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We Don’t Need No Stinkin Fence…
– By David Tatosian

From Sumeria to the present, city-states, towns and nations have erected walls and outposts to protect themselves.

Barriers work.

Except, apparently, for the United States of America.

Our 1,951-mile border with Mexico is the only spot, in the entire history of civilization, where a barrier won’t work.

Border Patrol agents taking fire, terrorists and narco terrorists smuggling drugs, arms and munitions, entire cities of strangers illegally entering the country weekly, but we’re told a fence is doomed to failure.

Mort Kondrake (hoping to reign in the “talk-show claque” (1) feels tougher enforcement is not the answer. He refers to National Immigration Forum (the folks who helped give us the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride (2) estimates of average arrest costs along the border increasing from $300 in 1992 to $1,700 in 2002.
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Osaman Forever
by Bob Parks

Heads – Bin Laden Wins, (Turning) Tails, Bush Loses
by Nancy Salvato

Osama’s Truce: An American Response
by Thomas Lindaman

U.S. Conservatives Work Overseas?

How DARE They?
– By Warner Todd Huston

As if we needed more proof that the Main Stream Media is biased against Conservatives, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently published an article all alarmed that Conservative NGO’s (Non Government Agencies) were stepping up their activities overseas. This “news” article was so biased as to be laughable.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the article’s author, David Crary, is going around telling people he is a “journalist”, but you wouldn’t know it by this biased opinion editorial he is responsible for in the Seattle P-I. The article, Conservatives step up activities overseas, featured a quote from one pro-Conservative, but several quotes against Conservative NGOs from four separate interviewees. How’s that for “balance”?

Instead of a factual presentation of the activities of U.S. conservatives overseas, we get a finger wagging, tsk-tsking, and a lot of overblown anti-Conservative rhetoric………………

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NEW YORK Jim Brady, the executive editor at washingtonpost.com, notified users of the post.blog that the public comment feature had been suspended “indefinitely” after “a significant number of folks” posted personal attacks, profanity, and hate speech.

Attempts by E&P to reach Brady have been unsuccessful so far. It seems likely the move is related to controversy in recent days over Sunday’s Post column by ombudsman Deobrah Howell. She has been heavily criticized by some political Web sites and bloggers for writing that indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to both political parties, when most research shows he only gave directly to Republicans.

Then, this morning, Howell responded at the Post’s blog, explaining that she had heard from “lots of angry readers” and wished that she had written that Abramoff “directed” contributions to both parties, adding: “While Abramoff, a Republican, gave personal contributions only to Republicans, he directed his Indian tribal clients to make millions of dollars in campaign contributions to members of Congress from both parties.
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I have to confess that I have been chosen to deliver an address at the upcoming convention for center-right Bloggers, Blogging Man 2007.

The news of this gathering has come out too early. The Internet holds no secret for long, obviously. Within a week or so of the organizer’s efforts to begin to line up speakers for their convention, the news began to spread like wildfire and the organizers were deluged with emails asking about the event and Blogs began rumor-mongering about it. So, the event advertising on the Net was launched months too early.

And, already, the scoffing and nay-saying has begun. Yeah, hard to believe, I know … or not.

Anyway, the nay-saying has started. Here are a few little digs:

Here are a few from a Blog called Tbogg

“I think it’s just a scam to rip off the cultural conservative’s cash. Just like the Republican Party. Maybe they should change the title to ‘floggingman’ and also pick up the torture fetishists in the Republican party… Do conservatives have ANY ideas they didn’t steal from liberals?

# posted by Mark B. from Austin TX : 4:52 AM”

–A leftist in Austin, Texas. Shocking.

“one that most at strawblogman would never dare attend themselves even though it puts many of the principles they espouse into actual action

No, they’ll just gasp in horror and outrage at the “irresponsible behavior” while covertly downloading the pictures of women with their clothes off.
# posted by Pere Ubu : 7:26 AM”

— A typically substance free leftist strawman attack.

Oh, here is the real doozie posted by the ever present and proud to voice his opinion, Mr. “Anonymous”:

“For a real thrill, google the participants. Warner Todd Huston’s pic on his blog page is too good to be true…
# posted by Anonymous : 7:00 PM”

There ya go, “Anonymous”. Make fun of someone’s physical appearance. What do you think our lefty and proud Mr. “Anonymous” would say if a Conservative made fun of that flatulent, bloated Michael Moore? What do you think our intrepid lefty would say if I said that Helen Thomas looked like the less sentient mother of Jabba the Hut? Bet he would think that making fun of THEIR appearance is uncalled for.

Now here is a real funny one. The one and only Mr. James Wolcott whose bio helpfully reminds us that he wrote a few novels and a few reviews here and there – and in New York City, no less – seems to have already proclaimed that Blogging Man 2007 is a bust.

“TBogg brings to our sleepy attention a forthcoming jamboree that threatens to be the singular non-event in postmodern non-history: Blogging Man 2007, being held at a bingo parlor in Reno, Nevada, brushfires permitting.”

So, Mr. Wolcott, who’s name is sure to go down in history among the list of the great who-are-theys of America’s illterati in the 21st century, has looked down his nose at this venture, laughing at the temerity of those … shudder… Bloggers.

And, um, where did he deliver this properly leftist scoff? Did he do it in the pages of the New York Times? How about even the LA Times? No. He did it on his Blogg!

Mr. Wolcott may be a writer, but it seems obvious the concept of irony is not one of his oft used and worn out devices.

Now, one of the slams against this nascent convention is that there are no “big names” set up as speakers. Certainly, I am no “big name” and I make no pretense that I am. If one should ask the average man on the street if he knows Warner Todd Huston, proprietor of Publius’ Forum, I am sure most would say no. I’d suggest that if we were to ask the same proverbial man on the street who is James Wolcott, he would still say he didn’t know the name, but that is another story.

Still, the Bloggin Man, 2007 committee has already snagged the services of Hugh Hewitt, one of the nation’s most well known conservative Bloggers and long time writer and opinion editorialist, as well as a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. And there is still over a year and a half until the kick off date of October 18th, 2007 and they have yet to announce their Sunday schedule. There is plenty of time for great things yet to be announced.

But, I would like to use the words of Eric Odom, one of the convention’s organizers, on the “big name” issue.

In a reply to another Blogger on this issue, Odom said,

” Who said Hewitt was the star attraction? We’ve got 20 months my friend. Besides, blogging isn’t about big names, it’s about the little names. Those are the guys that are making the entire scene function the way that it is. Should we exclude them because they don’t have the ‘celebrity status’?”

Well, of course he is right. It is the “yous” and “mes” in this world that are creating the Blogosphere. Not the well edjumacated University Professor, high sitting politician or anyone in the well fed elite that are doing so. It is the average Joe. Or the average Todd, in my case. We are shaping minds and at times altering the landscape of our political and media order.

Hey, we got Eason Jordan of CNN and Dan Rather fired didn’’t we? That ain’t nuthin’, as the old saw goes.

So, let ’em scoff. We’ll run with the ball and make the big plays while they sit in their skyboxes and ruminate on how we can’t play the game. Players paly. The rest just talk about it.

Well, we have just seen the beginning of the hate-speak against Blogging Man 2007 to be sure. But one thing is for sure, if they have their undies in a bunch like this already, what will happen as we get closer to the event date?

Warner Todd Huston

Double-Standard Treatment for Child Abusers
by Carey Roberts

The Sad, Impending Demise of Napoleon Dynamite
by Jonathan David Morris

The Neo-Marxian Political Class
by Thomas E. Brewton

Iran and ‘World Opinion’
– By Thomas E. Brewton

It’s test-time for Senators Kerry and Kennedy and their faith in socialist ‘world opinion’ and ‘the community of nations.’

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We are about to walk the same utopian path that led us nowhere during twelve years of negotiating with Iraq through the UN. Despite many months of diplomatic niceness by the mythical ‘community of nations,’ Iran is yet again thumbing its nose at ‘world opinion.’

Hope, however, springs eternal in the savage socialistic breast. Our liberal-Progressives cling to their religious faith that the ‘workers of the world’ will never countenance aggression and war. It’s only nasty, capitalistic Big Business (Halliburton again?) that wants war in order to make blood-money profit from the lives of innocent civilians. All we have to do is let the intellectuals discover what material goods Iran wants and fork them over, even if the material goods amount to the extermination of Israel. That’s, in liberal eyes, a small price to pay for restoration of French, German, and Russian approval for American foreign policy.

Meanwhile, however, liberals are leaving nothing to chance. Iran’s brazen reopening of its nuclear production facilities has stirred up a real hornets’ nest. Secretary General Mohammed El Baradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency that he told reporters in Vienna he was “losing his patience” with Tehran’s leaders.

This must have terrified the Mullahs; heaven help them should Mr. El Baradei’s impatience rise to the level of irritation. ………..
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Bill To Prevent Feds From Confiscating Guns
– By Warner Todd Huston

Concord, New Hampshire

In the January session of the New Hampshire legislature, a bill has been introduced to prevent officials from confiscating legally owned guns from the citizens of the state during a state of emergency. (See text of bill – House Bill 1639-FN)

During the Katrina disaster, attempts were made by Federal Marshals to sweep certain areas free of guns. Naturally, there was no way to discern legal guns from illegal in the midst of the crisis, so it was assumed that all guns would be confiscated by Federal officials.

Now, as a gun rights advocate, I must stand against this abuse of Federal power. Though, I must say that I can certainly understand the desire that FEMA officials had to assure the safety of rescue workers who were trying to help the citizens of a devastated area. It is certainly not an unreasonable assumption to make that rescue workers should expect not to be shot at as they attempt to save people’s lives, after all……………..

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The White House on Wednesday for the first time named a Syrian official as having “directly contributed” to support for the insurgency in Iraq, as the United States moved to freeze his assets.

The charge came after the US Treasury Department slapped the financial sanctions on the official, Syrian military spy chief Asset Shawkat, the brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad.

“Mr. Shawkat, as Syria’s chief of military intelligence, has directly contributed to Syria’s support for terrorism, including the insurgency in Iraq, Palestinian terrorist groups given shelter in Damascus, and Hezbollah and other terrorist groups in Lebanon,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

Shawkat “has also been deeply involved in Syria’s ongoing interference” in Lebanon, he added. “Today’s action is a significant signal that those, like Mr. Shawkat, who support Syrian terrorism will be held to account.”
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The US is to reduce the number of its diplomats posted to Europe, and will send more to other countries, including China, India, Nigeria and Lebanon.

“America must begin to reposition our diplomatic forces around the world,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday.

She said it was an anomaly that the US had the same staff levels in Germany as in India, more than 10 times the size.

She said the redeployment would help foster democratic and economic change.

Ms Rice told students at Georgetown University that President George Bush’s administration was committed to “transformational diplomacy”.

The philosophy was an attempt “to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world,” she said.

“Transformational diplomacy is rooted in partnership, not in paternalism,” she said, adding that it was based on “doing things with people, not for them.”

Although the state department has 7,440 diplomats in foreign countries, there are nearly 200 world cities of more than a million people in which the United States has no formal diplomatic presence, she said.

“This is where the action is today, and this is where we must be.”

Original Source:BBC
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Well, THIS outta peeve off a TON of career “diplomats” from Foggy Bottom!

Picture this: these guys were all comfortable in their Parisian bodegas and cafes, drinking their espressos and nodding knowingly as their french buddies discuss how eeevil the USA is. All the while they are pretending THEY are trying to hold off the worst of America for the benefit of their foreign pals because, after all, THEY aren’t an “ugly American”! THEY are the smart, diplomatic, caring, lefty “citizens of the wrold”. They jsut happen to get a paycheck from the American tax payers, is all. Nothing to hang THEM over, eh?

Now, all of a sudden, Condi Rice is going to rip them out of the comfort of Germany or france and send them to Jakarta or Bali!

These sponges of the US government’s largesse will be grumbling ALL the way to those “God forsaken” lands that they only saw on the BBC in the past.

Welcome to Africa, Mr. Diplomat. And, don’t mind the genocide. It happens all the time!
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ACLU, Civil Liberties Lawsuits Against Bush Bogus Say Legal Scholars
by Jim Kouri, CPP

Democrats and ACLU Use MLK Day to Trash Bush/Republicans
by Sher Zieve

The Alito shuffle
by Robert E. Meyer
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IS TED NUGENT DEAD?
– By Resa LaRu Kirkland

It Is My Sad Duty To Report…

I have been a frequent poster and fan of Ted Nugent’s forum for a couple of years now, but when I came back to it last spring after about a six month hiatus while caring for ill parents, things had changed. Some of the old schoolers like myself who had been there for more than a year were sending me warnings about one of the newer moderators there, some Buddhist little hippy named “J”, who was censoring the speech of conservatives and banning some of NUGE’s long-time supporters.

I refused to believe it was true. After all, NUGE has built an image as one of the few rockers who follows conservative rules, and who believes firmly in the right to speak whatever is on your mind, NO MATTER WHAT. So surely these old friends were exaggerating.

I should have known these friends were telling me the truth. ………
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US Bar n Grill
– By David Tatosian

You’re behind the bar one night and you see three men heading for your door. Like any good bartender, you know all security starts at the front door and so, when they reach it, you’re there to greet them.

You can see two of them are already pretty happy. The third one, a little guy, stands there glowering at you. You’re just about to tell them it’s a private party, invitation only, when there’s a tap at your shoulder. It’s your boss. He says “they’re ok” and heads back to his table.

You hold the door for them as the little guy glowers past the handful of customers arrayed along the bar.

Two drinks later, the waitress won’t go near them, the women customers are insulted, one of the happy ones isn’t so happy anymore and the little guy is sneering at you. You come out from behind the bar and approach the boss’ table to suggest he tell his friends to hit the road. The jackass sees you approaching, gives a preemptory wave of his manicured hand and says, “I’m busy”

Luckily there are enough regulars there who’ll help you escort the stooges out the door.

That pretty much sums up where the United States is regarding the illegal alien invasion doesn’t it? …………
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Call To Repeal Tax Under Way

COLUMBUS, Ohio — There is a call to repeal a cell phone tax most people probably don’t even know they are paying, NewsChannel5 partner ONN reported.

Anybody who has ever tried to decipher a cell phone bill knows how tough it can be. One of the charges is a 3 percent fee on every cell phone bill in America. The origin of the tax predates the invention of the cellular phone by nearly a century.

Annie Brinkman and her friend, Stacey Lemle, don’t know it, but every time they use their cell phones, they are supporting the war effort — the Spanish-American War.

The 1898 war involved Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.

The fee began as a luxury tax on phones at the turn of the 19th Century. And we’re all still paying for it today.

Phone bills don’t specify that the tax originates from the Spanish-American War. It is labeled as the federal excise tax, which amounts to 3 percent of every monthly bill.

“When you say it’s a federal excise tax, you know, most of the time, oh it’s the federal excise tax,” said Laura Merritt of Verizon Wireless. “And that’s just understood that it’s a tax you pay. Where exactly those funds go is something that’s a mystery to all of us.”

It’s not such a mystery anymore. And now, at least three federal courts have ruled the tax illegal. Many cell phone companies support a repeal of that tax. But they say they are caught in the middle.

“We’re required to continue collecting that tax from our customers until the IRS tells us to stop doing that,” said Merritt.

Some lawmakers are demanding cell phone companies stop collecting the tax and refund three years worth of fees.

But for now, every time you make a cell phone call, you’ll continue to pay for a war fought more than 107 years ago.

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…Proof, once again, that there is NOTHING so permanent as a TAX!

I’d suggest that the Spanish American War of 1898 was paid far more than a just FEW years ago. Though, it was probably not yet paid off when Senator KKK Byrd from West Virginny first got elected, sho ‘nuf!

It certainly is time to eliminate this tax.

Next thing you know we will find out we are still in debt for George Washington’s first set of wooden teeth!
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BLOGGING MAN – 2007

A gathering of Political Bloggers

The first nationwide gathering of political Bloggers will be held in Reno, Nevada on October 18th, 19th, 20th, 2007

Keynote speaker will be one of the Blogosphere’s most well known media mavens, Hugh Hewitt. Not only will he be a major speaker, but he will broadcast his nationally syndicated radio show from the convention on Friday, the 18th.

Currently some of the other accomplished and interesting speakers will be:

-Sharon Hughes – Talk Radio Host and Move America Forward Activist
-Peter and Helen Evans – Washington Insiders
-John Armor – Comedian and Blogger from www.ChronWatch.com and www.Newsbusters.org.
-Chris Adamo – a Senior Program Director and Staff Writer for the New Media Alliance Inc.
-Jay Stephenson – founder of StopTheACLU.com
-Warner Todd Huston – founder of www.Publiusforum.blogspot.com

There will soon be more names added to the speaker’s list, and they promise to be BIG names, as well. Begin to clear your calendar for this great opportunity to meet and greet some of your favorite Bloggers, conservative writers and Blogsophere movers and shakers.
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Tony Blair to Tap British MPs’ Phones; Will Bush Do the Same?
by Jim Kouri, CPP

At the Mercy of Dictators
by Thomas E. Brewton

Damning “Daniel” – Hollywood misjudges Christianity again
by Thomas Lindaman

Jesse James Would Have Been Proud of the Maryland Legislature
by Randall H. Nunn

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Secularists Once Again Call For The Suppression Of Knowledge
– By Frederick Meekins

Since the 1920’s or thereabouts, secularists have invoked the imagery of the Scopes Monkey Trial as evidence that conservative Evangelicals are bent on suppressing knowledge in the realms of science and literature.

Most following the news are no doubt aware of the ongoing angst on the part of unbelievers and Modernists regarding the propriety of introducing Intelligent Design into the Biology classroom since in their eyes suggesting anything but the materialist hypothesis (itself a faith-based assumption) diminishes the rigor of so-called scientific education. Instead, they suggest such ideas should be considered as part of the Social Studies or Humanities curriculum.

Yet such gestures of enlightened magnanimous compromise are little more than a canard. For when it becomes time to examine the metaphysical issues within what liberals previously promoted as the appropriate venue for such a discussion, they then cry Separation of Church and State. Thus, what they really want is a monopoly on the perspective taught across all of public education………..
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The King Legacy Reviewed
– By Greg Stewart

Today, I am in a reflective mood it has been thirty-eight years since his death, and Dr. King legacy rambles throughout my brain. Of course, such reverie was attributed to the holiday that was created for him but it seems a bit ironic, that we have one of the largest, if not “the” largest “marades” (clever isn’t) in Denver, not bad for a cow town. Nonetheless, the local papers The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News both had articles and editorials on Dr. King yet the coverage seemed wanting; and, what was interesting was how each approached the legacy.

In the more liberal paper (The Denver Post), the commentary in the lead editorial was 338 words long while the more conservative paper (Rocky Mountain News) had more eloquently stated editorial was 451 words long. This minor importance may seem minute, and I am not advocating a small novella, but it was interesting, of the two papers, the liberal paper had the least to say.

Oh I know, its not their fault, after all, it was a stretch for them to find the eventuated negative tone their editorial took, but as the dissenting opinion paper, I expected better; or at least, a more fervor attack. Admittedly, the legacy of Dr. King had a great impact on the nation; nevertheless, his vision has been mutated and hindered by corruption and political opportunists. … ………
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A little late, but here you go…
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By Christopher Hitchens

The best news from Iraq this year would certainly be the long New York Times report of Jan. 12 on the murderous strife between local “insurgents” and al-Qaida infiltrators. This was also among the best news from last year. For months, coalition soldiers in Iraq had been telling anyone who would care to listen that they had noticed a new phenomenon: heavy fire that they didn’t have to duck. On analysis, this turned out to be shooting or shelling apparently “incoming” from one “insurgent position” but actually directed at another one.

That would be bad enough news for the video-butchers and the bombers of mosques, but there was worse to come. On Aug. 14 last year, the Washington Post published the following lead paragraph on its front page:

Rising up against insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi Sunni Muslims in Ramadi fought with grenade launchers and automatic weapons Saturday to defend their Shiite neighbors against a bid to drive them from the western city. … Dozens of Sunni members of the Dulaimi tribe established cordons around Shiite homes, and Sunni men battled followers of Zarqawi, a Jordanian, for an hour Saturday morning. The clashes killed five of Zarqawi’s guerrillas and two tribal fighters, residents and hospital workers said. Zarqawi loyalists pulled out of two contested neighborhoods in pickup trucks stripped of license plates, witnesses said.

The use of “rising up” and “insurgent” in that first phrase is perhaps unintentionally amusing. To be an insurgent is to rise up by definition; I’ve never read of it being done against an insurgent before, but then I did not pick this stupid term for the Iraqi thugs and fundamentalists in the first place. (Incidentally, on Jan. 5, the Times ran a story under the headline, “Rebel Attacks in Iraq Kill 50, 30 at a Funeral.” The first paragraph of Richard A. Oppel Jr.’s article then began with the words “Insurgents unleashed car bombs,” and the second paragraph said, “In the most lethal attack, terrorists hit …” My italics.)

See full story here: Slate Magazine
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Once again, the only way to find out about what is really going on in Iraq via the MSM is to look in between the lines.

Your better bet is to check out the many Milblogs that lead you directly to in-theater info.

But, here we have Christopher Hitchens, once again, going against the MSM grain and letting us know that we aren’t “losing” the battle in Iraq. And that all Iraqis aren’t against the USA and/or FOR the terrorists.
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The Writer of the book Spielberg used on which to base his movie “Munich” speaks out. And he ain’t happy….

(These are excerpts from his longer article)
The Spielberg massacre
My book was all about avenging evil. Then the King of Hollywood got hold of it.
by George Jonas

December 7, 2005. The credits have just finished rolling. My wife, Maya, and her guide dog, Daisy, left the screening earlier. My colleague and I are looking at each other.

“Moral posturing,” I say finally, “allows you to have it both ways. In Tinseltown terms, after the gunslinger blows everyone away, he has a proper crisis of conscience.”

“Did ‘Avner’ have a crisis of conscience?” my colleague asks.

Such remarks illustrate why, in an era of moral chaos, Hollywood is unlikely to restore clarity. With due respect to pop culture and its undisputed master, one doesn’t reach the moral high ground by being neutral between good and evil. Spielberg is a fabulous entertainer, a magician of a director, a very astute businessman — maybe, just maybe, it’s too much to ask that he should be a significant moral philosopher as well.

After the film opens, someone tells me that Spielberg shouldn’t get an Oscar for not solving the problems of the Middle East. I agree. Spielberg should get an Oscar for making “Munich,” the gritty Hollywood flick. For not solving the problems of the Middle East, he should get a Nobel Peace Prize, like everyone else.
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Apparently the amoral, anti-Americans in Hollywierd will never learn!
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This Wasn’t King’s Dream: African-American’s Shackled to Liberal Hegemony
by Robert E. Meyer

‘Living Wage’ is Socialistic Income Redistribution
by Thomas E. Brewton

Belafarrakhanics
by Erik Rush
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Headline:
KERRY’S CHANCES RUINED BY CLOONEY

Movie star GEORGE CLOONEY is convinced he ruined JOHN KERRY’s chances in the race for US president in 2004 – by snubbing an invitation and hurting his feelings.

The OCEAN’S TWELVE actor was one of several screen stars invited to ride on Kerry’s election train, but it all went downhill for the Democrat when Clooney stayed away.
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HEY CINDY SHEEHAN The Last Word
– By Resa LaRu Kirkland

Your 15 minutes of fame are over. No one cares what you have to say. As always the last word will be written by someone like Casey Sheehan, not his glory mongering, America hating, anti-Semitic mother. Someone who, like your son, actually grasps what’s at stake. Someone who knows there are things out there bigger and more important than himself.

Someone who does believe that America and its freedoms aren’t just worth fighting and dying for, but are worth fighting and dying in order to bring to peoples who have never known them.

And this goes for the hippy press too. Your lies are unraveling in pure Dan Rather/Mary Mapes “Let’s make up a story” fashion. So listen up, you modern-day Goliaths, because I found a David to bitch-slap you to hell. ………
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Here is an interesting story on a Pakistani website:

KHAR, Bajaur Agency: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States may not have achieved its prime target, the No 2 Al Qaeda leader Egyptian, Dr Aiman Al Zawahri, but the January 13 air attack on Damadola village in Bajaur Agency has certainly left a deep psychological impact on the tribesmen.

The tribesmen believe that the attack was a warning not to host ‘foreign guests’ in the future. “We spent the next day and night in fear and when we heard planes we run out of our homes to avoid a second tragedy,” 35-year-old Sadiqullah Khan, whose house was destroyed in the attack, told Daily Times.

Eighteen people, mostly women and children, were reportedly killed in the attack on three houses within a 200-metre radius in Damadola village, less than 20 kilometres from the Afghan border. The official death toll has been put at 16.A security official in Khar, the regional headquarters of Bajaur Agency that overlooks the Afghan province of Kunar, a hotbed of anti-US militants, said it seemed unlikely that the target was achieved.

“The CIA has sent a clear message to all tribesmen along the Pak-Afghan border that they are aware of all activities and can launch strikes as precise as the Friday attack,” he told Daily Times on condition of anonymity.

Precision-guided bombs and missiles targeted the houses where Al Qaeda’s no 2 leader was believed to be.

Sources said that the US had intelligence sources in almost every tribal region. The January 13 attack was based on ‘intelligence’ received from ground agents – both Afghans and Pakistanis.

However, the information seemed sketchy according to intelligence experts. “I think the the information about the alleged presence of the high value target was poor. He (the agent) was not sure in which house the Al Qaeda leader was present,” the security official said. Pakistani counter-intelligence was looking for ‘US agents’ in the area and tribal sources said that expulsion of Afghan refugees from tribal areas along the Afghan border was part of the ‘look-out’ for US-paid agents.

Damadola is regarded a stronghold of outlawed Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi (TNSM) that mobilised thousands of volunteers to fight with the Taliban against the Washington-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in the US. Fahim Wazir, Bajaur Agency chief administrator, does not believe the banned TNSM has widespread support in the area. However TNSM leader Maulana Faqir Muhammad hails from the same village and local tribal leaders do not agree with Wazir’s views. iqbal khattak
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From a website called The Daily times, a new voice for a new Pakistan.

So, here is the thing. Yes, it is sad that these civilians were killed in this attack by the CIA. However, if it begins to stop them from hosting these terrorists, then it was an unfortunate, but necessary, price to pay.

These families hosting these terrorists have caused far more death to others than the CIA caused to these Pakistani families.
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by Vincent Fiore

As of this writing, Samuel Alito, President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has little to fear concerning his confirmation.

In fact, the judge for the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals would be wise to worry about road burn, so fast and nearly seamless has his trip been through these hearings.

Sure, Democrats had Ted Kennedy trying to tar Alito with every smear he could muster, and then some. But deep within their oft-times vituperative hearts, Democrats, I think, are beginning to realize something: that bell just doesn’t ring anymore. Kennedy, the old liberal lion of the Senate, can no longer replicate the demagogic heyday of such political strategy.

Remember “Robert Bork’s America,” as detailed by Senator Kennedy in 1987? Roared the liberal lion: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution.”

This was not merely a creation of “Bork” as a verb, as when uber-feminist Florence Kennedy famously addressed the National Organization of Women (NOW) in 1991 on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court: “We’re going to Bork him.” No. It was more than that.

Senator Kennedy had instituted a policy for Senate Democrats to follow all the way to these hearings for Samuel Alito. And even as Senator Kennedy made the old media and the far-left faithful coo with delight as he backhandedly accused Alito of being a “closet- bigot,” it suddenly seemed as if these Senate Democrats were nothing more than well-dressed mud-slinging hacks.

Try as they might, Democrats could not knock Alito off his non-committal perch regarding such issues as abortion, affirmative action, civil rights, and presidential powers.

So what did Kennedy and fellow Democrats manage to do? Well, for starters, they made Mrs. Alito shed a few tears when Senator Lindsey Graham, (R, NC) apologized for the Democrats repeated attempts at indirectly labeling her husband as a racist, or “closet-bigot.”

Democrats managed to convey to the public at large that the helplessness they displayed during the confirmation hearings of John Roberts a few months ago was no fluke. With regard to Alito, Democrats looked even worse, and could not muster the intellectual might to raise serious judicial and constitutional queries.

But perhaps the biggest degree of failure by Senate Democrats will reside in how the next Supreme Court nominee is treated by these same Senate Democrats. For you see, the political drive-by shootings and smear-jobs that constituted the heart of the Democrats political strategy for derailing any Republican nominee are no longer sticking like they used to.

In the future, Democrats may actually have to come up with real questions and concerns, as opposed to 5,000-word narratives that essentially say that “this Republican nominee is the devil.”

But with Alito, there was no intellectual thought applied to their questions. There was no rigorous examination of what Alito really did with regard to his 15 years on the bench.

There were just the Kennedys and Schumers and Bidens of the Democratic Party, coming to the horrible (theirs) realization that these public “trials” held by the Senate Judiciary Committee for a Supreme Court nominee will never be the same again.

The public has finally realized that just because Democrats claimed that any Republican nominee to the court was a racist, homophobe, sexist, child-killer (okay, I threw that one in…) and civil rights destroyer, did not actually mean it was so.

The actual substance of a charge has finally overcome the seriousness of a charge, as leveled for decades by Democrats against Republicans. For Republicans, and the country, it is a time well worth marking. For Senate Democrats and their liberal backers–like NOW and MoveOn.org–it signals an end to the smash-mouth politics of SCOTUS nominees, as the public just isn’t buying it anymore.

Still, there will be theatrics aplenty in Washington. Senator Kennedy’s demand of Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R, PA) to go into “executive session” regarding Alito’s ties to a now-defunct Princeton university organization called Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) added up to network camera-inspired twaddle and showmanship. The cause was lost before Kennedy ever started.

(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/11/se.06.html)

Samuel Alito will soon sit among his peers on the Supreme Court. It is probably a safe bet to say that President Bush will have another pick before his presidency is done. It will be interesting to see if Democrats decide to challenge whoever Bush picks upon the merits of solid and questing argument, or fall back yet again to the Kennedy school of public demagoguery.

In a perfect world, Democrats would try, fail yet again, and still learn nothing. The GOP would have a solid hand on the court, and the metastasizing, creeping liberalism that has infected the country these past sixty years can now be somewhat turned back.

But that is in an imperfect world. Let’s wait and see if Senate Democrats have learned anything regarding these hearings and the now futile and failure-destined strategy of the Kennedy doctrine, or will it be just a question of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Vincent Fiore
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DeLay’s descent a win for pompous snobs
– By Michael M. Bates

Put me down as one of those disappointed with Tom DeLay’s decision to give up his House leader job. No, not just because the guy takes a terrific mug shot, which he obviously does.

It’s true he’s under the gun for taking money from firms associated with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but he could have played a grand game of gotcha for quite a while. Congressional Democrats, including all but a handful in the Senate, have accepted millions from the same special interests.

With the heavy cloud of corruption hanging over his head, Mr. DeLay bit the bullet. He did what he thought was best for his party.

Liberals are justifiably buoyed. Getting a conservative Republican scalp is always sweet, but this one is all the sweeter because Tom DeLay had once been – how do you say this in polite company? – a working man. How common.. ………………..
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Dems Pollute Advice and Consent
– By Warner Todd Huston

Well, Judge Alito’s torturous confirmation hearing is over and there is nothing left but for the fat, drunken swimmer to sing. But, what was the chief outcome of the Senate’s deliberations? Was it a serious consideration of a presidential nominee? Was it a fulfillment of the Senate’s Constitutional duties to give the president their “advice and consent” on his nomination?

Unfortunately, the answer is no.

All we got out of the Senate was merely low road, mud slinging by partisan hacks, and commonplace political operatives. So much for the most deliberative body in the world!

The Democratic Party has destroyed the concept of advice and consent and turned it into a platform for attacking the their political opponents in particular and the president in general quite regardless of any nominee. The Senate Democrats had no intention to hear from Judge Alito and no intention to deliberate on his fitness for the Supreme Court. Their minds were already made up by their far left supporters because of the money those Lobbyists supplied to them and their campaigns.

This all might sound harsh, but it really isn’t. Few Supreme Court nominees since the day we formed the Republic have received as stiff a resistance at the hands of Democrats as did Judge Bork (in the 80’s), Judge Roberts (a few months ago in 2005), and now Judge Alito; all nominees by Republican Presidents. Conversely, the Republicans have never taken such a low road with a nominee………………

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Colombian teenagers could be forced to carry condoms in an effort to stop unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

The man proposing the scheme says people over the age of 14 in the town of Tulua should carry condoms, just as they carry ID cards, or face a fine.

“The measure does not force anyone to have sex, but to protect themselves,” Councillor William Pena told El Tiempo.

But a local priest has compared the scheme to “selling guns on the street”.

Last year, 14 people died in Tulua due to sexually transmitted diseases.

This shows an increase of 50% from 2003, according to figures published by the daily.

“This is a country with a lot of sexual activity and Tulua is no exception,” Mr Pena told El Tiempo.

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Just more feel-goodism from politicians who wish to be seen “doing something” about “this problem”.

Typically, instead of really addressing the issue of the continued down fall of morality, this politician wants to find a bandaid solution. A quick fix for a hard problem.

Requiring every teen to carry a condom will do absolutely nothing to reduce teen pregnancy or teen sex each society, whether it be Columbia’s, England’s or the United States’, must address the attitudes and knowledge about sex that our teens hold and educate them on just why pre-marital sex is not good for them.

But, it isn’t just our teens that are in the dark about this subject. Even our young adults are woefully ignorant on just how involved sex is in the human psyche not to mention the disease factors involved in promiscuity.

I’d sooner trust that Catholic Priest than the politician in the story, and I’m not even Catholic!
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Howard Stern and Berkeley versus the Scouts
– By Hans Zeiger

Howard Stern, whose 5-year nine-digit sewer-tour with Sirius satellite radio commenced Monday, posed last month in Newsweek as a Boy Scout. Holding forth the three-fingered Scout sign with an American flag backdrop, Stern wore an antique Scout hat, blue neckerchief, First Class rank, and the troop number “1906.” The photo suggested what the enemies of the Boy Scouts have for many years declared: that one’s refusal to live by the Scout Oath and Law is no disqualifier from wearing the uniform. Cloaking Gomorrahic decadence in mainstream culture, Stern aims to move America beyond the moral antiquations of 1906.

This too has been the aim of Berkeley, California for several decades. Like Howard Stern’s values, Berkeley’s hippie values contrast the Boy Scouts’ honor code starkly.

Four years ago, the Berkeley City Council barred a delegation of Japanese Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts from having a scheduled meeting with the mayor in City Hall. They said that they didn’t want to signal any support for the Boy Scouts of America, which excludes homosexuals, even though the Japanese Scouts have no policy about sexual orientation. ………
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