Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From Vigilant Freedom:
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is seeking to put pressure on Congress in an effort to weaken President Bush’s stance on Iran. From a NIAC mass email released this week:
“President Bush announced today that he has authorized US forces in Iraq to confront Iran militarily. “I have authorized our military commanders in [...]
From Vigilant Freedom:
The 22nd Annual American Muslim Day Parade will take place September 9th, 2007, in New York City, in a parade expected to feature numerous known Islamists and their organizations. From FrontPage Magazine (http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CA2E5C41-AD9A-4A79-8C35-54C4A34D73FA):
“The organizers of the parade state that one of their objectives is “to demonstrate and clarify Islamic values and traditions.” However, [...]
From The Weekly Standard:
The slanders of Tim Robbins and Brian DePalma.“We’ve killed over 400,000 of their citizens.” That’s what actor Tim Robbins thinks U.S. troops have been doing in Iraq. He made the claim last week in an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
He’s wrong, of course. American soldiers have [...]
From the Center for Vigilante Freedom (HT: The Religion of Peace):
(Cross-posted from Refugee Resettlement Watch):
While checking on the status of the Somali refugee rape case we reported a few days ago, I found this account of another horrible crime in the same Minneapolis-St. Paul newspaper. Why is it that those promoting the wonderous things diverse [...]
From the Jerusalem Post (HT: The Religion of Peace):
By JOHN LALORAdmittedly, my fascination with the two authors, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Nonie Darwish, is connected with my profession: As a trainee clinical psychologist, I always hope to reach the bottom of people’s motives. Both women renounced their Islamic faith, Westernized and spoke openly [...]
So much for ‘breeding’ them out… From The Washington Times (HT: The Religion of Peace):
By David R. Sands
Iraq’s Sunni tribes began turning against al Qaeda when the largely foreign-run terrorist organization tried to arrange forced marriages with local women to secure their foothold in the country, according to a top counterterrorism adviser to the U.S. [...]
From the Northeast Intelligence Network:
By Sean Osborne, Associate Director, Military Affairs
31 August 2007: There is an old saying that goes something like this: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it did its falling make a sound? To put it another way, if there was an earthquake and [...]
From Iran Focus:
Deutsche Welle
The German government has banned firms from importing goods to Iran that could be used for military purposes, thus reinforcing an earlier EU decision to tighten sanctions against Tehran in the ongoing nuclear row.
In April this year, the European Union decided to step up sanctions against Iran amid growing concerns in the [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Our military sources report that aboard the Kearsarge group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches.
Wednesday, Aug. 29, Adm. William Fallon, chief of US Central Command and the war on terror paid an unannounced visit to Beirut, although for years US generals [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Deborah Weiss
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/31/2007
This Labor Day weekend, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice will be paying the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to have a booth at its 44th Annual Convention.
Ironically, ISNA, along with NAIT (North American Islamic Trust), an organ of ISNA, were recently named unindicted co-conspirators [...]
From M & C (HT: Lucianne.com):
By Derek Sands
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI)—Although U.S. airstrikes on Iran`s nuclear facilities and military would likely overwhelm their forces, Tehran could still rely on a host of weapons, from covert terror campaigns to long-range missiles, to retaliate against an American attack.
While Iran`s aging conventional military forces have little hope [...]
From American Forces Press Service:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2007 – Afghan national security forces, advised by coalition forces, defeated an insurgent attack yesterday near Regay Village on the east side of the Musa Qalah Wadi in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
The combined force was on a combat patrol when insurgents attacked from multiple compounds and trenches using small-arms [...]
From Fox News:
WASHINGTON — A military cargo plane carrying three U.S. senators and a member of the House of Representatives had to take evasive maneuvers and dispatch flares Thursday night to avoid ground fire after taking off from Baghdad’s airport.
The lawmakers said their plane, a C-130, was under fire from three rocket-propelled grenades over [...]
Remember how we were told by Homeland Security that there was no chance of terrorism in this? Hmmm? Well, I agree with Tammy Bruce when she says you can’t believe ANYTHING the government tells you. When our officials tell us within 30 seconds of something happening like this, a bridge going boom or an oil [...]
From clc07:
By: Chuck Muth
David Bossie to Speak At 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference
(Washington, DC) – The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference announced today that David Bossie of Citizens United will be a speaker at the Reno event in October.
Mr. Bossie is the former Chief Investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and [...]
From NewsMax:
Written by Randy Hall, CNSNews.com Staff Writer/EditorIf both legal and illegal immigration continues at its current pace, the U.S. population will grow by 1.25 million per year and reach a net total of 468 million by 2060, according to a report issued Thursday by a Washington think tank.
That increase of 167 million people [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
by Jed Babbin (more by this author)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22104
On October 11, 2000, George W. Bush said, “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war.”
In January 2003, President Bush was presented with two post-invasion plans for [...]
From BREITBART.com:
Remains of the Jewish second temple may have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, Israeli television reported Thursday.
Israeli television broadcast footage of a mechanical digger at the site which Israeli archaeologists visited on Thursday.
Gaby Barkai, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University, urged the Israeli government [...]
From Fox News:
SAN DIEGO — All passengers on an American Airlines overnight flight to Chicago were ordered off a plane after complaints about a group of Arabic-speaking Iraqi men who were on their way home to Detroit.
The incident forced passengers to stay overnight.
The six Iraqi passengers had been training U.S. Marines at Camp [...]
From The Blotter:
Gretchen Peters and Aleem Agha Report:
Mullah Berader, a top Taliban commander, was killed early this morning in a U.S. air strike in volatile Helmand province, a senior Afghan general tells ABC News.
A convoy of British troops and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers was traveling through Salwan Qala district when they came under attack [...]
From WND:
Archeologists barred as Islamic custodians dig massive trench at Judaism’s holiest site
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Israel is blocking leading archeologists from surveying massive damage Islamic authorities are accused of causing to what experts believe may be an outer wall of the Second Jewish Temple, WND has learned.
“It is unconscionable that the Israeli government is [...]
From clc07:
By: Chuck Muth
Rightoberfest – the 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference being co-hosted by me and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform – will be held this October 11-13th at John Ascuaga’s Nugget Resort and Casino in Reno/Sparks, Nevada. You do NOT want to miss this one, folks! Among the 50+ speakers who [...]
From clc07:
By: Chuck Muth
Horace Cooper to Speak At 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference
(Washington, DC) – The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference announced today that Horace will be a speaker at the Reno event in October.
Cooper was Counsel to the Honorable Richard K. Armey, Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1994 – 2002.
Cooper is [...]
From Rocket’s Brain Trust:
Give Me Your Pension
Human Events – Washington,DC,USA
Anderson maintained that there is a possibility of up to $200 billion being divested from Iran. Anderson said that denying Iran these funds “could bring …
From I’m With Fred:
On September 6, 2007, Fred Thompson will be announcing his intention to run for President of the United States with a webcast available to millions at www.imwithfred.com. The launch of the video will be followed by a five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. On the evening of the [...]
From Media Mythbusters (this one is a must-read – definitely the best article I have read this year):
By: Karl
In the midst of the still-lingering controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” more than a few people suggested that war supporters, unable to discredit the real bad news coming from Iraq, targeted the [...]
From NewsMax:
KABUL, Afghanistan—Military force alone is unlikely to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, a top U.S. commander said Thursday, noting that most insurgencies end with a political solution.Maj. Gen. Robert Cone, who is in charge of equipping and training Afghan security forces to take over from international troops, said the local units were making [...]
From YNet News:
United Nations conference at EU parliament compares Israel to apartheid South Africa
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 08.31.07, 00:08 / Israel News
A UN conference, held at the European Parliament in Brussels, heard an array of speakers call for a boycott against Israel and strategize on ways to achieve its international isolation, during the first day of an [...]
From the Nevada Appeal:
By John L. Smith
I meant it as a compliment when I told Mansoor Ijaz he was among the most intriguing carpetbaggers I’d ever met in Nevada politics.
He smiled politely, but couldn’t help shrugging. It was clear that, despite his innumerable intellectual gifts and compelling rhetoric, that he didn’t understand what it meant [...]
From the American Congress for Truth:
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/NATION/108270070/1001
By Audrey Hudson
The Justice Department is co-sponsoring a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing federal terrorist funding case — a move that is raising concerns among the Justice’s rank and file.
Justice lawyers have objected to the affiliation with ISNA, [...]
From MEMRI:
On August 26, Islamist websites posted an item titled “How to Join Al-Qaeda.” It is not clear when the item was written; it was produced by the website Al-Thabitoun ‘Ala Al-’Ahd, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Egypt and is currently inactive.
The item calls on every Muslim to regard jihad as a personal duty [...]
From Fox News:
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration urged a federal appeals court Thursday to let Mexican cargo trucks cross the border and freely travel anywhere in the country, arguing that to do otherwise could strain diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico.
The Teamsters Union on Wednesday asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court [...]
Just got my copy from Amazon.com and I literally can’t put it down. We highly recommend this book.
Honor Killing will sweep away many misconceptions Americans have been lead to believe about our security, and about our enemies.
A page-turning novel about the next battlefront in the war on terror from New York Times [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Times
Leading Article
Tehran’s meddling is a threat to the region
Rarely has his message been as blunt. Denouncing support for terrorism, arming of Iraqi militias and attempts to place the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”, President Bush accused Iran of threatening the security of nations everywhere. America, he insisted, would [...]
From Iran Focus:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department and other authorities have stepped up investigations into several large European banks for violating sanctions against Iran, Libya, Cuba and Sudan, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.
Some banks have started to discuss settlements and could agree to financial penalties by the end of [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Los Angeles Times
By Greg Krikorian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
A West Hills man has pleaded guilty to an audacious plan to buy as many as 100,000 Uzis in the United States and sell them to officials in Iran’s government.
Under a plea agreement reached this week, Seyed Mostafa Maghloubi, 49, acknowledged that he [...]
From Iran Focus:
United Press International
NEW DELHI, Aug. 29 (UPI)—State-run Indian Oil Corp. plans to shelve its proposed $5 billion to 7 billion investment plan to set up an integrated liquefied natural gas project in Iran.
The company has inked a pact with Petropars of Iran in 2004 for developing a gas field, constructing a facility to [...]
From Iran Focus:
United Press International
TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (UPI)—An Iranian diplomat claimed the United States’ goal is to destabilize southwestern Asia and the Middle East with its occupation of Iraq.
Ambassador-designate to Bahrain, Hussein Amir Abdollahian said in Tehran there was no room for non-Persian Gulf armies in the region, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.
“The region is [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Pam Meister
Sanctuary cities provide a haven for illegal aliens, but at what cost? FSM Contributing Editor Pam Meister takes a look at the impact sanctuary cities have on America’s most vital security and economic concerns, and suggests a solution to a problem that grows more frustrating by the day.
Sanctuary cities have had [...]
From DEBKAfile:
Hamas plans to use 100,000 protesters against the hardships in Gaza, which are blamed on Egypt’s closure of the Rafah outlet, as a battering ram to break through the crossing Saturday and link up with fellow Palestinians in Egyptian N. Sinai. Hamas will then seize both sides of the border including a part of [...]
From BlogTalkRadio:
Walid Shoebat will be on BlogTalkRadio this weekend…
Why Islamic Terrorists Want To Kill You – from the mouth of a former terrorist Walid Shoebat, author of Why We Want To Kill You joins Political Pistachio talk radio on BlogTalkRadio to discuss his time in the terrorist network, and the truth regarding Islam’s war against [...]
From The Loft:
Posted by Bobby Eberle
Since the terrible events of September 11, 2001, the need for additional screening at airports has become apparent. A person doesn’t need to travel with box cutters in order to get from A to B, so the new guidelines make perfect sense. Yet now, some are complaining of “racial profiling” [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Andrew G. Bostom
American Thinker | 8/30/2007
A combination of official diplomatic correspondence, and private memoirs—most notably the diaries of Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 1913 to 1916, an extended report by American consul Leslie Davis in Harput, Turkey, from 1915 to 1917, and the recently published United States Official Records [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By David Bedein
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/30/2007
Just weeks after assuming the role of Middle East envoy on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing his first serious test.
The Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) in Herzelia, Israel, considered the “public face of Israeli [...]
From Reuters:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations officials found vials of dangerous chemicals, which had been removed from Iraq a decade ago, in a U.N. building in New York, but U.N. officials said on Thursday there was no danger.
The FBI was called in to help remove the substances.
The material was phosgene, a chemical warfare agent, [...]
From Fox News:
JANDA, Afghanistan — Taliban militants released the final three South Koreans they had been holding on Thursday, bringing to an end a six-week hostage drama, witnesses said.The two women and one man were covered in dust as they walked out of the desert, accompanied by three armed men, and were [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE MISSOURI PLAN’S MISERY
Many folks in Nevada, bemoaning our system of allowing voters to elect our judges, have been touting the “success” of what is commonly referred to as “The Missouri Plan.” Under said set-up, judges are appointed, not elected. This is supposed to take the “politics” out of [...]
From baltimoresun.com (HT: Lucianne.com):
Group buying farm for retreat; town considers zoning change
By Rona Marech | Sun reporter
WALKERSVILLE - This small town of shady porches and green fields saw its last murder in 1929. The mayor runs a feed and seed store, where on Monday nights he presides over a long-running dominoes game. Many people live [...]
From The Blotter (HT: Protein Wisdom):
Brian Ross Reports:
United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York this morning, federal authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
The federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, [...]
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