Archive for November, 2007
Posted in November 30th, 2007
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
GET PORTER
Clark County Deputy District Attorney Robert Daskas officially filed as a Democrat candidate against incumbent Rep. Jon Porter for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district seat next year. And despite fending off three spirited attempts to unseat him in the past, Porter could very well reach the end of the political [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
From The Washington Times:
By Stephen Dinan
Groups that support a crackdown on illegal aliens haven’t settled on their champion in the race for the White House, but there’s little doubt which Republican scares them most — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
“He was an absolute disaster on immigration as governor,” said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
From The Democracy Project:
By: Bruce Kesler
In follow-up to my post of November 2, “Tourism Industry Trashes U.S.”, the Examiner has followed up with a 1-2 punch of columns exposing the back-room machinations. It tells us much about how Washington operates, to fleece taxpayers, to enrich its denizens, dole out pork, and the image of the [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
Illegal aliens are depleting our nation. 21,181,617 have invaded America. 4,164,474 of their children have besieged our schools. 349,423 illegals have overwhelmed our prisons. 661,497 are currently fugitives. Illegal immigrants have consumed 10,200,069 American jobs. Their overall cost? More than $400 billion. By 2050, 20 percent of [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
From Phyllis Chesler:
At the recent Annapolis meeting, behind closed doors, up close and personal, the assembled Arab foreign ministers refused to shake hands with Tzipi Livni, Israel’s Foreign Minister. She asked her Arab counterparts, especially her Saudi counterpart, why they did not want to shake hands with her. “I am not plague-ridden” Livni said. According [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2007
From Debbie Schlussel:
By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****
Former Republican Congressman and Clinton House Impeachment manager Henry Hyde died, early this morning. Sadly, some prominent conservatives are remembering this cretin as a great man. He was anything but. They are misinformed, and that includes the apparently drug-addled National Review Online, which did ZERO research [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
And the dark lord of Communism rises from the depths… From the Guardian Unlimited:
State workers forced to vote in effort to rig result for president
Luke Harding and Tom Parfitt in Moscow
The Kremlin is planning to rig the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday by forcing millions of public sector workers across the country to [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
A far better idea would be to end Olmert… From BBC News:
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians would spell the end of the State of Israel.
He warned of a “South African-style struggle” which Israel would lose if a Palestinian state was not established.
Mr Olmert was [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ
Associated Press Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital Thursday to oppose a referendum that would eliminate term limits for President Hugo Chavez and help him establish a socialist state in Venezuela.
Blowing whistles, waving placards and shouting “Not like this!” the marchers carried Venezuelan [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
Amen, Pamela, amen… From Atlas Shrugs:
Bush has lost his mind and his moral compass. This statement is an outrage. A lie and a blood libel. Israel has never committed any acts of terrorism. What a tool of Islamic jihad. Based on that, Bush is a terrorist, anyone that defends himself, his family, his country is [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE FRIDAY NIGHT CHARTER SCHOOL MASSACRE
The ed-heads over at the Nevada State Board of Education are conspiring to commit a crime tomorrow night. Well, it’s not officially a crime. But it ought to be. They’ve ordered a “hit” on the state’s charter schools. And the trigger-man is, believe [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From NewsMax:
By: Chris Gonsalves Article Font Size
A new study by the Center for Immigration Studies, based on the latest Census Bureau data, shows the number of immigrants in America, both legal and illegal, has swelled to a record 38 million this year – making one of every eight U.S. residents an immigrant.
The new [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Global Security Newswire:
An Illinois man pleaded guilty yesterday to planning to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property for his stated intention to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall during last year’s Christmas shopping season, the Associated Press reported.
Federal authorities arrested Derrick Shareef, 23, of Rockford, in December 2006 [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Andrea Shea-King:
When I posted Scott Ott’s You Tube video yesterday, I had no idea just how spot-on his take would be re: last night’s CNN-You Tube GOP Presidential “debate”.
Scrappleface Scott intended to make a satirical statement. It truly was prescient, given the disgraceful rigging CNN and the Clinton campaign did to last night’s sorry [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the Jerusalem Post:
By
MICHAEL FREUND
Have America and Israel suddenly gone soft on Iran’s nefarious nuclear-weapons program? Despite sanctions and UN Security Council resolutions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is gleefully pressing forward with his efforts to build a bomb, which Israeli military intelligence now believes he will succeed in doing by 2009.
Indeed, just [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the Jerusalem Post:
The September 11 terror attacks in the US were carried out as revenge for treatment of the Palestinians and actions in Lebanon, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said in excerpts of a new audiotape aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
He also called on the Europeans to stop helping the United States in the [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pervez Musharraf promised to lift Pakistan’s state of emergency by Dec. 16 and restore its constitution before January elections, a key demand of his domestic opponents and foreign backers.
“I am determined to lift the emergency by Dec. 16,” Musharraf said in a televised address to the nation. “The elections, [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian arrested in an attempted sale of uranium were peddling material believed to be from the former Soviet Union, and it was enriched enough to be used in a radiological “dirty bomb,” police said Thursday.
The three, who were arrested Wednesday in eastern Slovakia and Hungary, [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Iran Focus:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Wednesday reiterated his pledge the United States would defend Israel if it was attacked by Iran, a country whose president has urged that the Jewish state be “wiped off the map.”
“I have made it clear that … we will support our ally Israel if attacked [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the DEBKAfile:
Our military sources report they were killed by Golani Brigade troops, who drove into the Gaza Strip and intercepted Hamas gunmen heading for the fence. Altogether in the last 48 hours, 15 armed Palestinians were killed before they reached firing positions on the border or managed to cross over. Among them was a [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
Iran said it plans to launch a crackdown on rap music, complaining that the words used by rap artists were “obscene”, the state IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
“There is nothing wrong with this type of music in itself,” the official for evaluation of music at the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Mohammad Dashtgoli, was [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
The United States, backing staunch ally Britain, branded as “outrageous” the jail sentence of a British teacher in Sudan who let pupils call a teddy bear “Mohammed” as part of a class project.
“Obviously, it’s an outrage,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said after a judicial source in Sudan said Gillian Gibbons, 54, would be [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the Daily Mail:
A British teacher accused of insulting Muslims after her class called a teddy bear Mohammed was found guilty and jailed for 15 days, a defence lawyer said tonight.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, was ordered to be deported after she had completed her sentence.
“She was found guilty of insulting religion and the sentence is 15 [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From WorldTribune.com:
China’s anti-satellite and space warfare program includes plans to destroy or incapacitate ‘every enemy space vehicle’ that passes over China.
The annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released last week, listed among Beijing’s goals that of ensuring that Chinese space weapons are “conducted covertly so China can maintain a positive international [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Reuters:
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged European countries to end their military cooperation with U.S. forces in Afghanistan in an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera television on Thursday.
“Since the American tide is receding and they would eventually return to their home across the Atlantic… it is in your interest [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Reuters:
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Jazeera television said on Thursday it would air a new audio tape of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at 1800 GMT (1 p.m. ET).
The television gave no further details.
An Islamist Web site said on Monday that bin Laden would address the people of Europe soon.
Bin Laden’s last message was [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Just in time for the holidays, The Bob McCarty Shop™ announces the arrival of the MY NAME IS MOHAMMED THE BEAR™.
Designed as a keepsake for all the people who think the British school teacher in Sudan (click here to read about her) who named a teddy bear Mohammed is being treated unfairly [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Phyllis Chesler:
This year, summer eerily, langorously, lingered on. We enjoyed balmy days in New York City clear through November. Even now, the trees outside my window remain in full, green leaf. But winter is also here and the days are becoming bitterly cold and windy.
This is the first time in seven years that I [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From My Way News:
By EDISON LOPEZ
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela threatened Wednesday to expel a U.S. Embassy official for allegedly conspiring to defeat a referendum championed by President Hugo Chavez, accusing the diplomat of plotting to sway public opinion.
The allegation comes ahead of a fiercely contested referendum on reforms that would allow Chavez indefinite re-election [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
Form Yahoo! News:
Water System Problem Forces Shutdown of Ohio Nuclear Plant
NORTH PERRY, Ohio (AP)—A water system problem caused an automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the plant said.
The Perry Nuclear Power Plant, located alongside Lake Erie about 35 miles northeast of Cleveland, shut down about 7:30 a.m. when problems with [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Reuters:
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) – A “cyber cold war” waged over the world’s computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a report published on Thursday.
About 120 countries are developing ways to use the Internet as a weapon to target financial markets, government computer systems [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the Winston-Salem Journal:
WASHINGTON - About 30 percent of the nearly 3.5 million immigrants living in Florida are in the country illegally, the Center for Immigration Studies said in a report released today.
Based on “the latest data collected by the Census Bureau,” the report said that the state has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations. [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Statesman.com:
State has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations.
By Bob Dart
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Thursday, November 29, 2007
WASHINGTON — Half of the nearly 3.5 million immigrants living in Texas are in the country illegally, the Center for Immigration Studies says in a report being released today.
Based on the latest Census Bureau data, the report said Texas has one [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From the IHT:
By Julia Preston
Published: November 29, 2007
Immigration over the past seven years was the highest for any seven-year period in U.S. history, bringing 10.3 million new immigrants, more than half of them without legal status, according to an analysis of census data released by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington.
One in eight people [...]
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Posted in November 29th, 2007
From Yahoo! Business:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Crude Futures Retreat From Earlier Highs As Enbridge Pipeline Partially Reopens After Fire
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil prices rose Thursday, but retreated from earlier highs after a pipeline that supplies 19 percent of domestic crude imports partially reopened following an overnight fire.
The government said it was prepared to release oil [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Menges Project for Hemispheric Security:
Venezuela Brief: Countdown to Tyranny
Due to the dire situation inside Venezuela, the staff at the Americas Report will publish daily news briefs between now and December 2, 2007 when the Chavez “reforms” are due to voted on by the electorate. In addition to keeping our readers informed of the latest [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Move America Forward:
THIS THURSDAY NOV. 29TH – 9:00 AM - HENDERSON, NV
Help us Collect Over 100,000 Christmas, Hanukkah & Holiday Greeting Cards for Our Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan
This holiday season, Move America Forward will collect and deliver over 100,000 Christmas, Hanukkah, and Holiday Greeting Cards to lift the spirits of our troops serving [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TURNING UP THE HEAT ON CFS
The hunted becomes the hunter.
Armed with a copy of the report the sheriff’s deputies filed with Child & Family Services after inspecting our home and our children, I’ve now requested an investigation of the investigator of our case. Interesting twist, huh? Read yesterday’s letter [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Human Events:
by Ann Coulter
Last week, in an article titled “Walking a Tightrope on Immigration,” The New York Times made the fact-defying claim that the illegal immigration issue poses a risk for Republicans who appeal to voters “angry” about illegal immigration. (This is as opposed to voters “angry” that they spent good money buying a [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Iran Focus:
The Washington Times
Editorial
By Paul E. Vallely and Fred Gedrich
The United States recently labeled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terror group. Many Americans worry that it’s not enough. They should, because the IRGC and the Iranian regime have been engaged in a one-sided “Death to America” campaign for 28 years.
Ayatollah Khomeini created the [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From ICEJ:
Israeli security assessment dampens post-Annapolis mood
The Annapolis conference may have just proclaimed the birth of a Palestinian state in 2008, but an Israel security official said on Wednesday it will also be the year of a new war in Gaza. Israel TV Channel 10 carried the dour assessment just hours after the upbeat conclusion [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From American Congress for Truth:
The conviction in a US Federal court of Somali immigrant and cell phone salesman Nuradin Abdi, for plotting with another al Qaeda Pakistani terrorist accomplice, convicted in Brooklyn, New York, to blow up a mall in Columbus, Ohio, is disturbing. It is a reflection of abuses of the US legal humanitarian [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
BY: REBBETZIN ESTHER JUNGREIS
I usually write my articles at the last minute. My kind editors at “The Jewish Press” are very patient with me. They take into consideration that it is not lack of will that makes me late, but rather, my schedule, which Baruch Hashem, is so loaded that I have all to do [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Palestinian Media Watch:
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Just a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the Annapolis peace conference pledged to negotiate a peace treaty by the end of 2008, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority continues to paint a picture for its people of a world without Israel.
An information clip produced by the Palestinian [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Joel Rosenberg:
The President should visit Israel soon and address the Knesset in Jerusalem.
By Joel C. Rosenberg
D.C., November 28, 2007)—How should we assess the Annapolis conference? First, the good news:
President Bush, to his great credit, is doing everything he possibly can to keep another horrible war from breaking out in the epicenter. I don’t think [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Today, I read an article which stirred in me an idea that might lead to greater success in waging the War on Terror. After sharing this idea online, I fully intend to share it with intelligence officials in Washington, D.C.
The article chronicled the story of a girl who, two years ago at [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TRAFFIC CIRCLES FOR DUMMIES
To hear the squealing from the Left – led by Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid and University Chancellor Jim Rogers – there just ain’t a dime to spare anywhere in anyone’s budget to cut anything. Every penny is being spent of absolutely critical [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
BY: FERN SIDMAN
As the world focused its attention on yet another round of Middle East peace negotiations, this time orchestrated by the Bush administration and held at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, it was clear that hope does not spring eternal for any kind of meaningful and long lasting peace between Israel and [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Phyllis Chesler:
Yesterday, I wrote a glowing piece about a glowing event: My son’s wedding. But let it not be said that I have deserted my post as a champion worrier. I remain on duty about:
The meeting in Annapolis which is hard upon us; Saudi Arabia’s hot and poisonous war against Israel and the West—a [...]
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Posted in November 28th, 2007
From Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered Mideast peace conference was a “failure” and that Israel is doomed to “collapse,” lashing out at the Annapolis gathering that many saw as aimed at isolating Iran.
The comments were the first time in months that the hard-line Ahmadinejad has used [...]
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