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<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>

It is a steel and concrete corridor that will run right through the Old Pueblo, connecting Mexico City to Edmonton, Alberta. Its purpose is to facilitate trade among the three countries and minimize traffic and congestion for residents. Or is it evidence of a move afoot to intertwine the three North American countries and blur the lines of sovereignty? That's a matter of opinion.

Nothing destroys a man like his betrayal of friends. The mortal wound is self-inflicted and he dies from the inside out, inviting neither compassion nor commiseration, only contempt, disdain and ultimately scorn. This is the hard lesson Scott McClellan is buying with his 30 pieces of silver. George W. Bush, flawed and maker of mistakes, finishes his presidency almost as unpopular as Harry S. Truman finished his, and who knows whether history will revise his presidential reputation.

Nothing is up on the website yet, but I heard this during the morning drive about two hours ago.Quinn and Rose are nationally syndicated on satellite radio, but have local coverage in the Pittsburgh region and other Clear Channel Markets.Quinn has a inside Washington souce who he calls "Son of Deep Throat" who, while unidentified, has seldom if ever been wrong.According to this source, Ed Rollins was heard bragging at a DC gathering that his man Huckabee would definitely be McCain's VP pick because that was the plan from the beginning. Huckabee was to ensure that anyone whom the Rockerfeller...

The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday. Technical problems discovered in a 28-mile pilot project south of Tucson prompted the change in plans, Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told a House subcommittee. Though the department took over that initial stretch Friday from Boeing, authorities confirmed that Project 28, the initial deployment of the Secure Border Initiative network,...

As the President boarded AF1 at Waco today I would assume he and the First Lady spent the weekend in Crawford Texas at their ranch. Today the President departed for Ottawa, Canada, to attend a two-day summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday. Swiss Senator Dick Marty, author of a Council of Europe report on the jails, said senior CIA officials disapproved of Rumsfeld's methods in hunting down terrorist suspects, and had agreed to talk to him on condition of anonymity."There were huge conflicts between the CIA and Rumsfeld. Many leading figures in the CIA did not accept these methods at all," Marty told European Parliament committees, defending his work against...

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke. For as he prepares to "surge" 20,000 more U.S. troops into a war even he concedes we "are not winning," his erstwhile acolytes have begun to abandon him to salvage their own tattered reputations. Case in point, the neoconservatives. As the Iraq war heads into its fifth year, more than half a dozen have confessed to Vanity Fair's David Rose their abject despair over how the Bushites mismanaged the war...

The former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage says no one would fault Australia if it decided to withdraw its troops from Iraq. But the Federal Government has warned Labor that pulling out would damage the alliance with the US. Protesters greeted several senior US officials at a dinner at Old Parliament House in Canberra last night. Inside, the Defence Minister Brendan Nelson's target was the Labor Party. "Friendships count for something," he said. "Anyone who thinks that prematurely leaving Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom would not do damage to our relationship with those countries is...

Espionage: Beijing stole secrets to every U.S. nuclear warhead while funneling millions to Bill Clinton’s and other Democrats’ campaigns. Now comes news that on Clinton’s watch China recruited CIA officers as spies. Anew book by Washington Times national-security reporter Bill Gertz exposes how Chinese intelligence last decade recruited at least three CIA officers as spies, bribing them with hundreds of thousands of dollars. One CIA officer alone pocketed $600,000 in Chinese cash. Clues about the spies were first discovered in 1999 by counterespionage officials who were able to trace some of the money paid by Beijing, Gertz writes in “Enemies:...

JUST an hour and a half from Washington, across the 4.3-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge, or less than 30 minutes in a government-issue Chinook helicopter, is the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the primly groomed waterside village of St. Michaels. St. Michaels has begun to lure V.I.P.'s who, some boosters would have it, could propel it into the gilded realm of the Hamptons and Nantucket. But that will take a while. There's little for the young — just a few bars and no beaches or nightclubs — and these new householders are too circumspect and perhaps too old to be showcasing...

Moods swing, as moods have, since man first lost hope. The elation of completing a bridge over a dangerous river, that is accomplished through a lifetime of study, training and work, stems not from the expection of gain for yourself, but rather from the certainty that life will be easier for those who follow you. It is an intangible that cannot be held up at a campaign rally to crassly bargain for votes. It is the concept of duty... the idea that the way we honor the sacrifices and the work of those who came before us, to make things...

Imminent Ulster car bomb attack foiled by police (Filed: 19/04/2006) Police in Northern Ireland have seized 250lb of home-made explosives, foiling a potentially devastating car bomb attack. Local youths threw petrol bombs at police after the raid A senior policeman said those behind the plot - likely to be dissident republicans - planned to explode the device "as soon as possible". Four men were arrested during the raid on a breaker's yard in Lurgan, Co Armagh. A car was also taken away for forensic examination. Superintendent Alan Todd, Lurgan's police commander, said the police had no knowledge of a specific...

He is not a criminal, says Adams Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday stood by alleged former IRA chief Thomas "Slab" Murphy. The businessman, whose farm is at the centre of a police probe into a multi-million pound smuggling operation, has been wrongly demonised, he claimed. Mr Adams said: "Tom Murphy is not a criminal. He is a good republican." Murphy's sprawling estate, straddling the Irish border, was among 15 properties searched yesterday during police raids planned in Belfast and Dublin. Around £200,000 in cash, 30,000 cigarettes, 8,000 litres of fuel and weapons were all seized in the offensive against...

Espionage (pron: es-pE-oh-naj) Etymology- from the French [Where else?] espionnage and espion “spy”. The practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities- especially of a foreign government. The crime of spying on the Federal Government and/or transferring State secrets on behalf of a foreign country or power. (The other country need not be an “enemy”, so espionage may not be treason, which involves aiding the “enemy”. Treason (pron: tree-zun) Treason against the United States, in the legal definition, shall consist of: “.. only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies,...

The Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy, has said no link has been established between last night's pipe bomb attack and another bomb that exploded near in Coolock two days ago. The Garda Technical Bureau has spent the day examining the scene of last night's explosion in the driveway of a house. The device was placed under a car parked in the driveway of a house on Roseglen Avenue in Kilbarrack exploded. The spare wheel of the Renault Clio bore the brunt of the explosion, which seriously damaged the car and also blew in the front window on the ground floor of...

US PRESIDENT George Bush's special envoy to Ireland is to meet the family of a Dublin man who they say was murdered by republicans. Ambassador Mitchell Reiss said yesterday that there were a number of "serious concerns" about the killing in April last year of Joseph Rafferty and similarities with the death of Robert McCartney who was killed by the IRA. The 29-year-old was murdered after leaving his home near Clonsilla in west Dublin after what that family said was a long running row with republicans. He was shot twice by a gunman disguised as a construction worker as he...

IRA in link to £70m property empire Garda specialist units seize documents in series of raids By Tom Brady 01 February 2006 An IRA link to a massive £70m-plus property empire in the Republic is being investigated by several Garda specialist units. A series of raids on businesses, houses and the offices of professional advisers has been carried out in four counties in the past week. A huge dossier of documentation, seized in the searches which began a week ago and ended yesterday, will now be analysed to establish if any of the businesses were used to launder IRA monies....

The Independent Monitoring Commission is due to hand its latest report on paramilitary activity to the British and Irish Governments later today. Ahead of the public disclosure of the contents of the report on Wednesday, NIO Minister Shaun Woodward said that he had "absolute confidence" in the Commission. However, Sinn Fein Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness said that he did not consider the IMC to be an independent body. The report is likely to reflect favourably on the lack of Republican paramilitary activity, but may also reflect the PSNI's expressed view that paramilitaries are involved in organised crime. Set up in...

As conservatives, we owe it to our cause to be honest with ourselves. Several men, on opposite sides of the partisan divide have been impugned with charges ranging from bribery all the way to treachery. The very thought that a man like Tom Delay, a person of obviously credentialled liberal and progressive thought, tuned to the needs of those dependent upon the re-distribution of proceeds- be it proceeds from work, proceeds from healthy habits, proceeds from hard work and preparation to undertake the support and moral guidance of what children they should father, or proceeds from a preparation to fulfill...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jack Murtha, who re-ignited the debate over Iraq with a proposal last month to begin a fast drawdown of troops in Iraq, said Wednesday that President Bush has lost credibility with the public over his Iraq policy. "I'm showing you that I don't see the kind of progress he sees. ... I don't know that you can call him dishonest, but certainly, the public is not buying it," Murtha, D-Pa., said just hours after Bush delivered a speech on economic progress in Iraq. Murtha renewed his call for redeployment of troops, laying out what he said was...

<p>Pleasee sign this petition opposing the "Crescent of Embrace" design being developed for the Flight 93 memorial. Despite vague comments by the designer and the Park Service, the design is going forward as yet unchanged.</p> <p>We must, as US citizens oppose this travesty and make our voices heard. If enough of us do so, we will be successful as we were in opposing the Flag Raising Monument in January of 2002 that had been planned for the WTC Flag Raising.</p>

<p>A tower of voices heroically marks the entry to and exit from the memorial site at Route 30. Tall enough to be seen from the highway, set on a planted mound within rings of White Pine trees, the tower houses forty white wind chimes. The sounds of chimes in the wind are a living memory of the forty persons who are honored; many of whose last contact was through their voices.</p>

Hi! I'm John Kerry... and I'm reporting for duty! {salute}. And so should you! Today, more than ever, the Ameri-Quaida Corps needs you! Don't waste your youthful years pillaging innocent Arab households in a manner reminescent of Ghengis Khan. Instead, join the Army that want's to join you! No, not that army... Expand your horizons, and uncover opportunities in the Mellow Yellow Fellow Brigades. Avoid the prying eyes of warriors who will later go on Fox and tattle on you, for those little white lies that somehow got told back when you were at that secret base in Cambodia, rescuing...

Something the other day caused the memory of last June's mock impeachment hearing to pop to the front of my head, and made me think "why not turn the tables?" Why not stage a full-blown treason trial to lay out, point-by-point in a single event, how liberals (especially those in power) are providing aide in comfort to the enemy? Charges against those that provide actual goods, such as Code Pink's furnishment of money to terrorists in Iraq, would likely be far easier to prove than propoganda (ie John Murtha). However, that, and similar statements by others, is clearly and purposefully...

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America Friday, Mark Levin spoke with Tim Sumner who informed us that the battle to take back the memorial is not over! These Libs are hell bent on disgracing our nation! We can’t let our guard down for a moment! Check out Tim’s web site! www.911familiesforamerica.org From: http://marklevinfan.com/?p=617 - Levin Show audio link is near top of page. Nov. 11 -- 9/11 Memorial or Cultural Arts Center? This is a crucial time. It now appears that the desires of New York's cultural elite may be competing head-to-head with the 9/11 Memorial & Memorial...

THE United Nations has refused to start printing Iraq's draft constitution, yet again delaying efforts to get millions of copies to voters before a referendum on October 15. One negotiator from the Sunni Arab minority which has been lobbying for changes to the text adopted by parliament on August 28, said non-Arab Kurdish leaders agreed to an amendment to the draft to strengthen wording on Iraq's nature as an Arab state. Others involved were not available for comment. "We haven't been given authority to print it," said Nicholas Haysom, a UN official in Baghdad, adding that he could not say...

We have recently been treated to the sight of a United States President having to fortify the resolve of the American citizenry for prosecuting a war against our attackers. Concurrently, in a novel and bizarre form of the insanity plea, a host of Democratic senators have advanced the remarkable notion that labeling our troops as "...a coalition of the coerced and the bribed, indistinguishable from Nazis, Khmer Rouge, or Communists, dying because of a tragic mistake...", should certainly not be construed as a lack of support for our troops. To demonstrate that this reasonable function of the party out of...

Conditions were perfect for a showdown in the senate over the judicial appointment process. Democrats had managed to convince half the population that the filibuster is some sort of constitutional right endowed by our Creator; that Bill Frist and those evil Republicans were fixin’ to “nuke” the constitution by ending the misuse of the filibuster, used here only to block the confirmation of qualified nominees on the sole basis of the DNC litmus test. Too bad this half of the population has never read the US Constitution. A shame they don’t know their litmus test is a litmus test. Meanwhile,...

Sexism cited in reaction to Stronach move Last Updated Wed, 18 May 2005 19:04:14 EDT CBC News EDMONTON - Liberal MPs denounced some of the Conservative reaction to the defection of Belinda Stronach, calling it offensive and sexist. "The comments that have been made about our colleague &#8211; that are nothing more than simply sexist and misogynist. It is unbelievable and unacceptable, " said Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan. Belinda Stronach at her first Liberal caucus meeting, Wednesday. "She was called a whore, she was called a prostitute, she was called a dipstick. I mean these are inappropriate No man...

Decisions and consequences were made and issued regarding the bake sale held March 21 by the College Republicans at Grand Valley State University. On April 13 the Student Organization Review Board issued a written decision to the College Republicans, finding them in violation of the student code concerning discrimination, caused by their bake sale which sold cupcakes to varying races and genders at different prices. The organization has been put on a probation period, which will last until Dec. 1. [The Republicans] just need to come up with a leadership development plan and review the rules for the future,” Burke...

The enemies of campus bake sales are at it again, inflaming one another over the dire threat of cupcakes and cookies sold at different prices to whites, minorities, and women. The sales are political parody, of course, poking fun at affirmative action policies and trying to get a debate going. Campus orthodoxy holds that such policies are sacred and that any dissent, even in the form of satirical cookie prices, is illegitimate and deserving of suppression. When members of a Republican club staged a bake sale March 21 at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., several students said they...

The past few weeks have seen a barrage of judicial effrontery, from the Supreme Court’s preposterous ruling on Capital Punishment for juveniles to the 9th Circuit Court’s attempt to open our borders faster than a Starbuck’s franchise. Thus comes a renewed debate on, depending on your euphemisms to describe it, the “preservation of marriage” or “banning gay marriage.” And once again, in the middle of this conundrum is the People’s Republic of California........

China has created brand-new form of capitalism: Bill Gates DAVOS, Switzerland, (AFP) - US software giant Bill Gates has high praise for China, which he says has created a brand-new form of capitalism that benefits consumers more than anything has in the past. "It is a brand-new form of capitalism, and as a consumer its the best thing that ever happened," Gates told an informal meeting late Friday at the World Economic Forum in this ski resort. He characterised the Chinese model in terms of "willingness to work hard and not having quite the same medical overhead or legal...

The UN plan to provide relief to tsunami victims reflects an image of the organization itself. The press release Multifaceted UN response to tsunami focuses on both large and small reads like a repackaging of inconsequential UN field programs to give the appearance of action. They include "monitoring fisheries in India", undertaking disease planning exercises, providing safe delivery kits for expectant mothers and harnessing the International Labor Organization to undertake long-term rehabilitation and employment recovery. As a statement of good intentions it would be adequate but as a program for coping with one of the worst natural disasters in modern...

We should all be grateful, once again, to Wretchard at Belmont Club, this time for hammering away at the amazing ability of an AP photographer in Baghdad to take pictures of Iraqi terrorists executing election officials. Wretchard keeps asking--and AP keeps kinda denying but increasingly kinda admitting culpability--how come the photographer was there at the precise moment the killings took place, and managed to take the pictures even though everyone else except the terrorists was running rapidly away from the scene. Lots of good work has also been done by Roger Simon, Power Line, Instapundit and others. It's a big...

I am reading the Horatio Hornblower series, by Forester, and I came across a rather interesting paragraph that I think applies to our situation today: Indeed, the tide of war was turning against England. Nation after nation had retired from the contest against France, some worsted by arms, and some by the diplomacy of the vigorous young republic. To any thinking mind it was obvious that once the step from war to neutrality had been taken, the next step would be easy, from neutrality to war on the other side. Hornblower could foresee, close at hand, a time when all...

www.VetsforBush.NET BOSTON MANIFESTO: Veterans & Vietnam Scholars Declare Overwhelming Opposition to Kerry >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIQUE STUDY, BY VIETNAM VETERANS, SETS THE VIETNAM RECORD STRAIGHT A recent poll of military personnel shows that those fighting the war in Iraq overwhelmingly support President Bush over John Kerry. The American public is almost evenly divided on the issue of Iraq. What do the soldiers know that the rest of the public doesn't understand? In the same vein, Vietnam Veterans overwhelmingly oppose Kerry. About two and a half million servicemen and women actually went to Vietnam in the ten years of major American involvement....

Muhammad spoke the language of violence and understood that language. He did not attack his victims because they had done something wrong. He attacked them because he calculated that he could win and he only attacked those who were weaker. He took them by surprise, when they were unarmed, attending to their daily business. Nonetheless he fabricated pretexts and excuses for his attacks. For example when he attacked the Bani Qaynuqa, the excuse was that one of them insulted a Muslim woman. When he massacred the Bani Quraiza, the excuse was that they had conspired with the Meccans even thought...

Gertz will be discussing his new book Treachery after the Cubs game ends.

Campaign '04: As in most presidential elections, a through-the-looking-glass quality has taken over this one. Actually, as Sen. John Kerry flails about on the Iraq war, it has sailed straight into the surreal. Before taking in the Dali-like dreamscape that is the Kerry campaign, voters should soberly study the high-minded standard set by Sen. Zell Miller. High-minded? According to the punditocracy, the Georgia Democrat who keynoted the Republican National Convention descended to new lows of campaign rhetoric. Why, he even challenged his own party's patriotism. He did not, of course. But when Miller carefully distinguished between patriotism and judgment, other...

According to the Associated Press, a Russian foreign minister says Moscow respects Lebanese sovereignty. In a veiled swipe at the United States and its United States allies such as Israel, Russia's foreign minister said Sunday his country opposed a Security Council resolution demanding free presidential elections here and a Syrian troop withdrawal out of Moscow's respect for Lebanese sovereignty. Sergey Lavrov made his comments after meeting Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in Beirut, marking his latest high level meeting during a Middle East tour that has included talks with the leaders of Egypt and Syria. He is expected to arrive in...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest Treason Most Foul Commentary on the NewsFriday, July 09, 2004 - Omega Letter Editor The American electoral process, despite its perceived 'flaws' (think Election 2000) is the standard against which all other nations are measured in terms of freedom and fairness. And it has been since the Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the principle of government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is America's electoral process that ensures America's freedom and prosperity. The President of the United States is the most powerful...

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations (news - web sites) to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida. Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson,...

So now we see in all their starkness the double standards of the western media. Day after day, the shocking images from Abu Ghraib prison have been plastered all over the media. Yes, the abuse they have revealed is disgusting and appalling and it is right that it should be exposed and that we should be horrified. But nowhere near this attention is being paid to far worse barbarism being committed by our enemies. As Jeff Jacoby observes in the Boston Globe: 'Poor Nick Berg. The anybody-but-Bush crowd isn't going to rush to publicize his terrible fate with anything like...

<p>Politics predictably can get dirty during election years, but a new politicization of the Department of Health and Human Services has put the government squarely in the partisan mix. The odd thing about the situation at hand is that agencies in the executive branch are teaming up with groups opposed to President Bush and are weighing in with policy positions contrary to those held by the White House. The Hill newspaper reported yesterday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the independent United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working with the activist group MoveOn.org to put on a June conference on "reproductive rights" issues. Some heads need to roll over this.</p>

Some conservatives on and off the Hill are angry that the Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with critics of the Bush administration to hold a conference on global health and reproductive rights that will likely promote policies contrary to the president’s. The conference, sponsored by the Global Health Council, will gather health experts and advocates from around the world, including International Planned Parenthood Federation, the United Nations International Family Planning Fund and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, each of which has opposed the administration’s positions on abortion or reproductive health, some conservatives charge. In particular, the groups...

FBI files stolen from the home of Vietnam war historian Gerald Nicosia detail at least one secret 1970 meeting in Paris between future Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and representatives of the communist government of North Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War. In an interview last week with California's Marin County Independent Journal, Nicosia said the FBI files contained information on Kerry's May 1970 trip to Paris, where he spoke to Hanoi negotiators who were beginning peace talks with the Nixon administration. Kerry revealed his secret meeting with then-enemy negotiators during a little noticed question and answer session...

PIERRE, S.D. — The demise of South Dakota House Bill 1191, which would have banned most of the state’s abortions, has left many pro-life supporters scratching their heads wondering what went wrong. "Just the day before, we were certain it was going to pass," said Ben Eicher, a religion teacher at St. Thomas More High School in Rapid City. Students, faculty and administrators at the school signed petitions, made telephone calls and sent e-mails to state legislators in support of the bill. "I was sitting in an office when a fellow religion teacher came in looking like she had seen...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A major taxpayer group is urging likely Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry to stop collaborating with the European Union (EU) to impose damaging tariffs on U.S. products being exported from key swing states in the upcoming presidential election. Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist noted that Kerry has been touting his popularity among foreign leaders in recent weeks. However, Norquist said he was shocked to learn the extent some foreign leaders will go to remove President George W. Bush from the White House in November. Norquist points to direct evidence of election tampering by...