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2/4/06 Saddam's WMD "Mr. Sada's is only the most recent of a series of accounts by people in a position to speak with authority who say (some of) Saddam's chemical and biological weapons wound up in Syria." Click here for the article which lists seven other credible sources supporting Mr. Sada's contention. The belief that the lack of WMD discovery was meaningful has always been ludicrous, to me. Biological and chemical weapons are too easily hidden by a regime with just such a history.
2/3/06 Tribes gave to Reid after hiring Abramoff. Click here.
2/3/06 Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act? Click here.
2/3/06 Senate intel chair backs domestic spying. "Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it. The program is 'legal, necessary and reasonable,' the Kansas Republican wrote. . . Vice President Dick Cheney said exposing the effort has done 'enormous damage to our national security.' The New York Times revealed the program's existence in December." Click here for this article. Click here to see how clearly history repeats itself.
2/2/06 Lest we Let History Repeat Itself. -- from A History of the American People: "The second reason why America turned against the war was not so much editorial criticism as tendentious presentation of the news. . . . Once the TV presentation of the war became daily and intense, it worked on the whole against American interests. It generated the idea that America was fighting a 'hopeless' war." Click here.
2/2/06 Rep. John Boehner: GOP Needs to Clean House. The House GOP Caucus today elected Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as its new Majority Leader. Click here to read NewsMax's recent exclusive interview with Congressman Boehner.
2/2/06 No Democrat Left Behind. "Watching the President’s State of the Union speech one could be forgiven for coming away with the impression only one side of the House chamber was grounded in reality. Click here for the American Thinker article.
2/1/06 America Stands and Cheers; Democrats Sit Down. Click here for excerpts of last night's state of the union speech and comments on the Democrats responses.
2/1/06 Sheehan Arrested Before Speech. Click here.
1/31/06 Hamas and Israel – Predictions. Click here.
1/31/06 Dems need a plan "for security beyond name calling and lies." Click here to read Canada Free Press views. 1/31/06 Probing ABC's Scalia probe. Click here 1/31/06 Former Democratic Chief Counsel: Ted Kennedy Disgraced Himself "and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends." Click here for this and more instances. 1/30/06 Nat'l Guard reports recruiting gains. Click here. 1/30/06 Hillary Clinton's Hamas connections. Click here. 1/28/06 'Stop Hillary' bandwagon gathers pace. Click here. 1/28/06 Immigrants need to embrace U.S. culture. Click here. 1/27/06 What Hamas' Victory Could Mean. Click here. 1/27/06 A major voice from Iraq. “Attack levels are way, way down since the elections. .There’s what I would call an ‘eerie calm’ in many areas of the western desert." Click here. 1/27/06 Libby lawyers seek the files on which the leak case was based. These could be key to the Libby defense, lawyers say. "In court papers, the lawyers said they will probably subpoena reporters and officials later to thoroughly investigate how widely Plame's identity was known before her name appeared in the news media in July 2003." Click here. 1/27/06 The 2003 Tax Cut on Capital Gains Entirely Paid for Itself. "[A] remarkable story that has gone entirely unreported by the mainstream media: The 2003 tax cut on capital gains has entirely paid for itself. More than paid for itself. Way more." Click here. 1/27/06 "With no shortage of important matters to discuss, why do Democrats insist on talking about trivia?" There is so much unvarnished truth here. Do not read if you can't take the truth. Click here.
1/26/06 Synopsis of President's first full-scale news conference of the new year. Click here. 1/26/06 The Spirit of Cabal and Intrigue. "Perhaps the salient line that can be taken from Federalist No. 76 is Mr. Hamilton’s phrase regarding the 'spirit of cabal and intrigue' that can overtake the nomination and confirmation process. This spirit of cabal and intrigue of which Hamilton warned is precisely what the Senate Judiciary Committee has reduced itself to . . ." Click here. 1/26/06 Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says. Click here (note: continues for 4 screens). 1/26/06 Many faces of Hillary -- none a winner. Click here. I love the comment by the writer's mother, Lucianne Goldberg, on her web site: "They don't like her, they really don't like her." 1/25/06 Democrats Are Worrying Over Clinton in 2008. "In a CNN/USA Today/ Gallup poll made public yesterday, 51% of voters said they would definitely not vote for Mrs. Clinton if she chooses to run for president in 2008. In a separate nationwide poll . . . 44% of all voters and 19% of self-described Democrats said they viewed the New York senator unfavorably." Click here. 1/24/06 Larry Franklin and the New York Times NSA leaks. "If the logic that Judge Ellis used in the Franklin case were applied to the NSA case, then the New York Times will be in a lot more serious legal situation than merely choosing whether or not to protect its source’s confidentiality by hiding the original government leaker’s identity." Click here to read the "American Thinker" article. 1/24/06 NSA and technology Click here. 1/24/06 Political Corruption. "The Jack Abramoff scandal has put political corruption front and center in Washington but this particular scandal, or even this particular kind of scandal, barely scratches the surface of corruption in government." Click here. 1/23/06 President Bush Speaks at Kansas State University -- Transcript. Click here.1/23/06 Hillary's Plantation -- Hillary Clinton reveals her fear of Condi Rice. Click here. 1/22/06 Athletes to form a human shield in front Iranian nuclear facility. Click here.1/22/06 Is Al-Jazeera reporting news or promoting terror? Click here. 1/19/06 Neal Boortz's "Today's Nuze" is so much on target today and entertaining that I'm providing a link to the site and its several items including: "Bullseye in Pakistan," Iran, Council on American-Islamic Relations speaking unfavorably about terrorism (!), and a light hearted but true discussion of global warming. Click here to check it out.1/18/06 Myth: Schools Need More Money. Click here for the article and more here.1/18/06 Cisneros probe. Click here for just another reminder of the really most corrupt administration in history -- although, truth be told, minor compared to what some would call treason -- selling dangerous missile technology to the Red Chinese for campaign funds.1/17/06 Precedents for Presidents. Click here for Wall Street Journal article.1/17/06 Peter King: Hillary Clinton Playing 'Cheap Racial Politics' "Rep. King, however, was even more upset at former Vice President Al Gore" Click here for the article.1/17/06 Neal Boortz Today's Nuze on Al Gore. Click here for excerpt. 1/15/06 What planet are Democrats from? -- As if attacking Alito weren't enough, they also lied about Roe vs. Wade -- "[T]he absence of Roe does not bring a coast-to-coast ban. It would simply fall to the 50 state legislatures to fashion their own laws, and that is where those favoring and opposing abortion rights would properly have it out to determine how easy or difficult it should be to terminate a life inside the womb from Massachusetts to Texas, from New York to Alabama." Click here.1/13/06 Surge in Sale of Disposable Cell Phones May Have Terror Link. Lucianne.com comment: "Could they, perhaps, have read a story about land line listening in the New York Times? Just asking." Click here for the article.
1/13/06 A Bid To Delay Vote on Alito In the Works. Click here for article.
1/13/06 The brainbox and the blowhards. "TED KENNEDY is deeply troubled by the ethics of the Supreme Court nominee. Between 2001 and 2006, Samuel Alito, who is currently an appeals court judge, accepted $7,684,423 in “donations” from special interests who perhaps wanted the law tweaked in their favour. That included $28,000 from defence contractors, $42,200 from drug firms and a whopping $745,373 from lawyers and law firms. No, wait. Those are Senator Kennedy's conflicts of interest" Click here for the article.
1/13/06 Alito shows an open mind, but will Senate Democrats? "Is Sen. Robert Byrd the same man today that he was when he once recruited fellow Ku Klux Klan members? Is Sen. Ted Kennedy the same man today as the one who fled the scene of the Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy or who was booted out of Harvard for cheating on exams?" Click here.
1/12/06 Saddam's terrorist links revealed. Click here.
1/12/06 US soldiers have best body armor: Pentagon. Click here.
1/11/06 Dean denies party ties to Abramoff. Wrong again, as usual. Click here.
1/1106 Kennedy wrong again, as usual. Although he has more frequently just out and out lied trying to discredit Alito. Click here for the article concerning CAP.
1/11/06 ALITO & THE CLOWNS. Click here for article.
1/10/06 Kerry Workers' Tire-Slashing Trial Begins. Click here for details.
1/8/06 Of course, more Republicans than Democrats received Abramoff contributions: They are the party in power. Click here for a breakdown on the many Democrats as well as Republicans who received these contribution. 1/8/06 Saddam's Terror Training Camps THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials. 1/8/06 "It is increasingly clear that IPSOS, a French polling company with close ties to the French leadership is producing polls for AP designed solely to allow them to run editorials in the guise of news stories. The samplings are widely out of line; the questions off the mark, and the results not surprisingly advance a Democrat point of view obviously shared by AP." Click here for this American Thinker article. 1/6/06 The press hates to report straightforwardly, but the economy is roaring. Everything is Bush's fault; if this happened during a Democratic administration, the media would trumpet the news as credit for that administration. Click here for a report including stock market advances and historically low unemployment. Other countries wish they were doing half as well. Again events prove that tax cuts make the pie bigger rather than cut revenues, etc.
1/6/06 Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror. Click here for the Clarion-Ledger piece.
1/6/06 False blame in the mining disaster. "A rock in the pathway that someone could trip on is a violation. If these mine inspectors were to inspect your house with the same criteria you would have a pantload of violations also. We've heard now that the Bush administration is lax on mining regulation enforcement, which of course means George Bush is directly to blame for the death of the 13 miners." Click here for the original article on this and other preposterous goings-on.
1/6/06 Clinton Knew Iran Was Working on Nukes. Click here.
1/4/06 Cheney strongly defends eavesdropping operation. Click here for article.
1/3/06 Harry Reid Caught in Abramoff Plea Deal? Click here for article.
12/31/05 Iraq, Economy Highlight Bush Radio Address as they should. Click here for an article on the New Year message by a great president and a good, honorable man.
12/31/05
Pendulum swinging away from patriotism. "In response to the editorial
writers, reporters and politicians who are critical of President Bush's policies
regarding Iraq - some of whom are calling for the president's impeachment - and
especially Howard Dean, who is declaring the war a lost cause, I offer the
following quotes by a former president who was well liked and respected by the
American people and highly regarded by the media." Click
here for the article. 12/31/05 Justice Dept. Probes Domestic Spying Leak. Click here for others comments and a link to the original article. The first eight paragraphs are news, then typically spouting on the Valerie Plame situation. The current probe is on a leak of national security significance, not the outing of a CIA employee whose employment was already generally known and of no apparent covert status.
12/30/05 Time for the President to call their bluff. Click here for the original article.
12/30/05 “Iraq: Better off under Saddam” Aljazeera, by Editorial. This is so sick. Click here for rational comments. Then click the "original article" link on that linked page if your stomach can take it.
12/20/05 "Without a court order..." Click here for this article summarizing the president's authority to order interception of messages from Al Qaida operatives outside the U.S. to the U.S. The article also links to the more comprehensive New York Sun editorial on the situation. All the fuss is from some of the same people that complained about intelligence agencies not "connecting the dots" before 9/11.
An authoritative memo during
the Clinton administration by Clinton's Deputy Attorney General, Jamie Gorelick,
was instrumental in the wall between intelligence agencies that was a prime
cause for those pre-9/11 intelligence gaps -- some allege to protect the Clinton
campaign's dealing with the Chinese for illegal campaign contributions. On
the other hand she made a case for Clinton's presidential authority to
make warrantless searches, see below. 12/19/05 Apparent Transcript of President Bush's News Conference Monday. Click here. If unedited, as it appears to be, the Washington Post! has provided a great service by making this available "Courtesy FDCH e-Media." I'm sorry I don't have an audio transcript. His unscripted performance, as shown live on T.V. this morning was awe-inspiring. It's wonderful to hear the truth after the administration stayed above the fray for so long while unabashed lying attacks went on -- generally unquestioned by the main stream media.
12/19/05
Transcript of President Bush's Sunday Remarks on Iraq. Click
here -- same comments and same sources as above except Post headline says it
is a transcript.
12/18/05 Some Dare Call it
Treason:
“This is a highly classified program
that is crucial to our national security. Its purpose is to detect and prevent
terrorist attacks against the United States, our friends and allies. Yesterday
the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being
improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned
information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort
damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing
classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our
country.”
12/18/05 Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran sounds off on perception of war. Click here.
12/18/05 Torture Label Off Target. Click here for Toronto Sun article.
12/18/05 The New York Times Intelligence Scandal. Click here for American Thinker article.
12/17/05 The "New York Slimes" times baseless charges on spying to push the joyous news of the Iraqi vote off the front pages (where that vote turnout, in face of murderous threats, belongs) -- it's more important to stop possible credit to Bush regardless of aid to our enemies. The rest of the main stream media (and others) follow in lock step. Whenever international telephone calls to American citizens were deemed too urgent not to intercept, the administration immediately informed the proper congressional members and then appropriate judges. Those informed included disingenuous Nelson Rockefeller now rising to attack. Click here for more. The timing of the Slimes release is also deemed to have influenced the Senate's unwise vote not blocking a filibuster against extension of the "Patriot Act." Click here for that report.
12/17/05 Bush Acknowledges Approving Eavesdropping. Click here.
12/15/05
12/15/05 Democrats Try to Squelch Report on Clinton-Era Corruption. Click here
12/15/05 Science Journal: Wikipedia Pretty Accurate. Click here.
12/14/05 Text of Bush remarks at the Woodrow Wilson Center today. Click here.
12/14/05 Jane Fonda: U.S. Troops Are 'Killing Machines' Click here in case you might think that Fonda has changed.
12/13/05 End the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Confusion. Click here.
12/11/05 Iraqi insurgents urge Sunnis to vote, warn Zarqawi. Click here.
12/10/05 Dean's defeatism. Click here.
Defeatocrat pep rally (from Lucianne.com)
12/10/05 The new ice age. Click here.
12/7/05 Inspirational words by Joe Lieberman "Finding unity in Iraq." Click here for excerpts from his remarks in the New York Post.
12/7/05 Transcript of President Bush's Remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations on the War on Terrorism: click here.
12/7/05 Muslim leaders in Mecca say Islam facing crisis. Click here.
12/7/8
Howard Dean,
defeatist Click
here for
uninspirational words. 12/06/05 Saddam Tells Judge: 'Go to Hell.' Click here for Fox News story.
12/06/05
The 4,723rd Reason To Be Thankful Bush Won: Headline from Lucianne.com.
12/6/05 Michael Reagan: Dean 'Should Be Hung' Click here. Usually the kind of rhetoric that we get from the likes of Dean and other, so-called liberals. Dean and others of his ilk are reminiscent of Viet Nam that we were winning militarily but lost with such at home. The article has links to other interesting articles.
12/05/05 Bush in a speech today at Deere-Hitachi Construction Manufacturing Corp: Deere Hitachi represents the "insourcing" of production from other countries, in this instances Japan and Mexico. Click here. Related article same speech: Bush prods U.S. companies to live up to their pension promises to workers. Click here. (I had to research a score of articles on this speech in Google News to find one that didn't emphasize negative Democratic comments. Nowhere could I find just the transcript -- the news itself.) Note: three more items on this date follow.
12/05/05 Feds Have Not Implemented 9/11 Report complains the commission. Click here. This article does not mention that the Bush administration has implemented 37 of the 39 recommendations to it. The alleged shortcomings appear largely congressional.
12/05/05 Saddam uses Democrat Words in Trial Defense -- part of Rush Limbaugh 10/5/05 radio transcript.. Click here.
12/2/05 Transcript: President Bush's Rose Garden on Soaring Economy. Click here. It's incredible how hard it is to find the straight hard facts. Even Fox News on-line repeats the negative commentary throughout the media on this report on an amazing economic outlook including historically low unemployment figures, even for the U.S., a tremendous 4.3% rate of growth in the third quarter and a Dow Jones industrial average "within spitting distance of closing above 11,000, a level it hasn't reached since June 2001." Click here for the San Francisco Chronicle article "Glad tidings for market Positive economic reports buoy spirits on Wall Street."
12/2/05 The Iraq story you haven't heard. Click here for the article. "The fallout from Congressman John Murtha’s call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq continued this week with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday endorsing Murtha’s plan, saying it had 'changed the debate' about the war. But another Democrat also 'changed the debate' on the war this week. And while Senator Joe Lieberman’s (D-CT) statements have been grossly—and deliberately—underreported, they are vital for the future of Iraq."
12/2/05
Muslim Mob 'Terrorizes' Children in Indonesian Sunday School.
Click
here. 11/30/05 National Strategy for Victory in Iraq: The unclassified detailed strategy the President Bush referred to in his Naval Academy speech. Click here.
11/30/05
Transcript: President Bush's Speech on the War on Terrorism. Click
here. 11/30/05 U. S. economy expanded at 4.3% pace in the third quarter. Click here.
11/29/05 Did you know DMDs have been found in Iraq? Click here for article.
11/29/05 Returning From Iraq, Lieberman Praises U.S. Strategy. Click here. 11/30 added comment: This and McCain's similar appraisal hardly mentioned, if at all, in MSM that trumpeted Murtha's comments showing again its adoption of Democrats' opposition to war (invested in Iraq defeat as a means towards defaming Bush and defeating Republicans regardless of American interests?).
11/28/05 Our accomplishments in Iraq make for long list. Click here for the original article.
11/27/05 A Fitting Address --The speech President Bush should give about Iraq (the truth). Click here for the original article. Click here for great follow-on comments.
11/22/05 Scalia raps Gore for 2000. Click here for the article. "The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble. The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?" This is another Democrat canard aided and abetted by the media that "accidentally" reported a premature Gore win in Florida thereby discouraging voters in the heavy Republican panhandle (and elsewhere). The media then tried desperately, repeatedly and unsuccessfully to find that the rest of the Florida vote went to Gore.
11/22/05 Boortz's site has several interesting comments, today. Click here and scroll down to read Teddy Roosevelt's telling 1907 quote on what an American is, CNN getting by with the X it repeatedly placed over Vice President Cheney's face as a "technological malfunction" (imagine the media outcry if there were an X over any leftist's face on Fox News), the "Different Perspective" section noting Chris Matthew's view that U.S. enemies aren't evil, they just have "a different perspective," and more.
11/21/05 Isn't the left's slogan more applicable to "they (rather than Bush) lied, people died?" Bush did not lie, but the out-and-out repeated lies claiming he lied with regard to the Iraq war: 1. Encourage terrorists; 2. Discourage Iraqi's from putting their lives on the line in support of democratic reform; 3. Discourage our military.
11/20/05 A black mark for media. Click here for the original article. Click here for others' comments (they're even better).
11/19/05 Military pullout from Iraq rejected 403-3. Hear this, terrorists! Where was this in The Sun News? Click here for the original article and "next" for the second page. Nay votes were those of McKinney, Wexler and Serrano. Article does not say who abstained (six voted present). Even the radical leftist New York Times published this great news-- click here for the article. Click here for others' comments on that article.
11/18/05 Republicans Question Timing of Dems' Call for 'Surrender.' Terrorists take heart! America is a paper tiger that does not have the heart to stay the course. It will win militarily every time, but if you make enough fuss and kill enough innocents, you can count on the Democrats, added and abetted by the main stream media, to do their best to convince Americans to back down (surrender). Click here for the original article.
11/17/05 Louis Freeh Charges 9/11 Commission Cover-Up. Click here for article. Bill Clinton: Saddam's Aides Mostly 'Good, Decent.' Click here for article.
11/16/05
Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago. Click
here and scroll down for the original article. Just more information
indicating that there was no possible perjury by Libby about a material fact --
that it's all about a non-crime. Click
here
to read the following related American Thinker article:
Analyzing
Patrick Fitzgerald’s Doublespeak.
11/14/05 Believe it or Not. Click here for the original article about well known and highly placed Democrats claiming Bush lied and that they were hoodwinked. "Their current claim to have been fooled or deceived makes them out, on their own account, to be highly dumb and gullible. But as dumb and gullible as that?" No, I don't believe they are as "dumb and gullible as that," but apparently they believe if they just lie about it long enough, others are.
11/11/05 President Bush's Veteran's Day Speech. Click here.
11/11/05 Bush to swing back at Democrats on Iraq criticism. It's about time! They have been lying, and essentially unchallenged. Click here for the Reuter's (no less!) article.
11/10/05
Pentagon Firing
Link To Able Danger. Click
here to
read the original article. 11/9/05 Bush lying on Iraq "has been refuted and discredited over and over again by evidence and argument alike." Yet the story has had "amazing success . . . in getting itself established as a self-evident truth." Click here for a comprehensive expose of the facts.
11/9/05 "The American people are being fed a steady stream of negative stories about Iraq that in no way represent reality, and even if a positive story is reported it can be hard to spot." Click here for the article.
11/8/05 Bush told the truth: The weapons existed. Click here for the article. It's so nice and rare to find the bare truth with logical reasoning in the media. Thank you, thank you, Mobile Register.
11/7/05 Saddam Hussein's Defense speech. "Bush Lied and I Want My Country Back." Tongue in cheek and humorous, but on another level, too, too true. Click here for original article.
11/7/05 "Scooter" Libby "leak." "There is no conspiracy here beyond a discouraged, frustrated prosecutor who had to come up with some charge to justify 24 months of fruitless investigation." Click here for article. Click here for related.
11/6/05 George W. Bush is one of the greatest U.S. presidents. He is an honest, decent man of great personal integrity. He and his administration including, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have made possible a roaring national economy that, starting from a recession, pours historic revenues into the treasury despite the costs of the war on terror some of the most disastrous hurricanes in the nation's history.
It has, without a draft, won two wars with the least collateral damage and the fewest casualties of any comparable war in U.S. history. It has overthrown murderous regimes and increases our long-term security by leading the democratization of two countries in the Middle East. It has led the improvement of Medicare with a prescription drug program and many compassionate programs including enormous aid to foreign tsunami and earthquake victims and an unprecedented $1.1 billion dollars to fight AIDs in Africa. (Click here for more on this last.)
11/6/05 Investigate the CIA. Click here for the original Wall Street Journal article.
11/5/05 Insiders insights into CIA. Click here for American Thinker article.
11/4/05 Press and democratic leaders continue ridiculous accusations. Even in Argentina, they accuse the president of bending intelligence reporting and misleading the American people on Iraq. The press and democratic leaders were even stronger than he on the Iraqi menace during the Clinton administration -- and yes, Clinton, too. Are we to believe that Bush was shaping intelligence reporting even during the Clinton administration? And that he controlled the rest of the world's intelligence reporting too? Unfortunately if the accusations are piled on often enough, some will believe.
11/4/05 Wilson's own report confirms the following quote although he later made contradictory statements as well as saying he was sent to Niger by Vice President Chaney although he was sent by the CIA on the recommendation of his wife. The Senate Committee investigating the affair unanimously signed a report saying Wilson lied. But never mind. You will never get it straight from the old media.
"The British
government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa."
-- State of the Union Address, President Bush, January 28, 2003 11/2/05 Another big reason for distrusting the old media. Click here.
11/2/05 Zell Miller gives us something to consider. Click here.
11/1/05 Covering up a non-crime. Click here for comments.
10/31/05 The Left's Cruelest Month. Click here for the original article.
10/31/05 Facts on Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito. Click here for a quick review of his judicial record.
10/27/05 What now after near 79% Iraqi vote favoring constitution? Click here for article.
10/25/05 Final tally on votes in. Iraqi Constitution approved! Click here for the original New York Times article. This is important news. But it confirms the Bush administration's vision is on schedule. Maybe that is why I have not yet heard the other "old" media trumpeting this story. Or maybe its the New York Times credibility? In case you hadn't heard: the vote for the constitution was even higher than the overwhelming earlier vote, and that the violence was ten times less.
10/25/05 More answers to the ridiculous allegation that Bush lied about WMD. Those with any knowledge and responsibility know that all the world's intelligence agencies were convinced that IRAQ had WMDs. Click here for the record of the media supporting this during the Clinton administration. Those of us paying any attention at all know that Clinton himself believed this as did many other Democrats trying to rewrite history now -- not to say that any of these were wrong.
10/21/05 DeLay in first court appearance seeks a new judge. Click here for the original article. In case you haven't followed all this: the prosecutor, Ronnie Earle, has a history of indicting conservatives, including Democrats -- when Democrats were essentially all there were in Texas. A few years ago, he indicted Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas ("a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich," because grand juries hear the prosecutor's side with no opposition). The presiding judge threw out that case when it went to court. He recently indicted Republican U. S. House whip, Tom DeLay, first, for violating a Texas law which did not exist at the time he was supposed to have violated it. That, of course, did not hold up. Then failing to indict DeLay on substituted money laundering and conspiracy charges with one grand jury, he was successful with a second. DeLay's lawyers are seeking charges of prosecutorial misconduct against Mr. Earl. DeLay had to step down as majority whip until cleared of the indictment's charges.
10/17/05 Google News link added to left hand GIAC menu. Note the "last day" advanced search capability.
10/17/05 We won . . . again! Click here for article. "We won again! For a second time, the Iraqi people proved the Western mainstream media, Islamist radicals, self-righteous and nihilistic war protestors, disaffected Democrats, and neo-isolationists wrong. . . .But how long will the Western media get the post-9/11 story wrong before they understand that they, the MSM, are a major part of the problem?"
10/17/05 The White House, the CIA and the Wilsons. "Several reporters known to have spoken with Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the senior White House officials apparently at the center of the current investigation, have testified that they did not learn of Plame's identity or status from either person."
"[T]he bipartisan Senate Select Intelligence Committee released a 511-page report on the intelligence that served as the foundation for the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. The Senate report includes a 48-page section on Wilson that demonstrates, in painstaking detail, that virtually everything Joseph Wilson said publicly about his trip, from its origins to his conclusions, was false."
Click here for this very comprehensive National Review article. (Note that the three paragraphs after the first and above the one starting "October 15, 2005," concern misleading reports and quotes by other media sources.) Click here for further summarizing quotes from the National Review article.
10/17/05 DeLay Evidence Missing. Click here.
10/17/05 Holding Court "There's a crackdown over Miers, not a 'crackup.'" Click here to read this Wall Street Journal opinion piece by leading conservative Rush Limbaugh.
10/11/05 What's Inside "Condi vs. Hillary." Click here and scroll down to this topic heading for thought provoking information, albeit within a book advertisement for the new Dick Morris book in which he opines that only Condi can stop Hillary.
10/10/05 Even the Canadians laugh at the U. S. Democratic leadership calling the Republican culture "The Culture of Corruption." Click here to see what they say. Related in a way, click here to read the article from the New York Times: "In New Book, Ex-Director of the F.B.I. Fights Back." I await the usual Democrats' "politics of personal destruction" directed against Mr.Freeh. I'm confident we won't have long to wait.
10/6/05
Ronnie
Earle Should Not Be a Prosecutor -- National Review Headline
10/2/05 Again, be wary of the "old" media's news selection. Click here.
10/1/05 A little about Nagin, a little about racist Farrakhan, and a little about New Orleans: click here.
9/30/05 Bill Bennett statement in context: click here. No one with any knowledge of him at all believes Bill Bennett to be a racist or that he harbors any racist ideas. He is also dead set against abortion. It remains amazing to me how people can rain all over one statement by an in-no-way-racist conservative, out of context, regardless how ill advised and yet fail to be appalled at black liberal racists' frequent racial and ridiculously unbelievable, totally false, statements claiming to be factual -- let alone not trumpet them as out and out lies. Failing such, some people will believe them to be true.
9/28/05 Media, blushing, takes a second look at Katrina, etc. Click here for links to several "must reads" including this one.
9/27/05 Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy -- Los Angeles Times Headline "Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong. . . . Indeed, Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a national television audience on 'Oprah' three weeks ago of people 'in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people.'" Click here for the entire article. Recent reports say there were six dead in the Superdome -- four from natural causes, one from a drug overdose and one a suicide -- no rapes. 9/22/05 Finally, a Republican move against attempts to rewrite history.. Click here to read of President Bush setting the record straight in the face of Bill Clinton shamelessly attacking the Bush administration. Click here to read, among other things, of the much repeated lie that the WMDs in Iraq were a Bush administration fabrication despite Clinton's own earlier words to the same effect and the beliefs of the entire Western world. Comment: The major media does not respond so Republicans should respond to the Democrats continual lies or the public will eventually believe them and they will become the false historical record. 9/22/05 What a rabbi saw in Katrina relief. Click here. In New Orleans, beginning Tuesday morning, August 30, I saw men in helicopters risking their lives to save stranded flood victims from rooftops. The rescuers were White, the stranded Black. I saw Caucasians navigating their small, private boats in violent, swirling, toxic floodwaters to find fellow citizens trappehered in their houses. Those they saved were Black. I saw Brotherhood. New York Congressman Charlie Rangel saw Racism.
9/22/05 Anti-American war protestor Sheehan and her 30 supporters. I understand that is indeed all there are, not that the picture is clipped. Click here for more. The various comments posted are interesting, too. I was disinclined to give Sheehan any publicity until I heard that Reuters published 15 releases on her in fewer hours! Again, I honor her son's sacrifice and her loss, but not her anti-American diatribe.
9/19/05 Media frustrated as Hurricane Katrina survivors refuse to trash Bush. Click here.
9/17/05
Apparently balanced media report on Katrina relief! Click
here. For a
Comprehensive report on what went right, click
here.
For a less savory report:
Louisiana officials indicted before Katrina hit, click
here. "The problems are particularly worrisome, federal officials
said, because they involve the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness, the agency that will administer much of the billions in
federal aid anticipated for victims of Katrina." 9/16/05 Should we give the Pentagon functional first-responder status? Click here for this thought provoking Wall Street Journal editorial concerning responses to natural disasters and terrorist attacks, originally entitled: "Who calls the cavalry?" If you are patient or have high speed Internet access, click here for a further link to an amusing video: ABC Uses Bush-bashing Baiting Questions, Fails. In verifying the source for "Who calls the cavalry," I also belatedly discovered the following further insights.
9/16/05 Bolton's good work at the U. N. Click here for this that I missed earlier, and then here for another: The U.N.'s worst critics couldn't invent what the Volcker report shows.
9/15/05 Kennedy try to besmirch Roberts with partial out-of-context quote thwarted. Click here for selection from the hearing text as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
9/13/05 Roberts -- Legalizing abortion: "settled as a precedent of the court." Click here for more.
9/12/05 If you haven't gathered, I have been infuriated at the media in its rush to get Bush, as usual, on the Hurricane Katrina response. Even Fox News took a few days to get the story straight, and even now, it is amazing how uninformed some of its supposedly informed commentators remain. Of course, we don't expect nice guy, articulate, pontificating at length, partisan to the point of being dense, Juan Williams to get it right -- but others there . . . ? Fortunately, the true picture has started to surface, even in the main stream media. Read "The Federal Response was not as it was portrayed" article from the Pittsburg Post Express, by clicking here. Its bottom line is that the Hurricane Katrina relief effort was "the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history." Many of the comments from the general public on this article are refreshing (click here).
9/9/05 FEMA director, Michael Carter, has been recalled to Washington. The media, Democrats and others calling for his head should be pleased. Carter was the FEMA director through four Florida hurricanes, among the six most costly in U.S. history. A major complaint against FEMA there was its too rapid misplaced relief payments to Miami-Dade county.
However Carter wasn't used to trying to coordinate (FEMA's job is to coordinate local governments) total incompetents, foremost being the Louisiana governor. Congress putting FEMA, in line with the 911 commission's recommendations, under one more level of bureaucracy, the Office of Homeland security, was no help. But never mind, he was a lightning rod and has, apparently, been pushed to "fall on his sword."
Click here for more detail including about the resume padding allegation. Rush says FEMA has always been bureaucracy on parade. Click Here.
9/8/05 Money Flowed to Questionable Projects headlined Washington Post article today, third paragraph: "In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large."
9/08/05 Remember the Reports Vilifying the Federal Government because of the Lack of Food and Water for Katrina Victims? It wasn't the federal government. Click here for details.
9/07/05
Louisiana Officials did not use federal money available for levee improvements.
Click
here for details. 9/06/05 Fox News and Rush have finally brought to light the two items covered here on 9/04 and 9/05. Fox News finally showed the 9/04 photo last night. Apparently, although widely published on the Internet, it received little such by the conventional media. The conventional media, the Democrats, and the left have focused on blaming the Bush administration.
President Bush had to beg the New Orleans mayor and the Louisiana governor to issue evacuation orders and request military aid respectively. These actions were clearly the responsibility of local governments; the governor must request troops before the federal government is allowed to intervene. Both actions were still incomprehensibly delayed as was the governor calling up the Louisiana National Guard.
Today Rush read from the New Orleans disaster plan that clearly identifies the central local role and responsibility as were the detailed actions required of them. The local governments completely failed to exercise their responsibilities; the 9/2 item illustrates just one example.
Once allowed in, the military did an amazing job. FEMA performed promptly and admirably. Aid from surrounding states and the American public at large is huge and growing. The states of Mississippi and Alabama have performed well in the face of their overwhelming disasters.
Disaster performance can be improved at all levels, but the extensive blame put on the Bush administration is ridiculous. Louisiana's performance, as a whole, was disgraceful.
9/05/05 Don't blame Bush for Katrina. (Headline for commentary by Chris Ruddy, a liberal). Click here for the facts he cites. Louisiana Governor refused Bush Aid (Click here.) Feckless Louisiana officials manage to outdo irresponsible Ivan inaction (Click here). Louisiana U. S. Senator threatens to punch Bush (Click here). Click here for other "must reads" on Katrina.
9/04/05 WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES DURING THE MANDATORY EVACUATION, MAYOR?... New Orleans officials and Louisiana's governor have done little but sit back, await federal aid and bitterly claim that it was slow and inadequate. (See 9/5/05 above for more detail, headline and below from Drudge Report)
Louisiana disaster plan, pg 13,
para 5 , dated 01/00
9/3/05 New Orleans is secured by this evening and the Superdome is evacuated as well as an overall massive evacuation with bus convoys and military aircraft. New Orleans historic buildings are largely intact. But many outside the city and state remain trapped in their homes despite thousands rescued by helicopter. Media attention and help diverted by New Orleans is starting to get focused elsewhere, such as on the extensive flooding and damage in cities as well as the less heavily populated areas in the state of Mississippi. There are heart-warming stories there of rescue as well as cooperative clean up among the victims themselves.
9/3/05 National guard given shoot to kill orders to deal with armed gangs. Click here for details. To see a page that accesses several Hurricane Katrina related articles, click here. I generally click through to the original article as I did for the national guard story. I have found this Lucianne Goldberg site so informative, so often, that it has a permanent link in the menu on the left.
9/2/05 The Red Cross and Salvation Army are long standing reputable charity organizations that rate very high in the percent of a donation that reaches victims. Click here if you wish to donate to the Red Cross or to donate to the Salvation Army, click here. The sites offer other information including how to specify where you want your donation applied and to make mail or telephone donations if you prefer. The Red Cross site tells how you might be able to get matching donations from employers.
9/2/05 Media complaints about the Bush administration response to Hurricane Katrina abound although its actions have been prompter and help more massive than that for any other U.S. national disaster in history. Individual and company contributions are similarly skyrocketing. Gulf state government efforts excepting Louisiana are moving rapidly. Louisiana government officials instead complain about the federal government.
Communications have been limited because of the loss of power and logistical problems have been massive so victims do not see the big picture. The media does, but it reports isolated uninformed perceptions as gospel. The logistical problems are a maximum in the sustained New Orleans flooding. In prior years, New Orleans city government did not spend federal government funds designated for levees for levees.
According to published reports (since discredited [10/2/05]), a disgraceful New Orleans remnant loots, murders and rapes throughout the city. National guardsman are beginning to restore order. Click here for more reports.
Comment: looting of anything, except, possibly food, should be routinely met everywhere by spraying looters with BB or rock salt loaded shotguns. Injuries would be minimized while looting would stop.
8/31/05 Giuliani considering presidential run & the Right's reaction to "Crazy" Sheehan. Click here for details. With Rush in reflecting those on the Left who love to say they support our troops, while doing everything possible to demoralize them and give the enemy hope, I honor her son's sacrifice and respect her grief, but I strongly oppose her irresponsible actions, ugly mouth and misrepresentations .
8/25/05 "Despicable" is too nice a word. Have these people no shame? Click here for the story of anti-war protestors taunting our wounded and maimed at Walter Reed hospital. Click here for the different perspective of decent, thinking, people.
8/25/05 Robertson apologized for suggesting Chavez assassination but he is not alone. Click here and here to see similar suggestions by others and Stephanopoulos on Saddam.
8/22/05 Who is Cindy Sheehan? Click here to see a transcript of comments made by featured speakers [to see Cindy Sheehan's remarks specifically scroll down on the linked site] at a rally to honor Lynne Stewart, a radical leftist lawyer convicted of helping the perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terrorist cells in his home country. Click here for more on Lynne Stewart and George Soros contributions on her behalf.
8/20/05 IRAQ Infrastructure Construction Progress. Click here for information.
8/19/05 Confirming Wisdom of Bolton U. N. Choice. Click here for details.
8/17/05 911 Commission did not (even try to?) "Connect the Dots" in its Investigation. Click here.
8/14/05 More on 911 Commission. Click here.
8/12/05 911 Commission Disgrace. Click here to see the Fox News report. Click here to see the AP report (alibi?). Click here for columnist comments: "Commission Cover-up".
8/10/05 Extreme lying by NARAL about Supreme Court nominee Roberts. Click here for details.
8/9/05 Angry Mom, Cindy Sheehan, tells two stories. Now she says Bush was mean and indifferent to her. Originally, after meeting with Bush, she said: "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith." Click here to read an excerpt from today's Boortz report on both sides.
8/8/05 The Ryan - Sununu social security reform bill in the U. S. congress includes a federal guarantee that those with personal accounts would get at least as much as promised by Social Security. According to p.41 of Newt Gringrich's book Winning the Future: "The guarantee works because capital market investment returns are so much higher than what Social Security promises." He also quotes the chief actuary of Social Security: "the Social Security program would be expected to be solvent and to meet its benefit obligations throughout the long range period 2003 through 2077 and beyond," as opposed to the current system that is projected to start running a deficit in its pay-as-you-go plan in 2018 and its "trust fund" (current government IOUs) running out in 2042. Read Newt's book for detailed source and other information and/or click here for www.newt.org/winningthefuture.
8/8/05 In May 2003, a prominent Saudi cleric justified a bomb killing ten million Americans. For the full quote and source details see p. 3 of Newt Gringrich's book Winning the Future.
8/1/05 Columnist Robert Novak counters some misinformation about his report. Click here for details. "Once it was determined that Wilson's wife suggested the mission, she could be identified as 'Valerie Plame' by reading her husband's entry in 'Who's Who in America.'. . . . Joseph Wilson was discarded a year ago by the Kerry presidential campaign after the Senate committee reported much of what he said ''had no basis in fact.' The re-emerged Wilson is now accusing the senators of 'smearing' him. I eagerly await the end of this investigation when I may be able to correct other misinformation about me and the case."
7/29/05 Walter E. Williams said it right today as to judicial selections. He noted that the proper criterion was whether a justice could read, not "what side is he on," noting that Amendment 5 of the U. S. Constitution concludes with "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" (emphasis added), not for another's private use as the U.S. Supreme Court recently held (see 6/26/05 below). He said the obvious, that you don't ask an umpire what his baseball philosophy is. You don't ask what side he is on. You judge whether he can call strikes and balls fairly (strikes and balls as defined by the rule book). An umpire doesn't have the right to change the rules as he sees fit. The founders wisely provided procedures for changing of the constitution in the constitution -- via the people's elected representatives, not by judges or justices. In that sense only was it meant to be, or should it be, a "living document."
7/18/05 It's hard to believe, The old media continues to fail to report completely and honestly. Click here to see what I mean, and to even more fully bring the point home, click here
7/17/05 "Last week's revelations in the [Karl Rove] case show the charge to be entirely unfounded. . . . That the sources for these revelations were Time magazine, The New York Times and Joe Wilson himself will, of course, have no effect on the wingnuts who peddle Karl Rove conspiracy theories. But then, those who believe in a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy were never heavily influenced by the facts anyway." Click here for the original article. For a more in-depth analysis, click here. The main stream media sometimes (maybe rarely) gets it right!
7/13/05 Karl Rove, latest bogus target of the old media, deserves whistle blower award. Click here.
7/11/05 Klein's Truth about Hillary book second on N.Y. Times hardcover bestseller list. Times really put out.. Click here for details.
7/6/05 Senator Schumer declares war on Supreme Court nominees. Click here for details.
6/30/05 Barbara Boxer is making the rounds saying that President Bush's link of Saddam's Iraq to terrorists is bogus. Click here to find who's bogus and why.
6/29/05 More on the Lost Liberty Hotel (See the second paragraph in the 6/28/05 posting below). Click here to see the detailed "Press Release." It looks as if a fax requesting information from the city as to how to best proceed was really made. I have e-mailed the requestor (who is also the web site CEO on which the press release is posted) asking if there are really serious and able investors involved.
6/28/05 President Bush to Address the Nation at 8 p.m. Tonight. We can count on Fox News to air it. Rush says only one national network will. Apparently it has been little covered in the main stream print media, not in the probably pre-printed Sun News "TV Book," and not in today's Sun News -- its "Tuesday's Best Bet's" recommends "Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back" on NBC for 8.p.m.
Whether tongue in cheek or not, Rush today tells of a commercial consortium wanting to build a "Lost Liberty Hotel" on property with a beautiful view that is currently the home of Justice Souter. According to the recent Supreme Court decision (see 6/23 below), approval of 3 out of their 5 elected selectmen will be adequate to condemn the property so they can build the hotel. Similarly amusing, Rush talked of 40 shots ringing out in north and south Chicago recently wondering whether this would cause Senator Kennedy to want to pull out -- of Chicago.
6/27/05 Attempts to Block TV Interviews with Hillary Book Author. Click here.
6/25/05 Interview with Hillary book author. Click here.
6/24/05 Karl Rove was telling the truth in his remarks.. To refresh your memory, click here and type: http://www.nypost.com where it asks for a user and type: potato where it asks for a password (user name and password obtained by clicking www.bugmenot.com and following its instructions). I am amused at the outrage of liberal Democrats regarding Karl Rove's remarks, but their silence at Durbin's (for instance) -- especially when Rove's remarks were made at a partisan gathering while Durbin's were made on the Senate floor and understandably trumpeted by Al Jazeera.
6/24/05 Democrats have changed over the decades in their ideas and what they support. Click here for reminders.
6/23/05 U. S. Supreme Court Overturns Amendment 5 of the Bill of Rights of the U. S. Constitution that concludes with "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" (emphasis added). In a 5 to 4 ruling it has okayed taking private property, including homes, by condemnation so a private developer can build properties that would return higher property taxes. Dissenting: Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, O'Connor. Comment: Absolutely outrageous. Click here for more.
6/22/05 Durbin's latest non-apology is simply an apology for offending some. Republicans graciously accept his apology for a statement on Senate floor, unlike Democrats who drummed Republican Trent Lott out of a leadership role for a statement making nice to Strom Thurmond at his 100th anniversary birthday party -- despite five apologies. Republicans then joined in criticism. In contrast, no leading Democrat. including former Klansman leader, Senator "sheets Byrd," criticized Durbin.
6/21/05 The Truth About Hillary is written by Edward Klein, former editor-in-chief of New York Times Magazine. Click here for more information.
6/20/05 Unfair and unbalanced, especially the latter, describes some leading Democrats. Click here for comments on statements by Senator Durbin -- the second leading Democrat in the Senate (unchallenged by other Democrats). Howard Dean may be an even better example -- 6/21/05: click here for particulars.
6/11/05 2 out of 3 vote counts favoring Republican Governor candidate in Washington ruled Democratic win. Yet the many recounts never favoring a 2000 win for Gore didn't convince Dems. Click here for more.
6/9/05 For the perfect example of the ethical and moral collapse of the Mainstream Media, you could not do better than a long article in the New Yorker of May 23, 2005. Click here
5/30/05 General Richard Myers Slams Amnesty International Report on Guantanamo. Click here for an excerpt of his remarks on this issue from the detailed Fox News Sunday, May 29, 2005 transcript. 5/31/05 Neal Boortz today explained two Islamic beliefs on Koran mishandling -- 1. Standing too close 2. Laying it on an imperfectly cleaned table. Click here for more understanding.
5/28/05 Profiles in Flinching: Charles Krauthammer opinion. Click here to view.
5/21/05 Ban the Judicial Filibuster. I feel very strongly that there should be no compromise on banning the use of the filibuster for judicial nominees. I understand that filibusters are not allowed on other issues. This should be one of them. Our Senator Graham is one of those Republican senators seeking compromise on this issue. Click here to e-mail your comments to Senator Graham. Click here for more details on what's at stake.
5/16/05 Flush Newsweek Down the Toilet? Click here for details
5/14/05 CBS uses snippet from remarks to completely mischaracterize Ken Starr's statement opposing misuse of the filibuster to block judicial nominations. AP and other outlets parrot. Click here to see Media Research Center and National Review reports complete with Starr's e-mail complaint of the mischaracterization..
5/13/05 There has been but one judicial nominee filibuster in U.S. history and that one was bipartisan. Click here for the facts. Granted they are in an opinion piece. But they are the facts nonetheless.
4/12/05 DNC Posts Fake Delay Mugshot. Click here for newsmax.com article copy.
4/7/05 Delay attacks are slanted "politics of personal destruction." Click here for one instance debunked in the National Review. For instances of ethical lapses that the "old" media chooses to minimize, click on your choice of the following: Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton Chuck Schumer
3/17/05 1980 Galveston County, Texas private account returns far exceed Social Security. Click here to read the U.S.A. Today report. In 1983, the U.S. Congress ceased allowing local governments to opt out of Social Security. The truth on Bush's private account plan for Social Security: the benefits of those over 55 are not affected, those under 55 have the option of staying in the current plan or rerouting a percentage of their payroll taxes for investment in their own private account for their retirement years.
3/5/05 U. S. Forces fire on a convoy racing towards a checkpoint wounding freed Italian journalist, Guiliana Surena and killing an Italian secret service agent when soldiers fired at the engine block after frantically waving their hands, flashing lights and firing warning shots, according to a Fox News report. 3/7/05 update: Two days after a front page headline "U.S. troops open fire on allies in Iraq" and a lengthy "Washington Bureau" story mentioning only part of the U. S. military statement on page 2 that the driver had approached the checkpoint "at a high rate of speed," The Sun News gave the rest of the military statement on the flashing lights on page 3A under a headline that the Italian journalist (for a communist newspaper that supports the insurgents) disputes the U.S. account. Comment: Given the suicide car bomb attacks in the area, the soldiers would have been foolhardy not to, at the least, disable the vehicle. Surena was wounded by the resulting shrapnel. Of the "old" media, Reuters, at least, put the shooting in some perspective earlier (click here).
2/21/05 "Have you ever noticed how the left -- including the partisan press -- simply does not mention Afghanistan. That is because it is a remarkable success. This is the same country the New York Times labeled a 'quagmire' three weeks after we went to war on the Taliban Oct. 7, 2001. Three years later, after this infant democratic nation adopted its constitution, [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai said, 'I pray to God the Almighty that this constitution will lead to building a civil society and achievement of economic, political and cultural prosperity for all and ensure peace, equity and brotherhood within the Afghan nation.' This was reported not by the New York Times, or by any American journalist, but by Xinhuanet, the China news service. "Now between 3.5 million and 4 million Afghan refugees have returned to their country, its economy is growing, and Afghanistan is taking its place among the community of nations. ... But you will not hear Ted Kennedy or John Kerry breathe a word this. The Democrats, the left in this country, cannot possibly admit progress in the spread of democracy. They cannot do so because lately such progress has come about over their ferocious objections." -- NewsMax's quote of Rush from the January 2005 Limbaugh Letter, "Rush's must-read monthly newsletter" 2/19/05 Art Linkletter is angry that his grandchildren may not collect on the social security taxes they have paid, he said on the Neil Cavuto show yesterday. In regard to the AARP leadership's opposition to the President's initiative to reform social security, he noted that the organization was originally formed by an insurance company in order to sell insurance. For more on the AARP and its leadership regarding social security, click here. Charles Krauthammer notes that the pay-as-you-go social security system will be paying more out than comes in by 2018, thirteen years from now.
2/18/05 David Horowitz Crusades to Balance Political Influences in Higher Education -- click here. It is good to see someone doing something about the apparently rampant single-sided left wing indoctrination in many American colleges. An organized campaign to ensure more American history, American values and American ideals are included in K-12 text books would be even better.
2/17/05 Today's Sun News "Greenspan Endorses Bush Idea" headline on the president's social security proposal was welcome seldom-heard praise from a member of the media. The proposed private accounts empower poor people. Unlike the current practice of tapping social security taxes for other government uses, the private account plan returns will be individuals' own money that they can use as they see fit, including passing it on to heirs. The media research center reports "A night after ABC's World News Tonight centered a story around how a couple of GOP back benchers oppose President Bush's Social Security reform plan, the newscast on Wednesday . . . ignored Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's revelation to a Senate committee that he "approves" of creating private accounts. NBC and CBS briefly noted Greenspan's endorsement, but NBC excitedly hyped President Bush's comment that he would consider raising the income subject to the Social Security tax . . . ."
2/4/05 Washington Post forced to retract lies about the President's social security reform. Click here for details,
2/4/05 Do you remember all the left's backbiting scew-ups? If not, click here
1/30/05 Historic Day for Freedom. Hats off to the heroic Iraqis, men and women, who walked miles and stood in long lines to vote under threats of murder. The heroism of the estimated 500 in Mosul and even less in some areas -- although representing much smaller percentages than the overall estimated 72% of registered voters -- voted under overwhelming threats and deserve the utmost respect. Click here for more.
1/29/05 Aiding and abetting the enemy Click here for an essay by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan - a Task Force (Battalion +) Commander in Iraq - who has some words about the Fourth Estate.
1/24/05 Proposed social security changes will not affect those near retirement or current recipients. Younger people are overwhelmingly for this proposal which allows them to put a quarter of the payroll taxes they pay into social security into investments they will then own and will even be able to pass on to their heirs -- unlike the current system which puts those taxes into the general fund, at best yields low returns when it does pay, and, all sources agree, can not be sustained as it stands, for more than a few decades without further raising payroll taxes or lowering benefits. Comment: Why is social security a problem when Democrats are in power but not when the Republicans try to do something about it? The AARP should bug out. It does not have a dog in this fight other than its leadership's left-leaning Democrat Party bias. If the Democrats have a better plan, let's hear it.
1/24/05 "So just who is blocking the full Senate vote on Condoleezza Rice's secretary of state nomination? Why none other than the Grand Wizard of the KKK himself, Robert Byrd. Can you imagine if a white Republican who had been a former Klansman was blocking the nomination of a black liberal Democrat to be secretary of state? We would never hear the end of it....but the left-leaning media ignores this almost entirely." (Lifted in its entirety from the Neal Bortz web page, http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html)
1/11/05 Another Hillary Scandal. Click here.
1/05/05 Comment: We must not encourage an Iraqi election delay as some suggest. There is no reason to believe violence would diminish if elections are delayed. We think we have problems now. We would have more if the Shiite majority were to retaliate in a civil war before an elected Iraqi state is in place. Then we need to remove every possible reasonable perception of ongoing U.S. control and let the Iraqis work out their own destiny under a government of their majority's choosing. If the Sunnis choose not to participate in the election process and are even less represented, that is their choice
12/30/04 U.S. donations in 2004 exceeded more than 40% of the rest of the world. Yet the discredited/once-great New York Times joins other anti-American sources in belittling our contributions. Americans are, by far, the most generous people in the world.
At this point we have moved 13 ships, aircraft and troops in to help relief in the tsunami struck areas. President Bush has, so far, organized a coalition with Australia, Japan and India to help.
Comments: Given the U.N. Iraq oil-for-food scandal, we would be foolish to route funds through the U.N. The world would be better served to divert our U.N. dues to the tsunami victims. We could unearth even more funds for them from the profits we could glean from the valuable N.Y. real estate we could free up if we ejected the U.N.
BTW: How much have Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries done to help their fellow Muslims. The New York Times? France, so far, miniscule.
12/28/04 Click here for photos to see the gratitude of most Iraqis.
12/28/04 Many soldiers in Iraq have consistently given toys to Iraqi children. Recently a long line of military vehicles came to an abrupt halt. Upon receiving a radio demand for an explanation, those in the lead explained that there was a small child in the middle of the road who would not move. They were ordered to simply go around the child; there was room They did, but a following vehicle stopped and a soldier got out to see if the child was all right. He found the little girl holding a teddy bear in her arms that he recognized as one of those they gave to children. She pointed to a land mine in the road that the vehicles would have run over if she had not sat in front of the trucks. -- reported by radio host, Roger Hedgecock.
12/22/04 DeLay Blasts Rumsfeld's Critics -- click HERE.
12/21/04 Twenty of the 830 vehicles were not armored; these were armored within 24 hours of the highly publicized question to Rumsfeld -- General Speakes' statement concerning the unit of the the soldier who asked the question. A story is circulating that an investigation is underway to check the stamps on letters to American casualties to ascertain whether or not they have Rumsfeld's DNA :>)
12/18/04 The media has chosen to focus on Rumsfeld's closing remarks which appeared dismissive even though he had responded in greater detail to the armor question. The troops' prolonged standing ovation at the close of the conference is largely unreported. Many backbiting second-guessers are put-off by Rumsfeld's blunt plain-speaking style. He has won two wars while plagued by misleading intelligence "information."
12/12/04 Leadership has given inadequate attention to armoring of vehicles in Iraq against road bomb attacks, especially those associated with reserve units. Trucks in Iraq, although not normally considered military vehicles are among those that have clearly required armor protection installations urgently, given the nature of post-war attacks. Whether or not intended as another instance of media partisan anti-administration "gotcha," the question will result in needed urgent action
12/10/04 The whole premise of the "news" reporter put-up question to Rumsfeld by the soldier is false. Vehicles not yet armored are transported by truck to areas on which the armor is installed. Soldiers do not dig in the trash for armor. Source: letters from soldiers to the lady who organized the private air conditioner fund for troops, as reported on the radio by Rush Limbaugh (not Dan Rather).
11/23/04 U.S. Representatives Sensenbrenner and Hunter objections to the currently proposed legislation on intelligence reforms: Sensenbrenner strongly objects to the scuttling of measures to prevent illegals from getting drivers licenses and to make it easier to deport suspected terrorists. Hunter objects to putting bureaucrats between the military and satellite intelligence supporting combat troops. 12/08/2004 Update: The bill has been changed to Mr. Hunter's satisfaction and appears to be on its way to approval. Mr. Sensenbrenner vows to continue to get his objections (also having been recommended by the 9/11 commission) incorporated into subsequent law.
11/22/04 The buddy of the marine who shot the wounded Iraqi after someone said he was not dead was killed the day before by an Iraqi faking death. The marine shot the Iraqi immediately following a heated battle. Compare this to the blonde female body found by an Iraqi road with her arms and legs cut-off and her throat slit. Or compare it with the capture and cold-blooded execution, by Iraqi terrorists, of a female CARE worker who had dedicated 30 years of her life to helping the Iraqi people. -------------------- * George Edwards is the Webmaster of George's Information and Comments. Marian Edwards is its Research Analyst
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