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“So people at home right now are saying, ‘Economic slowdown? How slow is it going to go?’ Are we headed for another recession?” – Anchor John Roberts, “CBS Evening News,” April 15, 2005 The Gallup Poll reported in September that “half of Americans say they trust the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Those three words – fully, accurately, fairly – each communicate different ways the media can distort the news. They can leave out pertinent information; they can report false information; and they can tilt coverage toward one side or the other. Coverage of Hurricane...

WASHINGTON Congress' top two Democrats furiously criticized the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, with Sen. Harry Reid demanding to know whether President Bush's Texas vacation impeded relief efforts and Rep. Nancy Pelosi assailing the chief executive as "oblivious, in denial" about the difficulties.

The Left's hunger for genuinely progressive principles is rivaled only by Paris Hilton's craving for privacy — both are appetites less than ravenous. They reveal this by demonstrating a double-standard tolerance for the intolerance of Islamic extremists and their apologist governments in the Middle East.

WRITTEN ON THE WIND – WMD USE IN IRAQ (Two Parts Combined) Dedicated to the “Bush-Lied-People-Died “ Crowd : Greg Palast, Michael Moore ,Gerald Pressler, Mark Yannone,ANSWER,and MoveON. Before the dust of battle settled in Baghdad ; while lovable Baghdad Bob was still telling rapt BBC reporters Saddam was in control of the situation,a chant began to rise-here and abroad. Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction ? Show us the WMDs ! For all their self-proclaimed intelligence, they were asking the wrong question: the right one being “Where is the rest of Saddam Hussein’s ammunition ?” (The answer –...

For nearly three years we have witnessed a steady stream of invective that American policy in the Middle East is amoral, impractical, or doomed to failure. The recent democratic aftershocks in Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, which followed from the elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories, have sent formerly critical pundits and diplomats scrambling for cover. As interesting as the about-faces of the New York Times et al. are, we should not forget that the domestic criticism of American efforts has long roots in our past, but little to do with the historic developments on the ground in...

America's military can win wars. We've done it in the past, and I have absolute confidence that we'll continue to do it in the future. We've won fights in which we possessed overwhelming technological superiority (Desert Storm), as well as conflicts in which we were the technical underdogs (the American Revolution). We've crossed swords with numerically superior foes, and with militaries a fraction of the size of our own. We've battled on our own soil, and on the soil of foreign lands -- on the sea, under the sea, and in the skies. We've even engaged in a bit of...

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to read the Gettysburg Address to you. November 19th, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered this speech on the battlefield, and I want to read to you after I read it -- and it's very short and it's recognized now as one of the greatest presidential speeches in history; one of the greatest speeches in history, period -- and I want to read to you the reaction to the Gettysburg address from the Harrisburg Patriot and Union, the Chicago Times, the Springfield Republican, and the Harrisburg Patriot and Union again. But first, here's the Gettysburg Address. "Four...

Can we get store somewhere all the pathetic predictions of doom by the media, pundits and politicians of surrender so we can openly ridicule them when Iraq succeeds? It is so very irritating to hear them attempt to pass themselves off as worthy of consideration when they've been wrong in such serious matters.... What do you think?

What do we expect of our Sons, Daughters, in this in day and age? Have we sunk to the level of that which was was expected of us is to high a standard of what is expected of our kids. These kids today are much better trained than those of my Generation, VN, ever were. Those on the nay saying side say that these fine young men and women cannot win with out the help of a few French and Germans, ignoring the ouststanding proformance of the Limeys, Ozites, and Poles among others. This whole bashing of US through our...

Nattering Nabobs "In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club ... the "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.", Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Never has this been so true. As our nation prepared for war with Iraq the left's battle cry could be heard across the nation: "This is going to be bad", quickly followed by nay-sayers predicting: A long, bloody ground war against the infamous "Republican Guard" When Iraqi military units were either destroyed or dissolved and we entered Baghdad, the nay-sayers began predicting:...

Whether Ahmed Chalabi or Iyad Alawi emerged as the interim Prime Minister of Iraq, liberals were going to be unhappy. Until the home of Iraqi National Congress director Ahmed Chalabi was raided by U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police, liberals hated him. They said he was a puppet of the Pentagon, that he fed the United States bad intelligence in order to promote war in Iraq, and that he was one of those dreaded “neocons” we keep hearing about. “Neocon pundits,” wrote David Olive in the Toronto Star, “see Ahmed Chalabi as America's best hope in post-war Iraq. But to many...

The debate on Iraq continues to obscure and ignore the obvious - no country can colonize another without resistance. And by resistance, I mean violent resistance. Nobody should be surprised by a regular civilian mob brutally lynching four American mercenaries working for Blackwater USA. Frantz Fanon (in The Wretched of the Earth) taught us that the psychology of the colonized would force them to manifest their anger and humiliation in violent ways. What occurred in Fallujah was the logical outcome of a people oppressed, angered, humiliated and feeling powerless to evict the foreign interlopers in their midst. Would we act...

I am not a war correspondent, though I have put in some time at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, the Commodore in Beirut, and other places of journalistic legend such as Meikles in Harare and the Sarajevo Holiday Inn. In any case, the emergence of a consensus among a press corps is something one can witness without having to duck the occasional incoming projectile. It was widely agreed in the Manchester, N.H., Sheraton in the early weeks of 1992 that Bill Clinton was a "new Democrat" and the presumptive nominee. There were very few if any Milosevic sympathizers among the...

WASHINGTON - President Bush invaded Iraq hoping to spread democracy across the Middle East, but after the worst week of violence since Saddam Hussein was overthrown, he's now struggling to avoid a costly, humiliating defeat. "It was going to transform the Middle East, remember? Now all we want to do is save our butts," said former U.S. ambassador David Mack, vice president of the Washington-based Middle East Institute, a nonpartisan research center that concentrates on Arab states. The president, like many of his predecessors in the White House, faces competing pressures over the course of a war. Polls show that...

Among those Americans anxious to declare defeat in the face of victory, a current mantra holds that the idea of preemptive war is dead, killed by the results in Iraq. Absolute nonsense. Preemptive war, which simply prevents an avowed enemy from killing Americans or other innocents, is alive and kicking as a useful concept. We should all be glad of it: If you know an enemy means you harm, why wait for the knife to fall? Extremists at both ends of the political spectrum try to destroy ideas they don't like by over-simplifying them until they sound dangerous and absurd....

The Madrid attacks demonstrated that the US-led war in Iraq had failed in its objectives because the terrorism it was meant to eradicate had become even more powerful, European Commission President Romano Prodi said in an interview published here Monday. "Whether in Iraq or outside Iraq -- in Istanbul, Moscow, Madrid -- the terrorism that should have been stemmed by this war is infinitely more powerful today than it was a year ago," Prodi told the Turin daily La Stampa in a scathing assessment of US President George W. Bush's war on terrorism. "It is clear that the war on...

CNSNews.com) - Survivors of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Japan plan to protest the Smithsonian Institution's new aircraft museum in suburban Virginia, because the exhibit includes the Enola Gay -- the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The Japanese will be joined by Americans who strongly oppose the Bush administration's nuclear policies. The Smithsonian Institution's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - an annex of the Air and Space Museum -- is scheduled to open on Monday in a huge new building near Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. In anticipation of that event,...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - "There's a hatred against the United States and you have 130,000 American troops sitting there as a big target," said Hans Blix as he leaned forward to make his point about the future of Iraq and its military occupation. "The borders, although guarded, are not watertight. Weapons of mass destruction may not be there but conventional weapons are and the U.S. does not have the capacity to guard it all," Blix added. "The outlook is bad." His time over as chief U.N. weapons inspector, he has a bone to pick with those who took the United States...

If leadership meant just doing whatever is easy or most popular, nobody would lead. Policy would consist of those non-actions that upset the fewest, and the nation would drift until events overtook it. Luckily, that is not the case, and in the face of global Islamist terrorism, George Bush and his British partner Tony Blair have taken, not the easy or popular route, but a dynamic path whose end is not yet in sight. Bush is on his way to Britain today for a long-planned state visit. No doubt both men would rather it be otherwise. Blair faces a firestorm...