Mexican Invaders Share American Values?

By John W. Lillpop

One of the most sickening arguments used by George W. Bush to justify his traitorous inaction on illegal aliens is the idiotic notion that invading Mexicans share common values with the American people.
Really?

When was the last time you invaded a foreign nation, violated immigration laws, and pilfered that nation's treasure? That is exactly what each and every illegal alien is guilty of when they come here uninvited, unwelcome, and illegally.

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Speaker Pelosi's Fake News Conference

Speaker Pelosi's Fake News Conference

Satire By John W. Lillpop
Egged on by the success of FEMA in staging a fake, yet believable, news conference to spin the California wildfires, Speaker Pelosi held an impromptu fake press conference of her own this afternoon to discuss her tenure as speaker.
Pelosi used three administrative assistants from her office, designated as FR1, 2, and 3, to pose as reporters during the charade. The transcript of the Pelosi fake press conference follows, unedited.
Speaker Pelosi:

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Islamofascist Defends Fascists By Patrick Poole

It is appropriate that during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week that we consider the actual support by Islamic extremists in defense of actual fascists. Thus, following up on my previous stories here at FrontPage regarding a taxpayer-financed "Many Faces of Islam" conference (“Ohio’s Taxpayer-Financed Terror Fest”) held this coming weekend at the Ohio State Capitol (“HAMAS in the House”) featuring several terror-linked speakers and organized by a vocal terror apologist (“Hometown Jihad: The Somali Terror Apologist Next Door”), I would note the published email exchange by one of those speakers, Anisa Abd El Fattah, who defended neo-Nazis and their religious and racial hatred to UCLA law professor and blogger Eugene Volokh.

The exchange between Fattah and Volokh (see his post, "A heartwarming tale of people coming together") followed from her previous public statement affirming that:

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Jihad, Islamism, and the Challenge of Anti-Freedom Ideologies By Jeffrey Imm

As previously discussed, large segments of America and the West have a continuing dangerous denial on Jihad. But what of political Islamism itself? How does it factor into a blueprint strategy in addressing our national security issues?

In the documentary "Islam versus Islamism", anti-terrorist Muslim Dr. Zuhdi Jasser states: "a majority, I believe, look at the lens of politics through an Islamist lens... if we hand them the mantle of religion that they seek to exploit for their own geopolitical issues all over the globe, then we are going to really lose this war."

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Raging Narcissists By Jack L. Key

These past months have been bad ones for campus shootings, killings, and other proposed mayhem by “students.”  A teenager’s “arsenal” confiscated in one such incident was large enough to arm an entire school.  A black-dominated school in Philadelphia became a shooting gallery.  

        But we should stop explaining killers on their terms.  It's not about guns or culture.  It's narcissism, and my life's long odyssey has provided plenty of examples for my inquiring mind.

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Biotech Deaths May Already Total Millions By Dennis Avery

The global conflict over high-yield farming became even uglier last week when armed activists “for the landless” invaded a Brazilian biotech research farm. One activist and a security guard were killed and eight other people injured.

Unfortunately, the clash over modern farming technology has already had victims by the millions. New technologies that would save millions of lives every year are being held back by activist-scared regulators, using the excuse of “more testing.”

During the severe southern African drought of 2002, eco-activists told local governments that American food aid was “poison” because it contained genetically modified seeds. In at least one country, Zambia, the government locked up the U.S. food aid--despite the starvation of thousands in outlying villages. The food aid was later liberated by a mob that overwhelmed its armed guards.

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Hillary Clinton Accuser Claims New Evidence of Fraud in Documentary By Sharon Kehnemui Liss

One gift that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to enjoy on her 60th birthday Friday is the premiere of "Hillary Uncensored," a scathing documentary whose 13-minute trailer has been No. 1 on Google Video since Oct. 10, with more than 1.1 million views to date.

The film's first full-length showing is scheduled for Friday night at Harvard University, followed by viewings at universities through the weekend and a wrap Tuesday at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.

Among the allegations summarized in the documentary:

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Fires Politicized “California Dreaming” By Marie Jon’

By Marie Jon'

"California Dreaming" and fires have lived side by side since the "The Grapes of Wrath." It is absolutely amazing how Senator Harry Reid would manage to tie global warming to the fires in California. Well, like Gump would say "Stupid is as stupid does."
Reid's words prove that there's not one thing that this partisan hack won't politicize. The Democrat senator has not one admirable character trait to emulate, unless you're fond of desert rats. When it comes to being crude and asinine, dirty Harry and his ilk never disappoint his far left cronies, who sound just like him. They are, at best, disingenuous on any given subject.

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Jihad in the Modern Era

Islam 101 - a must read for seek a clear understanding of the "Religion of Peace"

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Perfect Storm of Evil By Jim Simpson

The Bible talks a great deal about sin, the popular notion being that through God’s vengeance we will burn for an eternity of Hell lest we repent and change. But I believe in the notion that we are punished not so much for our sins, but rather, by our sins. The ugly nature of politics today, and its probable outcome, provides an apt demonstration.

Few would argue, at least among those of us who believe there is such a thing as “morality,” that today’s popular culture is markedly degenerate. We glorify women who dress like tramps and lionize rap stars who treat them as though they were tramps. The magazine racks are obsessed with Brad and Angelina and their latest out-of-wedlock adoption. T.V. news shows showed more interest in Anna Nicole Smith’s sagas than the war in Iraq.

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Liberal Whackjob: Spam is a Vast, Rightwing Conspiracy :: The JAWA Report

We all get them. Unsolicited emails with huge recipient lists that describe improbable events and never have any supporting links. Most people just delete them. Maybe you'll visit snopes to debunk an especially intriguing one, but that's about as far as it goes.

But to Christopher Hayes, a rather untalented devotee of Josef Goebbels, at The Nation, it's all being orchestrated by the evil neocons:

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New Democrat strategy: We must stimulate the amygdalae! By Michelle Malkin

This is high-larious. The Hill reports on an internal Democrat strategy memo complaining that the Democrat Party is too hyper-rational and lacks emotional appeal.

For real. They think “SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILLLLLDREN!” is too bland and accountant-like:

Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a widely circulated critique of House Democratic communications strategy.

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Ron Paul Reality Check By Joel Hirschhorn

As self-professed champion of the Constitution presidential candidate Ron Paul has missed a monumental opportunity to educate Americans about the criminal behavior of Congress in violating their oath of office. Even more important, he has not taken advantage of his 15 minutes of fame to promote the nation's first-time use of what the Founders gave us in the Constitution in case the public lost confidence in the federal government - the Article V convention option.

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Welcome to the Dhimmi State of California :: Foehammer's Anvil

We are smack dab in the middle of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on many college campuses around the United States and as you might expect, the dhimmis and Leftofascists are out in force and upset about it. David Sforza, a second year political science major from the University of Southern California’s Daily Nexus, has these disappointing yet predictable interpretations of this week’s events. I’m not sure why California attracts so many delusional fools with visions of Utopia and marijuana fields, but it is always in a class by itself:

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107-Count Grand Jury Indictment Against Planned Parenthood Could Open “New Front” in US Abortion Fight By Hilary White

TOPEKA, Kansas, October 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in the US have asked for the suspension of taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest and richest abortionist organisation in the world. Citing a criminal case against the group, pro-life leaders will send a letter to all members of Congress urging suspension of the more than $300 million Planned Parenthood receives as a tax free organisation.

A grand jury indictment is pending against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri on 107 counts, 23 felony and 84 misdemeanour, of unlawful late-term abortions and other abortion-connected crimes. The case is set to go forward since a judge ruled there is “probable cause” to proceed. The allegations were brought by Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline.

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Playing the Blame Game by Michael Reagan

It was inevitable -- a huge swath of Southern California was ablaze in one of the worst wildfires in the state's history, yet all that gasbag liberals could do in the face of this disaster was to go looking for someone to blame.

While hundreds of heroic firefighters risk life and limb to save as many homes as possible, and state and federal disaster officials bend every effort to put in place all the firefighting assets available to them, the likes of Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer and their allies scurry to use this immense tragedy to make political capital out of it.

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Modern Copperheads By William R. Hawkins

On October 19, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to strengthen court oversight of government surveillance while protecting telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for tapping Americans' phones and computers without court approval. The bill is the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] Amendments Act of 2007 which essentially supports the use of modern technology to track and penetrate enemy communications. Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, has reviewed some secret White House documents on the surveillance program. He told the Washington Post that nothing he has seen so far makes him believe the use of the program has been illegal.

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Jihad, Islamism, and the Challenge of Anti-Freedom Ideologies By Jeffrey Imm

As previously discussed, large segments of America and the West have a continuing dangerous denial on Jihad. But what of political Islamism itself?  How does it factor into a blueprint strategy in addressing our national security issues?

In the documentary "Islam versus Islamism", anti-terrorist Muslim Dr. Zuhdi Jasser states: "a majority, I believe, look at the lens of politics through an Islamist lens... if we hand them the mantle of religion that they seek to exploit for their own geopolitical issues all over the globe, then we are going to really lose this war."

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It Happened in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Bloomington By Christopher Adamo

America’s future is increasingly in doubt, as indicated by three shocking events of the past several days.  The fact that none of them likely come immediately to mind is, in itself, further indication of the dire straits in which the nation finds itself.  Had similar events transpired only a few decades back, every one of them would have made national headline news.

On October 20, Kansas City was in a very real sense, attacked by a seditious and hostile foreign entity whose sinister designs towards America only differ from the threats of militant Islam by degree.

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Poor Planned Parenthood? by L. Brent Bozell III

As much as liberals decry major corporations that act as if they’re above the law, there’s always quiet when the subject is Planned Parenthood, America’s number one corporate provider of abortions. During its 2005-2006 fiscal year, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record 264,943 abortions, reported a tidy profit of $55.8 million – and received a record high in taxpayer funding of $305.3 million.

This is one corporation the media hold in the highest regard. They’re not “merchants of death.” That would be the tobacco companies, or gun manufacturers, or hamburger joints. These are the heroic “providers” of “a woman’s right to choose.”

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Hurricane Season Disappoints Merchants of Doom By Christopher Alleva

Like undertakers complaining that a predicted flu epidemic failed to generate any business, the drive-by media and the hurricane forecasters are kicking themselves over the big nothing the 2007 hurricane season turned out to be. They know full well without the pain and suffering from these weather events: budgets may get cut and ratings tank. The depravity of it all is simply stunning.

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Abortion Wars by Robert D. Novak

National anti-abortion leaders Wednesday put finishing touches on a letter to be sent to all members of Congress urging suspension of more than $300 million in federal funding of Planned Parenthood until a massive criminal case brought in Kansas against the abortion rights organization is settled. That launches an attack against the nation's largest purveyor of "reproductive health care" -- including abortions.

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More Peking Duck By Lee Cary

When the Wall Street Journal broke the Yuan Yuen "Norman" Hsu story, some likened Norman to "Johnny" Chung and "Charlie" Trie, and wondered if the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) was passing money again to the Clintons. Now, with the Los Angeles Times' story about Clinton's fundraising in New York City's Chinatown, there's another question to consider: Is the Clinton campaign a target of Asian criminal groups looking for political influence?

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The New Republic's Willful Cover-Up by Bob Owens

Documents posted by the Drudge Report yesterday all but destroyed The New Republic’s credibility surrounding the controversial reporting from Scott Thomas Beauchamp. PJM network blogger Bob Owens, who has been in the forefront of the investigation, reports on the latest news. He promises more when his request to the government for documents is finally answered.

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We came so close to World War Three that day By James Forsyth and Douglas Davis Wednesday, 3rd October 2007

A meticulously planned, brilliantly executed surgical strike by Israeli jets on a nuclear installation in Syria on 6 September may have saved the world from a devastating threat. The only problem is that no one outside a tight-lipped knot of top Israeli and American officials knows precisely what that threat involved.

Even more curious is that far from pushing the Syrians and Israelis to war, both seem determined to put a lid on the affair. One month after the event, the absence of hard information leads inexorably to the conclusion that the implications must have been enormous.

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Move the U.N. to Botswana By Jack Ward

The world yawned as the anniversary of the United Nations (U.N.) came and went. The reason is simple. The League of Nations and now the U.N. were both based on the flawed premise that all humans are basically good. There is ample empirical historical evidence to the contrary. Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot are just a few examples that prove that evil does exist.

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The Upcoming Civil War in America by Daryl D

America, as we know it, is about to come to an end. This could be a very bad thing as we can turn from a superpower country into a dud. But as the previous Civil War showed us, something good can come out of something that will be incredibly violent and bloody. The main issue of the upcoming Civil War will be our failure to deal with the illegal immigration issue, which is the biggest mistake our country has made since slavery.

Rather than develop an immigration system where we can legally let in all kinds of needed workers that have no criminal background and can eventually support themselves, the United States government has created a free-for-all immigration system where people can illegally enter this country, commit crime after crime without being punished, burden our social services, and have the guts to march and tell us they don’t like our laws. You think it’s getting pretty bad now? It’s only going to get worse. But there will be a breaking point that will change this nation forever.

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Anti-War Media Change Focus By Roger Aronoff

With President Bush and Vice President Cheney warning that Iran must not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons, our media have shifted their focus from Iraq. The shift is apparent in the decision by many reporters to make a controversy out of the fact that Senator Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, voted for a resolution declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to be a terrorist force. The resolution states a simple truth, but it has been interpreted by the anti-war media and the far-left in the Democratic Party as war-mongering and saber-rattling.     

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Why Is America Doomed? by Amil Imani

Because we are our own worst enemy. Because it is going to take more than 9/11 to wake us up. Because our politicians don’t have the stomach to tell the truth. Because we have lost our will to call a spade a spade. Because we are ignoring the most important element of intelligence ― understanding the mindset and dedication of our enemies ― and because being politically correct has become our norm.

America is doomed to failure in this war of ideology, an ideology that would turn a loving mother into a “launching pad of death.” We are doomed unless we stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam itself.

History has shown time and again that you can kick the truth, bend the truth, gag the truth, hide the truth, but you can never kill the truth. Truth has a bad habit of hanging around until everyone can see it.

Iraq is an inferno, Palestinian Territory is ready to ignite, the Syrians are busy with their machinations, the Lebanese Hezbollah is stirring, the Taliban in Afghanistan is resurging, and the Iranian Mullahs are working overtime fanning any and all fires while furiously racing to make the bomb.

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AND THEN THERE WERE THREE… BY: FERN SIDMAN

The voices of truth can never be diminished or drowned out, be it by the rain that fell in New York City or by the zealousness of truth’s adversaries. On Wednesday evening, October 24th, the electricity in the air was palpable on the campus of Columbia University. In a packed classroom in the mathematics building, a panel discussion was held as part of an ongoing series of lectures in a weeklong event being held on over 100 university and college campuses. This nationwide event is entitled Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and is the brainchild of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE…

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GOP Ideas to End Illegal Immigration Flawed By John W. Lillpop

Isn't it swell to have presidential candidates engaged in no-holds barred, full-scale food fights to see who can sound the toughest on illegal aliens? That is actually happening with the Republicans--sort of.

Fred Thompson began the bidding on Tuesday; Rudy Giuliani countered with his plan on Wednesday.

Both Thompson and Giuliani tried to sound tough and patriotic without confronting a critical part of the solution: Reversing illegal immigration by deporting the 38 million criminals who have invaded America.

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Ted Rall: Death of 'Idiot' Soldiers Raises U.S. IQ By Mark Finkelstein

I don't normally follow Ted Rall's work. But when J.M., a member of our military serving in Iraq, wrote NB about Rall's recent column and cartoon, I had a look. I'd say our soldier was being restrained in describing Rall's work as "particularly offensive."

I'm displaying one panel from his cartoon of October 22nd. You can view the whole of it here. As you'll note, the point is to celebrate the death of our soldiers, since they are "idiots" whose removal from the gene pool causes the average IQ back home to soar.

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‘Ready for the Next Wave of Sex Abuse Hysteria?’ by Carey Roberts

In 1994 a Child Protective Services official instructed his employees to dig up child sex abuse cases to justify the agency’s budget. Before long 43 parents and Sunday school teachers in Wenatchee, Wash. had been arrested and charged with nearly 30,000 cases of sex abuse involving 60 children. It wasn’t until four years and many ruined lives later that the Wenatchee witch hunt was exposed as a fraud.

A decade later, we seem to be on the verge of another moral panic involving sex abuse, but this time with a new wrinkle: its perpetrators are as young as four years old.

Last year a pre-schooler in Waco, Tex. hugged a female aide as he boarded the school bus. The four-year-old’s embrace lingered a bit long, and soon the boy was required to defend himself from a charge of sexual harassment. The scarlet letter of “inappropriate physical contact” is now stamped on the child’s school records.

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The Forest Fire Plot ... :: Power and Control

Is it possible that Al Queda has been setting at least some of the wild fires in Southern California? The FBI seems to think so.

PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.
Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it.
The contents of the June 25 memo from the FBI's Denver office were reported Friday by The Arizona Republic. Davis declined to share a copy of the memo and an FBI spokeswoman in Denver didn't immediately return a telephone call.

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Does Larry Sabato Really Want A Constitutional Convention? By Joel S. Hirschhorn

Why would a prominent law professor supposedly in favor of having the nation’s second constitutional convention organize a symposium where the keynote speaker is dead set against a convention? And why pack the three subsequent panels with people against a convention? I kept asking myself these questions as I attended the recent symposium that Larry Sabato had the audacity to title “National Constitution Convention.”

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KKK's 1st targets were Republicans By Bob Unruh

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.

An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.

The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

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GOP Ideas for Ending Illegal Immigration Flawed

By John W. Lillpop

Isn't it swell to have presidential candidates engaged in no-holds barred, full-scale food fights to see who can sound the toughest on illegal aliens? That is actually happening with the Republicans--sort of.
Fred Thompson began the bidding on Tuesday; Rudy Giuliani countered with his plan on Wednesday.

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"Student" thugs shut down Horowitz talk by Lawrence Auster

As I said the other day, the left and the "right" in America agree that Islam is wonderful, and only disagree about the tiny little bad part of Islam. The left says the tiny little bad part of Islam is our fault, caused by our oppression and greed and support for Israel. The "right" says the tiny little bad part of Islam is the fault of false, "Islamo-fascist" Muslims. But because the "right" blames the tiny little bad part of Islam on (false) Muslims rather than on America, the left hates the "right" and considers it to be bigoted and racist.

And that's why the left at Emory University shouted down David Horowitz last night and prevented him from giving his speech on "Islamo-fascism." However, as indicated in the below press release from Ben Clark of the College Republicans at Emory, the shouting protesters may have been more Muslim than leftist, which suggests that my above analysis is not adequate. It is not just a matter of an increasingly tyrannical American left shutting down all views that criticize the Other. It's a matter of Muslims in America shutting down all views that criticize Islam.

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Unholyland Foundation By Cal Thomas

A federal judge in Dallas declared a mistrial in the case of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) when a jury was unable to reach a verdict on 197 counts brought by the government that accused the Muslim charity of funding terrorism.

A hung jury, however, is not an acquittal and even if the Holy Land Foundation eventually is acquitted (the government has indicated it will retry the case) it doesn’t necessarily mean the accused is innocent (think O.J. Simpson’s murder trial).

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Ambushed By Our Own By Michael J. O'Shea

Snipers aim for a soldier's heart; congressional leaders aim for the heart of why he serves: Honor, Country, Duty to both. But to congressional leaders, there's no honor in Iraq. There can't be: it's immoral. Illegal. And it's not even their country's war: it's Bush's.

Telling parents their child died for George Bush is telling Christa McAuliffe's folks she died for Ronald Reagan.

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Stuck in the Mud for Good By John Tabin

The Scott Beauchamp affair -- the background on which you can find here -- reached a new climax Wednesday when the Drudge Report published some fascinating documents. (All of them are in .pdf format, and were downloaded and saved before the Drudge Report took them offline for unknown reasons.) One of them was an Army memo confirming what we already knew -- that the Army's investigation has concluded that the New Republic published falsehoods under Beauchamp's pseudonym, "Scott Thomas." The other is a transcript in two parts (part 1, part 2) of a September 7 phone call involving Frank Foer and Peter Scoblic, TNR's Editor and Executive Editor, respectively. It would be hard to overstate how embarrassing this transcript must be to TNR.

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It's the coverup that kills you, part 5 :: Power Line

Yesterday the Drudge Report With posted key documents in the matter of the New Republic's Baghdad Diarist Scott Beauchamp. Among the key documents was the transcript of Scott Beauchamp's September 6 telephone call with New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic and editor Franklin Foer. The transcript exhibits the desperation of "the editors" to corroborate Beauchamp's deleted "Shock troops" column, Beauchamp's refusal to engage the issues, the editors' pleading and threats, the editors' urging Beauchamp to cancel his scheduled interviews with the Washington Post and Newsweek, and Beauchamp's doing so.

The transcript also shows the editors pleading with Beauchamp for a copy of the statement he provided the Army in the course of its investigation. After consulting with counsel, Beauchamp must not have provided the authorization necessary for the Army to release the statement. TNR, in any event, has had nothing to say either about its request to Beauchamp or about the statement Beauchamp provided the Army. Why would that that be?

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The Worst ‘Notable Quotables’ of the Past 20 Years: Evil America By Rich Noyes

To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. Earlier this week, I presented quotes showing the media’s hostility towards Ronald Reagan and other conservatives, and sycophantic coverage of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Today’s installment: America the Awful. On Monday, I recounted how many journalists offered sympathetic coverage of totalitarian communist regimes. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, too many journalists opted to take a harsher approach with their own country. In a commencement address at the State University of New York at New Paltz back on May 21, 2006, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., exposed his extreme left-wing agenda as he railed against everything he saw as wrong with America:

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Evil By Selwyn Duke

Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world.  It’s an age-old philosophical question that can cause those who want faith to doubt and those who want to doubt to mock faith.  A Christian’s answer to this question is “free will,” a concept critics may regard as something reduced to a convenient cliché.  The truth is, though, that this is a most fascinating subject to inquisitive minds.

The two qualities that make us like God are intellect and free will, despite the fact that the former can seem as lacking as the latter is abused.  Why intellect has prerequisite status is obvious, but why free will?  If God is omnipotent, He can prevent the immeasurable pain and suffering we inflict on one another with the blink of an eternal eye.  Why doesn’t He do it?  Perhaps this problem is what caused people such as Thomas Jefferson to embrace deism, the belief that God set the Universe in motion but then receded into the background, indifferent to our plight.  So let’s examine free will.

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A Soft Jihad Grows in Brooklyn by Aryeh Spero

In Brooklyn, New York, a public school named the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) has opened.  Its primary purpose -- demonstrated by its advisory board, its apparent curriculum and the lining of school walls with pictures of Arab figures and heroes, is to teach Arabic and Muslim language and culture and to inculcate the children with radical Islamic ideology. 

One of the school’s more notorious pubic supporters is convicted cop-killer and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.  The school’s advisory board includes several imams, one of whom has displayed the Muslim Brotherhood slogan on his mosque’s website: “Jihad is our way, and death in the way of Allah is our promised end.”

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Lawsuits that Silence By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Colonel George E. “Bud” Day, the nation's most highly decorated officer since General Douglas MacArthur. Colonel Day is a veteran of more than 30 years service in the Armed Forces of the United States. Shot down over North Vietnam on August 26, 1967, Day spent 67 months as a Prisoner of War. Colonel Day was the only POW to escape from prison in North Vietnam and then to be recaptured by the Viet Cong in the South. He is also credited with living through the first "no chute" bailout from a burning jet fighter in England in 1955. At the time of his shoot-down, Colonel Day was one of the nation's most experienced jet fighter pilots, with 4,500 hours of single engine jet time, and more than 5,000 hours of flying time. Today he is the Director and President of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation.

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Domestic Terrorism… California arson fires easier than hijacking planes By Doug Hagmann

Officials: Arson Behind Santiago Fire

CA Fires Exclusive--Fed Source: Look to al Qaeda and the Islamic enemy in the U.S.

Law enforcement officials will agree that arson is the most difficult of crimes to “prove,” especially in terms of identifying the perpetrator(s). The fires this week in Southern California have cost more than $1 billion in lost property and displaced more than a million people, the greatest evacuation California has ever seen. The origin of the massive Santiago Canyon Fire alone has caused an estimated $10 million in damage, burning about 20,000 acres so far and damaging or destroying about 30 structures. That cause of that fire has been officially declared arson, according to federal officials, who identified two separate “points of origin.” Currently, the FBI is involved in the primary investigation of the fires, including forensic collection and analysis and scene management.

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JW Complaint Leads to Illegal Alien Arrests By Tom Fitton

A few weeks ago, I told you that Judicial Watch filed a complaint with Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio on behalf of Phoenix businesses that are being harassed and victimized by illegal aliens. Sheriff Arpaio promised to take action, and last week he made good on his word.
On October 15, Sheriff Arpaio, widely known as “America’s toughest Sheriff” for his no-nonsense approach to illegal immigration, arrested six illegal aliens during routine traffic stops near 36th Street and Thomas Road in Phoenix. Of course, the arrests caused an uproar among illegal immigration activists who have threatened protests and boycotts in response.

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Three Cities That Bode Ill for America By Christopher Adamo

America's future is increasingly in doubt, as indicated by three shocking events of the past several days. The fact that none of them likely come immediately to mind is, in itself, further indication of the dire straits in which the nation finds itself. Had similar events transpired only a few decades back, every one of them would have made national headline news.
On October 20, Kansas City was in a very real sense, attacked by a seditious and hostile foreign entity whose sinister designs towards America only differ from the threats of militant Islam by degree.

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"Profile" Foreign Donors? Of Course! by Michelle Malkin

Asian-American groups don't like the increased public scrutiny that Hillary Clinton's mysterious Chinese dishwasher donors are getting.

To which I say, in words that should be universally understood: Boo-freaking-hoo.

In the wake of eye-opening investigations by the New York Post and Los Angeles Times of more dubious foreign funny money flowing into Hill's coffers, ethnic grievance organizations are stepping forward to condemn these stories as examples of "negligent journalism." Yep. The newspapers are guilty of "negligence" because they actually broke news instead of covering it up.

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Nonie Darwish vs. Berkeley Left On “Islamo-Fascism” (And Immigration) By Brenda Walker

Here in my home town of Berkeley, the capital of the Left Coast, the courageous Nonie Darwish, the Palestinian-born author of Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, was scheduled to speak in the lion's den of UC Berkeley on Monday. So I made my way to campus after serious coffee-loading.

(See photos of the daytime prelude posted by California Patriot. Green t-shirts reading "Peace not Prejudice" in Islamic green were a popular item with the leftist groupthink cadres opposing her.)

I arrived early, before the public was allowed into the room. I told the fellow at the door, a College Republican, that I was from VDARE.com and he said, "Go on in." Cool.

The Berkeley College Republicans, local sponsors of the talk, call themselves "the new free speech movement". How true!

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Excellent British radio program deals with race and IQ By Lawrence Auster

BBC Radio has a program called The Moral Maze in which, in each broadcast, a permanent panel questions and challenges a series of guests on a given issue. Its recent show on the James Watson affair, the first time I have listened to the program, suggests that Britain is not as dead as I had thought. The participants, one of whom is Melanie Phillips, are highly articulate, argue logically, have great British accents, and they say and allow to be said astonishingly un-PC things. You would never hear a discussion as intelligent as this in the U.S. media.

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FBI: al-Qaeda detainee spoke of fire plot :: USA Today

The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.

Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it.

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Tancredo accuses Senator Durban of “aiding and abetting illegal aliens" By Maple Brown

Presidential candidate and Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo blasted Senator Dick Durbin for what Tancredo says is “aiding and abetting illegal aliens” at his press conference yesterday on the DREAM Act.
Tancredo turned in Senator Durban’s event yesterday to immigration authorities for hosting the event in conjunction with discussion of the DREAM Act where illegal aliens were reported to be attending.

Tancredo said yesterday, “I call on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to detain any illegal aliens at this press conference.  Just because these illegal aliens are being used for political gain doesn’t mean they get immunity from the law.”

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Outrage: The Mistreatment of Two Border Patrol Agents by Paul M. Weyrich

Do you recognize the names of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean? You should. They are the former Border Patrol Agents who were convicted and sentenced to eleven and twelve years in federal prison, respectively, for wounding a Mexican drug smuggler who brought 743 pounds of marijuana across the U.S. border.

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The Merry Sage of Broadcasting Excellence By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

What is that laughter I hear? I am at work here in our nation's capital, where there is rarely much laughter. Rather there are Solemnities passed from one High and Mighty to another. On Capitol Hill the solons exchange Declarations of Virtue, Manifestos of High Purpose, and increasingly Threats -- particularly threats against free-spirited writers and the prodigies of Talk Radio. The giants of Congress also conspire in slopping up the pork; for instance, just the other day, there was an "earmark" of $130,000 for a National Fat Ladies' Library in Ohio (or is that First Ladies' Library, but does it matter?) and $500,000 for a "Virtual Herbarium" (perhaps a high-tech privy for Senator Larry Craig). Yet I still hear laughter.

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McCain-Feingold Strikes Campus By George Will

The speech policeman's lot is not a happy one, as the University of Montana at Missoula is learning. Herewith a tale about the mess that institution has made by regulating political speech.

Perhaps the university noticed the praise that speech rationers in Washington receive when, in the name of combating corruption or the appearance thereof, they regulate, as with the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, the timing, quantity and content of political speech. In any case, the university has a rule that limits candidates for student government offices to spending a maximum of $100 when campaigning among the university's 10,000 students.

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Giuliani and religious right meet on the road to political adulthood BY DANIEL HENNINGER

One school of thought on the religious right holds that if Rudy Giuliani would commit to an unequivocal anti-abortion position, they could vote for him. A second school of thought, articulated by Richard Land, a leading figure in the politically important Southern Baptist Convention, is that he won't vote for any pro-choice candidate "as a matter of personal moral conscience," though Mr. Land says other evangelicals might find a way to vote for Mr. Giuliani.

Among the reasons politicians such as Mr. Giuliani are sensitive to this issue was the revelation, from exit polls after the 2004 election, that values and morals ranked high among voters' concerns. Thus this past weekend the very conservative Family Research Council pointedly named its Washington convocation the "Values Voter Summit."

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CA Fires Exclusive – Fed Source: Look to al Qaeda and the Islamic enemy in the U.S. By Douglas J. Hagmann

In 2003, the Northeast Intelligence Network was the first web site to suggest the California wildfires that engulfed over one-half million acres that year could have been preplanned acts of terrorism "by al Qaeda members in the U.S. or associates who understand al Qaeda's modus operandi." Today, a law enforcement source speaking to this investigator from the Northeast Intelligence Network on the strict condition of anonymity says that this is not only possible, but "very likely" in 2003 as well as with the current state of the fires.

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Unrestricted War Planned by China By: Lev Navrozov

When I mention, say, the development in China of nano super weapons, capable of winning war without waging it (as Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese strategist would have put it), some of my readers ask me in their e-mails — respectfully and good-naturedly — whether I can adduce the proofs of that apocalypse of the West I envisage.

I have been told by a Chinese that the Chinese “Manhattan Projects,” developing post-nuclear super weapons, are located deep in the rocky mountains so that nobody could drill a hole in the walls, in the floor and/or the ceiling to get a glimpse into what is being done within.

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Modern Poverty By Daniel Muniz

The Heritage Foundation analyzed Census Bureau statistics and other available data about poverty which revealed the following attributes about the poor in the United States:
● Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
● Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
● Only 6 percent of poor households are over­crowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

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Planned Parenthood faces criminal charges: Do you see a pattern? By Andrew Flusche

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri currently faces 107 criminal charges stemming from 29 alleged unlawful late-term abortions. Even though a Johnson County district judge found probable cause that Planned Parenthood committed these crimes, the organization claims the charges are simply political. But is a pattern of illegal activity starting to emerge? Are we starting to connect the dots?

The scope

Planned Parenthood is enormous. Even though it portrays itself as a grassroots organization, Planned Parenthood encompasses so much more.

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Who Will Stand Up For Campus Free Speech? By John Leo

Troy Scheffler, a graduate student at Hamline University in Minnesota, thinks that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been avoided if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons. After e-mailing this opinion to the university president, he was suspended and ordered to undergo "mental health evaluation" before being allowed to return to school.

Punishment for expressing an opinion is not unusual on the modern campus. Neither is the lack of protest among faculty and students for the kind of treatment Scheffler got. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which is defending the student, reports that it has failed to find a single Hamline student or faculty member who has spoken out in favor of Scheffler's right to free speech. So far, no protest from has been reported in the student newspaper or in outside internet outlets such as Myspace.

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Thirtysomethings who depend on the Bank of Mum and Dad By BETH HALE

Parents are putting their own financial security on the line to support their grown-up children, researchers say.

Increases in university tuition fees and living costs, coupled with soaring house prices, mean many young adults are increasingly reliant on the "Bank of Mum and Dad".

An amazing 95 per cent of parents reckon they will be supporting their offspring well into adulthood, according to a report by saving specialists the Children's Mutual.

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Military Guide to Terrorism: The Scope of the Issue (Part One of Six) :: FSM

A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century is a reference guide prepared under the direction of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), which is prepared by the TRADOC Intelligence Support Activity (TRISA) –Threats.

Understanding terrorism spans foreign and domestic threats of nation-states, rogue states with international or transnational agents, and other actors with specific strategies, tactics, and targets. This terrorism guide addresses foreign and domestic threats against the United States of America in a contemporary operational environment.

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Thousands Protest Hugo Chavez’s "Reforms" :: Sweetness & Light Useful links: Search

Isn’t it refreshing to see students demonstrating for freedom for a change? Also note the conspicuous absence of Che Guevera t-shirts.

Interestingly enough, most of the photos are from the photographers of the Associated Press. Yet, as far as I can tell, the AP has yet to report on the demonstration.

Indeed, one has to go to the (admittedly biased) BBC to find any mention of this courageous event:

Venezuela protest turns violent

Thousands of students have clashed with police in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, during a protest against proposed constitutional changes.

Police fired tear gas at students angry at plans to let President Hugo Chavez stand for indefinite re-election as bottles and stones were thrown.

Mr Chavez would also be allowed to bypass legal controls on the executive during a state of emergency.

Parliament, composed of Chavez allies, is now debating the changes.

They will be subjected to a popular referendum later this year.

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“It Gives Operational Security People Brain Cooties…” :: Gates of Vienna

Tech Central Station is reporting on a story of the secret court martial in July of a sergeant who has been stealing intelligence files and giving them to law enforcement officers involved in anti-terrorism work in southern California.
The San Diego Union Tribune broke the news:

Marine Gunnery Sgt. Gary Maziarz said patriotism motivated him to join a spy ring, smuggle secret files from Camp Pendleton and give them to law enforcement officers for anti-terrorism work in Southern California.

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Read Our Lips: NO New Amnesty!

 
By John W. Lillpop

To Harry Reid, most Democrats, all RINOs, and President George Bush:
We the people understand that the U.S. Senate is considering yet another idiotic attempt to grant amnesty to upwards of 38 million illegal aliens who have invaded the sovereign nation known as the United States.
With all due respect to the Majority Leader and other pro-amnesty colleagues, what part of NO NEW AMNESTY! do you not understand?
For the benefit of slow learners and those in denial, let us reiterate why the majority of Americans everywhere, from all political persuasions, are against amnesty for the criminals who have invaded America:
In short, we the people are:

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Congressional Constitutional Contempt By Walter E. Williams

Here's the oath of office administered to members of the House and Senate: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." A similar oath is sworn to by the president and federal judges.

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Bowing to the Islamists By Paul Belien

Last Thursday, a group of 80 people from 15 European countries, plus Israel, Canada and the United States, convened in a conference room on the seventh floor of the European Parliament building in Brussels for a "counterjihad" meeting.

They listened to speakers such as the Egyptian-born scholar Bat Ye'or, author of the book "Eurabia," who explained how the European Union (EU) has become a vehicle for the Islamization of Europe and how the EU has promoted "a massive Muslim immigration [...] hoping that the Euro-Arab symbiosis through economic development, soft diplomacy and multiculturalism would guarantee [Europe] peace, markets and oil."

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The South Rises By Ed Lasky

For generations, American elites from the North have treated the South as a benighted land of knaves, fools, and charlatans, a proper subject of scorn and satire and certainly not a region to be admired or emulated. They are comically wrong.

The South has long risen from the ashes of the Civil War, and by many measures it the most admirable region of our nation. It may well be on the verge of becoming  America's dominant region, eclipsing the Eastern Seaboard that has reigned from our nation's birth, and sprinting past the ambitions of the West Coast challenge, as the reference point for where America is going and as the heart of American culture.

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A New Soldiers' Hymn By Shawn Macomber

Certain rituals are performed each time a combat patrol ventures beyond the base perimeter in Iraq: Squad leaders go over operational details. The vehicle and communications gear is checked. Weapons, locked and loaded. Final permission from command for the mission, awaited. All performed to a backing pastiche of heavy metal and aggressive rock, likely recognizable to any young man whose youth lays claim to some segment of the last two decades...or, at least, recognizable to someone with trailer park roots like mine. You've got your AC/DC, your Metallica, your Guns N' Roses. No real surprises there.

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CAIR hits a new low of defamation :: Jihad Watch

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has never cared much for the truth when speaking about me. The organization's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, has defamed me on national television, and the organization's website even featured a link, for a time, to a tissue of lies penned by a pathetic convicted felon.

But now CAIR has reached a new low, in a press release entitled, "'Islamo-Fascism' Week Speaker Meets With European 'Neo-Nazis.'"

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Hillary's China Connection By Paul R. Hollrah

The Los Angeles Times disclosed in an October 19 investigative report that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspicious contributions from donors in New York’s Chinatown. According to the Times, “Dishwashers, waiters, and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long noted for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000...”

The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who wrote checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found...And several dozen were described in FEC reports as holding jobs...that would normally make it difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300.”

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Call to Action: Harry Reid To Force Amnesty for Illegals on American People By Sher Zieve

Fresh from both the ire of the American people, with regards to their advising Congress not to pass its Amnesty for Illegals bill, and his attempts to falsely insinuate and include himself as a major player in causing his Letter-to-Limbaugh to sell for over $2MM, Democrat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is at it again. Despite US citizens telling Reid and his colleagues “No!”, Reid says he will push the Amnesty bill (AKA “The Dream Act”) through the US Senate.

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Happy UN Day! By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Proponents of the United Nation’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) came up with a brilliant idea. Led by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, they hoped to celebrate the 24^th of October – also known as UN Day – by having that panel rubber-stamp LOST.

Fortunately, one of the Senate’s most knowledgeable and determined opponents of the Treaty, Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, exercised his right to defer its consideration, from the committee business meeting scheduled for Wednesday to at least the next one. Whether this will amount to more than a fleeting stay-of-execution depends on how many other Senators – and their constituents – become aware of the implications of making the day in this manner of the United Nations and affiliated organizations.

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‘Profile’ Foreign Donors? Of Course! By Michelle Malkin

Asian-American groups don't like the increased public scrutiny that Hillary Clinton's mysterious Chinese dishwasher donors are getting.

To which I say, in words that should be universally understood: Boo-freaking-hoo.

In the wake of eye-opening investigations by the New York Post and Los Angeles Times of more dubious foreign funny money flowing into Hill's coffers, ethnic grievance organizations are stepping forward to condemn these stories as examples of "negligent journalism." Yep. The newspapers are guilty of "negligence" because they actually broke news instead of covering it up.

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Why Do We Allow America's Enemies to Run Schools Here? By Warner Todd Huston

With such a headline, you'd be excused for assuming that this piece is another attack on our failing schools, another article against the evils of teachers unions, or a whack against the left-wing lunatics who run our universities. 

        This time it says exactly what it means, for in the state of Virginia a school is being run by radical Islamists, funded by a foreign nation, and under condemnation from the U.S. government.  In this time of war, the State of Virginia really has been allowing our enemies to run a school teaching Islamist hate to our children right in our midst.

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Global Warming's Inconvenient Truths -- an Interview with Fred Singer By Bill Steigerwald

In the great, never-cooling debate over the causes and consequences of global warming, it’s always clear whose side Fred Singer is on: not Al Gore’s. Singer, who was born in Vienna in 1924, was a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton. Now president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project research group (sepp.org), his latest book (with Dennis Avery) is “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years.” I talked with Singer on Oct. 27 by phone from his offices in Arlington, Va.:

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Disparate Impact: Legal And Political By James Fulford

I was asked recently to provide more instances of "disparate impact" theory in politics. There are two versions of this:

Legally, "disparate impact" is a term of art coined in Griggs vs. Duke Power, 1971, which, to use Wikipedia’s summary

“The Court ruled against a procedure used by the company when selecting employees for internal transfer and promotion to certain positions, namely requiring a high school education and certain scores on broad aptitude tests. African-American applicants, less likely to hold a high school diploma and averaging lower scores on the aptitude tests, were selected at a much lower rate for these positions compared to white candidates”

Or, to use my summary, "The message of Griggs and "disparate impact" theory: if minorities fail tests at a higher rate than whites, it’s the test that’s wrong."

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Epitaph for a Congress by William Kristol

Perhaps the Democratic sweep in last November's elections was providential. Consider what might have happened if Republicans had suffered setbacks on November 7, 2006, but had narrowly maintained control of Congress.

The political situation facing the Bush administration would have seemed less dire. Those pushing for a new strategy in Iraq and a surge of troops might well have failed to convince the administration to embrace such a radical change. Shaky Republicans in Congress, terrified by the close call, would have been adamant that we begin to draw down in Iraq. The report of the Iraq Study Group would have fallen on the desperately receptive ears of congressional Republicans ("we barely held on and we'd better do something") and on equally receptive disappointed-but-emboldened-Democratic ones. The 110th Congress would then have insisted, with a bipartisan flourish, on an establishment-sanctioned middle way that was, in fact, a disguised path to defeat. Bush would have had a difficult time resisting pressure from a Republican or partly Republican Congress. And we would now be facing an utter debacle in the heart of the Middle East.

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Death to the U.N.! By Joseph Farah

Today is United Nations Day. How shall we celebrate?

Easy. We ought to be mourning the continued life of this globalist monstrosity, not celebrating it.

I understand I'm wasting my breath. Too many Americans have bought into the lie that only a worldwide body such as the United Nations can really move us closer to peace. Even most of those who don't care for the United Nations don't really consider it to be a threat to their freedom.

So Americans will continue to host the United Nations. Americans will continue to subsidize the United Nations. Americans will continue to undermine their own best interests, national security and sovereignty by allowing this beast to grow.

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FOSTER CHILD TO BE REMOVED FROM CHRISTIAN COUPLE WHO REFUSE TO TEACH CHILD ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY :: Real Clear Religion

This is London: "They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 30 vulnerable children.

But Vincent and Pauline Matherick will this week have their latest foster son taken away because they have refused to sign new sexual equality regulations.

To do so, they claim, would force them to promote homosexuality and go against their Christian faith.

The 11-year-old boy, who has been in their care for two years, will be placed in a council hostel this week and the Mathericks will no longer be given children to look after.

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YOU GO TO WAR WITH THE MEDIA YOU HAVE By Clifford D. May

Newsweek told the world that guards in Guantanamo were flushing Korans down the toilet. It wasn't true. Time told the world that Marines committed a massacre at Haditha. That, too, turns out to have been wrong. As the Wall Street Journal makes clear:

It seems Haditha, though tragic, was exploited politically, and the allegations were exaggerated, if not unfounded. ...
The first imperative is to understand the complex, asymmetrical combat conditions in Iraq. The Marines were (and are) facing a determined enemy who dress as civilians and use homes, schools, hospitals and mosques as their bases of operation. They try to goad killings among the civilian population because it foments domestic opposition against U.S. troops while undermining them with elite international opinion.

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Miami Muslim chants "Death to America" and attacks military policemen at Air Reserve Base; not terrorism, authorities say :: Jihad Watch

He wanted to commit "suicide by cop," you see. He was mentally ill, like Bilal Bajaka and so many others. It's funny how this particular mental illness so often runs in this same pattern. Tahmeed Ahmad is a mentally ill honor student who, by the way, had already been added to a terror watch list.

"Teacher who attacked base had death wish, FBI says: A Miami Central High math teacher was arrested after attacking the Homestead Air Reserve Base in a failed suicide bid, authorities say," by David Ovalle in the Miami Herald (thanks to Brad Thor):

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Do Stronger Japan-India Ties Herald an Asian Alliance of Democracies? By Jason Miks |

Reports that India's nuclear deal with the United States is faltering have prompted a string of gloomy editorials in Indian newspapers. With the government of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh apparently reluctant to face down opposition from its Communists allies, the deal is, as the Times of India lamented, "probably . . . in the deep freezer."
But 3,500 miles away in Tokyo, recently installed Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda may not be feeling quite so gloomy, for the deal risked becoming an awkward sticking point in the blossoming relationship between nuclear state India and the avowedly anti-nuclear Japan.

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MASterful Lies :: IPT News

As the fallout from MAS President Esam Omeish's resignation from Virginia's immigration commission continues, another MAS official's past actions have come back to haunt the organization.

Mahdi Bray, head of MAS's "civil rights" arm, the Freedom Foundation, appeared at an October 2000 rally, marking the second Palestinian Intifada. As reported previously, Bray stood by and cheered as now-jailed Islamist leader Abdurrahman Alamoudi announced his support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah.

Watch the video yourself. Bray is off to the side and spotlighted:

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The pork dishonor role :: Power Line

This editorial in The Examiner describes two interesting and somewhat distressing pork-related votes in the Senate. Sen. Jim DeMint proposed an amendment to kill a provision in an appropriations bill directing $2 million to three construction projects for a college in Harlem, all to be named after Rep. Charles Rangel. Two Democrats -- Russ Feingold and Evan Bayh -- broke ranks with their party to vote in favor of DeMint's amendment. Meanwhile, 16 Republicans voted against the amendment and in favor of Rangel's pork project. The 16 were: Lamar Alexander, Kit Bond, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, Susan Collins, Larry Craig, Pete Domenici, Chuck Hagel, Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar, Lisa Murkowski, Ted Stevens, Richard Shelby, Arlen Specter, George Voinovich, and John Warner.

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‘Lou Dobbs voters' will decide '08 By: Christopher Gacek

CNN anchor Lou Dobbs may be the most important person in the 2008 presidential election aside from the candidates themselves. The bundle of concerns that Dobbs and his audience have about globalization, trade, diminished American sovereignty and immigration will be ignored by politicians at their own peril.

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The Global-Warming Debate Isn't Over Until It's Over By John Stossel

First he won the Oscar -- then the Nobel Peace Prize. He's being called a "prophet."

Impressive, considering that one of former Vice President Al Gore's chief contributions has been to call the debate over global warming "over" and to marginalize anyone who disagrees. Although he favors major government intervention to stop global warming, he says, "the climate crisis is not a political issue. It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity".

Give me a break.

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Media myths about the Jena 6 By Craig Franklin

By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they've all heard the story of the "Jena 6." White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics.

There's just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a disgrace in professional journalism. Myths replaced facts, and journalists abdicated their solemn duty to investigate every claim because they were seduced by a powerfully appealing but false narrative of racial injustice.

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The Roots of Non-Discrimination - Liberalism or Marxism? :: Gates of Vienna

What is the driving force behind the ideology of absolute equality and total non-discrimination in the Western world? I’ve seen many different explanations blaming it on Christianity, democracy of universal suffrage, Marxism, decolonization or - perhaps most likely - on Nazism and the devastation caused by the Second World War. This triggered a rejection of absolutely everything perceived to be divisive, including the nation state, and has enabled a Multicultural ideology that is, ironically, itself becoming increasingly totalitarian.

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Democrats Despoil American Graves by joellerose :: NowPublic

Those with long memories remember that American forces were winning the Tet offensive in Vietnam while the CBS leftist commentator, Walter Cronkite, was lying to us and telling us that we were losing. This gave the Democrat-controlled Congress the impetus and the backing to throw away the honorable peace accords negotiated by the Nixon Administration, pull the rug out from under our troops and from the government of South Vietnam, and turn a phased withdrawal leaving in place some hard-won arrangements into a shameful rout.

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Avoiding WWIII By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Axis Of Evil: Those who counsel us not to provoke Iran forget the lessons of history. Churchill didn't cause World War II; the appeasers of Nazi Germany did. And peace is an event, not a "process."

It's sad when a major newspaper suggests we should fear Vice President Dick Cheney more than Iran's loony leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But that's what the Los Angeles Times did in a weekend editorial.

It opined that Cheney's "desire to bomb Iranian nuclear sites and Revolutionary Guard targets" was "backfiring, causing it to escalate its anti-American activities instead of backing off." Besides, we are told, the earliest Iran could threaten us with nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles is 2015.

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Hollywood helps 'uncensored' anti-Hillary film By Art Moore

Hollywood filmmakers normally inclined to support candidates such as Sen. Hillary Clinton are working quietly behind the scenes to put the finishing touches on a documentary alleging the New York Democrat committed felonies to get elected and assisted her husband in defrauding a major donor.

"The producers are essentially liberal Hollywood Democrats who fear exposure and retribution," said Jim Nesfield, director of the Equal Justice Foundation of America, which is sponsoring the hour-long film, "Hillary Uncensored."

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FrontPage falsely presents Spencer as defender of the term "Islamo-fascism" by Lawrence Auster

The article at FrontPage Magazine today under Robert Spencer's byline, "Islamo-Fascism Denial," consisting of a lengthy defense of the term "Islamo-fascism," is very strange. It doesn't read like something written by Spencer. It makes arguments I haven't seen him make. Spencer, as I've pointed out previously, has never to my knowledge used or advocated the use of the expression "Islamo-fascist" to describe jihadists. Not only does he do so here, but the whole tone and thrust of the piece suggests to me that at least part of the article, and very possibly the whole of it, was written by FP editor David Horowitz. For one thing, the article has a heavy focus on the radical leftist groups that support the jihadists, which is not something Spencer has written about to my knowledge, but of course is a central theme of Horowitz's. In its third paragraph the article pointedly defends Horowitz from the left's charge of racism based on his campaign against racial reparations. This is obviously Horowitz doing what he does all the time, which is to ward off leftist attacks against himself; it is clearly not written by Spencer.

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Stop Death In The Desert—Build The Border Wall! By Allan Wall

The U.S. - Mexico border is a killing field. The Border Patrol reports that, in the past seven years, 2, 994 (at last count) illegal border crossers have perished on the border. About a third of them (1, 133) died crossing into Arizona.

According to the New York Times, which ran a recent article on border deaths,

"Pima County, which includes the Tucson area, is one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings along the 2,000-mile border. The medical examiner’s office handled 177 deaths of border crossers in the first eight months of this year, compared with 139 over the same period last year and 157 in 2005, the year the most such deaths were registered."[At the U.S. Border, the Desert Takes a Rising Toll, By Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, September 15, 2007]

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The Secular State Cannot Survive :: The Brussels Journal

The government is currently considering ways to increase immigrants’ participation in the job market. And no doubt the situation is serious. It is estimated that the number of “new Danes” will triple over the next fifteen years, and, if their socioeconomic behaviour is not brought into line with that of the “old Danes”, the welfare state is likely to crumble under the pressure of having to finance a vast third-world population it was never intended to support.

But again, the extent to which these socioeconomic anomalies can be described as Muslim problems is a matter of conjecture. We are basically left to rely on anecdotal evidence. However, it is striking that one never hears of any disproportionate burdens on state coffers caused by the presence of a great number of Buddhist Sri Lankans or Vietnamese, Hindus, Sikhs or Chinese. Nor do we hear stories of second- or third-generation immigrants from these groups filling our prisons.

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The Nobel Prize Curse By J.R. Dunn

Al Gore's Nobel may very well turn out to be the beginning of the end for global warming.

How's that, you say? Surely Al and the International Panel on Climate Control, armed as they now are with the great cachet of the Nobel, will sweep away all oil-company-inspired opposition and bring the Green revolution to completion. We'll all be riding unicycles to work and recycling our nail clippings come next Tuesday, and be happy doing it, lest Al, watching from the big house in Nashville, be made unhappy and give orders to have us sent to Prudhoe Bay to feed moss to the caribou.

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What Cave Man Governor Knows By A.J. DiCintio

When they heard the news that New York governor Eliot Spitzer has issued an executive order permitting illegal aliens to apply for a New York State driver license, Common Sense citizens (whether Democrat, Republican, or Independent) weren’t a bit shocked. After all, they know that the entire Democratic agenda regarding immigration, border security, and illegal aliens is driven by the American Left’s desperate need for a new block of voters to replace the now evaporated coalitions that allowed Democrats to call the political shots from 1932 until 1994.

But just in case there’s even one Common Sense person out there who still isn’t sure about the assertion made above, this piece will explain what it is that New York's governor knows about the form one uses to apply for a driver license in the Empire State.

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Do All Democrats Agree With Congressman Pete Stark? by Newt Gingrich

Of all the leftwing calls for surrender in Iraq -- of all the insults to our troops and hysterical attacks on our President -- one stood out this week.

It was even more outrageous because it came from an 18-term member of Congress.

And it was more outrageous still because it was said on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.

But first, let me give you some context, so you understand the full disgracefulness of the statement.

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Liberal Meltdown by Monica Crowley

Three things happened over the last two weeks that raises the curtain on just how much chaos there is among Democrats.

Last week, the Washington Post reported an absolutely astounding statement made by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She was asked by reporters about the anger of the liberal base over the Democrats' failure to end the war in Iraq. 

"Look," she said, her frozen smile turning into a frozen frown. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas?  I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk."

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Murder and Mendacity in Academe By Laurie Morrow

Mark Twain once observed, “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.” Judging by their mishandling of the murder of Laura Dickinson, Eastern Michigan University must have a mountain of truth squirreled away in some dark corner of its campus.

Laura Dickinson, 22, was a transfer student finishing her first semester at EMU. On December 3^rd, she was home, celebrating her father’s 51^st birthday with the family. She returned to campus for finals, and her parents, Bob and Debra, spoke with her on the 12^th, but, after that, they had been unable to contact her. On the 15^th, they telephoned the university to ask that someone check Laura’s dorm room.

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Call to Action: Harry Reid Files for Cloture on DREAM Act :: FSM

America: once again, it’s time for us to act.

According to NumbersUSA, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture on S.2205 – Senator Dick Durbin’s stand-alone DREAM Act – which could bring it to a vote either today or tomorrow.

Cloture is the only way for a time limit to be put upon consideration of a bill. It effectively shuts down any further debate and forces the senate to vote, although thirty hours of debate after cloture is invoked is permissible under strict rules.

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Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed. By Michael Yon

All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq. Knowing this disconnect exists and experiencing it directly are two separate matters. It’s like the difference between holding the remote control during the telecast of a volcanic eruption on some distant island (and then flipping the channel), versus running for survival from a wretch of molten lava that just engulfed your car.

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Internet Anonymity Is as Destructive as Internet Porn By Dennis Prager

Whenever people lament aspects of the Internet, they are most likely to lament the net's ubiquity of pornography. Only God knows, for example, how many kids, searching for some government information, typed in "whitehouse.com" only to be greeted by pornographic images (happily, the website changed hands in 2004). It is almost impossible to completely avoid such imagery even with filtering programs.

But there is something at least as awful -- and arguably more destructive -- that permeates the Internet: the lies, vitriol, obscenities and ad hominem attacks made by anonymous individuals on almost every website that deals with public issues.

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More Newsworthy: Oprah's Thyroid Or Ellen's Iggy?

Satire by John W. Lillpop

With all due respect to those who decide what is newsworthy and what is not, many of the stories making the editor's cut these days do not seem particularly compelling.
For instance, why is Oprah Winfrey's thyroid a major story?
Mind you, I appreciate the fact that Oprah is an icon to oodles of free loaders who survive on junk food and booze purchased with welfare money. And I am not oblivious to Oprah's ongoing struggle with weight.
Count me among those who sincerely hope that treating her wonky thyroid will make Oprah sexy and skinny. Again.
But to be perfectly honest, I suspect that Oprah is acting out on her addiction to Twinkies. Again.
By now, the queen of television surely must know that 30-40 Twinkies a day add up quickly. Throw in a half dozen cheesy pizzas, and before you know it the world has 20 extra superflous pounds of Oprah to contend with.
But are Oprah's weight and thyroid problems really the stuff of which relevant news stories are crafted?
Then we have the heartbreaking story of Ellen DeGeneres and her dog Iggy. Iggy is the canine pest that Ellen rescued from Mutts and Moms, a pet adoption agency.
Poor Ellen cared so deeply for this pooch that she gave the damn thing to her hairdresser in order to soothe her cats who found Iggy to be a royal pain in the tush.
However, Mutts and Moms found Ellen's unauthorized transfer of Iggy to be in violation of her adoption contract, several amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and a Canine Bill of Rights currently being debated in the Democrat-controlled California state legislature.
As a result, local police halted their hunt for murderers and kidnappers long enough to remove Iggy from Ellen's scalawag hairdresser. Mutts and Moms then assigned Iggy to a new owner.
How did DeGeneres react to the news that her beloved Iggy was no longer with family?

Using her national television show as a bully pulpit, Ellen demonstrated her love for Iggy with a live, hour-long crying jag. In high definition.
From the intensity of Ellen's meltdown, one would have thought that Mutts and Moms had sentenced the helpless Iggy to the sole care of Michael Vick. For obedience training.
But even as adorable as Iggy is, was Ellen's bawling hysteria really worthy of headlines from sea to shining sea?
From my perspective, both Oprah's thyroid and Ellen's Iggy should have taken a back seat to these headlines:
President Bush Meets Dalai Lama, Comes Out Against World War 111
President Putin Meets With Iran's Ahmadinejad, Comes Out Against Bush and Threatens World War 111
Speaker Pelosi Fails in Attempt to Goad Turkey Into Invading Iraq Over 92-year Old Genocide
Religion of Peace Activists Celebrate Bhutto Return to Pakistan, 135 Die
Rep. Stark's Head Explodes on Floor of U.S. House, Bush Faulted
Shocker from Creator of Harry Potter: Dumbledore Gay, Voldermort a Homophobic Conservative White Christian
Rush Limbaugh Uses Reid Letter to Help Fund Iraq War
Don Imus Overcomes Objections from Al Sharpton, Other Nappy Headed Ho's, Returns to Radio
Well, what do you think? Should I pursue a new career as a news editor?
Or should I continue to grovel in abject poverty?

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