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Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S....

Many of you may have heard this audio clip before. However, prior to this morning, I haven't. I wondered why I have heard in the media over and over again that Republicans have been referring to Michelle Obama as Barack's 'baby's mama.' Well, all it takes is a simple youtube search and you find the audio clip of Michelle Obama calling herself exactly that.

Ok folks here's the new thread for the new season. Jack, please don't teacup the guns.

If we rigidly applied truth-in-advertising laws to the national media in their coverage of the 2006 campaign, we would have first declared that the stuff between the commercials wasn't "news" as much as a boatload of free infomercial advertising for the Democrats. The news reports should have led with the sentence, "I'm Nancy Pelosi, and I approved this newscast." Republicans made a lot of mistakes and caused themselves a pile of problems. Their house is a mess -- it's time to tear down and start over. But I will say this unequivocally: In 25 years of looking at the national...

Click the link below to verify that your vote has been registered if you voted early in Florida See early voters header in the box, find your county and click the link with the correct date. Click on the file and it will open up to a Notepad file listing the people who has voted early.If you know any moonbats in Florida who think their votes don't count, you know where to point them Link

NRO SENATE BOXSCORE DEMS +5 More Results Race Republican Democrat Poll TN Corker: 51% Ford: 47% Rasmussen NEW 11/05 (+4) RI Chafee: 46% Whitehouse: 45% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (+1) PA Santorum: 39% Casey: 52% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (-13) OH DeWine: 44% Brown: 50% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (-6) NJ Kean: 42% Menendez: 45% Monmouth University NEW 11/05 (-3) MT Burns: 48% Tester: 50% Rasmussen NEW 11/05 (-2) MO Talent: 45% McCaskill: 46% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (-1) MD Steele: 44% Cardin: 47% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (-3) VA Allen: 45% Webb: 46% Mason-Dixon NEW 11/05 (-1)

Last night I attended a screening of the first half of The Path to 9/11 a film that will be broadcast by ABC in two three-hour segments on September 10 and 11. Two and one-half hours is a long time to sit still watching a film, but this one was gripping and tension-filled and visually dazzling. ... One gripping scene shows Massoud's forces--and CIA agents surrounding bin Laden's encampments and then being called back when National Security Adviser Sandy Berger refuses to give a go-ahead for the operation. That scene, according to 9/11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean, an adviser to...

I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on ABC on September 10th and 11th, called The Path to 9/11 and I told you that I have the DVDs. I also told you because I am in touch -- I am poor when I'm in New York -- I do not have a DVD player. I don't. My apartment's got an old media room in it, it's got a laser disk player in it, but it doesn't have a DVD. Well, actually it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't...

Five Fat Girls Sought Cops report "flurry of chubby fists" in Toledo milk heist AUGUST 9--Robbery is never funny. Except when it's described by Toledo police officers with a peculiar sense of humor. Early this morning, Scott Gibson, 44, was returning from the grocery store with a gallon of milk when, as he told cops, he was surrounded by "5 fat black girls" in the parking lot of a Kentucky Fried Chicken. As described by officers Patrick Sutherland and Kristi Eycke in the below Toledo Police Department incident report, one of the "hefty felons" asked Gibson to surrender his milk....

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent...

A Waterloo man and his dog made a harrowing escape from the clutches of a vicious black bear Thursday while portaging near Wawa, Ont. Tom Tilley, 55, killed the nearly 200-pound bear by jumping on its back and stabbing the aggressive animal with a six-inch hunting knife after his dog alerted him and distracted the bear. "Love is a very powerful emotion and my thought right away was, 'You're not going to kill my dog,' " Tilley said yesterday. "I really consider my dog a hero. Without that first warning I would have had the bear clamping down on my...

Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and hopeless war. "This is just to cover Bush's [rear] so he doesn't have to answer" for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. "Iraq is still a mess -- get out."

Document Document ISGQ-2003-00004530 dated September 15 2002 is a memo from a General in Saddam Feedayeens to the Supervisor of those Feedayeens who is not other than Uday Saddam Hussein. The memo talks about a hidden large container that contain a Chemical Material and that it was buried under the ground near Fallujah back when Hussein Kamal Hussein was in charge of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission. Hussein Kamal was the brother in law of Saddam who fled to Jordan in 1995 exposed to the world that Saddam still have WMD and then Saddam tricked him to come back by...

In the unfortunate argument about peak oil supply, what constitutes "oil" is usually poorly defined. Canada's vast bitumen deposits, mostly located in northern Alberta, offer insight into the difficulty of determining what oil is, defining proved reserves, and peak production. There is little agreement on how this bitumen should be classified. Many folks do it the way World Oil does: with explanations and footnotes. One of our reasons for not classifying bitumen the same as conventional proved reserves is the fact that it presently relies on large amounts of natural gas and water for extraction and processing, as well as...

Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt... A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ... Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely...

<p>It is getting somewhat strange around these parts when not only the President, but yesterday the First Lady was personally attacked by someone claiming to be a ‘Conservative’. Can there be any doubt that there are forces among us looking to drive a wedge between us?</p>

Friday, May 05, 2006 Rummy "lied" Andrew Sullivan says the man who heckled Rummy was Not some crazed lefty. The man who demanded that Rumsfeld answer the questions we all want to have answered turns out to be the man who gave former president George H. W. Bush his daily intelligence briefing. And he was right in the exchange; and Rummy was factually wrong. Yep: Rumsfeld lied. Quelle surprise. No not some crazed lefty. The man was Ray McGovern, who Sweetness and Light noticed was part of Daniel Ellsberg's Truth Telling Project. Here's the relevant blog entry from the Belmont...

"If we got out," asked Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press" recently, "and there was a civil war, chaos, and you saw al Qaeda moving in -- in record numbers -- would you go back in?" Russert's guest, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., replied, "Well, first of all, I heard the same kinds of suggestions at the time of the end of the Vietnam War. The 'Great Bloodbath,' we're going to have over 100,000 people that were going to be murdered and killed at that time. And for those of us who were strongly opposed to the war, [we] heard...

Leon County commissioners took a decisive step Tuesday toward allowing voters to decide whether the county and city should have a merged law-enforcement agency under an elected sheriff. The county commissioners voted to send Tallahassee commissioners ballot language for a proposed referendum, but that doesn't mean voters will have the chance to decide the issue of merging the Sheriff's Office and the Police Department. City commissioners - who so far have expressed no desire to merge the agencies - would have to agree to a dual referendum inside and outside city limits. Another alternative, which some consider unlikely, would be...

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<p>Just heard as news alert on Fox News. One beieved dead. No other details.</p>

This info was included on another thread, but I thought it might be helpful to have its own thread. After the recent discovery of cbr suits, a CS canister, and weapons in a London mosque, it is important for all of us to help be the eyes and ears of homeland security. THIS LINK will provide a site at which you can locate mosques in your area. If you see some suspicious activity, report it. SEARCH BY ZIPCODE There are sleeper cells all over this nation, particularly in large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, and...

The Talk Shows Sunday, July 31st, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Space shuttle Discovery commander Eileen Collins, pilot James Kelly and mission specialist Charles Camarda; Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Collins, Kelly and Camarda; NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan. THIS WEEK (ABC): Collins, Kelly and Camarda; former astronauts John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin; Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.; former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Half the skin on his face was torn away and his left hand was shattered. But Tucson Police Officer David Lewis knew he had to put his pain aside. He forced up his arm and pointed his gun at the suspect and commanded him to stop. Moments later, the man was taken into custody, accused of leading police on a crosstown chase in which he used his car as a ramrod aimed at officers. Lewis, 32, was pinned to his squad car by the burglary suspect's car in the incident and was dragged 150 feet. Many thoughts went through his...

State Rep. Tom Prezelski Jr. is the suspect in a Tucson Police Department felony fraud investigation and had a financial crisis after taking office that included an arrest warrant for a bad check, an Arizona Daily Star investigation shows. A friend told police in May that Prezelski, 35, had stolen a blank check from her, made it out for more than $10,000 and forged her signature in June 2003, four months after he took office. That's around the same time the Democrat's Tucson home was being foreclosed upon. Four months later, he was accused of issuing a bad check, a...

Talk host Howie Carr has launched a website, Fatboy.cc, devoted to the long career of the Swimmer. Complete with pictures, sound clips, merchandise, and Fatboy's favorite quotes. Have family fun by playing the sound cuts and doing your own Wizard of Uh's contest. How many times does he say "Uh" in a given clip. (Don't be confused by "I-I-Is" or "the-the-the-thes", just "Uhs"). Senator of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the year of my birth, 1962. And up for re-election in '06.

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 12th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Tom Malinowski, Washington director of Human Rights Watch; historian David McCullough. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., LendingTree.com chief executive officer Anthony Hsieh and personal finance adviser Suze Orman; Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C.; actor Brad Pitt. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.;...

In the battle for Fallujah, terrorists used women and children as human shields against American soldiers. On April 27, 2004, in Jerusalem, Hamas used a Palestinian human bomb to kill two Palestinian alleged "collaborators." On April 28, 2004, even as UN envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, was busy characterizing Israeli policy as the "great poison in the region," Jordanian police arrested Al Qaeda operatives who were quite literally trying to launch a chemical poison attack that might have killed 80,000 Jordanians and Americans. And, on May 1, 2004, in Gaza, Palestinian gunmen shot and killed a Jewish woman who was eight-months pregnant...

To say the New York Times is obsessed with domestic violence against women is an understatement. A search of the NYT database reveals over 337,000 “hits” on the phrase “violence against women” just since 1996! The Times has gotten in a lot of hot water for its long-standing anti-male and other forms of bias. Visit the Times Watch at www.timeswatch.com and you will see the many ways that the NYT slants, distorts, filters, and otherwise biases the truth. Last week, RADAR launched an ambitious campaign for the Times to report both sides of the domestic violence issue. But the NYT...

One month after the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing (search) that killed 168 people, authorities demolished what was left of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (search). Officials said the implosion was a necessary part of the psychological recovery for the citizens of Oklahoma City. But critics question the FBI’s tactics and argue the building came down too soon and the implosion is one piece of a government cover-up. Survivor VZ Lawton remembers the events after the attack. “I was in my office at my desk signing papers and all of a sudden the building began to shake,” said...

"Don't Surrender!!" (To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender") Yeah, Dem Lib'rals got no class...RATS' tyranny's built fer fools... We learn more from the FReepublic Forum, Nation, then we ever learned in school!! We'll fight Left's fear...our neighborhoods're standin' proud... Singin' from our hearts...we're singin' loud!! We shan't git tired...our goal must be EXPOSE Left's LIES!! So git up and FReep now... Dutch Reagan's promise lives on in all who remember... Yer Effete, Kerry, you'll surrender!! We're soldiers in a Righteous fight...it's our Peace we'll defend... RATS retreat, Kerry, you'll surrender!! DemRAT faces are mad and cold... Left's schemes...

Happy Easter! Last week the subject theme for the photography thread was Sunrise, wherein someone suggested that sunrises are better than sunsets. That sounds like a challenge to me! Let's see if we can top the sunrise thread with some beautiful sunset shots. Please post your bestest sunset photos here - your own work, please.

Greer became well-known as a County Commissioner with close relations to powerful developers in Pinellas County during his eight years as a County Commissioner from the beginning of 1985 when he took office (he was elected unopposed to the Commission in 1988) until he left the Commission for his current judgeship in early 1993. His first reported embarrassment as a Commissioner was the infamous Coopers Point scandal, which has plagued Pinellas County taxpayers for almost twenty years

Click on the recently departed Dan below for a "revelation": Click on the clothing salesman below: Click on Che or Fidel below: Click on deep sea Dan for the obvious below: Click on the always rational Teresa below: Click on the NEA production below: Click on Ted Kennedy's favorite network below: Click on the homonymically-challenged Iranian below: Click on the NFL Hall Of Famer below: Click on the bottle below: Click on the phone below to hear the other end of the conversation: Click on Bubba below: Click on Dan below & stand by for news!: Click on Swingin' Johnny...

It's not working for me this year. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue just isn't working. We're told this issue will generate $50 million in ad sales, calendars, television shows and other spin-offs, but I think more people are thinking and feeling precisely what I am: The concept is tired and played out. Surely you've heard about the history of this issue. In 1964, the editors wanted to do something to draw readers during February. With football over and baseball not yet begun, readership usually plunged. So on Jan. 20, 1964, they launched the first swimsuit issue -- a cover shot...

Late last night, channel surfing, I come across Ward Churchill's Nurenberg style rally by his supporters at CU Bolder. For a guy who likes to call people Nazis, he sure has the pattern down for his own "gigs". Churchill's supporters like Dustin Craun had to be arrested at the University's meeting on the fake Native American fraud at their institution. He and his fellow fascist screamed things like "Is this a public meeting or not?" when they couldn't direct the agenda of the meeting and when they couldn't hijack the meeting. Notice that the fascists that gave this Nurenberg...

"[Bill] Nelson has mounted a vehement challenge to Bush by condemning his plan to allow workers to divert some of their Social Security tax money into individual investment accounts." The Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 2005 "'Senator [Bill] Nelson and any other senator who has drawn a line in the sand — that is going to be a very risky approach,' said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee." The Orlando Sentinel, February 5, 2005

PARIS, Jan 14 (AFP) - Supporters of French President Jacques Chirac are pushing for a constitutional change that would make him a senator-for-life after he leaves office and thus shield him from the threat of future legal proceedings, newspapers reported Friday. The proposed measure would mean that all former presidents become automatic members of the upper house of parliament - instead of joining the constitutional council, France's highest judicial authority, which they do under the existing arrangement. Chirac, 72, cannot be prosecuted as long as he remains president, but when he steps down he risks being placed under judicial investigation...

The Kennedy family tragedy that was Rosemary Kennedy's life became the inspiration for a movement that improved life for tens of thousands of mentally retarded Americans, advocates said. Kennedy, the oldest sister of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio] and the late President John F. Kennedy, died Friday at 86 in a Wisconsin hospital near the facility where she spent most of her life. At age 23, a lobotomy was performed on her reportedly on medical advice that it would calm the mildly retarded woman's behavior and mood swings that her father feared would create problems for her and embarrass...

Washington, D.C. - On November 2nd, here in the United States, Americans showed up at the polls in record numbers. Over 120 million voters turned out to cast their ballots, believing that this past election was one of the most important elections in their lifetime. They had a personal stake in the outcome and found time to get to the polls. Some even sacrificed by standing in line for several hours. On January 30 in Iraq, elections will take place for the first time in over 50 years to elect a National Assembly and install a new government in a...

September 9, 2004 Documents Suggest Special Treatment for Bush in Guard By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and RALPH BLUMENTHAL ASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard came under renewed scrutiny on Wednesday as newfound documents emerged from his squadron commander's file that suggested favorable treatment. At the same time, a once powerful Texas Democrat came forward to say that he had "abused my position of power" by helping Mr. Bush and others join the Guard. Democrats also worked to stoke the issue with a new advertisement by a Texas group that featured a former lieutenant colonel,...

Like Andrea Peyser, I have had just about enough of Bill Clinton's self-congratulatory banter ("Clinton Lie-brary," Nov. 22). He came in on the wings of an economic upswing that he had nothing to do with, and he went out on its decline. He degraded his office, refused to take responsibility for any of his actions and sought no real recourse against the three terrorist attacks that took place on his watch. Enough already. Patrick Bartholomew Astoria ***** Clinton spins history like a top, and Hillary enables him. When push came to shove with the Islamic terrorists in 1993, 1996, 1998...

Rush, and an Untold Story Behind the Clinton Library  This time the Claremont Institute did the hosting, while Rush Limbaugh entertained us in grand style Friday night, at our Winston Churchill dinner. The Institute honored him with its Statesmanship Award (which has gone to the likes of Ronald Reagan, Lady Thatcher, and Clarence Thomas). Especially notable were his comments on the opening of the Clinton Library—a hellish place to force his liberal friends at attend, on a rainy day, in red state Little Rock, lacking in all the comforts they would otherwise demand.  But ignored, in all the reporting...

REMAINS OF FOOD SHED LIGHT ON ANCIENT WAYS BY BEN MURCH 11:00 - 20 November 2004 Exotic spices unearthed beneath the Bath Spa show military administrators lived in the lap of luxury in the city's early days. Food and architectural remains found preserved beneath the remains of Roman buildings provide new evidence of the high living enjoyed by the military rulers of what was then Aquae Sulis in the first century AD. The remains were discovered in 1999, but have only just finished being analysed. The ancient grapes, figs, coriander and a peppercorn - along with highly decorative architectural fragments...

Battery technology for portable computers has advanced little since rechargeable lithium-ion batteries arrived in the mid-1990s. Now it appears the next step could be hydrogen fuel cells based on metal hydrides or methanol. The Energy Department this year announced several dozen demonstration projects with industry, academia and national labs to develop nonpolluting hydrogen fuels that give off only water as a byproduct. Over the next five years, Energy plans to spend a total of $1.7 billion on hydrogen and fuel cell projects. Nearly half that amount has already been obligated by Energy and industry partners. For more information, visit Energy's...

They Served Twice: the return of the Vietnam Vets ---------- John Kerry's campaign managers could hardly have foreseen the explosion of veteran resentment that would torpedo his cruise to the White House. No comparable opposition had materialized in his previous races, and a sympathetic establishment media could be trusted to spotlight Kerry’s small group of veteran supporters, presumably leaving anti-Kerry vets little opportunity to reach the public. Kerry had ridden his personal mythology of battlefield heroics to victory before, unleashing his "band of brothers" to attack any Senate opponent who dared question his patriotism. When Kerry greeted the Democratic National...