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• Disney to Finance Michael Moore Anti–American Documentary

• Disney’s American Parks Protected by No-Fly Zones

• Political Correctness Contributed to New York Times Plagiarism Scandal

• Farrakhan’s Son Nasir Arrested on Multiple Charges in Hit and Run in Indiana

• Head of Simon Wiesenthal Center Tells Paris Intolerance Conference Anti–Semitism Highest Since WW II

• California Lawsuit Claims Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils Too Dangerous for Children

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MICKEY MOORE: DISNEY TO FINANCE NEW BUSH-BASHING DOCUMENTARY

Disney’s action typifies the “anything for a buck” attitude of corporate America. Producing phony “documentaries” (Moore stages many of the events he “documents”) with anti-American lies is not detrimental to winning the War on Terrorism.

The WALT DISNEY CO. is set to spend millions financing a new explosive Bush-bashing documentary from Michael Moore [BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE] -- a documentary which claims bin Laden was greatly enriched by the Bush family!

DISNEY Parks Shielded With No-Fly Zones...

What’s wrong with this picture? The government gives preferential treatment to a corporation which is undermining our war effort. The rational policy would be to remove the special protection under the rationale that Disney’s limited loyalty to this country has won it limited protection against terrorists.

Walt Disney World and Disneyland have no-fly security zones like only a few other potential targets in the United States, according to a Local 6 News report.

SAFIRE PLEA TO NYT COLLEAGUES: NO SELF-ABSORPTION...

This is hardly new; MLK, Jr. plagiarized materials for his doctoral dissertation.

Just about everyone at this newspaper is sick at heart at the way one Times reporter betrayed our readers and all of us with his sustained deceit and plagiarism.

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Apparently this 27-year-old was given too many second chances by editors eager for this ambitious black journalist to succeed. As he moved to more responsible assignments, some editors failed to pass along assessments of his past shortcomings while others felt the need to protect the confidentiality of his troubles. Result: the con artist gamed a system that celebrates diversity and opportunity.

Nation of Islam leader’s son jailed...

Perhaps his daddy told me that “antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture.”

The 44-year-old son of Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan was arrested by the Indiana State Police following a hit-and-run incident early Saturday afternoon.

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The probable cause charges are:

-- Operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

 -- Driving with a suspended license.

-- Leaving the scene of personal injury accident.

-- Possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hatred of Jews at highest level since World War II, rights group warns...

The natural consequence of the Palestinians becoming a “progressive” cause.

An international conference on intolerance opened Monday with a stern warning that acts of hatred against Jews, particularly in Europe, have reached their highest level since World War II.

Lawsuit seeks to ban sale of Oreo cookies to children in California...

Trans fat is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Varieties of hydrogenated vegetable oils have been in use for decades.

Oreo cookies should be banned from sale to children in California, according to a lawsuit filed by a San Francisco attorney who claims that trans fat -- the stuff that makes the chocolate cookies crisp and their filling creamy -- is so dangerous children shouldn't eat it.

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• Most Leftists Unfamiliar With Foreign Affairs

• New York Mayor Thinks Tax Increase Will Stimulate Its Economy

• Victory Over Saddam Dashes Dems’ Foreign Policy Hopes

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Socialists aren’t “builders;” they promote destructive Left-wing nihilism. If Mr. Totten knew anything about history he’d know that socialism doesn’t work.

After September 11, I discovered an intellectual weakness on the left that I never noticed before. For some reason, perhaps for several reasons, liberals and leftists are bored by the outside world.

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… If you want to find someone who knows the history of prewar Nazi Germany, the Middle East during the Cold War, or the partition of India and Pakistan, you're better off looking to the right than to the left.

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… That we shouldn't meddle in other countries if our own country needs work is also a liberal idea. It partly explains why Tom Daschle focused on prescription pills for old people in wartime.

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Conservatives are more likely to study prewar Nazi Germany because they're watching out for a repeat. The right side of the blogosphere laughed uproariously when antiwar protesters carried placards that said "Peace in Our Time." The left just didn't get the reference. …

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Radical leftists think the Bush administration is like the Nazi Party for one specific reason: They haven't studied the rise of the Nazis. They truly believe the comparison is apt not because they misunderstand Republicans, but because they misunderstand Hitler.

Apparently Mayor Bloomberg believes high taxes are part of the solution rather than part of the problem. A much better approach would be to reduce government spending.

The quote about Ben Tre is a famous part of the “anti-war” propaganda of the Vietnam Era. It was a politically correct denial of the reality that many towns in France were “destroyed in order to save them” in World War II. One wonders if Arnett made the whole thing up.

Michael Bloomberg seems to think he's mayor of Ben Tre. That's the Vietnamese city etched into history by the quote "It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it."

The original quote was attributed to an anonymous army major in an AP dispatch by Peter Arnett of more recent notoriety. But whatever its provenance, it describes Mayor Bloomberg's answer to the New York financial crisis--a slew of tax increases certain to speed the downward spiral. …

Leiberman called the Supreme Court’s Bush v Gore decision “profoundly unfair.”

For Democratic activists, America's rapid military victory in Iraq ended the dream that on foreign policy the country would come to them. …

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• Blind Pursuit of “Diversity” Leads to Scandal at New York Times

• France Becoming an Anti-Western Muslim Country

• Left Claims Jewish Conservatives in Bush Administration Working Against US

• New Book on History of the Gulag

• Iraq Intelligence Files Show Saddam Infiltrated Al-Jazeera

• Qatar Educator Denounces Deceptions of Arab Media

• Al Qaeda Used Images, Including Porn, to Conceal Messages

• North Korean Ship Caught Smuggling Heroin in Australia

• Speculation on Hillary 2004 Presidential Bid

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Perhaps the Times should change its slogan to “all the plagiarism that’s fit to print.”

The New York Times refused to review William McGowan’s blockbuster book, Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism (Encounter Books, 2001). New York Times Book Review editor Chip McGrath said it would not be appropriate for the Times to review a book that was so critical of the Times. But such a review might have alerted Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., and his editors, who vigorously promote "diversity" in the news business, to a well-documented exposé of the corruption that quite possibly led to the Jayson Blair scandal. …

France will become a Muslim country. French leaders know it. They will never take a decision that could make young radical Muslims angry. It’s one of the reasons why they could not support the United States during the war in Iraq. The results would have been riots in the suburbs, and the French police is ill equipped to face riots. French leaders have no choice except to be the leaders of the Arab-Muslim world. They accepted too many things to go backward now. The rift between France and the United States will become bigger and bigger. France is already the main enemy of western civilization. The most dangerous enemy is always the enemy within, and France is the enemy within. What France has become could have consequences for Europe and for the world. The faster France appears dangerous and powerless, the better.

Mentions disproportionate numbers of Jews on the Left.

Mentions German National Socialist belief in the Jew as Capitalist Exploiter as well as the Jew as Bolshevik Revolution.

The socialism of fools

Is there any connection between the Jewish neocons and their Jewishness? Perhaps a good university dissertation could be written on that, drawing on the Jewish tradition of seeking to change the world - from Christ to Marx. But any such thesis would also have to explain the consistent Jewish presence on the left, out of all proportion to their numbers. Maybe Jews are found sitting around the neocon table, but they are also found organising today's anti-war movement - to say nothing of the white ranks of both the anti-apartheid struggle and the 1960s campaign for civil rights in the US.

Real anti-semites are not troubled by that contradiction: they just say that Jews are behind everything. The Nazis used to depict the Jew as the master Bolshevik and master capitalist - often in the same sentence. But this kind of warped logic can have no place among liberals or the left.

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The 19th century German socialist August Bebel called anti-semitism the socialism of fools, the belief that the world can be understood by looking for the hidden hand that makes everything happen. …

Amazon.com link to Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

… Unlike Nazism, communism has never been put on trial, never been condemned unequivocally by any international body.

As a result, we live in a time of double standards, which we have become so used to that we don't even notice the most ridiculous manifestations of this moral schizophrenia. …

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… If we do not try harder to remember the history of the other half of the European continent, the history of the other 20th-century totalitarian regime, in the end it is we in the West who will not understand our past, we who will not know how our world came to be the way it is. …

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… The ghost of the Gulag is still wandering among us, and Applebaum's book is a first attempt to exorcise it.

Some of the files the INC claims it recovered - seen by The Sunday Times - apparently reveal how Iraqi agents infiltrated the Al-Jazeera television station, dubbed "the CNN of the Arab world", in an attempt to subvert its coverage of Saddam's regime. The station, claim the documents, was an "instrument" of the regime.

Sheikh 'Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari is dean of the Faculty of Shar'iah (Islamic Law) at Qatar University and is known for his liberal positions. …

Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque say they have uncovered images of the twin towers that were downloaded just days before the 9/11 attacks, as well as a trove of pornographic photos they believe were used to conceal coded messages.

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The practice is known as steganography. Read a Brian Ross report to find out more.

Interesting. Devout Muslims keeping pornographic images on PC’s in a mosque.

U.S. officials say the capture is proof of their long-standing charge that the North Korean government has for years operated as a crime syndicate, smuggling drugs and counterfeit money around the world to generate income to keep itself alive.

Polls conducted by Zogby International and Marist College of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., show Clinton with high negative job ratings. In the Marist poll, 47 percent considered Clinton's job performance either excellent or good. Forty-nine percent rated it either fair or poor. The Zogby poll measured the same overall favorable rating, 47 percent, but revealed that 51 percent considered Clinton to have done either a fair or poor job as senator.

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• Arkansas Congressional Delegation Supports Bill to Limit Gun Manufacturer’s Liability

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• Laudatory Obitiuary of “Firebrand Social Reformer” Mamie Ruth Williams

• Charles Krauthammer: Arafat Still Has Power in Palestinian Authority

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Arkansas lawmakers, with one exception, have sided with the gun industry in the debate over whether victims of gun violence should be able to sue companies that made or sold the weapon.

The lawmakers say that it’s unfair to hold gun manufacturers and dealers responsible for the acts of a person who uses the gun to commit a crime.

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"To me, it makes no more sense to hold them responsible any more than holding a car manufacturer responsible if somebody steals a car and then runs over somebody," said Republican Rep. John Boozman. "How can that be the fault of the manufacturer?"

Vic Snyder didn’t support this legislation.

• John Edwards, “who is vying for his party’s presidential nomination and has previously stated his objections to same-sex marriages, told the nation’s largest homosexual political organization that he supports gay adoptions and will fight for legislation to combat hate crimes and workplace discrimination.”
• Monica Lewinsky wrote that parents should be protected against testifying against their parents in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece. Her mother was called to testify in the Clinton sexual harassment scandal.

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Williams, 76, was a member of the Woman’s Emergency Committee, an organization formed by Adolphine Terry that pushed for racial integration of Little Rock’s schools in the late 1950s.

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From her parents, she inherited a strong sense of social justice and used that fervor in support of several candidates she felt would help dismantle Gov. Orval Faubus’ power base in Arkansas. Sid McMath, Sam Boyce, Ted Boswell and Dale Bumpers benefited from her work, he said.

Roast beef and potatoes were a staple at her home as she fed community activists such as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or people with Arkansas Consumer Research, the earliest roots of ACORN, and the Election Research Council.

“Social justice” is frequently used as a euphemism for socialism.

My recollection is that the SNCC supported the Vietnamese Communists in the Vietnam Era.

… As long as Yasser Arafat wields power, there can and will be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians. …

Krauthammer says that new Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen’s cabinet is packed with Yasser Arafat loyalists.

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