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Mugabe 'accepts that Morgan Tsvangirai won' By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and Sebastien Berger, Southern Africa Correspondent Last Updated: 7:49PM BST 30/04/2008 Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party has signalled that it is willing to accept that the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai came first in the country’s presidential election. The Zimbabwe Election Commission has still not announced the results But they insisted that, contrary to claims by his Movement for Democratic Change, he had falled short of the absolute majority required for victory. More than a month after the poll, the Zimbabwe Election Commission has still not announced the results. Nonetheless senior...

(3rd LD) Korean won plunges to 27-month low to greenback SEOUL, March 17 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean currency on Monday tumbled to a 27-month low against the U.S. dollar amid a global credit crunch, raising concerns over a buildup in inflationary pressures. The local currency closed at 1,029.20 won to the U.S. dollar, down 31.9 won from Friday's close and the weakest close since Dec. 12, 2005 when it finished at 1,033.7 won to the greenback. The won's daily loss was the biggest since Aug. 6 1998 when the local currency fell by 70 won to the dollar. The...

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he wants to send oil to $200 a barrel. Robert Zubrin has a plan to stop him. In his just released book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, Zubrin, an American aerospace engineer known previously primarily for his inventive approach to Mars exploration, lays out the strategy. To say the book is remarkable, would be a severe understatement. Combining soaring idealism, incisive thinking, and a viscous [sic -- a funny inadvertent pun] go-for-throat killer instinct in a single package, Energy Victory is the first book I have ever read that...

Hizbullah won the Second Lebanon War by achieving a propaganda victory over Israel, a Harvard University study has concluded. Aided and abetted by a compliant and credulous press, Hizbullah achieved victory by convincing the world that Israel was the aggressor and that Israel's retaliatory offensive was a "disproportionate" response to the kidnapping and killing of its soldiers.

Reagan won the Cold War. Why do Democrats and Liberal intellectuals in Academia refute this? They really sit there with their legs crossed pretending to know everything? Why don't they talk a lot about the Cold War? Is it because eventually someone will have to say "how did that whole thing end? Who won the global war of ideologies? Oh yeah, Reagan won it for capitalism." Isn't this whole issue pretty seriously overlooked? Well, not anymore, here's an article that will prove it to all the dumbass Liberals out there! June 06, 2004, 4:19 p.m. Russian Revolution How Reagan won...

Ohh, poor Liberals! I guess they'll just have to pucker up and swallow this hard evidence that shows how Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. This one is going to taste like Jaegermeister and battery acid! The article shows how Reagan's foreign policy towards the Soviets forced their regime to collapse, and how Reagan essentially caused the fall of worldwide communism. It also points out that Liberal Academia/intellectuals seem to avoid this, one of the greatest political victories in the history of the world. God Bless Ronald Reagan-one of the biggest bada$$ tough guys this country has ever produced! And...

Dutch told to return land they won from the sea By David Rennie in Zaamslag (Filed: 27/05/2006) A photograph of a grinning boy, riding a toy tractor, has pride of place in the kitchen of Aarnout and Magda de Feijter, the owners of a 148-acre farm in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The picture is of their first grandson, Louis, and the de Feijters have always dreamed that he will one day take over the expanse of wind-rippled flax fields that has been in their family since 1835. The de Feijters on the dyke protecting their farm But there are...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s prime minister Friday asked Americans to be patient and, for the first time, acknowledged a clear connection between the Iraqi insurgency and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

North Korea has agreed to give up all its nuclear programs and return to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, China's Xinhua news agency is reporting. In return, the secretive communist country will get oil and power aid, reported South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Monday. North Korea will also have the right to a civilian nuclear program if it regains international trust, Yonhap said. The developments come at international talks being held in Beijing to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Early in December, with a photographer and his assistant, I drove from Nebraska, near the geographical center of the United States, to the heart of Texas -- more than 700 miles, through empty spaces and sprawling cities and all or parto f four states. We headed pretty much due south, no dodging or weaving. And never did we pass within 100 miles of a county that voted for Democrat John F. Kerry in the recent election.THIS RED SEA DOES NOT APPEAR ON ANY MAP BUT ONE. Neal Chaput and Jonathan Dolan from Kansas both voted for Kerry. Joyce and...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Bumper Stickers for a Red-State Nation Bush: Selected and Elected! I'm a Republican. I feel your pain! Kerry and Edwards: Hair today. Gone tomorrow. What happened? He had a PLAN. De Plan, Boss! De Plan! America won, you lost! Visualize: 60 million Bush fans. "There is NO Bush in the White House." -Iraqi Information Minister Liberals lost--but at least they'll be SAFER. If you're seeing RED, you must be feeling BLUE. John Kerry is STILL in Vietnam! Lurch lost. You can move on now. Howard Dean: He could have been a contender! Blue state. Blue dress stain. Blue all over....

 The NAU College Republicans have exceeded my expectations this year. I’m very proud of the club and of all the events and activities we have accomplished together. When people come together and rally behind a strong leader like President George W. Bush there is an enthusiasm and excitement that is hard to extinguish. Our club has volunteered countless hours doing Pre-Bush rallies, phone banking, walking door to door, prescient walking, and has traveled across the State to ensure that Arizona stays Bush-Country. Throughout this election we have had the Republican Party Headquarters vandalized, Bush/Cheney bumper stickers removed from cars, yard...

Kerry Wins Third Debate Sen. John Kerry won the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night, 52% to 39%, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey of registered voters who watched the event. About 4 in 10 viewers said they felt more favorable about the senator because of the debate, a third more than said that about President George W. Bush. Kerry also beat the president by double digits on being able to handle the issue of healthcare, expressing himself clearly, showing he cares about the needs of people, and having a good understanding of the issues. Read More ...

Kerry won Vietnam vets' wrath describing what he couldn't see BY HAROLD W. ANDERSEN Published Sunday, August 22, 2004 WORLD-HERALD CONTRIBUTING EDITOR It is one of the bigger gambles of the presidential campaign. But with most of the news media looking the other way, John Kerry has been getting away with it so far. I refer to Kerry's gamble that the news media won't finally take a hard look at his anti-war activities instead of concentrating on his four-plus months of combat-zone experience as a decorated, wounded veteran of the Vietnam War - experience that Kerry incessantly promotes as qualifying...

This video was taped on Veterans Day, 2001 on ABC; in my view, the most liberal broadcast network out there. This news broadcast was aired after ABC premiered Saving Private Ryan. In it you will see that they admit if the Supreme Court would have allowed a recount of Florida votes, Bush would have still won the presidency. The clip here starts with 2 stories prior to the announcement. I left them in to verify that this is not a hoax. It is about 1 minute long. http://www.planetgoofball.com/admission.htm What's the point? The liberal rhetoric heard especially this week is that...

Doctor takes ads to say he should have won By Dan Gledhill 11 October 2003 An American doctor has attacked the result of this year's Nobel prize for medicine, saying that he should have been given a share of the award. Dr Raymond Damadian, who owns a patent on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times yesterday and The Washington Post the day before, referring to the prize, which was given to scientists from Britain and America, as "The Shameful Wrong That Must Be Righted". The advertisement said the professors who won...

Day 16: A pivotal battle is won. But how many more now lie ahead? By John Lichfield 05 April 2003 In the conventional war – the set-piece military one – yesterday was pivotal. That war is now, evidently, almost over. Baghdad will soon be surrounded; many hundreds of soldiers in the Republican Guard have surrendered; many others have died; Baghdad airport, a main strategic and psychological objective, has a new owner and a new name. But is the war itself almost over? American and British political and military figures were at great pains to insist that it was not. They...