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Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year. The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Conservatives in America are playing with fire by inciting violence against the country's first black president "Does the sun ever shine during a Democratic administration?" asked Jon Stewart on a recent edition of The Daily Show, in a nod to the rightwing hysteria over the current White House incumbent. "With Obama in office now, when babies laugh do you hear only the sound of kittens drowning?" Stewart is a comedian, but this is no laughing matter. The lies perpetrated against Obama – that he is a foreigner, a Marxist, a Nazi, a racist, intent on interning the elderly and euthanising...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she had no recourse to stop the use of enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding after receiving a classified briefing from the CIA in 2002 - an explanation the top Republican on the House intelligence committee called "the lamest of lame excuses." As scrutiny over who knew what about the controversial tactics has turned back to Congress, Mrs. Pelosi sought to distance herself from revelations that she and other key Democrats were kept in the loop by the CIA between 2002 and 2006. "But don't leave anybody with the impression that some of...

Newly discovered documents from the Illinois state archives prove Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has lied about his opposition as an Illinois state senator to legislation requiring health officials to provide care to babies who survived abortion. Obama has repeatedly claimed he would have voted for Illinois’ version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) had it included language to protect abortion rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, as the federal version of the bill did, which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0. Contrary to what Obama has said, forgotten records from the Illinois Senate archives show Obama did...

This new site http://therealmccain.com/ has posted a new video entitled "John McCain's health records must be released" with numerous doctors spreading lies and distortions about McCain's health. The most egregious "doctor" is one Noah Craft, M.D. who in the video states the following..."There are a list of diseases which just get more common with age--Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, stroke, arthritis. He has a lot of them. I'd like to see what tests are being done to see if he has any of the others." He "has a lot of them"? He has arthritis, period. This is a disgraceful slander and very...

Houston—The non-partisan campaign to replace the income tax system with a national retail sales tax today criticized the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and incumbent candidate Nick Lampson for “gross distortions of the FairTax that make even harder the way out of the mess the income tax has created,” said FairTax spokesman Ken Hoagland. Hoagland criticized a new television campaign ad by Lampson (TX-22) that accuses opponent Pete Olsen of backing a plan that will increase the cost of food and other necessities of life. “Not true,” said Hoagland. “Left out of the ad, of course, is the fact that under...

Still spreading the lies and stumping for dollars for Democrats: From: "Ambassador Joe Wilson" {dccc@dccc.org}Subject: Why It MattersDate: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:15:49 -0400 Dear Lew, In 2003 when I spoke out against the lies in George Bush's State of the Union address justifying his disastrous and irresponsible war in Iraq, I never imagined the White House would take revenge against me by compromising the national security of the country, not to mention the safety of my family by outing my wife's identity as a covert CIA officer. Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove knew they could get away...

Fox News ought to buy a copy of Monday's Democrat debate on CNN to play over and over during the general election campaign. For now, the Democratic candidates need to appeal only to their nut-base. So on Monday night, the candidates casually spouted liberal conspiracy theories that would frighten normal Americans, but are guaranteed to warm the hearts of losers blogging from their mother's basements.

Recent attempts by congressional Democrats to cut off funding for our troops naturally prompt us to show that it wasn't long ago that they were saying they would never cut off funding for our troops... From sources: Sen Harry Reid (D-NV): “…I don’t think anyone can find a war that this country was engaged in where the funds were cut off. No one is talking about cutting off the funds.” Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY): “I do not support cutting funding for American troops.” Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI): “We're not going to cut off funding to the troops … no one...

Congressman Marty Meehan on Foxnews this morning was asked about Gerry Studds and the difference between Studds and Foley. Meehans response was "I was a sophmore (or Senior I cna't remember which) in High School when that happened." Implying that he couldn't be expected to respond to something that was that old and he was so young when it happened. That made me think. I was a junior in High School when that happened and I remember talking about it in our Social Studies/Current Events class. So that guy is my age?? Or within a year of it?? I looked...

President Bush took a moment yester day to point with pride at a re election campaign promise kept: He vowed two years ago that his tax cuts would produce enough new revenue to cut the federal deficit by half in five years, and the latest figures show they've done just that - three years early. It now stands at $247.7 billion - down from $520 billion in 2004. And it's continuing to drop. "These budget numbers are proof that pro-growth economic policies work," Bush said. You'd think that Democrats - they are patriotic Americans, after all - would revel in...

Our Troops and the American People Deserve More Than Bush's Regrets May 26, 2006 Email this Print this Blog this Last night, during a televised press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush again failed to offer a real strategy for victory in Iraq and argued that there was no way to have predicted many of the problems that currently plague Iraq. As Memorial Day approaches, the President owes our troops and the American people more than regrets. "Our troops and their families deserve more than the President's regrets, just as the people of the Gulf Coast deserved...

The Gobbels-like-lying by the Democrats and the facilitation of this propaganda by the MSM is a winning gambit for 2006 and 2008. For example: Ellen Goodman in a Boston Globe op-ed implores John Kerry not to run for president again. One of her observations is as follows: In the end, the president who lied to us about war and weapons of mass destruction looked like the straight talker. Asides stated as a fact are repeated over and over again in TV interviews and editorials. In an interview on Meet the Press, Russert may ask Howard Dean about immigration, but we...

White House urged to 'come clean' in CIA leak case Maryland Democrat tells Bush to honor pledge to fire officials Saturday, November 5, 2005; Posted: 3:32 p.m. EST (20:32 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush should "come clean" about any White House officials involved in the leak of the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame and "honor his pledge to fire all those involved," Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "It's been one week since the vice president's chief of staff was indicted, and there are still very serious questions about how...

When a couple of dozen students from the leadership class at Sutter Middle School near downtown Sacramento gathered in the library the other day for a glimpse at a grown-up press conference, they probably had no idea they were going to see a modern demonstration of one of the oldest tactics in political propaganda: the big lie. The occasion was the endorsement of Treasurer Phil Angelides, who is running for governor, by Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. The two Democrats used the moment to bash Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his policies. Sell It Yourself "He said he wouldn't cut education," Angelides...

Rove Rage The poverty of our current scandal. By Christopher Hitchens Wilson and Schumer: Rove should go Writing to a friend in 1954, P.G. Wodehouse commented: Are you following the McCarthy business? If so, can you tell me what it's all about? "You dined with Mr. X on Friday the tenth?" "Yes, sir." (Keenly) "What did you eat?" "A chocolate nut sundae, sir." (Sensation) It's like Bardell vs Pickwick. Wodehouse of course was only affecting ignorance and making light of a ludicrously pompous and slightly sinister proceeding. But he was essentially correct in his lampooning of the McCarthy hearings, since...

Nine years ago, the Navy set out to build a new guided missile for its 21st-century ships. Fiascoes followed. In a test firing, the missile melted its on-board guidance system. "Incredibly," an Army review said, "the Navy ruled the test a success." Recently, the Navy rewrote the contract and put out another one, with little to show for the money it already spent. The bill has come to almost $400 million, five times the original budget. Such stories may seem old hat. But after years of failing to control cost overruns, the most powerful officials at the Pentagon are becoming...

WASHINGTON - Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean's statement that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should serve a Houston jail sentence, along with other thumb-in-the-eye phrases, may thrill party activists. But some analysts wondered Monday whether the vitriol damages Dean or his party as much as his Republican target. "Republicans are circling the wagons around DeLay, but Democrats shouldn't form a circular firing squad in response," said Marshall Wittmann, a former Christian Coalition staffer who is now a senior analyst with the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist Democrat think tank. But Thomas Mann, a senior analyst with the Brookings Institution, a...

MYTH-FACT: JUDICIAL NOMINATIONSDemocrats Pair A Message Of Myth With Unprecedented Obstruction, While Republicans Work To Give Qualified Nominees A Fair Vote _______________________________________________________________________________________  Myth #1:  Senate Republicans Are Attempting To Abolish All Filibusters.   Fact:  Republicans Are Seeking To Reestablish The Senate's Traditional Role In The Judicial Nomination Process, Not Eliminate All Filibusters, An Initiative Some Democrats Have Supported In The Past.  In 1995, Democrats (Bingaman, Boxer, Feingold, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Lieberman, And Sarbanes) Wanted To End The Filibuster.  In 1995, the only Senators on record supporting the end of the filibuster were all Democrats, nine of whom are still...

Pelosi calls privatization plan a 'rip-off' She talks to seniors about Social Security plan at meeting in S.F. Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer Thursday, February 24, 2005 Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, launching what she vowed will be an aggressive effort against President Bush's Social Security privatization, told cheering supporters in San Francisco on Wednesday that the plan is a costly "diversionary tactic'' by the administration and a blatant "attempt to divide the generations" on the values of a crucial social program. "It's absolutely stunning, the rip-off that it is,'' Pelosi told a town hall meeting on Social...

Just when you though the left couldn't get any more self righteous! As an advanced degree holding individual with a smugness inducing IQ (for whatever it's worth), I find myself further disappointed with the left... but not surprised. Election Results by Average IQ

DETROIT — In an election already marred by provisional ballot challenges, numerous reports of voter discrimination from nonpartisan poll monitoring groups underline the possible flaws in the nation’s voting systems. Further impeding the voting process were accounts from student polling volunteers who said that ballot challengers were intimidating voters, signifying how fierce partisanship of the election permeated polling sites. Racial slurs from election workers, missing bilingual ballots and unwarranted demands to check voter identification turned away Asian American voters across the nation, according to reports by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Learning from the lessons of the...

Today, we have received two phone calls, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Someone who says they are representing Social Security and want to tell us about our benefits. Then they go into a spiel about how Bush will privatize Social Security, and John Kerry will see to it that it is available for all and no one will touch it. Isn't this a crime to represent a branch of government during a political campaign and endorse a particular candidate? Is there any limit how far the Democrats will go? Heaven help us.

latestNEWS From Kris Kobach For Congress Campaign: With his campaign on the ropes, Dennis Moore pulled the dirtiest trick in the book. This week, he attempted to smear Kris Kobach's character by trying to connect him to "white supremacists". Dennis Moore sent out a false mailing to tens of thousands of female voters in the Third District. Even though this mailing was technically from the Kansas Democratic Party, make no mistake: Dennis Moore is behind this despicable attempt at character assassination. Last week, Dennis Moore issued two press releases with the exact same content as this mailing. More importantly, Dennis...

President Bush may or may not have a secret plan to reinstate the draft. But this is beside the point. The deteriorating facts on the ground in Iraq, plus the Bush doctrine of acting pre-emptively and unilaterally against hostile regimes, will soon leave him no choice. If he is re-elected, he will have to restart the draft. We do not have enough people in uniform to meet current needs in Iraq and Afghanistan, much less to deal with a confrontation with Iran or North Korea. Morale is suffering. Enlistments and re-enlistments are down. The Army National Guard fell 10 percent...

This is a great website!! Similar format as DRUDGE REPORT. Example of story: How many times will Moore vote? Smoking Gun: Michael Moore simultaneously on voter rolls in New York, Michigan

St. Louis (CNSNews.com) - Republicans had no sooner shot down rumors of a military draft when Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe warned a group of College Democrats on Friday that President Bush would call them up for duty if re-elected. "I know it's controversial to say it, but don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re-elected and we have another conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft," McAuliffe said. "It is very controversial to say it, but it is what it is." McAuliffe spoke to about a hundred...

CARY, N.C. - Sparring over education, Gov. Mike Easley on Monday compared challenger Patrick Ballantine's record on education to Saddam Hussein's record on civil rights. By the end of the day, Easley's rhetorical flourish - which highlighted an hourlong debate on education issues - had Ballantine's campaign demanding an apology. Ballantine, a Republican, came hard after Easley in a lively televised forum held at SAS Institute. He argued the Democrat is not the education governor he promised to be when he won election four years ago. In a retort that raised eyebrows in the crowd, Easley responded: "If Patrick Ballantine...

Election 2004: Democrats aim to prevent repeat of 2000 election fiasco By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press June 14, 2004 HOLLYWOOD — Recalling the contentious 2000 election, Democrats urged party activists on Sunday to find legal observers, push early voting methods and remain vigilant of any problems during the upcoming November election. Party leaders and activists discussed ways to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election in Florida, in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes after a 36-day recount was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court. "Any way we cut it, these people are going to try...

The current toxic political atmosphere, in which one side is concerned about voter fraud and the other about voter disfranchisement, is largely the product of the elephant in the parlor left over from the 2000 election. Of course, I'm talking about the Florida recount, the gold standard for botched elections, and all the bitter recriminations it launched. The Florida battle returned to the news as the 2004 election approached in Michael Moore's hit film Fahrenheit 9/11, which begins with a malicious account of what happened in 2000. In essence, Moore claims that George W. Bush, aided by Florida's Republican secretary...

The Democratic National Committee released a new video today that implies President Bush has lied about his National Guard duty and therefore is not a trustworthy leader. The video, entitled "Fortunate Son," begins with footage of troops in Vietnam, saying some people "chose war, others chose different paths" – an obvious reference to John Kerry's service in Southeast Asia. Next the three-minute ad suggests Bush "pulled strings" to get into the Guard, thus avoiding Vietnam service. As evidence, the video features part of an interview by CBS News' Dan Rather with former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, in which the...

Kimmer just announced that he would discuss the attacks on Pres. Bush. by see BS and said (no equivications)that the documents are fake. Kimmer is on WGST in ATlanta. Detail as I get them....

Democrats quickly rebutted Zell Miller's vicious speech Wednesday night, with a web video called "Zell Miller: Then and Now" and with links to "donate to REAL Democrats who DO get it." You see video of Zell being critical of George Bush, saying that "George Bush just doesn't get it," and repeats that line many times. You hear Zell Miller say that George Bush doesn't deserve "four more years." The video then cuts to the “Now” Zell Miller, with a quote of his from August 1, 2004, saying “I am for President George W. Bush because he is the right man...

"If you can remember the 60's, you didn't live in the 60's" Apparently there was some really, really bad acid going around in Democratic circles towards the end of 1968. First, John Kerry talked about hearing a speech by President Nixon around Christmas of 1968. Then, former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes talked about how, while in office, he helped George W. Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard when Bush enlisted in May of 1968. Only one minor problem with these two stories. Neither Nixon or Ben Barnes held those offices in 1968. Both were inaugurated in January...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke issued the following statement today in response to a news conference by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe. “If former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is willing to mislead Americans by mischaracterizing a recent study saying ‘basically there are 18,000 more terrorists. And so it’s a little bit like every time we attack we create more of them,’ then it is a breeze for DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe to make false, misleading and inaccurate statements about a budget that does not yet exist.” Associated Press May 26, 2004“The IISS said...

just so you know: •I attacked and took over 2 countries. •I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury. •I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!). •I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. •I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market. •I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. •In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough...

.Sen. Jay Rockefeller looked shocked Posted: October 15, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com He had expected to say anything he wanted and escape without challenge. But Fox News Channel's Tony Snow had a different idea. Snow thought it might be interesting to stick to the facts for a change. This Sunday past, Sen. Rockefeller took a play from the Terry McAuliffe playbook and simply invented a convenient history. He told Snow and a national television audience that President Bush has alarmed the nation with a speech warning that an attack from Iraq was imminent. Snow coolly played a tape of the...

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After what was found in Iraq and learned about Saddam and Sons, it is without question that the former Iraqi regime itself was a weapon of mass destruction. Biological dirty bombs, nuclear weapons programs or sponsoring terrorist for such acts as flying planeloads of people into buildings, it is all the same. Liberal critics of the President, however, latch on to a different post war theme. "It is not what we were told we would find" is their complaint about White House communications prior to the war. For purely political ends, they beat this drum in hopes someone will listen....

The US Army has launched the bidding process for two Iraqi oil contracts worth up to US $1 billion, which will replace a deal awarded to Halliburton in March, according to reports. The US Army Corps of Engineers said it would award one contract for fields in northern Iraq and another for southern fields, each worth up to $500 million. The deal will replace a hotly-disputed contract handed out to Halliburton. The Army came under pressure after awarding the deal directly to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) without offering the work to the market. The new 'requests for...

THE HOWARD DEAN campaign was forced to cancel events this week in response to events in Iraq. Donations to the Odai and Qusai Hussein Memorial Fund can be submitted directly to the Dean campaign. Dean responded to the passing of these martyrs to American jingoism by angrily announcing that the ends don't justify the means. This is a war we're talking about. Why don't the ends justify the means? (Note to the Democrats: Just because you defended Bill Clinton doesn't mean you have to defend every government official who is reliably reported to be a rapist.)

CAUGHT IN THE ACT - CA Democrats Plot Behind Scenes!By PipeLineNews.org Staff Editor's note: Readers, this is what happens among California State Democrat leaders when they think they are away from the prying eyes of the public...and the press. Take some time and see what really goes down as they plan to use the budget crisis, a crisis totally of their making [increased spending by nearly 30% over the last two years alone] as justification for raising taxes, rolling back Prop 13 and the 2/3s rule. You will never see items such as this reported in the SF Chronicle, The...

<p>During the previous administration, we were told and the majority of Americans accepted that the practice of lying, deceptive behavior and even perjury was acceptable on the part of our elected officials, as long as the practice was limited to private matters, which were not of national importance. However, recently we were lied to and deceived by government officials on an issue of grave national concern, specifically, the war in Iraq. There should exist among Americans a significant outrage that elected officials could deceive us at such high levels and not pay the price for these deceptions.</p>

Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Tom Daschle, and their fellow Democrats try to explain why their party floundered in the 2002 elections. by Fred Barnes 12/09/2002 12:00:00 AM WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON addressed the Democratic Leadership Council the other day, he declared it "unconscionable" what Republicans had done in attacking now ex-Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. And, yes, Clinton was serious. He was repeating what has become a Democratic talking point. But like other staples of the party's rhetoric, the tale of abuse of Daschle is a myth. It's one of six myths I've spotted--there are probably more I've missed--that...

I need a little help from my FReeper friends. A friend and I were discussing why blacks blindly support the demonrat party. He said "sure the GOP was AWOL in 1964 on the Civil Rights Act, but what have the democrats done since then to help blacks..." I disagreed with his premise that the GOP didn't support the Civil Rights Act, since as I recall the law was passed based on support from republicans and over opposition of southern demos including Al Gore, Sr. Does anyone here know where I can find the breakdown of how demos voted and how...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt blasted the Bush administration's handling of the economy Tuesday, calling for $75 billion in tax rebates to counter "the vacuum of Republican inaction."</p> <p>"America faces a clear and present danger to the economic life of working families," Gephardt, D-Missouri, told a Washington think tank. "But all this president and the Republican House have offered is an extremist ideology of trickle-down economics and ineffective gimmicks."</p>

PRESIDENT BUSH'S BIPARTISAN TAX CUT: A PRESCRIPTION FOR JOBS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH While Budgetless Democrats Work To Roll Back Tax Relief, Republicans Have A Proven Plan For Job Creation And Economic Growth _________________________________________________________ "And should current economic weakness spread beyond what now appears likely, having a tax cut in place may, in fact, do noticeable good." (Alan Greenspan, Testimony Before The Senate Committee On The Budget, January 25, 2001) The Democrat Snake Oil THE DEMOCRAT MANTRA: BLAME THE TAX CUTS Senator Conrad Doesn't Understand The Value Of Tax Cuts. "Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) . . . [r]eferring...

<p>Who does Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe think he is? Bill Clinton?</p> <p>Only a man of Mr. Clinton's, er, self-confidence, could believe that he could get away with what Mr. McAuliffe is trying, to lead his party's charge against President Bush on the issue of business ethics. In the sermon he delivered to the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in Las Vegas Saturday, Mr. McAuliffe was so busy attacking the President for manipulating markets and exploiting September 11 that somehow he never mentioned the words Global Crossing.</p>

In Your Nation’s Capital there is a syndrome known as "The August Story." This is a story which will sustain journalists, politicians, cable news anchors, talking heads, and – dare we say it – political columnists, through the dog days of August when the Congress is on vacation, the President is out of the city, and France is shut down. To review the bidding, last summer’s August Story was the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy business. The summer before that (2000) the August Story was the Dueling Republican and Democratic National Conventions. By the way, I went back to the Mullings Archives...

A Web site with ties to the Democratic Party and ex-President Bill Clinton is charging that President Bush is most likely "personally and directly responsible for the deaths of 37 passengers and 7 crew members on Flight 93," claiming that evidence shows Bush and Vice President Cheney ordered the plane shot down on 9-11. The left-wing Web site Democrats.com goes so far as to contend that the famous photo depicting President Bush talking on the phone that morning aboard Air Force One was likely taken as Bush was authorizing Cheney to give the order to have Flight 93 blown from...