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Gitmo detainees will use trials as “platform” to bash America
One of the Gitmo defendants’ lawyers confirms the obvious: The civilian trials for 9/11-linked enemy combatants are nothing more than a grand excuse to use our legal system to bash America and spread the jihadi virus on the world stage. [...] Read the rest »
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NYTimes has a concise overview of the options on the table in Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11... 80,000 was the first number proposed by the man who lied about the murder of Pat Tillman. It was rejected out of hand. That made 40,000 the new high figure. The new mid-range option is 25,000 to 30,000. If an "exit strategy" is Obama's prerequisite, then ...
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Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
Source: [b]Associated Press[/b] WASHINGTON – Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages ...
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Yoo still here?
It's late November and he really should be back in school (OK, maybe not ), but apparently torture advocate John Yoo still has the Inquirer's megaphone . Many of us were hoping that Yoo's time inside Philadelphia's newshole had expired. This week, he calls for the firing of Andy ...
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Three new Israeli medical technologies
Another day, another three new Israeli medical technologyies. Here's one that deals with skin cancer. A new Israeli invention allows cancerous tumors on the skin to be detected and examined before they become visible to the naked eye, Ben-Gurion University announced. In initial testing carried ...
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SNL on U.S. Debt to China
Have SNL’s writers been listening to Peter Schiff ? This must be the most substantive and the most anti-government sketch in the show’s history.
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Things That Don't Happen in America...
...because we never do anything wrong: Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by ...
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The Soapbox Demolition Derby
Defense lawyer says that 9/11 terrorists will plead not guilty so they can use courtroom as soapbox. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it." The ...
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Chino
Been having a yearning to go up and tour the warbird museum at Chino , and today got the chance to scratch that itch. Took Earl the Pearl up in Cardinal 217AF, since it had been a while. Did a downwind departure from Montgomery Field, and got Class B clearance from SoCal approach. Flight ...
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The French think that Jerry Lewis is a genius
Yossi Beilin the head of a party Israel that couldn’t garner more than three seats in Knesset, is nonetheless loved in France. He just received the French Legion of Honour . So a failure in his own country, Beilin can now tell himself how great he is because people who haven’t ...
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'They Accuse Him of Being a Terrorist, But Carlos Really Was a Revolutionary Fighter'
No wonder Bill Ayers digs this guy. In the bizarre world where Hugo Chavez resides, terrorists are freedom fighters, genocidal madmen are good friends and American liberals suck up to you to curry favor. No amount of idiocy that flows from his piehole is enough for the left to even denounce this ...
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The meal is set.
Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader and Mrs Villain have settled on the Thanksgiving Day feast. For those of you interested, here tis: Fried and raw oysters - fresh Rappahannock River/Chesapeake Bay oysters supplied by Capt’n Red on Tuesday. Smithfield Ham - not Darden’s ...
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Guardian Report: US Setting Aside $1.3 Billion For Anti-Taliban Afghan Militias
The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money for fighting against the Taliban, according to officials quoted in The Guardian . The program, known as Community Defense Initiative, is already in place ...
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Guardian Report: US Setting Aside $1.3 Billion For Anti-Taliban Afghan Militias
The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money for fighting against the Taliban, according to officials quoted in The Guardian . The program, known as Community Defense Initiative, is already in place ...
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"Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio"
"Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one -- as his home state of Ohio has proposed -- as long as ...
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The Coming Crash
The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna. For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files . There is also a multi-index listing here . I am preparing a text which I will publish at The Brussels Journal in the not-too-distant future, but I will begin ...
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Corporations: The Real Reason Obama is not Making Much Progress
by Johann Hari Almost a year after Barack Obama ascended to the White House, many of his supporters are bemused. His healthcare bill is a hefty improvement but it still won't provide coverage for all Americans, and may not provide a public alternative to the over-charging insurance companies - ...
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The Great Global Warming Fraud
Late last week, servers at Britain’s Climate Research Unit, a part of the University of East Anglia, were hacked and over 60 megabytes of data dumped onto the internet for public access. The data paints an ugly picture of scientists operating as political hacks orchestrating smear ...
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The Terrorists Will Plead Not Guilty
It should not be surprising to learn, though it may make your blood pressure go up. The terrorists who orchestrated 9/11 and masterminded the deaths of thousands of Americans will plead not guilty . They will use their case to try American foreign policy. Fox News has the details . Scott ...
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The Scientific Scandal of the Millennium
A new release of private scientific correspondence shows an astonishing conspiracy to manipulate and suppress evidence by top researchers in the field of Newtonian physics: Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment ‘thinking’ . If you own any ...
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