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At a recent White House press conference, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller called Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's nominee for president of the World Bank, "a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in our history." "One of the most unpopular wars in our history"? Hmmm, sounds like another editorial masquerading as a question. To the history books! Revolutionary War: Founding Father John Adams estimated that one-third of Americans opposed independence, one-third were indifferent or vacillated, and only one-third supported the War of Independence. In other words, two-thirds of Americans were not in favor of the...

Attack of the Churchill Clones By Jacob Laksin and Steven Vincent FrontPageMagazine.com | March 17, 2005 Overwhelming public pressure may have compelled Ward Churchill to resign as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the Colorado University at Boulder (CU), but the dustup whipped up by the Indian-impostor cum classroom-radical refuses to settle. Witness the antics of the new chair of the department, associate professor Emma Perez. No sooner had news of Churchill’s extremist record come to national attention, than Perez emerged as one of his earliest—and most fanatical—defenders. Writing in the radical leftist web magazine Counterpunch in February 2005,...

Looting at Iraqi Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Official Says BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 12 - In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein's most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government's first extensive comments on the looting. The Iraqi official, Sami al-Araji, the deputy minister of industry, said it appeared that a highly organized operation had pinpointed specific plants in search of valuable equipment, some of which could be used for...

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com When Bill O'Reilly got started with his Fox News Channel show a few years ago, he shot from the hip, called a spade a spade and generally seemed to be the kind of freewheeling, independent news guy for whom Americans had been waiting. He built up his audience, wrote best-selling books, launched a nationally syndicated newspaper column and tried to make it as a radio talk-show host as well. But, more and more lately, any time I turn on his show, I'm left scratching my head wondering what this man actually believes. And, more importantly, does he...

The Truth About Fascism There's been a lot of dishonest comparison of President Bush to Mussolini and Hitler. Personally I think the people that make these statements make them out of a combination of ignorance of what Fascism really is and their own blind hatred of anything and anyone conservative. So I did a little digging and came up with a definition of what Fascism is and what it stands for. Here is what I found: The word fascism has come to mean any system of government resembling Mussolini's, that * exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual, *...

Poll is on the left about half way down the page. The anti-Commandments loonies have a big lead on the poll. Let's even things up. Should the State of Texas be forced to remove the Ten Commandments display from the state Capitol grounds? Yes 67.0% No 33.0% votes: 929

Need the power of DU behind this Posted by Horse with no Name Added to homepage Thu Feb 24th 2005, 12:28 PM ET We need to promote our agenda in a uniform and consistent manner. Part of this is by supporting liberal radio formats across the country. In Dallas we are writing letters and circulating petitions to have a liberal station started. But we need liberal radio in all markets across the country so that we can spread our messages, spread the truth and combat Rush and his minions. There are some very good liberal hosts out there to do...

What has Fox's hit TV show "24" done to prompt TV Guide to report "24 in Hot Water" and Entertainment Weekly to ask, "Has '24' Gone Too Far?"? Its bad guys are terrorists who are? Muslims. That's it. Few of us need reminding that we are not simply waging a war against terror, but against the radical Islam that animates the enemy. The enemy is not coincidentally Muslim, but they are the enemy because their radicalized version of Islam tells them to be. "24," so far at least, understands that. What makes "24" this season so special, though, is that...

Deaniacs on Parade Howard Dean’s triumphant arrival in Washington. For a moment in Washington on Wednesday night, it was 2003 again, and Howard Dean was speaking to a crowd of adoring twenty-somethings — and sounding much as he did when it appeared he would sweep the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and then the Democratic presidential nomination. Dean, clearly energized by his young supporters, even worked himself up into one of those "and then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House!" rhetorical exercises that gave him so much trouble as his campaign was collapsing....

A Faked Hug? U.S. Coerced Iraqi Voters? MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Pushes Crackpot Conspiracies Unlike Dan Rather, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews at least doesn’t deny that he brings his liberal opinions with him when he anchors the third-place cable news networks live coverage of political events. But in recent days he’s been using his perch to suggest wacky conspiracy theories that might make even Howard Dean blush. During last night’s State of the Union coverage, Matthews suggested that the emotional highlight of the evening — the embrace of a mother whose Marine son was killed in Fallujah and an Iraqi human rights...

The Condoleezza Rice nomination was a sorry spectacle, but not in the way everyone is saying. Frankly, I think Sen. Barbara Boxer was completely within her rights - as rude and as typically middle-brow as she was - to criticize Condoleezza Rice. Cabinet appointments are a time-honored way of expressing opposition to presidential policies. No, the sorry spectacle is the grand fog of racial confusion that the Rice hearings illuminated. On one side we have some Republicans and conservatives accusing Democrats of some veiled form of racism or sexism for giving Rice a hard time. On the other side we...

1/26/2005, 12:22 a.m. ET The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A U.S. Marine helicopter crashed Wednesday in western Iraq, the U.S. military said. There was no immediate word on casualties. The helicopter went down near the town Rutbah around 1:20 a.m. while conducting security operations, the military said in a statement. The aircraft was transporting personnel from the 1st Marine Division. A search and rescue team has reached the site and an investigation into what caused the crash is underway, the military said.

You've got to give her credit. She came to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearings to make Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice look like a President Bush sycophant who plays fast and loose with the truth in order to carry out and justify the policies of her boss. She came equipped with charts and quotes and plenty of accusations that played right into the hands of a mainstream media, which have yet to meet a conservative, who happens to be a minority, that they don't despise. And while she may have gotten away with it in some circles,...

Democrats will never win elections without better people and better ideas. BY DAN GERSTEIN Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST When John Kerry ripped defeat from the jaws of victory last November, losing to a wounded president with a failed record, a few of us Democratic outliers took some solace in thinking that his campaign's dismal performance might actually force the party to own up to its mortal electoral weaknesses. Turns out we grossly underestimated the national Democrats' capacity for self-delusion and self-defeat. Yes, it's only been two months, and it's not realistic to expect the party to remake...

Here’s one story you won’t find on tomorrow’s front pages: “The U.S. Budget Deficit Is Shrinking Rapidly.” The headline would be accurate, but the mainstream media is much more interested in talking down this booming economy than telling it like it is. This week’s Treasury report on the nation’s finances for December shows a year-to-date fiscal 2005 deficit that is already $11 billion less than last year’s. In the first three months of the fiscal year that began last October, cash outlays by the federal government increased by 6.1 percent while tax collections grew by 10.5 percent. When more money...

Envy, an emotion we all face from time to time, is defined as “a feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another.” As long as other people have more of what we want – material possessions, influence, charm, good looks, business acumen, etc., the old green-eyed monster lurks. While most of us try to keep envy in check, some display it in newspapers like the Star Tribune for all to see. In a most vulgar display of blog, class and “male appendage” envy, Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman had...

Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes followed through on his plan: He refused to board his Navy ship yesterday morning when it sailed for Iraq with thousands of Camp Pendleton Marines. For nearly two hours, the weapons-control technician sat on his ship's pier at the 32nd Street Naval Station. He talked with media and waited to be arrested, but the arrest didn't happen. A Navy spokesman said Paredes, 23, wasn't taken into custody because he hadn't violated any regulations. Navy procedures stipulate that an officer can't be listed as missing until an official roll has been called aboard ship. "Paredes...

So many people are trying to make sense out of this mess hall attack in Mosul yesterday. I had a little bit of an opportunity to watch some of the coverage yesterday morning. And I had an opportunity, obviously have had an opportunity to watch some of the coverage today. I want to go back, and in setting this up, remind you of a story I told you earlier this week. I run into a lot of liberals. Let's face it, I'm a magnet for liberals and when I'm out there I run into a lot of these people and...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2004 – Car bombs and other attacks are creating an illusion that the insurgency his forces are fighting is powerful, the general in charge of coalition forces in Iraq said at a Pentagon news conference today. Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said the enemy "is not 10 feet tall." "They don't have to do much," he said. "A car bomb a day in Baghdad or on the airport road sends a symbol that the insurgency is very powerful, when in actuality I don't believe that they are. It's a classic technique...