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August 09, 2006, 1:35 p.m. Hot RocketsHezbollah turns ball bearings into WMDs. By Deroy Murdock Ball bearings normally help motors and other machines run more smoothly. In the hands of decent people, they ease commerce, fuel technology, and make life simpler and better. But among Islamofascists, they do exactly what Islamofascists do best: Destroy, destroy, destroy. Hezbollah’s Katyusha rockets, which it has fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, do not just explode with ordnance designed to level military buildings or demolish artillery batteries. Many of those Iranian- and Syrian-supplied missiles have warheads filled with ball bearings. Hezbollah uses...

July 06, 2006, 1:45 a.m. Gray Lady’s Serial SpillsThis is war. By Deroy Murdock The more that emerges about the New York Times’s treasonous disclosure of the once-secret SWIFT/Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, the more unsavory its treachery appears. The Bush-hating paper’s shameless self-justifications for its misdeeds look ever flimsier. Its inadequate excuses have disappeared into a cyclone of self-contradiction. Strict punishment for the Times’s crimes (and it has behaved criminally) is in order. First, The Times’s June 23 story on the CIA and Treasury Department’s efforts to follow terrorists’ money was no isolated incident. It is one of at...

STANFORD, Calif. -- With conservative congressional majorities at risk in next November's elections, President Bush repeatedly should remind everyone that a key reason coalition troops invaded Iraq was to padlock Saddam Hussein's Wal-Mart for terrorists. The administration finally is releasing intelligence documents captured in Baghdad. Bush should use them to detail how Hussein indeed was entwined with terrorists in general and al Qaeda in particular. These papers appear on the Army Foreign Military Studies Office's Web site. (fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm). The administration should promote a simple URL (e.g. iraqdocuments.gov) so readers easily can examine Hussein's terror ties. According to a March 23...

March 30, 2006, Rudy Awakening America's mayor recalls the Reagan assassination attempt. Today is the 25th anniversary of the attempted assassination of the late president Ronald W. Reagan, and it's a day former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani remembers vividly. "The morning of March 30, 1981, the White House had a breakfast with the president for newly appointed" sub-Cabinet officials, Giuliani recalls. He had occupied a Justice Department office for the previous fortnight while awaiting Senate confirmation as Ronald Reagan's associate attorney general. "Everyone took a picture with the president," Giuliani continues. "And then we had breakfast with him...

March 09, 2006 Black Like GOPBy Deroy Murdock,Contributing Editor Will the Dems lose a reliable constituency this year? This year, Democrats may lose their iron grip on the black vote. About 90 percent of black Americans vote Democrat, rain or shine. But a growing sense that Democrats take them for granted — plus several attractive, high-level black Republican candidates who will fight for these votes — could make November 2006 and 2008 fascinating. For starters, President Bush's black support grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004. That is no landslide, but Bush's black vote improved 22...

This year, Democrats may lose their iron grip on the black vote. About 90 percent of black Americans vote Democrat, rain or shine. But a growing sense that Democrats take them for granted _ plus several attractive, high-level black Republican candidates who will fight for these votes _ could make November 2006 and 2008 fascinating. For starters, President Bush's black support grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004. That is no landslide, but it's a 22 percent improvement in black support despite Bush's being vilified by the media and Democrats for four long years. In Ohio,...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version January 13, 2006, 8:11 a.m. The Butcher with the Terror Ties The evidence mounts. Drip, drip, drip. Drop by drop, isolated news stories and emerging documents are eroding the popular myth that Saddam Hussein had no connections to Islamofascist terrorists. These revelations undermine war critics’ efforts to whitewash Baghdad’s ancien regime — such as when Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid declared: “There was [sic] no terrorists in Iraq.” Likewise, Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) describes a “nonexistent relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.” Reid, Levin, and others who dismiss...

Iraq documents could boost Bush's case for war By DEROY MURDOCK Scripps Howard News Service 15-DEC-05 If hostile prowlers somehow penetrated the White House, Team Bush would disable their own canisters of pepper spray, hide every accessible baseball bat, dash beneath their desks, and pray that the aggressors vanish. Beyond some recent tough speeches, President Bush and his advisers fail to deploy readily available ammunition to combat political prowlers, namely those who demand America's retreat from Iraq. On two key fronts _ Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass death and his generous support for Islamic terrorists _ the Bush administration maddeningly...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version December 21, 2005, 4:25 p.m. Smoking in the Background The Bush administration sits on some telling documents. President Bush’s recent speeches and media appearances defending the Iraq war are welcome and much-needed. They also seem to be paying dividends. Support for his handling of Iraq stood at 46 percent, up 10 points since November, in a December 15–18 ABC News/Washington Post poll. Nevertheless, Team Bush still fails to deploy readily available ammunition to combat those who demand America’s retreat from Iraq. On two key fronts — Saddam Hussein’s weapons of...

E-mail AuthorAuthor ArchiveSend to a FriendPrint Version May 24, 2005, 8:07 a.m.Where’s the Leave-My-Money Alone Coalition?Government has no business funding embryonic-stem-cell research.Before the House of Representatives votes today on embryonic-stem-cell research, every member of the Republican majority should sit down on a hard chair and ask himself: “Why should taxpayers finance this activity?”Embryonic-stem-cell research is fraught with controversy. If it were not, Republicans still might argue that government money should steer clear of this new area, to say nothing of stashing the federal checkbook, just for once.As it happens, the private sector already is busy funding this research: Just...

Amid roadside bombs, constitutional tensions, and even a blinding sandstorm last Monday, outside the blogosphere (see here and now here) one wonders if anything is going right in Iraq. Plenty is, actually, although the mainstream media rarely mention such good news. The journalists’ maxim, “If it bleeds, it leads,” prevails. Major news outlets correctly focus on the depressing consequences of the Improvised Explosive Devices and car bombs responsible for 70 percent of July’s U.S. military fatalities in Iraq. Terrorist assassinations of civil servants and police officers obviously deserve coverage. But it honors neither America’s soldiers nor Iraq’s selfless patriots to...

Amid roadside bombs, constitutional squabbles and even a blinding sandstorm last week, one wonders if anything is going right in Iraq. Plenty is, actually. The journalists' maxim, ''If it bleeds, it leads,'' prevails. Major news outlets correctly focus on the depressing consequences of the Improvised Explosive Devices and car bombs responsible for 70 percent of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq last month. Terrorist assassinations of civil servants and police officers obviously deserve coverage. But it honors neither America's soldiers nor Iraq's selfless patriots to overlook the achievements they share in this new republic. The growth of locals in uniform is...

Think back to the ringing guitars, the spinners, the patchouli oil and the haze of pot smoke hanging over an arena - the psychedelic country rock of Grateful Dead concerts seem like an unlikely cradle for today's conservative commentators. And yet, 10 years to the day after Jerry Garcia's death on August 9, 1995, no less than three of Generation X's most high-profile young conservatives remain dedicated Deadheads: Deroy Murdock, Tucker Carlson, and Ann Coulter.

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E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version June 10, 2005, 11:55 a.m. AIDing Disease The real bogeymen are the ones protesting research and development. Some AIDS activists are impossible to satisfy. While pharmaceutical researchers toil to treat and prevent AIDS, assorted protesters demand so much that drug companies are throwing their hands up in exasperation. Perfectionist groups literally have halted promising drug trials. These militants should desist before they jeopardize even more human lives. This battle between “patient advocates” and drug manufacturers rages primarily in Africa and Asia, where AIDS spreads as quickly as juicy gossip. Because...

If Democratic hypocrisy on Social Security traded on Wall Street, President Bush could purchase shares and let the dividends finance his proposal for personal retirement accounts. “Social Security is the most successful program in the history of the world, and we’re going to protect it,” said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on April 10 on Face the Nation. “People depend on Social Security,” he declared two days later. “That’s the way it has been, and the way it should be, and we’re not going to allow that to change.” But when President Reagan signed legislation in April 1983 to...

It is easy for those who believe Terri Schiavo should be "allowed to die" to dismiss their opponents as religious zealots who are inflicting their Biblical viewpoint on a defenseless woman. "Oh my God, we really are in a theocracy," Maureen Dowd rabidly frothed in a March 24 New York Times column on Washington's involvement in the Schiavo case. "Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they are willing to turn the nation into a wholly owned subsidiary of the church?" The...

Many in America today still believe that Saddam had no ties to terrorist organizations, but evidence collected durring the war in Iraq show otherwise. Noted on this site are many documents that were recovered that show that Saddam did infact have monitary ties to terrorist, and also the same agenda as the ever so famous Usama Bin Laden, head of the Al Quada network. Murdock sheds some light on certain things you might not have heard in regards to ties between Saddam and terror. Some we were aware of, and the left has forgoten, such as payments being made to...

GOP's Proud Black Legacy [part way down the article] The House Policy Committee's 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar offers 365 examples of GOP support for women, blacks, and other minorities, often over Democratic objections. Among its highlights: "To stop the Democrats' pro-slavery agenda, anti-slavery activists founded the Republican party, starting with a few dozen men and women in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854," the calendar notes. "Democratic opposition to Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of all Americans lasted not only throughout Reconstruction, but well into the 20th century. In the south, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality...

NEW YORK - EVERY FEBRUARY, Black History Month recalls Democrat Harry Truman’s 1948 armed forces desegregation and Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s signature on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the greatest black legislative victory since Republican Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863. This annual commemoration, however, largely overlooks many milestones Republicans and blacks have achieved together by overcoming reactionary Democrats. The 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar, published by Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., and the House Policy Committee (www.policy.house.gov), traces GOP support for blacks, often over Democratic objections. White supremacists, for example, worked club in hand with Democrats for decades: July 30, 1866: New...