How Iranian Leftists Protect Islamic Regime By Kambiz Basetvat

Iranian commentators in US media, with the impressive professorship credentials from prestigious universities or other institutions, are engaged in providing considerable misinformation to the American public concerning the course of action that US should take for overthrowing the Islamic regime in Iran. After twenty seven years dealing with Islamic regime, the US government and the united stats people have no doubt in hostility they are facing from Hezb Allah regime. The political ambitions of Islamo-Fascist head quartered in Iran, although, concentrated in the Middle East for the time being, but they are global. The Islamo-Fascist is challenging the US vision of the world the same way fascism and communism had done in the twentieth century.

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The Petraeus Report and 'Vets on the Hill' By Peter Hesgeth

Here we are – the final week of our "Ten Weeks to Testimony" campaign – and General Petraeus spent all day Monday and Tuesday testifying before committees in the House and Senate. By all accounts, General Petraeus laid out an informed, measured, and professional assessment of the situation in Iraq.

Said Petraeus, "The military objective of the surge are, in large measure, being met" and Ambassador Ryan Crocker added that "a secure, stable democratic Iraq at peace with its neighbors is attainable." General Petraeus also stated that civilian deaths in all categories have declined 45% since December and that sectarian deaths in Baghdad have declined by 80% since December.

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Former Fed Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and DAVID E. SANGER

Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades, in a long-awaited memoir, is harshly critical of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the Republican-controlled Congress, as abandoning their party’s principles on spending and deficits.

In the 500-page book, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” Mr. Greenspan describes the Bush administration as so captive to its own political operation that it paid little attention to fiscal discipline, and he described Mr. Bush’s first two Treasury secretaries, Paul H. O’Neill and John W. Snow, as essentially powerless.

Mr. Bush, he writes, was never willing to contain spending or veto bills that drove the country into deeper and deeper deficits, as Congress abandoned rules that required that the cost of tax cuts be offset by savings elsewhere. “The Republicans in Congress lost their way,” writes Mr. Greenspan, a self-described “libertarian Republican.”

“They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose” in the 2006 election, when they lost control of the House and Senate.

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Impediments to Making Us Safer By Dennis Lormel

On September 12, I posted an article on the Counterterrorism Blog addressing the question “are we safer as a nation now than we were before 9/11”. I stated that we were safer but not safe, which is a prevailing theme. I attributed our safety, in great part, to the government agencies at the federal, state and local level, which are responsible for protecting us against the threat of terrorism. Unfortunately, there are impediments which make protecting us a more difficult task, thereby jeopardizing our safety.

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For the Love of God By Michael J. Lewis

The poet of putrefaction strikes again. Or should one say festers again? Since Damien Hirst first achieved notoriety in 1990 by placing a rotting cow’s head in a glass vitrine, he has gone on to immerse a shark in formaldehyde, saw a cow and calf into precise cross-sections, and even to congratulate the hijackers of 9/11 for creating a “visually stunning” work of art. Now the 1995 Turner Prize winner has achieved another milestone. His work entitled For the Love of God, which consists of an actual human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, has just been sold to a consortium of anonymous investors for £50 million. It is (by far) highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist.

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We Did It To Ourselves – Thanks to Free-Traders by Patrick J. Buchanan

“After 34 years with LTV Steel, I was forced to retire because of a disability. Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy. I lost a third of my pension, and my family lost their health care. Every day of my life, I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can’t afford to pay for her health care. What’s wrong with America, and what will you do to change it?”

It was the most compelling moment of the Democratic debate at Soldier Field. The speaker was retired steelworker Steve Skvara. He stood on crutches, voice breaking, as he spoke.

There are millions of Steve Skvaras out there, and what they do not know, in their anger and frustration, is that their government did this to them. They are the victims of an ideology that gripped both parties and is destroying the middle-class country they grew up in.

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CAUTION: SUPER-SIZED EGOS AT WORK :: Dr. Sanity

What can you say about a serious (very serious) presidential candidate who retains a national security criminal as her national security advisor?

This is a story about a buffoon who became one of our nation's top national security officials, and then became a confessed national security criminal. His probation ended last week, and he still can't be given access to classified documents or information. But he's once again part of the "triumvirate" of senior officials advising She Who Would Be President on foreign policy matters.

I find this absolutely stunning. Is she going to give a key ambassadorship to Norman Hsu when he gets out of jail?
The fact that the MSM gives this a complete pass is even more stunning. Do you want to know how this information came out? In an article about Hillary and Obama competing for the 'best and brightest'!!

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CIA Wimps Hand Another Weapon to al-Qaeda :: The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

At this rate, they’ll be suing themselves for having ever spoken harshly to a terrorist any day now.

Would somebody please be kind enough to give the fuckwits at Langley a call, explaining to them that we’re at war? A war with savages who are currently laughing their hairy arses off.

The controversial interrogation technique known as water-boarding, in which a suspect has water poured over his mouth and nose to stimulate a drowning reflex, has been banned by CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden, current and former CIA officials tell ABCNews.com.

Leaving us only with the tried and true “no sugar for your tea unless you talk, Habib”, “pretty please?”, “pretty please with a cherry on top?” and “if you don’t talk right now, I shall have to ask you to talk AGAIN! Wewy wudely!” methods.

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Democrats and Their Words :: Big Dogs Weblog

The anti war Hillary (as opposed to pro war Hillary) showed up to speak at General Petraeus (none of them speak to him) and she said that it would take “a willing suspension of disbelief” to accept the General’s assessment of the situation in Iraq. The General has been on the ground in Iraq for a bit longer than a photo op or two with the troops and he is a leader, unlike Hillary who people follow out of morbid curiosity. It is interesting that Rodham would question the veracity of the statements made by a hero while ignoring those things that really take “a willing suspension of disbelief” such as:

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"Terrorists have been arrested on the border, security chief says" By Michael Cutler

Here's the lead from an article that deals with the nexus between our nation's failure to secure our borders and the imminent danger that this lunacy poses to our nation's security, six years after the attacks of September 11, 2001: "Texas' top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years." The official described one person caught in 2004 as being tied to a Pakistan insurgent group and whose specialty was smuggling Afghanis and other illegal aliens across the border.

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Christians are mixed up... in mysticism By Marsha West

More and more of those who profess Christ are “experiencing God” in ways that lands them smack dab in the middle of the New Age movement. It’s not like they haven’t been warned about experimenting with mysticism. They’ve been warned plenty, yet they totally disregard wise counsel. So if you’re among the sheep who have gone astray, consider the Bible’s wise counsel: “It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him”(Deut 13:4).

I must admit I’m mystified (pun intended) as to why so many Christians are choosing to leave the narrow road Jesus spoke of and follow Oprah down the broad road that leads to destruction. What’s up with that?

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Embedded with the Enemy, Happy Ramadan Special By Brian C. Ledbetter

It's nice to know that Ramadan hasn't cramped Hamas' terror-training style—Or the desire of their sycophants in the press to transmit their propaganda.

Senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayan inspects Hamas militants as they participate in a training exercise in the northern Gaza Strip early September 15, 2007. The training exercise is part of preparations by Hamas militants to face what they believe to be an impending Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

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The EU Wants to Increase Muslim Immigration and Internet Censorship By Fjordman

A few months ago, the EU's Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini worried about what to do with illegal immigration. To no-one's surprise, he appears to have settled for surrendering and making it legal. The skilled glossocrat Frattini has already banned the use of the phrase Islamic terrorism: "You cannot use the term 'Islamic terrorism,'" he insisted. "People who commit suicide attacks or criminal activities on behalf of religion, Islamic religion or other religion, they abuse the name of this religion." He now thinks we shouldn't use the word "immigration," either, we should talk about "mobility." Moreover, the "Asian" and "African" immigrants in this case generally come from the predominantly Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East, with some additional ones from Pakistan and similar nations. The EU has thus decided to flood Europe with tens of millions of Muslims, at the same time as peaceful Europeans demonstrating against the Islamization of Europe were brutally harassed by the police in the EU capital of Brussels.

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What Kind of Person Calls Himself 'Progressive'? By James Lewis

We all want progress. We may disagree whether gay marriage or drug legalization constitutes progress or not. But we all want better things for the world -- better food, better health and well-being, scientific and technical advances, wiser political systems, more peace and freedom,  more happy children, more humane treatment of animals, more tolerance, more prosperity for the world, you name it. That's called being a decent person.

So what kind of person has to label himself "Progressive?" Obviously somebody who believes he (or she) understands real progress better than the rest of us. Because if you are a Progressive it implies that everybody else, let's face it, is a Regressive, or maybe just a Stagnant. It's a smirky, self-flattering way of saying you're a lot better than the rest.

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DNA and The Scientific Case For Faith by Babu Ranganathan

The subject of DNA is very much in the headlines and news but very few have bothered to learn or understand just how this amazing molecule works and how it makes us what we are from head to toe. Haven't you ever asked yourself how you got your nose, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, and everything else? How did your DNA bring all this about? Before we answer that question we need to know just a few simple things about DNA.

DNA is the abbreviated name for the genetic code and it is exactly that - a code. It is a sequential molecular string of chemical information.

DNA is located in the nucleus of our cells and is made up of various smaller molecules called nucleic acids. These various smaller molecules in our DNA are arranged in an exact sequence, just like the various letters found in a sentence. The sequence of these nucleic acids tells the cells in our body how to build our nose, eyes, hands, feet, and everything else. If the sequence for something isn't there our bodies won't build it!

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Returning "Power to the People" By Rebecca Hagelin

Decent Americans across the country are so disgusted by a culture that doesn’t reflect their values, a society that trashes the family, and a government gone wild, that they often feel helpless and hopeless about the future of our nation. So I think they’ll join me in saying: Thank goodness for Laura Ingraham’s latest book, “Power to the People.”

Loyal listeners of the Laura Ingraham show are addicted to her gutsy take on the issues of the day, making her one of the most powerful people in talk radio (and certainly the most powerful woman). I’m convinced that a key reason people love Laura is because she also gives her audience the courage we need to become powerful forces of our own. Yes, “Power to the People” provides an in-depth look at important issues and arms readers with facts and figures. But it also gives something else -- something often missing from political prose: inspiration to lift your voice and be heard.

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Pino 911 By Mike S. Adams

On September 11, 2007, I was sitting around minding my own business and quietly remembering the thousands who lost their lives six years earlier. It was a nice, peaceful morning until I received an email from someone claiming to be Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University. Pino is a Muslim extremist who advocates the mass murder of Jews while drawing a paycheck from the hard-working people of the great state of Ohio.

The most memorable portions of the disturbing email are reproduced below:

“O, Slaves of Zion and Amerika, Arise! The shaheed (martyr) who yearns to die, and has prayed for this moment all his life, has come to rescue you!”

“The martyr is performing an action that is the culmination of a whole life’s struggle, and in turn gives meaning to that life. Muslims venerate the Prophet Mohammed (Peace and Blessings of Allah Be Upon him) as al-kemal-al-insan (The Perfect Man).”

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Christianity Today? Or Politics Today? By Joseph Farah

What it means is slicing it up geographically and turning over most of the historically Jewish lands to Israel's most bitter enemies – people sworn to eradicate the tiny Jewish presence in the Middle East.

In an editorial this month, the magazine came out with both barrels blazing in favor of a "two-state solution" that would turn over most, if not all, of Judea and Samaria and surely half of Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority terrorists who are still, to this day, sworn to Israel's annihilation.

Like lukewarm spiritual and political moderates, Christianity Today tries to chart a middle course between "replacement theology," that suggests the modern rebirth of Israel has no biblical or prophetic significance, and "dispensationalists," who believe Jews have a God-given birthright to a land never claimed by any other people during an 1,800-year diaspora.

The magazine cautions evangelicals to learn how "to bless Israel and love it."

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Bombs, Babies And Bolsheviks By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

An increasingly assertive and belligerent Russia dropped two bombs the other day.

The first was the dissolution of his government by Putin and his appointment of unknown bureaucrat Viktor Zubkov to be prime minister, passing over the expected successor, deputy prime minister and former defense minister Sergei Ivanov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along the Khemchik River in the Tuva region of Siberia in this Aug. 15 file photo. When he flexes Russia's diplomatic and military muscles, Putin always makes headlines. But few could have predicted the squall of gossip and speculation that followed after Putin stripped off his shirt for the cameras while on holiday in the Siberian mountains.

Putin is obligated under Russia's constitution to step down after elections next March. But observers think he's reluctant to retire as Russia, flush with energy revenues, rebuilds its military and flexes its muscles as Putin literally did in front of the camera on a recent trip to Siberia.

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Media Not Interested In American Islamists By Richard Newcomb

Is the mainstream media uninterested in radical Islamists in America? Recent events would seem to indicate that that may indeed be the case. Today, according to the Dearborn, Michigan Press & Guide, a Muslim medical student named Houssein Zorkot was arrested while wearing full combat gear and carrying an AK-47 rifle. His website contained a plethora of anti-American imagery and included shots of him posing with a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Nasrallah. Of course, the local media neglected to mention the Islamic connection when reporting Zorkot's arrest. He was identified only as a 'third-year medical student'. The Press & Guide appears to think that ostrich-like behavior is the best course of action when confronted by murderous barbarians like Zorkot and his Muslim allies. So far not a single national news organ has picked up this story. This is all too similar to the story of North Carolina terrorist Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, whose clear motivation for his act of terror was his religion. Despite Taheri claiming that 'Allah is my lawyer' and similar phrases, the local ABC affiliate did not post a single reference to his religion in their story on the attack. Simultaneously, it appears that the case of the US government against the Holy Land Foundation- a Muslim organization strongly linked with the fundamentalist Muslim organization the Muslim Brotherhood- has managed to fly beneath the mainstream press' mention. Fortunately, despite the disinterest of the major media ogans, Rod Dreher has been attending this trial. As reported by Dreher in the Dallas Morning News,

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Americans are from America; Europeans are from Europe :: Right Reason

During the last one-hundred years, Europe and the USA have stood shoulder to shoulder in a global battle for freedom. I will ask you to disregard for the sake of the argument which made the largest sacrifice. Instead, grant this. If any of the two, at any crucial time, had been forced to go it alone, it is likely that Europe now would be marching to the tunes of Wagner or Russian marches.

Such a development would have contributed substantially to the demise of the USA, as well as the rest of the world. An important observation follows: while it is true that Europe has the USA to thank for its freedom, it is equally true that the USA owes a good deal of gratitude to millions of freedom-loving Europeans, forming the first front against Nazism and communism. Today’s good life, in the richest and freest nation in the history of civilization, would not have been possible without the fighting men and women of Europe. (This should have been something to consider during the times when Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Shroeder and their ilk made a wreck of Europe’s reputation by playing domestic party politics with global security.)

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Osama Bin Trotsky By Red Square

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Has the Revolution scored a major point with the conversion of bin Laden to Anarcho-Trotskyism? Who's the useful idiot now? It's getting increasingly hard to tell.

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We are not panicking we are angry By Carolyn Hileman

Department of Homeland security and the FBI have been apprehensive about giving out information about the possible terrorist attempts on our schools because of fear of widespread panic, I doubt that it ever occurred to them that not giving us this information as they knew it would cause widespread anger, but it has, the people are angry that our children have been known to be at risk and we have yet to see any improvements in safety at any of the schools, or on our busses, we are supposed to believe that the schools can stop terrorists when they cannot stop a lone gunman on a campus from killing anywhere from one to thirty of his classmates, Not.

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The Democrats' Moral Bankruptcy By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Congress' Democratic leaders obviously did not listen to what Gen. David Petraeus said this week. Their plan is to lose in Iraq in hopes it will win them the White House. But Americans aren't buying.

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio might have put it best in a conference call with reporters after arriving in Iraq with other Republican congressmen this week:

"I think that our Democratic colleagues have invested all of their political capital all year in failure in Iraq, and now that we're having success in Iraq and hopefully will continue to have success, I'm not sure they have anyplace to go."

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Poll shows solid support for Petraeus plan By Klaus Marre

When President Bush addresses the nation Thursday night to lay out the way forward in Iraq, his sell might not be so difficult, according to a new poll that shows a large majority of Americans believes that it is likely that large numbers of U.S. troops will still be in Iraq in five years.

Bush is expected to endorse the recommendations from Gen. David Petraeus, who proposed that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq be reduced to the pre-surge level by July 2008.

A Rasmussen poll released Thursday showed that 43 percent of Americans support the Petraeus plan while 38 percent oppose it. In addition, 71 percent of respondents said it is likely that “a large number of U.S. soldiers will remain in Iraq five years from today.”

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What would Winston Churchill Do? By Clifford D. May

I suspect few readers will disagree when I say that not one of the presidential candidates, Republican or Democratic, has yet articulated a compelling campaign theme. All favor security. Not one opposes prosperity. Each promises to protect Social Security and improve health care. Voters can be forgiven if they are not overwhelmed.

Let me offer a different approach on the off-chance that some candidate might find it useful: Tell voters the hard truth -- and challenge them.

In particular, tell them we are at a critical moment in our nation’s history: A dangerous enemy is waging an unconventional war against us. We are just beginning to learn how to defend ourselves. Remind them that this enemy has been underestimated by presidents and lawmakers of both parties many times, over many years.

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The Significance of Bin Laden's Partisan Appeal By Christopher Adamo

In light of Osama bin Laden’s videotaped message to the West (Or was it a press release from DNC Chairman Howard Dean?), one might muse that liberal abhorrence for the president’s surveillance of incoming phone calls from known terrorists might ultimately stem from self-interest.  Perhaps they simply do not want to be monitored as they share strategies and talking points with the Al Qaeda leader.

Furthermore, the Democratic National committee may decide to keep a copy of the bin Laden tape, which could come in handy during the 2008 campaign season.  Just as aspiring politicians feel compelled to pander in Spanish to the increasing numbers of “undocumented voters,” so might Dean and the Democrats want to remind those “Jihadist-Americans” in their native tongue which party will best ensure that their interests are served.

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Indoctrination 101 By John Leo

In 1997, the National Association of Social Work (NASW) altered its ethics code, ruling that all social workers must promote social justice "from local to global level." This call for mandatory advocacy raised the question: what kind of political action did the highly liberal field of social work have in mind? The answer wasn't long in coming. The Council on Social Work Education, the national accreditor of social work education programs, says candidates must fight "oppression," and sees American society as pervaded by the "global interconnections of oppression." Now aspiring social workers must commit themselves, usually in writing, to a culturally left agenda, often including diversity programs, state-sponsored redistribution of income, and a readiness to combat heterosexism, ableism, and classism.

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"Z" Visa Returns: New 'Special' Visas for Illegal Alien 'Crime Victims' By Tammy Bruce

On its surface it sounds reasonable, but once you get into it, like anything related to the government's attitude toward illegal immigration it has amnesty and open borders written all over it.

In this instance, the Bush admin, via the Department of Homeland InSecurity (of course) is bypassing legislation and using the the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to establish a "rule" allowing illegal aliens who are supposed 'crime victims' to receive visas and special benefits. But, of course, it's really more than that. I'm sure the Amnesty Republicans feel this use of 'regulations' and 'rules' is one surefire way to avoid your pesky interference in their efforts to open the borders and the sovereignty of this nation. Let's prove them wrong. Again. There is a way for you to make a difference here. I'll have an action for you at the end of this post.

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Eagles Landing by Col. George "Bud" Day

On September 15, in a scene that America’s enemies are hoping mimics similar events in the 60s and 70s, a coalition of anti-American amateur anarchists will descend on the nation’s capital attempting to convince the US Congress to surrender in the War on Terror.

They won’t know even know to whom they’d like us to surrender, nor what the terms of such a travesty might be. But their ilk didn’t care in the 70s and the new crowd doesn’t care now.

But this time, also flocking to the Capitol with a far greater sense of purpose, direction and duty, will be the Eagles: America’s veterans and pro-troop patriots. Just as they did on March 17, the Eagles again will deflect the hatred hurled at our military, the attempts to deface our memorials, and the political efforts to bully a shaky Congress into giving away the successes that have been earned through more than two centuries of democracy.

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OP-ED: The Real Osama bin Laden by Sean Osborne

From Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs, NEIN - I am quite grateful that Michael Scheuer is no longer leading the CIA’s 'Alec Station' group in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Scheuer's most recent article entitled Analysis of Osama bin Laden's September 7 Video Statement amounts to a nearly irrelevant analysis in my assessment. Readers of this website will know that this is not the first time I have taken Michael Scheuer to task. In the first paragraph alone Scheuer makes errors even a novice intelligence analyst would have recognized in just viewing just the first three minutes of the video.

It is abundantly clear to this analyst that the specific intent of the producers of this Osama bin Laden video is to present the same image of Osama as existed prior to September 11, 2001. Osama’s attire is even the exact same clothing worn in many photo-ops and video productions done well prior to September 11, 2001. View the pre-9/11 Osama imagery HERE and HERE and HERE.

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Terror Criminal Links Growing By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

Al Qaeda’s sophisticated new media campaign clearly demonstrates that the group does not lack funding. Contrary to popular belief, organizing, maintaining, training, and operating terrorist groups require large and liquid sums. Most terrorist organizations circumvent funding prohibitions by creating “political” and “charitable” wings, a ruse that enables their individual and state supporters to contribute “clean” money to the terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Interviewed by ABC News on September 11, 2007, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) Stuart Levey, said: "If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia."

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Bomb Sights by Forkum

From FOX News: U.S. General: Iranian Missile Used in Attack on U.S. Base in Iraq.

A fatal attack launched two days ago against the sprawling headquarters base of the American military in Iraq was carried out with a 240 mm rocket -- a type of weapon provided to Shiite extremists by Iran, a U.S. general said Thursday.

One person was killed and 11 were wounded during the "indirect fire" attack Tuesday against Camp Victory, which includes the headquarters of Multinational Forces-Iraq. ...

Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said the rocket was launched from a populated area in the Rasheed district of west Baghdad, which he said was infiltrated by the Mahdi Army militia of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

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Sen. Harry Reid and the Democrats: Speechwriters for Osama Bin Laden By Richard Bentley

Addressing his message to "the American people," Osama bin Laden needed to get some help with his latest diatribe, so he turned to Senator Harry Reid and many other Democrats to craft his message. As bin Laden mentioned that "the United States is losing in Iraq," you could see Senator Reid swell with pride. Those were the exact words that the senator from Nevada had uttered earlier this year.

        Osama bin Laden used Senator Charles Schumer's very words when he discussed "the failure of U.S. forces in Iraq."  Sharing the same talking points, Senator Schumer elaborated by saying that "any successes in Iraq that have occurred recently have been despite the efforts of the American troops, not because of them."

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Dearborn, Michigan: Muslim caught in park with AK-47 assault rifle :: Jihad Watch

A third-year medical student -- which fact recalls the recent Doctors' Plot in the UK, and the news that came out at that time of large-scale attempts by jihadists to recruit doctors and other professionals.

But let us not rush to judgment. Maybe he was hunting squirrels.

Video here (thanks to Ray).

Coverage is very sparse. Here is a story from the thrice-weekly Press & Guide, "Man with AK-47 assault rifle arrested after leaving Dearborn's Hemlock Park":

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An "Obominable" Plan by Austin Bay

Barack Obama has kinda-sorta demanded withdrawal from Iraq. He wants US forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2008 — that isn’t an immediate withdrawal, but it is still a timetable for abandoning Iraq.

Accept Obama’s demand for what it is: a quick genuflection to MoveOn.org, the DailyKos, and the other nutroot groups which rhetorically ignite —and bully—today’s Democratic Party. Obama is trying to appeal to the Code Pink Stalinists and gray-haired profs with Vietnam-era ponytails who vote in Democratic Party primaries.

Obama’s call for defeat is reminiscent of his rhetorically botched recommendation that the US invade Pakistan. Alas, this year’s Mr. Excitement has a lot to learn. Shady characters and a re-play of Bill Clinton’s “Chinese financial culture of corruption” haunt Hillary’s campaign — it appears a basic lack of international savvy is Obama’s glaring defect.

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FREDeralism! By Chris Edwards

There has been a void in the Republican presidential race. The GOP candidates have spoken about immigration, taxes, social issues, and the war in Iraq. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain have also spoken frequently about Ronald Reagan in order to position themselves as the political heirs to the great president.

The candidates, however, have overlooked a central idea that animated Reagan's view of government. That was federalism, the constitutional principle that the federal government's responsibilities are "few and defined" as James Madison put it.

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NY Times, Moveon do Dems Dirty Work by gmony714

By writing off more than half of its normal price, it
encouraged the publication of a nasty hit piece on the honor of a
serving commander in a theater of war. The Paper of Record helped call
Petraeus a traitor, surely one of the worst moments in modern American
media.

The Sulzberger familiy should apologize to General Petraeus and
issue a retraction. Furthermore, it should act to remove Arthur “Pinch”
Sulzberger as publisher of the Times and finally put an adult in charge
of what used to be the nation’s premiere newspaper. Offering
discounts to a rabidly partisan outfit like MoveOn for the purpose of
character assassination has stripped the last fantasies of objectivity
from the paper and exposed it as the fringe-Left shill that it is.

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It's a Spiritual, Not Culture, War by Grant Swank

Some conclude that what’s going on in the US — indeed in the world — is a culture war. One basic cultural line in opposition to another.

Not so. Culture is just a polite term for what’s going on. Culture is also only a part of what’s going on. What’s happening is a first-class spiritual war: God against the devil.

Take for instance the two major political parties. They are dealing with spiritual matters on the front burners. The issues have to do with right versus wrong.

The Dems are for killing womb babies. The Republicans are against murdering womb babies.

The Dems are for baptizing sodomy. The Republicans are against sodomy on the grounds fundamentally that it’s evil.

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Self-Government Is In Peril From The SPP by Phyllis Schlafly

It's now leaking out that there was more going on than met the eye at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit in Montebello, Canada in August. The three amigos, Bush, Harper and Calderon, finalized and released the "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza."

The "Plan" (that's what they call it, with a capital P) is to use the excuse of a major flu epidemic to shift powers from U.S. legislatures to unelected, unaccountable "North American" bureaucrats.

This idea was launched on September 14, 2005 when Bush announced the "International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza." He was then speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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Manneken Pis dries up By Mark Steyn

The other day Andrew Stuttaford posited a Belgian divorce as French-speaking Walloons and Flemish-speaking, er, Flemings decide they can live without each other. But Andrew may have spoken too soon: The country could have a glorious future ahead of it, free of domination by either of its ancient tribes. Already, the Mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, presides over a ruling Socialist Party caucus, ten of whose seventeen members are Muslim.

That's to say, the capital city of the European Union has a Muslim-majority governing party.

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Hillary Clinton: I Will Change Our Country By Steven M. Warshawsky

In the spring of 1993, shortly after her husband and political benefactor Bill Clinton took office as the nation's 42nd president, Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address at the University of Texas.  In her speech, Hillary reiterated the theme that has been at the heart of her political vision from the start: 

"We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West."

"Remolding society."  This is the terminology of a utopian socialist, one who seeks to remake society according to a narrow and dogmatic ideology that claims to eliminate injustice, poverty, and unhappiness, once and for all.  Hillary's ideology is an amalgam of New Left marxism and grievance feminism, the kind of unwholesome stew that is commonplace on elite college campuses.

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Ignorance of Islam By Travis Kavulla

I was in Cambridge, Mass., in February of last year when I heard the latest from Iraq: The al-Askari Mosque, the so-called “Golden Mosque” of Samarra, had been nearly leveled in a devastating explosion.

That night, I attended a regular, rather casual seminar on the works of Cantabrigian authors, led by a prodigious member of Harvard’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department. The professor arrived late to class, and was not in the mood to talk about T. S. Eliot when he did. “Do any of you know what the Golden Mosque is?” he asked. Blank stares followed, punctuated only by the eager nodding of my roommate, whose passion is the Middle East.

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Follow the Money :: New York Sun Editorial

While the Democrats in the Congress were calling General Petraeus a liar for arguing that things were getting better in Iraq, one of our favorite publications — Grant's Interest Rate Observer — was circulating around town with a cover story called "Strongest currency, best bourse." It turns out that is in neither Switzerland nor Britain nor Japan nor America but Iraq, which, Grant's reports, "has turned into a capital magnet." Says it: "The only thing stronger than the Iraqi currency is the Baghdad stock market." And it adds this classic Grantian formulation: "Money is sometimes misinformed, but it is never insincere. Something is afoot in Iraq.

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A MUSLIM WHO STANDS AGAINST EURABIA AND THE ISLAMIC CULTURE OF DEATH :: Real Clear Religion

Magdi Allam is a muslim, but no ordinary Muslim--he is a staunch opponent of the Islamization of Europe. He is an Egyptian born columnist and vice-director of Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading daily newspaper. He has become Italy’s most prominent critic of Islam and his views have become highly regarded in more conservative Catholic circles.

Allam's mother sent him to a Catholic boarding school in Egypt, where he began studying Western culture and civilization. He later immigated to Italy.

He has supported a ban against building new mosques in Italy and has sought to expose underground relationships between Italian mosques and international terrorist groups. His writings and opinions have led to numerous death threats and have necessitated him to be under constant guard.

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"Cultural relativism makes me sick" by Chaalan Charif and Nicolien den Boer*

Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), is known for his anti-Islamic remarks, his striking blonde mane and the many death threats he has received. It's less well known that he spent most of his time on a kibbutz chasing girls and once named Syria as his favourite holiday destination. He even watches Arabic television channels every evening. Geert Wilders spoke to Chalaan Charif and Nicolien den Boer from RNW's Arabic desk.

Geert Wilders' office in The Hague is a high security stronghold. Once the parliamentary security people have established that the journalists are who they say they are, the real screening begins. No less than four burly bodyguards tell us what we can and can't do ("No filming in Mr Wilders' room" "Photographs? Only against the backdrop of an empty anonymous wall."), search our bag of recording equipment and bombard us with questions. ("Do you have any weapons? Are there any secret compartments in your bag?).

For three years now Wilders has been under heavy guard because of regular death threats. After his proposal a few weeks back that the Qur'an should be banned, more threats streamed in.

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Inspired by the Nazis By Suzanne Fields

A few days before the sixth anniversary of 9/11, a young man ranting in Arabic accosted a rabbi walking home from his synagogue in an upscale neighborhood of Frankfurt, and stabbed him. As he shoved the blade of his pocketknife into the rabbi's stomach, he switched from Arabic to German and told the man: "You sh---- Jew, I'm going to kill you." The rabbi survived, and Jewish leaders in Germany were outraged and condemned the barbarism, but moderated their criticism.

"We oppose leveling blanket accusations at the Muslim community because the majority of Muslims in Germany condemn acts of violence in the name of Islam," Dieter Graumann, the vice president of the German Jewish Council, said. But he observed that Islamist hate preachers regularly exhort young Muslims to carry out jihad against Jews, and asked why so few leaders of the Islamic community in Germany speak out against violence in the name of Mohammed.

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Suspicious Surveys By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

You can be sure that when the media release a poll tied to a major news event, it's often biased. The testimony of Gen. David Petraeus on the eve of the sixth anniversary of 9/11 was just such an event.

Two major polls released this week struck us as particularly tendentious. One, from the U.S.-based Associated Press in conjunction with France's Ipsos polling firm, claimed "most Americans see the Iraq war as a failure" and that a majority also think the 30,000-troop surge led by Petraeus "is not working."

Meanwhile, a separate poll, this one of Iraqis by ABC/BBC/NHK, found "worsening public attitudes," with 65% to 70% saying the surge has hurt security, not helped.

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Media Negative throughout Nearly Four Years of Job Growth By Julia A. Seymour

The media haven’t done the best job on jobs.

In 47 straight months of job growth, the U.S. economy has created 8.3 million jobs. But despite that economic achievement, the media have consistently presented employment news and the overall economy negatively in the past four years.

Katie Couric dismissed July 2007 job creation in one sentence on the “CBS Evening News” August 3: “The Labor Department says the economy was able to create only 92,000 jobs.” (emphasis added)

 Despite economic worries over subprime loans and credit markets, the chief economist of Bear Stearns, David Malpass, wrote that “Jobs matter more” in an August 7 editorial.

“Jobs matter more. For many, the value of future employment is much greater than their home equity. The low jobless claims and unemployment rate – clear signs of a strong labor environment – raise confidence and likely future wages,” wrote Malpass in The Wall Street Journal.

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Democratic Europe R.I.P. :: Gates of Vienna

It was not just the events taking place in Brussels on September 11th 2007 that indicated the end of democracy in Europe. Rather, the manhandling and arrest of passive, besuited, middle-aged men was simply the final statement — after a long history of incremental authoritarianism — by our ruling socialist elites that a new totalitarian order now controls an entire continent.

What took place yesterday should be viewed from several different angles. To fundamental Islam it was a great fillip to their dream of a global caliphate, to the supporters of SIOE it was not the success we had hoped for, and to the Socialists it was a comprehensive victory.

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A New Strain of Anti-Semitism is Spreading By Victor Davis Hanson

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."

Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

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Hillary’s Brown, Cowardly, Dangerous Nose By A.J. DiCintio

We have known for a long, long time that if it means gaining or holding on to the pants of power, Hillary Clinton will lie any lie, betray any friend, deny any principle, nut and slut any woman, or smile any scandal. However, since she’s been running for President, she has made it abundantly clear that to fully describe her behavior; Americans must add “grovel any Liberal slime.”

Before mentioning a few particularly disgusting examples of Mrs. Clinton’s decision to  grovel before and kiss the ugliest of Liberal asses, we must point out that in true Clintonian fashion, she first sister souljahed Liberals with the pronouncement that she prefers “Progressive” politics over “Liberal” politics.

Of course, other Liberals immediately understood this latest pile of Clintonian bull as a political wink-wink because they, too, have been busy trying to pull the wool over the public eye by invoking the word “Progressive” as often as they cough up other Orwellian terms (including the million “undocumented workers” they have hacked upon the nation). 

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Why Did Israel Air Force Enter Syria And Why Is The World Quiet? By David Storobin, Esq.

So why did the Israel Air Force (IAF) fly deep inside the Syrian territory? Some have suggested that it was done to gather intelligence, to attack terrorists and even to bomb the embryonic Syrian nuclear facilities. All of these may be true and I have no way to either confirm or deny these claims. But it is possible to gauge Jerusalem's desired long-term effects, and the reason why the world has remained silent.
First, let’s consider the known facts and the known desires of Israel.
After the less-than-satisfactory effort in Lebanon, the Jewish state needs to:

1. re-establish itself as a major power that scares others, which in turn also requires it to

2. win a war.
Additionally, it is well known that both the US and the EU believe that Iran’s nuclear program is for military purposes, which must be stopped at all costs.

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What the Muslim Brotherhood Means for America: Memo Reveals Plan to Destroy US From Within By Rod Dreher

"Our strategy is this," President Bush said last month. "We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America."

He was talking about Jihadists, of course. And Mr. Bush is behind the curve. The president apparently missed the smoking-gun 1991 document his own Justice Department introduced into evidence at the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas. The FBI captured it in a raid on a Muslim suspect's home in Virginia.

This "explanatory memorandum," as it's titled, outlines the "strategic goal" for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Here's the key paragraph:

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The Real Suicide Bomb by Forkum

This cartoon was originally posted on July 20, 2005, and is one of over 400 illustrations you'll find in our latest book Black & White World III, which can be ordered via Cox & Forkum, The Steyn Store, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

From NRO: Denial, England: Have we learned nothing? by Melanie Phillips. (via Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi)

When I published my book Londonistan last year, I believed Britain was deeply in denial over the threat of radical Islamism. Today — six years after 9/11; two years after the 7/7 London suicide bombings; one year after the discovery of the al Qaeda transatlantic-airline plot; two months after the car-bomb attacks on a London nightclub and Glasgow airport — even with an apparently neverending procession of trials of British Islamist terrorists and with MI5 stating that it is monitoring no fewer than 200 U.K. Islamist terror groupings, 2,000 individual terrorists, and 30 known active major terrorist plots, Britain is still failing to acknowledge the true nature and scale of what it is facing and what needs to be done to counter it. ...

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Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope With Being Cast as Predators By JEFF ZASLOW

These days, if Rian Romoli accidentally bumps into a child, he quickly raises his hands above his shoulders. "I don't want to give even the slightest indication that any inadvertent touching occurred," says Mr. Romoli, an economist in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif.

Ted Wallis, a doctor in Austin, Texas, recently came upon a lost child in tears in a mall. His first instinct was to help, but he feared people might consider him a predator. He walked away. "Being male," he explains, "I am guilty until proven innocent."

In San Diego, retiree Ralph Castro says he won't allow himself to be alone with a child -- even in an elevator.

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TREASON: NY Times Traitor Discount: Greasing the Wheels of Evil :: Atlas Shrugs

No shocka here but The  New York Crimes has to answer to their shareholders don't they? Their diminishing returns and now this (which will have severe economic repercussions)  should propel shareholders to bring a derivative action against the times managers and editorial board for "giving the company" away (at least my friend John thinks so.)

The NYT gave Move on a huge discount on the full page Betray Us ad.

The NYT is losing money and readers daily, but can still give away the farm for some Bush Bashing. hat tip mdd

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Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears :: Hudson Institute

A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.

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U.S. Self-government Is in Peril By Phyllis Schlafly

It's now leaking out that there was more going on than met the eye at the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit in Montebello, Canada, in August.  The three amigos--President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon--finalized and released the "North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza."

        The "Plan"--that's what they call it, with a capital P--is to use the excuse of a major flu epidemic to shift powers from U.S. legislatures to unelected, unaccountable "North American" bureaucrats.

        This idea was launched on September 14, 2005, when Bush announced the "International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza."  He was then speaking to the United Nations General Assembly.

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US being hoodwinked into draconian climate policies By Dr. Timothy Ball & Tom Harris

Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory -- a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.

This is precisely what Al Gore, U.S. Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer and others want their nation to do.   They expect Americans to accept on blind faith the thesis that human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing catastrophic climate change.  Boxer, Gore and their allies readily resort to emotional bullying against anyone who dares question this dogma. Their pronouncements -- Boxer's juvenile "the American people have the will to slow, stop and reverse global warming" is a prime example - are merely displays of arrogance that expose their lack of basic science understanding (or their complete disrespect of public intelligence). The policies they advocate are wholly unjustified scientifically and have extraordinarily damaging economic implications for the developed world.

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Hsu Ran With The Money by Ed Morrissey

The Wall Street Journal has tracked down the source of Norman Hsu's cash, and the good news is that the People's Republic of China didn't provide the funds -- at least, not some of them. However, the bad news is that Hsu apparently moved from Ponzi schemes to outright embezzlement as a former Woodstock backer proved as inept at background checks as the Democratic Party:

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Campaigning Goes on Forever By Marie Jon

I am becoming bored with all the presidential debates and campaigning long before the primaries. They have become elongated political visuals with little or no substance.

For the most part, the media is choosing the front running candidates, both within the Republican and Democrat Parties. Unfortunately, the most popular people will win the primaries, rather than those of substance. Too often, we aren’t able to figure out what the candidates think.

YouTube and the television debates provide little or no information. The candidates continuously changed their positions more readily than chameleons change their color.

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The Decline & Fall of the New York Times By Thomas Lifson

The disgraceful full page General "Betray Us" ad published Monday was a new low for both MoveOn.org and the New York Times. Newspapers can and do decide to reject advertisements which are below acceptable standards. It might be the case that the Times is deeply in thrall to its obsessions that it saw nothing wrong with "General Betray Us." Or maybe the Times is so hard-pressed that standards no longer matter, in both advertising and editorial dimensions. The figure of one hundred thousand dollars was mentioned by one commentator as a rough price for the ad.

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From the Halls of Malibu to the Shores of Kennedy by Ann Coulter

Democrats claim Gen. David Petraeus' report to Congress on the surge was a put-up job with a pre-ordained conclusion. As if their response wasn't.

Democrats yearn for America to be defeated on the battlefield and oppose any use of the military -- except when they can find individual malcontents in the military willing to denounce the war and call for a humiliating retreat.

It's been the same naysaying from these people since before we even invaded Iraq -- despite the fact that their representatives in Congress voted in favor of that war.

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Terrorist "Sleeper Cells" inside the U.S. :: NIN

During an interview yesterday with ABC's "Good Morning America," National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell stated that U.S. authorities are concerned about "sleeper cells" of Islamic terrorists inside the United States and admitted that since 9/11, several plots against the United States have been thwarted. "We're safer but we're not safe," stated McConnell about the current threat environment.

According to McConnell and as we have continued to warn on this web site, Islamic terrorists (including al Qaeda) are already living and working inside the U.S. and "intend to have an operation in the United States that will result in mass casualties." "We have stopped some efforts and we must stop all efforts. We're not sure we can stop 100% of them," he said.

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Disinformation Campaign in Overdrive - Iran’s VEVAK in High-Gear by Professor Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker

In two prior articles, we looked at the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS = Farsi: VEVAK=Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar). The following essay is a third installment in what looks to be a growing research project. Reference to the earlier papers is suggested for those new to the subject.

Founded in 1984 and ranked by experts as one of the world’s largest and most active intelligence agencies in the Middle East and possessing  a global reach, VEVAK’s activities and structure are shrouded in mystery, but its presence has been felt keenly with over 450 acts of terrorism carried out in less than a quarter of a century. With an almost unlimited budget, and a command structure reporting direct to the Supreme Leader (Farsi: faqih) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the secretive agency is one of the key pillars of the theocratic regime. Led from 1999 until mid-2005 by the notorious hanging judge Hojjatol-Islam Ali Younesi, it is now headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appointee, Hojjatol-Islam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, 51, formerly Prosecutor and Judge of the Special Tribunal for Clergy, and formerly Special Prosecutor in the MOIS, as well as a founding official and member of the staff selection board for MOIS

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World War IV By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Norman Podhoretz, the editor at large for Commentary magazine, of which he was editor in chief for thirty-five years. He is also an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Making It, Breaking Ranks, Ex-Friends, My Love Affair with America, and The Prophets. He is the author of the new book World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism.

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CAIR Terror Fatwa Signatories Attend Conference Honoring HAMAS Terror Cleric Qaradawi By Patrick Poole

On July 28, 2005, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference trumpeting a fresh fatwa issued by the Fiqh Council of North America allegedly condemning terrorism, a document that was subsequently signed by CAIR and more than one hundred other American Muslim organizations. The Fiqh Council of North America/CAIR terrorism fatwa specifically states:

In the light of the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah we clearly and strongly state:

1) All acts of terrorism targeting civilians are haram (forbidden) in Islam.

2) It is haram for a Muslim to cooperate with any individual or group that is involved in any act of terrorism or violence.

3) It is the civic and religious duty of Muslims to cooperate with law enforcement authorities to protect the lives of all civilians.

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Something BIG is Up! by moonwolf :: NowPublic

Something is up! There are just too many indicators of coming trouble. The latest are from Israel. First, El Al, the
Israeli airline, has cancelled all flights from New York on Friday, September
14. That happens to be the same day that the Air Force is standing down across
the country. Secondly, DEBKA.COM has posted a strange notice that it will
confine its reporting to "special security events" from September 11 throiugh
September 18 when it will resume routine coverage. Just what do the Israelis
know that we don't?

This follows the strange flight across country of
an airforce bomber carrying nuclear weapons, something that Congress had been
assured could not happen. It raises questions about not only how it happened but
why it happened. Is there another 911 event planned within the U.S.? Were the
bombs being readied for an attack upon Iran? We need to know!

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Defeatist Dems Won't Hear Of Victory In Iraq By THOMAS SOWELL

Sometimes I feel I must be one of the few people left in America who is not a military expert. For example, all sorts of politicians have been talking about all sorts of ways we ought to "redeploy" our troops. The closest I ever came to deploying troops was marching a company of Marines to the mess hall for chow.

But people who have never even put on a uniform are confident they know how our troops should be redeployed. Maybe this is one of the fruits of the "self-esteem" that is taught in our schools instead of education.

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Losing Time By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Iran: With Germany declaring sanctions ineffective and the United Nations' nuclear agency wedded to diplomacy, Tehran is getting precious time to build a nuclear bomb. U.S. force may soon be unavoidable.

The room was reportedly stunned when representatives of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government last week told U.N. Security Council member nations gathered in Berlin that her country would oppose further sanctions against Iran, citing their effects on the German economy and their futility in reining in Tehran's nuclear program.

As a result, economic sanctions may now be dead as a weapon against the fanatical Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime. That's unfortunate, because getting tough on Tehran with sanctions was the only way to avoid military action.

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Cognitive Dissonance By Andrew C. McCarthy

The much-anticipated testimony of a most impressive man, General David Petraeus, underscores a fact that is essential but much overlooked. No matter how adept and heroic our military is — and, as their commander observed, they are “very likely, the most professional force in our nation’s history” — the purpose of a military in a constitutional democracy such as ours is to effect policy, not create it.

Crafting policy is the business of our elected civilian leaders. Thus it was counterintuitive to hear Ryan C. Crocker, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq, frame of our policy only after General Petraeus’s report of progress to achieve it. The counterintuitive, moreover, quickly lapsed into the contradictory. Ambassador Crocker averred:

[I]t is possible for the United States to see its goals realized in Iraq[.]… A secure, stable, democratic Iraq at peace with its neighbors is attainable. In my judgment, the cumulative trajectory of political, economic, and diplomatic developments in Iraq is upwards, although the slope of that line is not steep.

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Global Warming Impact Like 'Nuclear War' By Jeff Poor

Global warming might be a scary thing to some, but who would have thought on the level of a nuclear holocaust?

“Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday,” Jeremy Lovell of Reuters wrote on September 12. Lovell didn’t include any expert skeptical about climate change or its near-nuclear impact on the globe.

The report is from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a think tank that focuses on “better public policy in the fields of international relations and international security,” according to its Web site.

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Confused Americans for Truth - In Which I Analyze the Petraeus Testimony Without Being Influenced by the Facts :: The Conservative Cat

I've been wandering about the house for almost a full day now trying to get a handle on General Petraeus's testimony before Congress, which is now in its second day. In doing so, I've tried very hard not to be swayed by the content of the testimony, because I'm convinced that Petraeus's statements aren't going to make an iota of difference to anybody involved in this debate.

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Death By Activist :: Colonel Robert Neville

The Doctor is in. Here’s a poser, sports. What percentage exactly, of the alleged ‘good intentions’ of Leftist activists when translated into their non ‘ideas’ and then put into their kind of actions, scientifically result in their stated and loudly claimed outcomes? By what empirical degree can this be objectively shown?

I would say that all of the above can definitely be shown but almost entirely in the negative.

Almost none of the Left, Socialist or Liberal,(as it is today, and not always Libertarian) non-ideas when taken to their logical ends as they invariably are, have resulted in anything much but failure and fiasco. It's been nothing but a disaster for the world’s people who have been unfortunate enough to be touched so very heavily by the Leftist, Communist, Marxist, Socialist and Radical Revolutionary ‘dreams' of mass mediocrity and conformity.

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Islamic plan to take over America revealed by Lawrence Auster

Rod Dreher (via Andrew McCarthy at the Corner) quotes a 1991 internal memo of the Holy Land Foundation that was uncovered by the Justice Department in a raid on a suspect's home in Virginia, and presented in the current trial of HLF for ties to terrorism. Here is the key paragraph:

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.

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The GOP gutless wonders By Joseph Farah

Would you elect a man president of the United States who was afraid of tough questioning from Phyllis Schlafly or Star Parker?

Would you consider voting for a man who had better things to do than to talk to an audience of millions concerned about the assault on family values?

What would you say to front-running GOP presidential candidates who take your vote for granted because they think you have nowhere to go?

These are some of the questions you should be pondering today as we get ready for a Republican presidential debate next Monday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – a debate in which four major contenders will be conspicuously absent.

They are: Willard "Mitt" Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, John McCain and Fred Thompson.

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Hillary's Hsu Strings By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

To grasp why Norman Hsu's unlawful "fundraising" for Sen. Hillary Clinton is so scandalous, consider this from a woman who says Hsu pressured her to give big to Clinton: "I can't stand the woman."

Democratic senator and presidential candidate Clinton is returning one of the largest amounts of money in the history of U.S. campaigns. Roughly 260 donors associated with the Hong Kong-born Hsu, a suspected Ponzi scheme mastermind, will get back about $850,000 in tainted donations. Hsu is suspected of pressuring his client/victims to become straw donors to Clinton and other Democrats.

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Harassing A Hero By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Watching the political carnival that accompanied the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus was for many a depressing experience. Is this the best our Congress — indeed, our democracy — has to offer?

Say what you will of his testimony, but Petraeus is a genuine hero who's done a terrific job in the most trying circumstances. He deserved respect and the utmost consideration when he went before two House committees on Monday.

Instead, he got condescension and rudeness, with more than one Democratic member implying — to his face — that he was a liar and White House stooge.

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Capital of the EUSSR 3: Attack of the Stormtroopers :: The Brussels Journal

A reader who wants to stay anonymous sent us this witness account of yesterday's SIOE demonstration in Brussels.

I attended the demo in Bruxelles and we were in the city early enough to see the police forming up in various backstreets complete with water cannon and armed reserve units. What are they frightened of?

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Iraq as Qaeda Bait By James Lewis

The Left thinks Iraq is a killing field for Americans. Actually, it is a killing field for our enemies, at a very great but vitally important sacrifice. That reflects a grand strategy, tailored to the peculiar nature of the global terror threat.

You don't shoot poisonous fire-ants with a BB gun; you just set an ant trap. Ant colonies are highly "distributed" biological societies, much like the world-wide web. They can't be killed with a BB or a pressure hose; even pouring flaming gasoline on an ant hill won't work. 

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Dems Embrace the Far Left and Lose America by Bobby Eberle

The results of the 2006 elections had Democrats singing in the streets, but now comes the real test. Do the Democrats stand up for what is right or do they embrace failure and far left rhetoric? As Americans are seeing this week, the Democrats have sunk to new lows and would rather snuggle up next to MoveOn.org than take a stand for decency.

As Gen. David Petraeus gave his testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the progress in Iraq, the left wing fringe group MoveOn.org ran a full page ad in the New York Times which accused the general of "cooking the books for the White House." Leading Democrats joined in, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying, "He's made a number of statements over the years that have not proven to be factual." MoveOn.org and these Democrats are banking so heavily on failure in Iraq to deliver them more ballot success that they are now calling an honorable military man a liar before he even spoke a word.

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This One Takes the Prize :: Gates of Vienna

This picture may win the Fascist Boot prize for the Brussels 9/11 demonstration.

Here, the police are openly brutalizing a member of the EU parliament. The Baron thinks this poor guy is probably Frank Vanhecke, president of Vlaams Belang, though he would welcome correction from anyone who is sure of the man’s identity…
…oh, at this point of course, one is supposed to mention Vlaams Belang as the mandatory “extreme right wing” party. Remember the rules: the Left are activists and the Right are extremists. It’s from the international MSM-journalism style book.

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Press, Lies, and Videotape By Lisa Fabrizio

So he's back, I suppose; Osama bin Laden. And boy, do we need him for many reasons, not the least being that he helps us draw some interesting comparisons. Many have pointed out the similarity between bin Laden's comments and those of certain members of the Democratic left, but there's more to it than mere words. They have a commonality as regards methodology as well.

While it's true that the words of the head of al Qaeda read like a socialist manifesto -- dire warnings regarding global warming, the evils of corporate interests and the dreary invocation of the Vietnam War -- the most amazing similarity is bin Laden's near-total disregard for the truth combined with an almost eerie confidence that this will be ignored by America's leftist media.

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Why the Antiwar Democrats Will Retreat By Patrick Buchanan

In November 2006, Republicans were voted out of power in the Congress and Democrats installed to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq.

The war had been going on as long as America's war on Nazi Germany. No end was in sight. U.S. casualties and costs were rising. Bush's approval rating had sunk to record lows.

The day after the GOP rout, Bush cashiered his war minister, Donald Rumsfeld. In December, the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush I Secretary of State James Baker, released its report.

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Vandals at the Wall by Michelle Oddis

Last Friday a “light, oily substance” was sprayed on 50 to 60 feet of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall panels and paving stones in an act of apparent vandalism. All this week, Washington was consumed with the Iraq reports by Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker. This weekend, ANSWER and a number of other anti-war groups are planning big demonstrations in Washington. Some veterans groups are planning to parallel the demostrations with lines of volunteers blocking access to the Vietnam Wall and other memorials they believe may be targeted for defacment. The assumption that Friday’s discovery was an act of vandalism connected with the demonstrations seems a logical conclusion.

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Part 2 of Michelle's interview with Laura Ingraham

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The World's Wealthiest Poor By Bill Steigerwald

Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation is a national authority on poverty and the U.S. welfare system. Specializing in welfare reform and family breakdown, Rector has done extensive research on the economic and social costs of welfare.

With presidential candidates of a certain hue decrying the suffering of the 37 million Americans who have been officially classified as poor by the U.S. Census Bureau, we thought we'd ask Rector if these poor people are really as poverty-stricken as we have been led to believe. I talked to the author of “America's Failed $5.4 Trillion War on Poverty” Thursday, Sept. 6, by telephone from his office in Washington:

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Islamic Terrorists Posing as Christians: Abusing Faith, Churches By Dr. Deborah Schurman-Kauflin

Radical Islamic terror groups are clever. They learn about their enemies and work hard to infiltrate the governments, law enforcement, military, education, and other organizations within the enemy territory. Their goal is the destruction of infidels, and as such, they will do anything necessary to facilitate their ultimate success.

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Capital of the EUSSR By Paul Belien

I just returned home from the anti-Islamization demonstration in Brussels. The Belgian police beat up the peaceful demonstrators in what even the Belgian public television call "an extremely violent fashion." Here are some video images. The grey-haired man whom we see being attacked by the police first is Luk Van Nieuwenhuysen, the Vice-President of the Flemish Parliament. Shortly afterwards we see the police maltreating Frank Vanhecke, a member of the European Parliament and the party leader of the Vlaams Belang. We see how he is handcuffed and pushed into a police bus. Afterwards we also see the police "taking care" of Filip Dewinter, the VB group leader in the Flemish Parliament. We see how his arm gets caught between the closing doors of the bus. An Italian MEP and a French MEP were also arrested. The demonstrators were kept in cells for seven hours and released this evening.

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America's Crash Course On Islam By Daniel Pipes

How goes the "war on terror"? One would think that the absence of a successful dramatic terrorist operation against Westerners since the London bombings in July 2005 would be heartening. But an atmosphere of gloom predominates. A recent much-publicized Foreign Policy magazine poll of 108 American specialists, myself included, found merely 6% who agreed that "The United States is winning the war on terror." A whopping 84% disagreed.

This negativism reflects twin realities: Islamism (outside Iran) is waxing everywhere, while the civilized world is making profound mistakes — blaming itself for Muslim hatred, underestimating and appeasing the enemy. Several trends:

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At Last a Small-Government Conservative? By Michael Tanner

With his long awaited entry into the presidential campaign, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson says that he will base his campaign on the "first principles" of "individual freedom and limited government." If he follows through, he will have an opportunity to position himself as the only small-government conservative in the race.

As I wrote in my book, Leviathan on the Right, Republicans have been increasingly split between traditional small-government conservatives in the Reagan and Goldwater molds and a new breed of big-government conservatives who believe in using an activist government to achieve conservative ends -- even if it means increasing the size, cost, and power of government in the process.

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Diversity's Dark Side By John Luik

For at least the last twenty years the cultural and political elites of the United States have championed the cause of multiculturalism by claiming that diversity was something that made all of us better. Little effort was ever made to define precisely just what was meant by diversity, difference or most crucially "better." Nor was there any significant research that provided empirical support for the claim that multiculturalism and diversity translated into better people, better communities, better organizations and businesses or a better country.

But now a considerable amount of solid evidence about multiculturalism is in, and it suggests that far from something positive, it is a corroding and corrupting influence on just about everything that it comes in contact with, from social capital, trust, and community spirit to altruism, volunteering, friendship and even happiness.

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World War IV with the Wrong Rosie :: Pajamas Media

Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon reviews Norman Podhoretz’s World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, published on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
I kept thinking of that line – often attributed to Trotsky - when reading World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, Norman Podhoretz’s analysis of the evolution of our current situation.

Not interested, indeed. What normal person would be? Like a lot of people, I was hoping Francis Fukuyama was right back in 1992 when he proffered the “End of History.” No such luck.

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Indoctrination in the Classroom By Mark Bauerlein

"Reclaim Your Rights as a Liberal Educator." That's the title of a short essay in this month's Academe, organ of the American Association of University Professors. The phrase has all the imagination of a slogan unfurled at countless marches, but what it lacks in wit it makes up for in fortitude of the uniquely academic kind. Author Julie Kilmer, women's studies and religion professor at Olivet College, sounds the standard "they're-out-to-get-us" call and rallies her brethren to take back the classroom. We have, too, a vicious aggressor: conservative student groups that confront professors of perceived liberal bias, and they form a national network out to undermine the faculty, who come off as vulnerable and innocent professionals. While the professors uphold "freedom of inquiry to examine the worth of controversial ideas" and "teach college students to use analytical thinking in the development of new ideas," groups such as Students for Academic Freedom do their best to subvert the process. Worst of all, they "encourage students to bring complaints against faculty to administrators." To Kilmer, they are no better than spies, and they prompt her to wonder, "Each time a student is resistant to feminist theories and ideas, should I ask if he or she has been placed in my class to question my teaching? How is my teaching affected if I enter the classroom each day asking, 'Is today the day I will be called to the president's office?"

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FBI and TSA Involved in Delta Flight 1824 By Annie Jacobsen

Over the weekend, Douglas Hagmann, Director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, reported on an incident, Delta Airlines Flight 1824, involving a large group of Middle Eastern passengers, male and female, who were flying from Orlando, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia. Sources told Hagmann the passengers' bags tested positive for SEMTEX explosives at a TSA security checkpoint and were taken away by the FBI. Over the weekend, I spoke to Hagmann, as well as with one of his sources.

Just now, I had a lengthy conversation with TSA Spokesman Christopher White who confirmed the incident. Here's what White told me about Delta Airlines Flight 1824: 

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Hillary's Moral Sense And Leader Status Are Made in China By Gabriel Garnica

Hillary has often boasted that she is the only Democratic hopeful who has proven that she can overcome obstacles and knows how to beat conservatives. What has gone from increasingly obvious to pathetically consistent, however, is the reality that Hillary’s success is more the result of media support, hypocrisy and selectivity in covering her litany of unscrupulous and suspicious campaign contributions and activities.

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NYT: Hillary Blames Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh for Anti-Latino Demagoguery By Tim Graham

In Monday's New York Times, reporter Patrick Healy described how Democrats pandered to a Latino audience during their debate on the Spanish-language channel Univision (although candidates spoke in English): "They expressed concerns that Republicans were enabling anti-immigrant feelings and even racist attitudes, or at least not taking a tougher stand against them." Hillary Clinton blamed media people for those anti-Latino and even racist attitudes:

Mrs. Clinton said legislative proposals to overhaul the immigration system, which all the Democrats at the debate endorsed, had been used by Republicans and some in the news media to "bash immigrants" and engage in demagoguery. Later, Mrs. Clinton added: "There are many in the political and frankly in the broadcast world today who take a particular aim at our Latino population. I think it’s very destructive." A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said after the debate that she was referring to the CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and the radio host Rush Limbaugh, among others.

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Petraeus Reports: Part II by Jed Babbin

Yesterday the House committees -- with nearly one hundred members in attendance --  failed to notice what may be the most compelling proof that the counterinsurgency strategy General David Petraeus is implementing is succeeding.

Along with several other military correspondents, I spoke to Gen. Petraeus this morning, as he was driving up to testify in the Senate.  The question I raised was about the trend in terrorist attacks that may have been broken by the counterinsurgency.

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Senate votes to ban Mexican trucks By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Tuesday to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways, rekindling a more than decade-old trade dispute with Mexico.

By a 74-24 vote, the Senate approved a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., prohibiting the Transportation Department from spending money on a North American Free Trade Agreement pilot program giving Mexican trucks greater access to U.S. highways.

The proposal is part of a $106 billion transportation and housing spending bill that the Senate hopes to vote on later this week. The House approved a similar provision to Dorgan's in July as part of its version of the transportation spending bill.

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The Talibanization of Britain By Adrian Morgan

In the West, the Saudi ideology of Wahabbism is well known for its extremism and intolerance. Less well known is the ideology known as Deobandi. This ideology is equally insidious, equally extremist, for the Deobandi ideology is the ideology of the Taliban. Before taking power in Aghanistan, Mullah Omar and most of the leaders of the Afghan Taliban were educated at the Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. The Haqqania madrassa teaches the Deobandi form of Islam. Its head cleric, Sami ul Haq, is also a member of the MMA – the Islamist opposition in Pakistan's parliament. He has said of his former students: "I was pleased they became the rulers of Afghanistan. They restored law and order there. They respected human rights. They respected women's rights. They completely eliminated heroin and drug use."

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Pullout by Forkum

From FOX News: Crocker: Withdrawal Plan Could Spark Iraqi 'Street Fight'.

Announcing a plan for rapid troop withdrawals in Iraq would signal Iraqis to start "building the walls, stocking ammunition and getting ready for a big nasty street fight" rather than working toward reconciliation, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday.

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"Intense Hospitality": Islam in American Courts and Why It Matters By Jeffrey Breinholt

During the week we recognize the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and Congress considers the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq, I want to offer some general observations about an issue I have been writing about - Islam in the American courts - and why awareness of this history is so important to counterterrorism challenges we face today.

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Petraeus the Communicator By Max Boot

There were no real surprises on Capitol Hill when General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker showed up yesterday to present their reports. This was due, in large part, to the success that Petraeus had in laying the groundwork for their much-anticipated visit. He is an unusually open military commander who is not suspicious of journalists or legislators or scholars intruding in his “battlespace.” In fact he does everything possible to facilitate such visits. (I am one of many who is grateful to him for his hospitality.)

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