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You'll need speakers to hear this. Embedded NPR reporter with Bravo Company, 1st Marine Battalion, 3rd Regiment, found suitcase with Sarin nerve gas. Unclear where it came from. In either case, war is justified because WMD have been found, or if it's Al Qaeda's I'd much rather it brought to Iraq to fight our military than brought to New York. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4164561

Is it my imagination, or has the very tone of the media — that "MSM", or Main Stream Media, to which they have been reduced in weblog shorthand — changed in the last week? I am trying to account for a little heading in the New York Times that reads, "With Our Troops". It is small, but it is a miracle all the same, for the grey lady's position before the re-election of President Bush was ambiguous. The Pentagon's brilliant plan for embedding journalists with the military, in this latest case with U.S. Marines in the front of action to...

Nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu was arrested on Thursday for allegedly revealing classified information, seven months after he completed an 18-year prison sentence for treason, police said. Police spokesperson Gil Kleiman said Vanunu was detained at his rented rooms in Jerusalem's St George's church, but declined to discuss the nature of his alleged disclosures. "Vanunu was arrested late this morning," Kleiman said, adding that police removed papers and a computer from his rooms. Vanunu (49) was released from prison in April after 18 years, much of it in solitary confinement, for disclosing secrets he learned as a technician at the...

SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), whose comments last week have been interpreted as a warning to President George W. Bush not to nominate any conservative judges to be considered by the U.S. Senate, is in hot water again with pro-life, pro-family Christian Republicans over a presidential exploratory fundraising letter he sent in 1995 calling religious leaders like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, and Pat Buchanan "radical extremists." In the May 15, 1995 letter, Specter used his senatorial letterhead to say at the time that he was "disturbed" with Reed, who headed Robertson's Christian Coalition during...

In two newspaper interviews before the election, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter promised to block pro-life and "extremist" judges appointed by President Bush, apparently contradicting claims he is making now amid fierce opposition to his becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A third paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, endorsed the pro-abortion senator largely because of his anticipated position on the panel. Sen. Arlen Specter at town hall meeting (Photo: Williamsport Sun-Gazette) The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's editorial board published an endorsement Oct. 24, stating it prized Specter's independence. "The best argument for his staying on is his seniority, which puts him in line...

On June 6, 2002, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) voted against adding the American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA) to the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States. Source The ASPA is "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States Government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not a party." Source --- Essentially, Specter is on record as being the only Republican Senator to vote in support of subjecting our military men and women...

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. assault on Fallujah is prompting some disgruntled military families to once against take their anti-war and anti-Bush views public. The fighting in Fallujah brings "predictions of casualty levels not seen since major battles in the Vietnam War," the families said in a press release issued on Tuesday. "Military families with loved ones currently serving in Iraq -- in Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, Baghdad and other areas -- have deep and continuing concerns about the failed policies of the Bush Administration in Iraq that are putting their loved ones, all of our troops and the people of...

---snip---Anyway, the military tribunal was all set to try Hamdan when U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson  ruled the Bush administration had no right to declare the man an enemy combatant. Robertson went on to say Hamdan should be classified a prisoner of war and given Geneva Convention protectionsRobertson ruled this despite these facts: Hamdan was not fighting for any country, Hamdan wore no uniform on the battlefield, Hamdan was a member of at least one terrorist group, possibly two.Judge Robertson also ruled that the Geneva Convention  protections supersede any presidential order or designation by military tribunal. In effect, the...