What Is World Reading Today
This interview seems to be the hottest link on the web today.
Paul O'Neill was fired from his job as George Bush's Treasury Secretary for disagreeing too many times with the president's policy on tax cuts.
Now, O'Neill - who is known for speaking his mind - talks for the first time about his two years inside the Bush administration.
· The Blame Game: The Price of Loyaltyhe Price of Loyalty

War of Ideas, Part 1 of 5
What you are witnessing is why Sept. 11 amounts to World War III — the third great totalitarian challenge to open societies in the last 100 years. As the longtime Middle East analyst Abdullah Schleiffer once put it to me: World War II was the Nazis, using the engine of Germany to try to impose the reign of the perfect race, the Aryan race. The cold war was the Marxists, using the engine of the Soviet Union to try to impose the reign of the perfect class, the working class. And 9/11 was about religious totalitarians, Islamists, using suicide bombing to try to impose the reign of the perfect faith, political Islam.
· Removing cherished civil liberties [first read on Google ]
Sadly, in abbreviated world of Google, the most dangerous initials in the 21st century seem to be JI ...