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David Miller, the mayor of Toronto - Canada's most populous city - is under a lot of pressure these days, owing to a spate of gun violence that has hit the area hard. I understand that he is just trying to come up with an idea - any idea - to take the pressure off himself and make it look as though he is doing something constructive to make his city safe. Still, it's hard to imagine a worse brainwave than his proposed solution to Toronto's gun problem: requiring legal gun owners to store their weapons all together in one...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to go back to this Hillary Clinton (news| website) and Newt Gingrich website) relationship here and give you three sound bites to put this in perspective. Newt has been making some appearances on the media to explain himself. Among other things he's saying is, "Hey, look. I mean if we can't put differences from ten years ago aside move forward jointly, there's not much hope for the country." I understand. Both Hillary and Newt want to be seen as unifiers because the country here is "a partisan cesspool." It's just constantly divided. It's getting worse...

It defies belief. Ex-President Jimmy Carter, who crystallized a fraudulent recall referendum for Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chavez, now says his Carter Center will return to Caracas "to help consolidate peace and democracy." He also says he's got a final report on the Venezuelan recall referendum. (There've been some other final reports but somehow he's got to issue a final final final report) He's up to no good. No one has demoralized Venezuela's democracy more than America's worst-ever president. The only legitimate reason he has to go to Caracas is to beg Venezuelans for forgiveness after that sorry show he put...

Ever hear of how republican's always call the liberal left "Whiner's"? Well, take a look at Wa. State, ...who are the Whiner's now? LOTS OF LAUGHS! Boy, the shoes on the other foot now! I think it's great, don't you? These people deserve it..! Has anyone seen the comedian on HBO, who gave a discription of a "Republican"? Wow was that great, and very very true.

MEDFORD, N.J. - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), pursuing Republican votes in a reliably Democratic state, said Monday that Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s view of terrorism reflects a naivete and an inability to recognize the seriousness of the threat. Echoing President Bush (news - web sites)'s criticism, Cheney focused on a comment Kerry made in an interview with The New York Times Magazine on Sunday that the nation has "to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives but they're a nuisance." Kerry suggested that terrorism,...

Sept. 8, 2004... "Now John Kerry and I believe that fighting terrorism, keeping the American people safe from terrorism, keeping the American people safe, period, is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. What we believe it is is an American issue," said vice presidential candidate John Edwards. puh-leeeeeez!!  email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial:  

<p>Scores of lawmakers yesterday viewed unreleased photos and videos of Iraqi detainees being sexually humiliated and physically threatened. The images, which included Iraqi corpses, U.S. troops having sex with each other, and previously undisclosed videos of at least one inmate ramming his head into a wall, convinced some legislators that the number of Americans who violated military protocol is larger than previously thought.</p>

The threat remains "limited" that terrorists might make and use chemical weapons for attacks in Europe, the French interior minister said Tuesday. "A very high degree of technical expertise is in effect required to handle such materials, so it is a limited threat. But that should not lead us to minimize this risk," said Dominique de Villepin on Europe-1 radio. French authorities are keeping militants under surveillance and will not allow fanaticism to take root here, the minister said. He predicted more arrests in future _ following a sweep last week that netted alleged militants linked to a Moroccan extremist...

MATTHEWS: This doctrine of preemptive attack, this whole notion of forward leaning, the lingo of this, the WMD, the regime change, all this new language we‘ve learn in the last years, do you think that‘s him or it‘s the people around him...? .... CUOMO: No, I think he was pushed by these people. But I think he started with his own—this is a terrible word—perhaps naive. He hadn‘t traveled around the world....See, what is now clear is, he is simply too simple, to the point of being simplistic.

Tory leader rounds on 'naive' BBC Iain Duncan Smith has stepped up the Tory attack on the BBC, calling its broadcasters politically naive as well as biased. The Tory leader went on the offensive as his party gave details of its official complaint about the Vote 2003 election programme. Mr Duncan Smith's combative performance came on Radio 4's World This Weekend. "What I really enjoy most about the BBC is that they arrive at politics like they are naive youngsters who have never seen the political form before in the past," he began. Asked if he was failing to get...

WASHINGTON, April 28 — Ignoring objections from his conservative base, President Bush is to make a Rose Garden speech on Tuesday in support of a $15 billion bill to fight AIDS internationally that will direct some money to groups that promote abortion. The bill, sponsored by Representative Henry J. Hyde, Republican of Illinois, has been the subject of intense negotiations between the White House and both parties on Capitol Hill. Now it is drawing fire from conservatives who say Mr. Bush's support is merely an attempt to win favor with moderate swing voters in 2004. "This is about politics," Ken...

A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster...

DAILY NOTEBOOK.... I WAS A NAIVE FOOL TO BE A HUMAN SHIELD FOR SADDAM! ....... March 23, 2003: Today's recommended reading, especially for anti-war activists and Hollywood's fifth column, is a first-person essay by former American human shield Daniel Pepper in The Telegraph (U.K.). In a rambling, revelatory self-confession, a mortified Mr. Pepper lets it all hang out, telling just how deceived and deluded he was about Saddam and Iraq. The opinion piece is entitled, I WAS A NAIVE FOOL TO BE A HUMAN SHIELD FOR SADDAM, and is well worth reading. Here's some of what ex-human shield Daniel Pepper...

Peace Movements Don’t Prevent Wars Barry FarberTuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 Are you behind the president, in favor of using force to disarm Saddam Hussein, willing to share the risks of combat nationally and personally – and thoroughly rattled by the huge turnouts around the world for the anti-war rallies of Saturday, Feb. 15? Have some therapy. Don't try to dismiss the demonstrators as "the usual suspects." The motleyness of many of them may have indeed inspired an agenda-free 8-year-old in New York to exclaim to his mother, "Mom, this place is filled with freaks!" But drop that line. There were...

I. Democracy, as every other historic ideal and institution, contains both ephemeral and more permanently valid elements. Democracy is on the one hand the characteristic fruit of a bourgeois civilization; on the other hand it is a perennially valuable form of social organization in which freedom and order are made to support, and not to contradict, each other. ...............The inadequacy of the presuppositions upon which the democratic experiment rests does not consist merely in the excessive individualism and libertarianism of the bourgeois world view; though it must be noted that this excessive individualism prompted a civil war in the whole...

<p>Six months ago, much of the world saw North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a playboy terrorist. But after two days of cordial talks Oct. 23-25 with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright--the first American official Kim has ever met--the reclusive North Korean is suddenly projecting the image of a man the U.S. can do business with. During Albright's visit to Pyongyang, Kim and Albright spent many hours together--in discussions, at two dinners, and at a bombastic spectacle of 100,000 performers extolling the ideals of the Korean Workers' Party. As her visit ended, Albright suggested that Kim "pick up the phone anytime" he wanted to reach her. Kim responded: "Please give me your e-mail address."</p>

Council passes anti-war resolution Boulder reverses earlier decision to avoid Iraq statement By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer January 22, 2003 Boulder's City Council on Tuesday formally expressed opposition to a United States-led war with Iraq, reversing its skepticism about such a declaration last fall. Responding to a growing push by hundreds of people around the city — peace activists, students, business owners, religious leaders, elementary school teachers and others — the council voted 7-2 in support of a resolution urging diplomacy instead of war. Boulder joined a growing list of at least 42 cities around the country that have...

Fresh from a three-day "fact-finding" trip to Iraq, actor Sean Penn claims his new acquaintances there are using him as a propaganda tool. An Iraqi online news service reported yesterday that Penn "has condemned the U.S.-British threats to wage war against Iraq," and that the actor "confirmed that Iraq is completely clear of weapons of mass destruction and the United Nations must adopt a positive stance toward Iraq," the New York Post reported today.

Well, well, we may just be able to pull off a great insulting coup at the next anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles. One of the nitwit groups that protested the Bush/Simon breakfast will be back out at the Federal Building on Sept 14. On another thread, I suggested that we gather small toiletry samples and pass them out to the smelly idiots. Well, FReeper snippy_about_it is sending me 58 items in the mail. Come on, LA area FReepers, let's get this thing organized. Gather all those small soaps and shampoos you have collected from hotels and let us insult these...