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A Petition Worth Signing By Chris Weinkopf FrontPageMagazine.com | August 6, 2003 Editorial Note: The petition discussed in this article may be viewed -- and signed -- here. AT FIRST GLANCE, it all seemed a little suspect. It was a web page, sponsored by a group with a disconcerting name, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East—a title rife with red flags, given the usual political predilections of many academics and self-styled "peace" activists. It didn't help that the group was circulating a petition—all too often an exercise in activist futility. But much to my surprise, when I followed the...

Hurricane Hoopla Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has detected racial discrimination in the naming of Hurricanes. She says names like Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Sam and Hurricane Wanda are just too white and, "all racial groups should be represented." But, as The Hill newspaper notes, Jackson Lee will have to wait until at least 2007, when the current roster of names runs out.

Danes Prepare for Snow in Iraq Denmark's troops in Iraq may dream of the frost of a Scandinavian winter on days when the temperature rises to a blistering 46 degrees. But many may have been wondering if the military back home really had to rub it in when a recent supply shipment turned up a snowplough and a stock of salt for icy roads. Baking in the heat and dust outside Basra, the 380-odd Danes could have been forgiven for thinking the lawnmowers also included in the cargo were a mirage. "We admit that there were some mistakes made in...

MSNBC, ARNETT Complicit in Geneva Violations??I noticed last night during the Iraqi news conference when Iraqi VP Taha Yassin Ramadan (who is responsible for the mass murder of Kurds and Shiites) boasted to Peter Arnett [now with MSNBC/Nat'l Geo] and other 'objective international journalists' that IraqiTV would soon be showing 'captured American soldiers', that NOT ONE journalist, [esp Arnett!!!] raised their voice to complain that such action and video was a gross violation of the Geneva Accords. Therfore IMO, Arnett is also complicit in these outrageous Geneva violations against our servicemen and I have written a strongly worded letter to...

Is anyone else here sick and tired of seeing Danny Glover's ugly mug popping up in those horrid MCI ads -- on FoxNews programs of all places?? It's time we tell FoxNews Advertising executives in no uncertain terms that we DO NOT want to see any more MCI ads during our favorite FNC shows. Here is a list of FNC Ad execs to write to:  FOX News Channel  Interactive Sales & Marketing  1211 Avenue of the Americas  New York, NY 10036  (212) 301-3000  Roger Domal  VP, Director National Sales  (212) 301-5402  (212) 301-5419 Fax  roger.domal@foxnews.com  Paul Rittenberg  SVP, Advertising Sales...

Bruno José Lebeau   La Victoire de Bin Laden     Certains iraient à dire que la comparaison avec les années 30 ne tient pas, et pourtant: n'assistons nous pas au même recul des démocraties devant la montée d'un nouveau totalitarisme tel que l'a décrit fort justement Alexandre Del Valle, en l'occurrence la montée de l'islamisme, comme hier nous avons laissé monter et s'étendre le nazisme ?   Dès la fin des années 20, le nazisme était aussi un mouvement éclaté, diffus, confus, hétérogène et marginal. Pourtant son ascendance a été irrésistible, et les reculs abrités derrière des tentatives de...

It is time that we Americans make a bold statement by letting every airline know (both foreign and domestic) that due to Germany and France's obstructionism, we refuse to fly in any European-made aircraft! So let's start calling/emailing all our favorite airline(s) and say that you will ONLY fly in America-made BOEING jets. This will not only show our contempt for Airbus and its Euro-weenie builders, but also hopefully force domestic airlines to unload their 'weasel fleets' and replace them with American-made Boeing aircraft, thus giving a very important American industry a major boost.

SADDAM'S BODYGUARD WARNS OF SECRET ARSENAL02feb03SADDAM Hussein's senior bodyguard has fled with details of Iraq's secret arsenal.His revelations have supported US President George W. Bush's claim there is enough evidence from UN inspectors to justify going to war. Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited. They include: AN underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad; A SCUD assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea; TWO underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons. William Tierney, a former...

Ellen Ratner was on this morning's Fox&Friends and tried to weasel out of her previous attack on GW Bush whom she wished would 'screw up the war in Iraq' so that the Dems could regain the WhiteHouse by saying she was 'just trying to be funny' and it 'backfired on her'. Like oh, oops. Well, it's time that EVERY Freeper immediately write Ms Ratner and let her and FoxNews know that her so-called apology is simply NOT ACCEPTED! or acceptable.I've written to every FoxNews email address the same letter: That we viewers of FoxNews will not accept Ellen Ratner's apology...

Knox dentist recalls work with *selfless* in Yemen Two of his ex-colleagues were shot dead at hospital By RACHEL KOVAC, kovacr@knews.com January 1, 2003 Dr. Mac Prevost was sitting at home Monday when his father called to tell him two of his former colleagues had been killed in Jibla, Yemen. From 1982 to 1983, Prevost worked at the Jibil Baptist Hospital with Dr. Martha C. Myers and William E. Koehn, the hospital director. Myers, Koehn and Kathleen Gariety were shot Monday morning at the hospital by a Yemeni man identified as Abed Abdul Razak Kamel. "When I found out, I...

The Wahhabi Fifth Column By Susan Katz Keating FrontPageMagazine.com | December 30, 2002 The latest public relations missive from Riyadh complains bitterly that alarmist Americans "have gotten out of control" with accusations that Saudi Arabia supports terrorism. But there is good reason to state the opposite: That we ignore to our peril the degree to which the Saudis spread extremist anti-Americanism.It is particularly unsettling that the Saudis stoke such sentiments here, in our own country. They do this by funding American outposts of the intolerant, militant Wahhabi form of Islam. The Saudis have poured an astonishing sum of money into...

Did anyone else catch Jesse Jackson's weird statement in his 'interview' with Shepard Smith on FoxNews today? JJ was being asked whether he would ask for censure or forgive Sen Lott for his remarks, etc. JJ then said All Sin comes from the Glory of God Luckily, I had the Closed-captioning on and immediately double checked to make sure that was exactly what he said. Was this a slip of the tongue or did JJ just reveal how his mind works in pertaining his foibles concerning his 'love child'?

'Great Gifts for Democrats'I had to laugh when I found this list from Listmania! that I found this morning on Amazon.com which was seriously titled "Great Gifts for Democrats" see: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2WMWILB5RP1LT/ref=cm_lm_dp_l_1/102-1077294-2067306 1. EARTH IN THE BALANCE by Al Gore 2. CAPITAL: A CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY by Karl Marx 3. COMMUNIST MANIFESTO also by Karl Marx 4. LABOR & MONOPOLY CAPITAL: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century by Harry Braverman 5. POLITICS FOR DUMMIES6. MONOPOLY CAPITAL: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul Baran 7. THE STATE OF TERROR (SUNY Series in Deviance &...

Vandals Hit Recruiting Offices Windows Smashed, Vehicles Torched POSTED: 7:53 a.m. PDT October 14, 2002 UPDATED: 12:17 p.m. PDT October 14, 2002 SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose arson officials, in cooperation with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, are investigating an apparent anti-government attack in East San Jose. Vandals Torch Car Around 4:15 a.m. the KNTV news desk received a call from a person saying, "At 4 this morning we have taken a pre-emptive strike against a military recruiting office here on McKee." According to the employee who took the call, the caller was very calm and...