U.S. intel: New Osama tape is authentic and recently produced by Allahpundit

A signal to attack?

U.S. authorities now say they have a transcript which they say is aimed at potential suicide bombers who he urges to carry out missions against the West.

Richard Clarke says he thinks the beard looks fake. The possibility of Osama shaving his beard to disguise himself was floated after 9/11; the FBI or CIA even produced an artist’s rendering of what he might look like without one but naturally I can’t find it anywhere online. Clarke thinks shaving would actually be counterproductive in the Pakistani tribal areas since it would make him stand out, not blend in, raising the slender possibility that he’s decamped to some other region.

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The Principles of Freedom vs. Public/Private Partnerships By Tom DeWeese

"Freedom." We use that word a lot. Do we all really know what that word means? It's used in so many different ways. Do we understand how it is attained?

Most importantly, do we understand how it is used by some to actually take freedom away?

Why do some who profess to advocate freedom actually accept policies, which diminish freedom, and call it "restoring the Republic?"

Simply put, freedom is the ability to act without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is owning your life, your actions, your labor.

We say we support the "principles" of freedom. But what are those principles and where did they come from?

First of all, we must understand principles are not legislated or invented. Principles are discovered. Someone doesn't just come up with an idea and start to sell it as a principle. A principle exists and you are subject to it, whether or not you know it.

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Fred Can Win By DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH

With Senator Thompson's official entry into the presidential race, Senator Clinton needs to watch out. Demographics, policies, and personality make Mr. Thompson a formidable opponent, and voters will take him seriously.

Since 1964, all winning presidential tickets have been led by a Southerner or a Westerner, and Mr. Thompson, from Tennessee, fits the profile of a successful candidate. By successful I mean, the candidate capable of beating the leading Democrat, Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Thompson has a potential solid base of Southern support, a base that the other candidates will have a hard time attracting and that the winner may need.

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The 'surge' is working By Max Boot

As recently as a month ago, it appeared that Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker would be running into a withering fusillade of rhetorical fire when they appeared on Capitol Hill to report on the progress of the "surge" in Iraq. Now that their testimony is upon us, the political environment has become, in military argot, considerably more "permissive."

A sign of how much things have changed: In July, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was pressing for a "date certain" for troop withdrawal; he derided those who wanted to pass a nonbinding drawdown resolution "that has no teeth in it" just so "you can circle and sing 'Kumbaya.' " Today, he's trying to reach accommodation with Republicans on just such a "Kumbaya" bill.

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Noonan on the Republican debate by Lawrence Auster

Peggy Noonan gives Paul credit for scoring points on a minority stand against the war; compliments Huckabee for his forceful response to Paul and suggests he is top-tier timber; admires a McCain liberated from front-runner status; suggests Romney is too crisp and together,

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Dumb and Dumber: Reconquistas Redouble Losing Effort By Joe Guzzardi

Last week, two incidents reminded me of just how far we in the immigration reform movement have come.

My mailman stopped me to tell me that he reads VDARE.COM and sends FAXes through NumbersUSA. Bob could hardly believe that, earlier in the summer, we handily beat back two separate U.S. Senate attempts to ram amnesty down our throats.

And later in the week, I ran into Ed at the local irrigation canal while I was taking my dogs for a swim. Ed was giddy over the successful track record our side has established when we go head-to-head against the open-borders lobby.

When you run into people in the middle of nowhere—like a corn field through which the canals runs—who are unrestrained in their passion for bringing about true immigration reform, you know we’ve come a long, long way from the days when any criticism of federal immigration policy prompted charges of “immigrant-bashing.”

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Parade in NYC on 9/9 -- Why? By Peter Hannaford

What is the purpose of a parade? That's easy. It's to celebrate or honor particular people or events. Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Italian-Americans celebrate the Genoa mariner on Columbus Day. Macy's celebrates Thanksgiving with a parade of giant balloon figures. Gays and lesbians celebrate their lifestyles with Gay Pride parades. What do American Muslims celebrate when they parade?
Consider the date of this year's United American Muslim Day Parade in New York City: this coming Sunday, September 9, only two days before the sixth anniversary of the radical Islamists' attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in which more than 3,000 people died.

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The Imperatives of War By Caroline Glick

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert couldn't have looked more pathetic when he responded this week to a rocket attack on a day care center in Sderot by writing a letter of complaint to the United Nations. But what is he to do? Olmert and his government colleagues are stumped. They are unwilling to pay the political price that comes with abandoning the defense of the Western Negev to Palestinian rockets in Gaza. But they are also unwilling to pay the military and political price of launching a wide-scale ground campaign in Gaza.

In vain attempts to get themselves off the hot seat, they try to change the subject to Tony Blair's visit, or Condoleezza Rice's upcoming visit or the imaginary peace accord they might sign with Fatah terror chief Mahmoud Abbas someday.

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The Terrorist Bill of Rights by Jed Babbin

The Democrats’ national security agenda seems designed, point by point, to destroy the means by which we have been protected since 9-11.

First, they want to revise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to impose the severest -- and almost certainly unconstitutional -- restrictions on the gathering of intelligence data by intercepting telephone calls and e-mails. If the Dems have their way, not only will the NSA and CIA have to get FISA warrants to intercept communications between terrorists abroad and people in the US, but also for everything except conversations between two foreign citizens overseas. If it is amended to broaden its coverage so greatly, the FISA court will be too swamped with applications to deal with warrants or anything else, and counter-terrorist intelligence gathering will essentially stop.

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Cooking Up Global Warming by Christopher C. Horner

A very embarrassing chapter in the history of our nation's scientific establishment has been unfolding thanks to a creative new website www.SurfaceStations.org set up and run by Dr. Anthony Watts. This site is providing unwelcome scrutiny to the United States’ surface temperature measurement network, supposedly the most reliable in the world. The reputation has been built over the years in part because of our government’s purported insistence on uniformity of technology as well as siting (putting the gauges where they will gather the most accurate data) and maintenance standards.

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CAIR's Dirty Tricks against Me By Daniel Pipes

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, North America’s foremost Islamist group, bills itself as a “civil rights organization,” suggesting it maintains high standards of decency and morality. But, as I personally can attest, it fails abysmally to do so. Its seven-year-long campaign against me has included misappropriation, misrepresentation, misquotation, defamation, and inaccuracy, prompting one writer recently to compare its propaganda with that of Nazi Germany.

Consider several dirty-trick episodes:

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Illegal alien TB carrier to be released By Michelle Malkin

Remember the illegal alien TB carrier in Atlanta? They’re letting him go and trusting him to show up for a deportation hearing in a few weeks.

Yes, really. It happens all the time. That misplaced trust is why we have hundreds of thousands of deportation fugitives on the loose today. The “notice to appear” letter that the article mentions here is known in open-borders circles as a “run letter.” As in: Don’t actually do what the letter orders you to do. Just run!

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The Cult of Ron Paul :: Conservatism With Heart

What is up with the cultic followers of Ron Paul? The list of reasons for Ron Paul being a nut job are endless and yet he has a small group of loyal followers who are as insane as him and yet tenacious and extremely internet savvy. Everywhere I go, if the name Ron Paul is mentioned his followers come out of the woodwork to sing his praises. Just today I was at 2 different blogs where the blog owners were being attacked in the comments' section for not being Ron Paul supporters.

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In the Midst of a Second American Revolution By Nancy Salvato

Antonio Gramsci and Ayn Rand; each notable for their distinct yet conflicting views on the role of the individual in society, were both heavily influenced by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Each denounced physical coercion employed by police and armed forces, or as Rand would say, by “communist thugs”. Both wrote about the revolution’s influence on their belief systems. That is where their similarity ends.

Gramsci agreed with Karl Marx that capitalism was bad for the “average Joe” because,

“Although workers produce things for the market, market forces control things; workers do not. People are required to work for capitalists who have full control over the means of production and maintain power in the workplace. Work, he said, becomes degrading, monotonous, and suitable for machines rather than free, creative people. In the end people themselves become objects—robotlike mechanisms that have lost touch with human nature, that make decisions based on cold profit-and-loss considerations, with little concern for human worth and need. Marx concluded that capitalism blocks our capacity to create our own humane society.” ¹

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Feinstein's $4 Bn Beverly Hills Earmark By Kimberley Strassel

Move over Bridge to Nowhere. Congress is back in town, and clearly back to business even uglier than usual.

It takes hard work to come up with an earmark more egregious than that infamous Alaskan bridge, but California's Dianne Feinstein is an industrious gal. Her latest pork--let's call it Rambo's View--deserves to be the poster child for everything wrong with today's greedy earmark process.

The senator's $4 billion handout (yes, you read that right) to wealthy West L.A. (yes, you read that right, too) is the ultimate example of how powerful members use earmarks to put their own parochial interests above national ones--in this case the needs of veterans. It's a case study in how Congress uses the appropriations process to substitute its petty wants for the considered judgments of agency professionals. And it's just the latest proof that, no matter how much outrage the American public might display over these deals--and no matter how often Congress promises to clean up its act--the elected have no intention of reforming the process.

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The Partitioning of Iraq By Charles Krauthammer

It took political Washington a good six months to catch up to the fact that something significant was happening in Iraq's Anbar province, where the former-insurgent Sunni tribes switched sides and joined the fight against al-Qaeda. Not surprisingly, Washington has not yet caught up to the next reality: Iraq is being partitioned -- and, like everything else in Iraq today, it is happening from the ground up.

1. The Sunni provinces. The essence of our deal with the Anbar tribes and those in Diyala, Salahuddin and elsewhere is this: You end the insurgency and drive out al-Qaeda, and we assist you in arming and policing yourselves. We'd like you to have an official relationship with the Maliki government, but we're not waiting on Baghdad.

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Illegal Aliens Declare War on the United States, Part II By Douglas MacKinnon

When we last left it, Prince William County in Virginia was trying to defend itself and its legal inhabitants against the massive influx of illegal aliens pouring into the county. A migration that is putting a tremendous strain on the infrastructure of the county while substantially raising the crime rate.

Toward that end, the county logically decided that the best way to combat this invasion by illegal aliens was to simply enforce the laws. Mistake. At least as far as the illegal aliens, their left-wing lawyers, and the left-leaning Washington Post are concerned. The illegal aliens and their lawyers, with a huge public relations assist from the Washington Post, basically decided to declare war on the county in response.

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Guilty in the Duke Case By Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson

One night in jail: So concludes the Duke lacrosse rape case -- rape fraud, as it turned out. The legacy of this incident should include hard thinking about the deep pathologies underlying the media sensationalism and the perversion of academic ideals that this fraud inspired.

The 24-hour sentence was imposed on Mike Nifong, the disbarred former district attorney of Durham, after a contempt-of-court trial last week for repeatedly lying to hide DNA evidence of innocence. His prosecution of three demonstrably innocent defendants, based on an emotionally disturbed stripper's ever-changing account, may be the worst prosecutorial misconduct ever exposed while it was happening. Durham police officers and other officials aided Nifong, and the city and county face the threat of a massive lawsuit by the falsely accused former students seeking criminal justice reforms and compensation.

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Thompson's Delay Was No Mistake By Kathleen Parker

In a stunning move that caught no one by surprise, Fred Thompson announced that ... he's ... running ... for ... president.

Time to step up to the plate, he said.

And everybody hit their snooze buttons.

That Thompson is running for the highest office was a foregone anti-climax after months of testing, consulting, pondering, considering and, most important, letting the other candidates spend their money and exhaust Americans' interest with endless debates in which little new is said or learned.

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Hippy Hygiene Kit :: JennyHatch

[H/T Maggie's Notebook]

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Waiting for the other hsu to tap? :: Classical Values

There's a lot of reaction everywhere to the news that Norman Hsu jumped bail, apparently fleeing the country. I'm not surprised by this development at all. On the lam? (Baah!)

A lot of people have asked whether it's a coincidence that the Republican foot-tapping (OK "shoe-tapping" then; it's the fun thing to do!) scandal erupted into huge news at the same time as the Hsu scandal. It's interesting that both parties are questioning the timing of when and how these stories were discovered and reported by the news media. The Wall Street Journal ran the Hsu story on August 28, while the Craig story was first reported on August 27. I have no way of knowing who knew which story would run first or when. (The details underlying such skullduggery are ultimately unknowable. Hell, Ace was even asking about Craig in the context of the Peter Paul scandal.)

That Hsu would skip bail is hardly surprising, as in many third world countries, bail is considered a bribe.

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Qat in Sweden :: Gates of Vienna

Many Americans first became familiar with qat (or khat) during the First Gulf War in 1991. It is a drug which is grown in leaf form in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, and is widely chewed by users throughout the region. It is a stimulant, and is used both socially and as an aid to alertness while working.

The active ingredient in qat is similar in its properties to the amphetamines, and has similar effects. Like the amphetamines, it is addictive, and prolonged or extreme use can lead to delusions, hallucinations, erratic behavior, and various physical disorders.

During the Gulf War (and later in Somalia) some American servicemen picked up a qat habit and brought it home with them, so it became an issue that the Pentagon was concerned about. The DEA lists qat as a Class I narcotic.

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Multicultural cul de sac By Clarice Feldman

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom documents the Muslim Student Association at the University of Texas-San Antonio harrassing women and Jews and explains for us how a university with a "hate speech" policy allows this to go on. It's twisted, but this is the cul de sac the universities have put themselves in.

Happily, they shot their own video to document the occasion.

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Nine Guatemalans Charged with Sex Trafficking of Minors :: The Conservative Voice

Six members of a Guatemalan family and three associates have been indicted for their roles in a sex trafficking ring that recruited young women in Guatemala with false promises of high-paying jobs, smuggled the victims into the United States, and forced them to work as prostitutes to pay smuggling fees.

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned a 50-count second superseding indictment, which was unsealed following the arrest of a new defendant involved in the sex trafficking scheme. The superseding indictment, adds allegations of sex trafficking of minors; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; violations of the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate or foreign transport of minors for prostitution; and importing and harboring aliens for purposes of prostitution.

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Is Mexico Really “North American”? By Allan Wall

Is Mexico a part of North America—or is it part of Latin America?

It’s an important question. The SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) is drawing the U.S., Canada and Mexico into ever-closer union. It could well culminate in some sort of North American Community/Union along the lines of the European Union across the pond.

So which is it?

Geographically, of course, Mexico is part of the continent we call North America. But culturally, Mexico is part of Latin America.

The U.S.-Mexican border, what’s left of it, anyway, is not only an international border between two nations. It’s a socioeconomic border between the First World and the Third World. And it’s a cultural border between  Anglo-America and Latin America, two cultures that still, despite globalization, have profound differences.

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Spencer: "End Muslim immigration to the U.S." by Lawrence Auster

This past June 9, Robert Spencer finally took a definite stand on restriction of Muslim immigration, saying that we should cease all immigration of Muslims from Muslim countries, which I had been calling on him to do for years. He also abandoned his screening idea, admitting something I had pointed out repeatedly, that there is no practical way we can distinguish between jihadist and non-jihadist Muslim immigration applicants. (See the VFR discussion from June 9 on this cheering development.)

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PUBLIC EDUCATION: THE MODERN DAY SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS :: Real Clear Religion

Our culture is immersed in temporal and material cares while we abandon our children to state run schools that have adopted all sorts of godless agendas. While we are consumed by consumerism, and absorbed into the culture, our children are robbed of the truth and beauty of a life of Faith. It is time that we take our children back and stop our complicity in the slaughter of any remaining innocence in this world.

Pope Pius XI stated in Christian Education of Youth: “...[C]hildren are actually being torn from the bosom of the family to be formed (or to speak more accurately, to be deformed and depraved), in the godless schools and associations, to irreligion and hatred..thus is renewed in a real and more terrible manner the slaughter of the innocents.”

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Trial Lawyer And Medicine Man By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Socialism: The health care plan that John Edwards has put forth would force Americans to visit their family doctors even when they're well and also cover mental health and dental costs. The more details that leak out, the uglier it gets.

To achieve universal coverage, the former senator would require every one of us to have health insurance. Never mind that it would be easier to herd a bunch of wildcats into a potato sack.

Whatever happened to choice? Some Americans simply prefer not to buy health coverage.

As we noted last week, 38% of the estimated 47 million people who lack health insurance have incomes higher than $50,000 a year. A staggering 20% of all uninsured have incomes over $75,000.

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The Beaten 'Path' By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Why isn't a miniseries that attracted a two-night audience of 25 million and won seven Emmy nominations being released on DVD? It's not that "The Path to 9/11" might hurt Hillary Clinton's candidacy, is it?

Some movies are so bad they never make it to the theater and are released directly to DVD. Others never make it to your neighborhood video store at all.

But the ABC miniseries on the events leading up the defining moment of our time, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, was a bona fide hit.

So as the sixth anniversary of this jihadist carnage approaches, why is ABC sitting on a moneymaker? Surely there are enough members of the vast right wing conspiracy ready to fill its corporate coffers? Or is ABC more interested in the making of a president than in the making of a profit?

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9/11 6th Anniversary: New Bin Laden Video Coming and Islamist "Special Gift" Promised By Jeffrey Imm

The SITE Intelligence Group reports that a new Osama Bin Laden video message is forthcoming. SITE states that the new Osama Bin Laden message will be "addressing the American people on the sixth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001."

ABC also reports this stating that a Jihadist web site posting made this afternoon announced the planned Osama Bin Laden video stating: "Soon, with the permission of God, a new visual tape, the Sheikh, the Lion, Osama bin Laden. May God protect him."

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Why Musharraf? By Max Boot

The alleged terrorist plot uncovered in Germany has an interesting connection to another country: two of the suspects, both German converts to Islam, were said to have gone to Pakistan for training. This merely confirms what we already know—that, as the National Intelligence Estimate released in July put it, al Qaeda has found “a safe haven in the Pakistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas.”

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Muslim Ambassadors: ‘Sweden Needs To Change Its Laws’ :: American Renaissance

Ambassadors from Muslim countries have indicated that they intend to present the Swedish prime minister with a list of demands when they meet for talks on Friday.

Fredrik Reinfeldt invited the ambassadors from 20 Muslim countries to government offices on Friday following a wave of protests from Muslim countries after the publication of a caricature of Muhammad in local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda.

Egyptian ambassador Mohamed Sotouhi told news agency TT that he and a group of fellow ambassadors had agreed on a list of measures Sweden needed to take if it was to secure a long-term solution to the Muhammad cartoon controversy.

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The Jena 6: Goodman's Blaxploitation Continues By Bob Parks

On an almost daily basis, Amy Goodman continues to parade a string of poor, Black Americans on her show as victims. The motive is clear. People like Goodman, with their typical liberal superiority complexes, feel like Black people will only get a fair shake if she cares for them, as an owner cares for their pets.

I've used that analogy several times before.

If your cat pees in the corner, most of us understand the cat really doesn't know any better. When Black people misbehave, according to liberals, they didn't know what they were doing. As Whoopi Goldberg recently said on "The View" regarding Michael Vick and the dogfighting scandal, that "from where he comes from" in the South, dogfighting isn't that unusual. "It's like cockfighting in Puerto Rico," she said. "There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country."

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Suing to Shut Down ‘Teach For America’ By Frederick M. Hess

Here’s a thoughtful back-to-school gift for America’s students. Last week, a California-based coalition filed a federal suit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Margaret Spellings, charging that the Department has violated the “highly qualified teacher” provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). An advocacy group called Public Advocates and the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP alleged that a five-year-old federal regulation for alternative teacher certification created a loophole that “harms children.” If successful, the suit will shut down alternative teacher credentialing options, including Teach For America (TFA).

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Major New Theory Proposed to Explain Global Warming By Michael Asher

"Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt" --Washington Post headline, November 2, 1922.

If there was any doubt that fear-mongering has long been cherished by the media, the above headline should put the question to bed. But that 80-year old news story also illustrates two of the great problems for the global warming theory -- its inability to explain sudden climate shifts in the Earth's past, and to explain why the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are so unequally affected by warming. 

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Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory By Michael Asher

Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints

In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.

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Kucinich visits Syria, shuns U.S. troops :: WorldNetDaily

After praising Syria following a meeting in Damascus with President Bashar Assad, Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich declared he will not visit troops in Iraq during his Middle East tour because he considers the American military presence in Iraq to be illegal.

"I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation ... I don't want to bless that occupation with my presence," Kucinich said in Lebanon, according to the Associated Press. "I will not do it."

The Ohio congressman accused the Bush administration of destabilizing the Middle East and praised Syria for receiving Iraqi refugees.

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North American Union driver's license created By Jerome R. Corsi ::WorldNetDaily

The first "North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram of the continent on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina.

"The North Carolina driver's license is 'North American Union' ready," charges William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration.

New security logo on the reverse of North Carolina's driver's licenses

Gheen provided WND with a photo of an actual North Carolina license which clearly shows the hologram of the North American continent embedded on the reverse.

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Haditha Video Doctored by Investigators By Phil Brennan

A video taped from a Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle – purported to show the action that took place in Haditha when 24 Iraqi civilians and insurgents were killed – was heavily edited by government investigators, a NewsMax investigation reveals.

The reason, according to an inside source: to avoid showing anything that exonerates the Marines who were accused of murdering the victims.

Four Marines originally faced murder charges stemming from the Haditha incident. Charges against three of them have since been dropped, but Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is still facing a court martial.

NewsMax can reveal that the video – which was broadcast by CNN – was a small, carefully edited part of what the Scan Eagle transmitted during its daylong surveillance flight over the battle scene on Nov. 19, 2005. And shockingly, the approximately one hour of edited footage was the only Scan Eagle footage provided to the Marines’ defense teams by the prosecution.

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The Swiss Plan Racist Actions :: Gates of Vienna

Xenophobia rears its ugly head in Switzerland, too.
That’s according to the news accounts describing the latest initiative by the Swiss People’s Party to deport violent immigrants. Here’s what the AP says:

The campaign poster was blatant in its xenophobic symbolism: Three white sheep kicking out a black sheep over a caption that read “for more security.” The message was not from a fringe force in Switzerland’s political scene but from its largest party.
The nationalist Swiss People’s Party is proposing a deportation policy that anti-racism campaigners say evokes Nazi-era practices. Under the plan, entire families would be expelled if their children are convicted of a violent crime, drug offenses or benefits fraud.

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Addictive Test :: Theo Spark

If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenon. It's been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are
expected to go for at least 2 minutes.

Give it a try but be careful...it is addictive!!

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Muslim Societies Can’t Be Trusted :: Foehammer's Anvil

This article from NewsMax was recommended to me by its author, Barrett Kalellis, and after I read it, I fully understood why. The threat is real, the threat is here and the threat is called Islam. Read on:

Not many in the media, much less in the general public, have a real understanding of what is incessantly and mistakenly called the “war on terror,” and for this reason, our military initiatives in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as peacemaking efforts in Palestine, have all come a cropper.

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11 New Jersey Politicians Arrested by gmony714 :: NowPublic

All Democrats!! Could this mean that the Republicans are not the party of corruption? Or maybe both parties are rotten to the bone.

FBI
agents this morning rounded up roughly a dozen New Jersey public
officials on bribery charges related to roofing and insurance
contracts, according to sources close to the investigation.

The 18-month investigation, which included an undercover operation
with secret recordings, began focusing on contracts awarded by the
Pleasantville School Board in Atlantic County. The probe eventually
widened to include other government contracts and involved officials
from Passaic and Essex counties, the sources said.

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Kathleen Willey: Clintons stole my manuscript By Art Moore

Kathleen Willey, the woman who says Bill Clinton groped her in the Oval Office, claims she was the target of an unusual house burglary over the weekend that nabbed a manuscript for her upcoming book, which promises explosive revelations that could damage Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Willey told WND little else was taken from her rural Virginia home as she slept alone upstairs – electronics and jewelry were left behind – and she believes the Clintons were behind it.

The break-in, she said, reminded her of the widely reported incident 10 years ago in which she claimed she was threatened near the same Richmond-area home by a stranger just two days before she was to testify against President Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.

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Al-Qaeda’s Hope By Cliff May

As the sixth anniversary of September 11th, 2001 approaches, we should be grateful: al-Qaeda has not successfully attacked Americans a second time on American soil. We also should be distressed: Americans are debating whether to fight al-Qaeda -- or whether to retreat from the one battlefield on which we have a chance to seriously damage al-Qaeda, both militarily and ideologically.

That battlefield is in Iraq. True, a case can be made that had President Bush not invaded Iraq, we would not need to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq. But that is irrelevant to the question policy makers need to decide: Do we continue battling al-Qaeda in Iraq? Or do we stop -- and let al-Qaeda combatants in Iraq live to fight another day?

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The Brits, Those Ideologues By DANIEL JOHNSON

The British Army has quite a tradition of glorious retreats, from Corunna in the Peninsular War against Napoleon's armies to the "miracle" of Dunkirk against Hitler's.

The retreat from Basra, all of which except for the airport has now been evacuated, has been bloodless — at least so far — and in Britain it has been hailed as a successful operation. People are so sickened by the barbarity of the terrorists that they prefer to forget the fact that wars are not won by retreats, however skilfully conducted, but by winning victories so decisive that the enemy loses heart.

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Why the “FairTax Revolution” is Gaining Strength by Ken Hoagland

Nearly every taxpayer understands on a gut level the dysfunction of the income tax system. American taxpayers are reminded, after all, every April 15^th of just how indecipherable the tax code has become and how difficult and expensive it has become to obey the law.

The tax code, at 67,500 pages of regulations and growing, confounds even the IRS. In truth, our tax system has become a patchwork quilt of political favors and punishments that has very little to do with the health of the national economy or the well-being of taxpayers. Instead, the income tax system has almost everything to do with the well-being of Members of Congress, a wealthy and influential army of tax lobbyists, and thousands of “camp followers” who profit from continual tinkering with the tax code.

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Buenas Noches, America by Patrick J. Buchanan

"Mexico does not end at its borders. ... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

That astonishing claim, by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, in his state of the nation address at the National Palace Sunday, brought his audience wildly cheering to its feet.

Were the United States a serious nation, Calderon's claim that Mexico extends into the United States would have produced an instant demand from the U.S. ambassador for clarification. Failing to receive it, he would have packed his bags, and the United States would be on the verge of severing diplomatic relations.

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Socialized Medicine Is Already Here By Michael Cannon

Congressional Democrats are trying to expand government health insurance to children who don't need public assistance, while their party's presidential hopefuls are concocting even grander schemes to achieve "universal coverage."

"That's socialized medicine!" cry the Republicans. President Bush asks whether we want a government-run health care system or a private system. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani accuses Democrats for lusting after the socialized systems of Europe, Canada, and Cuba. In a recent television appearance, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) emphatically denied the suggestion that she supports socialized medicine.

Was Clinton being disingenuous, or are Democrats really trying to foist socialized medicine on the American people?

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World War IV? By William F. Buckley

Some set the matter aside as being nothing more than verbal play for the benefit of word-men. What term properly designates what we are doing, and what we are enduring, in many parts of the world, the symbolic center of which is the Twin Towers site in Manhattan? Sometimes the words chosen can mean the justification of an additional measure of military power. Always they calibrate the public mood and the public perception of what is going on.

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The Eye of the 9/11 Storm By Victor Davis Hanson

Another anniversary of 9/11 is near. It's been nearly six long years since a catastrophic attack on our shores, and we've understandably turned to infighting and second-guessing - about everything from Guantanamo to wiretaps.

But this six-year calm, unfortunately, has allowed some Americans to believe that "our war on terror" remedy is worse than the original Islamic terrorist disease.

We see this self-recrimination reflected in our current Hollywood fare, which dwells on the evil of American interventions overseas, largely ignoring the courage of our soldiers or the atrocities committed by jihadists. Our tell-all bestsellers, endless lawsuits and congressional investigations have deflected our 9/11-era furor away from the terrorists to ourselves.

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Al-Qaeda Comes to Denmark by Flemming Rose

After months of surveillance and close cooperation with Europol and other foreign intelligence services Danish police yesterday arrested eight young men age 19 to 29, who according to the police were in the process of planning a terrorist attack.

“The key figures must be characterized as militant Islamists with international connections including direct connections with leading members of Al Qaeda,” said Jacob Scharff, head of Denmark’s domestic intelligence service (PET).

“This underlines our impression that Al Qaeda after a period of decline has recovered and is able to conduct terrorist attacks against the West including Denmark,” Scharff added.

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We the People: The Buck Stops Here! By JB Williams

Our Republican President has a public approval rating hovering around 30% and our Democrat congress has an approval rating down around 20%. Clearly, we don’t think much of our government, but we elected them and what does that say about us?

Americans Do What They Are Told!
Americans have a serious obesity problem and that’s because too many live on junk food. They live on junk food because we tell them to. Too many Americans outspend their pocketbook; just like our government does, they are up to their eyeballs in debt, just as our government is, and they do it all, because we tell them to. Americans even vote for socialism today, again because we have told them to for several decades now. From grade school through grad school and into their golden years, we have sold them the nanny state.

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Hillary Clinton's Real "Culture of Corruption" By Christopher G. Adamo

Whether the real intent is to trumpet their phony sanctimony of "sympathy and compassion," or to advance their obviously partisan interests, liberal coverage of the Larry Craig debacle has been incessant. Ever since news broke of Craig's guilty plea on a charge of soliciting homosexual sex in a Minneapolis Airport public restroom, Democrats have used every occasion to elevate it to the forefront of discussion.

Notably, through their veneers of empathy they invariably emphasize that the episode reflects something fundamentally amiss within the GOP alone.

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America -- Almost Certainly Doomed by Mac Johnson

Tonight I drove my butt out to Durham, New Hampshire and attended the Fox News “First in The Fall” GOP Presidential Debate.  I did this for you, the reader, who couldn’t be there because it was way the heck out in Durham, New Hampshire.
Sure I could’ve simply watched it on TV just like you, the reader, but I wanted to be able to deduct the mileage on my taxes.  Also, my “limited access” press pass entitled me to enter the “Spin Room” after the debate, where I could theoretically ask the candidates direct questions and where (more importantly) I might end up in the background of a TV report, thus thrilling my mother and providing photographic proof that I am entitled to deduct the mileage on my taxes.

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Call It War, Mr. President by Kenneth R. Timmerman

_{Iranian poster located at the Iraqi border.} 

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been waging war against America in Iraq from the very first days of U.S. military operations against Saddam Hussein. And yet, until just recently, no one in the U.S. government has been willing to acknowledge this openly.

Iran began planning operations to undermine an eventual U.S. invasion of Iraq many months before U.S. military forces arrived in the region in late 2002.

As I will reveal in my upcoming book, Shadow Warriors , one aspect of this forward-looking Iranian planning became apparent as U.S. troops were rolling toward Baghdad.

Whereas the United States was still relying on a Commando Solo aircraft to beam crude Arabic-language radio programming into Iraq, the Iranians unrolled a whole series of slick, Arabic language television stations that blanketed the entire country with anti-U.S. propaganda.

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Teach Arabic or Recruit Extremists? By Daniel Pipes

New York City's Arabic-language public school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, opens its doors this week, with special security, for 11- and 12-year-old students. One hopes that the prolonged public debate over the school's Islamist proclivities will prompt it not to promote any political or religious agendas.

Count me as skeptical, however, and for two main reasons. First is the school's genesis and personnel, about which others and I have written extensively. Second, and my topic here, is the worrisome record of taxpayer-funded Arabic-language programs from sea to shining sea.

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Mexico: the Next Colombia? By Andrew Walden

Will Mexico go the way of Colombia? Drug gangs are terrorizing Mexican cities. Severed heads show up on the doorstep of police stations and newspapers—often with warnings from drug gangs targeting officials by name. Over 370 young women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez. Eleven journalists have been murdered in the last year making Mexico the second most dangerous country for journalists—after Iraq.

Hoping to stem the tide, Mexico’s new President Felipe Calderon has ordered federal takeover of corrupt local police departments in cities including Tijuana and Monterrey and several States. In Tijuana, Tabasco, and Oaxaca local and state police were disarmed and their weapons are being checked against evidence from recent murders by ballistics experts. Authorities have announced the arrest of over 1,000 drug suspects and the confiscation of tons of drugs destined mostly for the US market. In late June Calderon’s administration sacked over 300 federal police commanders in an effort to root out corruption.

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Rosy scenario Tony Blankley

Yesterday I read Bob Novak's column titled "Republican Melancholy," which correctly caught the depressed mood in GOP circles currently. President Bush's position on illegal immigration has deeply alienated much of the loyal rank-and-file Republicans across the country. Key Republican incumbents, such as Sen. John Warner of Virginia and Rep. Debbie Pryce of Ohio are announcing their retirements. Sen. Larry Craig's cringe-inducing disgrace only adds to the funereal mood. And, of course, the Iraq war, for all the surge's success this summer, remains vastly unpopular with the public. To top off GOP discontent, none of our presidential candidates has so far come even close to being seen as our "next Reagan."

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Hillary’s hypocrisy By Dick Morris

The winner of the Hypocrite of the Year award goes to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Even though the year is far from over and is likely to have its fair share of hypocrisy, Mrs. Clinton’s comment on the need to compromise to achieve political and social progress has to outclass any other current or future entrant.

This woman, who refused to change a comma or a word of her thousand-page-plus healthcare reform bill and, as a result of her intractable stubbornness, sent the bill down to defeat along with the Democratic Congress and almost her husband’s presidency, is daring to show herself now as the apostle of compromise.

Unbelievable.

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9/11 and Winston Churchill cannot be expunged from human memory By Judi McLeod

Bungled terrorist plots dot the world map in the prelude to the sixth anniversary of September 11, 201.

Authorities in Britain, Scotland, Denmark and Germany have aborted terrorists in action, leading all of them away in handcuffs.

Where foiled international terrorist attempts are concerned, it's almost like a collective dress rehearsal starring stooges.

Could it be that these bungled terrorist attempts are based on a strategy to take authorities off guard for the main event?

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Diplomatic Doom By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Iran: Diplomats have long viewed their job as preventing war. But when they delude themselves and the public about a deadly threat, as with Iran, their "peacemaking" becomes an appeasement of evil that risks conflict.

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Iran's Islamofascist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel's destruction, announced Monday that his country has reached the key threshold of operating 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium — with a new set installed every week.

If all 3,000 centrifuges were operating at full capacity for one year, Tehran could enrich enough uranium for a nuclear weapon. Ahmadinejad's goal of 50,000 centrifuges could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb in only two months.

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Blacks changing the names of South Africa by Lawrence Auster

R.W. Johnson writes in the Wall Street Journal:

DURBAN, South Africa--South Africa is going through an orgy of name-changing. In Durban alone, the city council, run by the ruling African National Congress, has come up with 194 streets to be renamed while the local provincial authority has listed 78 rivers and 76 places to be renamed. Pretoria, the capital, is no more: It is now Tshwane, though even Africans seldom know that the name refers to a 19th-century local chief. Typically the name changes are pushed by the ANC and resisted by whites, especially Afrikaners, who see the most famous names of their own history disappearing.

Excuse me, but did the Wall Street Journal, uh, oppose the transfer of power to South Africa's black majority in the 1980s and early 1990s? Of course not, it supported it and pushed it. So, what did the neocons and economystics at the Journal think would happen when a country created by whites and ruled by whites through its entire history was turned over to blacks? Did they think that the skin color of the people running the government would be different, while everything else would remain the same?

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Robert Novak: Prince Of Twilight? By Kevin Lamb

The publication of The Bell Curve in the fall of 1994 created a major uproar in newsrooms in Washington and New York. The book was a big problem for many editors and journalists since they were unsure about—and largely unfamiliar with—the book’s empirical claims. At Newsweek, where I worked as a library assistant, the book generated a buzz that led to awkward conversations and intense discussions. Everyone had an opinion about Herrnstein and Murray’s controversial work.

Almost everyone, that is.

Leaving work one afternoon, having just picked up a copy of the book at Sidney Kramer’s on I Street earlier that day, I encountered Robert Novak in the elevator. (The Evans and Novak office was in the same building, one floor above us.) Trying to strike up a conversation with the "Prince of Darkness", who is notoriously conversation-averse, I asked what he thought about The Bell Curve. "The race book", Novak replied dismissively, in his snippy Crossfire mode.

Novak’s brush-off reply made clear that he didn’t have any opinion about it and would just as soon not have any opinion about it.

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The Withdrawal Crowd is in Retreat By J.R. Dunn

One welcome by-product of the surge is the way it has put all the cries for "withdrawal" into perspective.

Withdrawal from Iraq has been a major theme of the denizens of Kos and Democratic Underground since before the invasion ever took place. It made its way into the mainstream as a component of Cindy Sheehan's single-note wail last summer (you'll recall that she even wanted the U.S. to withdraw from New Orleans). Since then it has been the be-all end-all solution for the Democrats.

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An Impoverished Debate By Lisa Fabrizio

Are you like me? If you are, you're constantly amazed by and grateful for the bountiful opportunities this country affords to anyone willing to work for them. Living as I do in the New York metropolitan area, I've seen places that were formerly considered the ''wrong side of the tracks'' transformed into beautiful apartment complexes. And in my own previously all-white neighborhood, we have a great assortment of families of all colors and creeds living in houses that only a generation ago would have been impossible for them to afford.

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A brief history of conservatism, Part 6 Fred Hutchison

Conservatism passed through a series of fiery trials during the nineteenth century. I shall tell the tale in two parts. This essay shall view conservatism and Christianity in the crucible of war, namely the American Civil War. In my next installment (part 7), I shall consider seven dark waves that passed over the land during the nineteenth century, namely (1) German "higher criticism" of the Bible, (2) Hegel's Historicism, (3) Marx, (4) Darwin, (5) Freud, (6) James' Pragmatism, and (7) Dewey's Instrumentalism. Each of these ideologies is hostile to conservatism, to Christianity, and to Western culture.

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Arming against Iran By William R. Hawkins

The best argument for the necessity of American victory in Iraq was made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Aug. 28 when he declared his regime was "prepared to fill the gap" if U.S. forces withdrew. To give meaning to Tehran's claim, the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army of Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr appeared poised to take control of the key Iraqi city of Basra in the wake of a British pullback. And attacks by the Mahdists on rival Shi'ite groups in Karbala took more than 50 lives during a major religious festival. Sheik al-Sadr plans to strengthen his militia over the next six months to prepare for the end of the U.S. surge.

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The War to Remember 9/11 By Rick Moran

If, as Cicero wrote, “Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things,” then it is safe to say that the farther away our world moves from 9/11, the more our memories of that day should enrich us and keep us from taking actions that will make another equally devastating terrorist attack more likely.

Alas, the old Roman republican never knew a country like America. If he had, he would almost certainly have found an exception to his logic. For us, the past has always been an annoyance that gets in the way of our determined and dedicated march to the future. There is no malice in it, this flight, this mad dash from our history. In some ways, it is necessary for us to forget or ignore what has transpired in order to be free of the consequences the past sometimes imposes on those who would use our collective memory to keep the future at bay, standing in the way of progress in the name of hidebound “tradition” or “custom.”

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LIGHT THE FIRE, FRED By Phil Brennan

This silly charade known as the presidential primary campaign is seldom sillier that when the chattering class assures us that Fred Thompson has seriously damaged his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination by waiting too long to enter the fray.

Moreover, they chortle, his decision to avoid joining the current slate of Republican hopefuls in the upcoming televised New Hampshire debate Wednesday night shows that he doesn't really understand the need to fall into line and observe the rules for campaigning as laid down by the all-wise media elite which assumes that they are running the show and making the rules.

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Germany foils Jihadist bomb plot By Jeffrey Imm

Media sources have reported today that German police have arrested 3 Jihadists involved in the final stages of an "imminent" bomb plot. The International Herald Tribune reports that the plot was to be "against several sites frequented by Americans, including the busy United States air base at Ramstein and the Frankfurt international airport".

The Jihadists are reported to be two Germans and one Turk. AP reports that officials said that the "three suspects -- two Germans, ages 22 and 28, who converted to Islam, and a 29-year-old Turk -- first came to the attention of authorities because they had been caught observing a U.S. military facility in Hanau, near Frankfurt, at the end of 2006". Der Spiegel reports the men as "Daniel S. from the state of Saarland and Fritz G. from Neu-Ulm in Bavaria... [and].. Adem Y., who is believed to be from Turkey".

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Moonbats can't kill off angels By Judi McLeod

Leave it to the Moonbats to go off and shoot themselves in both feet even before ever arriving in Washington, D.C. for their self-touted "Mother of All Protests" on September 15th.

But that's precisely what the Moonbats in Hippies Incorporated did when they threatened to kill Move America Forward leader and popular radio show host Melanie Morgan.

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Study: Humans’ DNA Not Quite So Similar By Malcolm Ritter

People are less alike than scientists had thought when it comes to the billions of building blocks that make up each individual’s DNA, according to a new analysis.

“Instead of 99.9 percent identical, maybe we’re only 99 percent (alike),” said J. Craig Venter, an author of the study—and the person whose DNA was analyzed for it.

Several previous studies have argued for lowering the 99.9 percent estimate. Venter says this new analysis “proves the point.”

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With our computers frozen, would the U.S. still be a superpower? China intends to find out. by Claude Salhani

In this galaxy, in the not too distant future . . .

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demanded that the U.S. military focus its attention—and much of its research and development—on how best to respond to low-tech threats such as primitive improvised explosive devices. While the IEDs proved to be deadly for the troops of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq—the majority of casualties suffered were from exploding roadside bombs—the long-term effect they had on the American military was far more consequential. The real impact was felt only a few years later when the United States became involved in its next major conflict—with China.

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Destruction in black America is self-inflicted By Jeff Jacoby

DEBATING capital punishment at an Ivy League university a few years ago, I was confronted with the claim that since death sentences are more often meted out in cases where the victim is white, the death penalty must be racially biased. It's a spurious argument, I replied. Whites commit fewer than half of all murders in the United States, yet more whites than blacks are sentenced to death and more whites than blacks are executed each year. If there is racial bias in the system, it clearly isn't in favor of whites.

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Being a Democrat Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry by Doug Patton

Since the details of Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s disgusting restroom antics came to light, comparisons and contrasts of scandals involving Republicans versus Democrats have been made by almost every pundit with a political ax to grind.

Liberal commentators love to characterize Craig’s tormented secret life and his traditional positions on issues such as same sex marriage as “hypocrisy,” while conservatives point out that Craig has a right to take those positions regardless of his personal proclivities.

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Zucker’s List: Enemies of the Rajavi Cult Terrorists By Prof. Paul Sheldon Foote

Professor Rabbi Daniel Zucker, a promoter of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, has made a new list of the enemies of this evil cult. It is a high honor to be placed on a list of enemies of these communist terrorists who have murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis. Supporters of the MEK have committed terrorist acts in many countries, including in America in 1992. In September 2002, the White House published a background paper listing the MEK as a Saddam Hussein-supported terrorist organization. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. During a period of war with American soldiers dying in Iraq, Zucker is promoting a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), a Marxist terrorist organization as classified by the State Department. Currently, the Federal Government is prosecuting MEK supporters who duped large numbers of persons at Los Angeles International Airport into donating money to the MEK terrorists.

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Germany: Plot targeted U.S. facilities By DAVID McHUGH

BERLIN - Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday

German Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said the three, two of whom were German converts to Islam, had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a group based in Central Asia. They had obtained some 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide for making explosives.

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Europe's Heart of Darkness By Joseph Puder

For some of the leading members of the Democratic Party, the Europeans have it right, and we in America ought to learn a lesson or two from the Germans, French, Scandinavians, Dutch and the other West Europeans that make up the European Union.

In an interview with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN Booknotes program following the publication of Hilary Clinton’s book It Takes a Village Clinton stated: “I am a fan of a lot of the social policies you find in Europe, and I know that they, too, are going through a rethinking about how to afford some of their policies. But in my conversations with people like Chancellor Kohl or President Chirac, they are not talking about cutting back on their support for families…That’s because they see raising children as a social obligation, not just a parental obligation…”

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Through a Window, Darkly By R. John Matthies

If Joseph Kaufman is correct, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) must be blacklisted immediately.

Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate (AAH), has claimed that ICNA “is the American arm,” or stateside mirror, of the main Islamist organization of Pakistan, the Jamaat-e Islami (JI). To make his point, Kaufman rallied a group of protestors outside ICNA’s 32^nd annual convention in Hartford last month, demanding that the U.S. government freeze the group’s accounts and place JI on the State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).

Charges of this sort are nothing new: As recently as 2004, the Senate Finance Committee requested the IRS provide information on ICNA and another two dozen Muslim organizations as an investigation into “terrorist financing networks.” But committee chairman Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) reported he had found nothing “alarming enough” to warrant further investigation, and the government closed its investigation in November 2005.

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Call It War, Mr. President By Kenneth R. Timmerman

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been waging war against America in Iraq from the very first days of U.S. military operations against Saddam Hussein. And yet, until just recently, no one in the U.S. government has been willing to acknowledge this openly.

Iran began planning operations to undermine an eventual U.S. invasion of Iraq many months before U.S. military forces arrived in the region in late 2002.

As I will reveal in my upcoming book, Shadow Warriors, one aspect of this forward-looking Iranian planning became apparent as U.S. troops were rolling toward Baghdad.

Whereas the United States was still relying on a Commando Solo aircraft to beam crude Arabic-language radio programming into Iraq, the Iranians unrolled a whole series of slick, Arabic language television stations that blanketed the entire country with anti-U.S. propaganda.

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CAIR-TV By Frank Gaffney

There is no more important front in the global conflict best described as the “War for the Free World” than the struggle to determine the nature and future course of Islam.  If Islamists whose seek to impose their intolerant, repressive strain of the faith – more a totalitarian political ideology (Islamofascism) than a religion – on the rest of us, Muslim and non-Muslim alike are able to prevail, we are condemned to the clash of civilizations forecast by Osama bin Laden.

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Separation of Mosque and State by The Obnoxious American

In what can best be described as political correctness on steroids, the New York City Board of Ed has established a school that focuses on teaching "Arabic language and culture."

I was a product of the NYC BOE, I went to NYC public schools nearly my entire childhood. Back then (a scant 20 years ago), people who wanted to get an education in a particular culture or religion would go to a private parochial school. Yeshiva for Jewish kids, Catholic school, etc. Back then the thinking was clear, there was a concept of separation of church and state. If you wanted an education centered around a religious and cultural ethic, you needed to find that type of study outside of the public(ly funded) school system.

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Crooked Clinton Cash By Michelle Malkin

Here’s a peculiar thing about the holier-than-thou campaign-finance-reform crowd. Whenever the stench of dirty money starts wafting from Democrat-party coffers, the clean-election lobbyists are nowhere to be found. They’ll raise hell and hackles over American corporate donors. But when it’s shady foreign operators infusing cash into our electoral system, you’ll only hear one sound: the deafening swell of crickets chirping.

Hillary and Bill Clinton have declared themselves “shocked” at revelations about one of the Democrat Party’s mysterious, deep-pocketed bagmen, Hong Kong native Norman Hsu. Hsu, a prodigious Democrat donor, was arrested last week after having evaded the law for 15 years over grand-theft swindling charges. Hsu pleaded no contest to those charges and was supposed to serve jail time. Instead, he managed to remain a fugitive while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democrat candidates and officeholders — and posing openly for photographs with the likes of Hillary Clinton.

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Stop the Illegal Sanctuaries By Jon Kyl

Authorities in Essex County, New Jersey, recently identified a man named Jose Carranza as a principal suspect in the August 4 murder of three young people in Newark. The victims were forced to kneel against a wall and then shot in the back of the head. Carranza, a Peruvian national, is an illegal alien.

At the time of the shooting, Essex County officials reportedly considered the immigration status of criminal suspects “irrelevant.” The officials refused to ask the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if the suspect was an illegal alien, unless and until the suspect was convicted and sentenced. That policy has had unfortunate consequences in this case. If DHS, which takes a special interest in child sex offenders, had known that Essex County had arrested Carranza earlier this year for molesting a five-year-old, it could very well have detained and deported him for his illegal status before the shooting.

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Mexico Declares War On The United States By The Stiletto

Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón used the occasion of his first state-of-the nation address to declare war on the United States (AKA Azatlan), proclaiming that, “Mexico does not end at its borders,” and “[w]here there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”

El gato is out of the bag. The 400,000 illegal aliens who cross our southern border with Mexico each year – now 12 million strong - are not here to “do the jobs that Americans won’t do.” They are an invading force waging Mexico’s protracted campaign to achieve “La Reconquista.”

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Mending Broken Hearts :: By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Few people read the British journal Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society, but the current issue contains details of the research by a British research team led by Sir Magdi Yacoub that may end the scourge of heart disease as we know it.

In April we wrote about research led by Yacoub, who's been called the world's leading heart surgeon. His team had managed in the laboratory to grow tissue that functions in the same way as human heart valves, using stem cells drawn from the patient's own bone marrow.

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Checkup :: Cox & Forkum

From FOX News: John Edwards' Universal Health Care Plan Would Make Regular Checkups Mandatory.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

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The Candidate By Peter Wehner

Senator Thompson faces stiff challenges, from a late entry to disappointing fund-raising figures to the fact that he has spent time recently outside the world of politics. The other candidates have been at this for a while now, honing their messages and building organizations. They are a debate-tested and impressive—if far from invincible—group. Thompson has almost no opportunity for a learning curve and very little margin for error. He’s got to be good, very good, right from the start.

At the same time, Senator Thompson has some advantages. At the start of the summer, he was considered one of four top-tier candidates; at the end of the summer, he’s one of three (McCain having dropped like a stone in the sea). Nationally, Thompson is running second to Giuliani and is doing well in some key early states.

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NOT WHOLLY IRRATIONAL--OR, THE RATIONAL ROLE OF FEAR IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE :: Dr Sanity

Theodore Dalrymple writes in National Review about complacency and Islamism, and this paragraph caught my eye:
"The problem for the complacent, however, is that not only have a small number of Moslem fanatics already blown themselves up, unlike the Chinese, Jews, Poles, and Hindus, but they seem to have received widespread understanding, to say no more, from their coreligionists. It is no consolation to the worried that 90 percent, 95 percent, or even 99 percent of Moslems do not support terrorism. In Britain, that still leaves 200,000, 100,000, or 20,000 who do support terrorism, if only intellectually. There may be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over 99 just men, but in the security services and the population at large there is more concern over 20,000 supporters of terrorism than over 1,980,000 peaceful men. This is not wholly irrational."

Anyone who by now has not realized that Islam has given carte blanche to the fanatics in its midst is either completely out of touch with reality, or living on another planet

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Mark Cuban Declares War On The Troops By Pat Dollard

Billionaire Mark Cuban has decided to put all of his weight behind a campaign to smear US troops in Iraq as “monsters’. Cuban has decided that De Palma’s film “Redacted” must be seen as the cornerstone of his and De Palma’s self-declared anti-victory campaign against America and her troops fighing in Iraq. Cuban’s company Magnolia Pictures will be bringing this propganda campaign to a theater near you this winter. According to a source close to Cuban, the decision for Magnolia to develop, finance and distribute the film was personally made by Çuban. Cuban has a full producer credit on the film, and DePalma shot it on HiDef video at Cuban’s request, in order for it to qualify as fodder for Cuban’s hi-def cable channel. So far neither he or DePalma have explained how they can be “bringing the truth of the Iraq war to the American people”, as Louie DePalma has said, when neither of them have ever been to Iraq, filmed any of “Redacted” in Iraq, or spent one minute with any soldier in Iraq.

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The Top Ten Reasons to Stop the ACLU :: The Amboy Times

wanted to put something up for Labor Day here to get some inspirations sparked.  For a while my priorities have been shifted.  I want to announce that we will be more active in our original cause and want to thank everyone that has supported us thus far.  To get our blogburst reinvigorated, I thought I'd pull out a classic...one that explains why we started and what we are all about... Stop The ACLU was started on February 9th, 2004.  We started with high hopes, and we realized we were facing a goliath.  There were many reasons why we thought the ACLU needed to be countered, and they are numerous.  We wanted to provide a way to inform the public of the ACLU's agenda, as the MSM sugar coated it.  We wanted to be a central database for people to gather, exchange ideas, and get actively involved in real ways of stopping them.  It is a monumental task, exhausting, time consuming, and often frustrating.  But it is a fight worth fighting. We would be nothing without our supporters.  To all of you, we appreciate the continued support.  We have called you to action and you have answered. There are many reasons to stop the ACLU.  For this blogburst I decided to list my top ten list. 10.  The ACLU was founded by Communist, with communist ideals, communist goals, and they continue to impose a Communist like agenda on America daily.  The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin stated clearly...

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Flynn Flips: IQ Tests Do Matter By Steve Sailer

Despite hysterical politically-motivated attacks on them that have sometimes turned violent, researchers into human intelligence have by now produced a coherent and compelling scientific picture, as explained in books such as the 1994 best-seller The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray.

With one exception.

For uncertain reasons, all over the world, raw IQ scores have been rising, on average at the rate of about 3 points per decade. Thus, a test performance that a half century ago would have ranked at the 84th percentile (a score of 115) now is only good enough for the 50th percentile (a score of 100).

When IQ test publishers revise and renormalize their exams every decade or two, they have to make scoring tougher to make the mean stay at 100.

This is very strange. One of the more dubious-sounding implications is that if you go far enough back into the past, the average person would have been a complete dolt, and the greatest genius of that earlier age would have been no smarter than George W. Bush or John Kerry.

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FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY BACKS RELIGION IN SCHOOLS :: Real Clear Religion

In a speech which is due to be mailed to every teacher in France, French president Nicholas Sarkozy stated that religious studies should be taught in French schools as an antidote to intolerance. His speech is expected to upset France's staunch secularist educators.

"I am convinced that we should not leave the issue of religion at the school door," Sarkozy said.

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Trans-Texas Corridor: Can this possibly be stopped? By Joshua Herring

Perhaps it isn't going to be as easy for big government and big business magnates to abusively strip Americans of their homes, their businesses, and their property as they originally thought it would be following the latest Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. In an analysis published by RenewAmerica not long ago titled "A three pronged attack to bring down America," I dealt to some extent with the Free Trade Agreements NAFTA and CAFTA, and I outlined some of the potential threats involved.

One of the things I touched on is what has been called "North America's SuperCorridor." This is a byproduct of NAFTA that is to be a highway four hundred yards wide. Actually, there are plans in the works that will link another stretch of highway to this "SuperCorridor" that is to run up from Panama to facilitate plans being made for the sake of CAFTA as well, but I lack both the time and the room get into all that here.

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CRAIG DEPARTS, LEFT'S HYPOCRISY REMAINS By Don Feder

Toilet-Stall Larry Craig (Mr. Wide Stance) resigned from the United States Senate on Saturday, amid cries of hypocrisy resounding from the left -- and other ironies.

 I still think Senator Craig should have pleaded temporary insanity, on a recurring basis. ("I'm a member of the Senate, for crying out loud! Look at the stuff we vote for!")

 Instead, the former senior Senator from Idaho improbably maintained his innocence. He just happened to reach into a toilet stall occupied by an undercover officer. He pleaded guilty to a crime he didn't commit, because he panicked -- a month after the incident in the men's room at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport, where 41 others were arrested for similar offenses, between May and August of this year.

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Walt, Mearsheimer and the Peace Process By Rick Richman

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a 484-page extension of the arguments they presented last year in their tendentious Harvard "Working Paper" and London Review of Books essay, which received extensive criticism for failure to meet basic standards of academic integrity.

This article is not intended as a book review, but rather an examination of a central event in the Middle East "peace process" that Walt & Mearsheimer distorted in their earlier work -- and now expand in their book. 

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A Rush to Judgment By Evan Thomas

On March 28, 2006, the four co-captains of the Duke lacrosse team accused of gang-raping an exotic dancer met with university president Richard Brodhead. One of the captains, David Evans, emotionally protested that the team was innocent and apologized for the misbegotten stripper party. "Brodhead's eyes filled with tears," write Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson in their new book on the case, "Until Proven Innocent" (420 pages. Thomas Dunne Books. $26.95). Brodhead "said that the captains should think of how difficult it had been for him." The misbehavior of the players, said Duke's president, "had put him in a terrible position." Listening to Brodhead, Robert Ekstrand, a lawyer representing the captains and many of their teammates, "felt his blood starting to boil," write Taylor and Johnson. "Here, he thought, is a comfortable university president wallowing in self-pity in front of four students who are in grave danger of being falsely indicted on charges of gang rape, punishable by decades in prison."

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Why Do People Do Evil? By Dennis Prager

Decent people have sought to identify the roots of evil since the first indecent person inflicted cruelty on an innocent person. And people have come up with one or more of nine explanations, most of which are indeed valid.

1. The Devil (or whatever name the devil goes by in any given culture). I do not believe in a devil, but when one observes the seemingly inexplicable cruelty engaged in by some people, it is understandable that people have attributed it to some evil being that has taken over that person.

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Good riddance, John Warner By Joseph Farah

God surely does work in mysterious ways.

My soul had become so distressed at the continued presence of John Warner in the U.S. Senate that I had, in moments of weakness, asked God if He in all His wisdom wanted me to be the one to oppose him as a Republican in 2008. I knew no one else would dare do it.

I can only surmise now that the peace I got in response from those prayers was the answer I had hoped to hear: NO!

Much to my relief, Sen. John Warner, R-Va., has announced he will not seek re-election next year.

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A Measure of Hypocrisy By MARK STEYN

The catchphrase of America's famous cowboy humorist Will Rogers was "Never met a man I didn't like." Judging from the activities at the men's room of the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, many of the patrons of said facility evidently feel the same way. George Michael, the stubbly boy rocker of the Eighties, was arrested therein for attempting to play footsie with an undercover cop. "Guilty feet have got no rhythm," as George famously observed on his hit song "Careless Whisper." After pleading no contest, he subsequently made a rock video mocking the arresting officer, with George prancing around in police uniform twirling his night stick.

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An Islamist Connection to OKC Bombing By Wes Vernon

The mainstream media have gone AWOL again—this time by missing the complete story on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. There are leads suggesting the bombing that killed 168 innocent American men, women, and children had been ordered by Saddam Hussein—then in power in Iraq, and possibly with the help of other Middle East terrorists.

Politically, the cover-up is bipartisan—spanning two administrations—Clinton and Bush 43. Political interests, with the spectator-like acquiescence of the major media, did not want it known there is evidence that Timothy McVeigh (executed in June of 2001) and Terry Nichols (now rotting in prison) had help from foreign sources.

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Drug war's latest achievement: Boosting global terrorism By Neal Peirce

Thirty-eight million arrests, most for simple possession. Lives ruined, families disrupted. America turned into the most prison-happy nation on the face of the earth. Illegal rewards incentivizing shooting fields in inner-city neighborhoods — enough bloodshed to appall even an Al Capone. More than $1 trillion in taxpayer outlays.

Thirty-six years after President Richard Nixon inaugurated this country's misbegotten "war on drugs," worldwide narcotics markets are booming, drug-ring profits are higher than ever, and drugs cost less than ever on the street.

Our "war" is a miserable, incredibly costly failure.

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Katrina: Democracy Now!'s Annual Blaxploitation By Bob Parks

I am not a glutton for punishment.

I watch portions of Free Speech TV's Democracy Now! because it's a part of my daily employment duties. You know, make sure it properly airs so the local libs don't go off in a conspiracy theory tirade. They know I work where I work, and are always suspicious I may be up to some funny business.

But as a Black man, I am also disgusted on an almost daily basis by the parade of Black victims trotted out by hostess Amy Goodman. It's as if she considers herself this Great White Hope; the only chance these poor people have to get the justice only her show's exposure can assure. She is their lone, caring voice in this insensitive, corporate, racist world we live in.

How liberal.

During the August 30th episodic, Miss Amy was in New Orleans commemorating the second anniversary of the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina. Goodman was, of course, reporting from the hood.

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White-Collar Jihadists By Erik Rush

Picture this: A dramatic rise in attacks on minorities by white supremacist skinhead and similar groups occurs. Members of the White Aryan Resistance, the Aryan Brethren Church and others come out of the woodwork and begin to appear on television news venues, articulate and very dapper as they play the role of apologists for the former, but always with a hint of validation and justification as they disavow the escalating violence. For some unfathomable reason, they are soft-balled by the media, legitimizing them further with each passing day.

Would this scenario disturb you?

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Doing the Right Thing With Dr. Laura Schlessinger by Ericka Andersen

If you are hoping for an easy way out of your problems, don’t call Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice. She’s got a 32-year talk radio history of telling listeners to “go do the right thing” -- no matter how difficult that thing is. That might be why she is a great friend of the military. 

With her national platform and popularity, Dr. Laura has raised over $530,000 for Operation Family Fund, a non-profit organization providing financial support for the families of those soldiers injured or killed in the War on Terror.

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