Archive for January, 2006
Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of GOP.com:
As Prepared For Delivery
Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, Members of the Supreme Court and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
Today our Nation lost a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream. Tonight we are comforted by the hope of [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
NoisyRoom.net
It was wonderful to see new Justice Alito and his happy, beautiful wife for the first time in that great hall. The pre-speech festivities were wonderful – Sheehan dragged off in cuffs… Good times…
Reading between lines, it felt as though President Bush was speaking of WWIII. I noticed that the African and Arab [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
Courtesy of MEMRI TV, Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar rants on Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV, on their utter rejection of Israel’s right to exist and their plans to indoctrinate more Palestinian children into a life of violence and murder.
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: We will not give up the resistance in the sense of Jihad, martyrdom-seeking, [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
For years now I have been calling for a Manhattan Project to find new energy sources. Maybe we are getting close. From AP:
WASHINGTON - President Bush, pushing to take charge of the election-year agenda, said Tuesday that “America is addicted to oil” and must break its dependence on foreign suppliers in unstable [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Cartoon rage reaches the troops in Iraq. From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas:
A FATWA appears to have been issued against Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq, the Danish defence ministry said today.
“I can confirm that we’ve heard about the fatwa from a reliable source in Iraq … so we [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Fox News:
By James Rosen
EN ROUTE TO THE UNITED STATES — Warning of a “slow erosion of the credibility of the international community,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action against Iran if it does not reverse its nuclear program in [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
According to the Mirror, a security report from Britain’s Belmarsh prison describes a jail run by Al Qaeda. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
VIOLENT Islamic extremists are terrorising inmates at Britain’s toughest jail with an iron fist as they trawl for al-Qaeda recruits.
The gang of thugs – known as [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Investor’s Business Daily:
Scandal: Sen. Harry Reid has been found with his hands in the Abramoff cookie jar. But is the problem too many lobbyists buying influence or that there is too much influence to buy?
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, hoping like most Democrats that charges of corruption and the depiction of Republicans [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
In fact, AFP just reported that Sheikh Ahmed Abu Al Baraa was killed on January 17 during a fight between Islamists and the Algerian Army. It is an important victory against the jihadists because Al Baraa was quite influential in bringing in new recruits to the Algerian terrorist group.
Also GSPC is [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the American Conservative Daily:
The Senate voted 58-42 on Tuesday to confirm Samuel Alito to the nation’s highest court, putting to bed the most partisan Supreme Court nomination battle in recent memory. – FoxNews
Knowing that America is DOOMED because a right wing, bigoted, anti-woman, anti-child, anti-little guy, anti-abortion nominee has been approved liberals across [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of MEMRI:
The following are excerpts from a videotape of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, aired by Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2006.
*TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1015 .
*TO VIEW MORE AL-QAEDA CLIPS, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=139 .
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri: “With the collaboration of Musharraf the traitor and his security agencies, the servants of the Crusaders and [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of MEMRI:
Introduction
Iran’s annual Basij Week, initiated 27 years ago by Islamic Revolution founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was celebrated November 26- December 1, 2006. The Basij (Persian for “mobilized”), which is made up of volunteers from all walks of life, including schoolchildren, students, teachers, doctors, engineers, and other professionals, is a paramilitary organization which today [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Israelly Cool:
Exciting news for fans of 24, with plans to shoot a movie version of the hit show.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland is keen to start filming a big screen version of his hit TV series 24, as soon as production on the show wraps up later this year (06).
The show [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
The Wall Street Journal
Glenn R.Simpson and John R. Wilke
Some of the world’s largest finance and energy companies are severing ties with Iran, amid U.S. probes into their compliance with American sanctions and as the possibility of U.N. action grows closer.
Banks UBS AG of Switzerland and ABN Amro Holding NV of the Netherlands [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Congratulations, Sam. Welcome to the bench of our country’s highest court.
Sorry about the crap you had to endure under the guise of a “job interview” as envisioned by a pack of hyenas whose sole superior qualification for their jobs is that they are better liars than you are.
In my line of work, it’s acceptable [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 – Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated on Monday the radical Palestinian group Hamas in their victory in the Palestinian elections, the state-run Fars news agency reported.
Ahmadinejad told Khalid Mash’al, the chief of Hamas’ political bureau, in a telephone conversation that the group’s victory was due to their [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Associated Press
By GEORGE JAHN,
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria, (AP) – A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.
The finding was made in a report prepared for presentation to the 35-nation IAEA board when it [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of DEBKAFile.com:
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that in the hours leading up to US president George W. Bush’s fifth State of the Union speech, he pondered whether or not to refer directly to the rise of Hamas and spell out White House policy on the terrorist group’s takeover of Palestinian government.
Some of his advisers advised [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of DEBKAFile.com:
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov put this information before the five permanent UN Security Council and Germany, which Tuesday night, Jan. 30, agreed for the first time to haul Iran before the UN body over its nuclear program. Until then, Moscow and Beijing had stood out against the UN nuclear watchdog’ referring the Iran [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of National Online Review:
By: Mansoor Ijaz (a reporter and writer I highly admire…)
Tehran’s recent efforts add to their history as terror masters.
On February 1, an emergency session of the International Atomic Energy Agency is being convened to discuss potential solutions for how the world should deal with Iran’s nuclear mischief. Referring Iran to the [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Great roundup on the Danish scene by Michelle Malkin. I have a step-daughter who is Danish and other family over there – speak up and support freedom for Denmark and stand up to Islamo Fascism…
Sphere It
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
In its latest issue, the Hamas children’s web site Al Fateh demands the return of the Spanish city of Seville to the “lost paradise” of Al Andalus. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.)
The children’s website Al Fateh, property of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, demands in its most recent issue the return of the [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
This will fix the problem right up. From AP:
The United States and other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before that powerful body over its disputed nuclear program.
China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, signed on to [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald reveals some important and little noted information about Ayman Al-Zawahiri:
Al-Zawahiri does not come from the lower depths, and neither “poverty” nor any of those other off-the-shelf pseudo-explanations will do. He comes from the highest stratum of Egyptian Arab society. He was trained as a surgeon. [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
The end of diplomacy? The endless posturing never ceases to take my breath away. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran struck back Tuesday at the Big Five’s decision to refer the country’s nuclear file to the Security Council, saying the move has no [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
Our Contributing Experts have been all over the airwaves to discuss the new video issued by Al Qaeda’s #2, Ayman Al-Zawahri, and potential border attacks by Mexican drug lords. Links to the interviews:
Al-Zawahri Tape:
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on Fox News on January 30;
Steven Emerson on Fox News on January 30: First interview – [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
The Mujahideen Army in Iraq—a prominent Sunni insurgent group—has released a new communique threatening to attack Denmark and Norway over a series of recent cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed. According to the statement:
“…We, along with the rest of the world, have observed the offensive and harmful [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
This woman gives women in general a black eye… Commit her already or will someone please get Jack Bauer to solve the problem? Yawn, boring… Go back to your boyfriend Chavez and rot together…
Courtesy of CNSNews.com:
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Correspondent
January 31, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – Echoing the accusations of musician Harry Belafonte and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, anti-war [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Today’s Washington Post gives prime op-ed space to an indicted terrorist, arguing for diplomatic engagement with Hamas. All one needs to know about Mousa Abu Marzook can be found at the end of the article:
The writer is deputy political bureau chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). He has a U.S. doctorate [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
As reported by the American Conservative Daily yesterday – that is the collective sound of liberals keeling over due to the CONFIRMATION of SAMUEL ALITO to the SUPREME COURT. As the supremes emerge from the dark ages, may sanity and justice return to the land of the free and the home of the brave…
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of The Conservative Review:
ON THE RIGHT by William F. Buckley Jr.
Taking his oath of office in La Paz, the flamboyant new president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, railed against the exploiters of his country. In his fiery campaign he had said that the government had done nothing for Bolivia “in the last 50 years.” The [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of David Limbaugh:
Kate O’Beirne’s “Women Who Make the World Worse” is one of the boldest books challenging the orthodoxy of political correctness to be released in years. Above all, it documents the real damage inflicted on our culture by radical feminism and the women who lead that destructive movement.
O’Beirne makes a compelling case, substantiated [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPageMagazine:
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 31, 2006
Providing new evidence of the academic Left’s hardened anti-Americanism and sympathy for jihad terror, Khalil Shikaki has been appointed a senior fellow at
Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Shikaki’s involvement with Middle Eastern politics and culture has long been more hands-on than that of most academics. [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPageMagazine:
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 31, 2006
Reactions to the lopsided Hamas victory over Fatah last week in the Palestinian Authority elections divided into three. Some, like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee expressed dismay, worried about Hamas openly boasting of its goal to destroy the Jewish state, seeing this as the end of [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPageMagazine:
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 31, 2006
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Joseph Klein, a practicing attorney in the field of global technology law for more than thirty years. He received his Juris Doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, where he studied constitutional law with the late Archibald Cox. He is [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPageMagazine:
By Dick Morris
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 31, 2006
The Palestinian people have delivered a resounding vote against peace — calling, in their election, for a continuation of the savage and sanguinary war against Israel. This sharp reversal in the peace process should not go without a vigorous response from Washington.
President Bush is correct to cut [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of BREIBART.com:
Stalinist North Korea accused the United States of carrying out more than 190 spy missions in January using reconnaissance planes as part of war preparations.
Quoting unnamed military sources, the official Korean Central News Agency said that US espionage planes such as U-2s, RC-135s and E-3s flew over the inter-Korean border “to spy [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of washingtonpost.com:
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 31, 2006; 10:48 AM
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran struck back Tuesday at the Big Five powers’ decision to refer Iran’s nuclear file to the U.N. Security Council, saying the move would mean the end of diplomacy over its atomic program.
Still, in what appeared to be an attempt to show [...]
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Posted in January 31st, 2006
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW
President Vladimir Putin boasted Tuesday that Russia has missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system, Russian news reports said.
“Russia … has tested missile systems that no one in the world has,” the ITAR-Tass, Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies quoted him as saying at a news conference. [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
My husband and I watched Flight 93 tonight – my recommendation to the Republican Party and conservatives in general is to play movies like that right through ‘08.
I sat there and remembered that morning (I was living in Phoenix at the time) and the shock and disbelief that I felt washing over me with each [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Hey, here’s an idea – drop-ship Boxer to Iraq and then DON’T cry when she is:
a) Taken hostage.
b) Shot.
c) Blown up.
d) Adopted by her fellow fascists.
Courtesy of RedState:
By: Joe Cella · Section:
SCOTUS
Boxer just callously dismissed Mrs. Alito breaking down in tears during the hearings.
She said, and I paraphrase: “it comes with the territory” [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Decision ‘08:
Here we go: The Top Five (Plus a Surprise At the Bottom) Kos Kidz Reactions to the Failure of the Alito Filibuster
Number Five: …[T]he NSA recorders are working overtime today!
Think of the harvest for the Bushite scum- thousands of Bush opponents calling and he can trace all those numbers!
Number Four: I’m Movin [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
The Palestinian people have voted and duly elected a government in their territories that will be dominated and controlled by an internationally recognized terrorist organization (FTO), Hamas. Realistically, Israel may quickly decide to respond to this with severe unilateral security measures that will surely include a stronger clampdown on the ability [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
This is way tooo funny not to post…
Courtesy of American Conservative Daily:
THUD
That sound, my friends, is the sound of a couple thousand hard core “We want the right to murder our babies” liberals passing out as news came today that the attempted filibuster to block cloture failed. The Senate voted 72-25 to end [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of NewsMax.com:
Jerry Zeifman
In my view (as a Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee), Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has disgraced himself and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends.
Kennedy was the architect of an unprecedented tactic: using filibusters to polarize the [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
Walid Phares
The new Zawahiri videotape released by al Jazeera today shows a sophistication in the propaganda war waged by the Jihadists worldwide against the US and its allies. Designed to “crumble” the morale of the American public and “boost” the commitments of the Jihadi forces, the tape is another attempt to [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Wow – those whacky cheese balls are at it again on the left – paranoid and delusional; they think the bad, bad conservatives are after them again – of course they are attributing every hateful attribute they can to the right. Gufaw! Laugh, chortle… Look in the mirror guys – the last time I checked [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Chron Watch:
Written by Barbara J. Stock
Humans love labels. These days, anyone on the right is being called a fascist or a Nazi and those on the left are being labeled weak appeasers. The divide between left and right has been very vocal of late.
The hatred for [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Chron Watch:
Written by Nancy Salvato
John Stossel’s education documentary, “Stupid in America” received a lot of attention for exposing the problems in public education and advocating school choice. One interesting segment of the program focused on how the money follows the child in Belgium. Consequently, there was footage filmed of a Belgian [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2006
Courtesy of FT.com:
By Carola Hoyos in Vienna and Dan Dombey in Brussels
Published: January 30 2006 19:10 | Last updated: January 30 2006 19:10
opec logoOil ministers of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Monday rejected Iranian proposals to cut the cartel’s oil production, opting instead to sustain current production levels amid continuing uncertainty surrounding [...]
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