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LGF Archives: February 2005

Monday, February 28, 2005

Hudson United Bank Closes Islamic Center's Account

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 6:25:19 pm PST

A prominent New Jersey bank closed the account of the Islamic Educational Center of North Hudson, right before the hajj pilgrimage if you can believe it, and CAIR wants to know why: Hudson United slams bank doors on Islamic center. Muslim groups want to know why a bank closed a Union ...

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The Arabs' Berlin Wall Has Crumbled

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 6:06:00 pm PST

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t pleased about this mention in Mark Steyn’s latest column for the Telegraph, and even more pleased to be associated (in a very small way) with today’s historic events in the Middle East: The Arabs’ Berlin Wall has crumbled. Meanwhile in Damascus, Boy Assad, ...

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Alleged Assassin is "Rosa Parks" of Muslim Community

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 3:40:50 pm PST

Ahmed Omar Abul Ali, the Virginia Muslim charged with conspiring to assassinate President Bush, met several times with Zubayr al-Rimi—Al Qaeda’s number two man in Saudi Arabia, killed in a shootout with Saudi forces in September 2003: Abu Ali linked to Saudi Arabia al Qaeda leader. (Hat tip: The Jawa ...

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Arab Bank Told to Stop Wire Transfers

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 2:23:49 pm PST

Another blow to the terrorist financing network, according to US regulators: Officials tell Arab Bank to stop wire transfers. Arab Bank’s New York branch office was implicated Friday by U.S. regulators in a money-laundering investigation into “suspicious” transfers of substantial sums of money by the Middle Eastern bank involving “high risk” ...

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Terrorist Communications Intercepted

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 2:20:27 pm PST

A terrorist on the run sends a message to another terrorist sleeping in a different filthy hole every night: Bin Laden Urges Zarqawi to Hit US. WASHINGTON—Recent communications between Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi indicated that bin Laden has “encouraged Zarqawi and his group to focus on attacks inside ...

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The Making Of A 9/11 Republican

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 1:00:25 pm PST

People began emailing about this op-ed by Cinnamon Stillwell at the San Francisco Chronicle shortly after it appeared last week, but I didn’t have a chance to read it until now. It’s a good one. I didn’t grow up in Marin County, but Ms Stillwell’s political evolution is remarkably familiar to ...

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Arizona Public Schools Teach Islam

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:27:37 am PST

At Daniel Pipes’ web site, a reader comments on Islamic indoctrination in a Scottsdale, Arizona public school. (Hat tip: Sandy P.) My child is in the 7th grade in Scottsdale, Arizona. The school’s officially adopted social studies textbook is titled Across the Centuries and is published by Houghton Mifflin. However, Across ...

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A Knife and a Copy of the Quran

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:19:09 am PST

A few days ago I noticed that the usual photographs of Palestinian street celebrations didn’t appear after Friday’s mass murder in Tel Aviv. Islamic Jihad held their party today in Hebron. A masked supporter of the Islamic Jihad movement, which claimed responsibility for last Frday’s suicide bomb attack that killed five Israelis ...

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Breaking News: Lebanese Government Resigns!

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 9:05:25 am PST

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Says His Government Resigns. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon’s Syrian-backed Prime Minister Omar Karami, under popular pressure after the assassination of an ex-prime minister, said Monday his government was resigning. “Out of concern that the government does not become an obstacle to the good of the country, I announce the ...

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The Future of the Muslim World

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 9:01:16 am PST

Now on C-SPAN2, leaders of Islamic nations in a conference on The Future of the Muslim World. (Hat tip: johnCV.) C-SPAN describes the event as “Modernization without Westernization.” Good luck with that.

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Theo Van Gogh Forgotten on Oscar Night

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 8:34:29 am PST

Here’s a thread for discussions about the Oscar show last night. Chris Rock bombed (to put it mildly) with a classless performance, praising Fahrenheit 9/11 and mocking the military in an obvious, unfunny joke about rivalry between the Gap and Banana Republic. The crowd roared in approval, of course, and I ...

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A Blinkered View

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 8:07:05 am PST

Here’s a good op-ed in the Scotsman on Western media’s relentless negativity about the Iraq War, and “hotel journalism:” A blinkered view from the Baghdad Hilton. (Hat tip: Mike D.) Hotel journalism has come into its own in Iraq. On 17 January, In Counterpunch, an American political newsletter, the Independent’s Robert ...

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Russia Will Supply Iran with Nuclear Fuel

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 7:46:15 am PST

Russia is going to supply Iran with nuclear fuel. BUSHEHR, Iran — Iran and Russia, ignoring U.S. objections, signed a nuclear fuel agreement yesterday that is key to bringing Tehran’s first reactor online by the middle of next year. The long-delayed deal, signed at the heavily guarded Bushehr nuclear facility in southern ...

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Israel Accuses Syria

Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 7:40:02 am PST

Israel has given intelligence information to the US and selected European countries, proving that Syria orchestrated Friday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Sharon’s associates said the goal of releasing the information is to pressure the Syrians ahead of Tuesday’s summit on building the Palestinian Authority in London. Foreign Ministry officials said ...

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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Mark Steyn on Washington Journal

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 9:27:17 pm PST

You can watch Mark Steyn’s hour-long interview on C-Span’s Washington Journal from this page.

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Putting the Fear of God into Holland

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 6:51:27 pm PST

Another story of culture shock in the Netherlands at the Times Online: Putting the fear of God into Holland. (Hat tip: bull.) Not long ago, Holland prided itself as being the most tolerant and welcoming country in Europe for immigrants and asylum seekers. It had the credentials to prove it. So ...

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Sunday Evening Open Thread

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 5:01:16 pm PST

Here’s an open thread for a Sunday evening, featuring a picture of a bus.

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Dean: We're Good, They're Evil

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 3:37:39 pm PST

Howard Dean shows he’s just the man to heal the divisions of the 2004 election: Dean roars into town. Dean told the Hiebert fund-raiser that gay marriage was a Republican diversion from discussions of ballooning deficits and lost American jobs. That presents an opportunity to attract moderate Republicans, he said. “Moderate Republicans ...

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More Dutch Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 2:31:21 pm PST

The New York Times has a piece on the increasing flight of the Dutch middle class, as their country is inundated with waves of immigrants from Muslim countries: More Dutch Plan to Emigrate as Muslim Influx Tips Scales. This small nation is a magnet for immigrants, but statistics suggest there is ...

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Comments Temporarily Disabled

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 1:36:57 pm PST

I’ve turned off comments temporarily, while I install some new code to maintain a count of all comments. Please stand by. UPDATE at 2/27/05 1:52:35 pm: Comments re-enabled. Carry on. UPDATE at 2/27/05 2:08:57 pm: The total number of comments posted at LGF now appears in our left sidebar, along with the daily visitor ...

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Syria Rats on a Ba'athist

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:58:16 pm PST

Syria’s getting squeezed, and according to Reuters they may have responded by dropping a dime on Saddam’s half-brother. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A half brother of Saddam Hussein who has played a leading role in the insurgency has been captured with help from Syria, which faces U.S. allegations of abetting terrorism, Iraqi ...

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Columbia Implodes!

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:36:52 pm PST

Here’s a must-read at the Village Voice (yes! really!) by Nat Hentoff, about Columbia University’s secretive, opaque, whitewashed investigation into the bullying Arabist professors of their Middle Eastern studies department: Columbia Implodes! (Hat tip: NC.) Jimmy Breslin wrote a novel, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, that came to my mind ...

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Berlin: Six Honor Killings in Four Months

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:43:17 am PST

‘How many more women have to die before this society wakes up?’ Shortly before nine o’clock one Monday evening earlier this month, Hatin Sürücü left her five-year-old son asleep in their small apartment in the Tempelhof district of Berlin and made her way to a bus stop in the main Oberlandgarten ...

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Saudi Prince Wishes for a Miracle

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 10:17:41 am PST

Here is Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister of apartheid Saudi Arabia, vilifying Ariel Sharon and pretending to hope for peace with Israel: Saudi FM hopes for Sharon ‘miracle’ in bringing about Middle East peace. “Mahmud Abbas has absolutely the right credentials for a peace negotiator but what is really discouraging ...

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Putin Doesn't Read Blogs

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 9:51:44 am PST

Old habits die hard in Russia.

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Watching Europe Implode

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 9:24:18 am PST

I’ve been watching the news of President Bush’s European visit with great amusement, as mainstream media do their best to portray it as a “fence-mending” trip, with Bush trying to “patch things up” with the rest of the world. Media elites are still confused by the poker face of the ...

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The Sensitive, Caring Left

Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 8:11:40 am PST

Did you know there’s a Conservative Underground discussion forum? I didn’t. But I discovered it when one of the stalkers who constantly harass me around the internet registered my email address at Conservative Underground. Since the registration process requires verification, I received an automatic email from them asking me to confirm ...

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Saturday, February 26, 2005

AARP and Daily Kos

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 6:56:11 pm PST

Very interesting. The first weblog listed in the blogroll of the AARP’s Social Security Blog is ... none other than Daily “Screw Them” Kos. (Hat tip: Tom B.) UPDATE at 2/28/05 9:40:20 am: More on the AARP/moonbat connections at Ankle Biting Pundits.

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Email Scam Targets Military Families

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 5:54:37 pm PST

The latest email scam deliberately targets families of soldiers killed in Iraq: DHS: Iraq E-Mail Scheme ‘Despicable’. (Hat tip: John Steele.) WASHINGTON—Homeland security officials are outraged over a recent e-mail scheme targeting families of slain U.S. soldiers who were serving in Iraq, saying it’s one of the most “despicable” scams they’ve ...

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Is the Intifada Truly Over?

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 5:35:31 pm PST

Have the Palestinians finally had enough of the terror gangs? Palestinians Angry Over Tel Aviv Attack. The really telling sentence is at the very end of the article: In contrast to the dozens of previous suicide bombings, no celebrations were held in the West Bank on Saturday and militant groups didn’t hang ...

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Jerry Brown on Vitriol

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 5:27:14 pm PST

A very perceptive comment from neophyte blogger Jerry Brown: The blog has logged 20,000 hits in six days... You folks connect. Thanks Instapundit, Little Green Footballs, Marc Cooper and Gonzo.org, et al. Ted Shelton: thanks for leading the way. The MSM over in Fog Town are having a chuckle because the comments get ...

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VDH: Postmodern War

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 3:01:24 pm PST

City Journal has a really good piece by Victor Davis Hanson: Postmodern War. It is still suicidal to meet the United States in a conventional war—at least for any enemy that has not fully adopted Western arms, discipline, logistics, and military organization. The recent abrupt collapse of both the Taliban and ...

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A Buyout for Churchill?

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:44:42 pm PST

Several readers emailed about the latest development in the saga of Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill: CU weighs buyout for firebrand prof. University of Colorado officials are considering offering Ward Churchill an early retirement package that could end an increasingly uncomfortable standoff with the controversial professor. Two people familiar with internal CU discussions ...

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Mubarak Opens Egyptian Elections

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:00:08 pm PST

It remains to be seen how far this will go in reality, but there’s little doubt that the effects of the Bush administration’s historic changes in Mideast policy are being seen in yet another country: Mubarak orders direct presidential elections in Egypt. CAIRO (AFP) - President Hosni Mubarak said he had ...

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Fear and Loathing in the Mystery Machine

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:42:07 am PST

A lost episode of Scooby Doo featuring the late Hunter S. Thompson, unearthed by Iowahawk: Fear and Loathing in the Mystery Machine. Hanna and Barbera liked my story on hormone doping at the ‘72 Laff-a-Lympics and proposed that I cover a Harlem Globetrotters game at a haunted Aztec pyramid in Mexico. ...

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Churchill: Not a Pacifist

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 9:19:59 am PST

Trey Jackson has the video of Ward Churchill attacking a reporter.

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Canada Welcomes a Terrorist

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 9:16:52 am PST

After serving four years of an eight year sentence in France for his leading role in an international jihadist network (with time off for good behavior!), Fateh Kamel was allowed to return to Canada to be with his family: Terrorist returns: Peter MacKay urges Ottawa to consider revoking citizenship. (Hat ...

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The Fake Crowds of a Fake Revolution

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 8:57:29 am PST

The Venezuelan “revolution” will be Photoshopped. (Hat tip: Mora.)

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Palestinians Blame Hizballah, "Third Party"

Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 8:15:01 am PST

The Palestinian authority has arrested a few of the usual suspects and is thrashing around, blaming Hizballah for yesterday’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv: Palestinians Make Bomb Arrests, Accuse Hizbollah. RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Scrambling to save a battered truce, Palestinian officials arrested three West Bank suspects on Saturday after a suicide ...

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Friday, February 25, 2005

When Freedom Gets the Death Sentence

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 8:40:59 pm PST

An alarming story of Islamic honor killing in Germany, a barbaric practice that now takes place regularly in the heart of Olde Europe and meets with widespread approval by many immigrants: When Freedom Gets the Death Sentence. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) On a cold afternoon this week, Hatin Surucu gazed gravely from ...

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Canada Rejects Missile Defense

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 7:12:03 pm PST

More than a dozen dismayed Canadian readers have emailed about this story; Canada has decided not to invest in its own self-defense: Canadian rejection of missile defence historic, unpredictable shift: analysts. OTTAWA (CP) - Canada’s rejection of missile defence is a historic shift in its relationship with the United States and ...

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Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 5:29:09 pm PST

A very generous LGF reader gifted me with an absolutely luminous recording, the 6 CD complete set of Keith Jarrett’s 1976 solo piano concerts in Japan: Sun Bear Concerts. You may have noticed it showing up a lot in the “Now Playing” section in the right sidebar. This was Jarrett at ...

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Ted Rall Yaps for Attention

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 4:36:04 pm PST

A devastating response to another cry for attention from the execrable Ted Rall, by John Hawkins. In his latest blog post Rall attacks Little Green Footballs specifically, by pulling a few out-of-context quotes from our visitor comments and falsely attributing them to me. (Gee. I’ve never seen that tactic used before.) ...

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And Again

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 1:57:53 pm PST

There has been a terrorist bombing in north Tel Aviv: Blast heard in north Tel Aviv. A terrorist attack hit the promenade in north Tel Aviv Friday night, and there were reports of at least 20 casualties. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but police and paramedics are arriving ...

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European Firms Display Wares in Iran

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:44:40 am PST

American companies are forbidden from trading with Iran; but European arms dealers have no qualms about selling them weapons. (Hat tip: Dan B.) On the island of Kish, mullahs mixed with Ukrainian generals amid photos of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran’s contempt for the United States was clear — emblazoned underneath a ...

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Outrage of the Day

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:07:29 am PST

The pacifist Quaker group American Friends Service Committee is currently on tour with an exhibition they call: Eyes Wide Open : An Exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War. This exhibit would be distasteful in any case; it’s clearly designed to use the identities of soldiers killed in Iraq ...

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Ghoulish Moonbat Lair

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 9:05:15 am PST

I think I’ve discovered one of the moonbats’ lairs, from a link in our referrers page; where else but Lunaville? Scroll down below the list of news items (all about Americans killed in Iraq) and you’ll see comment links; be prepared to encounter that special brand of virulent hatred of ...

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LGF Exclusive! Flying Monkeys Attack Hinchey!

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 8:37:48 am PST

(Visualized by Cox & Forkum, based on this famous painting. See this LGF post for the back story.)

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VDH: Merchants of Despair

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 8:28:07 am PST

Here’s your Friday column from Victor Davis Hanson, and it’s up to his usual high standard: Merchants of Despair. We don’t need no steenking quotes. Just go and read it all.

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Got Another Zarqawi Crony

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 8:06:30 am PST

We’re continuing to roll up the terrorist network in Iraq: Zarqawi lieutenant arrested. (Hat tip: Wes Roth.) A TOP aide to al-Qaeda’s frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been arrested, the Iraqi government said today. “The terrorist Mohammed Najm Ibrahim, alias Mohammed Najm, who with one of his brothers runs a ...

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Ward Churchill's "Artwork"

Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 7:50:50 am PST

Looks like we can add art fraud to Ward Churchill’s resume of falsehoods: ‘Original’ Churchill Art Piece Creates Controversy. (Hat tip: MikalM.) BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) An exclusive report by CBS4 News indicates embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill may have broken copyright law by making a mirror image of an ...

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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Audio of Churchill's UH Speech

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 8:44:40 pm PST

Hawaii Reporter has an MP3 audio recording of Ward Churchill’s rambling, disconnected speech at the University of Hawaii; decide for yourself whether he admitted he had no American Indian heritage: Churchill ‘I’m not/on that’ audio. (Hat tip: jwpaine.)

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Sheikh Al-Qaradawi: "Grant Me Martyrdom"

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 6:32:37 pm PST

The Doha Youth Center in Qatar held a conference on February 17, 2005, to show their solidarity with Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi, the Islamist maniac who has tricked many Westerners into describing him as a “moderate” despite his record of support for wife-beating, suicide bombing, and other peaceful pursuits. One of the ...

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The Cabinet of Dr. Mazen

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 4:39:35 pm PST

Reuters Palestinian propagandist Mohammed Daraghmeh lavishes praise on the new Palestinian Authority cabinet: Palestinians Pick “Highly Educated” Cabinet. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Nearly half of the 24 ministers joining a new Palestinian Cabinet on Thursday hold doctorates — many earned at topflight universities in the United States or elsewhere in the ...

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Flying Monkeys from the Dark Side

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 4:29:23 pm PST

A poignant appeal from the inmates of Democratic Underground, to help a fellow moonbat under attack by the dreaded ... Flying Monkeys from the Dark Side! Okay - here’s the appeal: I called his office. I said it was important enough for me to call all the way from California. The staffer ...

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Hinchey: Gannon Behind Rathergate!

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 2:28:37 pm PST

Oh brother. I just received an email saying that on the Sean Hannity radio show, Congressman Maurice “Rove Rules the World” Hinchey (D-NY) has stated that Jeff Gannon broke the Rathergate story. (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.) I didn’t hear it myself; but if true, Hinchey has passed the orbit of Pluto ...

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Anatomy of a French Media Scandal

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:53:14 pm PST

Camera.org has an excellent breakdown of the Mohammed Al Dura affair, including translations from French of some sources previously not available in English: Anatomy of a French Media Scandal. The image of Mohammed Al Dura, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy crouched in terror behind his father as he allegedly becomes the fatal ...

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Pro-Bush Demonstration in Germany

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:34:22 am PST

Davids Medienkritik organized a pro-Bush demonstration in the city of Mainz, Germany, to counteract the anti-American moonbats—and it was a great success, receiving enormous media coverage. The story and photographs are here: Bush’s Visit to Mainz: A Demonstration of Success.

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Marine May Not Be Charged

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:11:51 am PST

The Marine who shot an injured Iraqi holy warrior in Fallujah, and was filmed by Kevin Sites (who promptly released the footage to the world), may not be charged for the killing, in a triumph of common sense. A US marine filmed apparently shooting dead an injured Iraqi in a Falluja ...

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Looking Terror in the Eye

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 9:12:14 am PST

Here’s a chilling account from the ticket agent who checked in Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari at the airport in Portland, Maine: He looked terror in the eye - and blinked. (Hat tip: Richard D.) On the morning of September 11, 2001, knee-jerk political correctness had lethal consequences. MICHAEL Tuohey ...

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Google News High Standards, Exhibit E

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 8:27:55 am PST

Here’s another fine web site that apparently meets Google News’ high standards for inclusion in their “news” service: Conspiracy Planet, an insane place for insane people. (Hat tip: NC.)

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Palestinians Want to Start Killing

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 8:09:16 am PST

The Palestinian Authority really wants to start executing people (including suspected “collaborators” with Israel, although this Reuters story doesn’t mention it), but they’re just a bit worried about the reaction from Europe. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority has taken steps toward resuming executions as part of a campaign to halt ...

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Churchill Teaches Terrorism

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 7:56:17 am PST

Denver talk show hosts Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman have obtained audio recordings of Ward Churchill advising a Seattle crowd on how to commit acts of terrorism. You’re not going to believe this stuff; it’s the academic fifth column at their worst, when they think no one is listening. A transcript ...

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Churchill: Incorrectly Quoted

Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 7:41:14 am PST

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin has printed a retraction to their report that Ward Churchill admitted he was not a native American. (Hat tip: jwpaine.) The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, incorrectly quoted University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill as admitting that he was not American Indian. The story about Churchill’s Tuesday night speech at the University ...

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Rove's Machiavellian Texas Funhouse of Mirrors

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 8:58:43 pm PST

It’s all about ... connections. Wheels within wheels. A riddle wrapped in a conundrum wrapped in a chocolatey coating. Iowahawk gives the left a handful of breadcrumbs and a shove into the labyrinth: The Truth is Out There. The first thing you have to ask yourself: why was this whole White ...

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Pakistan Army Will Fire at Americans

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 8:30:49 pm PST

According to the Daily Times, Pakistan’s Army has now been ordered to fire on US troops who cross the border from Afghanistan: Pakistan Army told to fire at intruding Americans. (Hat tip: Baldy.) Washington: Pakistan has issued new rules of engagement permitting its Army to fire at US forces that cross ...

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YWCA: Israel = Nazi Germany

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 8:19:55 pm PST

The YWCA has declined to condemn a statement from their moonbat contingent, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. (Thanks to all who emailed.) The YWCA of the USA’s National Coordinating Board (NCB), which met in Phoenix from Feb. 11-13, failed to pass a statement condemning the 2004 Witness Report, a four-page account ...

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The Clueless Reactionary Left

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 5:39:22 pm PST

An amusing phenomenon I’ve been noticing when I check out our Recent Referrers page: a lot of links coming in from left-of-center blogs, to the transcript and audio of Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s Karl Rove conspiracy delusion. The amusing part is that when I go and read what they have to say, ...

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Iraqi TV Airs Syrian Confession

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 5:01:47 pm PST

Iraqi TV has shown video of a captured Syrian officer, confessing that he trained mujahideen in how to murder hostages: BAGHDAD, IraqFeb 23, 2005 —Iraqi state television aired a video Wednesday showing what the U.S.-funded channel said was the confession of a captured Syrian officer who said he trained Iraqi insurgents ...

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Churchill Admits He's Not Native American

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:31:30 pm PST

In his appearance at the University of Hawaii, Colorado University professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill admitted he is not a native American: Churchill attacks essay’s critics. (Hat tip: jwpaine/foreign devil.) Churchill did address the issue of his ethnicity, admitting that he is not Native American. “Is he an Indian? Do we really ...

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Raising the Flag

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:39:59 am PST

On the sixtieth anniversary of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima, here’s an account of that day: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. The Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, had decided the previous night that he wanted to go ashore and witness the final stage of the ...

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Rove's Brilliant Plan

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:39:52 am PST

Tim Blair is trying to give Iowahawk a run for his money with this hilarious account of a clandestine meeting of the right-wing attack dog elite: Using contemporaneous reports and several eye-witness sources, this site is able to reconstruct the events of last August at Evil Rove Headquarters, located many miles ...

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Google News High Standards, Exhibit D

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:36:48 am PST

Here’s another lovely site that meets Google News’ standards: VHeadline, a Venezuelan Chavez propaganda organ. (Hat tip: Mora.) Here’s a quote from their current top story, an insane antisemitic rant titled “Know Who Your REAL Enemy Is!” What these South American democratic leaders have to take onboard is that it is ...

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Panel Discussion with Spencer, Ye'or, Israeli

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:06:41 am PST

Here’s an event taking place tonight in Los Angeles that LGF lizards will want to attend: *** Radical Islam’s Penetration of Western Civilization 7:00 pm Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Nessah Educational and Cultural Center 142 So. Rexford Dr. Beverly Hills, California The panel will consist of three authors of world renown Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia: the ...

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Google News High Standards, Exhibit C

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 9:22:25 am PST

Google News won’t list LGF. They’ve given us two different excuses: 1) they don’t list “one person” blogs (we now have a staff), and 2) they don’t list simple “news aggregators” that don’t do original stories (this one is just silly; a look through Google News will find numerous examples ...

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An Iranian Lurker

Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 8:08:21 am PST

Interesting; look who was rummaging (with Lynx) through our archives this morning: inetnum: 213.176.126.0-213.176.126.255 netname: IROSTINTERANETWORK descr: Network Service Provider for Iranian descr: universities and research organisation country: IR admin-c: MHE4-RIPE tech-c: ZC202-RIPE status: ASSIGNEDPA notify: chizari@irost.com mnt-by: IROST-MNT changed: chizari@irost.com20010816 changed: ipdomain@irost.com20040131 source: RIPE route: 213.176.64.0/18 descr: IROST-route origin: AS15611 mnt-by: IROST-MNT mnt-lower: IROST-MNT changed: ipdomain@irost.com20021222 source: RIPE person: Mohammad Hassan Entezari address: IROST No.71 Forsat Ave Enghelab Street Tehran phone: 9821882662 fax-no: ...

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Saudi Connections to Alleged Assassination Plotter

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 9:00:25 pm PST

Mainstream media identified Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the US citizen charged with conspiring to assassinate President Bush, as “a former Virginia high school valedictorian.” Sounds pretty respectable, eh? What they didn’t tell you: he was valedictorian of the American madrassa known as the Islamic Saudi Academy, and his father worked at ...

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The Anti-American Academy

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 8:42:24 pm PST

This page at Hawaii Reporter contains an audio recording of a press conference at the University of Hawaii in which Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill launches into a long, tedious whine about his persecution at the hands of “right wing forces.” (Hat tip: WesRoth.com.)

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Ynet English Edition

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 6:58:46 pm PST

Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Ahronoth, finally has their English edition online: YnetNews - News and culture from Israel. (Hat tip: Allison Kaplan Sommer.)

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John Leo: Framing Blogs

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 6:30:50 pm PST

I’m not surprised that John Leo gets what blogs are all about: Framing Blogs. Some mainstream media fell back on their traditional view of bloggers as inaccurate, upstart nobodies who dare to criticize their betters. Last week, for instance, the New York Times, which had looked the other way for two ...

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Soros Preaches Open Society in Saudi Arabia

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 5:26:32 pm PST

In Saudi Arabia, the most corrupt, secretive, and repressive theocracy in the world (now that the Taliban are no more), Bush-hating billionaire George Soros gave a speech about his “Open Society” concept. JEDDAH, 22 February 2005 — The moderator for the first session on day three of the Jeddah Economic Forum, ...

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Have a Nice Day!

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 1:47:32 pm PST

You know, I have a feeling that this anonymous poster to the Free Ahmed Abu-Ali petition doesn’t want to give me a big hug. Charles Johnson is a man obsessed with his hatred of muslims and particularly palestinians. He is an evil person who needs to be exposed. Muslim Americans reading ...

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Committee to Protect Bloggers

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:31:11 pm PST

The Committee to Protect Bloggers was formed to draw attention to the plight of bloggers harassed or imprisoned by totalitarian regimes such as Iran, where the mad mullahs have been cracking down on internet free speech.

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Cognitive Dissonance and the Modern Moonbat

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:56:03 am PST

The concept of “cognitive dissonance” is an important tool in the recognition and exposure of the modern moonbat; Scylla & Charybdis has a great treatise on the subject: Mo Hinchey, Meet Tommy Flanagan.

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Bat Ye'or on Prager

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:08:47 am PST

Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, is being interviewed on Dennis Prager’s radio show right now; listen live here.

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Hizballah: "Death to America"

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:05:37 am PST

Earlier today, top House Democrat Charles Rangel said it was bigotry to use the term “Islamic terrorism” to refer to groups like Hizballah, and questioned whether a worldwide Islamic terrorist movement even existed. Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah would beg to differ, in speeches broadcast on Al Manar TV February 18 ...

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DUmmies Achieve Paranoid Nirvana

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:33:09 am PST

The inmates of Democratic Underground are predictably ecstatic over Congressman Hinchey’s fact-free accusations against Karl Rove: Hinchey sees hand of Rove (KKKarl blamed for CBS leak). Hinchey is solid and forthright He is also acutely aware of all these neocons are up to. I’ve seen him speak on several occasions and he ...

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Assassination: Something to Laugh About?

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:14:15 am PST

Supporters of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, indicted today for conspiring to assassinate the President, actually laughed when the charge was read in court. (Hat tip: heretic.) More than 100 supporters of Abu Ali crowded the courtroom Tuesday and laughed when the charge was read aloud alleging that he conspired to assassinate ...

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Hinchey: Not Smart

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 9:48:48 am PST

Yesterday I wrote: If Rep. Hinchey is smart, he’ll get out in front of the cameras as soon as possible and apologize for his ludicrous statements. Well, he’s not smart. Hinchey sees hand of Rove. The congressman from Hurley said he expected his comments might end up on the Internet. “I knew that ...

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Virginia Muslim Indicted in Bush Assassination Plot

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 9:14:34 am PST

An American Muslim has been charged with conspiring to assassinate President Bush, and with supporting Al Qaeda: Va. Man Charged in Alleged Assassination Plot. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen, made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court but did not enter a plea. He ...

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Rangel: No Such Thing as Islamic Terror

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 9:07:00 am PST

Top House Democrat Charlie Rangel says it’s “bigoted” to call groups like Hizballah “Islamic terrorists:” Rangel: Don’t Call it ‘Islamic Terrorism’. (Hat tip: John Steele.) Asked about the refusal by some European governments to declare Hezbollah an Islamic terror group, Rangel told WWRL’s Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter, “To call it ...

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Soros Undermines Dollar Overseas

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 8:39:29 am PST

Anti-American billionaire George Soros, having failed in his attempt to buy the election for John Kerry, is taking revenge by undermining the dollar overseas: Dollar falls amid fears central banks diversifying. (Hat tip: Eric Cartman’s Conscience.) George Soros, the US investor, kept the pressure on the dollar by claiming that oil ...

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Happy Birthday, George

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 8:30:21 am PST

Today is the birthday of George Washington, America’s first President, and Power Line has an excellent post on this giant of a man.

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Hinchey Updates

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 8:07:46 am PST

Congressman Maurice “Rove Controls the World” Hinchey will be the featured speaker on March 19 at a rally sponsored by Stalinist terror-supporting group International ANSWER. Aaron at Free Will Blog has the details. And by the way, the word “Stalinist” is not meant to be hyperbole; International ANSWER is a front ...

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I'm a Hitler, You're a Hitler

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 7:54:52 am PST

Idiotblogger “Tbogg” spins infantile delusions for the true believers, constructing an elaborate scenario around the fake CBS memos that proves once again the almighty power of Rove. (We get called Hitler again in this hilarious post.)

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Hinchey: I Have No Proof, But I'm Right

Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 7:38:44 am PST

Congressman Maurice Hinchey has broken his silence on his bizarre conspiracy rant—and in the tradition of the pugnacious, logic-deprived modern Democratic party, he refuses to apologize and digs the hole even deeper: Hinchey: Rove may be behind fake documents. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) U.S. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey, D-Hurley, has ...

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Monday, February 21, 2005

Good On Ya, John Howard

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 9:21:52 pm PST

Some days it seems like the entire world has gone nuts. But sanity and decency still prevail in at least one corner of the southern hemisphere: Australia boosts Iraq deployment. Australia is planning to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard has said. He said the new soldiers ...

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Outrage of the Day

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 8:38:21 pm PST

Here is a horrifying story that will make you wonder what the hell has gone wrong with American schools—and what they are teaching our children: Soldier stunned by kids’ rants. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Pfc. Rob Jacobs of New Jersey said he was initially ecstatic to get a ...

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Palestinian Prisoner Charade

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 7:31:41 pm PST

Israel released 500 Palestinian prisoners today, and they were promptly hailed as heroes. Farha al-Diq said it was the happiest day of her life as she set eyes on two of her sons for the first time in several years. “I haven’t tasted joy for four years,” said the 43-year-old as she ...

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Hinchey: Bush Doctrine = Massacre

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 5:50:14 pm PST

Whenever a moonbat pokes its head out of the cave and says something so outrageous it can’t be ignored, you can be sure he or she has many other statements on the record that are as bad or worse. In the early days of the Iraq War, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) ...

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Anti-Mubarak Rallies in Cairo

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 5:35:47 pm PST

Along with the amazing news coming out of Lebanon, where tens of thousands of Lebanese marched in a protest against Syria, another story gives reason to hope that the Middle East may yet awaken from its long, dark night: Cairo anti-Mubarak rallies grow. (Hat tip: NC.) Hundreds of protesters have staged ...

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NY District Papers Bury Hinchey Outburst

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 2:03:17 pm PST

Confederate Yankee reports that the local media in New York’s 22nd District have completely ignored the conspiracy theories of Congressman Maurice Hinchey. UPDATE at 2/21/05 2:17:11 pm: Local media in New York may have ignored it, but MSNBC isn’t; I’m just about to do a call-in interview for their Connected Coast to ...

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Kos Kidz Connecting the Dots

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 1:17:20 pm PST

A case study in severe cognitive dissonance. Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga reveals his dirty little secret. One of my dirty little secrets — I read very few books. How about that. I never would have guessed.

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Free Muslims Against Terrorism

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 1:04:15 pm PST

Mainstream media may have almost entirely ignored the report from Freedom House showing the disturbing hatred and jihad ideology being taught in US mosques by the Saudis: Saudi Hate Ideology Fills US Mosques. But these people didn’t miss it: Response to Freedom House Investigation: Free Muslims Against Terrorism. Muslim-bashing. That’s the accusation ...

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RIP: Hunter S. Thompson

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:54:59 am PST

He was a writer of incredible, crazy energy, and yesterday he committed suicide: Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself.

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Bush in Brussels

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 9:58:59 am PST

Maarten Schenk has set up an RSS feed page for President Bush’s visit to Belgium, showing all the latest blog posts as tracked by Technorati: Bush in Brussels.

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Congressman Hinchey, Topic Three

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 9:34:56 am PST

Here’s another open topic for discussion of the Hinchey affair (must ... not ... call it ... Hincheygate!), because the original threads are so full of comments. The LGF reader who recorded Rep. Hinchey’s twisted conspiracy delusions informs me that there were at least two people videotaping the entire meeting, and ...

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Lebanese Protest Tyranny

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 8:46:17 am PST

An amazing transformation seems to be taking place in Lebanon: Thousands in Lebanon Protest Government. (Hat tip: Andy.) Protesters wore scarves of red and white _ the colors of Lebanon’s flag _ which have become the symbol of the opposition’s “independence uprising,” described as a peaceful campaign to dislodge the pro-Syrian ...

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Hinchey Updates

Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 8:18:29 am PST

The Ithaca Journal reports on Congressman Hinchey’s community forum, and makes no mention of his Karl Rove conspiracy theory: Hinchey argues for keeping Social Security. At Carpe Bonum, background information on Rep. Hinchey: Who is Maurice Hinchey? Here’s Hinchey’s record on the issues: Maurice Hinchey on the Issues; he rates (to no ...

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Sunday, February 20, 2005

Congressman Hinchey, Topic Two

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 7:57:33 pm PST

Our first post about Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey’s outrageous charges is filling up with comments so fast that I’m opening another thread for discussion.

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Congressman Says Rove Planted CBS Memos

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 3:12:27 pm PST

Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security. An LGF reader was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Rep. Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed ...

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Europe Must Accommodate Bush Vision

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 2:19:24 pm PST

An editorial in The Australian shows once again that our Aussie allies understand us better than the Europeans do: Europe must accommodate Bush vision. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.) Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger once said he would pay attention to Europe when it had a telephone number. By ...

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No Gratitude, More Demands

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 1:02:56 pm PST

The Gaza pullout plan has been approved by Israel’s cabinet: Israeli Cabinet OKs Withdrawal From Gaza. JERUSALEM - Israel’s Cabinet gave final approval Sunday to the government’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements, marking the first time an Israeli government decided to dismantle Jewish settlements on ...

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Lebanon Update

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:02:44 pm PST

Arthur Chrenkoff collates the news about the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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CBS: The Right-Wing Network

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:48:43 am PST

RatherBiased.com rips apart a risible “study” by anti-conservative group Media Matters that attempts to prove CBS News is not biased leftwards: Liberal Group Fails in Attempt to Paint CBS News as Conservative.

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:03:08 am PST

A bomb a day keeps the infidels away. (Hat tip: Ethel.) “In the past three weeks,” IDF sources reported, “we have discovered an explosive device on the average of one a day. This indicates a potentially dangerous method that terrorists have employed since the beginning of the ceasefire: They are simply ...

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Steyn: A Massive Hoot of Derision

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:14:50 am PST

A great new Mark Steyn piece at the Telegraph: What’s US policy on Europe? No giggling. Two years ago, I wrote that America and Europe were now engaged in a new Cold War. And just like the old Cold War it’s not only about Jacques Chirac issuing Krushchevian boasts to Washington ...

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ArabNews: Global Supremacy Pushing in Variant Forms

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 9:45:38 am PST

Trying to follow the bizarre twists and turns of this anti-American, pro-jihad piece in the Arab News may give you a headache, but it’s a revealing look at the “thinking” of the Saudi entity. The cognitive gymnastics begin with the title: A Global Supremacy Pushing in Variant Forms. Dr. Mariam Al-Oraifi, ...

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Spain to Vote on EU Constitution

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 9:22:50 am PST

Spain is holding a referendum on the amazingly bloated European Constitution today, and Barcepundit is blogging it. TODAY IS REFERENDUM DAY in Spain; the so-called European Constitution (which is an unappropriate denomination, since it actually is an international treaty) gets voted today. The biggest fear by Zapatero’s government is in case ...

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NYT Publishes Secretly Recorded Bush Tape

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 8:46:47 am PST

The New York Times publishes excerpts today from an audiotape of President Bush recorded furtively by Doug Wead, a former aide to the President’s father: In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President. Leaving aside the scumminess of both the Times and Mr. Wead for publishing discussions recorded without the ...

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BBC: Lie of the Day

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 8:16:02 am PST

Last week, BBC Radio 4’s “Thought for the Day” was a cheerful little anecdote about an Arab conscript into the IDF who, according to the Reverend John Bell, was jailed for refusing to murder Palestinian children. On Friday, Bell and the BBC “apologized” for his bogus story—but specifically did not retract ...

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Searching for Lizards

Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 7:37:13 am PST

We’re seeing unusually high traffic for a Sunday morning, and most of it is coming from search engines. Did LGF get mentioned on television today?

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Saturday, February 19, 2005

Canadian Islamic Congress Supports Syria

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 9:12:25 pm PST

In their latest overheated, ranting press release urging Prime Minister Paul Martin to lend legitimacy to Syria’s occupation of Lebanon, the Canadian Islamic Congress makes it extremely clear that they are enemies of America—and insanely obsessed with Israel. In a letter today to Prime Minister Paul Martin, the Canadian Islamic Congress ...

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Pictures of Iwo Jima

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 6:36:53 pm PST

Photographs from the assault on Iwo Jima - 60 Years Ago. (Hat tip: El.)

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A Turning Point

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 6:32:13 pm PST

Austin Bay says we’ve witnessed a pivotal moment for America’s faith in the Iraq War, courtesy of a most unlikely messenger.

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Pathetically Cosmic Comedy at Kos

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:50:30 pm PST

A Kos Kid is connecting the dots and abusing the punctuation, in one of the best Daily Kos posts ever: Gannon scoop shows White House Forged TANG/CBS memos?!?! (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) It now appears that Jeff Gannon could be the thread that unravels the real story behind the TANG/CBS forgeries. ...

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Iraqi Students to Study "US Imperialism" at Harvard

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 9:53:02 am PST

Iraqi students visiting Harvard University will be exposed to the best of American higher learning, including a course titled, “Gender and the Cultures of US Imperialism.” Democracy Project has the rest of the story.

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Iwo Jima

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 9:43:14 am PST

At OpinionJournal, Arthur Herman has an outstanding piece on the 60th anniversary of the assault on Iwo Jima. The lesson of Iwo Jima is in fact an ancient one, going back to Machiavelli: that sometimes free societies must be as tough and unrelenting as their enemies. Totalitarians test their opponents by ...

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CBS News Hallucinates

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 9:33:07 am PST

Unbelievable. CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch proposes a connection between Talon News reporter Jeff Gannon and White House political adviser Karl Rove: Rove-Gannon Connection? Her evidence? Well, she has a feeling about it. The architect of the Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 came through the ranks of college Republicans with ...

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The Academy is Ill

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 8:55:01 am PST

The New Criterion blog makes an essential point about the Ward Churchill controversy: Ward Churchill: Six Degrees of Separation. Well, for one thing, as I have noted, Ward Churchill is not the problem. He is merely a symptom of a much deeper disease, interesting and worthy of attention for the light ...

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WaPo Continues Flogging Gannon

Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 8:32:54 am PST

Howard Kurtz has already written more words about the trumped up Jeff Gannon scandal than about Eason Jordan, and here comes another article: Jeff Gannon Admits Past ‘Mistakes,’ Berates Critics. Jeff Gannon, the former White House reporter whose naked pictures have appeared on a number of gay escort sites, says that ...

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Friday, February 18, 2005

Open Friday Thread, Part Deux

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 9:53:53 pm PST

I can see we’re going to need another one of these before the evening’s through...

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Open Friday Thread

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 6:30:45 pm PST

Here’s an open thread for this mid-February Friday evening.

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A Giant Metal Claw

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 5:32:53 pm PST

If you happen to be strolling down a street in Karachi or Iskandariyah during the Ashura festival commemorating the death of Mohammed’s grandson in the 7th century, wear a raincoat. And try not to get too close to this guy. (Warning: graphic photo.)

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Not Much Left

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 5:14:48 pm PST

Martin Peretz has a very insightful piece in the New Republic on the failure of 60s-style liberalism: Not Much Left. (Thanks to all who emailed; I finally found time to read it, and it is good.) This leaves us with the issue of U.S. power, the other leftover from the ...

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The Anti-American Academy

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 4:13:32 pm PST

Colorado University professor Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill has been invited to give a lecture at the University of Hawaii next week, titled “Speaking Truth to Power: Academic Freedom in the Age of Terror:” Controversial professor to speak at UH. (Hat tip: The 50th Star.) A University of Colorado professor whose comments ...

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Tools for a Blood Ritual

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 3:12:14 pm PST

A Pakistani Shiite Muslim looks for an appropriate set of knives he will use on Ashura Day, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Ashura devotees mourn the 7th century death of the prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein, an event that led to the split in Islam between the ...

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Google News High Standards, Exhibit B

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 2:00:30 pm PST

The current top story in the US section of Google News: Negroponte Joins Dark Power Shadows, from Cuban propaganda publication Prensa Latina. (Hat tip: Andy Emmerich.) Google News features this quote from the predictably insane article: Havana, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) The George W. Bush government is a team of shadows whose ...

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JihadTV Shows Ambulance Suicide Bombing

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:39:01 am PST

New Sisyphus reports that Al Jazeera has aired a video showing a suicide car bomber preparing his explosives, reading his will ... and then driving his bomb-laden ambulance into a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq.

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A Few Facts About the Gannon Kerfuffle

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:56:31 am PST

Wizbang has put together a list of facts about the Jeff Gannon Brouhaha, to try to stem the incredible tide of distortions, hare-brained assumptions, and outright lies being disseminated by the left-of-center blogosphere in their quest to pump this non-story up into a full-blown scandal.

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Bike Path Screamer vs Neocon Machiavelli

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:00:11 am PST

Setting the tone for the debate between Richard Perle and Howard Dean, a protester threw a shoe at Perle and screamed obscenities. PORTLAND, Ore. - Howard Dean, the newly minted leader of the Democratic Party, and former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle made clear their opposing views on the war in Iraq ...

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VDH: Unsung Victories

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 9:41:34 am PST

It’s Friday, and that means a new column from Victor Davis Hanson, and as usual it’s terrific: Unsung Victories. In the war against the Islamic fascists and their supporters there have been a number of unheralded victories that have played some role in changing the landscape of the Middle East and ...

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Google News High Standards, Exhibit A

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 9:14:01 am PST

This is the sort of high-minded commentary for which Democratic Underground is well-known, and considered worthy of inclusion in Google News: I f-cking hate republicans. (Hat tip: Jheka.)

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Fifth Column Professor Wins NLG Award

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 8:27:37 am PST

Northeastern University professor M. Shahid Alam wrote a disgusting article comparing the September 11 attackers favorably to the American Minutemen; an excerpt: On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die - and to kill - for their dream. They died so that their people might live, ...

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The Health of Blogging, Left and Right

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 7:59:07 am PST

They utterly ignored the Eason Jordan story, but mainstream media is all over the lefty blogs’ trumped-up tempest in a teacup—the ridiculously overblown Jeff Gannon scandal. Jim Geraghty proposes a thought experiment related to this non-story. Suppose a reporter from a liberal web site with an e-mail list of about 300,000 people ...

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Moonbats vs Oil Traders

Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 7:46:42 am PST

When it comes to blows between obnoxious Greenpeace protesters and angry oil traders, I know who I’m betting on: Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders. (Hat tip: ted.) WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they ...

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Thursday, February 17, 2005

The Emperor's New Parade

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 8:03:55 pm PST

Can CBS really be this tone-deaf? CBS Plans Prime-Time Tribute to Rather. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) NEW YORK - CBS will televise a one-hour prime-time tribute to Dan Rather the night he leaves the evening news anchor chair, and its producer says it won’t avoid the story that has clouded his final ...

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More Deserving of Sympathy Than Eason Jordan

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 6:56:13 pm PST

Austin Bay makes an essential point about the Eason Jordan Kerfuffle: I followed with great interest Hugh Hewitt’s latest Easongate posts and Hugh’s discussion with the Wall Street Journal’s Brett Stephens. Stephens was in the audience at Davos when Jordan made his allegation that the US military had targeted journalists. (See my ...

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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 6:53:01 pm PST

At Victor Davis Hanson’s site, Craig Bernthal tells the story of his nephew, Marine Lance Corporal Tim Tardif: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy (Part 1): On April 12, Tim’s platoon headed north of Baghdad toward the village of Al Tarmiyah, on a recon mission to see if the bridge there ...

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Helpful Tips

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 6:43:53 pm PST

Here’s a list of useful (and fun!) facts for legacy media employees made uncomfortable by the advent of The Blogosphere, courtesy of IMAO: Know Thy Enemy: Blogs. There are these things called blogs out there run by salivating morons who work in lynch mobs to bring people down regardless of the ...

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Islamists Cyber-Stalking Christians

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 6:13:40 pm PST

Internet Haganah has found evidence that Islamists are continuing to gather personal information in order to hunt down Christians who participate in online chatrooms on the East Coast: On a free website at a datacenter in New York, on a server operated by a company in Quebec, we have found evidence ...

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Sophisticated, Nuanced Belgian Socialists

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 4:44:33 pm PST

At the official site of the Belgian Flemish socialist party, the creative young socialists have designed “urinoir-stickers” to be placed in urinals—featuring a caricature of President Bush. (Hat tip: nadineken.) Poking around further, we discover a site devoted to organizing protests during Bush’s upcoming visit to Belgium: Bush Wanted. UPDATE at 2/17/05 ...

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Be Careful of the Blog

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 4:09:15 pm PST

Iowahawk recalls a dime novel from another dimension, eventually made into a grade-Z horror picture: The BLOG. The interior of the abandoned radio station KCBS was covered with splotches of pulsating green slime, which Darla and her father investigated with the epsilon ray counter. As Biff shuffled through the wreckage, he ...

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Jerry Brown's Blogging

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 4:02:08 pm PST

Jerry Brown joins the blogosphere. Yes, that Jerry Brown, blogging about Oakland’s new curfew for probationers—and he’s in favor of it.

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Negroponte Will Head National Intelligence

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 3:46:11 pm PST

The United States’ first national intelligence director will be ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte. WASHINGTON - President Bush named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the government’s first national intelligence director Thursday, turning to a veteran diplomat to revive a spy community besieged by criticism after the Sept. 11 ...

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President Bush's Press Conference

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 3:44:57 pm PST

At today’s press conference the President issued a very clear statement of support for Israel, and a very clear warning to Iran: Q: Mr. President, I recall a conversation a small group of us with a very senior administration official about a year ago, and in that conversation, the subject of ...

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Hate Speech and Jihad at UC Irvine

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 3:23:17 pm PST

Here’s a good piece by Adam Cooper in UC Irvine’s New University Paper, about the hate speech and open support of jihadism coming from the school’s Muslim Students Union: MSU Impedes Peaceful Talks. A few weeks ago there were two rallies of note on campus. One was a peace rally, and ...

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Car Bombing in Thailand

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 2:48:47 pm PST

Bomb Kills 5 Near Hotel in Thailand. BANGKOK, Thailand - In an escalation of the sectarian violence plaguing Muslim-dominated southern Thailand, a powerful car bomb exploded Thursday in a busy nightlife district, killing five people and injuring more than 40. The car bomb was believed to be Thailand’s first. A series of ...

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Abbas OKs Collaborator Killings

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 8:24:17 am PST

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen follows in the footsteps of Yasser Arafat, ordering the murders of Palestinian “collaborators” with Israel: Abbas okays ‘collaborator’ executions. In the first decision of its kind since he succeeded Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has ratified death sentences against three Palestinians found guilty ...

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Noonan on the Blogosphere

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 7:53:30 am PST

Peggy Noonan gets what blogs are about: The Blogs Must Be Crazy. 1. They use the tools of journalists (computer, keyboard, a spirit of inquiry, a willingness to ask the question) and of the Internet (Google, LexisNexis) to look for and find facts that have been overlooked, ignored or hidden. They ...

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Birds of a Feather

Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 7:41:27 am PST

Anti-American “progressive” billionaire George Soros donated money to the defense of radical terrorist-aiding lawyer Lynne Stewart: Soros Funded Stewart Defense. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) Answering questions by e-mail, Amy Weil, a spokeswoman for the Open Society Institute, said the foundation contributed to Stewart’s fund because “it appeared to us at that time ...

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

The Palestinian Peace Process

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 6:52:32 pm PST

Palestinian Cops Can’t Stop Militants. Color me surprised. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Palestinian policemen, who have been given the task of restraining militants, say they can’t or won’t do the job. Interviewed at their front-line positions, some say they feel sympathy for the gunmen, while others fear getting shot at ...

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A Warning from Syria to France

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 6:34:22 pm PST

Some French “commentators” are saying that the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was a warning from Syria to Jacques Chirac. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) PARIS, Feb 15 (AFP) - The assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was a deliberate blow to France, whose president Jacques Chirac was ...

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Northwestern's Resident Terrorist

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 5:34:44 pm PST

Colorado University professor Ward Churchill may have written and said some outrageous things, but Brian Hecht points out that there are also people in high academic positions who have done outrageous things: Northwestern’s Resident Terrorist. Although the controversy over University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s pro-terrorist ravings has captured national headlines ...

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Hewitt on Stephens

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 2:44:37 pm PST

Hugh Hewitt reports on his conversation with Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal, who feels that he has been treated unfairly by some bloggers (who he names).

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Transforming Fallujah

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 2:35:42 pm PST

Washington Post reporter Jackie Spinner (who you may recall was the author of a Ridiculous Article of the Day post last month) has a much much better report from Iraq in today’s paper, about growing civilian cooperation in the city of Fallujah: In a Calmer Fallujah, Marines Still Feel the ...

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Romantics at Heart

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 1:17:28 pm PST

At Islam Web’s Fatwa Center, where a cheery banner advertisement equates Valentine’s Day with the flames of hell, a worried housewife asks Dr. Abdullah Al-faqih if her husband can really divorce her for going to the hair salon. The fatwa: Of course he can! (Hat tip: Luigi.) Question My husband told me ...

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Carter vs the Swamp Rabbit

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:58:06 pm PST

I’m amazed to discover that a photograph exists of former President Jimmy Carter’s close encounter with an enraged killer swamp rabbit.

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UN Inspectors: Drunken Dopes

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:36:42 pm PST

According to a former senior inspector, the life of a United Nations inspector in Saddam’s Iraq was a non-stop binge: UN inspectors ‘spent their days drinking.’ (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) UN inspectors in Iraq spent their working hours drinking vodka while ignoring a shadowy nocturnal fleet believed to be smuggling goods ...

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"Requested Resignation" Strategy Backfires

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:06:23 am PST

A good observation about the CBS investigative commission from Scylla & Charybdis: The reason that interviews were memorialized with only handwritten notes (and not recordings)? Simple. A lawyer’s handwritten notes are almost impossible to subpoena. The notes are protected by 2 privileges - the “work product privilege” (for which the client ...

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Attack Submarine Jimmy

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:51:54 am PST

Day By Day has a great take on the new Attack Rabbit Submarine Jimmy Carter: Cartoon for: 2/16/2005.

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CBS Three Refuse to Resign

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 8:51:20 am PST

Here’s the New York Observer article by Joe Hagan (previewed by Drudge yesterday), about the continuing fallout from Rathergate at CBS News, where the three producers blamed by CBS for the scandal and asked to resign are getting all lawyered up: The CBS Three Won’t Slink Off; Hiring Lawyers. Read it ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 8:34:10 am PST

Israel’s Foreign Minister says Iran will have all the knowledge necessary to build an atomic bomb within six months. LONDON (Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday arch-foe Iran was just six months away from having the knowledge to build an atomic bomb, as Tehran accused the United States of using satellites ...

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Rashid Khalidi Dropped from Teaching Program

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 8:12:02 am PST

Here’s some good news, as the New York City Department of Education has dropped Israel-hating Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi from a lecture program on how to teach about the Middle East: Education Dept. Drops Columbia Prof. From Teaching Program for Teachers. The city’s Department of Education decided yesterday to drop ...

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Eason Jordan Inspires Arab Hate Cartoon

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 8:02:45 am PST

Rusty Shackleford points out the Al Jazeera cartoon Eason Jordan inspired.

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Iran Backs Syria

Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 7:50:02 am PST

Tension with Syria is escalating rapidly, as the mad mullahs of Iran vow to back the Ba’athist regime: Iran to aid Syria against threats. Iran has vowed to back Syria against “challenges and threat” as both countries face strong US pressure. “We are ready to help Syria on all grounds to confront ...

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Pajamas at the Gate

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 7:41:21 pm PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Tear Down the Mullahs

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 7:16:10 pm PST

Michael Ledeen calls for a historic referendum against shari’a and for democracy in Iran: Our victory in Fallujah has had enormous consequences, first of all because the information we gathered there has made it possible to capture or kill considerable numbers of terrorists and their leaders. It also sent a chill ...

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Attack Submarine Jimmy Carter

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 6:35:05 pm PST

I tried to wrap my brain around this announcement, and ended up with an irony-induced mind cramp: Navy to Commission Attack Submarine Jimmy Carter. (Hat tip: joshin.)

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CBS News Melting Down?

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 6:32:36 pm PST

Drudge Report has the flashing siren up: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow: ‘Former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line ...

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What's Google Up To?

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 6:19:45 pm PST

What’s Google up to?

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The Fluffly Puffled Davos Kerfufflet

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 5:16:38 pm PST

Rather like A. J. Weberman, Iowahawk is becoming world-renowned for his dumpster-diving prowess. Today he came up with another gem, behind the Manhattan offices of the Wall Street Journal—the first draft of the now-infamous “kerfuffle” editorial: *** THE FLUFFLY PUFFLED DAVOS KERFUFFLET By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board We stand in mildly shocked ...

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US Recalls Ambassador to Syria

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 4:02:41 pm PST

Syria’s bold assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri prompted the US to recall its envoy to Syria. The United States has recalled its ambassador to Syria amid rising tensions over the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon. Before departing, U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey delivered a stern note, ...

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Silly Little Me

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 2:32:55 pm PST

James Taranto says I was silly to point out the report from North Korea’s KCNA news service about a gift presented to dictator Kim Jong Il by former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan: It’s Ronery at the Top. The Eason Jordan kerfuffle is really getting silly now. Blogger Charles Johnson ...

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British Dhimmitude Watch Update

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 9:08:52 am PST

David Holford has an update to his post about the British exam board requiring students to use “pbuh” after the name of Mohammed; he received word that this is not an official requirement: “OCR will always put ‘peace be upon him’ after Muhammad in the form of an Arabic colophon as ...

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The Anti-Israel Academy

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 8:53:29 am PST

One of the speakers scheduled to lecture a group of New York teachers on how to teach Mideast politics to US schoolchildren is Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi—who has refused to condemn Palestinian attacks on Israelis, and has called Israel a “racist” and “apartheid” state: Khalidi Is Tapped To Teach ...

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Lizardoid World Domination Watch

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 8:33:12 am PST

We’re honored to announce that LGF has won first place in IsraellyCool’s Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards for 2004, in two categories. Here are our shiny new medals: Congratulations to all the other participants as well.

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Livingstone Faces Inquiry

Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 8:13:41 am PST

London Mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone may have finally gone too far with his latest disgusting comments: Livingstone faces inquiry over Nazi jibe at Jew. (Hat tip: Mark.) Ken Livingstone was facing a disciplinary inquiry last night after he refused to apologise for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi prison guard. The ...

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Monday, February 14, 2005

Eason Jordan Gave a Gift to Kim Jong Il

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 7:49:23 pm PST

On August 16, 1997, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan gave “a gift” to Kim Jong Il. (Hat tip: Spunkman.) Gift to Secy. Kim Jong Il from CNN official Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) - Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from Eason Jordan, President of the Newsgathering and International Network ...

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Barone: Blogosphere Politics

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 7:38:02 pm PST

Michael Barone spells my name right (which isn’t too difficult) in a good piece on Blogosphere Politics. Within four hours, a blogger on freerepublic.com pointed out that they looked as though they had were created on Microsoft Word; the next morning, Scott Johnson of powerlineblog.com relayed the comment and asked for ...

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For the Record...

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 7:22:58 pm PST

If the World Economic Forum releases their unedited video of Eason Jordan’s remarks, and it exonerates Mr. Jordan in some way, LGF will be one of the first to acknowledge it. Unless I’m showering, or boiling some pasta, or washing my pajamas. Then LGF might be second, or even third. ...

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Hail to the Chief

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 6:41:21 pm PST

Several years back, before September 11 and before littlegreenfootballs.com, I became obsessed with fitness and at one point did a 75-mile cycling loop along the Southern California coast (including some fairly difficult climbing in Palos Verdes and the Santa Monica Mountains) every single day. For three solid months. Yes, really. ...

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Why Google News Favors Moonbats?

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 6:07:12 pm PST

Several LGF readers emailed about this article at USA Today, suggesting a possible reason why Google News keeps giving LGF excuses when we ask to be included in their index: Google’s givers go Democratic. SAN FRANCISCO — As it claws for greater power, the Democratic Party has found a newly rich ...

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WSJ Swings and Misses

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 5:53:52 pm PST

Most of the blogosphere has already weighed in on this surprising OpinionJournal editorial; after reading comments about it on other blogs all day, I finally went and read the whole thing myself: The Jordan Kerfuffle. It is for this reason that we were not inclined to write further about the episode ...

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The Anti-American Academy: Robert Jensen

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 2:08:02 pm PST

Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He says the United States is a depraved criminal nation bent on dominating the world, and Ward Churchill is right. Ward Churchill is right about 9/11. I state that bluntly, even though I disagree with some aspects of ...

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Castro: Father of CNN International

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:04:40 am PST

In a 1999 lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, former CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan told the audience that CNN International was directly inspired by Fidel Castro. (Hat tip: rcl.) I thank you very much for being here tonight. Let me also thank Fidel Castro. In ...

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British Dhimmitude Watch

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 9:18:04 am PST

Religious Education students in Britain must now include the letters “pbuh” (“peace be upon him”) in parentheses every time they write the name of Mohammed, according to teacher David Holford. Religious Education in most schools in the UK is about comparative religion. There are six statutory religions in teaching RE. The ...

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The Palestinian Peace Process

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 9:10:42 am PST

And we’re supposed to believe they’re ready for peace now? GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians, some wearing mock suicide-bomber belts, lined Gaza roads Monday to welcome home the remains of 15 gunmen handed over by Israel in a gesture to help President Mahmoud Abbas shore up a cease-fire. ... Militant chiefs ...

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"Stop the Wall" at U of West Florida

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 8:41:34 am PST

Terror supporters from the Seattle-based “Stop the Wall” campaign will hold a demonstration to protest Israel’s security fence at the University of West Florida tomorrow: Group coordinators to present model of West Bank wall. Coordinators for the Seattle-based Stop the Wall Campaign will visit the University of West Florida on Tuesday ...

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Religion of Peace Kills 10, Wounds 130

Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 8:30:30 am PST

Blasts in Philippine Capital, South Kill 10. MANILA (Reuters) - Explosions in the business district of the Philippine capital and two southern cities on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded nearly 130, with besieged Muslim rebels claiming two of the attacks. The three blasts came inside an hour as people ...

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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Everything Old is New Again

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 8:08:59 pm PST

German far-right supporters holding torches march in Dresden February 13, 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the city’s destruction in World War Two. A march by neo-Nazis cast a shadow over official events attended by British, American, French and Russian dignitaries intended to mourn the victims while also remembering the ...

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Mexico Strengthens Ties with Arab World

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 6:56:31 pm PST

Mexican President Vicente Fox is strengthening Mexico’s ties with the Arab world. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) This is his way of asking George W. Bush to throw the southern border wide open. ALGIERS, Algeria — President Vicente Fox arrived in Algeria on Saturday with plans to sign a series of accords during ...

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Serfing the Web

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 5:18:14 pm PST

I missed it when it was broadcast, but Trey Jackson has video of Jeff Jarvis’ appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources with Washington Post journalist Howard Kurtz: Jeff Jarvis - ‘The Story is not over’. It’s edited to show only the sections with Jeff and he makes very good points, especially ...

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Steyn: The Fetish of Tolerance

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 3:30:25 pm PST

Mark Steyn asks, “Are there no grown-ups left in Rhode Island?” When Chariho Regional High School art teacher Lynn Norton set her pupils the task of expressing an idea three-dimensionally, Jeffrey Eden immediately thought of a diorama comparing Bush to Hitler. You might think that ought to be disqualified on the ...

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Saudi Religious Police Hate Love

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 9:40:20 am PST

Filed in Reuters’ “Oddly Enough” section with a cute pun for its headline, a story of nightmarish religious totalitarianism: Saudi Morality Police See Red Over Valentine Roses. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s morality police are on the scent of illicit red roses as part of ...

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Bloggers: "Sons of Sen. McCarthy"

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 8:43:37 am PST

At the discussion panel in Davos where Eason Jordan made his unsubstantiated accusation that US troops were deliberately murdering journalists in Iraq, we’re told that members of the audience cheered and applauded Jordan’s remarks. Were you wondering what kind of people would cheer for something like this? People like Bertrand Pecquerie, ...

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United Nations: A Network of Pedophiles

Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 8:03:39 am PST

A French UN worker accused of child rape in Congo says there is an organized network of pedophiles at the UN mission: Explicit Photos Fan U.N. Sex Scandal. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified ...

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Saturday, February 12, 2005

Saturday Night Open Thread

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:29:51 pm PST

Here’s an open thread to catch any excess verbosity on this lovely Saturday evening...

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LGF vs France 2

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 4:58:19 pm PST

I did an interview with France 2 today, to tell the saga of LGF and our involvement in Rathergate. It was a friendly session for the most part. The subject of the occasional anti-French remarks that appear in our comments was brought up, and I pointed out that French media ...

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Zawahri Raves, Seethes

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 1:46:32 pm PST

Islamic fascist xenophobia melds with radical socialist cant in the latest audiotape released by Egyptian pediatrician Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaeda number two hits out at US in new audiotape. An audiotape purportedly of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri hit out at the US concept of freedom, saying it was a cloak for ...

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Who Could Ask for Anything More?

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:24:06 pm PST

It’s Howard!

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Got One at Heathrow

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:50:35 am PST

Man Charged After Heathrow Arrest. A man has been charged with conspiring to cause an explosion after being arrested at Heathrow airport. Salahuddin Amin, 29, was arrested after arriving at Heathrow on Tuesday after flying in from Pakistan. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said he was originally held under Section 41 of ...

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Lefty Blogs, MSM on Same Side

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:01:53 am PST

Jonah Goldberg is right on the mark with this observation: I also think this illustrates something very significant about the comparative successes of the Leftwing bloggers and the rightwing bloggers. The righty blogs have taken down Dan Rather and Eason Jordan. That is big game. The lefty blogs got this Talon ...

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Call on the Clue Phone for LA Times

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:53:01 am PST

The Los Angeles Times article on Eason Jordan’s resignation is a glaring example of the difference between mainstream media and the land o’ blogs: CNN’s Chief News Exec Quits. (Hat tip: Instapundit.) CNN drew scrutiny from on-air cable commentators, radio talk-show hosts and Internet petitioners, some of whom called for a ...

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FOX, Kiefer Sutherland Repent to Radical Islam

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 9:52:05 am PST

Debbie Schlussel rips Fox TV and the show 24 for knuckling under to the demands of radical Islamist advocacy groups. FOX’s “24” is the most exciting show on TV, this season. Action. Adventure. And it actually tells the truth about Islamic terrorists. They are here on our shores, pretending to be loyal ...

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RoP Still Wants Rushdie Dead

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 9:43:11 am PST

In other news, Salman Rushdie is still alive, no thanks to Iran. Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Guards have declared the death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie is still valid - 16 years after it was issued. The military organisation said the order was “irrevocable” on the eve of the anniversary of the ...

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It Came from the Blogosphere

Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 8:44:24 am PST

For two weeks, mainstream media did their best to ignore the Eason Jordan story out of existence. The few articles that did appear sought to minimize Jordan’s statements, and cast aspersions on the blogs that were advancing the story. Then, suddenly, Eason Jordan resigned. People who still get their news exclusively from ...

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Friday, February 11, 2005

The Chocolate Poodle Tango

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 6:21:15 pm PST

Watch as a Belgian “protocol official” does the Chocolate Poodle Tango with a representative of Condoleezza Rice’s Diplomatic Security Service, by clicking here. (Windows Media stream courtesy of Belgian TV station VTM; the altercation begins at about 17:30. Hat tip: LVB.net.)

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Night of the Resignations

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 5:00:22 pm PST

Nancy Rabinowitz, director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton College, who invited Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill to speak and ignited a media firestorm, has resigned. (Hat tip: mommydoc.) CLINTON, N.Y. - The head of a gender studies program at Hamilton College has resigned ...

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Eason Jordan Resigns from CNN

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 4:29:50 pm PST

CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits. NEW YORK - CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being “unfairly tarnished” by the controversy. During a ...

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Kos Kidz Go After Condi

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 3:34:44 pm PST

They’re spinning them out at such a rapid pace lately, it’s getting hard to keep up with the lefty blogs’ scandals du jour. In the latest one at Daily “Screw Them” Kos, they’re all wound up about a story that they think proves Condi lied! Moonbats cried! This time it’s a ...

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Red Ken: Jewish Reporter Acted Like "Camp Guard"

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 1:49:00 pm PST

The lunatic Mayor of London, “Red Ken” Livingstone, let his antisemitism run free on Wednesday evening: Jewish reporter acted like camp guard, says mayor. KEN LIVINGSTONE was accused last night of having “lost the plot” after an angry confrontation with a Jewish journalist who, he said, was behaving “just like a ...

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Why the Palestinians Came to the Table

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:35:34 am PST

Charles Krauthammer sees cause for cautious optimism in recent Middle East developments: Why the Palestinians Came to the Table. In the heavily coded language of Middle East diplomacy, Egypt has made some significant moves. It insisted on hosting the peace summit. It invited Ariel Sharon to Egypt for the first time ...

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Anti-American Prof Met With Gadhafi

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:21:54 am PST

The Ward Churchill story keeps getting more outrageous; today the Rocky Mountain News reports that in 1983, Churchill traveled to Libya and met with Muammar Gadhafi—to enlist his “diplomatic support:” Churchill met with Gadhafi. (Hat tip: dejafoo.net.) This is not the first time Ward Churchill has disagreed with the U.S. government’s ...

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The DailyKos/Atrios Lynch Mob

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 9:35:20 am PST

INDC Journal has a post on the Atrios/Daily Kos internet lynching of Jeff Gannon. I must be getting jaded, because I find this despicable behavior from lefty bloggers to be completely unsurprising. This is just a particularly vile case of the same below-the-belt tactics these people use all the time. There are ...

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USSS vs Chocolate Poodle

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 9:21:05 am PST

When Condoleezza Rice arrived in Belgium and her plane (Air Force Two) was taxiing on the runway, a Belgian “protocol chief” had a little dance with US Secret Service; Luc Van Braekel has the story with photos: Rice with Belgian fries, please!

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VDH: Why Democracy?

Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 8:34:12 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson’s Friday column lists ten reasons why we should support democracy in the Middle East: Why Democracy? Neoconservatives hope that a democratic Iraq and Afghanistan can usher in a new age of Middle Eastern consensual government that will cool down a century-old cauldron of hatred. Realists counter that democratic ...

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Thursday, February 10, 2005

Loons Hook Up

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 7:30:55 pm PST

The Raelians have made Ward Churchill a high priest. Somebody, pinch me.

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Sanity Prevails in Germany

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 7:08:19 pm PST

Sanity prevails in Germany: Germany Rejects Call for Rumsfeld War Crimes Probe. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Germany’s federal prosecutor Thursday rejected calls to investigate allegations that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was guilty of war crimes over the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal. The U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and ...

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The Hound Bays for Thee

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 5:46:22 pm PST

Bret Stephens, formerly with the Jerusalem Post, is a terrific writer with a commanding knowledge of the Middle East and a decidedly non-idiotarian editorial bent. We’ve linked to many of his pieces at LGF, and I’m sure we will again. But when I read his op-ed about Easongate at OpinionJournal earlier ...

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Lefty Blogs Dig Up Scandal, World Yawns

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 5:06:51 pm PST

Power Line’s Hindrocket reports that they’ve been receiving belligerent email from lefties about some kind of scandal involving a person named “Jeff Gannon:” What Scandal? I’ve gotten several love notes too, demanding that I give this towering scandal the coverage it deserves. The names of Dan Rather and Ward Churchill ...

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Bush-Hitler High School Art Wins Award

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 4:20:20 pm PST

It can be funny in a rather dark way to mock the historically ignorant types who parrot Bush/Hitler/Chimp comparisons. But it isn’t so funny to see this kind of sideways Holocaust denial infecting 17-year old high school art students like Jeffrey Eden: Youth defends prize-winning Bush/Hitler art. (Hat tip: Antiprotester Journal.) Nobody ...

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British Antisemitism Watch

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 3:44:10 pm PST

Not good news, as hostility toward Jews continues rising in Britain: Attacks on British Jews hit record high. (Hat tip: NC.) LONDON (Reuters) - Violent anti-Semitic attacks in Britain have reached “alarming” record levels, according to a report released, prompting calls by Jewish leaders for more to be done to protect ...

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North Korea: We Have "Nukes"

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 3:02:00 pm PST

The only surprise here is that they are finally admitting it: North Korea Says It Has Nuclear Weapons. SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks, dramatically raising the stakes in the ...

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The Sensitive, Caring Left

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 1:30:46 pm PST

Citizen Smash has a report on an absolutely despicable post by moonbat blogger “Hesiod,” who reveals himself to be even more of a scumbag than we already believed: Coffee with DenBeste.

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Lynne Stewart Convicted

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 1:25:36 pm PST

In the latest explicit example of collaboration between the far left and Islamic fascism, radical left-wing lawyer Lynne Stewart has been convicted of acting as a messenger for blind sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman: Lawyer Convicted of Helping Terrorists. (Hat tip: adam.) NEW YORK - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday ...

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Historic Saudi Election Charade

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 8:51:43 am PST

Democracy is catching hold in Saudi Arabia! Ring in the new age! Saudi men vote in historic poll. “This was a wonderful moment,” Badr al-Faqih, a 54-year-old geography professor, told AP after casting the first ballot at one polling station. “This is a first step towards more elections.” Abdul Rahman al-Hussein, 53, ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 8:07:29 am PST

Militants Attack Gaza Settlements Despite Truce. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen rained mortar and rocket fire into Israeli settlements in Gaza on Thursday despite new President Mahmoud Abbas’s formal truce declaration at a summit that revived Middle East peace hopes. Political fallout from the barrage came swiftly, with Israel postponing security coordination ...

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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Compendium of Ward Churchill Information

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 9:04:04 pm PST

For a comprehensive collection of links and information about Ward Churchill, please see PirateBallerina.com.

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US Wants Toothless Watchdog Put Down

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 6:20:36 pm PST

Unelected EUropeans and UN diplomats are apparently complaining to the Associated Press about US efforts to have toothless nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei removed: AP: U.S. Aims to Oust U.N. Nuke Official. VIENNA, Austria - The United States is lobbying allies in a bid to oust the head of the U.N. nuclear ...

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The Anti-American Academy

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 5:37:44 pm PST

Professor Ward Churchill’s CU Ethnic Studies Department Office pictures.

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Orson Scott Card on Saudi Subversion

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 5:11:54 pm PST

At ornery.org, a good column by Orson Scott Card—who fully understands the threat of Saudi hate ideology in American mosques: Rice, Iraq, and Saudi Subversion. Freedom House, which monitors the state of freedom in all countries, with particular emphasis on religious and press freedom (without which, of course, there is no ...

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The Egyptian Answer to MEMRI

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 12:11:31 pm PST

This should be good for inadvertent dark comedy; a new Egyptian media organization created specifically to counter MEMRI’s translations of the hatred in the Arab press: ‘We will Publish an Ethical Code for the Arab Press’. After ranting about the “Mossad” and “exposing Zionist forgeries,” the director of Arabs Against Discrimination, ...

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Arab Bank: "The Climate of the US is Not Expedient"

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 10:58:27 am PST

The First International Bank of Jihad is closing its New York branch: Arab Bank to close New York branch. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Arab Bank will close its branch in New York, where it faces lawsuits saying it supported terrorism by funneling donations to Palestinian suicide bombers and their families. The closure ...

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French TV Meets LGF

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 10:29:24 am PST

The New York Times finally gets around to covering (in the Business section for some reason) the controversy over France 2 TV’s infamous footage of Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Dura, cowering behind his father in the midst of a street battle in Gaza: Photo of Palestinian Boy Kindles Debate in France. We’ve ...

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The House of Hate

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 9:50:00 am PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 9:27:15 am PST

No virgins for Hassan: Hamas militant killed in Gaza blast, cause unknown. GAZA CITY (AFP) - A member of the radical Islamist movement Hamas was killed in a blast in the southern Gaza Strip whose cause was not immediately known. Two other people were also slightly wounded in the explosion near the ...

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The Berlin Wall's Revenge

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 9:15:23 am PST

Nelson Ascher argues that the modern far left is driven not by ideological altruism, but by a desire for nihilistic vengeance: The Berlin Wall’s Revenge. This newly ever-growing Western left, not only in Europe, but in Latin America and even in the US itself, has a clear goal: the destruction of ...

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Hamilton College Blogging

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 8:26:02 am PST

At Hamilton College, where Ward Churchill’s scheduled speech kicked off a media brouhaha, alumni, students, and professors have started a blog: HOOPLA: Hamiltonians Organized in Opposition to Pathetically Lousy Arguments.

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Ward Churchill Puffs Out His Chest

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 8:14:21 am PST

Colorado University professor Ward Churchill refuses to back down from his disgusting statements, and is enlisting the local America-haters to back him up: ‘I do not work for taxpayers,’ prof says. CU officials said they decided to proceed with the event after student organizers admitted they had overstated the nature of ...

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Another UN Scandal Surfaces

Wed, Feb 9, 2005 at 7:59:56 am PST

The latest outrageous case of fraud and thievery at the United Nations: Theft and Mismanagement Charged at U.N. Weather Agency. (Hat tip: Adamski.) The tempest inside the World Meteorological Organization began with a single check. An accountant working late one night in July 2003 at the United Nations-affiliated weather agency in Geneva ...

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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Investor's Business Daily: Crossing Jordan

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 7:57:31 pm PST

Investor’s Business Daily breaks media silence on the Eason Jordan story: Crossing Jordan. (Hat tip: Easongate.) Now Jordan’s in the stew again. Speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan made an arresting charge. He claimed the U.S. military, while pacifying Iraq, had targeted both American and ...

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Bat Ye'or Speaks

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 7:19:29 pm PST

Author Bat Ye’or is currently on a speaking tour in the United States: The Brave New World of Eurabia. No, Eurabia does not mean a strong influx of Arab-Muslim immigrants into European countries, though it does include demographic input. Eurabia does not mean the European Union after Turkey has been admitted, ...

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Bizarre Google Ads at JPost

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 6:44:20 pm PST

LGF operative zombie has screenshots of some very strange Google ads that turned up on the Jerusalem Post web site today: Google ads displayed on the Jerusalem Post.

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FrontLine: House of Saud

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 6:38:34 pm PST

PBS FrontLine publicist Jessica Smith contacted us a few days ago to let us know about their show airing tonight at 9 pm, in which long-time LGF readers will be especially interested: House of Saud. I know I’ll be watching, especially since Jessica notes that this show will not be ...

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The Islamic Reformation?

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 6:27:49 pm PST

Arthur Chrenkoff asks the supreme politically doubleplus ungood question, the question that drives much of LGF’s coverage of the global jihad: What if the Islamic Reformation is already happening - but its name is Bin Ladenism? A few weekends ago I had the pleasure of finally meeting Sophie Masson and her ...

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What Happens In Davos, Stays In Davos

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 5:03:38 pm PST

The wait is over! Iowahawk has a world exclusive on the transcript of Eason Jordan’s discussion in Davos, discovered in a dumpster behind George Soros’ ski chalet in Lucerne: What Happens In Davos, Stays In Davos. Moderator Arsenio Hall: ...(unintelligible) is this thing on? Okay, hello? Okay, if everbody can please ...

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New York Mag: CBS News Revolt

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 4:36:20 pm PST

New York Magazine has a fascinating piece on the “rage” at CBS News over the National Guard memo story, where insiders feel that the wrong people were punished: CBS News Revolt — The National Guard Fiasco — Dan Rather, Mary Mapes. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) In the aftermath of that day’s traumatic ...

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Eason Jordan Updates

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 2:22:15 pm PST

According to Sisyphean Musings, the World Economic Forum will not release their recording of the discussion in which Eason Jordan accused the US military of deliberately targeting journalists. Jim Geraghty has a lot of interesting stuff on the story today, including a well-done rebuttal of another muddle-headed piece by Jude Nagurney ...

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Steyn: Raining on Europe's Parade

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 1:39:37 pm PST

Mark Steyn keeps hitting them out of the park: I hate to rain on Europe’s parade, but... Read it all, of course, but this point was particularly striking: Now I take the point that “democracy” - as in elections - isn’t every thing. In the development of successful nations, the universal ...

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AFP: A New Era

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 8:21:39 am PST

Agence France Presse declares a new era of peace in our time! SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas ushered in a new era of hope for Middle East peace by calling a halt to four years of violence. At a landmark summit in ...

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Dershowitz: Columbia Profs Aid Terrorism

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 8:03:26 am PST

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is taking an active role in fighting the anti-Israel (and anti-American) bias endemic at Columbia University: Dershowitz Says Faculty Members Work To Encourage Islamic Terrorism. It’s not often that a professor tells a packed crowd at Columbia University that Edward Said was a political extremist and ...

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The War’s Far from Won

Tue, Feb 8, 2005 at 7:50:37 am PST

Terrorism expert Harvey Kushner answers questions about his new book Holy War on the Home Front, at National Review: The War’s Far from Won. NRO: Folks like John Kerry claim we are no safer today post-Iraq war. Is that true? Kushner: If the question refers to our involvement in Iraq, then the ...

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Monday, February 07, 2005

European Dhimmitude at Its Finest

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 7:39:42 pm PST

The Rotterdam International Film Festival canceled the showing of the Theo Van Gogh/Ayaan Hirsi Ali film Submission because of “security concerns,” but allowed Islamist propaganda films: ROTTERDAM, February 7 (IslamOnline.net) — Two European films shown at the 34th Rotterdam international film festival caused quite a stir among cinema critics and the ...

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LGF's Fourth Anniversary

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 5:50:19 pm PST

Several readers (who are obviously more attuned to these things than I am) have pointed out that today is the fourth anniversary of Little Green Footballs; although February 7th is not actually the date LGF began, it’s the first post in our archives as they currently exist. Notice that the first ...

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Bogus Anti-Terror Meet Gets Hot

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 4:54:34 pm PST

Heated words were exchanged between representatives from the United States and Iran at the bogus Saudi “counter-terrorism” conference in Riyadh, but according to AFP there are “no details” on the Iranian speech. It’s not hard to imagine what it said. RIYADH (AFP) - Delegates from the United States and archfoe Iran engaged ...

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Iowahawk TV Classics: "Chutch"

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 3:57:24 pm PST

The latest installment of Iowahawk’s TV Classics From Another Dimension looks at the long-lost action series starring Jan-Peter Bronston, Chutch. Still reeling from Vietnam, and with Watergate and OPEC looming on the horizon, 1972 was a turbulent time for America. Nowhere was the zeitgeist more reflected than on ABC Thursday nights, ...

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Eason Jordan News

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 3:46:05 pm PST

Michelle Malkin spoke to David Gergen about the Eason Jordan story; Gergen, like most other witnesses who’ve gone on the record, confirms that Jordan did indeed say that journalists were being deliberately targeted: First, Gergen confirmed that Eason Jordan did in fact initially assert that journalists in Iraq had been targeted ...

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Here's to the Heroes

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 2:47:24 pm PST

You can watch the wonderful Anheuser-Busch Superbowl ad thanking our troops here: Hero’s Salute.

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What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 1:41:50 pm PST

Here’s an article by Steve Coll of the Washington Post that won’t help you sleep at night—but it’s a discussion the United States needs to have: What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima. At a conference on the future of al Qaeda sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory last month, I posed ...

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"The Terrorists are These Jews and Christians"

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 12:57:14 pm PST

Even as the corrupt oil ticks of Saudi Arabia promote their absurd sham conference on counter-terrorism (which the US, to our disgrace, attended), their television stations and mosques continue to pump out a steady stream of jihad rhetoric and hatred of Jews and Christians. MEMRI has excerpts of a February ...

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The Bias of Joseph Massad

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 11:15:29 am PST

The pro-Palestinian activism of Columbia University assistant professor Joseph Massad is under scrutiny at the New York Sun: Bias of Massad Is Being Noted in His Classes. In the fall semester, [sophomore Bari Weiss] was a student in Topics in Asian Civilization. Mr. Massad taught the second half and was responsible ...

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Beards Not Optional

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 11:00:50 am PST

Islamic Radicals Hunt Barbers in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Umm Ali says militants killed her son last month for the most unlikely of reasons: He trims men’s beards. In Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood, residents say Sunni Muslim extremists have made barbers the new hunted, accusing them of violating a strict reading of Islamic ...

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The Fish That Wouldn't Go Away

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 9:41:57 am PST

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice(L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, February 7, 2005. Rice said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Abbas would visit the White House for talks in the spring. Photo by Pool/Reuters

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UN Springs Into Action

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 9:28:53 am PST

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has sprung into action, suspending the head of the Iraqi Oil-For-Food program with pay. UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq and a senior official who dealt with contracts, following an independent investigation that accused them of ...

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Iraq Moves Forward

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 8:55:59 am PST

Here’s a very encouraging story from the Washington Post: Iraqis Cite Shift in Attitudes Since Vote. (Hat tip: Dirk Diggler.) BAGHDAD, Feb. 6 — With a hero who gave his life for the elections, a revived national anthem blaring from car stereos and a greater willingness to help police, the public ...

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DMN: Stop Saudi Jihad Proselytizing

Mon, Feb 7, 2005 at 8:11:06 am PST

A Dallas Morning News editorial this morning follows up on their courageous exposure of the Freedom House report on Saudi hate ideology in US mosques: With Friends Like These: Stop Saudi jihad proselytizing in U.S. The 9/11 Commission report said America isn’t fighting a war on “some generic evil” called terrorism, ...

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Sunday, February 06, 2005

Clockwork Green

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 7:11:38 pm PST

The rise of the Muslim Boys. Winston emerges menacingly from the kitchen, a meat cleaver in one hand and a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade in the other. “I love knives,” he says, his eyes gleaming as he begins to slash the air inches from my face. “Guns make a f***ing ...

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A Site Whose Time Has Come: Easongate

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 7:03:52 pm PST

Bill Roggio and associates launch a new subdomain, devoted to the Eason Jordan “US Soldiers Kill Journalists” controversy: Easongate.

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How Did Churchill Get Hired in the First Place?

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 5:49:40 pm PST

Excellent points about the Ward Churchill controversy, in a column for the Rocky Mountain News by University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos: Real question is, how did prof get on CU’s faculty in first place? (Hat tip: malleus.) Anyone who reads widely in the collected works of professor Churchill, and ...

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USAID Assistance for Iraq

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 5:34:05 pm PST

If you’d like to know how US money is helping the people of Iraq, USAID has a frequently updated page with detailed reports on Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance. Good news the mainstream media won’t tell you.

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L'Anti-Américain

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 1:53:16 pm PST

In a stunningly original move, a new French tabloid will be ... openly anti-American! French Tabloid Takes Aim at the U.S. PARIS - Forget about all that trans-Atlantic talk of kiss-and-make-up following the “Freedom Fries”-era disagreements between France and the United States. There’s a new tabloid on Paris newsstands offering an ...

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Shari'a in Iraq?

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 12:41:59 pm PST

Not a good development but not entirely unforeseen, Ali al-Sistani takes off his moderate disguise: Iraq Shiite leaders demand Islam be the source of law. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq’s Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and another top cleric staked out a radical demand that Islam be the sole source ...

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Religion of Tolerance in Britain

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 11:54:36 am PST

Converting to Islam is a very easy process, a model of tolerance; anyone can do it, there’s no real formal procedure like baptism, and converts usually are asked only to make a verbal profession of belief. Just don’t try to go the other way. Muslim apostates cast out and at risk ...

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"Death to America" Event Canceled in Maryland

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 10:39:37 am PST

Regime Change Iran reports that the Bethesda Marriott Hotel has canceled plans to host an event paid for by the Iranian mullahs, titled: Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution and Death to America Day. The Washington Post story reveals that the Marriott Corporation canceled the event ...

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The Armageddon Conspiracy

Sun, Feb 6, 2005 at 8:50:06 am PST

TIME Magazine’s new issue (not yet online) contains an alarming report that the nuclear black market run by Pakistan’s Abdul Qadeer Khan was able to spread its tentacles much further than previously believed: New York, NY - U.S. officials are investigating whether Khan’s network might have sold nuclear technology to Saudi ...

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Saturday, February 05, 2005

EU Appeasement Watch

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 7:12:14 pm PST

Unelected European Union bureaucrat Javier Solana frets and moans in public about the perils of confronting Islamic theocracies with plans for nuclear weapons: Military strike on Iran would be a ‘mistake’: EU’s Solana. LONDON (AFP) - A shock military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would be a “mistake”, the European Union’s ...

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Steyn: Would You Trust the UN with Your Wallet?

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 6:51:19 pm PST

Mark Steyn asks: Would you trust these men with $64bn of your cash? At tough times in my life, with the landlord tossing my clothes and record collection out on to the street, I could have used an aunt like Benon Sevan’s. Asked to account for the appearance in his bank ...

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Turning the Tables on Terrorists

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 5:05:16 pm PST

This is a brilliant idea, and poetic justice of the highest order: Iraqi Police Use Kidnappers’ Videos to Fight Crime. (Hat tip: mardukhai.) MOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 4 - In one scene, the videotape shows three kidnappers with guns and a knife, preparing to behead a helpless man who is gagged and ...

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"Submission" at Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Site

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 4:57:12 pm PST

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali/Theo Van Gogh film Submission, which prompted a Dutch representative of the RoP to shoot and stab Theo Van Gogh to death in broad daylight, is available for viewing online here: Ayaan Hirsi Ali - web-log.nl. (Hat tip: filtrat.)

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DMN: Anti-US Materials Found at Mosques

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 4:01:22 pm PST

If, during the months immediately following the September 11 attacks, I had told you that a definitive study would be released proving that Saudi-funded mosques throughout the US were teaching and spreading a virulent ideology of hatred, but no major news outlets would cover the story, even in passing ... ...

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"Put Them in Their Coffins"

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 3:15:59 pm PST

Videotapes Damaging Against Accused Sheik. NEW YORK - Things had been looking up for Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan al-Moayad as he approached his trial on charges of supporting terrorist groups Hamas and al-Qaida. The government’s star witness set himself on fire in a bizarre protest outside the White House. A judge ...

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"French Extremists" Captured in Iraq

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 9:41:37 am PST

Amazingly, there seem to be some Frenchmen who are willing to fight in Iraq. Unfortunately, they’re fighting for the other side: Three French Extremists in U.S. Custody in Iraq. (Hat tip: Riding Sun.) PARIS — U.S. troops in Iraq have detained three French militants and police here rounded up 10 of their ...

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Google News Turns Us Down Again

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 9:15:42 am PST

Several people have emailed recently asking why Google News does not include Little Green Footballs, so I submitted another request to them yesterday and received the following reply: Hi Charles, Thank you for your note. We reviewed http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog and cannot include it in Google News at this time. We do not include ...

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US Disgrace of the Day

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 8:28:11 am PST

The fox is holding a conference on protecting the chicken coop: Meet to Focus on Anti-Terror Cooperation. Israel, of course, is not invited—because after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Saudis (along with Syria and Iran) are one of the world’s prime remaining sponsors and funders of Palestinian terrorism. The United States ...

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Killers Still in Prison, Palestinians Disappointed

Sat, Feb 5, 2005 at 8:00:15 am PST

Palestinians were hurt and disappointed when Israel refused to release murderers and terrorists: Palestinians Seek Wider Prisoner Release by Israel. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians urged Israel Friday to expand a prisoner release to ensure the success of a summit both sides hope will result in a formal declaration to ...

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Friday, February 04, 2005

Friday Night Open Topic

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 8:37:16 pm PST

Here’s an open topic to hold excess lizardoid verbosity, on subjects various and sundry.

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Media Non-Events

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 6:16:31 pm PST

In his piece for today’s Daily Standard, Hugh Hewitt focuses on two recent media events—or to be more precise, media non-events: Media Notes. (Hat tip: ted.) The first is the genuinely scandalous assertion by CNN’s Eason Jordan, made at the World Economic Forum, that the United States military has targeted and ...

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"Amrika, the Belly of the Beast"

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 4:18:46 pm PST

StandWithUs.com has a 6-minute video of an absolutely appalling hate speech at the University of California at Irvine, by a Muslim speaker named Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali, announced as “a specialist in international politics:” Incitement on Campus: UC Irvine, February 2, 2005. Once again, you’re not going to believe what’s taking place on ...

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Eason Jordan Video on the Way

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 3:48:56 pm PST

Sisyphean Musings says they are going to have a copy of the Eason Jordan World Economic Forum video by next week, from the WEF’s head of media.

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Biden: World Should "Address Iran's Emotional Needs"

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 2:55:30 pm PST

According to H.D.S. Greenway in the Boston Globe, Senator Joe Biden says the world needs to address Iran’s emotional needs for nuclear weapons, by promising not to hurt them. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) Senator Joseph Biden said that even if Iran was a full democracy like India, it would want nuclear capability, ...

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Annan Will Get to the Bottom

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 2:13:37 pm PST

Pegging the irony meter, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he’s not going to rest until he gets to the bottom of it, finds out the truth, and unmasks the real killer of Ron and Nicole: Annan Pledges to Get to Truth in Oil-For-Food Scandal. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi ...

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Marquette U Blocks 'Adopt A Sniper'

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 10:18:51 am PST

Officials at Marquette University, a Jesuit school in Wisconsin, got a serious case of the vapors when Republican students wanted to raise money for “Adopt A Sniper:” School Halts Adopt a Sniper Fund-Raiser. CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. university in Wisconsin has blocked an attempt by Republican students to raise money ...

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Garofalo Hits Bottom, Digs

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 9:27:39 am PST

For deranged Air America ranter Janeane Garofalo, a symbol of solidarity with Iraqi voters is exactly the same as a Nazi salute. “The inked fingers was disgusting,” Air America radio talk show host Janeane Garofalo declared on MSNBC in denouncing Republican lawmakers who, before and after the State of the Union, ...

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Eason Jordan Was Videotaped

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 9:10:41 am PST

Hugh Hewitt has an interview with Rony Abovitz, the blogger who broke the story of Eason Jordan’s incredible accusation that the US military was deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq. The whole thing is a must-read; Abovitz makes very clear that Jordan’s after-the-fact disavowals of his statement are dishonest in the ...

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VDH: The Global Throng

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 8:47:50 am PST

This is one of Victor Davis Hanson’s best columns yet, as he turns a merciless eye on the world’s elites: The Global Throng. Then there was our media’s hysteria: Donald Rumsfeld should be sacked in the midst of war; Abu Ghraib was the moral equivalent of everything from Saddam’s gulag to ...

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MSM Triumphalism

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 8:32:46 am PST

Get a load of the triumphant, disrespectful tone of this story at NBC’s Los Angeles affiliate, about Lt. Gen. James Mattis and the phony furor over his remarks: Outspoken Marine Corps General Ordered To Watch His Mouth. SAN DIEGO — A Marine Corps general who said while describing the wars ...

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Beslan Monster: "We're Planning More"

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 8:07:00 am PST

Shamil Basayev, the Chechnyan Islamic fascist who masterminded the Beslan child massacre, says all Russians are legitimate targets under shari’a law, and promises there will be more atrocities like Beslan: We’re going to do it again, says man behind Beslan bloodbath. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Mr Basayev said that he originally ...

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CNN's Line of Fire

Fri, Feb 4, 2005 at 7:32:22 am PST

The Washington Times weighs in on the Eason Jordan controversy: CNN’s line of fire. In war, mistakes happen and innocents are often killed. For journalists covering the action, the risk is extremely high. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 36 were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2004, some unfortunately ...

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Thursday, February 03, 2005

School May Fire "Little Eichmanns" Professor

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 8:39:44 pm PST

The University of Colorado may fire professor Ward Churchill, and the moonbats are seething. AURORA, Colo. - University of Colorado administrators Thursday took the first steps toward a possible dismissal of a professor who likened World Trade Center victims to a notorious Nazi. Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano ordered a 30-day review of ...

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Swedish Shari'a Watch

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 7:13:13 pm PST

Swedish Muslims are flexing their multicultural muscles: Painting offensive to Muslims removed. (Hat tip: Stockholm Spectator.) STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A painting depicting a couple making love while covered in Quranic verses was removed from a Swedish museum this week after hundreds of complaints, some threatening, from Muslims who found it offensive, ...

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Why?

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 6:14:06 pm PST

Why is Israel doing this? Can anyone enlighten me? I’m willing to listen to arguments that this is a sensible policy, and not the sheer insanity it seems to be. Help me out here. JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers on Thursday approved the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and a military ...

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Boyz 'N The Hudna

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 6:01:29 pm PST

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — The Palestinians will call a cease-fire in hostilities with Israel when the two sides meet next week for peace talks in Egypt, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said today. Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will hold talks on Feb. 8 in the Egyptian resort of ...

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DailyKos Reality Distortion Watch

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 4:41:47 pm PST

Upper East Sider catches Markos of DailyKos in a blatant distortion of the President’s proposed changes to Social Security. UPDATE at 2/3/05 5:26:32 pm: This one may not be Markos’ fault; readers Model4 and wood-butcher point out that the original Washington Post story quoted by Markos got it wrong: Bush’s Social Security ...

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CNN: State Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 4:01:12 pm PST

CNN (yeah, I know) reports that the State Department knew about and condoned Saddam Hussein’s illegal oil deals with his Arab neighbors: Documents: U.S. condoned Iraq oil smuggling. (Hat tip: Baikal.) The unclassified State Department documents sent to congressional committees with oversight of U.S. foreign policy divulge that the United States ...

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NBC Reporter on UN Payroll

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 3:53:09 pm PST

NBC Reporter Was on U.N. Lobby Payroll. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Linda Fasulo, the U.N. correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, has written a pro-U.N. book, An Insider’s Guide to the U.N., which reads like the U.N. paid for it. Actually, the pro-U.N. lobby paid for it. In ...

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We Got Mail!

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 3:28:48 pm PST

An LGF admirer who followed the link in M. Shahid Alam’s idiotic smear job in Counterpunch used our contact form to send the following note of love and support (yes, I edited the profanity): You are c-nts you are c-nts you are c-nts you are c-nts. The right wing will shorly ...

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CAIR Goes After Another General

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 2:57:41 pm PST

Radical Islamic front group CAIR is freaking out again, because a general said it was “fun to shoot” jihadis: Muslims Call For Pentagon Action Over General’s Remarks. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon to discipline a top general who earlier this ...

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Ward Churchill Alleges Vandalism

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 2:43:32 pm PST

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who described the victims of the 9/11 attack as “little Eichmanns,” now says his pickup truck was vandalized: Churchill’s pickup vandalized. Vandals painted two swastikas on the truck of besieged University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, Boulder County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday. The vandals painted ...

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Volcker Report Blasts Oil-For-Food Chief

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 2:01:07 pm PST

The chief of the United Nations Oil-For-Food program has been accused of “ethically improper” activities, as the first report from Paul Volcker is released: Report Criticizes Oil-For-Food Program. NEW YORK - A sweeping investigation of the U.N. oil-for-food program accused program chief Benon Sevan of a conflict of interest, saying Thursday ...

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Eason Jordan Releases a Statement

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 8:26:14 am PST

Carol Platt Liebau has published a response from Eason Jordan. To be clear, I do not believe the U.S. military is trying to kill journalists in Iraq. I said so during the forum panel discussion. But, nonetheless, the U.S. military has killed several journalists in Iraq in cases of mistaken identity. ...

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A New York Sun Profile

Thu, Feb 3, 2005 at 7:24:11 am PST

This morning, the New York Sun has a very good profile of some guy named Charles Johnson: The Blogger Who Helped to Dislodge Dan Rather. In an almost unimaginably perverse way, the attacks of September 11 constituted the greatest religious infomercial the world has ever seen. In the West, Islam went ...

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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

State of the Union: Topic Four

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 8:12:45 pm PST

Here’s a final open topic to discuss the President’s State of the Union speech.

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State of the Union: Topic Three

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 6:45:39 pm PST

President Bush sends a message to Al Qaeda: “the advance of freedom will lead to peace.” Watch live at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 2/2/05 6:51:29 pm: Syria and Iran have been put on notice.

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State of the Union: Topic Two

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 6:06:59 pm PST

As the President’s speech begins, here’s a second topic for discussions; watch live over the web at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 2/2/05 6:19:43 pm: “Less dependent on foreign energy!” Take that, Saudi Arabia.

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State of the Union: Topic One

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 5:20:46 pm PST

The President will be speaking in a little more than 40 minutes as I write this, and you can watch live over the web at C-SPAN. We’re planning to live-blog this important speech, the first major speech of Bush’s second term, lizard-style. Registration is now open, for those who wish ...

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Eason Jordan: Journalists Tortured by US

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 4:58:08 pm PST

Here’s a Guardian report from November 19, 2004, in which CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan is quoted telling a journalists’ conference in Portugal that journalists in Iraq have been arrested and tortured by US forces: US military ‘still failing to protect journalists in Iraq’. (Hat tip: Captain’s Quarters.) Independent journalists ...

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CNN Tries to Apply a Tourniquet

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 4:03:47 pm PST

Just received through our contact form, with a return address of public.information@turner.com, and a referral from Hugh Hewitt’s site (where he posted a list of blogs covering the Eason Jordan story): Many blogs have taken Mr. Jordan’s remarks out of context. Eason Jordan does not believe the U.S. military is ...

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Interview with the Enemy

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 3:50:05 pm PST

Christianity Today Magazine has a fascinating interview with Omar Bakri Muhammad, leader of Britain’s most radical Islamist group, Al Muhajiroun: There Can Be No End to Jihad. His fantasy about a brave new Islamic utopia living under totalitarian shari’a law is particularly noteworthy: You have talked about the Islamic flag flying ...

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Taking Kos Seriously

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 3:31:12 pm PST

At the Daily Standard, Dean Barnett says Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga is the most popular and important force in the blogosphere: Taking Kos Seriously. Kos outwardly and unambiguously defines his role differently. He has proudly assumed the task of getting Democrats elected and never denies that he is an activist, not ...

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Eason Jordan's Remarks Corroborated

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 3:11:43 pm PST

Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN reporter, says the description of CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan’s remarks at the World Economic Forum that we quoted yesterday is accurate: RConversation: Blogstorm descending on CNN. Right-wing blogs, including Little Green Footballs, have moved their sights from CBS to CNN. At the center of ...

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A Gift to the GOP

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 2:56:47 pm PST

What can I say? The man who blew up in the midst of the presidential campaign with the most bizarre, histrionic political performance ever recorded, and who said, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for,” will be the leader of the Democratic National Committee: Dean Emerging as Likely ...

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Life Imitates TV

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 2:16:54 pm PST

A story from Spain reminiscent of this season’s plot of the TV series 24: Spain Links Family to Madrid Bombings. MADRID, Spain—Spanish police arrested on Tuesday a family of four Moroccans suspected of having links to the Madrid train bombings of last year, the Interior Ministry said. The four — a married ...

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Iran is Laughing at the West

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 1:41:44 pm PST

Iran remains openly defiant about their plans for nuclear weapons, even as European “diplomats” continue to dither and look the other way: Iran Says It Will Never Scrap Nuke Program. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will never scrap its nuclear program, and talks with Europeans are intended to protect the country’s nuclear ...

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NK Sent Nuclear Material to Libya

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 12:38:29 pm PST

Here’s a disturbing report that indicates the nuclear black market is alive and well, and that Muammar Gaddafi is not as “reformed” as he would like us to believe: North Korea May Have Sent Libya Nuclear Material, U.S. Tells Allies. North Korea has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium ...

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Meet the New Boss

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 10:19:06 am PST

Schieffer set to fill Rather’s CBS seat. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer is all but certain to be named interim anchor on The CBS Evening News when Dan Rather steps down next month, sources within CBS News say. Though no final decision has been made, sources with knowledge of the ...

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NEU Professor Slimes LGF Again

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 9:33:02 am PST

Northeastern University economics professor M. Shahid Alam, who wrote an execrable article comparing the September 11 hijackers (favorably) to the American Minutemen, is apparently going to be the subject of a Bill O’Reilly show on anti-American professors, and he’s so distressed about it he had to write another article ...

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Sudan Envoy: The Non-Genocide is Bush's Fault

Wed, Feb 2, 2005 at 8:30:50 am PST

Invited to speak at Stanford University by the radical Muslim Student Awareness Network, Sudan’s ambassador to the United States told the audience that the ongoing ethnic cleansing his government is conducting against black African Muslims is really the fault of George W. Bush—except that it isn’t really happening at all: ...

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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Bus 19 at UC Irvine

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 8:22:47 pm PST

Mere Rhetoric has photos from the exhibit of Egged Bus 19 at UC Irvine.

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CNN: "Targeted for Seeking the Truth"

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 6:42:54 pm PST

Eason Jordan’s accusation that journalists have been deliberately murdered by US troops in Iraq is not the first time a CNN representative has made such a charge. In November 2004 we covered a statement by CNN exec Chris Cramer, who’s also honorary president of the Brussels-based International News Safety Institute, when ...

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CNN Exec: US Military Killed 12 Journalists

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 5:07:47 pm PST

CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan, who admitted in April 2003 that CNN had been covering up stories of Saddam Hussein’s torture and atrocities in order to keep the CNN Baghdad office open, handed the enemy the biggest propaganda gift they could have imagined at the World Economic Forum in ...

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Hamilton College Cancels Ward Churchill Panel

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 1:35:23 pm PST

Hamilton College has canceled the panel discussion with Colorado University professor Ward Churchill—not because his monstrously inverted opinions deserve to be shunned, but because of alleged “threats of violence.” Cancellation of Panel Discussion on Limits of Dissent We have done our best to protect what we hold most dear, the right to ...

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Holy Warriors vs. GI Joe

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 1:06:27 pm PST

The Associated Press has fallen hook, line, and sinker for an obvious hoax: Web Site Claims GI Captured in Iraq. (Thanks to all who emailed.) BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 ...

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Saudi Hatred Fills US Mosques

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 8:15:24 am PST

If you were reading LGF last Friday, you should already be aware of the recent bombshell report from Freedom House, on the appalling prevalence of Saudi Arabian hate ideology in American mosques and Islamic centers; here’s our post (we were one of the first to cover the story, which has ...

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Prager: The Left is Worthless

Tue, Feb 1, 2005 at 7:51:14 am PST

Dennis Prager precisely describes the moral vacuity of the far left: The left is worth nothing. There were intellectually and morally honest arguments against going to war in Iraq. But once the war began, a moral person could not oppose it. No moral person could hope for, let alone act on ...

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