Sunday, October 14, 2007
Al Gore: Leading Us to Peace? Really?
Town Hall By Austin Hill
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Thank God somebody was willing to ask. “Ask what?” you might be wondering. I’m getting to the question of what it is, exactly, that Al Gore did to enhance “peace” such that he has now won a Nobel Peace Prize. While the White House officially expressed “happiness” last week over Gore’s award, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi used the occasion to reassure us that Mr. Gore has sounded a “clarion call” that has “awakened the world” to the “very real threat” of global warming, the question of what has Gore done for “peace” remains. More ...
General Accuses MSM Of Killing Soldiers, Enemy Propaganda - MSM Censors Him
patdollard.com By Pat Dollard
October 13th, 2007
The Washington Post, the AP and others were brutally attacked yesterday by retired General Ricardo Sanchez. He accused them and their political masters of de facto treason, functioning not as journalists, but as lying propagandists bent on advancing Democrat Party power.
Sample:
“WHAT IS CLEAR TO ME IS THAT YOU ( the MSM ) ARE PERPETUATING THE CORROSIVE PARTISAN POLITICS THAT IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY AND KILLING OUR SERVICEMEMBERS WHO ARE AT WAR.” And: “AS I ASSESS VARIOUS MEDIA ENTITIES, SOME ARE UNQUESTIONABLY ENGAGED IN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA THAT IS UNCONTROLLED.” Read the rest of it here.
What part of secrecy don’t they understand?
Daily Inter Lake (Montana) by FRANK MIELE
Saturday, Oct 13, 2007
In its continuing effort to get the word “secrecy” stricken from the American lexicon, the New York Times earlier this month reported on several so-called classified documents related to the government’s tactical decisions about how to fight the war on terror. This is not the first time The New York Times has reported on “top secret” government documents, programs, or war plans. The paper’s argument, of course, is . . . If the New York Times is going to do away with secrecy, we suggest they begin at home. Let’s get a full public disclosure of all salaries at the Times, as well as a complete record of all contributions made by or on behalf of the employees of the Times. It would certainly be interesting to know whether any reporters covering particular beats have a conflict of interest, wouldn’t it? In addition, it would be useful for the New York Times to publish a full and accurate transcript of all editorial board meetings as well as meetings to determine what is and isn’t in the nation’s best interest. That might shed a little light on whether the paper really does have a liberal bias, don’t you think? After all, the argument used for open government also applies to the New York Times, doesn’t it? The newspaper declares itself a representative of “we the people,” and thus should owe a full accounting to “we the people” as well. More ...
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Gore gets a cold shoulder
The Sydney Morning Herald (AU) by Steve Lytte
October 14, 2007
ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works". Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth. His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming. More ...
Comment: Thanks, Al.
Environmental Gore
Further damage to a once prestigious award.
National Review By Steven F. Hayward
October 12, 2007
Parson Al winning the Nobel Peace Prize was as predictable as his Oscar for Best Documentary, and represents the final debasement of a once-prestigious award. It used to be that the award went to people of genuine humanitarian or diplomatic accomplishment, like Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer or Doctors Without Borders. Now it goes to frauds and poseurs like Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat, the U.N. (three times now, counting Gore’s co-winner, the U.N.’s climate change panel), and Jimmy Carter. About the only way to top this would be to give the next Peace Prize to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. More likely the Nobel committee will, one of these days, simply pat itself on the back and give the award to . . . themselves. More ...
Comment: Anyone with half a brain knows that the award to Gore et al has nothing to do with world peace. Why not award the Nobel Peace Prize to those working to bring about peace, and create a new catagory for the doomsayers.
Khaled Hosseini
An Afghan Tale
The Wall Street Journal Online By EMILY PARKER
October 13, 2007
In Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel "The Kite Runner," a Hindi kid boasts that in his hometown the popular regional pastime of kite fighting has strict rules and regulations. This is not a wise thing to say to two Afghan boys in Kabul. "Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck." More ...
Comment: Read all of this interview then, if you haven't done so already, read both novels. You'll be glad you did.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Taking Care Of Sandy
theconservativevoice.com by Paul R. Hollrah
October 11, 2007
During the months of September and October 2003, former Clinton National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, made at least three trips to the National Archives, ostensibly for the purpose of briefing himself and his former boss, Bill Clinton, for their testimony before the 9/11 Commission. During the time that Berger was given access to highly classified material, he was seen stuffing documents into his trousers, his underwear, and even into his socks. By the time FBI agents arrived at Berger’s home and office he had already ... More ...
Comment: thesillyseason.com has much more on this here.
Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment
The Times Online (UK) by Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter
October 11, 2007
Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday. An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London. Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. More ...
Comment: So much for the relevence of Hollywood and the Oscars. A step but certainly no giant leap.
Tough-talking Nicolas Sarkozy spells out terms of new relationship to Vladimir Putin
From The Times (UK)
October 10, 2007
After months of talking tough to the Kremlin, Nicolas Sarkozy got his chance last night to convince President Putin that the days of French indulgence towards Russia are over unless it cleans up its act. In what was understood to be his most difficult trip since taking over the presidency last May, the would-be new strongman of Western Europe was out to show the prickly heavy-weight of the East that France and Russia could do business together, but under new rules. More ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Clarence Thomas
realclearpolitics.com By Thomas Sowell
October 09, 2007
It would be hard to think of anyone whose portrayal in the media differs more radically from the reality than that of Justice Clarence Thomas. His recent appearances on "60 Minutes," the Rush Limbaugh program, and other media outlets provide the general public with their first in-depth look at the real Clarence Thomas. These media appearances are part of the promotion of his riveting new memoir, titled "My Grandfather's Son." Otherwise, Justice Thomas would probably have continued to confine himself to doing his work at the Supreme Court, without worrying about what was being said about him in the media. In an era when too many judges, including justices of the Supreme Court, seem to be ... More ...
Monday, October 8, 2007
When all is not as it appears to be
The American Thinker By Rick Moran
October 08, 2007
Do you remember 12 year old Graeme Frost from Maryland? He's the young man who gave the Democratic radio response to President Bush following the veto of the chidren's health care program SCHIP. In that heart tugging speech, Graeme pleaded with Congress to pass SCHIP and extend coverage to the middle class because without that program, he and his family would have been in a lot of trouble following a car accident the young man was in last year. Following up on the story, the Baltimore Sun reported ... More ...
Hiring the Nanny State
FrontPageMagazine.com By Bill Steigerwald
Monday, October 08, 2007
With his book “Nanny State,” Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi has thrown a conservative-libertarian rope around a disturbing political and cultural trend -- the nannification of America by moral busybodies and nitpicking maternalists who use government power to micromanage our personal lives and protect us from ourselves. Whether it’s outlawing trans fats in New York City or tag on school playgrounds, Harsanyi says the “nannyists” among us are not only creating a new culture of dependency on government but also eroding what’s left of our individual freedoms. More ...
Shut Up
The American Spectator By Ben Stein
October 8, 2007
Last Monday was a maddening day. The swimming pool heater was not working right and when I wanted to get my nightly swimming exercise before bed, the water was a bit cool. Plus, the water heater was broken and my shower was barely tepid. I lay in bed sulking and then turned on the TV. Ken Burns's magnificent epic about American participation in World War II came on. There were American children being ... More ...
Al Qaeda's War of Villages
Signs that the terrorists are losing in Iraq.
Opinion Journal (wsj,com) BY OMAR FADHIL
Monday, October 8, 2007
BAGHDAD--The latest chapter in al Qaeda's war manual in their war against the Iraqi people and the Coalition is this: raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast. It's a campaign of self destruction. For about a year al Qaeda has been trying to build a so called Islamic State in Iraq. On several occasions al Qaeda has even declared parts of Baghdad or other places in other provinces the capital of this Islamic State. But now that they are losing one base after another ... More ...
Media Dishonesty Matters
The American Thinker By Randall Hoven
October 08, 2007
We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners. It has been going on for a long time, sometimes by carelessness and sometimes by deliberate lying. I have compiled a list of 101 such incidents. Did you know that Time magazine and other news organizations had a Vietnamese communist on full-time staff in Vietnam during that war? More ...
Comment: Do not miss "The Dishonest 101" list in this article.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
BUM RUSH
HOW THE DEMS PLAN TO TAKE DOWN
THEIR REAL OPPONENTS: RUSH AND O’REILLY
New York Post by JONAH GOLDBERG
October 7, 2007
In the parable of the million monkeys banging on typewriters for a million years, the reward is supposed to be the complete works of Shakespeare. But have you heard the parable of the million interns? Here, the prize is Rush Limbaugh's head, and Bill O'Reilly's, and Brit Hume's, and pretty much any other prominent conservative or non-leftist who doesn't kowtow to the Democratic Party and its “netroots" army of Lilliputian cannibals. This, in a nutshell, is the vision behind a group most people have never heard of, at least not until this week, Media Matters for America. Nearly every day, I get e-mail spam from this alleged “media watchdog" group. It's slightly ... More ...
Muslim medical students get picky
The Sunday Times (UK) by Daniel Foggo and Abul Taher
October 7, 2007
Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures or answer exam questions on alcohol-related or sexually transmitted diseases because they claim it offends their religious beliefs. Some trainee doctors say learning to treat the diseases conflicts with their faith, which states that Muslims should not drink alcohol and rejects sexual promiscuity. A small number of Muslim medical students have even refused to treat patients of the opposite sex. One male student was prepared to fail his final exams rather than carry out a basic examination of a female patient. More ...
A warning about peace without victory - in 1942
Daily Inter Lake by FRANK MIELE
Sunday, October 7, 2007
A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but perhaps even a little history is better than none. It at least provides the possibility of perspective as we try to navigate the reefs of modernity. Case in point comes from a World War II era newspaper which arrived at my desk almost arbitrarily two weeks ago, and which shed extraordinary light on our own contemporary wartime crisis with a seven-inch story that appeared on Page Two. The newspaper was the Coos Bay Times of Oregon, and the date was June 4, 1942. Get that date through your head — June 4, 1942 ... More ...
CODEPINK antiwar protesters purple with rage to be banned from Canada
Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod
Thursday, October 4, 2007
There was no welcome mat waiting n Canada for CODEPINK, the shrill arm of the latter day antiwar contingent, when they arrived for a visit yesterday, and it was all the fault of President George W. Bush. CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired US Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright were denied entry ... More ...
Friday, October 5, 2007
But Why Is He So Angry?
TownHall.com By Mona Charen
Friday, October 5, 2007
National Public Radio was one of the first out of the box greeting Clarence Thomas's memoir, "My Grandfather's Son." Nina Totenberg acknowledged that it was, "in some ways a beautifully written book" but went on to declare it "a book of complete bitterness and rage." The Washington Post's front page announced that Thomas had "settled scores" in his "angry" book. And Washington Post columnist (as well as Charen pal) Ruth Marcus writes of Thomas's "blast furnace" anger. Imagine that. He hasn't gotten over it. Totenberg, for those who may have forgotten, was the journalist who first reported that Anita Hill had ... More ...
Israeli raid caused electronic disruption
over wide areas of Syria
WorldTribune.com
Friday, October 5, 2007
The lid of secrecy covering the Sept. 6 Israeli air strike into Syria remains tight but one new theory emerging amid the speculation is that the Israeli conducted an electronic warfare exercise in preparation for future strikes or an attack on Iran. Authoritative reports from the Middle East stated that the Israel operation included extensive electronic warfare jamming by aircraft. The Israeli were testing the capabilities of ... More ...
Inside France's secret war
The independent (UK) By Johann Hari in Birao, Central African Republic
October 5, 2007
I first heard whispers of this war in March, when newspapers reported in passing that the French military was bombing the remote city of Birao, in the far north-east of the CAR. Why were French soldiers fighting there, thousands of miles from home? Why had they been intervening in Central Africa this way for so many decades? I could find no answers here – so I decided to travel there, into the belly of France's forgotten war. More ...
Question: How do you keep a war of that magnitude a secret? Don't they have anyone to leak to over there? Is it fear or patriotism that keeps their media in check? A long article that needs reading before it too is swallowed by secrecy
CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film
newsbusters.org By Paul Detrick
October 4, 2007
CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Finally," in response to a report that a British judge might ban the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" from UK schools because, according to "American Morning," "it is politically biased and contains scientific inaccuracies." "There are definitely some inaccuracies," Marciano added. "The biggest thing I have a problem with is ... More ...
Junk Science: Global Warming’s Trillion-Dollar Turkey
Fox News By Steven Milloy
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Last July, this column reported that the latest global warming bill — the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. and Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — would cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion in its first 10 years and untold trillions of dollars in subsequent decades. This week, the EPA sent its analysis of the bill’s impact on climate to Bingaman and Specter. Now we can see what we’d get for our money, and we may as well just build a giant bonfire with the cash and enjoy toasting marshmallows over it. More ...
Thursday, October 4, 2007
‘So close to war’
We came so close to World War Three that day
Spectator.co.uk By James Forsyth and Douglas Davis
Wednesday, 3rd October 2007
A meticulously planned, brilliantly executed surgical strike by Israeli jets on a nuclear installation in Syria on 6 September may have saved the world from a devastating threat. The only problem is that no one outside a tight-lipped knot of top Israeli and American officials knows precisely what that threat involved. Even more curious is that far from pushing the Syrians and Israelis to war, both seem determined to put a lid on the affair. One month after the event, the absence of hard information leads inexorably to the conclusion that the implications must have been enormous. That was confirmed ... More ...
Comment: A very fine recap of the event, read it all.
Suspected '100 million dollar al-Qaeda financier' netted in Iraq
Agence France Press, by Staff
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi and US forces have detained a man they believe received 100 million dollars this summer from Al-Qaeda sympathisers to hand out for "terrorist" operations in Iraq, the US military said Thursday. "The 100 million was what our intelligence reports indicate he has received spanning several months this year," US military spokesman Sam Hymas told AFP. "That is all the unclassified information I can give you." A statement from the military said ... More ...
Hirsi Ali earthquake
View from the Right
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has completely changed her tune on Islam. In an interview with Reason magazine, the things I've always criticized her (and other wishy wishy Islam critics) for not saying, she's suddenly saying, and all at once, and more. Well, she doesn't mention immigration, but she does say that Islam must be resisted "in all forms, and if you don't do that, then you have to live with the consequence of being crushed." She says that Islam must be defeated. More ...
COIN Is Not Small Change
Town Hall By Cliff May
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
It’s the Pentagon’s job to prepare for wars of the future. But somewhere between Vietnam and Iraq, military planners confused “future” with “futuristic.” They convinced themselves that combat in the 21st Century would resemble computer games. Satellites would provide intelligence. “Smart bombs” would do much of the killing. The enemy, overcome by “shock and awe,” would lose his will to fight. But the future, as they say, ain’t what it used to be. More ...
Saudi Squander
Where does all the money go?
National Review Online By Jonathan Schanzer
October 3, 2007
Five years ago, oil was $30 a barrel. Post Labor Day 2008, oil topped out at $82. This has produced a multi-billion dollar windfall for oil producing nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, which sits on the world’s largest reserves. Let’s see how the Kingdom spends (or doesn’t spend) America’s petrodollars: More ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
MoveOn.org Bullies Crack Down on Critics
Town Hall By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
MoveOn.org, the left-wing extremists who bashed the commander of American forces in Iraq as a traitor, should get out of the political kitchen. The George Soros-funded hitmen can't stand even a bit of heat from Mom-and-Pop retailers who tried selling T-shirts and mugs on the Internet critical of the "General Betray Us" smear ads against Gen. David Petraeus. I heard from one of the independent T-shirt sellers targeted ... More ...
Limbaugh Makes His Case
He’s got the story on the “phony soldiers” controversy — if anyone will listen.
National Review Online By Byron York
October 3, 2007
On Monday evening, September 24, Rush Limbaugh was struck by a story that appeared on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson. “A closer look tonight at phony heroes,” Gibson said in his introduction to the report, which was about men who claim to be veterans but are not. In the story, reporter Brian Ross discussed two men who claimed to have served in wartime, possibly to receive free veterans’ hospital and other benefits. And then this: “Authorities say the most disturbing case involves this man, 23 year-old Jesse Macbeth,” Ross continued. “In a YouTube video seen around the world, Macbeth became a rallying point for anti-war groups, as he talked of the Purple Heart he received in Iraq and described how he and other U.S. Army Rangers killed innocent civilians at a Baghdad mosque.” Ross played video of Macbeth saying, “Women and men, you know — while in their prayer, we started slaughtering them.” As it turns out, none of that happened. More ...
Comment: Will this be the end of it? Unlikely ... at least not until it's been completely flogged to death or something equally as easy to distort comes along. Example: the dead Mandelas.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Marine Hero: The 5 Things I Saw that Make Me Support the War
Town Hall By Marco Martinez
Monday, October 1, 2007
Liberals often like to say that "violence is senseless." That’s wrong. Violence isn't senseless. Senseless violence is senseless. And I should know. Before being awarded the Navy Cross and having the privilege of becoming a Marine, I was a gang member. Sometimes it takes having used violence for both evil as well as good to know that there's a profound moral difference between the two. People often ask me whether I still support the war. I never hesitate when answering ... More ...
The unspeakable American culture
Journalism's elite don't dare speak of the patriotism that holds this country together.
latimes.com By Jonah Goldberg
October 2, 2007
In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States." From what I can tell, nobody among the journalistic swells bothered to ask, "Who isn't 'we,' Kemo Sabe?" I don't want to revisit those supposedly Orwellian flag pins, which sat so heavily on so many journalistic lapels. But it's worth recalling that during World War II, civilian correspondent Walter Cronkite -- whose anchor job Couric now holds -- gladly wore a uniform, not just a pin, and subjected himself to military censors. He also used ... More ...
At War with Being at War
Town Hall By David Limbaugh
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman must be awfully tired of the global war on terror (GWOT). In his column "9/11 Is Over," he laments that "we've become 'The United States of Fighting Terrorism.' I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don't need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12." Alrighty, then. Let's just declare the war over. More ...
Monday, October 1, 2007
Why Fred Thompson Will Win
Real Clear Politics By Peter Mulhern
October 01, 2007
Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President. Of course, conventional wisdom rarely gets anything right. When it does, it's only by accident. In this case conventional wisdom is not just wrong but comically so. Thompson will win the Republican nomination for two reasons. First, he's a very impressive candidate. More ...
