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SEALs-Bashing

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:12:16 +0000

How’s this for perversity? Three Navy SEALs who aided in capturing a top terrorist in Iraq have been hit with a courts-martial — because the terrorist received a bloody lip during his initial detention. How ironic, remarks the editors of the New York Post , the contrast between ...

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Obama may allow Americans to be tried for war crimes in The Hague

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:47:49 +0000

Why wouldn't the Post-American President allow this? After all, he already plans to try the CIA members who interrogated jihadis at Gitmo , and Navy Seals who captured a top jihadist . Why should he have any problem with this? "Prosecuting American 'War Crimes': The International Criminal ...

Gateway Pundit found this 36 minutes ago on jihadwatch.org

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What scandal? How many soldiers would have been killed when the Taliban used the fuel trucks as bombs?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Minister Jung Resigns amid Afghanistan Airstrike Scandal The Taliban and its Islamists cohorts kill civilians all the time, intentionally. It's not as if the fuel trucks were left out as bait cars. The trucks were ambushed and the truck drivers were killed or wounded. What the heck is going ...

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So, he wasn't forced by Hitler to hate Jews...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:08:00 +0000

In Bed with Benito Sex Diaries Reveal Mussolini's Soft Side By Alexander Smoltczyk Mussolini's mistress, Clara Petacci, recorded intimate details of her affair with Il Duce in her journal. Her newly published diary reveals Mussolini as a sex-addicted anti-Semite who found Hitler "very likeable" ...

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Taxing the Speculators

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:01:38 +0000

Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation? Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of London, one of the world’s two great banking centers. Other European governments agree and they’re right. Unfortunately, United States officials especially Timothy Geithner, the ...

Daily Kos found this 12 hours ago on nytimes.com

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Still Doing God's Work on Wall Street

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:03:14 +0000

Robert Scheer is the editor of Truthdig , where this article originally appeared. His latest book is The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve). Jail, anyone? Perhaps that's too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held ...

Daily Kos found this 29 hours ago on thenation.com

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Colorado Calf Mutilations, Caribbean Weirdness, Special K Street

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Paul Krugman David Harsanyi Robert Scheer Eugene Robinson "Is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown?" - Robert ...

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outrageous, but laughable: Iran confiscates Ebadi's Nobel Prize

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:10:57 +0000

This is not just heavy-handed and the perfect stereotype of police-state thuggery, but also oddly clownish and pathetic: Iranian authorities confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is ...

Dean's World found this 3 hours ago on blog.beliefnet.com

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ide With the Troops or Side With Iran -- Guess Which Obama Chose

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:27:03 +0000

If you said the troops, you fail. Barack Obama has sided with Iran's Islamist government over a US court decision intended to provide restitution to the families of Marines killed in the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut....

Rhymes With Right posted 117 minutes ago from rhymeswithright.mu.nu

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News from a Fundamentalist Christian Viewpoint

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:27:18 +0000

PDF VERSION FRIDAY CHURCH NEWS NOTES November 27, 2009, Volume 10, Issue 48 The Friday Church News Notes is designed for use in churches and is published by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Unless otherwise stated, the Notes are written by David Cloud. Of ...

Patrick Adkins posted 117 minutes ago from politicalbyline.com

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To Kos, Taliban's Real Crime Is Being Un-PC

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:01:54 +0000

Want to understand the liberal mind? Check out Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas on this evening's Schultz show . . Why does Kos say he hates the Taliban? Because they aided and abetted Osama Bin Laden in the murder of thousands of Americans? Nope. That they are actively involved in ...

Rhymes With Right found this 2 hours ago on newsbusters.org

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A Quote To Remember

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:01:54 +0000

Next time Markos "Kos" Moulistas endorses a candidate or supports a political measure, we don't just have to remind he American public about how he supported the murder of Americans in Iraq a few years back -- we now have...

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Daniel Schwammenthal: Prosecuting American 'War Crimes'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:19:39 +0000

DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL The Hague Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could ...

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Irony of the Day: Iran Seizes Nobel Peace Prize

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:00:39 +0000

What a great bunch these people are: Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadi’s medal was ...

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Did an Indian Diplomat Help the Salahis Crash the White House? - fameballs

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:12:09 +0000

The Secret Service is currently investigating how fameballs Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed Obama's first state dinner, Bravo camera crew in tow . We have a theory: Their polo buddy, Indian ambassador Arun K. Singh, got them in on the DL. In the photo album Michaele Salahi posted on her ...

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The Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:50:25 +0000

The Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe Step 1: Go buy a turkey Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey (Scotch) Step 3: Put turkey in the oven Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink Step 7: Turn oven the on Step 8: ...

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The perfect example of socialist production principles: Venezuela’s Venirauto

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:18:32 +0000

The Economist has a brief case study of automotive ineptitude SELDOM, since the day Adolf Hitler gave the order to produce the Volkswagen, has a car been given such an explicitly ideological mission. But the vehicles that roll, occasionally, off the production line at Venirauto’s factory, ...

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Vincent Gray on Climategate: ‘There Was Proof of Fraud All Along’ (PJM Exclusive)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:24:00 +0000

IPCC Expert Reviewer Gray — whose 1,898 comments critical of the 2007 report were ignored — recently found that proof of the fraud was public for years.

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Mission accomplishable (II)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:07:50 +0000

( Part one here ) Four years ago this weekend, President Bush unveiled his U.S. National Strategy for Victory in Iraq in a speech at the US Naval Academy. Now President Obama will be doing the same for Afghanistan - but his speech will be given at West Point. They're different , you see. ...

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IAEA votes to censure Iran over nuclear program

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:55 +0000

Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 27, 2009; 2:16 PM

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Global Warming Hoax Enabler: The Lancet

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:40:36 +0000

The Lancet, a once respected and prestigious British Medical Journal, has sold its credibility and its reputation cheaply once again. The last time was when it developed and published a fake survey of Iraq war deaths at the behest of George Soros. That survey was proven to be wildly in ...

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Warmists Caught Fudging Data in New Zealand

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:38:53 +0000

Global warming is manmade, all right. It's made by men in lab coats who angle for government grants by fudging the data. Right on the heels of ClimateGate we have this news from New Zealand : The New Zealand Government's chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging ...

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Concern About Dubai Debt Hits Wall Street

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:38:08 +0000

Wall Street ended the day lower on Friday, reacting to reports that Dubai World, the emirate’s investment vehicle, was seeking to suspend repayments on all or part of its $59 billion in debt for six months. The exchanges all closed lower on a shortened trading session with light volume. At the ...

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Turkey Testicle Festival

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:29:13 +0000

Damn. I knew I wanted to got to Huntley for something. Click here to view the embedded video. MMMM Turkey Testicles. LOL Chip in for my golf addiction Share and Enjoy: > ...

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Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:38:41 +0000

[Please subscribe for more exclusive stories like this one] By Barry Rubin In a one-paragraph statement welcoming Israel’s ten-month-long freeze on building apartments in existing West Bank settlements, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a major statement. The dramatic new U.S. stance on ...

Solomonia found this 6 hours ago on rubinreports.blogspot.com

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Reality Sucks

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:35:00 +0000

By Josh Kim The White House State Dinner is not your typical MTV episode of Cribs: It is a time-honored function of statecraft in which the leader of a visiting nation is ceremoniously received by our President. To any serious citizen, no matter the political affiliation, the State Dinner's ...

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Jonah Goldberg

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:42:00 +0000

And of course, global warming also causes:

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Annals of Government Medicine

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:10:44 +0000

Hospital conditions in the United Kingdom are frequently appalling, but the Basildon and Thurrock University National Health Service Hospitals are especially bad, with hundreds of preventable deaths occurring yearly. The Telegraph headlines, "Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital ...

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Harvard’s 16 Medal of Honor Heroes

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:26:13 +0000

On the occasion of Veterans Day, I wrote about Medal of Honor recipients in general, but specifically about how one would expect that many of the Medal of Honor recipients would be graduates of our service academies. And indeed, 82 West Point graduates and 74 Annapolis graduates have gone on ...

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The Copenhagen Diagnosis

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:01:03 +0000

Executive summary The most significant recent climate change findings are: Surging greenhouse gas emissions: Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher than those in 1990. Even if global emission rates are stabilized at present day levels, just 20 more years ...

Little Green Footballs found this 3 days ago on copenhagendiagnosis.com

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New Report: Existing Public Option Provisions Would Not Lower Costs, Better To ‘Trigger’ Robust Public Plan

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:02:55 +0000

A new report from the Urban Institute argues that a “strong” public option triggered in the event that overall growth in national health spending exceeds a pre-determined target, may do more to control health care spending than the public option proposals offered in existing ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 5 hours ago on wonkroom.thinkprogress.org

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ClimateGate: Adjusting temperature data down under

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:56:23 +0000

The right side of the blogosphere is in a Thanksgiving tizzy over today's news that New Zealand's climate studies center has manipulated (or "adjusted") temperature data over the last century to show lots of warming when the raw data shows very little. Coming as it does in the wake of the leaked ...

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Don't you wonder what these countries are afraid of?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Rwanda: African nations block genocide suspects hunt

jhudock posted 6 hours ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama's Cap and Trade laws

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:37 +0000

Just a few considerations in addition to previous remarks about the explosion of the East Anglia Climategate e-mails in America. The reaction is growing exponentially there. Fox News, Barack Obama’s Nemesis, is now on the case, trampling all over Al Gore’s organic vegetable patch and breaking ...

United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty ... found this 10 hours ago on blogs.telegraph.co.uk

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Norway says Iran confiscated Nobel Peace Prize from Iranian activist

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:42:00 +0000

Norway says Iran confiscated Nobel Peace Prize from Iranian activist

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Administration praises rebuke of Iran

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:03:04 +0000

Officials say it's an important milestone in international efforts to crack down on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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White House Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi May Face Criminal Charges, Says Secret Service

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:38:04 +0000

WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) America's most successful party crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who stormed the gates of a White House state dinner and somehow managed to get in, may soon be facing criminal charges, according to the Secret Service. Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin says the agency is ...

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Major Nidal Hasan had an enabler

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:34:34 +0000

Ever since this magazine attracted the attention of Canada’s “human rights” regime, defenders of the system have clung to a familiar argument. In a letter to Maclean’s , Jennifer Lynch, Q.C., Canada’s chief censor, put it this way: “Steyn would have us believe that words, however ...

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Dubai Shows Limits of Government Rescues, Roubini’s Das Says

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Dubai Shows Limits of Government Rescues, Roubini’s Das Says

SCSUScholars found this 9 hours ago on bloomberg.com

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Dubai crisis offers real-world stress test MarketWatch First Take

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:20:30 +0000

Alert Email Print By MarketWatch LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Dubai World, the largest corporate entity in the Gulf region city-state, is having problems paying back its massive $60 billion debt. Around the world, the response has been quick and negative. Predictably, banks are taking a drubbing, ...

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Mental State Cited in 9/11 Case

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:37:24 +0000

JESS BRAVIN WASHINGTON -- When five defendants are brought before a New York federal judge to face charges for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the first question may be whether some of them are competent to stand trial at all. Military lawyers for Ramzi Binalshibh, an accused organizer of ...

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The WSJ’s Kim Strassel: CRU Emails Prove Global Warming is Fake

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Good rule of thumb. When you’re writing admiringly about a total nutter like Jim Inhofe , you’re probably a total nutter yourself . The top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee [James Inhofe] has spent the past decade in the thick of Washington’s climate ...

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PSU professor at center of global warming ‘manipulation’ controversy: he’s subject of ’smear campaign’…

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:13:11 +0000

PSU professor at center of global warming ‘manipulation’ controversy: he’s subject of ’smear campaign’…

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Iran rebuked over nuclear 'cover-up' by UN watchdog

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:40:02 +0000

It seems that Iran's hesitation over a new fuel deal for its Tehran research reactor and its reluctance to engage in more constructive talks has infuriated even those countries which have protected it in the past. On Thursday IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei, who has always pressed for a compromise ...

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U.N. Official Says Iran Inquiry Is at ‘a Dead End’

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:40:02 +0000

Four envoys to the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting Thursday, from left, Glyn Davies of the United States, Florence Margin of France, Rüdiger Lüdeking of Germany and Ehab Mohamed Mostafa Fawzy of Egypt. The agency is meeting about Iran.

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Read the comments for some fine examples of modern Jew hatred

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Hate Radio The long, toxic afterlife of Nazi propaganda in the Arab world

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ElBaradei's work is done. He's covered for Iran nuclear bomb program from the beginning

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000

U.N. Nuclear Agency Calls Iran Inquiry ‘Dead End’ Iran rebuked over nuclear 'cover-up' by UN watchdog The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body has passed a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. The IAEA resolution was passed with rare Russian and ...

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UK Scientist: 'Case for climate fears is blown to smithereens...whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and UN conference should be closed'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:28:00 +0000

'We should end this anti-scientific nonsense now' -- UN's 'Copenhagen jamboree is a scandal and it must be stopped'

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Fighting intensifies in northwestern Taliban strongholds

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:39:51 +0000

View Larger Map Fighting has intensified in a region in Northwestern Pakistan where the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters dodging the South Waziristan operation have regrouped. Limited military operations, consisting largely of air and artillery strikes backed by the paramilitary Frontier ...

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Leftover Turkey Recipes: Soup, Pot Pie, Tetrazzini And Other Easy Meals For Thanksgiving Leftovers

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:52:04 +0000

Do you have Thanksgiving leftovers? If so, you're far from alone on this Black Friday, and fortunately the Web provides a number of recipes to deal with those Turkey Day leftovers. Here's 10 leftover turkey recipes which alleviate the issue in a hunger-satisfying way: 1. Easy Turkey Soup ...

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