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With under a month until election day, Sen. John McCain's campaign stepped up its rhetoric against Sen. Obama. The latest charge this weekend from the McCain campaign was not that Obama will raise your taxes or will prematurely pull out of Iraq, but rather that Obama is not American enough. Such a line of attack is not only disappointing and disrespectful but is also a distraction from the issues that face our country. Speaking at rallies across Colorado and California on Saturday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin repeatedly said, " Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being...

It seems that 'Media matters' is OK with murder in its name August 15, 2008 'Media matters' is basically a radical group that poses as "fighting inaccuracy", in it's fanatical goal it even cows to Islamic militants' actvists such as "CAIR" and those that dare criticize militant Islamic terrorism against the entire world in the name of Islam and its attempts of conquest (otherwise known as Islamo-fascism) as "islamophobes" their "charge" against Michael Savage (for speaking out against this danger) who just (15 August, 2008) stopped his valid case against CAIR for defamation.. only because of advisors advising him that CAIR's tactics might...

HE PLANS ON DISARMING AMERICA, DOES HE REALLY THINK THAT THE WORLD WILL LAY DOWN THEIR WEAPONS FOR AMERICA? THIS MAN IF ELECTED WILL PUT AMERICA ON THE DEFENSE AND I AS A REAGAN DEMOCRAT PREFER TO HAVE SAFETY AND SECURITY OVER HOPE AND INSPIRATION!

Former chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said Saturday that it will hurt to give up the Golan Heights as part of a peace agreement with Syria, though it is a possibility. "The thought of ceding the Golan Heights gives me a bellyache, but for real peace one must be willing to pay a real price. Theoretically, Israel can do without the Golan," said Halutz during a cultural event in Beersheba, Saturday. Halutz refused to divulge whether he knew about the negotiations held for the past year between Syria and Israel with Turkish mediation since they began or whether...

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released a new Spanish-language ad, entitled "McCain, Plan Economico," highlighting ways in which his economic plan will help small businesses flourish during these uncertain economic times. The ad will air on the internet.   "John McCain recognizes the role that Latino small businesses and entrepreneurs play in our country's economic success in an ever-changing global marketplace," said former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin.   The ad follows the Cinco de Mayo announcement of John McCain's participation in the La Raza Annual Convention in San Diego on July 14, 2008 and the...

U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedeen, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism. "There' s a growing consensus [in the Bush administration] that we need to move away from that language," said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue. Instead, in two documents circulated last month by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the multiagency center charged with strategic coordination of the U.S. war on terror, officials are...

What do each of the following individuals and organizations have in common? William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber, unrepentant domestic terrorist) Jeremiah White (Black Liberation militant, racist, and Pastor) Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader, racist, anti-American) The New Black Panther Party (Black Militant Organization, anti-American and racist) Hamas Terrorist Organization (Islamic Terrorist Organisation) They all hate America, they all want to destroy America as we have traditionally known it, they all want the United States to retreat in the war, and they all want to make over the United States into a marxist/socialist/collective nation that is much more disposed toward...

Symptoms of a Larger Democratic Illness By Quin Hillyer Published 4/17/2008 Saturday marks the first anniversary of what might be the single most craven public statement by a wartime elected leader in the history of the United States. Unfortunately, it stands as a symbol of liberal Democratic cravenness, or worse, throughout this decade, in a pattern of openly wishing for American failure in Iraq and in other foreign affairs, and of characterizing our missions as not just impractical but actually immoral. The speaker was Harry Reid, majority leader of the U.S. Senate. The subject was the war in Iraq, and...

Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will...

WASHINGTON -It is already easy to imagine the Republican attack ads against Barack Obama. They open with video of his wife, Michelle, saying she was proud of America "for the first time in my adult lifetime" because of her husband's presidential candidacy. Cut to the Illinois Senator explaining that he doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin because it is a "substitute for true patriotism." Then flash a clip of Obama explaining that his Caucasian grandmother was a "typical white person" because she uttered racial epithets and was afraid of black people. Finally, the coup de grace, pictures of Obama's...

Congressman Chris Cannon said the states shouldn't be dealing with immigration reform. "It's a federal problem," he said Wednesday in a meeting with the editorial board of The Salt Lake Tribune. He said he realizes the federal government needs to find a solution. Cannon, a six-term Republican, pointed to the December 2006 immigration raids at Swift meat-packing plants, including one in Hyrum, Utah, calling them "inappropriate." Some 150 Latino undocumented workers at the Hyrum plant were arrested and many were deported. He characterized the move as political. "The Republicans planned it for October so they could say 'Vote for me,...

...Juan Hernandez is one endorsement that Mr. McCain won't be trumpeting in front of the cameras. Hernandez, who now serves as one of McCain's Hispanic Outreach Directors, is no amateur in the debate over illegal immigration into the United States. Though largely unknown to the public, he's been at the center of the policy maelstrom for years, a critical frontline player for the proponents of open borders and an unflinching advocate for strident Mexican nationalism. Though born in the United States to a father from Mexico and a mother from Texas, Hernandez has left no doubt as to where his...

The following picture appeared on the front page of the Index Journal which is the newspaper for Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick and Saluda Counties here in South Carolina. Clearly a sign of the times when Spanish has to be posted on signs voting precints in the area. I wonder how many Hispanics voted for McCain knowing he will allow them to stay and bring in their relatives?

The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture. "There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference. "One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture," Ridge said in the interview. Ridge was secretary of the Homeland Security Department between 2003 and 2005. "And...

The mosques of the medieval Islamic world are artistic wonders and perhaps mathematical wonders as well. A study of patterns in 12th- to 17th-century mosaics suggests that Muslim scholars made a geometric breakthrough 500 years before mathematicians in the West. Peter J. Lu, a physics graduate student at Harvard University, noticed a striking similarity between certain medieval mosque mosaics and a geometric pattern known as a quasi crystal—an infinite tiling pattern that doesn’t regularly repeat itself and has symmetries not found in normal crystals (see video below). Lu teamed up with physicist Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University to test the...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States. "I'd like to see it shut down," Adm. Mike Mullen said in an interview with three reporters who toured the detention center with him on his first visit since becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last October.

Halal food in US schools BSS, New York The powerful US Senate (sic) is likely to witness a bill from Democrat Senator John Sabini, who is pursuing to ensure 'halal food' for Muslim students in schools of the city and the state as well. "The 'Halal Food Bill' will be placed before the State Senate shortly," John said at a fund-raising meeting in the city on Thursday. Bangladesh Expatriates in New York organised the programme, where John Sabini also said that he and some other Democrat senators have been trying their best to raise funds from US business community for...

Noting that he might not agree 100 percent on immigration with Huckabee, the firebrand illegal immigration opponent said Huckabee's recently released immigration plan won him over. "The governor has a plan and I appreciate his plan. That's why I'm supporting him. He's one of the few who's actually brought forth a plan and gone public with it. It shows to me that he's willing to engage in the tough love necessary to fix this problem," Gilchrist said. Gilchrist, whose organization is separate from the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has drawn protests in appearances at college campuses in recent months for...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Mike Huckabee, under fire for some of his immigration stands while governor of Arkansas, picked up an endorsement in Council Bluffs, Iowa, from the ultimate illegal immigration opponent: Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, the group that has roamed the border for the last several years operating effectively as an independent border patrol. President Bush called the group "vigilantes" two years ago. But Huckabee seemed eager to announce the endorsement, as it came on a day when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney started running an ad that slams Huckabee for backing a provision that would...

BEIJING -- Edwin Maher was having a "Broadcast News" moment, feeling a flicker of self-doubt, an attack of the sweats waiting to happen beneath the white-hot studio lights. The veteran Australian TV reporter and weatherman was starting a new job abroad as a prime-time news anchor. But decades of on-camera presence couldn't prepare him for this gig, mouthing the party line for an imposing state-run TV network with armed soldiers posted at the entrance gates.   He was reading the news in communist China. "I stared into the lens and mentioned the Communist Party and I almost lost it," he...

New Iowa Leader Criticized by for Indecision on Federal Student Aid. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who backed in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, hedged Sunday on whether illegal immigrants who have gone to school in the United States should become eligible for federal student aid such as Pell grants and subsidized federal student loans. "I'm not sure that I would support that," Huckabee told ABC News, "it was a different program in Arkansas." Huckabee's failure to take a clear position on federal student aid while appearing on ABC News' "This Week with George...

U.S. to Strike N.Korea Off Terror List Under 'Secret Deal' The U.S. in a closed-doors deal on Oct. 3 agreed to strike North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and suspend the Trading with the Enemy Act by year's end provided North Korea disables its nuclear facilities by then, a senior South Korean official says. The official told Korean reporters in Washington last week the Oct. 3 deal “includes a list of facilities North Korea agreed to disable. It also includes what the other five nations agreed to do, including the issues of striking North Korea from...

"Presionado por su propio partido, el gobernador demócrata Eliot Spitzer dijo que no ha descartado prescindir de un plan ampliamente criticado de otorgar licencias de conducir a los inmigrantes indocumentados, de acuerdo con algunos informes. La propuesta de Spitzer generó un debate político que ha repercutido en la campaña presidencial. El viernes el gobernador expresó que mantenía por ahora el plan, pero sugirió que podría considerar abandonarlo si no encuentra entusiasmo por él, reportó en su edición del sábado el diario The New York Times y otros periódicos neoyorquinos."See below for English/synopsis.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mel Martinez, the reluctant general chairman of the Republican National Committee, is planning to step down as soon as a presidential nominee emerges, party insiders say. Martinez, who was elected to the post in January, couldn't be reached for comment on Saturday. Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said Martinez is ``the elected general chairman of the . . . party and will remain so. . . .'' Word of Martinez's possible departure before the 2008 election surfaced Saturday in a column written by Robert Novak. But Republicans close to Martinez said the freshman...

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ripped the Bush administration's war against terrorism Friday, delivering a bold and potentially risky speech that could establish the former Arkansas governor as the maverick among top Republican candidates and test his party's loyalty to President Bush. ''This administration's bunker mentality has been counterproductive both at home and abroad,'' Huckabee said in opening a broad indictment of Bush's style and policy. The speech came after several top Republican candidates started distancing themselves from Bush, vowing change on such issues as illegal immigration and federal spending even as they endorsed Bush's foreign policy. By...

John Burroughs is executive director of the New York-based Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy...What is needed is not another UN Security Council resolution strengthening existing sanctions. Rather the Bush administration should talk directly with Iran, and soon, because the U.S.-Iran confrontation is heating up dangerously...In a recent interview, Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei said, "We are moving rapidly toward an abyss." It is not too late to step away.

Fred wowed 'em, the crowd loved McCain's rejoinder to the Code Pink protester, Mitt Romney's video went over well, and Rudy Giuliani earned their respect. But the guy who absolutely looked the most at home before the NRA today was probably Mike Huckabee. Beginning with a jab at Rosie O'Donnell, and saying that because he was underdressed, he felt "as out of place as George Soros at an American Legion post", Huckabee used humor and homespun anecdotes to prove his bona fides as "one of them." He made a fairly sharp observation when he mildly mocked other politicians who answer...

In a press release issued, former Governor Mike Huckabee took issue with the Tancredo campaign's characterization of him as a pro-amnesty politician. Unfortunately for the Governor, the facts support the label. Fact #1. As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee denounced an immigration bill (Arkansas Senate Bill 206) that "would have required proof of citizenship to register to vote and would have required state agencies to report suspected cases of people living in the country illegally." (Doug Thompson, "Immigration Bill un-christian..governor says"Arkansas News Bureau 1/28/05) Fact #2. As Governor, Mike Huckabee offered a proposal to give state funded scholarships and state...

PRESIDENT BUSH: I thank the members of the Senate and members of my administration who worked so hard on the border security and immigration reform bill. I'm sorry the Senate was unable to reach agreement on the bill this morning. Legal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people, and Congress's failure to act on it is a disappointment. The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws. A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn't find common ground. It -- it didn't work. ...

The dilemma over what to do about an estimated 12 million illegal “aliens” (translation: Mexicans) has become a national political football. It's a problem, of course, but that's been true for decades. What has raised it to the level of “a perfect storm” is the convergence of a presidential election, a bipartisan congressional reform effort, some aggressive enforcement sweeps, and the tendency of the American majority to blame the “other” at times of insecurity and fear. The French have a saying, “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” -- literally, “The more things change, the more they remain the...

STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY Earlier today, in speaking about comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush misspoke. He told a group, "You know, I've heard all the rhetoric - you've heard it, too - about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that." This has been construed as an assertion that comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the Senate offers amnesty to immigrants who came here illegally. That is the exact opposite of the president's long-held and often-stated position. President Bush has noted repeatedly that the comprehensive...

HH: Now Senator Kyl, why the attacks on talk radio from your colleagues, Senators Lott and Graham? It doesn’t, in any event, it cannot possibly help the party, and it can’t help the bill. What are they thinking? JK: You know, I hate to speak for my colleagues, but I can suggest in the case of Senator Lott, because I’ve talked to him about it, is just said in frustration. If you look at it from his standpoint and mine, there is so much misinformation, and by the way, a plug for you, whatever your feelings on the legislation, you’ve...

Michael Savage Fans Plague C-Span With Emails Just a few of the offensive emails aimed at C-Span management for not airing a speech by conservative radio host Michael Savage.

Michael Savage vs. Brian Lamb. Sounds like the unlikeliest of media showdowns, right? Well, it's happening right now, it's bloody, and Lamb is winning. First, some quick background. Talkers magazine recently awarded Savage -- a radio host whose talk show I enjoy -- a Freedom of Speech award. Savage did not pick up the award in person at a gathering in New York. Instead, he sent a speech on DVD. C-Span cameras were at the conference and covered parts of it but not the taped Savage speech. How did Savage react? By selling a DVD of the speech on his...

The State Department's top legal adviser told international lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers. The Mexicans had been sentenced to death for murdering U.S. citizens, including young children. John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, cited the case, Mexico v. United States of America, in trying to convince the attorneys that the administration is doing what it can to enforce international law in U.S. courts. In...

George Bush has all but guaranteed victory for the all-but-dead immigration-reform bill. That would be funny if it weren't so, well, you know, not funny. At this point in his lame-duck career, Bush is lucky if he can guarantee a sunrise. And yet, at the end of his European road trip, Bush told reporters in Bulgaria - yeah, Bulgaria - that he would "see you at the bill signing." I assume he meant the American reporters. But you can't blame Bush for being giddy, just days after his mosh-pit performance in Albania - yeah, Albania - where he waded fearlessly...

Michael Savage, the #3 most listened to talk-show host in America, was honored by Talkers Magazine, the "Bible" of talk radio, with this year's Freedom of peech Award. Recently, Talkers held a bash at which they presented the award. C-SPAN, which claims to be nonpartisan and nonideological, was there and carried most of the speeches. But for some reason, it blacklisted Savage's speech accepting the award. Why would a nonideological network do this? More liberal media bias, obviously. C-SPAN has now willingly made itself part of the liberal effort to suppress freedom of speech in this country.

The museum for Telemark County has devoted a new exhibit to one of its most infamous natives, national traitor Vidkun Quisling. It's not being entirely well-received. "I don't quite see the exhibit's point," one of the Telemark Museum's own board members, Arnulf Rafgård, told newspaper Aftenposten. He thinks the exhibit has an unnatural personal focus, and that it's not critical enough about Quisling himself. Quisling, born in Fyresdal in Telemark in 1887, once carried out humanitarian work for Fridtjof Nansen's organization in Russia, but went on to form Norway's nationalist party (NS) in 1933. He met Adolph Hitler in 1939...

During World War II, Nazi Germany invades neutral Norway, surprising the Norwegian and British defenders of the country and capturing several strategic points along the Norwegian coast. During the invasion's preliminary phase, Norwegian fascists under Vidkun Quisling acted as a so-called fifth column for the German invaders, seizing Norway's nerve centers, spreading false rumors, and occupying military bases and other locations. In June, Norway fell to the Nazis. Quisling was made head of a puppet government, but was vigorously opposed by the Norwegian resistance, the most effective resistance movement in all of Nazi-occupied Europe. After the German surrender in May...

MIM: The callers to Joe Sestak's office protesting his slated appearence at the fundraising banquet for the Council on American Islamic Relations are in for a nasty surprise. The staffer who could be anwering their call could be none other then CAIR Philly staffer and former communications director Adeeba Al Zaman.The U.S. Congressman's employment of a CAIR staffer signifies another advance for legal Islamism. In his article "How the West Could Lose." Dr.Daniel Pipes issued this dire warning: "…Should Islamists get smart and avoid mass destruction, but instead stick to the lawful, political, non-violent route, and should their movement remain...

After yesterday's 'Non-binding' resolution was passed, the Democrats have sent out an email, received at my throwaway address. Of course, all the self congratulatory stuff and bashing of Republicans is in it. To: "Lew Waters" {Me@I’llnevertell.com} From: "Brian Wolff, DCCC Executive Director" {dccc@dccc.org} Subject: Keeping Our Promise Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:47:15 -0500 Dear Lewis, Democrats campaigned on the promise to take America in a new direction -- both at home and in Iraq. We have kept our promises. In less than 100 Hours, House Democrats delivered: passing legislation to raise the minimum wage, voted to invest in stem...

DES MOINES, Iowa Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney conceded that the war in Iraq has been poorly managed and may hurt Republicans again next year. But he refused to oppose the course President Bush has charted. Romney, who was meeting with activists across central Iowa, told The Associated Press that his support for Bush will not hurt his chances of winning the G-O-P presidential nomination. Romney concedes much of the strategy used after Saddam Hussein's capture has fallen short. He said the U-S underprepared and was understaffed "in terms of our military team." Romney said the U-S -- "created the...

Did I hear the news correctly? Michael Savage is mulling a run for the presidency? Hallelujah! President Michael Savage in the Oval Office would be a blessing to America, and would be a positive answer to millions of conservative prayers. In fact, a Savage presidency may the only hope for saving America from liberal nitwits like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, not to mention RINOs and our “conservative” president. Dr. Savage believes in American “borders, language, and culture.” He would fight to secure our borders, make English use mandatory, and he would strive to preserve the rich American heritage. With...

Michael Savage, the nation's third-most listened to radio talk-show host, says he may leave his top rated show to make a bid for the GOP nomination for president.

I know this is going to bring out howling condemnation from many, but Savage has it all wrong. For conservatism to flourish we can’t concentrate on the circumstances of ones birth as the “Borders, Language, and Culture” argument would imply. We have to judge people as individuals and either accept or reject them based upon the decisions they make and the values they demonstrate. That is the message that America has given the world since our experiment began. The values I embrace are founded in a reverence of a Christian God, a dedication to family and community, and a willingness...

He said US should pull back to the sidelines and let Iran get "sucked in" to fighting the Sunnis in Iraq. I've been telling freepers that my sense is that the war is getting increasingly unpopular even with Republicans (that's what I'm hearing among my GOP friends in business and the community) - and now, tonight, Savage seems to be giving voice to that mood. I'm not buying it. But I'm troubled when Savage is moving away from the President's mission.

As George Bush reflects on his legacy, an urgent question must be pressing in upon him each day. Will I leave here as the man who launched failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost thousands of U.S. dead, to no avail? Or can I yet enter history as the Churchillian statesman who used U.S. power to save America and Israel from the mortal threat of atomic weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs? Which legacy would Bush prefer? Or Cheney? As Americans await Bush's address announcing a "surge" of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops to Iraq, we may...

"This is a true story.....Check out this photo from our mess hall at the US Embassy yesterday morning. Sen. Kerry found himself all alone while he was over here. He cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same time), and he found himself eating breakfast with only a couple of folks who are obviously not troops. What is amazing is Bill O'Reilly came to visit with...

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Kennedy’s Comrade: Hunting a KGB Mole in the Democratic PartyBy Fedora With thanks to those who helped Profile of an Agent In 1999, espionage author Christopher Andrew revealed that Soviet archives smuggled by defector Vasili Mitrokhin described an unnamed KGB agent recruited from California Democratic Party circles in the 1970s: Though [Gus] Hall tended to overstate the influence of undeclared members of the CPUSA within the Democratic Party, there was at least one to whom the [KGB’s] Centre attached real importance during the 1970s: a Democratic activist in California recruited as a KGB agent during a visit to Russia. The...