July 30, 2007
Moore’s Pro-Castro Propaganda Hides Cuban Suffering
Human Events - By Humberto Fontova
July 30, 2007
“We cannot for a second abandon propaganda” wrote Castro in a letter to a revolutionary colleague in 1954. “Propaganda is vital -- propaganda is the heart of all struggles.” Michael Moore claims that Cuba’s Stalinist regime played it as straight with him during the filming of his newest documentary, Sicko, as he plays it with its viewers. “I asked them to give us [the 9/11 workers featured in the documentary] the same care they give their own Cuban citizens,” he assured us. “No more, no less. And that’s what they did.”
Does anyone with a fully functioning brain actually believe these claims? . . . More interesting (and tragic) still, the maternal mortality rate in Cuba is almost four times that of the U.S. rate (33 versus 8.4 per 1,000). Peculiar how so many mothers die during childbirth in Cuba, but how many one- to four-year-olds perish, while from birth to one year old (the period during which they qualify in UN statistics as infants) they’re perfectly healthy. This might lead a few people to question Cuba’s official infant-mortality figures. But such people would not get a Havana bureau for their news agency or TV network, much less a visa to film a documentary.
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July 29, 2007
Universal health care: Is it worth the long waits?
Buffalo News - By Henry L. Davis - News Medical Reporter
July 29, 2007
Push is on for private insurance in Canada as residents come to the U.S. for timely treatment
After battling brain cancer, Lindsay McCreith is ready for his next fight: He’s taking on the Canadian health care system. His case has potential repercussions on both sides of the border as pressure grows for health reform. It started when McCreith, a resident of Newmarket, north of Toronto, suffered a seizure last year. He was told in Canada he would have to wait more than four months for an MRI to rule out a malignant tumor. Rather than wait, McCreith, 66, quickly arranged a trip to Buffalo for a scan. The MRI confirmed his worst fears — a cancerous growth that a Buffalo neurosurgeon removed a few weeks later. “If I had been patient, I’d probably be disabled or dead today,” McCreith said. Now, McCreith is suing the Ontario government in a closely watched constitutional challenge that could reshape universal health coverage in the province by striking down the prohibition against patients buying private insurance. On this side of the border, advocates of universal health insurance champion Canada’s popular public program as a fairer system that the United States should emulate, as seen in Michael Moore film, “Sicko.” Yet critics see the long waits for some services in Canada — mainly for non-emergency surgery — as an argument against an increased role for government in health care.
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Comment: In the U.S. there is a highly developed medical infrastructure of specialists and state-of-the-art diagnostic tools which has been paid for over the years by the insured medical services consumer. American seniors on Medicare have the full benefit of this infrastructure and hopefully, one day, the uninsured or uninsurable population will enjoy this same benefit. On the other hand, in Canada they did away with medical consumer insurance and were left with no one to support their medical infrastructure except taxpayers. As a result, and left with no other option except to continually raise taxes (a story for another time), the government had to cut back on medical personnel, including highly trained surgeons who wanted to work more than the government system of rationing health services allowed . Many hospitals closed completely or had to close operating rooms and whole floors in hospitals because many nurses and other staff were given generous early retirement packages in order to get them out of the system and save money. Most of the better, qualified care-givers wound up in the U.S. health system. Hence, a boon to the American system and long waiting lists and substandard care in Canada. America deserves better than socialized medicine and those who propose it need to be carefully scrutinized before being elected to positions of power. A better option is to improve the existing system we have and forget about destroying it by emulating an already failed system to our north. We'll have more on this ... especially about a lovely lady by the name of Ramona, now resting in a cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario who would argue she is not an anecdote.
Mark Steyn: Swat somebody's butt, and yours belongs to the the D.A.
Orange County Register - By MARK STEYN
Syndicated columnist - Saturday, July 28, 2007
Do you know Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison? If you do, don't approach them. Call 911 and order up a SWAT team. They're believed to be in the vicinity of McMinnville, Ore., where they're a clear and present danger to the community. Mashburn and Cornelison were recently charged with five counts of felony sexual abuse, and District Attorney Bradley Berry has pledged to have them registered for life as sex offenders. Oh, by the way, the defendants are in the seventh grade.
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Comment: This is as much about overzealous prosecutors as it is about misbehaving children. Remember Nifong? Or Patrick Fitzgerald? How about that D.A. in Florida (see "Freed Man Still in Limbo" below)? And the excesses go on including the Georgia teenager serving a 10-year prison term for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager. This young man, despite being ordered freed by a state judge, still sits in jail because of an appeal by the state attorney general. Never mind that legislation has changed and the offense is now punishable by a maximum of one-year in prison.
July 27, 2007
Freed Man Still in Limbo (FL)
He awaits the state attorney's decision on whether he'll be tried again on drug charges.
St Petersburg Times - By COLLEEN JENKINS
Published July 26, 2007
TAMPA - Mark O'Hara left jail without handcuffs Wednesday, two years after he went to prison and one week since an appeals court ordered him a new trial. He was serving a 25-year sentence for having 58 Vicodin pills in his bread truck. Jurors weren't told that it is legal to possess the drug with a prescription, which he had.
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Comment: If you're not already aware of this article be prepared to be sick (can't put it any plainer than that). Readers' reactions to this story in the St Petersburg Times (FL) say it all... Scary ...
De Villepin cont'd (see below)
French Judges File Villepin Charges
theage.com.au - By Verena Von Derschau, Paris
July 28, 2007
INVESTIGATING judges filed preliminary charges yesterday against former prime minister Dominique de Villepin for his suspected role in a smear campaign aimed at Nicolas Sarkozy before he was president. The preliminary charges were for "complicity in slanderous denunciations", Mr de Villepin's lawyer, Luc Brossollet, said. The case stems from an alleged attempt in 2003-2004 to discredit Mr Sarkozy, who was a government minister at the time and a political rival of Mr Villepin
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"Are There any White Kids at Your School?"
Pajamas Media - -By Aaron Hanscom
July 24, 2007
That’s the question I was asked most often during my six years as an elementary school teacher in Watts, the neighborhood in Los Angeles more famous for its riots than its schools. My answer was always “no” until last year, when a freckle-faced foster child – let’s call him Tommy – enrolled. I can assure you that Tommy was never given any special treatment for being the only white student at a school made up mostly of Hispanics and African-Americans. In fact, Tommy received the same crappy education as everybody else.
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July 26, 2007
Let Ahmad Speak
Canada Free Press - By Klaus Rohrich
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Over the past few days Canadians have been outraged over the pronouncements on Vision TV by one Israr Ahmad. Ahmad had been given two one-hour shows on Vision TV during which he held forth on the concept of Jihad. Ahmad has some peculiar religious beliefs, which include the necessity to exterminate all of the world’s Jews and that the Holocaust was Allah’s punishment of the Jews. Ahmad also believes that Jews are planning ...
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July 25, 2007
Global Warming Hysteria (cont'd)
The Price of Global Warming
Canada Free Press - By Henry Lamb
Monday, July 23, 2007
It is widely agreed that the global mean temperature has increased .07 degree C, over the last century. It is also widely agreed that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from about 280 parts per million (ppm) to nearly 380 ppm. And there is general agreement that at least some, if not most, of the increase in atmospheric carbon is the result of humans burning fossil fuels. Here’s where the agreement ends . . . Some of us are thankful that the current crop of collective Washington leaders did not live in 1907. It is too bad that these people are now in a position to inflict their short-sighted ignorance on our children and future generations.
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Also of interest:
Climate Extremism: the Real Threat to Civilization
Canada Free Press - By Dr. Timothy Ball and Tom Harris
Friday, July 20, 2007
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GOP alleges 60 voted in both Florida, N.Y. elections
Sun-Sentinel.com By Sally Apgar
2:20 PM EDT, July 25, 2007
WEST PALM BEACH -- - The Republican Party of Palm Beach County announced on Wednesday that it has filed complaints of voter fraud against 60 individuals with the State Attorney, Florida Division of Elections, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney's office. The Republican Party alleges that 60 voters they identified in computer lists may have voted in both the Florida and New York elections held last Nov. 7. The party has asked the Division of Elections to open an investigation to determine whether these 60 voters violated Florida voting laws and should be prosecuted for voting in two states in the same election.
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TSA to police: Look out for possible terrorist attack 'dry runs'
From Mike M. Ahlers
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police across the country should be on the lookout for what could be "dry runs" for a terrorist attack, the Transportation Security Administration advised after series of suspicious incidents occurred at U.S. airports. Blocks of cheese were found in a bag with a coil of wire and tubes, the TSA said.
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Mirror reporters held over fake bomb attempt
Lee Glendinning
Guardian (UK) Wednesday July 25, 2007
Two Daily Mirror journalists were arrested yesterday after attempting to plant a fake bomb on a train in what the newspaper called a "legitimate and justified journalistic exercise". The reporters were arrested at Stonebridge Park depot in north-west London after railway staff noticed the men carrying fake equipment and approached them to ask what they were doing on the site before contacting the British Transport police to report the trespass.
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Comment: Who are all these people? They can't all be journalists or someone's grama from Palermo smuggling a chunk of cheese stuffed with a few odd wires and things from a kitchen appliance back home. There's a lot of chatter about possible threats but nothing about who the people were who attempted the "dry runs", other than that they have no affiliation with known terrorists. But do they pray at a mosque regularly? How about friends or relatives? Where do they say their prayers? And here, according to certain politicians and the MSM, we thought we were less safe than before 9/11. Stay alert folks!
Turkey Betrayed Again
American Thinker - By James Lewis July 25, 2007
Turkey is one great theater in the war between modernity and Islamist reaction. In Istanbul one can see radical imams stalking through the Grand Bazaar with fanatical expressions on their faces. Many more women and girls are wearing long coats and scarves in the summer heat,
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July 24, 2007
Forecaster cuts 2007 hurricane outlook
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What global warming? West Palm (Beach FL) shows few signs of rising temperatures
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Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again.
A land grab proportionally equivalent to a foreign power occupying Arizona
Opinion Journal - BY BRET STEPHENS
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself.
The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by ...
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July 23, 2007
Dumb and Dumber
The Dry Bones Blog
Cartoon - Monday, July 23, 2007
I don't know what it's like where you live but here in Israel nobody dies of cancer. They die after "a prolonged illness". An MD friend told me about an occasion when he had to inform a patient's family that their loved one was going to die. "Is it cancer?" the wife had whispered. "No," he said, "it's not cancer." "Thank God" was the wife's relief-filled response. The West seems to be experiencing a similar state of fear and hysteria. We can't even name the enemy that threatens us....
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July 22, 2007
Mark Steyn: Look who's holding hostages again
Orange County Register [Calif.], by Mark Steyn
July 22, 2007
How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran? No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now. What? You haven't heard about them? Odd that, isn't it? But they're there. For example, for two months now, Haleh Esfandiari has been detained in Evin prison in Tehran. Esfandiari is a U.S. citizen and had traveled to Iran to visit her sick mother. She is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which is the kind of gig that would impress your fellow guests at a Washington dinner party. Unfortunately, the mullahs say it's an obvious cover for a Bush spy... More ...
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Have some while they're fresh, available and still affordable
Editorial: A safeguard against rushing to war with Iran
Sacramento Bee - Editorial - July 22, 2007
The National Intelligence Estimate released last Tuesday contained an interesting, little-noticed tidbit: a single, brief mention of Iran. If the United States is perceived as posing a direct threat to Iran, the NIE said, then the Shia extremist group Hezbollah may be "more likely to consider attacking" the United States ,,, More ...
Comment: Talk is cheap and negotiating with Iran et al is even cheaper. What will you do when they come for you? Call Congress? Call the MSM? We're becoming France and that's disgustingly scary.
July 21, 2007
Obama: Stop Enabling The President
Bush Grossly Misunderstands His Own Role, Obama Says
WMAQ-TV-CHICAGO
July 20, 2007
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama told New Hampshire voters Friday that President George W. Bush grossly misunderstands his role as commander in chief. "When President Bush says, 'I just want to give the commanders what they want, listen to the generals,' he doesn't understand how we work here in America. Civilians control the military and we are supposed to set the mission ,,,
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Comment: Articulate nonsense!
July 20, 2007
Obama: Don't Stay in Iraq Over Genocide
July 20 01:34 PM US/Eastern
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press Writer
SUNAPEE, N.H. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there. "Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then ... More ...
Comment: Conflicted and blinded by the power!
July 17, 2007
More facts on the Libby Case seep out (updated)
americanthinker.com By Clarice Feldman
July 17, 2007
The further redacted affidavits filed in the Miller case are now available online. Two interesting facts have struck Just One Minute commenters as we skim through this newly available material. First, Fitzgerald granted Ari Fleischer immunity without requiring him to provide waivers, so that Fitzgerald could not confirm Ari's story with reporters. This seems remarkable ... More ...
Statesman McCain [Kathryn Jean Lopez] National Review OnLine
From the senator floor
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
CLICK HERE
Stop Our Networks From Helping Al-Qaeda
Townhall By Dr. Charles Dunn
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
You have seen it. We have all seen it. Worst of all, the families of the heroic soldiers killed, have seen it. “It,” is a video montage of American military vehicle after American military vehicle, getting blown up in Iraq by Improvised Explosive Devices, or IED’s. Some of our television “news” networks ... More ...
Charlie Rose Show
A conversation about Iraq with John Burns of The New York Times
CLICK HERE
July 14, 2007
As Winston Churchill is cut from the National Curriculum - he gives his damning response
By WINSTON CHURCHILL (with help from DAVID THOMAS) - DAILY MAIL (UK) 14th July 2007
I know the true value of history. I have written it - and I have made it. Never in the field of human education has so much rubbish been talked by so few educationalists, to the detriment of so many young minds. As I look down from the heavens, proud of the honour bestowed upon me by my fellow-countrymen, who not so long ago voted me the greatest Briton of all time, I am reminded of a comment I once made to my friend Violet Bonham Carter. "We are all worms,' I remarked. "But I do believe that I am a glow-worm." Now, however, my glow has finally been extinguished ... More ...
Larry Elder: Moore's latest is sickening
By LARRY ELDER Saturday, July 14, 2007
Syndicated columnist - ocregister.com
Nearly 50 million "Americans" lack health-care insurance. At least, director Michael Moore makes this claim in "Sicko," his new "documentary" about America's supposedly awful health-care system.
Nearly 50 million Americans without health-care insurance? For what it's worth, the Centers for Disease Control puts the number of uninsured at 43.6 million, and the Census Bureau at 44.8 million. First, understand that lack of health-care "insurance" does not mean a lack of health care. Many emergency rooms, by law, provide medical care to anyone who walks in, whether an illegal or legal resident of this country ... More ...
July 13, 2007
Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus
ABC NEWS (Australia) Posted Fri Jul 13, 2007
Britain's World War II prime minister Winston Churchill has been cut from a list of key historical figures recommended for teaching in English secondary schools, a government agency says. The radical overhaul of the school curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds is designed to bring secondary education up to date and allow teachers more flexibility in the subjects they teach, the Government said ...More ...
Michael Moore and Bill Clinton: Birds of a Feather
Human Events by Ericka Andersen
Posted: 07/13/2007
When a liberal complains about media bias, you know you’ve asked a question they don’t like. And they don’t like anything that challenges their dogma. It’s understandable that Bill Clinton would want to discredit Fox News, but why would Michael Moore have harsh words for CNN’s Wolf Blitzer? Rarely is the mainstream media tipped from the left... More ...
July 12, 2007
Incredible Shrinking Deficit
New York Sun Editorial
July 12, 2007
The New York Times's Paul Krugman, in December, wrote that President Bush "plunged the budget deep into deficit by cutting taxes on dividends and capital gains even as he took the country into a disastrous war." Senator Clinton went to the Senate floor in February of this year to speak of the "fiscal recklessness" of the Bush administration, which she charged had contributed to "record deficits." In March, Senator Schumer, who is now the chairman of Congress's Joint Economic Committee, spoke of "budget excesses of the past six years" that have brought us "a mounting debt to the rest of the world."
2004 - $413 billion
2005 - $318 billion
2006 - $248 billion
2007 - $205 billion
But as the shrinking figures above show, in fact the deficit is shrinking ... More ...
July 11, 2007
United Nations-measured-flatulence
Scientists sniffing out methane emissions from cows sniffing at the wrong end
Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
In the feverish race to cut methane emissions, agricultural bureaucrats have spent millions of dollars studying the wrong end of cattle and sheep. It’s the burp and not United Nations-measured-flatulence sending greenhouse gas pollution sky high ... More ...
FRED THOMPSON: "A LAWYER WHO IS A PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATE"
POWERLINE BLOG July 11, 2007
A lawyer who is a candidate or a prospective candidate for office finds himself in an interesting position because of the nature of the legal profession and the practice of law. This is true when the practice was as varied as mine, and it’s especially true when the office being considered is the Presidency of the United States. The easiest and most generally used tactic when running against a lawyer is to trade off a general perception that most people dislike ... More ...
De Villepin (cont'd)
De Villepin could face charges over smear plot against Sarkozy
· Former PM could be put under formal investigation
· So-called Clearstream scandal dates back to 2004
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Wednesday July 11, 2007
The Guardian
The former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin could face charges for his part in an alleged smear plot against the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, his lawyers said yesterday. Mr de Villepin was forced to return early from holiday last week when his Paris home and office were raided by judges ... More ...
July 9, 2007
US Military Radio Traffic, Strike on America
A Cautionary Tale on the Road to War
Canada Free Press By Sean Osborne
Northeast Intelligence Network
Monday, July 9, 2007
On Wednesday, June 6, 2007, the 40th anniversary of the June 1967 Six Day War, the Amman, Jordan daily newspaper al-Dustour concluded a short story on the history of the past 40 years by blaming the still largely existent results of that war upon Israel and the world community of nations at large. The results of that war, which was an overwhelming military victory by the IDF over the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria with additional troops and logistical support from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Algeria ... More ...
Radical Islamic terrorists, Democrats
Dems and terrorists have high hopes for ‘08
Canada Free Press By Henry Lamb
Monday, July 9, 2007
Democrats from Boston to LA are salivating over the prospects of regaining the White House, and retaining control of Congress in 2008. Radical Islamic terrorists - from the secret cells in the U.S., to the secret camps on the Pakistani border - are salivating over the prospects of the Democrats regaining control of the White House, and retaining control of Congress in 2008 ... More ...
July 8, 2007
Ruling Elite Rocked by Sarko Raids
From The Sunday Times By John Follain, Paris
July 8, 2007
Update ... see below "French judges target former PM de Villepin's office"
IN the latest episode of a saga that split France’s last conservative government and threatens to divide the new one, Michèle Alliot-Marie, the interior minister, is to be questioned over what she knew about a plot to smear Nicolas Sarkozy three years ago in an apparent attempt to prevent him from becoming president. A retired spymaster, General Philippe Rondot, claimed ... More ...
British Bomb Plot and Michael Moore-style Health Care
MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist - ocregister.com - Sunday, July 8, 2007
The legacy of Britain's socialized medical system is a growing reliance on foreign doctors, like seven of the eight suspects arrested in the failed London car bombing and Glasgow airport attack ... More ...
July 7, 2007
TWO VIEWS OF TERRORISM
1) Myth Shattered
Toronto Sun [Canada], by Michael Coren Sat, July 7, 2007
It has been a week for murderers, hypocrites and heroes. In Britain a group of Muslim doctors and medical students have been arrested in connection with a series of attempts to murder thousands of innocent people waiting to board aircraft or, sin of sins, dancing in a club. Commentators were incredulous that people of ... More ...
2) Why Terrorism Instead of Chocolates?
Daily Star (LEBANON) By Rami G. Khouri, Saturday July 07, 2007
The continuing plague of terror attacks around the world seems to have reached another peak of moral indignation and political bewilderment with the arrest of eight doctors and medical workers suspected of being involved in last week's attempted attacks in the United Kingdom. This does not make it any easier to try to understand what motivates otherwise ordinary people to become terrorists ... More ...
July 6, 2007
"Cyber Jihadists" operating freely from Canada's Eastern Seaboard
Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod & Sean Osborne
Friday, July 6, 2007
While world attention is on "cyber-jihadists" using the Internet to urge Muslims to wage holy war on non-believers, Canadian authorities should check out the Global Islamic Media Website. Operating from pastoral Yarmouth, N.S., the Global Islamic Media Website is touted as an "al Qaeda media website"... More ...
Al Gore's Live Earth: Has Global Warming Hysteria 'Jumped the Shark'?
American Thinker By John Berlau July 06, 2007
This weekend, rock stars will jet around the world, cars and buses will clog traffic, and elaborate sound stages will be set up to burn massive amounts of fuel to send the message to fans at home that they had better conserve their energy or face the allegedly dire threat of global warming. The Live Earth concerts, which start this Saturday, July 7, are also one last chance for Baby Boomers to relive the "flower power" activism of the '60s ... More ...
French judges target former PM de Villepin's office
SWISSINFO July 6, 2007 - 1:52 PM By Thierry Leveque
PARIS (Reuters) - French judges searched the offices of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day after targeting his home, as they investigated allegations he unlawfully tried to wreck Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential hopes. Judicial sources say investigators believe Villepin might have tried to use falsified documents to smear his political rival in 2004 in a murky plot that almost pulled his government apart when details emerged last year ... More ...
Comment: This news will no doubt be of interest to Kenneth R. Timmerman, author of: "The French Betrayal of America".
Bomb suspects on MI5 files
www.telegraph.co.uk By Philip Johnston, Richard Edwards and Duncan Gardham
Last Updated: 2:53am BST 04/07/2007
Several doctors arrested over the London and Glasgow car bomb plot were on the files of MI5, it was disclosed last night. At least one was on a Home Office watch list after being identified by security services - meaning their travel in and out of Britain was monitored by More ...
Comment: "Death Comes For The Fat Man" By Reginald Hill is a work of fiction but a good read and provides a behind the scenes look at how British intelligence and law enforcement secretly work or ... sometimes not. Published in the USA by HarperCollins Publishers.
A Simple Truth
The Dry Bones Blog - Friday July 06, 2007
I cringe every time I hear the phrase "War On Terror". The "terrorists" that are attacking the West are the soldiers of the Islamist movement. We know it. But we don't say it.
The rest is here . . .
July 4, 2007
Top Ten Questions for Democrat Presidential Candidates
Canada Free Press By J.B. Williams
Monday, July 2, 2007
1. If we can’t drill, can’t refine, can’t mine, can’t build nuclear power plants and can’t burn fossil fuels, how can we become “energy independent”? I mean besides returning America to the Stone Age.
The other nine questions listed here ,,,
Ronald Reagan Debunks the Idea of Socialized Medicine
Beyond The News (By: Greg Hengler) Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Sorry Michael Moore, no matter how many times you say it, your film is NOT bipartisan
Don't miss this ... listen here ,,,
July 3, 2007
From FOX News: Doctors Among the Arrested in U.K. Terror Sweep
by Cox and Forkum Editorial Cartoons Click here ...
Don't Be So Sure There Were No WMD in Iraq
AMERICAN THINKER By Rachel Neuwirth July 03, 2007
Readers are urged to review the references and decide for themselves. Click here ...
Statement by the President On Executive Clemency for Lewis Libby
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 2, 2007
Statement here ...
Appropriate Presidential Mercy
National Review On Line by The Editors
We have urged President Bush to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby from the moment a jury found Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff guilty of perjury and obstruction in the CIA-leak case. Now, the president has acted. He didn’t go as far as we would have liked, choosing to commute Libby’s prison term while leaving his conviction, fine, and probation intact. But his action ensures that Libby will not go to jail, and that’s a good thing ... More ...
Comment: Sometimes being a faithful servant to a too good and too decent man can be a thankless job. In trying not to offend and straddling the political divide the president appears to have attempted to cut the baby in two. Sure Mr. Libby will do no jail time (a good thing) but he still faces probation and all that entails. For the next two years Scooter Libby will be under the scrutiny of the administration's political enemies and the liberal media zealots looking for any violations of his probation - real, perceived or manufactured . What penalties await? Jail time after all? A full pardon would have been preferred and would have raised no more controversy than this half-measure has already produced.
For even more, go here ...
July 2, 2007
Lieberman: George Soros' Views 'Anti-American'
NewsMax By Ronald Kessler
Monday, July 2, 2007
Taking aim at billionaire George Soros, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman calls Soros' views on America "so negative, so critical, and so often anti-American." In an exclusive interview with NewsMax Magazine (in the July edition now on newsstands), Lieberman described Soros, a major source of funding for Democratic causes, as representing "everything that's wrong." More ...
Londonistan Calling
VANITY FAIR by Christopher Hitchens June 2007
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation? More ...
OPEN YOUR EYES AND EARS here : "Dispatches - Undercover Mosque"
July 1, 2007
Impudent citizens got Sen. Lotthorn's goat
The Orange County Register BY MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist
Sunday, July 1, 2007
On the eve of Independence Day, the people of this great republic declared their independence from the United States Senate under the stirring battle-cry, "No legislation without explanation!" The geniuses who'd cooked up the "comprehensive" immigration bill's "grand bargain" behind the scenes in the pork-filled rooms had originally planned to ram it through in 48 hours before Memorial Day. And, right to the end ... More ...
Who's Really 'Sicko'
Opinion Journal (WSJ) BY DAVID GRATZER
Thursday, June 28, 2007
TORONTO--"I haven't seen 'Sicko,' " says Avril Allen about the new Michael Moore documentary, which advocates socialized medicine for the United States. The film, which has been widely viewed on the Internet, and which will officially open in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, has been getting rave reviews. But Ms. Allen, a lawyer, has no plans to watch it. She's just too busy preparing to file suit against Ontario's provincial government about its health-care system next month... More ...
Socialized Medicine Showdown
Opinion Journal (WSJ) BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
While most of Congress scrapped over immigration this week, a small band of Republicans doggedly toiled behind the scenes on quite a different subject. National Economic Council Director Al Hubbard and health secretary Mike Leavitt shuttled to and from the Hill; Senators hashed out the topic at a steering committee lunch; congressmen canvassed members, wrote and wrote legislation. Even President Bush gave a speech on the subject, exhorting his party to get it together. The result-- More ...
Blame rests with cavemen
Calgary Sun [Canada], by Stephen Lautens
I've been reading a lot about something called living a "carbon neutral" life. Or as the David Suzuki Foundations puts it: "Going carbon neutral is an easy way to take responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions we create every time we drive our cars, take a plane, or turn on our computers." How do we do this, you may ask? We're supposed to "offset your own emissions." if you pardon the . . . More ...
Iraq, al-Qaeda and Tenet's Equivocation
By Christina Shelton, Saturday, June 30, 2007 -- The Washington Post
On Aug. 15, 2002, I presented my part of a composite Pentagon briefing on al-Qaeda and Iraq to George Tenet, then CIA director. In his recent book, "At the Center of the Storm," Tenet wrote that I said in opening remarks that "there is no more debate," "no further analysis is required" and "it is an open-and-shut case."I never said those things. In fact . . .More ...
'Times' slammed over op-eds by Hamas official
By NATHANIEL ROSEN, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON
Several Jewish organizations expressed outrage following the publication of opinion pieces authored by a Hamas figure in two of the US's most prestigious newspapers on Wednesday. Both The New York Times and The Washington Post ran . . . More ...
