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Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a
Frenchman who lives in Canada.
– Ted Nugent
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DrudgeReport.com France
Infuriates Britain By Rejecting Proposal Without Consideration
Secret Surrender
by Iraqi Military Officials |
Robert Blake Must Stand Trial
Arrest in
California 9/11 Memorial Vandalism |
HBO Stops ‘Sopranos’ Shoot
Congresswoman Wants GI’s Buried in France Returned
Appelate
Court Says Declaration of War Unnecessary |
Dim Dems Want Bill of
Impeachment
Elizabeth Smart
Could Hear Searchers’ Calls |
Russian Army to Ban Gays |
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Britain furious at 'extraordinary' French statement...
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“Britain furious at 'extraordinary'
French statement.” The Independent (UK). March 13, 2003. "What I however find extraordinary is that without
even proper consideration the French Government decided they will reject
these proposals adding to the statement that whatever the circumstances
France will vote no'," he [UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw] said. |
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Iraqi 'Secret Surrender' Efforts Under Way...
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Starr, Barbara. “Iraqi 'secret
surrender' negotiations under way.” CNN. March 13, 2003. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. officials told CNN Wednesday
that "secret surrender" negotiations have begun with key Iraqi military
officials in hopes some military units will not fight U.S. and coalition
forces should there be a war.
Communications with these Iraqi military officials
are not being handled by the Pentagon, but instead by other "elements" of
the U.S. government, the officials said.
One senior official said some elements of the Iraqi
military may have already agreed not to fight. This underscores assessments
by both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency that the leadership
around Saddam Hussein is "brittle." Officials have been making that
assessment somewhat public as part of their effort to publicize Saddam's
vulnerability.
Officials, however, say specifics cannot be
detailed out of concern Saddam could enact retribution. |
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Judge orders Robert Blake to stand trial in slaying of wife...
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Deutsch, Linda. “Blake Ordered to
Stand Trial on Charges.” The Washington Post (AP). March 13, 2003. Actor
Robert Blake
must stand trial on charges of murdering wife Bonny Lee Bakley, a judge
ruled Thursday after a lengthy hearing of prosecution evidence.
Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash also ruled that
Blake's handyman-bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, will be tried on a count of
conspiracy, although he noted a jury might have difficulty with it.
Nash cited the "extreme hostility" of Blake toward
his wife and said that the actor "had the time, the opportunity, the motive
to commit the shooting."
In addition to murder, Blake is charged with
solicitation, conspiracy and a special circumstance of lying in wait. |
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UPDATE: Arrest made at vandalized 9-11 Memorial; Police say woman accused
in assault...
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Trunnell, Debbie Pheiffer. “Arrest
made at Memorial: Police say woman accused in assault.” San Gabriel
Valley Tribune. March 13, 2003. LA HABRA -- A
19-year-old Orange County woman is free today after La Habra police arrested
her for allegedly assaulting a woman who maintains a patriotic display on a
fence here.
Jennifer Quintana was booked on suspicion of
misdemeanor assault Tuesday after police responded to a call that she had
pushed and poked two women at the scene of a memorial display for Sept. 11,
2001, victims at Whittier Boulevard and Macy Street, according to La Habra
Police spokesman Cindy Knapp.
Knapp issued the statement at a press conference
Wednesday.
Parts of the incident at the memorial fence which was
vandalized during the weekend were filmed by television news camera
operators and shown on the late news Tuesday night.
News reports Tuesday of unknown vandals on Saturday
burning and ripping American flags, destroying flowers and putting up
antiwar signs to replace patriotic messages on the fence were picked up and
disseminated by the Drudge Report on the Internet, triggering a massive,
national e-mail reaction as well as a media frenzy.
Knapp reported that when Quintana came on the scene
Tuesday evening she pushed one woman out of the way, then grabbed and poked
Tracey Chandler, the Whittier mother of four who has maintained the memorial
following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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A police press release reported that witnesses said
Quintana walked through the crowd making comments about her involvement in
the vandalism including flag burning over the weekend. However, Knapp said
that information at the time of the press conference was insufficient to
arrest her for the vandalism. |
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HBO Suspends 'Sopranos' Filming...
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“Report: HBO Suspends 'Sopranos'
Filming.” The Washington Post (AP). March 13, 2003. HBO has suspended filming of "The Sopranos" due to a
contract dispute with the show's star, James Gandolfini, newspapers said.
Network executives told cast members that work on the
fifth season of the hit show about a New Jersey mob family has been
postponed indefinitely, the Daily News and the New York Post reported in
Thursday editions. Filming had been scheduled to begin on March 24.
Gandolfini, who plays mob boss Tony Soprano, is
reportedly seeking upward of $1 million an episode, while HBO has offered
$800,000. Gandolfini currently earns about $400,000 an episode. |
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CONGRESSWOMAN
WANTS TO BRING GIs BURIED IN FRANCE BACK HOME...
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Abrams, Jim. “Bill Targets U.S.
Troops Buried in France.” Akron Beacon Journal. March 13, 2003. WASHINGTON - In another swipe at the French, a Florida
congresswoman has proposed that the government pay for families who might
want to bring home from France the remains of Americans who fought and died
in the world wars.
"I, along with many other Americans, do not feel
that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in
uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today," Rep.
Ginny Brown-Waite said in introducing legislation providing financial help
for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars. |
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U.S. Court Rejects Appeal to Block War...
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Frost, Greg. “U.S. Court Rejects
Appeal to Block War.” The Washington Post (Reuters). March 13, 2003. BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday
upheld a lower court's ruling that rejected a legal bid by a group of
soldiers and U.S. lawmakers to keep President Bush from invading Iraq
without a formal declaration of war by Congress.
A three-judge panel for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals posted an opinion on its Web site (http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/) in
which it affirmed U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro's decision to dismiss the
lawsuit.
"The case before us is a somber and weighty one.
We have considered these important concerns carefully, and we have concluded
that the circumstances call for judicial restraint," Judge Sandra Lynch
wrote in the ruling. |
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Meeting Assembled By
Conyers Mulls Seeking Bush's Impeachment Over Iraq...
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“Meeting Assembled By Conyers Mulls
Seeking Bush's Impeachment Over Iraq.” The Drudge Report. March 13, 2003. House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.)
assembled more than two-dozen prominent liberal attorneys and legal scholars
on Tuesday to mull over articles of impeachment drafted against President
Bush by activists seeking to block military action against Saddam Hussein.
ROLL CALL is reporting on Thursday.
The two-hour session, which featured former
attorney general-turned-activist Ramsey Clark,
took place in the downtown office of a prominent Washington tort lawyer. … |
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Elizabeth Smart could hear searchers' calls...
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“Elizabeth Smart could hear
searchers' calls.” CNN. March 13, 2003. |
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RUSSIAN ARMY TO
BAN GAYS...
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“Russian army to ban gays.” BBC
News. March 13, 2003. Russia
is to introduce new regulations which will ban homosexuals, drug addicts and
alcoholics from serving in the armed forces. |
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OpinionJournal.com
Hollywood’s Partisan
Patriotism
| Vietnam F-105 Pilot’s Memoir
Saddam’s French Connection |
San
Francisco Park Fountain Treated Like a Toilet
Understanding the New
World Disorder |
Yankee
Crusader Fights Baton Rouge Strip Clubs |
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John
Fund's Political Diary
Hollywood celebs aren't
antiwar. They just hate the president.
Other personalities mentioned:
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Fund, John. “Stars and Gripes.”
OpinionJournal.com. March 13, 2003. Hollywood
celebrities have become the most visible opponents of liberating Iraq. But
as proof that where you stand depends on whether your friends are in power,
let's look back at how those same celebrities reacted when Bill Clinton
deployed U.S. power in Afghanistan, Sudan and Kosovo.
Actor Mike Farrell,
best known for his role as Trapper John's replacement in "M*A*S*H," has
emerged as a leading antiwar activist. This month, he even engaged in a
surreal debate on geopolitics with former senator Fred Thompson on "Meet the
Press." "It is inappropriate," Farrell declared, "for the administration to
trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war." |
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Leisure &
Arts BY DANIEL FORD
A combat pilot's Vietnam
story.
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Ford, Daniel. “Combat and Courage:
A pilot's Vietnam story.” OpinionJournal.com. March 13, 2003. More than half the F-105s ever built were lost in
Southeast Asia, mostly to North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and missiles.
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… Over North Vietnam, it was OK to attack a missile
site if it fired at him but not if it was still under construction. …
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On one mission, he and his $15 million aircraft were
risked in an attempt to destroy 50 barrels of petroleum--about as much fuel
as his F-105 burned in the attempt. Returning to Thailand with flak holes in
the wing and hydraulic systems gone, he had to report his troubles as a
"mishap" because officially there were no warplanes in Thailand, hence no
battle damage was possible.
… Indeed, the Air Force lost so many F-105
drivers in Vietnam that it conscripted bomber and cargo pilots to replace
them, retraining them in shorter courses with more students. Of the first
such group, 15 of 16 lost their lives or freedom in Southeast Asia. |
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Best
of the Web Today BY JAMES TARANTO
Are we witnessing
the final days of the U.N.? Plus Iraqi soldiers are already
surrendering! |
Taranto, James. “Best of the Web
Today.” OpinionJournal.com. March 13, 2003. |
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The French Connection |
Safire, William. “The French Connection.”
The New York Times. March 13, 2003.
France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American
and British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the
world to discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying
Saddam Hussein with materials used in building long-range
surface-to-surface missiles.
We're not talking about short-range Al
Samoud 2 missiles, which Saddam is ostentatiously destroying to help
his protectors avert an invasion, nor his old mobile Scuds. The
delivery system for mass destruction warheads requires a much more
sophisticated propulsion system and fuels. |
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A Step Toward U.N. Withdrawal?
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Lelchuch, Ilene. “City gives up on U.N.
Plaza fountain Can't keep it clean, puts fence around it.” San
Francisco Chronicle.
The spraying fountain in San Francisco's United
Nations Plaza is used as a toilet, bathtub and crack den more often
than a soothing place to relax and read a book.
That, city officials say, is why they fenced it
off Tuesday and are considering removing it after battling for years
to keep it clean and safe.
"It's become an intolerable situation, and we
don't have additional resources to continually clean it," said Alex
Mamak, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works.
Department crews clean out human filth and
hypodermic needles every morning, only to find a new mess the next
morning, Mamak said.
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Critics said Tuesday this was the city's
latest effort to discourage drug dealers and shoo away homeless people
who have traditionally lounged around United Nations Plaza and nearby
Civic Center Plaza. |
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Understanding the
New World Disorder Here are a pair of fascinating (but long) articles
exploring issues pertinent to the current conflict: On
TechCentralStation.com,
Lee Harris (whose brilliant Policy Review essays
on al Qaeda's fantasy ideology and the
intellectual roots of anti-Americanism have
appeared on this Web site) argues that the coming intervention in Iraq
"will constitute one of those momentous turning points of history in
which one nation under the guidance of a strong-willed, self-confident
leader undertakes to alter the fundamental state of the world. It is,
to use the language of Hegel, an event that is world-historical
in its significance and scope. And it will be world-historical, no
matter what the outcome may be."
And in Esquire,
Thomas P.M. Barnett of the Naval War College
divides the world into two parts: "Show me where globalization is
thick with network connectivity, financial transactions, liberal media
flows, and collective security, and I will show you regions featuring
stable governments, rising standards of living, and more deaths by
suicide than murder. These parts of the world I call the Functioning
Core, or Core. But show me where globalization is thinning or just
plain absent, and I will show you regions plagued by politically
repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass
murder, and--most important--the chronic conflicts that incubate the
next generation of global terrorists. These parts of the world I call
the Non-Integrating Gap, or Gap." It is from this Gap that terrorism
arises, and bringing these countries into the Core is crucial for
America's national security. "If gated communities and rent-a-cops
were enough, September 11 never would have happened." |
Harris, Lee. “Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology.” OpinionJournal.com.
August 13, 2002.
Harris, Lee. “Marx Without the Realism: The intellectual roots of
America-bashing.” OpinionJournal.com. January 15, 2003.
Barnett, Thomas P.M. “The Pentagon’s New Map.” U.S. Naval War
College. (was also published in the March, 2003 issue of Esquire)
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Taliban Watch |
McMillan, John. “Crusader tackles strip
clubs: Mother working for changes in Ascension law.” The Advocate
(Baton Rouge). March 12, 2003. Goppelt, a
1972 University of Iowa graduate, said she sees the clubs as having a
negative secondary effect on the morals and well-being of the
community. |
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FrontPageMag.com
‘Anti-war’
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Robbing the Cradle For The Revolution
By Brian Sayre
A "peace" organizer is coming to a
school near you to recruit your child for a Communist cause.
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Sayre, Brian. “Robbing the Cradle
For The Revolution.” FrontPageMagazine.com. March 13, 2003. Sarah Sloan is a bespectacled young woman in her early
20s, who looks like a typical college student. When she is speaking to
audiences whom she wants enlist in the movement that has become her life,
she presents herself as one of the chief organizers for International
ANSWER, the main group behind the anti-war protests. She speaks both at
rallies and in high schools to oppose the war.
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, as anti-American
violence looms, radicals like Sarah Sloan have been making multiple attempts
to recruit high-school teenagers - and not without some success. At a
student strike at Stanford on March 5, 2003, where
students were being directly recruited to perform illegal acts in
direct-action 'affinity groups,' approximately twenty students from Palo
Alto's Jordan Middle School cut class to attend, without the permission or
supervision of the school.
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If the anti-war demonstrations were only about a
peaceful, reasoned criticism of foreign policy, there'd be little for
parents (or others) to fear. Unfortunately, the people behind today's
anti-war demonstrations have more sinister agendas. Teenage rebellion can be
only a phase. But when impressionable young people fall in with unscrupulous
radicals, the damage to their future may be permanent. America is under
attack from within as well as from without. In the crisis that confronts us,
we need better and more caring parents than Sarah Sloan's. |
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Liberals Feign Logic
By Ann Coulter
The Left's emotional fuming isn't
convincing viewers anymore; neither should its "rational" arguments.
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Coulter, Ann. “Liberals Feign
Logic.” FrontPageMagazine.com. March 13, 2003. |
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The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt
By Oriana Fallaci
I know war well. I know what it means
to live in terror, to run under air strikes and cannoades, to see people
killed and houses destroyed,...to feel responsible for someone else's death.
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Bring on the War - for Everyone's Sake
By Mark Steyn
With even the Iraqi army over-anxious
to surrender, it's time to get it over with.
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Double Standards
By Michael P. Tremoglie
The Left's smokescreen on presidential
military service and war.
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Scary Times for Jews on Campus
By Margaret Wente
Welcome to York University in Toronto,
where Jewish students now get physically beaten.
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An Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch
By Charlie Daniels
Hollywood mugwumps should get off
their soapboxes and visit some real Americans.
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France: From Great to Ingrate
By Dick Morris
An open letter to the French.
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"Peace" Protesters Attack Navy Man
By Donald Sensing
The peace movement bares its violent
teeth.
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Thompson, Mark. “Opening
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Balko, Radley. “Nader Scams College
Kids.” FOX News. March 13, 2003. |
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