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The US making nice to the terrorists...

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Abomination accepted: U.S. shamefully silent in the face of UN Israel-bashers Editorials Sunday, November 8th 2009, 4:00 AM The United States stood abysmally, disgracefully silent last week as the United Nations General Assembly debated a resolution endorsing the stacked investigation that ...

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Heed the battle cry...

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:56:00 +0000

The left and terror By J.R. Dunn The Jihadis will return. We know this, in the same way that we know about death and taxes. Thanks in large part to the weakening of our defensive efforts under the new administration, there will be further attacks against this country's population, perhaps even ...

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Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter, Linked to September 11 Terrorists

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:34:00 +0000

I just finished an essay critical of President Obama's response to the Fort Hood attacks, " Obama Dishonors Commander-in-Chief Role ." I feel even more strongly about this after clicking on the London Telegraph 's " Fort Hood Shooting: Texas Army Killer Linked to September 11 Terrorists " (via ...

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Ida Heads To U.S., Hurricane Watch Issued For Coastal Louisiana, Mississippi

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0000

MIAMI — A hurricane watch has been issued for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi as Hurricane Ida begins making its way through the Gulf of Mexico toward the U.S. Ida could reach the northern Gulf Coast by Tuesday. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday ...

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Media Wakes Up About the Obama Administration’s Middle East Failure (Guest Voice)

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:28:42 +0000

Reality Raises It’s Head and the Media Wakes Up About the Obama Administration’s Middle East Failure By Barry Rubin There’s something big happening in the air regarding American media coverage of the Obama Administration. With the Washington Post in advance, the New York Times ...

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'I honestly have no pity for them' (video)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:01:41 +0000

The BBC's Gavin Lee interviews 'Duane' at the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen the day after the killings at Fort Hood.Duane : I'm not going to condemn h...

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BBC: Ft Hood mosque member defends shootings: "they were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them."

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:26:59 +0000

Thanks to DB in the comment section who directs us to this post, which features a BBC interview by Gavin Lee with a member of the Killeen, Texas mosque outside Ft Hood, the Islamic Community Center of Greater Killeen, where...

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Jrsalzman: PTSD

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:38:04 +0000

I’m more than a little angry right now. Yes, I’m irate that some shitbag Major (“shitbag” is often used as a technical term in the Army) opened fire on a group of his fellow Soldiers killing 12 and wounding 30. But that’s not even what is under my skin right now.

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Obama will not Attend Berlin Wall Celebrations

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:16:00 +0000

This Monday November 9, 2009 represents the twenty year anniversary of the first time the Berlin Wall was opened in Germany. On that glorious day, it marked a significant step in the destruction of the Soviet Union and the end to the long and brutal cold war. America emerged as the lone super ...

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Dowd's Bogus Grief Deficit

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:57:19 +0000

It was a shockingly inaccurate statement that discredited an accomplished columnist. No matter where you stand on The New York Times editorialist Maureen Dowd's political bent, it's hard to deny her reach and talent. But in the reactionary defense of her anointed one -- President Obama -- on ...

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Dissing Free Speech

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:54:12 +0000

Here’s Obama’s “media diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd: It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a ...

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Joseph Cao, The RINO Traitor!

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0000

Behold the face of betrayal! Joseph Cao RINO Traitor! This, of all people, is the RINO traitor that voted for the Bill, that flies in the face of liberty. Yes, I know what I wrote about him on Twitter last night . I was quite angry. I also find it ironic that the same liberals who ...

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Laparoscopic War Strategizing

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:16:51 +0000

O's advisors are working up three options Afghanistan troop options. Glad to hear he's still working on that. I was a little concerned that, like some other federal agents, his eye was off the al-Qaeda ball. Here's the status of the last three months of war strategizing, via NYT. Sounds ...

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Napolitano Warns Against Anti

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:46:26 +0000

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, the agency's chief said Sunday. The comments by Homeland Security Secretary Janet ...

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East Germans lost much in 1989 | Bruni de la Motte | Comment is free

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:50:19 +0000

On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the country in which I was born, grew up, gave birth to my two children, gained my doctorate and enjoyed a ...

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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:45:42 +0000

By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a ...

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Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:46:41 +0000

Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies to the tune of six pounds per American per year . That’s a lot of estrogen. More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in ...

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Fort Hood: Political Correctness as Murder Weapon

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:50:47 +0000

The immediate reaction of the mainstream media on learning of the activities of Nidal Malik Hasan was to say that he was crazy. And no doubt that was true. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM IV), could probably place ...

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Top GOP recruit says Ft. Hood shooting shows

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0000

A top Republican congressional recruit said on Friday that the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas yesterday by a solider allegedly sympathetic to suicide bombers shows that the "enemy is infiltrating our military." Allen West (R-Fla.), a retired military colonel who served as a commander at the Texas ...

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Fort Hood massacre: Guess who’s tied to a 9/11 imam

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre ...

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Fort Hood Twitter Atrocity

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:49:52 +0000

Paul Carr’s righteous TechCrunch contrarian rant is wary of ‘citizen journalists’ with cell phones and Twitter. His case in point, the Fort Hood shootings. A snippet: [T]he first news and analysis out of the base didn’t come from the experts. Nor did it come from the 24-hour ...

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Combat Barbie: Soldier is new Miss England as Linford Christie's niece hands back crown after nightclub 'brawl'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000

By Antonia Hoyle Last updated at 1:01 PM on 08th November 2009 Corporal Katrina Hodge was sitting in her barracks in Surrey wearing regulation combats, hair scraped back and face devoid of make-up, when the telephone rang. The call was from the organiser of the Miss England competition, ...

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Hasan worshipped with 9-11 hijackers

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:52:39 +0000

This is pretty damning for those who continue to brush aside the Fort Hood shooter's Islamofascism: Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas,...

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American Jihadists Praise & Pray for Nidal Malik Hasan

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:52:39 +0000

This is just the sort of thing that makes liberals like Evan Thomas “cringe”, because it “Inflames” the right wing, but what can you do? Pretend it isn’t happening? Wingnut Rusty Shackleford says: Gloves are off people. These are some really sick bastards. ...

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The (not-too) private life of Corporal Hodge

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000

Hey, what's this half naked model doing here ? Why, that's Katrina Hodge, runner-up in this year's Miss England competition. But the story doesn't start or end there... You see, she's also a Corporal in Her Majesty's Armed Forces ... ...and here's how she got that ...

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Suicide bomber kills anti-Taliban leader, 12 others near Peshawar

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:23:24 +0000

A suicide bomber killed 13 people, including an anti-Taliban leader, in an attack at a market outside of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. The Taliban suicide bomber detonated his vest at a market in the town of Matni. Pakistanis were shopping to prepare for the festival of Eid, ...

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Bing West on Afghanistan: 'Leaving your enemy intact is not a smart idea in any war'

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:37:08 +0000

Bing West provides footage from combat engagements with the Taliban in Helmand province. "Video shows why coalition and Afghan battalions inflict few Taliban casualties. Causes include terrain, Taliban maneuver, heavy coalition armor and risk aversion to minimize casualties, while ...

Rover found this 3 days ago on weeklystandard.com

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Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:57:31 +0000

In my last post , I discussed the neglect of communist atrocities. Although communist governments murdered and repressed even more people than the Nazis, their crimes have gotten only a tiny fraction of the public awareness and recognition extend to the latter. But does that neglect matter? ...

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Hasan a Muslim First, American Second?

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:45:37 +0000

In hindsight, it appears that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass murderer who killed 14 (one of the soldiers killed, Francheska Velez, was six weeks pregnant ) and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, had long made it known that he sympathized with the enemy. Bloomberg’s Justin Blum : ...

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Call this horror by its name: Islamist terror

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000

Comments: 29 Last Updated: 12:44 PM, November 7, 2009 Posted: 3:25 AM, November 7, 2009

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Glenn Greenwald

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:33:18 +0000

Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory I was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. I am the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: "How Would a Patriot Act?" (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power, and "A Tragic ...

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The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy by Mark Steyn on National Review Online

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:39:04 +0000

hirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, ...

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'What are [Muslims] scared of? Grafitti?'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:12:11 +0000

There they go again -- putting the "I" in "Islam"... When they kill people, it's all about them: Incredible, especially when you consider that the only Muslims killed in the USA on 9/11 and in Britain on 7/7 were killed by Muslims. I'm rather sick of the MSM interrupting our ...

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Current View

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:29:08 +0000

Monday , November 2, 2009 The upstate New York Congressional race just got more interesting. This is the place where a Republican from a usually safe Republican district went to the Cabinet and a very liberal person got the Republican nomination. So liberal was she that she garnered an opponent ...

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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Barack Obama standing in front of the American flag: Nobel Prize: Ten famous peace prize winners

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Why didn't Major Muslim Resign his Commission?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:52:16 +0000

I just watched Fox's Julie Banderas and Greg Jarrett embarrass themselves trying to talk a leading psychiatrist into a newfangled idea of "vicarious" post traumatic stress disorder. Being that Major Muslim Nidal Hasan never saw combat, he vicariously suffered its effects from his patients (while ...

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MSM disconnectedness

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:25:59 +0000

Those who seriously follow journalism today, or what passes for it, will not be surprised by what follows but it's something that needs to be discussed and passed on nevertheless. Despite reports of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim devoutness, videos...

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Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions: La Stampa of Italy

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:45:48 +0000

Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ...

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Our Heads in the Sand

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:34:00 +0000

Ralph Peters sums up the Islamist murder spree at Fort Hood. Sadly he's one of the few who's telling it like it is.On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great!") committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one ...

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Will Supreme Court Outlaw Juvenile Life Sentences? | Newsweek National News

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:25:41 +0000

Iraq doesn't do it. North Korea considers it a cruel form of punishment. But in the United States sentencing a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole is legal. My Take But on November 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up two cases involving juvenile offenders in Florida ...

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Potential Gas Committee reports unprecedented increase in magnitude of U.S. natural gas resource base

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:19:38 +0000

GOLDEN, Colo., June 18, 2009 – The Potential Gas Committee (PGC) today released the results of its latest biennial assessment of the nation’s natural gas resources, which indicates that the United States possesses a total resource base of ...

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Palestinian talks over state

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:59:28 +0000

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who ...

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ABC.com - V - Home

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:29:52 +0000

Tuesday November 10th 8/7c There Is No Normal Anymore TV-14 V Erica and Father Jack discover they are being tracked by a Seeker from the V's; Chad tries to be more investigative. Set Mobile Reminder Get V text alerts sent to your phone or PDA*. You'll be among the first to get new episode ...

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This Is Not Your Grandma's Humane Society

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Inside the Humane Society of the United States; Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting...

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A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:47:00 +0000

Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish. Before 1455, books were handwritten, and it took a scribe a year to produce a Bible. Today, it takes only a minute to send a tweet or update a blog. Rates of authorship are increasing by historic orders of magnitude. Nearly universal ...

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the “silent” majority no more!

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:02:05 +0000

the “silent” majority no more!

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who…

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:40:27 +0000

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who dares fly the official military Gadsen flag on the domestic terrorist watch list, a real terrorist was spouting off online, glorifying suicide bombings and our mission in Iraq. I mean, I’m ...

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Doug Giles: We Need an Ask and Tell Policy Regarding Jihadists in Our Military

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:38:12 +0000

When the initial news reports started pouring out of Fort Hood about the mass murder (read terrorist attack) of some of America's finest, I turned to my wife and daughter and without hesitation said, "I'll bet you a...

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EXCLUSIVE: Rare virus poses new threat to troops

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:04:36 +0000

Sara A. Carter KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus. Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine ...

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House Passing Health Care Tonight November 7 11:05 P.M. History Made

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:11:48 +0000

The vote is taking place right this minute in a late session and 218 votes are needed to Pass the Healthcare Bill tonight on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 11:05 p.m., there are at 213 votes right now. Democrats are going without the Rupublicans who are voting no on this bill. We are moments ...

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