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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama noted Wednesday's 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, while insisting he wants the U.S. and Iran to move beyond "suspicion, mistrust and confrontation."

Yes, annoyed his hometown newspaper is about to be shuttered by the NYT, Sen. John Kerry wants to rescue the mainstream press. Capitol Hill hearings a-'coming.

<p>A founding member of the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois met in New York City tonight with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</p> <p>Jodie Evans, who co-hosted Obama's first major fundraiser in Hollywood in February 2007 just after Obama announced his candidacy and is a top fundraiser and donor to Obama's campaign, led a delegation of leftist anti-American groups that held a private meeting near the United Nations. The stated purpose of the meeting was to "serve as an opening for diplomatic resolution" to prevent war between Iran and the United States.</p>

Re: "swiftboating" From StreetInsider.com, July 3, 2008: "The 'Swiftboating' slogan is used by leftist politicians and members of the old media to smear the Swift Vets and other anti-Kerry veterans as liars. The truth is that they were effective because they supported their charges with evidence. A second goal of this tactic is to preempt any criticism of Sen. Obama and the other Democrats they are trying to elect - however accurate and relevant such criticism may be," said Scott Swett, the primary author of To Set the Record Straight. Source: Authors of New Book on Swift Boat Veterans for...

In my last blog in this series, I talked about how one of the leading parties in the so-called anti-war movement, ANSWER, is actually made up of people who support the communist dictators of North Korea and Cuba, communist rebels in Latin America and the Phillipines, and terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Today, I'll be discussing ANSWER's communist origins.

Manila: The Philippines has put rights activists, including a former US attorney-general and members of church groups on an immigration blacklist, a rights group said on Friday. At least 504 people from 50 countries were included in the blacklist labelled "Al Qaida/Taliban Link" imposed between July and August, Human Rights Watch said. Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general, is among those banned from entry. The list also includes left-wing activists from Europe, Australia and the United States. A senior immigration official confirmed that the blacklist existed, adding only that most of the names on it were "leftists". Human Rights...

A Dutch court has ordered a Philippine communist rebel leader to be held in detention for two weeks to allow prosecutors to investigate his case. Jose Maria Sison is accused of ordering the murder of two ex-allies in Manila. The founder of the Philippine Communist Party, Mr Sison was arrested on Tuesday in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, where he has been living in exile. The party's military wing, the New People's Army, is waging a rebellion that has cost more than 40,000 lives. Dutch prosecutors say he gave orders from The Netherlands for the murders of two...

Dear Four Reasons Reader: Something truly amazing has happened. George W Bush was re-selected by god so that he and his administration can be held accountable for a premeditated war of aggression- the highest international crime. There has been a tremendous effort underway since January of 2003 to bring up charges of impeachment as well as to try to bring up criminal charges in the International Criminal Court- which the US is not party to and therefore makes it a difficult task. This motion is headed by Ramsey Clark, Francis Boyle, and a host of serious legal scholars. Impeachment wasn't...

Ann Coulter shocked nobody last week by calling presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" during her appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Here's the YouTube video, as well as the quotation captured by the Associated Press: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I—so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards." It's true that the Democratic Party leaders displayed outrage. The Edwards campaign e-mailed the Coulter news to its supporters, calling...

Rightest Amerca Haters Cindy Sheehan I have received this warning in my in-box from friends who are telling me to "be careful:" February 08, 2007 Protecting the Vietnam Memorial from Leftist America Haters Apparently Saint Cindy "my firstborn was killed for the PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel"* Sheehan is going to march on the Vietnam Memorial with Hanoi Jane in order to protest the Iraq War. Unfortunately, she will be met by patriotic American Vets. And by patriotic, I mean the kind that actually root for the U.S. to win its wars. U.S. Veterans Dispatch: Leftist activists who march...

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

From today's Washington Times "Inside the Beltway"column: Kristinn Taylor, president of the local Free Republic chapter, was walking through the concourse of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday afternoon when he spotted one of Saddam Hussein's attorneys, Ramsey Clark, who was attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson. "As we walked by each other in the uncrowded terminal, I made a slashing motion across my neck and said to him, 'It's too bad about Saddam,' " in reference to the deposed Iraqi tyrant's failed judicial appeal to avert his death sentence. At that point, he said, Mr. Clark "glanced...

<p>WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have asked a U.S. judge to block his transfer to the custody of Iraqi officials poised to carry out his execution.</p> <p>Hussein's lawyers filed documents Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal court in Washington D.C. said.</p>

Keep Saddam in U.S. Custody, Ramsey Clark Pleads By Nathan Burchfiel December 21, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - Referring to his client as "calm, dignified [and] thoughtful," a member of Saddam Hussein's defense team urged President Bush Wednesday to keep the toppled Iraqi dictator in U.S. hands to prevent him from being mistreated in Iraqi custody. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a longtime anti-war activist and self-described pacifist, told reporters in Washington, D.C., he wanted Bush to refuse to turn "President Saddam Hussein" over to Iraqi officials. "If they are delivered to people designated by the present government of Iraq, they...

BAGHDAD, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity ejected former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark from the court on Sunday for insulting the tribunal. Clark, who heads an international team of lawyers involved in the defence, was ejected at the start of a hearing at which Saddam and two aides were convicted and sentenced to death. The judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, ejected Clark because he had sent a memo to Abdul Rahman including the accusation that the tribunal was making "a mockery of justice". The...

The lawyers of Saddam will be present at the verdict Sunday AMMAN - the lawyers of Saddam Hussein will be present Sunday at the High penal court in Baghdad to attend the verdict of the first lawsuit of the deposed Iraqi president, indicated to Friday to AFP the foreman of defense, Khalil Al-Doulaïmi. With the question of knowing if the team would go to the statement of the verdict, waited Sunday, it answered: "I will go to Baghdad in company of all the members of the team of defense and among them Ramsey Clark, a former American minister for...

Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer known for defending unsavory criminals, now faces the possibility of living out her life like many of them, in maximum-security lockdown in a federal prison. Today, 20 months after she was convicted on terror charges, Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants who were convicted of conspiring with her will be sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors, arguing that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of an imprisoned terrorist client, have asked Judge John G. Koeltl to condemn her to 30 years in prison. That would be a life...

WASHINGTON A member of Saddam Hussein's defense team predicts a bloodbath will follow should an Iraqi court order the execution of the former president. Former U-S Attorney General Ramsey Clark says he fears that hanging Saddam and the others would ignite "catastrophic violence." He goes so far as to say it would lead to "the end of civilization as we know." Clark -- part of Saddam's legal team -- says the former leader's Sunni Muslim tribe would be enraged over what they would consider a revenge killing by the Shiite-controlled and U-S-sponsored government. Saddam and the other defendants, who include...

Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general who is one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers, said that any death sentence against the former Iraqi president would increase violence in the strife-torn country. "It seems clear that a guilty verdict will set off catastrophic violence" and that a death sentence would be even worse, Clark told a Washington press conference. "It's hard to know how many Iraqis, dozens, hundreds, thousands, will die because of the sentence," he said.

WASHINGTON, DC - Aug. 13, 2006 (MASNET) Saturday's National Emergency March on Washington, in defense of Lebanon and Palestine, bringing over 30,000 Muslims from across the nation, was a huge success. The event, sponsored by the Muslim American Society's Freedom Foundation (MAS Freedom), the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), was broadcast live on C-Span and throughout the Arab world by Al-Jazeera. Organizers of the event were pleased to see the massive turnout exceeding expectations as busses rolled into Washington, D.C. throughout the morning. MAS chapters provided transportation and buses for this historical event from Boston,...

Protesters in D.C. denounce violence By NATASHA T. METZLER, Associated Press Writer (Published: August 12, 2006) WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of people gathered across from the White House on Saturday, even though the president was out of town, to condemn U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East. Speakers in Lafayette Park energized the most mostly Muslim crowd with chants and speeches condemning Israeli involvement in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, U.S. support for Israel and U.S. involvement in Iraq. "Occupation is a crime," the crowd chanted, equating the situations in the three areas. But they also called for peace...

There are two misconceptions held by many Americans. The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded. The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well. “The Sixties are dead,” wrote columnist George Will (Slamming the Doors, Newsweek, Mar. 25, 1991) Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political movement. However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace’ activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay’ rights groups....

Ramsey Clark Plans 'Emergency March' to Stop Israel By Alison Espach CNSNews.com Correspondent July 28, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, alongside various anti-war and Muslim groups, has announced plans for a "National Emergency March on Washington" to stop what he described as U.S. funding of the "Israeli war machine." Clark claimed that U.S. funding to Israel, which is battling Hizballah terrorists in southern Lebanon, is grounds for impeaching President Bush. "If we'd acted on impeachment before now, Lebanon wouldn't be subjected to this misery," said Clark at the National Press Club Thursday. "If we fail to...

National Press Conference in Washington, DC to Announce August 12 March There continues to be an amazing response to the appeal to support the Aug. 12 National Emergency March on Washington, but we still need your help to make it a success. The demonstration offers the best opportunity to show the opposition by the people of the United States to the Bush administration's partnership with the Israeli government in waging war against the people of Palestine and Lebanon. Below is a copy of a media alert for a national press conference that will take place Thursday, July 27, at the...

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein released a letter on Thursday that he recently wrote in prison that attempts to persuade the American people to demand a troop pullout because President Bush misled them into the Iraq war. The 5,000-word letter is a rambling treatise outlining what Mr. Hussein asserts are the false reasons that the Bush administration used to justify the war in Iraq, from weapons of mass destruction to Iraqi links with Al Qaeda. Mr. Hussein blames Iran and pro-Israel interests for helping lead the Americans into war. He invokes the specter of Vietnam and the spirit of Mao...

Editor's note: In 2004, Richard D. Lamm, former governor of Colorado, addressed a conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington. The following remarks are reprinted with his permission. Richard. D. Lamm I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise...

Bassem Mroue of the AP nicely summarized some of the recent revelations about the former regime noted in Iraq's new "Most Wanted" list. He quoted Iraqi officials as saying: "Saddamists are the largest group of insurgents and they give protection and shelter to other terrorists," deputy parliament speaker Khalid al-Attiyah said. "They finance them and supply them with weapons. They are the most dangerous."

To carry out Saddam Hussein will poke violence, according to Ramsey Clark WASHINGTON - To carry out Saddam Hussein would do nothing but poke religious violences in Iraq, declared Tuesday Ramsey Clark. This former American minister for justice is currently member of the lawyer collective of the deposed Iraqi president. "This execution would ignite a country which burns already", it has says at the time of a press conference. "I hope that the American people will realize that time always has just required the end of the executions, and it is the case here." The prosecutors of the High...

. NEVER FORGET After being put on suspension from practicing Law for the 2nd time in his career Civil Rights Attorney STEPHEN YAGMAN told KNX Los Angeles Radio News that he was going to go on vacation for a month on his own Ranch/Farm in Communist Cuba. Yesterday now Federal Grand Jury-indicted Attorney STEPHEN YAGMAN, who has been doing all he can to shut down the Los Angeles Police Department and America's War on Terrorism, had his Passport pulled while paying $100,000 bail on charges Federal Tax Evasion. NEVER FORGET .

Former U.S. attorney general has made a career of defending the hated By Lukas I. Alpert, Associated Press, 11/23/2001 14:49 NEW YORK (AP) Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has made a career of defending the despised and dispossessed. Whether it's representing civilians fleeing falling bombs, or people accused of war crimes, Clark has been a consistent adversary of the U.S. government, the United Nations and other powers he calls arrogant and bullying. ''I have thought all of my life as a lawyer that everyone is entitled to good representation, no matter how unliked they are,'' Clark said in an ...

NEW YORK -- Saddam Hussein's lawyer is walking in Greenwich Village, admiring the brave buds of a skeletal tree slowly stirring from winter sleep. In the twilight of his life, he notices such things: the advent of spring, the daily opera that plays on the streets of Manhattan, the small, simple pleasures that still stir his soul. He is an old man, untroubled by the fact that his latest client is a former dictator. In his 78 years, he has represented many infamous men and many divisive causes, the latest of which is to impeach President Bush and dispatch his...

The lawsuit of Saddam Hussein began again in Baghdad BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein in the business of the massacre of villager Shiites of Doujaïl took again Wednesday in front of the High Iraqi penal court in Baghdad, noted a journalist of AFP. The deposed president entered only the courtroom where it must continue his deposition and answer the questions of the Attorney General.

BELGRADE, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Over 50 foreign delegations will attend the funeral of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic on Saturday, a senior official with Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) said on Friday. The funeral to be held in Milosevic's hometown of Pozarevac, some 80 km east of Belgrade, will be attended by some dignitaries, said Miomir Ilic, the SPS's regional leader in Pozarevac. Ilic told the official Tanjug news agency that the dignitaries include Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Russian State Duma Vice-President Sergei Baburin, former U.S. state prosecutor Ramsey Clark, and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Ilic...

ALARM - Resumption of the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein and her seven co-defendants BAGHDAD - the 15th audience of the lawsuit of Iraqi president deposed Saddam Hussein and seven of her lieutenants began Sunday towards 12H40 (09H40 GMT), in front of the High penal court in Baghdad, noted a journalist of AFP.

Former Democratic Attorney General Ramsey Clark took time off from defending the "Butcher of Baghdad", mass murderer and tyrant Saddam Hussein, to go march with the communists in Bulgaria on Saturday. The protest against a proposed US military base in Bulgaria could only muster up around 100 supporters but they could count on democrat Ramsey Clark to be there to lead the parade. Former U.S. attorney General Ramsey Clark, first left, and international advisor to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein participates in a protest against US military bases in Bulgaria as people carry posters saying "No Foreign Military Bases...

Amman - International activists and lawyers involved in the defence of Saddam Hussein said on Sunday they would organize a mock trial of US President George W Bush and the British and Israeli prime ministers for alleged war crimes committed in Iraq and the Palestinian territories. The prosecution will be headed by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who sits on Saddam's defence team, according to one of the organizers. The two-day event, slated to open on Friday in the Egyptian capital, will be sponsored by the Cairo-based Arab Lawyers Federation and bring together international lawyers and human rights activists,...

Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers said Sunday they are seeking to file a case against President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. President of the Jordan Bar Association, Saleh Armouti, who recently joined Saddam's defense team, told journalists the attorneys will seek Saddam's approval this week to file a law suit against the American and British leaders in a European international court. The lawyers want to try them on charges of illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country. [snip]

The Big Lie has been exposed again: While the Left preens as the champion of the oppressed, the defender of the weak, and the advocate of liberty, one of its most venerable contemporary exponents, Ramsey Clark, has become the foremost apologist for a blood-spattered dictator. Has Clark betrayed the Left? By no means. He has just revealed yet again that behind the rhetoric of love and peace is a thinly-concealed taste for the boot on the face and the shackles on the mind -- tools so favored by the regimes most beloved of the international Left, from Stalin’s Russia to...

As if a light were switched off, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, portrayed for 20 years as a progressive modern ruler by Islamic standards, was suddenly, in 1977-1978, turned into this foaming at the mouth monster by the international left media. Soon after becoming President in 1977, Jimmy Carter launched a deliberate campaign to undermine the Shah. The Soviets and their left-wing apparatchiks would coordinate with Carter by smearing the Shah in a campaign of lies meant to topple his throne. The result would be the establishment of a Marxist/Islamic state in Iran headed by the tyrannical Ayatollah...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Saddam Hussein's lawyers called Thursday for the world to press the Iraqi government to provide them with protection, saying their colleague - former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark - was directly at risk. In an urgent e-mail to The Associated Press, the lawyers said Clark's life was in danger and "threats were directed against him by name." Clark is currently not in Iraq for the trial of Saddam and seven co-defendants, which resumed on Wednesday.

The Arab Lawyers Union is setting up a symbolic court in Cairo to try PM Sharon, U.S. President Bush and British leader Blair for 'war crimes' against Arabs and Muslims The Arab Lawyers Union, a Cairo-based organization which includes twenty-four national bar associations of Arab countries, has decided to hold a symbolic court hearing against “war criminals who harmed Arabs and Muslims,” the Arab media reported Tuesday. Comprising of 400,000 lawyers from 21 Arab countries, the Union drafted a list of “war criminals” topped by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair....

IRAQI tyrant Saddam Hussein has made a series of astonishing claims — giving a glimpse of his state of mind. The once-feared despot broke his silence in an interview with The Sun from his cell. In it he ranted how he: HOPED to flee by motorbike just minutes before he was nabbed by US combat forces. PRAISES cowardly French President Jacques Chirac as his “longtime friend”. BRANDED our sensational scoop pictures of him in his pants an insult to Iraqi people. Speaking through his lawyer, Saddam told how his escape plan was botched and claims he was gassed by...

Wearing a Communist Party Shirt Is Patriotic!

On the Today Show this morning, Katie Couric said: “Now to another big story going on in Iraq: the trial of Saddam Hussein. And an unlikely member of his defense team: Former U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark. He is here for his first interview since visiting his client in Baghdad last week. Mr. Clark, good morning.” Yes, Katie, what a shocker! I mean, Ramsey Clark defending a bad guy? You could have knocked me over with a feather. Of course, there may be just a little teeny-tiny bit of precedent for this. Clark did defend Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavia president...

Even if you hate George Bush, must you be a Saddam groupie? Anti-war activists are so confused, says Christopher Hitchens Not many months ago, on The Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page, a former attorney general of the US defended his decision to appear as an attorney for Saddam Hussein. Ramsey Clark made the perfectly obvious and irrefutable point that his infamous client — his ‘‘demonised’’ client, as he phrased it — was as much entitled to a defense counsel as the next man. Nobody disputes this proposition, least of all the Iraqi court that Clark described as illegitimate before it...

Michael P. Tremoglie is a writer who recently published his first novel "A Sense of Duty." His work has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Human Events, Front Page and Insight magazines. E-mail him at elfegobaca@comcast.net ------------------------------------------------------- An incredible change of attitude towards the war in Iraq occurred when an unlikely person, in an unlikely place, effectively, if inadvertently, expressed his approval of the war. Ramsey Clark, leader of the vehement Bush-hating antiwar group International ANSWER, has been approved as a defense attorney for Saddam Hussein. Clark has been an advocate for Hussein for years now. He has...

By Christopher Hitchens, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His most recent book is "Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" (Eminent Lives, 2005). NOT MANY MONTHS ago, on this very page, a former attorney general of the United States defended his own decision to appear as an attorney for Saddam Hussein. In his article, Mr. Ramsey Clark made the perfectly obvious and indeed irrefutable point that his infamous client — his "demonized" client, as he phrased it — was as much entitled to a defense counsel as the next man.

MIDI - IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS It's beginning to look like one sad Christmas for Saddam Hussein He tells his judge to go to h*ll...what is that awful smell His underwear's a week old, you can tell It's beginning to look like one sad Christmas for Saddam Hussein As we hear of atrocities...the entire world sees We'll soon bid farewell And although Ramsey denies it, the whole world knows it...the man is murdering scum He's plays defiant, but if you look closely, his face is certainly glum In his own mind he thinks he's still...