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A loose coalition of liars, profiteers, political panderers, conspiracy theorists, anti-Semitics, terrorist sympathizers, cyber thrill seekers, anti-Americans, and the mentally ill is growing and congealing in America. They allege terrorists did not attack the United States on 9/11; President Bush and the “neocons” did it or the Jews did it or both did it. Their fallback theory is the Bush administration extensively knew about the 9/11 plot by terrorists and just let 9/11 happen so they could aggressively pursue a war on terror. For the conspiracy coalition's main claim, they have virtually conjured from the thin blue 9/11 air a...

Outrage of the Day On September 11, both TNT and CNN Headline News chose to air a sick commercial for a moonbat conspiracy web site, claiming that the World Trade Center was blown up on purpose with controlled detonations: Why would TNT think this was a good day to air this? Bad language at link

There has been no hesitation in the historical record to refer to industries producing armaments as "war profiteers". Generally, that label had been reserved for industries or individuals that benefit from the inevitable shortages of necessities consequential to a protracted and destructive conflict. The implication is that branded industries and individuals have an interest in promoting war for gain and opposing efforts for peaceful resolution. Liberals have given us a new breed of war profiteers as well as retaining some of the old. In the best tradition of the New York World and the New York Morning Journal, it was...

CANNES AND THE HYENAS’ FESTIVAL By: Jesús J. Chao 5/25/04 Michael Moore brought to their feet the adoring European elites with his accustomed diatribes, defamations and wild attacks against President Bush and the American traditions and values. The jubilant reaction of the privileged European and Hollywood elites in attendance to the Festival, says more about their own values than the alleged merits of Moore’s documentary. Accordingly, he received the longest standing ovation ever at the Cannes Festival, an spectacle bordering on collective hysteria. What makes it more loathsome, is that the French would be speaking German today if Americans had...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. MANAMA, Bahrain (Reuters) - If you want to shock your friends with tasteless trinkets, try some of the best sellers in souks from Bahrain to Baghdad, but beware the reaction. Crammed between plastic toys and fake designer watches in Manama's busy merchant district, the souvenir hunter can find Osama bin Laden T-shirts and a raft of items depicting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York's World Trade Center. Iraqi money with Saddam Hussein's picture can also be snapped up. One of the boldest items on sale in the shops of...