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Thursday, May 11 
It is no wonder that Johnny can’t read, write or do simple math. There seems to be no one in the school system who can add and subtract and know when to do either. The finding of a $3.5 million error is appalling. Is there someone who can explain why such a huge error was made?

Should we still be in Iraq? 
With everything that’s been going on in our country, should we still be trying to save Iraq or should we be concentrating on saving our selves?

Lebanon looks for help on road to recovery 
LEBANON’S prime minister yesterday called on world donors to help rebuild his country, saying “Israel’s deadly fighting machine” had wiped out 15 years of post-war development in little more than a month of cross-border violence.

Onnesha Roychoudhuri: Gitmo From the Inside 
When Moazzam Begg was abducted from his home in the middle of the night on January 31, 2002, he thought he was being kidnapped by thugs. Those thugs turned out to be the U.S. military and CIA. Begg was shuffled from Kandahar to Bagram, to Guantanamo and held for three years before he was finally released in January of 2005. As with the majority of the other detainees, Begg was never charged with

Trey Ellis: If It’s a Tenth Crusade, We’ll Lose 
Alexander Cockburn coined the term “Tenth Crusade,” in describing the jihadis’ current attack on the West. The Ninth Crusade was way back in 1271. The way the Bush administration frames the current battle with jihadis as “Islamic Fascism,” that is, by trying to take on the entire Muslim world, they recklessly endanger the lives of everyone living in the West. This is the message

Pope wants respect, dialogue, towards Islam 
The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI did not mean to offend Muslims when, during a lecture in Germany this week, he referred to the prophet, Muhammad, holy war and forced conversions.