after so much rumor. For years after the war, Vrba was a key witness at trials for Nazi war criminals. The tome is published in the United States by Barricade Books.

Valerie Plames book fails: The $2.5 million book deal that Valerie Plame Wilson, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer whose identity was publicly disclosed three years ago [after her husband bragged about his CIA agent wife], negotiated with Crown Publishing Group last month has fallen through. Ms. Wilson, who could not agree on terms with Crown, is now in exclusive negotiations with Simon & Schuster, which originally had lost an auction for the book to Crown.
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Pictures from the NYT 1992 front page article, "The Making of a First Family: a Blueprint."

When the NY Times posted a recent front page story about the Clintons' marriage, it never expected such a negative response.
Hillary and Bill: A Relationship Too Political to Be Ignored: COMPLAINTS about the May 23 Page 1 article on Hillary and Bill Clinton add up to one of the most uniformly negative and partisan reader reactions to a Times article during the past year. Most decried as tabloid journalism the story about the couple and the political implications of their marriage for her Senate re-election campaign and presidential aspirations.
It's not the first time the Times has printed a story on the Clintons on the front page. Right after the election in 1992, the NYT printed an astonishing piece which detailed just how the Clintons were re-packaged for the public during the campaign. The piece was written by the late Michael Kelly. It was called The Making of a First Family: a Blueprint. It's still worth reading, especially now that Hillary is desperate to become president.

More great insight into Hillary.
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