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LGF Archives: March 2005

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Hizballah: "I Wish They Would Come"

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 8:35:45 pm PST

Hizballah’s supreme freakazoid leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah challenges the US to bring it on. BEIRUT (Reuters) - A defiant Hizbollah leader challenged the United States Thursday to send troops to Lebanon to carry out its call to disarm the Shi’ite Muslim guerrilla group. “We tell America and all those who want to ...

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Roger Ebert and Terrorism: An Exchange

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:59:51 pm PST

It’s Debbie Schlussel vs. Roger Ebert, in a confrontation over Ebert’s defense of alleged PKK terrorist Ibrahim Parlak.

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Making Hospitals Muslim-Friendly

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:09:16 pm PST

Concessions and special privileges that would be granted to no other religion: Making hospital more Muslim-friendly. (Hat tip: J.D.) In response to a growing Muslim population in Central Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Hospital is offering a workshop to help employees better understand Islam so they can treat Muslim patients with ...

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Ward Churchill Is Not Alone

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 6:12:10 pm PST

Ladies and lizards (and lizards who are ladies), I’d like to introduce you to associate professor at North Carolina Wesleyan, Jane T. Christensen. (Hat tip: Drew.) Here is her faculty web page, proudly reeking of antisemitism and conspiracy mania. Here is the course she’s teaching for the Spring 2005 semester: (POL 495) ...

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A Prof (Hamid Dabashi) Tangles the Truth

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 5:24:41 pm PST

One of the Columbia University Middle East professors exonerated by the school’s shameful whitewash is Hamid Dabashi, the subject of this Daniel Pipes column: A Prof [Hamid Dabashi] Tangles the Truth. Those of us who watch Middle East studies at Columbia University differ as to which professor of that lot ...

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What Media Bias?

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 5:03:51 pm PST

Greyhawk catches USA Today in a blatant distortion of facts, in a report with the doom-and-gloom headline “Mental Disorders Are On The Rise Among Afghanistan, Iraq Veterans.”

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How Can I Train Myself for Jihad?

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 4:51:33 pm PST

At an Islamic web site in Pakistan called Muskurahat (cheerfully subtitled, “where your heart wants to smile”) we find an online training manual for violence and murder: How Can I Train Myself for Jihad? (Hat tip: Jim.) Judging from the illustration of an AK-47 that accompanies this helpful do-it-yourself guide, I ...

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Sandy Berger to Plead Guilty

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 4:32:01 pm PST

Sandy Berger is going to plead guilty to illegally removing documents from the National Archive: Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials. (No less than seven emails about this one; thanks to all.) WASHINGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National ...

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Canadian Photographer Tortured to Death

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 3:32:10 pm PST

An Iranian doctor provides new information about the hellish ordeal suffered by Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photographer murdered in an Iranian prison: Zahra Kazemi was tortured, Iranian doctor says in Canada. (Thanks to all who emailed.) Shahram Aazam, an Iranian who has been granted asylum in Canada, contradicted conclusions by the ...

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David Project Reacts to Columbia Report

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 1:41:02 pm PST

I just received this press release from Charles Jacobs at The David Project, regarding Columbia University’s shamefully biased report exonerating their Arabist professors from wrongdoing: *** Press Release The David Project March 31, 2005 Contact: Dr. Charles Jacobs, President David Project Reacts to Columbia Report on Student Harassment “Biased committee ignores facts, protects its own” Responding to ...

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Hanoi Jane Admits Betrayal

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 1:06:09 pm PST

Jane Fonda finally admits her behavior during the Vietnam War was despicable: Jane Fonda Regrets 1972 Visit to Vietnam Gun Site. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jane Fonda regrets her visit to a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the actress and fitness guru said in an interview with CBS television show ...

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New York Times in Cahoots with Columbia U

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 8:42:55 am PST

The New York Sun has a report on today’s disgraceful whitewash from Columbia University—and it looks like the New York Times is in on it: Faculty Committee Largely Clears Scholars. (Hat tip: davesax.) In an effort to manage favorable coverage of its investigation into the complaints, the university disclosed a summary ...

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Philippines Arrests Palestinian Terror Trainer

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:42:28 am PST

A Palestinian man has been arrested in the Philippines for connections to the Abu Sayyaf Islamic terrorist gang: Philippines Arrests Terror Trainer Suspect. MANILA, Philippines - Philippine authorities have arrested a Palestinian man who allegedly has trained al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf guerrillas and returned to the Philippines for a possible terror mission, ...

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RIP, Terri Schiavo

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:24:53 am PST

Terri Schiavo has passed away: Schiavo Dies 13 Days After Feeding Tube Removed.

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Outrage of the Day

Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:08:30 am PST

If you thought Columbia University might actually do some housecleaning and deal with the outrageous antisemitism and anti-Americanism of their radical Arab/Arabist professors, think again. You see, according to Columbia’s faculty committee, the whole thing was drummed up by “uncivil” Jews, spying on faculty members. Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of ...

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Ward Churchill at Anarchist Bookfair

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 8:18:41 pm PST

LGF operative zombie’s photo essay on Ward Churchill’s appearance at the Anarchist Bookfair is now open for viewing, and the freakishness on display cannot be overstated. You’ll learn more than you ever wanted to know about San Francisco’s latest body modification fad.

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Wednesday Open Thread

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 6:24:38 pm PST

The single-syllable object featured in tonight’s open thread is a beach.

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 4:09:17 pm PST

Gunmen Fire at Abbas’ Headquarters. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian militants fired Wednesday at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ West Bank headquarters while he was in the compound, but he was not injured, security officials said. Later, the 15 gunmen — who said they belong to an armed group linked to the ruling ...

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Sheep Among Wolves

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 4:03:25 pm PST

Malaysia is hosting an international conference titled “Peace in Palestine,” featuring for the first time an Israeli delegation—composed of far left peace activists. At a debate today, Arab “journalists” and Islamic “human rights” activists came out strongly in favor of suicide bombing: Delegates abuzz over ‘suicide bomber’. (Hat tip: ...

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Oil-For-Food: Special Report #2

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 2:41:35 pm PST

Roger L. Simon has another special report on the Oil-for-Food investigation with more new details and a hint of an even stronger connection between Kojo’s activities and his dear old dad.

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Hamas Burning More Stuff

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:32:38 pm PST

I’m sure all these violent fantasy psychodramas will end as soon as they have their own state. Hamas supporters set a fake coffin covered with the flags of Israel and the U.S. on fire during a Hamas rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, March 30, 2005. Thousands of protesters ...

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White Supremacists and Islamic Supremacists

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:18:54 pm PST

The leader of the white supremacist group Aryan Nation recognizes kindred spirits in radical Islam: An unholy alliance. (Hat tip: Nancy.) SEBRING, Florida (CNN) — A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them — ...

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Pro-Syrian Collapse in Lebanon?

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:27:45 am PST

If this is true, it’s real bombshell news from DEBKAfile. (Hat tip: NC.) DEBKAfile exclusive military sources report complete collapse of pro-Syrian political and intelligence structure in Lebanon and abrupt withdrawal of all Syrian commands including key figure military intelligence chief General Ghazaleh.

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Cynthia McKinney on Foreign Policy, Part 2

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 9:42:22 am PST

Here’s the fourth and final installment of Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Moonbat) giving a speech sponsored by the Stalinist group International ANSWER at a small church. In the thrilling conclusion, McKinney touches on her favorite subjects: Halliburton, 9/11 conspiracies, and our total failure in Iraq. [Video] McKinney: We also need sanctions to be ...

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What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 8:17:59 am PST

Daniel Pipes asks, “What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?” “Shocked” is how Aisha Sherazi, principal of the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa, described the reaction of the school’s administration and board on learning last week that two of its teachers had incited hatred of Jews. And “shocked” was how Mumtaz Akhtar, president of ...

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CAIR's War on National Review

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 7:42:53 am PST

According to Robert Spencer, National Review decided to cave in to pressure from the Council on American Islamic Relations because they were “choosing their battles.” While it’s definitely true that National Review has done a great deal to expose the agenda of radical Islam, and I’m not going to stop reading ...

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Anti-War Cowards Deface Medal of Honor Memorial

Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 7:03:37 am PST

In Indianapolis, another sick act of cowardice and disrespect from the people who “support our troops:” Vandals target Canal Walk. (Hat tip: greenbear.) Indianapolis, March 29 - Carol Helmus and her family got a big shock during their visit to the Canal Walk Tuesday afternoon, where vandals defaced public property. "We’ve ...

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

National Review Caves in to CAIR

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 8:54:38 pm PST

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is crowing tonight about forcing National Review Online to remove advertisements for books critical of Islam: National Review Removes Books Attacking Prophet Muhammad Hundreds contact Boeing to urge withdrawal of magazine ads (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/29/05) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that National Review magazine ...

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Orwellian Moment of the Day

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 8:06:43 pm PST

Faculty and students at the University of Toronto titled this open letter: In defense of academic freedom. But read it, and you’ll discover that to these people, “academic freedom” means stopping Daniel Pipes from speaking.

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The Israel-Nazi Slander

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 6:51:03 pm PST

Here’s an excellent deconstruction of the “Israel=Nazi Germany” canard that has become an article of faith among the deluded left, by Rory Miller, a Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, University of London: The Israel-Nazi Slander in Historical Context. (Hat tip: bigel.) The historian Yaacov Shavit once argued that ...

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Profs Gone Wild!

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 4:42:21 pm PST

Iowahawk branches out to the highly lucrative wacky reality video market with Profs Gone Wild! Extreme Ultimate Spring Break Volume 6, as tenured academics get they freak on! Next, the Profs Gone Wild crew hits the hot beaches of Daytona... along with special guest star Snoop Dogg! You won’t believe the ...

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Kofi Annan Defiant, Relieved

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 3:07:48 pm PST

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan doesn’t just say, “No.” He says, “Hell, no!” NEW YORK - Investigators probing the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday that Secretary-General Kofi Annan didn’t interfere in the awarding of a contract to a company that employed his son but criticized the U.N. chief for not ...

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Google News Drops Jawa Report

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 2:54:39 pm PST

Rusty Shackleford’s excellent blog The Jawa Report has been dropped from Google News because according to Google, it contains “hate speech.” Amazing. So because they were forced to remove National Vanguard, for Pete’s sake, a white supremacist site that everyone agrees is a racist sewer, Google News apparently will now sanitize ...

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Wall Street Journal Touts MPAC

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 1:15:23 pm PST

Dhimmi Watch takes note of a disturbingly naïve whitewash of radical Islamic front group MPAC and its leader Salam Al-Marayati, in today’s Wall Street Journal: Dhimmitude at the Wall Street Journal: the Journal touts MPAC. Salam Al-Marayati is notorious for telling radio station KCRW, within hours of the September 11 ...

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Mein Kampf Bestseller in Turkey

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 7:53:44 am PST

I just realized I hadn’t had a front page entry about this disgusting development in Turkey, where the genocidal manifesto of Adolf Hitler is among the top ten best selling books: Turkey Shrugs Off Success of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’. ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s government Monday played down soaring sales of Adolf ...

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Repent! The End is Near!

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 7:39:04 am PST

Looks like we have about two years left, according to the Koran: Koran scholar: US will cease to exist in 2007. (Hat tip: Jewels.) A thorough analysis of the Koran reveals that the US will cease to exist in the year 2007, according to research published by Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi. The ...

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Ward Churchill in San Francisco

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 7:16:21 am PST

Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill seems to be getting crazier; LGF operative zombie’s latest excellent photo essay depicts the professor’s bizarre appearance at The Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission District to promote his book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill in SF, March 25, 2005. Here we see Churchill’s ...

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Oil is Thicker than Blood

Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 7:00:52 am PST

The Australian reports that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan plans to throw his son Kojo to the wolves: Annan to save face by saying son misled him. NEW YORK: Kofi Annan, struggling to survive as the UN Secretary-General, plans to blame his son for embroiling him in the oil-for-food scandal when ...

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Monday, March 28, 2005

Sudanese Charades

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 7:35:20 pm PST

From the Scotsman.com, a clear-headed three-paragraph analysis of the ongoing charade to keep the UN at bay. TOMORROW, the Security Council is to vote on a French resolution calling for those committing mass murder and ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of Sudan to be tried by the International Criminal Court. ...

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RoP, Bangladesh

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 6:56:09 pm PST

Muslim cleric up for sex abuse. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Dhaka - A Muslim cleric who ran an Islamic religious school for girls in Bangladesh has been accused of having sex with his students and forcing those who became pregnant to have abortions, a news report said on Monday. The Bangladesh Observer quoted ...

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The Museum of Hate

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 3:53:56 pm PST

The home of the “spiritual leader” of Hamas, the unspeakable monster called Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, is being turned into a museum. Hamas has decided to turn the home of its slain leader, Ahmed Yassin, in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood into a museum. The decision comes on the first anniversary of the assassination ...

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Cynthia McKinney on Foreign Policy, Part 1

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 3:20:20 pm PST

We have even more video of Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Moonbat) giving a talk sponsored by International ANSWER in a small church; tonight’s topic is foreign policy, crazy stupid votes, and the Bush War Machine. (Hat tip: ProtestWarrior.) (Click picture to play video.) Today was both a wonderful day, but today was really ...

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Oil-For-Food: Simon on Kudlow

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 2:08:18 pm PST

Roger L. Simon will be interviewed on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company show today, between 2:30 and 3 pm (Pacific), on Roger’s new information about the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.

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Good News from Iraq, Part 24

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:13:39 pm PST

Here’s Arthur Chrenkoff’s latest lengthy and very encouraging round-up of Good news from Iraq, Part 24.

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How a Lone Diplomat Compromised the Hunt for Bin Laden

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:22:17 am PST

Richard Miniter at the New York Sun blows the whistle on an outrageous decision by US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell, shortly after September 11, to refuse distribution in Pakistan of material advertising the $25 million reward for the capture of Osama Bin Laden: How a Lone Diplomat Compromised the ...

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Pro-Democracy Demonstrations in Iran

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:15:22 am PST

At Regime Change Iran, an account of massive protests in Iran going totally unreported by mainstream media: Update on post soccer match pro-Democracy demonstrations in Iran. While hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured into the streets of cities all across Iran lastnight to both celebrate the victory of Iran over Japan ...

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Breaking: Huge Earthquake in Indian Ocean

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 9:00:53 am PST

Drudge Report has the current headline: 8.5 mag quake rocks Indian Ocean, triggering tsunami warning. UPDATE at 3/28/05 9:52:12 am: Scientists at the University of Ulster issued an earthquake warning for this area of Sumatra after an analysis of fault zones last week. The stresses in the earth’s crust which have resulted from ...

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Muslim Brotherhood Acting Up in Egypt

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 8:44:44 am PST

Following Hosni Mubarak’s proposal to open Egyptian elections, the Islamic supremacist group Muslim Brotherhood begins flexing their muscles—and Mubarak flexes back: Egypt Arrests Members of Banned Group. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian security arrested scores of members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday, but hours later the group ...

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Gay Patriot Silenced

Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 8:11:59 am PST

The blogger known as Gay Patriot has been intimidated into silence by a reactionary left-wing “activist” who specializes in harassing gay conservatives. GayPatriot, the anonymous gay Republican blogger, has officially signed off. In a statement, no explanation was given. With GayPatriot’s permission, I am now able to recount the real story. On ...

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Sunday, March 27, 2005

Oil-For-Food Scam Breaking Open

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 9:40:44 pm PST

Roger L. Simon has some important new information on the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal tonight, indicating that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have been much more involved in his son Kojo’s activities with Cotecna than we have been led to believe: Special Report #1 - Oil-for-Food Investigation. Roger’s source, Pierre Mouselli, ...

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Kyrgyzstan Update

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 9:18:57 pm PST

The situation in Kyrgyzstan is extremely tense and unstable tonight, with threats of civil war as the new government attempts to gain control: New Kyrgyz Leaders Try to Avert Split After Coup. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan’s new rulers sought Sunday to avert a split in their ranks after their lightning ...

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Mass Murderers for Peace

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 9:06:04 pm PST

Sure, let’s help the Palestinians build a sovereign state, by legitimizing two of the most virulent, racist, genocidal terrorist gangs in the world today. You’ve got to be kidding me. PLO to Mull Militant Groups Joining — Islamic Jihad. GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestine Liberation Organization may let two Islamic militant groups join ...

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The Great Divide

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 8:40:48 pm PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Google Advertises Hamas

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:39:06 am PST

The largest news service in Israel, Ynet, reports that Google has been running advertisements for the recruitment web site of the terrorist group Hamas, that show up when the word “Hamas” is entered in Arabic: Google advertises Hamas. (Hat tip: Ayatollah Ghilmeini.) Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations ...

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Rampant Anarchist Consumerism

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:17:47 am PST

Several readers emailed about this one, an account of rampant anarchist consumerism in San Francisco at the 10th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair: Anarchists find common ground at S.F. get-together. For those who haven’t read some of the anarchist classics, such as Alexander Berkman’s “What Is Anarchism?” fairgoers and organizers were ...

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Easter Sunday Open Thread

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 9:23:35 am PST

Happy Easter, everyone.

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Palestinians Smuggle Anti-Aircraft Missiles

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 8:46:42 am PST

The Associated Press headline reads: Palestinians Accused of Arms Smuggling. This time, however, the arms they’ve smuggled in are not the usual guns or explosives, but Soviet-era Strella anti-aircraft missiles that could be used to shoot down commercial airliners. JERUSALEM - Israel’s defense minister said Sunday that Palestinian security agents recently smuggled ...

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Saudi Arabia Forging Ties with India

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 8:17:37 am PST

The royal family of Saudi Arabia is hedging its bets with the United States, making deals with Russia, China, and now India: Aiyar Keen to Take Indo-Saudi Ties to New Levels. NEW DELHI, 27 March 2005 — Saudi Arabia has come to recognize India as a significant power and begun to ...

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The Myth of Islamic Tolerance

Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 8:06:29 am PST

Robert Spencer’s excellent new book “The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims” brings together essays by Bat Ye’or, David Littman, Ibn Warraq, Spencer himself and others, to examine the truth about shari’a. And as if to underline the point that mainstream media is amazingly clueless on the ...

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

Hamas Burning Stuff Again

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 8:31:57 pm PST

Have you ever seen anyone more deserving of their own sovereign state? Members of the Hamas movement burn Israeli and U.S. flags during a rally in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 24, 2005. REUTERS/Saeed Dahlah

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Depressed Annan Close to Quitting

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 8:23:46 pm PST

The Sunday Times reports that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is depressed and close to quitting over the UN’s many scandals. (Hat tip: Ethel.) KOFI ANNAN, the United Nations secretary-general, is said to be struggling with depression and considering his future. Colleagues have reported concerns about Annan ahead of an official ...

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Cycle of Violence: Speed Metal

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 7:49:40 pm PST

This is what a Speedplay pedal attached to a Shimano Ultegra crank looks like after a 45 mile ride around the hills of Palos Verdes, on an incredibly warm sunny day in Hotel California. PV Drive North downhill was especially fast today, with very little headwind; maximum speed was 36.2 ...

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A Little Less Certainty

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 4:55:45 pm PST

Glenn says that in the Terri Schiavo furor, some on the right are acting like the left, flaming people like Rev. Donald Sensing because they express contrary opinions. I can vouch that Glenn’s right; I’ve received a few very nasty emails, and been called “Judas” here at LGF, simply for ...

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Another Attack in Beirut

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 2:30:14 pm PST

There’s been another huge bomb attack against a Christian neighborhood in Beirut: Lebanon Blast Injures 3 Foreign Workers. BEIRUT, Lebanon - A bomb set off a raging inferno in an industrial area of a mainly Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Saturday, injuring at least three foreign workers. Antoine Gebara, mayor of the ...

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 8:42:37 am PST

Here’s an open thread for a beautiful Saturday morning. Please try not to scream at each other (or me) too much, OK? It’s giving me a headache.

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Human Wrongs Watch

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 8:31:16 am PST

Human Rights Watch, the NGO that spends an amazingly disproportionate amount of time condemning the United States and Israel, recently hired a writer for the radical pro-Palestinian site Electronic Intifada: HRW Hires Researcher from “Electronic Intifada”. (Thanks to all who emailed.) Ken Roth and Human Rights Watch have employed Lucy Mair ...

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Turkish Anti-Americanism

Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 8:08:04 am PST

Radical Islam is making disturbing inroads into the politics and culture of Turkey; Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI looks at the rampant anti-Americanism of Turkish media: Turkey: A New Al-Qaeda State? (Hat tip: Nancy.) MEMRI’s Turkish Media Project currently monitors and translates Turkey’s printed media, and will shortly begin to cover major ...

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Friday, March 25, 2005

The Management of Barbarism

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 5:11:22 pm PST

The Jamestown Foundation has posted excerpts from a new Al Qaeda internet manifesto mapping out a plan for the establishment of an Islamic state, partly through a method they charmingly name Idarat al-Tawahhush, “The Management of Barbarism”—the barbarians, in their view, being the subjugated populations of their Islamic state in ...

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Blame George W. Bush

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 2:38:38 pm PST

In a quite amazing development, the Financial Times has reported that the leaders of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim “insurgency” are terribly demoralized by the recent elections (and probably also by the relentless pounding they’ve been taking on the battlefield)—demoralized enough to start negotiating with the Iraqi government to lay down their ...

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Jordanian UN Peacekeeper Sex Scandal

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:03:19 pm PST

This is one of the more disgusting scandals currently plaguing the United Nations, but by no means the only one: Hushed rape of Timor. (Hat tip: skippy moment.) It caused outrage among East Timorese and Australian troops sent to protect them, raised tensions among UN peacekeepers to a deadly new level ...

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"No Room for Hatred"

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:49:11 am PST

At least one parent whose child goes to Ottawa’s Abraar Islamic School is outraged by the appalling student project we reported yesterday, and is demanding action from the school: There is no room for hatred. (Hat tip: sharona.) Rashid Nasim arrives at Abraar Islamic elementary school to pick up his young ...

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Jimmy Carter: An Electoral System for the 21st Century

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:56:52 am PST

Heaven help us all. If you thought the FEC was intruding into the political process, just wait until Jimmy gets done defining a new electoral system: Jimmy Carter to Chair Election Reform Commission. (Hat tip: sawdustmachine.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter will lead a bipartisan commission to examine problems ...

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Friday Morning Open Thread

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:41:30 am PST

The single-syllable object featured in this Friday morning open thread is a sign.

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On "Vigilantes"

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:32:54 am PST

President Bush’s stance on illegal immigration is very disturbing to those of us who support him strongly in the war; the Washington Times has an editorial today that criticizes Bush for condemning the volunteers of Project Minuteman as “Vigilantes.” We’ve reached a very strange moment in the immigration debate. On Wednesday ...

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Turkish Airbase Activity

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:14:57 am PST

Here’s an interesting report from Austin Bay about increased activity at the NATO airbase complex in Incirlik, Turkey: Launchpad to points East?

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LA Times Shills for Syria

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 9:00:31 am PST

The Los Angeles Times is becoming known as the “go to” newspaper for the tyrants and terrorist states of the world. Earlier this month the Times shilled for North Korea; today they give their commentary page over to Syria for a typically venomous rant from Syria’s minister for emigrant affairs: ...

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Podhoretz and Glick on Sharon and Bush

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 8:45:33 am PST

Norman Podhoretz’s analysis of the Bush Doctrine is a must-read: Bush, Sharon, My Daughter, and Me. The culmination of the piece (and you need to read the whole thing) is this powerful statement: In the end, then, it all comes back to Bush. So relentlessly have I harped on this that one ...

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Ward Goes to Berkeley

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 8:24:14 am PST

In an event certain to be remembered as one of the great freakshows of history, the anti-American speaking tour of Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill is coming to the University of California, Berkeley, this Monday. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) Department of Ethnic Studies Presents “Academic Freedom in Peril: Prof. Ward Churchill and His ...

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VDH: Does Ward Churchill Even Exist?

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 7:42:17 am PST

To Victor Davis Hanson, Ward Churchill is a sort of shadow creature, all smoke and no substance, the archetypal academic con man: Does Ward Churchill even exist? Instead of seeing Churchill as no man, it is better to envision him as an academic everyman. In the alternate universe of the modern ...

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Crazy Quote of the Day

Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 7:12:42 am PST

Today’s jaw-droppingly crazy quote comes from the attorney for US military deserter Jeremy Hinzman. (Hat tip: Molly.) “We don’t believe that people should be imprisoned for doing what they believe is illegal,” House told CBC TV.

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Cynthia McKinney on Military Recruitment

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 4:45:37 pm PST

Here’s Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Moonbat) giving a talk sponsored by International ANSWER in a small church; tonight’s topic is how to put an end to military recruitment. (Thanks to ProtestWarrior for the video.) I was gonna say about the military recruitment... We, um, tried to offer an amendment to strike the ...

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The Great EU-Iran Nuclear Puppetshow

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 3:36:29 pm PST

The European Union proposes to persuade Iran to cease enriching uranium. By handing them a nuclear reactor. After all, this strategy failed miserably in North Korea, so why not give it another try? Nuclear Accord Eludes Iran and Europeans. (Hat tip: The Word Unheard.) The Europeans laid out the difficulties in the ...

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Canada Denies Deserter

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 3:08:33 pm PST

US military deserter Jeremy Hinzman has been denied refugee status in Canada. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) TORONTO - An immigration panel in Toronto has denied refugee status to a former paratrooper who fled the United States to evade the war in Iraq. The Immigration and Refugee Board members said ...

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Today's Schiavo Thread

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 2:06:57 pm PST

For the latest information on Terri Schiavo, again I recommend Matt Conigliaro at Abstract Appeal, a Florida lawyer who is updating his blog frequently with the legal decisions and facts of the case. Here is the entire sad history of Terry Schiavo’s incapacitation. My opinion is that it’s singularly unwise for ...

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Blame George W. Bush

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 1:34:30 pm PST

The physicist President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, ruler of the country since independence in 1990, has fled the country. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - President Askar Akayev reportedly fled on Thursday after protesters stormed his headquarters, seized control of state television and rampaged through government offices, throwing computers and air conditioners out of ...

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Proposed FEC Rules for Internet Speech

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 1:03:32 pm PST

Remember how the Democrat members of the Federal Election Commission told bloggers not to worry about the FEC imposing rules on internet speech? Well, it’s time to start worrying. PoliPundit links to the FEC’s proposed rules, and calls for bloggers and blog readers to contact the FEC.

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Arab League Still Out of Touch with Reality

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:06:14 pm PST

Another absolutely worthless summit meeting by the Arab League ends with the various despots and cronies making the same demands they make at every one of these sham meetings: Arabs avoid summit controversy, renew Israel peace offer. The summit’s final declaration echoed the one released at last year’s Tunis conference, pledging ...

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The Nazimedia Morlocks Are On to Us

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:50:19 am PST

You know you’ve arrived when the Morlocks of Indymedia are so infuriated they start spewing unhinged conspiracy theories like psychotic Tourette’s Syndrome victims: Little Green Footballs Stalk Indymedia. How many bloggers can claim to be on the $80 million slush fund payroll of the omnipotent Chimpy Hitlerstein? This “Rayra” character is a ...

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High School Anti-Americanism Update

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 8:23:31 am PST

Several LGF readers have forwarded the reply they received from the principal of West Seattle High School, about the disgraceful “warm up skit” witnessed by an invited combat veteran: Dear _______, I appreciate your writing to me about what took place in the school theater prior to the Iraq assembly held last ...

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Islamic Indoctrination of Children

Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 7:36:30 am PST

Two teachers at the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa have been suspended for encouraging a student to write an appalling eight-page tale of murder, martyrdom, and Jew-hatred: Islamic school suspends teachers over student’s hate-filled tale. (Hat tip: Damian Penny.) One teacher was apparently involved in the artistic production of the eight-page ...

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Echoes of Nazism

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 8:48:45 pm PST

Militants of the Palestinian ruling Fatah party salute during a pre-election rally for the students council at the Al-Quds university in the West Bank town of Hebron Monday March 21, 2005. Tensions are increasing between Fatah and the Hamas Islamic group, which scored a decisive victory in student elections at ...

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Honoring Pat Tillman

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 6:47:37 pm PST

A friend of Pat Tillman has organized a run in his honor on April 16 in Tempe, Arizona: Pat’s Run.

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Google News Removes National Vanguard

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 6:23:26 pm PST

Apparently, Google News is beginning to reexamine the procedures that permitted including vile Nazi sites like National Vanguard: Google Axes Hate News. No word from them on what those procedures might be. Google has to draw the line somewhere in its mission to make all the world’s information available online. It’s ...

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High School Anti-Americanism

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 5:59:48 pm PST

The demonization of the US military goes way beyond the MIT campus; Sound Politics reports on an especially ugly example at a high school in Seattle: Vet strikes back. This past Friday afternoon, March 11, 2005 I served as one of a panel of guest speakers at the West Seattle High ...

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More Anti-American Thistle Cartoons

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 5:05:52 pm PST

You may have thought the cartoon from MIT’s Thistle “news collective” we posted yesterday was bad, but it wasn’t the only one. In fact, you’re not gonna believe the other illustrations on their server, apparently from the sick mind of the same artist: Thistle Cartoons. (Hat tip: Bill Roggio.) Warning: when ...

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A Very Fishy Memo

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 4:33:29 pm PST

Power Line has been all over the story of a possible Democrat dirty trick, involving a highly questionable, purportedly Republican “talking points memo” about the Terri Schiavo case. If you’re interested in the hard facts of the Schiavo case, I recommend Matt Conigliaro’s Abstract Appeal blog.

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CAIR: Anti-American Sentiment

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:36:43 pm PST

Radical Islamic front group CAIR will hold a conference in Washington DC, on Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies. You see, the West is plagued by “anti-Muslim bigotry,” which naturally leads to “anti-American sentiments” in the Islamic world. And CAIR, three of whose former officials and employees have been arrested and ...

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Cynthia McKinney on Voting

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:44:13 am PST

An LGF operative who wishes to be known as ProtestWarrior sent me some jawdropping video of US House Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Moonbat), giving a talk sponsored by International ANSWER in a small church. In the first video I’ll post at LGF, the subject is “voting,” as McKinney rants about the ...

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Allah Abandons Holy Warriors

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 9:10:41 am PST

Good news from Iraq, where a jihad training camp was wiped out today along with 85 terrorists. BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a suspected guerrilla training camp and killed 85 fighters, the single biggest one-day death toll for militants in months and the latest in a series of ...

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Dr. Goldfoot and the Grrrl Bombs

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 8:11:13 am PST

Wacky Libyan tyrant Muammar Gadhafi brought down the house at the Arab League summit in Algiers: Libyan leader grabs summit limelight, calls Palestinians ‘idiots’. “The Israelis are idiots and the Palestinians as well,” Kadhafi said Wednesday in the speech at the closing session of the two-day summit in Algiers which is ...

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Saudi Sheikh Sues American Writer

Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 7:34:09 am PST

A billionaire Saudi Sheikh tied to terrorist financing has been bringing harassment lawsuits in British courts against any writer who tries to expose him; the latest victim of his legal jihad is Rachel Ehrenfeld: Another First Amendment Landmark Case? (March 21, 2005) — When Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of the book “Funding ...

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

HBO Exposes Air America

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 9:35:12 pm PST

A priceless look behind the scenes at the Great Lefty Hope: Air America. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director’s cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone. The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak. The viewer is ...

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JihadTV Coming to a TV Near You

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 9:11:14 pm PST

The propaganda channel of the global jihad is planning to start broadcasting in America in English, and the Washington Post thinks it’s a great idea: Al-Jazeera to Be Launched in English in America. WASHINGTON, 22 March 2005 — Al-Jazeera news channel, the bete noire of both the Bush administration and many ...

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We Support Our Troops = We Want Them Killed

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 8:28:04 pm PST

From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Thistle, self-described as “an alternative news collective,” here’s a cartoon showing how much the far left “supports our troops:” Victory to the Iraqi Resistance. (Hat tip: eddy.) UPDATE at 3/22/05 8:54:10 pm: Audio recordings of sheer lunacy, from MIT’s student political affairs radio program, featuring archetypal ...

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Arafish Zapped by Zionist Laser

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 7:26:13 pm PST

The Palestinian ambassador in Sri Lanka announced a few days ago that Yasser Arafat was murdered by a Zionist death ray. (Thanks to all who emailed.) COLOMBO, March 19 (Bernama) — Attallah Quiba, the Palestinian ambassador in Sri Lanka, believes that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by unnamed Israelis using ...

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Malaysia Releases Islamic Terrorists

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 7:16:12 pm PST

Malaysia is quietly releasing terror suspects. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has released from prison a man who allegedly financed the deadly Bali bombings in 2002, as well as five other suspects who trained with weapons and explosives in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. None of the six had ever been charged ...

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The Kojo-Cotecna Connection

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 6:13:13 pm PST

What’s this I hear about Kofi Annan’s son Kojo? Annan son received $300,000 payments. (Hat tip: Midas Mulligan.) Kojo Annan, son of Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, received at least $300,000 from Cotecna, a Swiss inspection company awarded a contract ultimately worth about $60m under the Iraqi oil-for-food contract. The amount was ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Students at "Immoral Picnic"

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 3:48:00 pm PST

The deluded elitist “radicals” who carry signs reading “Victory to the Iraqi Resistance” are supporting creatures like these: Death at ‘immoral’ picnic in the park. THE students had begun to lay out their picnic in the spring sunshine when the men attacked. “There were dozens of them, armed with guns, and they ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Women

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 1:58:56 pm PST

There may be a better way to describe these murderous savages than the Sunday Times’ innocuous word “rebels:” Rebels kill Iraqi women as ‘betrayers’ of Islam. THE terrible screams will haunt Najat al-Alloussi every time she remembers her last telephone conversation with her kidnapped daughter. “Mama, mama,” cried Hadeel, 24. “They ...

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Iraq Merchants, Residents Kill Terrorists

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 1:25:48 pm PST

Iraqi shopkeepers and townspeople in southern Baghdad engaged in a gun battle with terrorists today—and won. (Hat tip: NC.) Gunbattles erupted out in the streets of the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Doura, where militants wearing black hoods and riding in three cars opened fire on people shopping on a main street. ...

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Palestinians Take Responsibility for Tulkarm

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 9:58:22 am PST

We’ll see how long this lasts: Israel Completes Handover of Tulkarm in W. Bank. TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel completed its handover of the town of Tulkarm to Palestinian control on Tuesday, unlocking a gate and allowing traffic to flow freely to the rest of the West Bank for the ...

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Demand Google News Transparency

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 9:21:55 am PST

Following LGF’s report that Google News has added neo-Nazi site National Vanguard to their index of news sources, Jeff Jarvis demands transparency. We’re demanding transparency of mainstream news. Well, it’s high time we get transparency from GoogleNews. Instapundit and LGF point to a nazi site — complete with “love your race” graphics — ...

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Mapes Sells Her Novel

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 8:13:09 am PST

Here’s a press release just forwarded to me by LGF reader Robert Bove: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE St. Martin’s Press Acquires Book by Former CBS Producer Mary Mapes Veteran television news journalist Mary Mapes has sold the rights to her memoir to St. Martin’s Press. Mapes has worked in television news ...

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Shari'a Law Marketed to American Youth

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 8:00:41 am PST

Andrei Rublev reports that “The Islam Project,” a group ostensibly formed to address “fear and misunderstandings” about Islam after September 11, have moved quietly to their real agenda: marketing Shari’a to America’s most vulnerable citizens. For Most Americans who regularly watch the news, the term “Sharia law” evokes gruesome images of ...

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Who's Funding the Terrorists?

Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 7:41:28 am PST

Annie Jacobsen asks, Who’s Funding the Terrorists? (Hat tip: Ethel.) The answer is: we are, through America’s public pension funds, who invest between 15 to 23 percent of their portfolios in companies doing business in terrorist-sponsoring states. Read this whole troubling article.

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Monday, March 21, 2005

My Letter to the Strib

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 8:09:40 pm PST

Here’s the letter (slightly edited; I didn’t write “made a bald-faced lie”) that I sent to the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the dishonest attack on Little Green Footballs they published on March 19: Letters from readers. In a March 19 counterpoint (“Article on blogs should have said more on political divide”), ...

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Human Wrongs Watch

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 7:44:28 pm PST

A current headline at the web site of Human Rights Watch: Iraq: Shooting of Italian Civilians by U.S. Forces. (Hat tip: Kevin.) The killing of an Italian secret service agent and the wounding of an Italian journalist in Baghdad highlights how civilian casualties by U.S. forces, at checkpoints and elsewhere, are ...

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The Return of the Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Iranian Female Police Cadets

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

My friends, can your hearts stand the shocking video of the Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Iranian Female Police Cadets? Click picture to play video. (Windows Media video courtesy of MEMRI TV.)

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One Bummed Out Peace Activist

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 3:34:29 pm PST

Here’s a hilariously impotent tantrum by an over the hill Seattle “activist” named Ira at Indymedia, nearly indistinguishable from an Iowahawk parody: Why Isn’t the Movement Against US Imperialism Stronger By Now? (Hat tip: Photios.) When Iraq was invaded two years ago, activists had some optimism that the movement against imperialist ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 1:37:08 pm PST

Iran plans secret ‘nuclear university’ to train scientists. The Iranian government has given approval for the establishment of a secret nuclear research centre to train its scientists in all aspects of atomic technology, The Telegraph can reveal. Recent reports received by Western intelligence show that Teheran has recently approved the establishment of ...

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Danger Up North

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:53:12 pm PST

We’ve covered many of these cases at LGF, but Deroy Murdock tallies them all up in one article—and the result is chilling: Danger Up North. Let’s hope Honduras is awash in American agents. Al Qaeda’s Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly has dispatched Islamo-fascist murderers to penetrate the U.S. via Tegucigalpa, where bribe-hungry ...

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NY Review of Books on Rathergate

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:26:14 am PST

It continues to amaze me that otherwise intelligent people, people who should and presumably do know better, are still trying to pretend that the blatantly bogus, fraudulent, fake, forged, phony CBS National Guard documents could possibly, somehow, maybe, be genuine. The latest example of this bizarre cognitive dissonance comes from James ...

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Mideast Islamic Authorities Enraged, Seething

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:21:31 am PST

African-American professor of Islamic studies Amina Wadud led a mixed-gender prayer service in New York last Friday, and now a whole lot of Muslims want her dead. Soad Saleh, who heads the Islamic department of the women’s college at Al-Azhar University, considered the act an apostasy, which is punishable by death ...

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Mad Mullah Blusters

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 8:26:51 am PST

Insane, belligerent mullah of the day “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei says he’s much braver than President Bush. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday he was ready to don combat fatigues and give his life in battle if his country were attacked, accusing Washington of seeking any ...

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Sunday, March 20, 2005

Google News High Standards, Exhibit N for Nazi

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 7:28:00 pm PST

I thought I’d seen everything. But Google News has now added the unspeakably vile neo-Nazi white supremacist web site National Vanguard to their index of “legitimate news sources.” (Hat tip: Morgan.) And LGF has been turned down. Twice. UPDATE at 3/22/05 10:51:12 am: For more on this, see: lgf: Demand Google News Transparency. UPDATE at ...

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This Pinata Hits Back

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 6:06:52 pm PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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The Second Annual Anti-Everything Freakshow

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 2:46:06 pm PST

LGF operative Rayra has a great photo essay on the 2nd Annual Anti-Everything Freakshow, held yesterday in glamorous Hollywood. (Thanks to Tom Sherman for setting up the mirroring code.)

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Democracy in Iraq: 2 Years

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 11:18:20 am PST

At Democracy in Iraq, Husayn answers the anti-war protesters. To may outsiders, like those who protested last year, who will protest today. This was a fools errand, it brought nothing but death and destruction. I am sheltered in Iraq, but I know how the world feels, how people have come to ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:00:07 am PST

Roger L. Simon tipped me to the outrageous story of DePaul University Professor Thomas Klocek, who has been suspended after a verbal altercation with Muslim student groups. The Chicago Jewish News has an account of the confrontation; if this is accurate, professor Klocek is apparently guilty of nothing more than expressing ...

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Jordanian UN Peacekeepers Draw Guns on Aussies

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 9:14:40 am PST

Another disgusting tale of corruption in the United Nations, as their Jordanian “peacekeeping” force in East Timor threatens to kill an Australian soldier who blew the whistle on the Jordanians’ sexual abuse of young boys: Diggers in Timor ‘sex’ clash. (Hat tip: Van Impe.) AUSTRALIAN soldiers drew arms to protect themselves ...

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Al Qaeda Attacks, NYT and WaPo Yawn

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 8:33:32 am PST

The suicide car bomb attack in Qatar killed one British man and injured at least 12 others, and is probably the work of Al Qaeda or one of its ideological brethren. But there isn’t a single word about the story on the front pages of The New York Times or The ...

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Qatar Terrorist Attack Update

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 8:22:27 am PST

Natasha Tynes has more information about the suicide car bomb attack on a theater full of Westerners in Doha, Qatar, including photos of the scene: Doha blast daylight photos. To be frank, I was not surprised that this happened here. Terrorist attacks are happening in neighboring Saudi and Kuwait, why not ...

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In Canada, Dean Calls Republicans "Brain-Dead"

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 7:47:05 am PST

Yesterday DNC chairman Howard “Screamin’” Dean went to Toronto and said the Democrats lost the election to “brain-dead Republicans.” (Hat tip: eddie.) “Keep it simple” is the key to the White House, failed Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told members of his party from around the world last night. One major reason ...

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Radical Islam Marches in London

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 7:30:03 am PST

Yesterday’s protest marches in London were dominated by the Muslim Association of Britain, a group linked with the virulent Muslim Brotherhood. Muslims in the march were carrying Hamas flags and chanting slogans calling for the destruction of Israel. The UK has a huge problem. Trumpet Sounds has the story: Anti-War, or Anti-Israel? In ...

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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Religion of Peace Kills 32 in Pakistan

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 8:54:09 pm PST

Pakistan Shrine Blast Kills at Least 32. QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 32 people were killed and more than 40 wounded when a bomb exploded at a religious gathering at a minority Shi’ite Muslim shrine in southwest Pakistan late on Saturday, officials said. The motive for the attack in Gandhawa, a ...

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Palestinian Police Training

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 8:21:21 pm PST

Do police forces normally train their members to crawl through muddy tunnels? And is the other end of this tunnel on fire? Palestinian policemen take part in a drill in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Close to 10,000 Israelis marched through Tel Aviv in a show of mass support for ...

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Moronic Convergence Roundup

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 5:46:52 pm PST

They’re doin’ the moonbat mambo up in Montreal, and IDF Dave recorded their gyrations for posterity. UPDATE at 3/19/05 5:59:08 pm: Darleen’s Place has photos from the San Diego Loon Convention, including this lovely lady with a purple middle finger, and a guy who looks like he could use a little starvation ...

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Car Bomb in Qatar

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 3:01:20 pm PST

There was an explosion today in a theater near a British school in Doha, Qatar; blogger Natasha Tynes was in the neighborhood and felt the blast: Explosion in Doha; we are fine. Al Jazeera is reporting that it was a car bomb. DOHA (Reuters) - An explosion that killed one person and ...

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SF Loons Terrified of Lizardoids

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 2:24:51 pm PST

Oh brother. You couldn’t pay an entire staff of comedy writers enough dough to come up with gold like this, posted this morning by a commenter at Jerry Brown’s blog. (Hat tip: rcl.) OT - Sorry, but important. On April 15th, a number of self-named “Lizardoid Minions” are planning a ‘meetup’ in ...

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MoonbatsHorrifiedByBolton.org

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:05:11 pm PST

An apparently well-funded grassroots moonbat site called StopBolton.org is showing a video of President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to the UN John Bolton, with the caption: Think Bolton’s the right man for the job of UN Ambassador? Take a look and decide for yourself. An excellent idea! In the interest of ...

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Jordan Proposes New Israel Peace Strategy

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:19:39 am PST

In another unmistakable sign that something big is happening in the Middle East, a groundbreaking initiative from King Abdullah of Jordan: Jordan Proposes New Israel Peace Strategy. ALGIERS, Algeria - King Abdullah II of Jordan has proposed a new peace strategy that drops traditional Arab demands that Israel give up all ...

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Victoria Cross Awarded

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:33:22 am PST

A stirring tale of bravery and heroism, as Johnson Gideon Beharry is awarded the first Victoria Cross since 1982: Private Johnson Gideon Beharry - Victoria Cross. Read the whole thing; the details are amazing. (Hat tip: Silent Running.) Pte Beharry receives the Victoria Cross for two separate acts of outstanding gallantry ...

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Strib Attacks LGF with Lies

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 9:45:24 am PST

An idiot at the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacks Power Line and LGF today, in a blatantly dishonest “opinion” piece: Tamara Baker: Article on blogs should’ve said more on political divide. After praising Daily Kos and Eschaton (two of the most hate-filled lefty blogs), Baker writes: Black’s article also didn’t mention ‘Little Green ...

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One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 9:20:05 am PST

Here’s a vapid exercise in moral equivalence, from AP Palestinian propagandist Mohammed Daraghmeh: Midest [sic] Extremists Pose Threat to Truce. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Extremists on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides pose a significant threat to a truce that 13 Palestinian factions agreed to extend this week. Rogue Palestinian groups, some ...

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AFP Sues Google

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 8:54:33 am PST

Agence France Presse is suing Google for using their content without permission. (Hat tip: Havoc.) WASHINGTON : Agence France-Presse has sued Google Inc. for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet search engine included AFP headlines, news summaries and photographs published without permission. In a suit filed in a Washington court, AFP sought ...

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Muslim Hatemonger Reacts to Female Prayer Leader

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 8:30:44 am PST

Canadian Islamic Congress leader Mohamed Elmasry narrowly escaped being prosecuted for “hate crimes” for his open support of Palestinian terrorism, and today the moonbat site Media Monitors Network publishes a nauseatingly whiny, logic-free article by Elmasry attacking female Islamic scholar Amina Wadud for leading a prayer service in New York: ...

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Moronic Convergence Day

Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 7:36:50 am PST

The lunatics are out marching in the streets again; cognitive dissonance is on parade, as “anti-war” protesters mingle with supporters of terrorism, scream hatred and lies, and throw a massive tantrum. Felix Jackson, 11-years-old, lays flowers at the foot of a mock coffin with 100,000 dead written on it, placed by ...

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Friday, March 18, 2005

Peaceful Religion Watch

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 8:08:56 pm PST

A female Islamic scholar led a mixed-gender prayer service in New York today: Islamic woman sparks controversy by leading prayers. (Hat tip: Oldengr.) NEW YORK - (KRT) - Defying centuries of Muslim tradition and sparking a firestorm of controversy, a prominent female Islamic scholar led a mixed-gender congregation in prayers here ...

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Appeals Court Upholds Imam's Deportation

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 7:41:18 pm PST

Fawaz Damra, imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, linked to fund-raising for terrorists, is going to be deported. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) CLEVELAND - Federal prosecutors are clear to begin deportation proceedings against the leader of Ohio’s largest mosque after an appeals court upheld his conviction. Imam Fawaz Damra, 43, of suburban ...

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AP Will Provide Two Different Versions of Reality

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 6:27:17 pm PST

Oh no, no potential for abuse here at all! AP to Offer Two Leads for Some Stories. (Hat tip: cat dancing.) NEW YORK—Attention, Associated Press members, prepare to get more for your money: Now available, two leads for the price of one. In a break with tradition at the 156-year-old news cooperative, ...

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VDH: Little Eichmanns and Digital Brownshirts

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 5:55:39 pm PST

Victor Davis Hanson uses the Ward Churchill case as a jumping-off point for a broader examination of the sick “Bush=Hitler” analogies being casually thrown around by the mainstream left: ‘Little Eichmanns’ and ‘Digital Brownshirts.’ George Soros can nearly destroy the Bank of England in his hyper-capitalist financial speculations but somehow find ...

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AP Gives Churchill a Tongue Bath

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 4:38:24 pm PST

The Associated Press (via CNN) lavishes praise on Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill, portraying everyone who criticizes him as stupid and violent, and Churchill as an “embattled” champion of free speech: Embattled professor won’t back down. (Hat tip: mbarker.) It’s not surprising to see AP get solidly behind this nasty anti-American fraud. ...

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Syria Striking Back?

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 4:15:10 pm PST

Car Bomb Wounds Six in Lebanese Capital. BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a mainly Christian eastern suburb of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday, wounding six people. A Reuters correspondent on the scene said the blast had destroyed the first floor of an apartment block, blew out windows in surrounding ...

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Friday Morning Open Thread

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 9:34:05 am PST

Here’s an open thread; your humble host has contracted some kind of stomach bug, and posts will be light today (in between trips to the bathroom).

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Iran Got Nuclear-Capable Missiles from Ukraine

Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 9:32:19 am PST

More details emerge about Iran’s not-very-secret nuclear aspirations: Cruise missile row rocks Ukraine. Ukrainian arms dealers smuggled 18 nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China in 1999-2001, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general has said. The Kh-55 missiles - also known as X-55s - have a range of 3,000km (1,860 miles), the UK’s Financial Times newspaper ...

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Danny Boy

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 6:32:06 pm PST

As a half-Irish mongrel, I am not immune to the power of this song; and Johnny Cash’s version may be the best, with subtly altered lyrics: Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountain side The summer’s gone, and all the roses falling It’s you, ...

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Ironic Ward Churchill Moment of the Day

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 6:16:19 pm PST

Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill’s second ex-wife says, “Maybe this is the chickens coming home to roost.” (Hat tip: channeling the shah.) Whatever the result of a university review of his scholarship, the controversy over Ward Churchill now entering its third month has made one thing clear: The professor has no shortage ...

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DHS: Jihadi Internet Communications

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 6:00:23 pm PST

LGF reader reaganite forwarded an interesting document from the Department of Homeland Security (cleared for public release), titled Jihadi Internet Communications (PDF, 2.5 MB), describing how the global jihad has learned to use the infidels’ greatest invention.

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Australia Stands Up

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 5:22:30 pm PST

This is what a true friend of America does, and it isn’t the first time: Australia won’t rule out replacing Italian troops quitting Iraq. Good on ya, John Howard. SYDNEY (AFP) - Prime Minister John Howard refused to rule out sending more Australian troops to Iraq after Italy’s surprise decision to ...

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Hizballah TV Banned from EU Satellites

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 3:39:45 pm PST

There’s at least one piece of good news from the European Union, where they have finally blocked the poisonous Hizballah TV channel al-Manar from all European satellites. (Thanks to all who emailed.) BRUSSELS - Hezbollah’s al-Manar television channel, branded a terrorist organization by the United States, will no longer be available ...

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Libya's On To Us

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 3:24:33 pm PST

What will the diabolical mind of Karl Rove come up with next? Is no one safe from his nefarious machinations? US falsifying Holy Koran. Tripoli, Libya, Mar. 15 (UPI) — Libya’s Deputy Speaker Ahmed Ibrahim accused the United States Tuesday of distributing forged copies of the Koran to tarnish the image ...

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Islamic Leaders Demand Apology for Crusades

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 1:51:59 pm PST

Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the highest Sunni Muslim institution in the world (where the Grand Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi has gone on record many times praising suicide bombers, and where the Islamic Ruling Committee has called for Islamic nations to acquire nuclear weapons), now demands an apology from the Pope—for the ...

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The European Ransom Craze

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 8:15:38 am PST

It’s payday for the holy warriors again, as Spain finances a new batch of car bombs and suicide belts: Spanish hostage freed in Iraq: report. An Iraqi-born Spanish businessman kidnapped in Baghdad several weeks ago has been freed after a ransom was paid, Spain’s leading daily reported. El Pais reported that the ...

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EU Exonerates Self in PA Terror Funding

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 7:40:40 am PST

After what I’m sure was a thoroughly scrupulous and diligent investigation, the European Union could find no evidence that their money was ever used by Palestinians for terror: EU: No evidence money to PA funded terror. (Hat tip: Amy.) The European Union’s anti-fraud office said Thursday that it has found no ...

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Willis: The Party of Harry Reid

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 7:19:28 am PST

Joe Lieberman’s latest sensible statement has evoked an unintentionally hilarious rant from the left’s dumbest blogger, quoted as a source today by the left’s nastiest blogger: Joe Lieberman Should Leave The Democratic Party. (Hat tip: Soxblog.) Senator Lieberman, if you hate Democrats so much - leave. Leave. Go away. Join the ...

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No Syrian Coup

Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 7:13:26 am PST

I waited to post about this, and I’m glad I did; the report of a military coup in Syria is not true.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

The Dreaded Wolfowitz

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 9:13:47 pm PST

Can you tell how the New York Times feels about Paul Wolfowitz? Bush Chooses a Top Pentagon Aide to Head the World Bank. WASHINGTON, March 16 - President Bush said today that he would nominate Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense and one of the chief architects of the ...

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Berlusconi Backpedals

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 8:32:53 pm PST

Italy’s Berlusconi backtracks on Iraq withdrawal. ROME, March 16 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday appeared to backtrack from his proposal of withdrawing troops from Iraq starting from September, saying the date was only his hope and could be changed. Berlusconi, one of U.S. President George W. Bush’s most ...

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The Palestinian Peace Process

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 7:30:48 pm PST

The indispensable Palestinian Media Watch reports that the death cult indoctrination of Palestinian children continues unabated: Pressuring mothers to celebrate martyrdom. Creating a supportive social environment for terrorists has been a critical factor in the Palestinian Authority’s successful promotion of suicide terrorism. To this end, PA policy has been to honor ...

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Meet the New Boss

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 7:10:11 pm PST

A harsh but much-needed dose of Middle East reality from Barbara Lerner, as mainstream media executes a full court press to sell the brand new, sparkling clean Palestinian Authority: Collapsing Temples in Gaza. Some 3,000 years ago, Samson brought down the Philistine temple in Gaza, and this month, Gaza stands a ...

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Pests in Freedom's Way

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 5:59:25 pm PST

Here’s an excerpt from an excellent essay by Amir Taheri at The Australian, on the sometimes misguided, sometimes naïve, and sometimes just plain evil opponents of democracy: Pests in freedom’s way. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) It is, of course, far too early to speak of an “Arab spring”. It is not at all ...

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The Nuclear Sphinx

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 5:46:23 pm PST

Well, now we know how Egypt has been spending that $2 billion a year in US foreign aid: Is Egypt ready to go nuclear? (Hat tip: NC.) NEW YORK - Does Egypt have clandestine nuclear and chemical weapons programs that could be turned on if the Arab world’s most populous country ...

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A Tender Hamas Moment

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 5:32:13 pm PST

Palestinian students, supporters of the Hamas movement, celebrate the victory of the group in the student council elections at the Hebron university in the West Bank town of Hebron, Wednesday , March 16, 2005. The radical Hamas group scored a decisive victory in the elections winning almost twice as many ...

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A Petty Tyrant's Threats

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 4:45:41 pm PST

As more stories and more tapes and more outrageous statements are revealed, Ward Churchill comes off as the archetype of that guy we all know who got to where he is by bullying and threatening and lying: AIM leader claims Churchill once left threatening answering machine message. (Thanks to all ...

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US Report Lists Possible Attacks

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 3:26:03 pm PST

I’m glad to read that the Department of Homeland Security has actually given some study to the security of the homeland, even if the New York Times seems vaguely horrified: US Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll. WASHINGTON, March 15 - The Department of Homeland Security, trying to ...

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Hitchens: This Was Not Looting

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 1:43:47 pm PST

Here’s Christopher Hitchens on the virtually ignored but utterly astounding New York Times revelation that Saddam had WMD capabilities that were systematically “looted” after the fall of Baghdad in a highly organized operation: This Was Not Looting. My first question is this: How can it be that, on every page of ...

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Chutch, Hawaiian Style!

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 1:29:17 pm PST

Iowahawk brings us another lost episode from the TV channel that time forgot, starring Jan-Peter Bronston in Chutch, Hawaiian Style! SCENE III: HONOLULU TARMAC (Chutch, Zapata and Cranstons descend jet stairs to receive leis) HAWAIIAN GREETER GIRL: Aloha! CHUTCH: Keep your flowers, you sickening prostitute of white empire. You are a disgrace to your ...

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Al Jazeera: Abu Ghraib = Holocaust

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 1:04:33 pm PST

Al Jazeera has done a pretty thorough job of sanitizing their English web site; although the bias still shows, most of the really nasty, insane stuff (the kind of stuff that’s standard fare for Arab audiences) has been filtered out. But it still bubbles up from their “editorial cartoons.” (Hat tip: ...

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Michigan Student Assembly Votes Against Divestment

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:39:40 pm PST

Here’s a piece of really good news, as the Michigan Student Assembly rejected a proposal to begin looking into divesting from Israel: MSA votes against divestment. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Hundreds of anxious students and local community members filled an emotionally charged Michigan Union Ballroom last night, when the Michigan Student Assembly ...

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A Bad Day for Moonbats

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:18:07 pm PST

First, Wolfowitz as World Bank president, now this. The all-powerful, super moronic Chimpy Cowboy Hitlerstein wins again: Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Drilling. WASHINGTON - Amid the backdrop of soaring oil and gasoline prices, a sharply divided Senate on Wednesday voted to open the ecologically rich Alaska wildlife refuge to oil ...

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Iranian Protesters: "Europe is Finished"

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:58:25 am PST

Regime Change Iran has been following news of large anti-mullah protests in Iran: French Flag Set on Fire During Festival of Fire in Tehran. According to received reports from various cities in Iran, today which marks the first celebration of the Iranian New Year’s Festival of Fire was met with celebrations ...

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Kos Kidz Konference

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:43:36 am PST

Last September, Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas Zuniga of the moonbat haven Daily Kos encouraged his followers to infiltrate the Republican National Convention and disrupt the proceedings. There should be more of this. I know of several groups of people who have “infiltrated” the hall. And memo to the Secret Service — I ...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Wins in Court

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 9:02:51 am PST

Muslim groups trying to stop Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali from making a sequel to her film Submission have been defeated in court; DutchReport has more, including this weird statement from the judge: But amazingly the judge also warned Hirsi Ali to be careful when she does statements about the prophet. ...

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DU Inmates Rave About Wolfowitz

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 8:37:06 am PST

President Bush is reportedly going to recommend Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank, and there is weeping, gnashing of teeth, and cries of “Trilateral Commission!” among the inmates of Democratic Underground: BREAKING NEWS: Wolfowitz to head World Bank. mod mom (798 posts) Wed Mar-16-05 10:30 AM 69.How low must our society ...

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Al Qaeda: "Jihad Has Started to Bear Fruit"

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 7:57:27 am PST

Iraq Qaeda Wing Says Italian Troops Still Targets. (Hat tip: Right Wing Conspirator.) DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq’s al Qaeda wing said on Wednesday Italian troops “humbled” by insurgent attacks would still be targeted despite Rome’s plans to start pulling out from Iraq in September, according to an Internet statement. “We tell those ...

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Birds of a Feather

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 7:46:36 am PST

France. Leader in appeasement. Friend to thugs, terrorists, and dictators, as long as they bother other countries. What else do you need to know about Jacques? French President Jacques Chirac (R) accompanies Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as he leaves the Elysee Palace, March 9, 2005. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/Handout-Miraflores Palace ...

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C-SPAN's Definition of 'Fair and Balanced'

Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 7:38:28 am PST

C-SPAN wanted Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt to appear on their program BookTV to promote her new book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, but they were concerned about fairness and balance. Their idea of “balance” was to give the cretinous Holocaust denier David Irving equal time. Deborah Lipstadt, ...

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

No Anthrax (This Time)

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 9:04:31 pm PST

Tests Negative in Pentagon Anthrax Scare. WASHINGTON - Anthrax tests from two Pentagon mailrooms came back negative Tuesday, a day after initial testing indicated the deadly spores might be present, prompting nearly 900 workers to take antibiotics as a precaution. Responding to what now appear to have been false alarms, officials handed ...

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WaPo Editor: China Misquoted Me!

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 8:13:45 pm PST

Hugh Hewitt has a statement from Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett about his interview with China’s People’s Daily propaganda rag. It’s clear that Bennett was misquoted, and his words were distorted to fit China’s agenda. You’d think a Washington Post editor would have expected that.

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Italy Bails?

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 6:46:05 pm PST

This is sure to provoke cries of joy (quickly suppressed and denied) at Daily Kos: Italy ‘to pull troops from Iraq’. Italy is to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq in September 2005, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said. He told Rai state television the pullout would take place “in ...

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Important Information for Americans

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 6:09:15 pm PST

There’s so much excellent reading material in the new edition of The American Enterprise that I’ll just direct you to the front page. Articles by Victor Davis Hanson, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Karl Zinsmeister and more, and an interview with John O’Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. TAE: How and when ...

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Corrie's Parents Sue Israel

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 1:05:51 pm PST

Their daughter purposefully injected herself into a war zone, on the wrong side, and stupidly got herself killed by jumping in front of an Israeli armored bulldozer. Pro-terrorist groups around the world then seized on her death like ghoulish leeches and milked it for every ounce of propaganda they could ...

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P.J. O'Rourke: Kerry Loves MSM

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 9:05:16 am PST

There’s no one better at tearing apart the fatuous, murky pronouncements of John F. Kerry than P. J. O’Rourke: Kerry Loves the Mainstream Media. Addressing the audience of tame Democrats, Kerry explained his defeat. “There has been,” he said, “a profound and negative change in the relationship of America’s media with ...

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Feds Close Another Postal Facility

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 8:28:46 am PST

Another postal facility in Washington DC has been closed for anthrax testing: Feds Close Another Postal Facility. (Hat tip: madawaskan.) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service confirms that it has shut down the V Street postal facility in northeast Washington. A spokesman said testing is under way to see if there ...

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DU: The Sun is Setting on America

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 7:48:59 am PST

Here’s the patriotic message of the day (complete with bizarre capitalization), from the always thoughtful and sober Democratic Underground: The Sun is setting on America. We are well into 2005 and you can almost see no problems with America... on the outside. Talks of Secession from both sides. Liberals feel cheated (Justified) ...

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Canada's Islamic Exception

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 7:39:55 am PST

Canada’s “hate crime” laws do not apply to Muslims who advocate terrorism against Israelis: Saying Israelis are ‘legitimate targets’ not a hate crime. Police have decided not to charge a controversial Muslim leader under Canada’s hate-crime laws for suggesting on a television talk show last fall that all adult Israelis are ...

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe

Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 7:23:14 am PST

At Middle East Quarterly, Lorenzo Vidino has a detailed and very scary look at the extent of the radical Islamic fifth column in Europe: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conquest of Europe. (Hat tip: Amy.) While the Muslim Brotherhood and their Saudi financiers have worked to cement Islamist influence over Germany’s Muslim community, ...

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Monday, March 14, 2005

The Demise of Commander Robot

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 8:24:56 pm PST

As real life becomes more and more like a bad fifth sequel to Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, we learn that Commander Robot has met his end. (Hat tip: mich-again.) MANILA (Reuters) - Two leaders of the Abu Sayyaf militant group were reported killed during an assault by Philippine security ...

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The Status of the Navy

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 6:40:40 pm PST

The fleet is at sea, and it’s probably making a certain chinless ophthalmologist very nervous. (Hat tip: PSGInfinity.) UPDATE at 3/14/05 7:20:51 pm: The inmates of Democratic Underground have also noticed that something’s happening, and they’re not pleased. You can tell how upset they are by the amount of superfluous exclamation points: ...

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Anthrax Detected in Pentagon Mailrooms

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 4:28:50 pm PST

We have a possible anthrax attack at two Pentagon mailrooms. (Hat tip: NewCounterCulture.com.) WASHINGTON (AP) - Sensors at two military mail facilities in the Washington area detected signs of anthrax on two pieces of mail Monday, but Pentagon officials said the mail had already been irradiated, rendering any anthrax inert. Officials weren’t ...

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Why Rathergate and Easongate Are Still Open

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 4:11:41 pm PST

At Editor and Publisher, Thomas Lipscomb has a good piece on the lessons mainstream media refuses to learn: Why Rathergate and Easongate Are Still Open. CBS at least took the trouble to create an elaborate illusion of a deliberative evaluation. And it concluded from the Richard Thornburgh-Louis Boccardi report that a ...

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Diversity at Princeton

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 1:56:17 pm PST

Rachel Zabarkes Friedman has an interesting article on the quieter front in the battles over Middle East studies, and the case of Princeton’s assistant professor Michael Doran: Diversity at Princeton. Princeton’s Middle East battle is quieter than Columbia’s, but in a way it’s no less important. At its center is Michael ...

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NYT: Saddam Had WMD Capabilities

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 1:24:06 pm PST

Here’s an amazing reversal from the New York Times, who reported yesterday that Iraq had facilities for enriching uranium and manufacturing chemical and biological weapons that were looted immediately after the fall of Baghdad and taken to a neighboring state: Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says. (Hat tip: ...

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UAW vs. the Marines

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:53:30 am PST

Blackfive reports that the United Auto Workers have backed down: UAW and the US Marines - ‘Parking Silliness’ Is Resolved.

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Lebanese Protester of the Day

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:47:10 am PST

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Churchill's Chickens

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:46:21 am PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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MSM Election Coverage: Incredibly Biased

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 9:21:29 am PST

It must have been really bad, if even the Columbia School of Journalism is forced to admit it: Study Shows U.S. Election Coverage Harder on Bush. NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of last year’s election was three times more likely to be negative toward President Bush than Democratic challenger ...

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Kos Kidz Root for Failure

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 8:30:38 am PST

Those charming Kos Kidz are rooting for America to fail in Iraq, and some of them are even honest enough to admit it: A Weekend In Iraq. (Hat tip: Soxblog.) hmm.... actually, I think that in some ways some progressives are rooting for failure—not failure in actually wishing torment upon anybody, ...

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PEST Rages at UAW

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 7:59:59 am PST

The United Auto Workers in Detroit have kicked the US Marines out of their parking lot: Marines driven out of UAW lot. DETROIT — The United Auto Workers says Marine reservists should show a little more semper fi if they want to use the union’s parking lot. The Marine Corps motto means ...

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Hundreds of Thousands Protest Syria

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 7:45:28 am PST

Huge anti-Syria demonstrations in Beirut: Hundreds of Thousands in Lebanon Protest Syria. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in central Beirut on Monday in the largest anti-Syrian protest in Lebanon since the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri exactly a month ago. Flag-waving crowds from across Lebanon gathered ...

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WaPo Editor Hands China Propaganda Coup

Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 7:31:50 am PST

Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett delivers a very useful statement to China, which they promptly feature at People’s Daily: ‘I don’t think US should be the leader of the world’. (Thanks to all who emailed.) Yong Tang: Since the standard is not applied equally in the world, it is damaging ...

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Sunday, March 13, 2005

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Online

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 7:55:16 pm PST

Video excerpts of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s appearance on CBS News 60 Minutes are now online at this page: Slaughter And Submission.

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Sgrena: "I Demand Answers from the Government"

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 5:05:27 pm PST

Giulana Sgrena has told yet another version of “her truth,” this time saying that “obviously” there could not have been any “guerillas” in the vicinity, and that even if Iraqi “guerillas” had been in the car with her, American troops wouldn’t have been justified in firing: Sgrena: “I Demand Answers ...

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Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Iranian Female Police Cadets

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 3:21:37 pm PST

You may have thought our little photo collection of Palestinian police training sessions was weird, but nothing can prepare your fragile mind for the Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Iranian Female Police Cadets!

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Condi: "A Queen of War and Violence"

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 2:48:26 pm PST

Iran will not agree to suspend making nuclear fuel, and they said so in that loveable way the mullahs have: US ‘Hallucinating’ Over Nuclear Talks, Iran Says. I think we’re seeing a planned series of diplomatic moves, with Iran reacting exactly as expected. Their strategy depends on keeping the US off ...

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:36:23 am PST

Violence erupted today when Fatah thugs crashed a Hamas terrorist rally at Hebron University: Hamas, Fatah Backers Fight Over Elections. HEBRON, West Bank - Hundreds of youths supporting the militant Hamas group clashed with backers of Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party on Sunday, injuring at least nine people, during a Hamas ...

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on '60 Minutes'

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 9:46:47 am PST

Tonight on CBS 60 Minutes, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali will be featured in a segment on her film Submission, the murder of the film’s director Theo Van Gogh, and the death threats from Muslims that have forced Hirsi Ali into hiding: Slaughter And ‘Submission.’ (CBS) A member of the Dutch ...

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Zarqawi's Plans to Attack US

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 9:13:56 am PST

In their March 14 issue, TIME Magazine reports new details of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi’s plans to attack the United States, discovered through interrogations of a top aide to al-Zarqawi. According to TIME, a restricted bulletin circulated among U.S. security agencies last week in which the aide said al-Zarqawi has talked ...

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Sgrena Fiasco Updates

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 8:31:52 am PST

Italian communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena now has apparently admitted that her car was swerving around cement blocks when they were fired upon “with no warning.” (Hat tip: Nancy.) The Italians say the car was swerving around cement blocks in the road when a bright light went on and, with no warning, ...

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NYT Legimitizing Hizballah

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 8:11:02 am PST

The New York Times has been running a series of sanitization exercises on Hizballah, trying to legitimize this virulent terrorist group as a political party, and today they give the raving freak leader of Hizballah the star treatment: Hezbollah Leader’s New Fray: Lebanese Politics. You won’t find a single mention ...

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Philly Inquirer Misrepresents LGF

Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 8:03:34 am PST

This morning the Philadelphia Inquirer lifts a few comments from LGF readers about the Giuliana Sgrena fiasco and republishes them, without mentioning that they are reader comments and not necessarily the viewpoint of LGF: Verbatim. (Hat tip: Environmental Republican.) It’s a dishonest smear tactic used frequently by idiot lefty bloggers, and ...

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Saturday, March 12, 2005

Muslim Hate Speech at UC Irvine

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 7:08:33 pm PST

From StandWithUs.com, here are video excerpts of Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali’s rant at the University of California Irvine last February. There’s a vast difference between reading about this hateful insanity, and seeing it played out in front of your eyes. [Video]

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Cycle of Violence: Bottle of Doom

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 5:57:56 pm PST

Today’s ride: 54 miles, south to the Palos Verdes Country Club circuit, down PV Drive North at 34+ mph, then back up north to the Santa Monica pier, before returning to point A. Stopped for lunch at Jody Maroni’s Sausage Kingdom, and had the chicken and apple sausage sandwich, which ...

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Hatred Rampant at UC Irvine

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 3:55:21 pm PST

Here’s an in-depth report on the scary, pervasive antisemitism at the University of California Irvine: Jewish students and activists call UC Irvine a hotbed of anti-Semitic harassment. (Hat tip: Atlas Shrugged.) In the center quad at UC Irvine, Amir Abdel Malik Ali stands before a crowd of 150, his hands clutching ...

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Nazis Rising Again in Deutschland

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 3:46:42 pm PST

Uh oh. Looks like Germany’s getting itchy to take over the world again. “Hitler was great; I can’t say more.” “ADOLF HITLER was a great German statesman,” the bete noire of the German Establishment said as he sat in a room darkened by bombproof shutters. “If you can call Churchill a great ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 9:05:12 am PST

Palestinian girls hold pictures of the late Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin during a rally to mark the first anniversary of his death in an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Friday March 11, 2005. Senior militants flanked by gunmen told thousands of supporters that violent resistance will resume if ...

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A Look Back

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 8:53:56 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column takes another Look Back at the distance traveled since September 11. I know that things are going pretty well in America’s efforts in the Middle East when Fareed Zakaria, who was a sharp critic over the last two years, now assures us that events are working ...

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Churchill's Vietnam Fraud

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 8:02:07 am PST

LGF operatives Pirate Ballerina and zombie have uncovered evidence of yet another big lie from Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill: Churchill’s Vietnam Fraud. PirateBallerina is in possession of evidence that shows Ward Churchill appropriated the military experience of someone else and claimed it as his own. During a 1993 interview, Churchill ...

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Vote the Terrorist Ticket

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 7:57:54 am PST

In the upcoming parliamentary elections, Palestinians will have the historic chance to vote for an Islamic terrorist gang openly devoted to genocide: Hamas Will Take Part in Palestinian Vote. NABLUS, West Bank - The Hamas militant group announced Saturday it will participate in Palestinian parliamentary elections, a decision that could undermine ...

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Palestinians Rally for Syria and Hizballah

Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 7:50:42 am PST

Someone remind me why we’re supposed to believe these people deserve a state: Thousands attend pro-Syria rally in Gaza. GAZA - Thousands of Palestinians attended a rally in support of Syria and the Hizbullah Friday in Gaza. The rally was organized by the Islamic Jihad and followed Friday prayer sessions. Protestors expressed ...

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Friday, March 11, 2005

Friday Night Open Thread

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 7:43:50 pm PST

Tonight’s open thread features a photograph of a gate hinge.

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Philosophy Without Morality

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 7:16:01 pm PST

At Boise State University, a graduate student in the esteemed Bowling Green University philosophy program defended a thesis entitled: “In Defense of Terrorism: When is it Permissible to Target Children?” BGSU, it seems, may be taken not only as a paragon of academic excellence per se but also as an exemplar ...

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Saudi Prince Tied to Cocaine Smuggling

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 6:28:41 pm PST

An unnamed Saudi prince with diplomatic immunity has been connected with a Colombian cocaine smuggling ring. (Hat tip: warbicycle.) MIAMI — Federal prosecutors are tying a Saudi prince with diplomatic immunity to a 2-ton Colombian cocaine smuggling run from Venezuela to Paris on his personal aircraft and $10 million in artwork ...

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Jakarta Attack Warning

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 6:10:55 pm PST

US Warns of Possible Attack in Jakarta. JAKARTA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Jakarta warned on Friday of a “possible bomb threat” at the World Trade Center Mangga Dua in northern Jakarta between March 11-14. In a statement posted on its Web site and circulated to U.S. citizens in Indonesia by ...

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Sgrena's Story Unraveling

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 4:14:35 pm PST

Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli said today that communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena should stop making careless accusations. (Hat tip: Nancy.) Italy’s justice minister urged former hostage Giuliana Sgrena on Friday to stop making “careless” accusations after being shot by US forces in Baghdad, saying she had already caused enough grief. Sgrena has ...

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Churchill Accused of Plagiarism, Buyout Near

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 2:31:24 pm PST

We have two pieces of news today about University of Colorado wacademic Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill; a professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia has accused Churchill of plagiarism: University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor’s work. ...

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One Year After Madrid

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 9:01:29 am PST

One year after the horrific Madrid train bombings, a Spanish official has asked the media not to show images of the attacks, out of “respect for the victims and their families.” MADRID, Spain—The newly-appointed high commissioner for the Madrid bomb victims has asked the media to refrain from publishing more images ...

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Britain Releases "Dangerous" Terrorists

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 7:43:38 am PST

Britain is releasing Islamic terrorists from prison: Terror suspects freed from Belmarsh. (Hat tip: Jheka.) Six foreign terror suspects have been freed on conditional bail from Belmarsh prison after being detained for up to three years, Home Office sources said. The six were Abu Qatada - described by one British judge as ...

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The Clerics Who Cried Wolf

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 7:24:11 am PST

Another cleric of the Religion of Peace™ takes the fall for terrorism connections, and predictably screams “anti-Muslim bias!” Yemeni Sheik Causes Scene After Conviction. NEW YORK - A three-year case that saw the government’s star witness set himself on fire outside the White House ended with the convictions of a Yemeni ...

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Columbia Debate Turns Nasty

Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 6:52:16 am PST

Blogger Josh Gajer has a report on a “debate” at Columbia University between Columbians for Academic Freedom (who are protesting the bias and antisemitism of Columbia’s Middle Eastern professors) and the Columbia Anti-War Coalition (who are simply insane). Josh’s account is another look at the thuggish intolerance of the left ...

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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Palestinian Civil War Watch

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 8:10:07 pm PST

Fatah Gunmen Storm West Bank Meeting, Challenging Abbas. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Gunmen from the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction broke up a meeting of the party about reform on Thursday in a fresh blow to President Mahmoud Abbas’s bid to end internal chaos and talk peace with Israel. Some 30 militants ...

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We Got Mail!

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 6:47:03 pm PST

WARNING! I normally refrain from posting profanities on LGF’s front page, but what follows wouldn’t make much sense if I tried to edit them out. If you have an easily irritated offense reflex, you may want to skip this entry. *** Most people don’t know it, but one of the perks of ...

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About That Spanish Fatwa

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 6:02:19 pm PST

A Muslim group in al-Andalus (currently called “Spain”) issued a fatwa today against Osama bin Laden. MADRID, Spain—Muslim clerics in Spain issued what they called the world’s first fatwa, or Islamic edict, against Usama bin Laden on Thursday, the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, calling him an apostate and ...

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Condi: US View of Hizballah Has Not Changed

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 4:58:57 pm PST

Responding to the New York Times article I was skeptical about earlier today, Condoleezza Rice said this afternoon that the United States’ view of the Hizballah terrorist organization has not changed. MEXICO CITY (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US still considers Hezbollah a “terrorist” organization despite ...

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PEST Sufferer Snaps

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 3:48:58 pm PST

Traumatized beyond healing by the 2004 election, disgruntled Tampa moonbat Nathan Alan Winkler could finally take no more: Bumper sticker evokes road rage. (Hat tip: tdavid.) Police say Michelle Fernandez, 35, was chased for miles Tuesday by an irate 31-year-old Tampa man who cursed at her as he held up an ...

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Pakistan Admits Khan Helped Iran

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 3:30:36 pm PST

If you’ve been paying attention to the news of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and his Islamic nuclear black market, you’re already aware of the numerous connections between Khan and the mullahs of Iran; but today Pakistan openly (and somewhat belligerently) admitted that Khan supplied Iran with centrifuges for enriching ...

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Annan: Trying to Hang On to His Job?

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 2:53:56 pm PST

What in the world has gotten into Kofi Annan? Annan: Governments must outlaw terrorism. (Hat tip: Earl.) MADRID, Spain (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for a world treaty on terrorism that would outlaw attacks targeting civilians and establish a framework for a collective response to the global threat. Although ...

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Detective Dan Rather: The Final Episode

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 2:48:26 pm PST

Hoist your brogans, take a load off, and cast your peepers at Iowahawk, as he sings the swan song of Detective Dan Rather. I stared blankly out the window, deep in thought, as the Zephyr raced westward toward L.A. The questions kept pouring out of my mind like the cheap rotgut ...

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Saudi Arabia Funded Columbia Program

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 9:01:48 am PST

At the New York Sun, Jacob Gershman’s article on Saudi grants to Columbia University’s Middle East Institute raises once again a very troubling question: how deeply has Saudi money and propaganda penetrated America’s educational system? Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers. Saudi Arabia has funneled tens of thousands ...

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IKEA Dhimmitude Watch

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 8:31:52 am PST

The IKEA furniture store chain uses only pictures of men in their instruction manuals, and the prime minister of Norway says they are guilty of sex discrimination: IKEA criticized for male-only furniture assembly guides. (Hat tip: Grifin.) OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA is guilty of sex discrimination ...

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London University Students Advocate Terrorism

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 7:51:20 am PST

Melanie Phillips reports on the insane antisemitism and pro-terrorist incitement to murder being openly espoused at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies: Jihad at the School of Orchestrated Anti Semitism. Activities at SOAS become ever more disgusting. An article in the latest issue of the School’s magazine ‘Spirit’ — a ...

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NYT Claims US is Softening Toward Hizballah

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 7:34:56 am PST

I suspect the New York Times of trying to create a show of support for Hizballah, as Steven Weisman turns in a piece quoting unnamed “officials:” US Called Ready to See Hezbollah in Lebanon Role. (Hat tip: sandspur.) WASHINGTON, March 9 - After years of campaigning against Hezbollah, the radical Shiite ...

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Why is DoD Email List Used by CAIR?

Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 7:15:26 am PST

Here’s a piece of disturbing news from Internet Haganah, where Aaron signed up for three email newsletters from the Department of Defense—and promptly received a propaganda press release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) using the DoD list server. UPDATE at 3/10/05 7:38:14 am: In a story on a CAIR tantrum ...

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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

About Rather's Farewell Broadcast

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 7:14:06 pm PST

Dan’s last performance was as weird as anyone could have wanted, including a reprise of his infamous “Courage” line. But during his self-serving invocation of the memory of September 11 to counteract Rathergate, I realized again how much has been concealed from us about that day by the mainstream media, and ...

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US Review: Leaders Did Not Order Abuse

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 6:34:56 pm PST

Probe: Leaders Didn’t Order Prison Abuse. WASHINGTON - A comprehensive U.S. military review of prisoner interrogation policies and techniques for the global war on terrorism concluded that no civilian or uniformed leaders directed or encouraged the abuse of prisoners, officials familiar with the review said Wednesday. No Pentagon official or senior military ...

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UN Envoy Says Deaths in Darfur Underestimated

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 6:06:56 pm PST

It might be time for another strongly-worded resolution from Kofi Annan, possibly even a condemnation, because according to the UN’s own envoy the situation in Sudan is totally out of control. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.N. envoy said on Wednesday that far more people had died in Sudan’s Darfur ...

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Austin Bay on Route Irish

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 5:51:22 pm PST

Good comments and analysis by Austin Bay on the Giuliana Sgrena affair, including a link to his latest article at Strategy Page: Route Irish Racing and Baghdad Roadblocks: The Sgrena Incident.

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Lunacy of the Evening

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 4:16:50 pm PST

Oh brother. A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated. Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the ...

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LGF Upgrade Note

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 3:22:24 pm PST

I made a few changes to LGF’s “stylesheet,” the section of the code that determines what things look like. If this page suddenly appears weird (for example, all the titles show up in a default font), clear your browser cache and refresh the page. Some browsers are more possessive and ...

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The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 3:10:12 pm PST

Why, I feel as forgetful as a frog without side pockets for neglecting to mention that this evening is Dan Rather’s farewell performance as anchor of CBS Evening News. With his new free time, I hear he’s starting a blog. Ahem. Little blog joke there. The New York Observer’s Joe Hagan, who consistently ...

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Note from a Soldier's Father

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 2:58:23 pm PST

LGF reader jlucas emailed the following note, pointing out that American soldiers have been searching Iraq trying to find and rescue—not kill—Giuliana Sgrena since she was kidnapped in early February. My son, who is home from Baghdad on for two weeks R&R, was mad as hell about the reports that Sgrena ...

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No! Not the Macaroni and Cheese Casserole!

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 12:29:27 pm PST

Lawyers for terrorist Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir are alleging a nefarious foreign conspiracy against their client that employs a diabolical weapon—the dreaded catered meal. (Hat tip: Baldy.) The lawyers, said Mahendradatta, also suspected foreign involvement in the trial due to the large amount of funds spent on the hearings. “It was ...

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Was Sgrena's Car Speeding?

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 12:14:30 pm PST

Yesterday ABC News quoted an unnamed “senior military official” that Giuliana Sgrena’s car was traveling at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour: Was Italian Hostage’s Car Speeding? (Hat tip: noshariaincanada.) WASHINGTON, March 8, 2005 — A senior U.S. military official tells ABC News he believes the investigation into the fatal ...

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Berlusconi: Agent Had US Permission

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 11:41:12 am PST

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told Italy’s Senate today that Italian agent Nicola Calipari had US military authorization for the rescue of Giuliana Sgrena. ROME - The Italian agent killed by American forces in Iraq had U.S. military authorization for his operation to win the release of a hostage, Premier Silvio ...

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Academic Fifth Column Watch

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 10:22:26 am PST

According to LawHawk, Students for a Democratic Society recently held a rally at New School University in New York, featuring a very distinguished speaker: Lynne Stewart, the radical left lawyer convicted of aiding Islamic terrorists, in a show of support for academic fraud Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill and death-row inmate ...

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John Bolton's Moment

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 10:01:54 am PST

The New York Sun applauds President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations: Bolton’s Moment. This is an editorial about President Bush and his new ambassador to the United Nations, not about The New York Sun, but it’s one of those moments when it’s impossible to resist ...

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UN Hits Bottom, Digs

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 8:55:12 am PST

Head appeasement weasel Kofi Annan says the United Nations must recognize the Hizballah terrorist organization. UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations must recognize Hezbollah as a force to be reckoned with in implementing the U.N. resolution calling for the withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon and the disarmament of the ...

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Terrorist Spokesman Addresses Anti-Terror Meeting

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 8:33:41 am PST

I hope someone is recording the disgraceful proceedings at the so-called “anti-terrorism conference” in Madrid, where terrorist spokesmen like Saeb Erekat are taking center stage: US image problems just one obstacle on the anti-terror front. (Great headline from the AFP as usual.) MADRID (AFP) - Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is key ...

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What Can Still Go Wrong

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 8:10:49 am PST

Daniel Pipes reminds us that the forces of Islamist totalitarianism remain strong in the Middle East: A Neo-Conservative’s Caution. Having been trained in Middle Eastern history makes me perhaps more aware of what can go wrong: Yes, Mahmoud Abbas wishes to end the armed struggle against Israel but his call for a ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Women and Children

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 8:00:12 am PST

In a story about the discovery of bodies decapitated by the Iraqi “freedom fighters” (the ones that Giuliana Sgrena admired so much), Reuters writer Elizabeth Piper thinks it’s very important to give us a quick summary of the American “crimes” that are fueling the insurgency: Bomb Hits Baghdad After Headless ...

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Newsday Shills for Terrorist Organization

Wed, Mar 9, 2005 at 7:37:46 am PST

Blatant, disgusting propaganda for the Hizballah terror gang at Newsday, by Mohamad Bazzi, described as their “Middle East Correspondent:” Beirut crowd shows support for Syrian role. (Hat tip: Daniel.) BEIRUT — They came in rickety buses, in overloaded cars and on foot, along roads surging with faith and fervor. Wave after wave ...

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Soros Preaches Bush Hatred in Spain

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 9:22:08 pm PST

Anti-American billionaire George Soros is in Spain, where the government agrees with his insane leftist appeasement philosophy: US terrorism approach ‘creates hate’. US billionaire financier George Soros today slammed as dangerous Washington’s strategy to fight terrorism, saying it was creating anger and resentment around the world. Speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena ...

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Photos of Mt. St. Helen's

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 8:28:26 pm PST

Pictures of Mt. St. Helen’s blowing its stack, at Clancore Forums — So I’m Watching Mt. St. Helen’s Blow.

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The Al Jazeera - Democratic Underground Connection

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 8:20:31 pm PST

AlJazeera.com says the US used “nuclear and chemical weapons” in Fallujah: US used banned weapons in Fallujah — Health ministry. Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an officialat Iraq’s health ministry, said that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly offensive in the city of Fallujah. He said that researches, prepared ...

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The Definition of Sedition

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 6:36:45 pm PST

If this isn’t sedition, does the term still have any meaning? ‘Counter-recruiters’ shadowing the military. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The Marines didn’t have to recruit Greg McCullough. He signed a promise to enlist last year, while he was still in high school. But now McCullough has had second thoughts, and he’s talking to ...

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Dutch Reporter on Giuliana Sgrena

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 5:25:22 pm PST

Zacht Ei translates an article from a Dutch paper about Giuliana Sgrena, by a Dutch reporter who describes Sgrena and her companions as the very epitome of the modern clueless far left, simultaneously naïve and filled with hatred, childish and treacherous. Mr. Harald Doornbos is a veteran war reporter. He is ...

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Better Photos of Sgrena's Car

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 2:03:17 pm PST

Clearer images of Giuliana Sgrena’s car from the Associated Press show how slight the damage is. In this photo released Tuesday March 8, 2005 by the Italian RAI TG1 national television, network military personnel are seen near a car said to be that in which Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was travelling ...

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Chris Hedges and the Battle of Khafji

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 1:49:00 pm PST

Blogger Benjamin Blatt has a potential bombshell discovery; he says New York Times journalist Chris Hedges (last seen at LGF when he was booed off the stage for making anti-American remarks at Rockford College’s graduation ceremony) lied about his presence at the Battle of Khafji during Desert Storm: An Open ...

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Sgrena's Car (The Real One)

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 12:47:59 pm PST

Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena’s editor said her car was hit by 300 to 400 bullets from an armored vehicle. She said she was picking up handfuls of spent rounds from the seats. Many accounts described her car as “riddled with bullets.” La Repubblica.it now has photos of what they claim is ...

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Italy Didn't Plan Safe Escape for Sgrena

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 8:40:51 am PST

The Washington Times has a report on an internal Pentagon memo that says Italy failed to coordinate their rescue of Giuliana Sgrena with US troops, and backs up the initial account that the Italian vehicle was speeding and ignored signals: Italy didn’t plan safe escape for hostage. (Hat tip: Nancy.) Maj. ...

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THK: Fearful, Distrusting

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 8:15:05 am PST

Billionairehead Teresa Heinz Kerry is very concerned about “hacking into the mother machines.” (I think she may have gotten into the raisins again.) Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November’s election, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. “Two brothers own 80 percent of ...

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A Show of Strength from Hizballah

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 7:43:32 am PST

The terror gang Hizballah and their tiny minority of extremist supporters turned out in the hundreds of thousands in Lebanon to intimidate advocates of freedom: Hizbollah Draws Vast Pro-Syrian Crowds in Beirut. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by ...

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DU Inmates Raving About AP Photo

Tue, Mar 8, 2005 at 7:20:55 am PST

Here’s this morning’s exhibit of mind-boggling stupidity from Democratic Underground, where they have a serious case of the vapors over the Associated Press’ misidentification of a car as belonging to Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena, and don’t seem to care that LGF printed a correction almost immediately: Right-Wing Bloggers’ Fake Sgrena ...

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Monday, March 07, 2005

Pakistani Women Demonstrate Against Tribal Rape

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 8:08:58 pm PST

Thousands of women demonstrated in Pakistan today against the barbarism of tribal shari’a: Pakistan Rape Sparks Rally of Thousands. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) MULTAN, Pakistan - Thousands of women rallied in eastern Pakistan on Monday to demand justice and protection for a woman who said she was gang-raped at the direction of ...

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Laughing on a Highway of Dread

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 5:56:44 pm PST

Here’s a must-read piece by Alissa J. Rubin at the LA Times about Baghdad’s airport road, the seven-mile stretch of highway where the car carrying Giuliana Sgrena was fired upon by US troops, killing Italian military intelligence officer Nicola Calipari: Traveling on a Highway of Dread. (Hat tip: globalcop.) Alissa Rubin ...

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Independent: Was Bush Right After All?

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 5:00:07 pm PST

Robert Fisk will have steam shooting out of his ears tomorrow morning. (Hat tip: Gill.)

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The Sensitivity of the DU Moonbat

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 4:25:23 pm PST

The inmates of Democratic Underground are hopping mad about being called “inmates.” I hope they don’t hurt themselves: Right-wing site calls DUers ‘inmates’ re: Italian journalist story.

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Italian Paper Questions Sgrena's Stories

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 4:18:50 pm PST

A sign of good sense at Italy’s Corriere Della Serra, where they are starting to ask some of the same questions as the LGF army: Il Manifesto, the U.S., and the death of Calipari. (Hat tip: Nancy.) In an Italy under shock at the death of Nicola Calipari, emotions are prompting ...

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The Many Automobiles of AP

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 3:31:53 pm PST

After using a misleading picture of a car with no bullet holes in yesterday’s video (a car that had only the slightest connection to the Giuliana Sgrena case), today the Associated Press puts out a file photo of a car that has nothing at all to do with Sgrena—but it ...

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Hizballah to Protest Tomorrow in Beirut

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 3:04:48 pm PST

The Hizballah terror gang and their masters in Tehran are not pleased with events: Hezbollah To Protest U.S. Stance On Lebanon. BEIRUT, March 6 — The leader of Hezbollah, the militant Shiite Muslim movement that for weeks has stood on the sidelines of Lebanon’s political upheaval, called Sunday for national demonstrations ...

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Kuwaiti Women Demonstrate

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 1:40:06 pm PST

Another amazing sign of seismic change in the Middle East: Kuwaitis demonstrate for women’s suffrage. (Hat tip: Golden Jerusalem.) KUWAIT (Reuters) - Around 500 Kuwaiti activists, mostly women, have demonstrated outside parliament to demand female suffrage amidst tensions in the Gulf Arab state over a government drive to grant women political ...

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Schechter Defends Sgrena, Accuses US of War Crimes

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 1:31:23 pm PST

Danny Schechter, a vituperative far-left wacko last noted at LGF when he blatantly lied during the Rathergate affair, shows his solidarity with the communist anti-war Italian left: Was Giuliana Sgrena Targeted? He attacks LGF for the following statement, which he says is an attempt to “discredit” Sgrena: The right-leaning site, Little Green ...

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Waves of Freedom Reach Morocco

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 11:52:31 am PST

The lure of freedom and democracy is now being felt in North Africa, as tens of thousands of Moroccans demonstrate against Algeria. (Hat tip: Jheka.) Rabat — Tens of thousands of Moroccans hailing from different parts of Morocco marched in Rabat to express their support for the Moroccans still detained in ...

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Afghanistan Attacks Decline Dramatically

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 10:31:55 am PST

Good news from Afghanistan: US General: Omar Loses Control of Afghan Insurgency. KABUL (Reuters) - Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has lost control of the insurgency in Afghanistan and the number of attacks has fallen dramatically, a senior U.S. general said Monday. Taliban spokesmen have said attacks will resume once the ...

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The Times, the T Word, and the ICNA

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 10:12:00 am PST

New York Times readers’ representative Daniel Okrent tries to answer concerns about the paper’s refusal to use the word “terrorism:” The War of the Words: A Dispatch From the Front Lines. (Hat tip: davesax.) Who does Okrent contact when he needs advice on this touchy subject? The Islamic Circle of North America. NOTHING ...

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UC President Resigns

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 9:15:54 am PST

The president of the University of Colorado (where Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill continues to have a job) is resigning. DENVER - University of Colorado President Elizabeth Hoffman announced Monday that she is resigning amid a football recruiting scandal and a national controversy over an activist professor who had compared victims of ...

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Rules of Engagement

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 9:01:23 am PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Sgrena: To Americans, "Human Life is Worth Little"

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 8:57:31 am PST

Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena behaves like a good little disinformation-spreading communist, and says that Americans are against happy endings and don’t care about human life. “I think that the happy end to the negotiations may have bothered them. The Americans are against this type of operation,” she told Corriere della Sera ...

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Hundreds of Thousands of Lebanese Protest Syria

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 7:55:41 am PST

Huge demonstrations against Syria continue in Lebanon, while US media obsessively focuses on Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson. BEIRUT (AFP) - Up to 150,000 opposition supporters rallied in Beirut three weeks after the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri as Syria prepared for a troop pullback in Lebanon in the face of ...

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Italians Withheld Information from US

Mon, Mar 7, 2005 at 7:22:16 am PST

As more information comes out, we’re starting to see the true picture of what happened to Giuliana Sgrena; the Washington Times reports that Italian agents kept US forces in the dark about their plans to give a giant pay-off to the holy warriors. ROME — Italian agents likely withheld information from ...

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Sunday, March 06, 2005

Sgrena's Truth

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 8:18:13 pm PST

We’re not done with Giuliana Sgrena yet, because CNN has now published a translation of her latest article for the Stalinist newspaper Il Manifesto, in which she claims that shortly before the shooting incident her car was going so fast through “puddles” that they were “almost losing control”—in an area ...

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Italy Paid More than $10 Million

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 6:52:47 pm PST

The Australian’s Natasha Bita fills in another piece of the puzzle, as Giuliana Sgrena reminisces about the halcyon days of her captivity. But the veteran reporter said her kidnappers had treated her well and had assured her they did not plan to kill her. “The kidnappers seemed to me to be a ...

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Iran Admits Lying About Nuclear Program

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 6:17:19 pm PST

The mullahs must be feeling pretty secure to make this statement: Iran Admits Keeping Nuclear Program Secret. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran confirmed Sunday that it initially developed its nuclear program in secret, going to the black market for material, and blaming its discretion on the U.S. sanctions and European restrictions that ...

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Sgrena Begins to Backpedal

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 6:09:48 pm PST

The BBC has yet another account from Giuliana Sgrena of the shooting incident at a coalition checkpoint: Transcript: Giuliana Sgrena interview. Tell us about the car journey you shared with him. We were on our way to the airport when the tanks started to strike against us and he tried to cover ...

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Holy Warriors Warned Sgrena?

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 5:48:22 pm PST

Here’s another bizarre statement from communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena (hat tip: Sarah D.)—and notice that this AP story at Editor and Publisher correctly identifies her newspaper as “communist,” unlike most other reports. She says her captors warned her that “the Americans” would try to kill her. Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the ...

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Sgrena's Latest Story

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 4:28:05 pm PST

According to the LA Times, communist reporter Giuliana Sgrena now claims she was not even at a checkpoint: Ex-Hostage Disputes U.S. on Shooting. The U.S. military said the shooting had been an accident and that the vehicle had been speeding toward an American checkpoint outside the airport and failed to heed ...

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Maybe All 400 Bullets Missed?

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 1:18:20 pm PST

LGF reader Thor pointed out that the Associated Press has video of Giuliana Sgrena’s car; I found the video at The FeedRoom. Sgrena claims that US troops fired between 300 and 400 rounds at the car from “an armored vehicle.” Here is the image of the car from the video: UPDATE at 3/6/05 ...

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Al Guardian: 300 to 400 Rounds Fired

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 9:19:56 am PST

Britain’s dilettante left Guardian newspaper contains a detail about the shooting of Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena that takes this story to the absolute height (or depth) of absurdity: Outrage as US soldiers kill hostage rescue hero. Sgrena told colleagues the vehicle was not travelling fast and had already passed several checkpoints ...

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Dan the Thick Rhino

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 8:47:13 am PST

Rather took hits, but he never ran. (Hat tip: Ethel.) “No rhinoceros has a hide so thick that some well-placed, hard-thrown, pointed spear can’t get under it,” Rather told the Daily News.

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Appeasement Weasels Want to Legalize Hamas

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 8:01:08 am PST

In another sign of Europe’s abject moral bankruptcy, France and Spain are trying to legitimize Hamas: France and Spain bid to ‘legalize’ Hamas. (Hat tip: Hazel.) France and Spain are working towards removing Hamas from the European Union’s list of terror organizations, the London based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted Palestinian sources ...

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Meet the New Boss

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 7:42:12 am PST

In an interview with TIME magazine, Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen blames the suicide bombing of the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv on Israel, and brushes off concern that the genocidal terror gang Hamas will be part of the Palestinian parliament: Escaping Arafat’s Shadow. (Hat tip: Sandspur.) TIME: Who was responsible, then, for ...

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Italian Communist Says She Was "Ambushed"

Sun, Mar 6, 2005 at 7:16:50 am PST

Italian communist Giuliana Sgrena is now explicitly claiming she was deliberately targeted by the US military: Italy Rejects U.S. Version of Iraq Shooting. ROME (Reuters) - Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena, shot and wounded after being freed in Iraq, said Sunday U.S. forces may have deliberately targeted her because Washington opposed Italy’s ...

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Saturday, March 05, 2005

Tonight's Insane Left Showcase

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 7:47:39 pm PST

Here is Colorado University professor Ward Churchill, appearing on a fawning Bill Maher’s Real Time show (click the picture to play the video): Please note the points at which the audience applauds. Jeff Jarvis live-blogged this disgraceful display.

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Cycle of Violence: Heavy Weather

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 7:00:42 pm PST

Today’s ride: a quick 30 miles to Manhattan Beach and back, on alternate routes because last night’s rain really messed with the bike path. Kinda cold out there, threatening to rain during the whole ride. Average speed: 16.0 mph. (The picture shows my Speedplay pedal, post-ride.)

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AP Slams US Military

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 6:50:41 pm PST

You are not going to believe this Associated Press story, soon to be served up in the morning newspapers of America: Freed Journalist Devoted to World’s Weak. ROME - In a minute-long video, supporters of the captive Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena summed up her career of defending the world’s have-nots with ...

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Al Qaeda on the Streets of Britain

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 6:26:53 pm PST

Former Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens is trying to wake up Britain: Al-Qaeda ‘on streets of Britain.’ Former Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens says up to 200 Al-Qaeda “terrorists” are operating in Britain and the threat of attacks is real. He urged the government to press ahead with its ...

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The United States of Islam

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 5:40:28 pm PST

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a wonderful tool, containing more than 30 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. It’s a good place to look for sites that no longer exist on the web, if you know the site’s former address. Here’s one, which was apparently ...

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A Campaign of Deception

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 4:33:11 pm PST

Powerline’s Scott Johnson isn’t buying yesterday’s press release from the Campaign Legal Center saying that FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith’s concerns about FEC regulation of the Internet were “overblown.” In fact, Scott is calling this a campaign of deception; he makes a good argument that there is still plenty to worry ...

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The Fine Art of Slant

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 4:12:28 pm PST

Earlier this week we noted a Gallup poll reported by Editor and Publisher: One in Four Americans Would Nuke Terrorists. Several lefty blogs were vewy vewy scared by this report, and even more frightened by the reactions of LGF lizardoids. I didn’t link to any of them, but I saw the ...

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Kos Kidz Gloating Over Italian Hostage Incident

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 2:36:43 pm PST

The Kos Kidz are taking every word of Italian anti-war journalist Giuliana Sgrena as gospel truth: Daily Kos :: Iraq hostage - ‘The US wanted her dead’ (LIVE translations). Overall, I expect the reaction in Europe to be the following: * happiness that she is back home and alive * sadness for ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 2:13:13 pm PST

A Palestinian boy holds a gun in front a picture of Marwan Barghuti, the jailed leader of the mainstream Fatah movement during a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the central Gaza Strip Nusseirat refugee camp .(AFP/Mahmud Hams)

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The Radical Left's Cause du Jour

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 1:32:14 pm PST

The cause du jour of the left is anti-American communist (that’s not a judgment call; she works for an anti-American, communist newspaper) Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who is now apparently going to claim that US troops fired on her speeding vehicle for no reason other than malicious bloodlust: Hostage recalls ...

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Dutch Muslims: "A Woman Will Kill Hirsi Ali"

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 9:31:56 am PST

DutchReport has an account of an interview with three Muslim women published by a Dutch newspaper, in which they say that a woman will kill Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Three woman, Fatima, Naima and Khadisja who say they are part of the Hofstad terror network, which they call ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 8:14:36 am PST

Those Iranian mullahs (“progressives” as Bill Clinton likes to call them) have now told the world that they won’t stop enriching uranium, and if the US sends Iran to the UN Security Council they will start making nuclear fuel right away: Iran Says to Make Atomic Fuel if Sent to ...

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Clinton's Remarks at Davos

Sat, Mar 5, 2005 at 7:30:37 am PST

Last night our final entry for the evening was a story at ArabNews about some shocking comments about Iran made by Bill Clinton during a conversation with Charlie Rose at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Many readers questioned the veracity of the ArabNews report (by Amir Taheri); I ...

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Friday, March 04, 2005

Clinton Apologized to Iran?

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 9:07:28 pm PST

At the ArabNews (which raises some red flags), Amir Taheri has an almost unbelievable account of statements by former President Bill Clinton in Davos: Who Should Apologize to Whom? (Thanks to all who emailed.) Where is the country that Bill Clinton, a former president of the United States, feels ideologically most ...

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Dutch Government Passes New Terror Bill

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 8:12:40 pm PST

Still reeling from the brutal slaying of Theo Van Gogh and what it revealed about the extent of radical Islam in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has approved a new anti-terrorism bill: THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch government approved a new terrorism bill Friday that grants law-enforcement authorities far-reaching powers ...

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Swiss Arrest Five Internet Jihadis

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 6:29:53 pm PST

Very good news from Switzerland, where a ring of Internet jihadis has been busted: Swiss seize five suspected Islamic extremists. BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss authorities said Friday they have detained five Islamic extremists suspected of using the Internet to show the killing of hostages - which reportedly included the beheading ...

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Friday Night Open Thread

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 5:43:35 pm PST

Because the last open topic featuring a picture of a bus really irritated Karen DeCoster, here’s an open thread featuring a knob. I think I’ll make a tradition that the Friday night open thread will contain an original photo of a single-syllable object. Hey, why not?

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Red Ken Goes Nuts

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 5:26:44 pm PST

London mayor Ken Livingstone has hit on a novel way to answer those who say he’s antisemitic; call Ariel Sharon a war criminal and accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing: Ariel Sharon is ‘war criminal’ says Livingstone. LONDON (AFP) - London’s outspoken mayor Ken Livingstone denounced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as ...

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MoveOn.org: Blowing the Winds of Freedom

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 4:49:43 pm PST

Even the New York Times recently gave a grudging nod toward George W. Bush for the momentous changes sweeping the Middle East. But Iowahawk has an exclusive alternate dimensional commentary penned by noted MoveOn.org executive Aaron Headley that makes it clear where the real responsibility for changing the world lies: MoveOn.org ...

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FEC Blog Regulations: "Greatly Overblown"

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 3:07:16 pm PST

Yesterday we noted a report at CNET that caused widespread alarm in the blogosphere, on Federal Election Commissioner Bradley Smith’s comments that the FEC was considering regulating bloggers’ political activities. But the evening edition of National Journal’s Technology Daily quotes other FEC commissioners who say Smith’s comments were greatly overstated: Bloggers, ...

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Open Antisemitism at MPACUK

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 10:26:33 am PST

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a major British Muslim advocacy group whose web site is sponsored by British Channel 4, has a blatant incitement to racial hatred with the openly antisemitic title, “Zionists want their pound of flesh!” (Hat tip: Israel Midnight Cafe.) It’s a paranoid rant, complete with punctuation abuse, ...

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Cuba Will Issue Venezuelan ID Cards

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 9:53:53 am PST

Blogger Miguel has a really scary piece of news from Venezuela, where the Chavez regime has just awarded the contract for the issuance of Venezuela’s national ID cards to a Cuban company. (Hat tip: Mora.) You want outrage? Take for example the announcement that the Government will give the contract for ...

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Arrests in NJ Murders

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 9:32:18 am PST

There have been arrests in the murder of a New Jersey Coptic Christian family. (Hat tip: Master Shake.) JERSEY CITY, N.J. Two people have been arrested in the murder of a New Jersey family — a case that caused religious tensions. The victims were members of an Egyptian Christian family — a ...

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VDH: Eurospeak

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 9:10:23 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson puts the President’s trip to Europe in perspective, with the sub-headline, “Sorting out the teenage sass:” Eurospeak. If Europe sounds conflicted, that’s because it is. One symptom of such a troubled patient is its blustering rhetoric — as if words can mask reality, as if idealistic vocabulary and ...

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Dan Rather: Fake, But Authentic, But Not Fake

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 8:31:44 am PST

Dan Rather was on David Letterman’s show last night, and he insists there is doubt about whether the CBS Killian memos are fakes: Dan Rather Makes Appearance on ‘Late Show’. (Thanks to all who emailed.) Rather said that to his mind, two of the panel’s most important conclusions were that it ...

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Palestinian Civil War Watch

Fri, Mar 4, 2005 at 7:56:44 am PST

If you’re looking for signs that the Palestinian terror war is changing (I won’t say “coming to an end” just yet), ignore the words of Palestinian spokesliars. Pay attention to the facts on the ground: Fatah Gunmen Attack Palestinian Police Station. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired ...

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Thursday, March 03, 2005

Thursday Open Topic

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 8:55:52 pm PST

Here we have an open topic, a tabula rasa begging to be inscribed, a blank page if you will, waiting for the verbiage of lizardoids to give it meaning.

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LA Times Shills for North Korea

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 8:38:57 pm PST

You’re not going to believe this one; the Los Angeles Times has now become a shill for the murderous communist regime of North Korea: N. Korea, Without the Rancor.

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More Arrested Bloggers

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 6:31:21 pm PST

The Committee to Protect Bloggers points out that in the last week, totalitarian regimes have been arresting and threatening numerous bloggers: Malaysian blogger Jeff Ooi questioned by police. Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam arrested with two of his fellow moderators on the BahrainOnline bulletin board. Iranian blogger Nasjeh Omidparvar arrested. Omidparvar, who is pregnant, is ...

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Kos Kidz Want to Play

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 4:43:11 pm PST

Apparently the Kos Kidz now want to play “outraged upstanding moral citizens,” quoting extreme-sounding comments from LGF visitors out of context and falsely attributing them to me. The same old stuff: Daily Kos :: From the ‘Saner Part of the Blogosphere’. For the record, because fools like this always ignore it ...

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German Muslims Endorse "Hamburg Declaration"

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 4:09:34 pm PST

German Muslim organizations are uniting under one “umbrella group” to “combat racist practices” (who knew Islam was a race?) and make sure that German schools teach Islam without governmental supervision: German Muslims to Unite Under Umbrella Group. (Hat tip: NC.) BERLIN, March 3, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) — Six major ...

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01 Call Missed

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 3:27:53 pm PST

An ex-military LGF reader forwarded a picture worth an awful lot of words, with the following explanation: The last two weeks have been pretty rough on EOD techs (three dead, one severely wounded). Today was a good day. The EOD team leader didn’t know it was an IED. He was ...

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The Case of Babar Ahmad

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 2:46:22 pm PST

The US is trying to have British Al Qaeda suspect Babar Ahmad extradited to face charges in Connecticut, but Ahmad’s lawyers are arguing that if he goes before a US military tribunal it would be a denial of his right to a fair trial. Today the US won some more ...

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Washington Monthly Argues for a Draft

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 1:51:32 pm PST

Here’s a great post from Austin Bay on a Washington Monthly story by Phil Carter advocating a military draft: A Draft?—The Washington Monthly Story Doesn’t Make the Case. The democratic surge in the Middle East has put a hard date-time stamp on this commentary— as in out-dated and strategically wrong. See ...

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A Crackdown on Blogging?

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 1:37:45 pm PST

Here’s an article by Declan McCullagh about an issue that all bloggers need to be aware of, as Democratic commissioners are pushing for FEC regulations to be applied to blogs: The coming crackdown on blogging. Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over. In just ...

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Byrd Backpedals

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 8:37:13 am PST

Robert Byrd seems to realize in some dim fashion that he may have crossed a line, with a pitifully weak, dishonest denial: Byrd Denies Comparing Republicans to Nazis. WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Byrd’s description of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was meant as a warning to heed the past and not ...

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Cease Fire, Palestinian Style

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 8:02:50 am PST

Oh, it’s a cease fire, all right ... if you’re willing to overlook a few stabbings, shootings, suicide bombings, and car bombs: Car Bombing Near Israeli Troops at West Bank Shrine. NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian militants blew up a car bomb near Israeli soldiers guarding Jewish worshippers at a ...

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A Culture of Hatred

Thu, Mar 3, 2005 at 7:53:02 am PST

While Palestinian thugs in expensive suits were shaking hands with unelected European Union diplomats at the recent “summit meeting” in Britain, back at home the official Palestinian media continued spewing lies and incitement in Arabic: Palestinian radio: Tel Aviv club a ‘military target’. The suicide bomber Friday detonated his explosives amongst ...

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Indonesia Slaps Bashir's Wrist for Bali Bombings

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 8:27:44 pm PST

For his involvement in the horrific Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, maimed many others, and caused immeasurable damage to Bali’s tourist economy, Abu Bakar Bashir will serve two and a half years. (Hat tip: Final Historian.) An Indonesian court has sentenced militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 30 months ...

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Bashir Gets Away With Murder

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 8:14:42 pm PST

An Indonesian court has absolved Islamic extremist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir of guilt for the 2003 Marriott Hotel mass murder: Hotel Bomb Charges Against Bashir Not Proven-Court. (Hat tip: Midas.) JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court said on Thursday prosecutors had failed to prove Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was involved ...

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Schoolgirl Wins Right to Hide

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 6:50:07 pm PST

Another incremental victory for Dark Ages misogyny in Britain: Schoolgirl wins right to wear Muslim gown. (Thanks to all who emailed.) A schoolgirl who was refused permission to wear an Islamic gown in class claimed a “victory for all Muslims” yesterday after the Court of Appeal ruled that she had been ...

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The Old Gray Lady Has a Thin Skin

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 4:10:57 pm PST

The wounded, snippy tone of this New York Times review makes me want to read Ari Fleischer’s new book: After Years of Taking Heat, Spokesman Takes Potshots. (Hat tip: bj.) “Taking Heat” takes a lot of potshots at the press (including The New York Times [Can you believe it? The nerve! ...

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Michigan Muslim Helped Hizballah

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 12:52:00 pm PST

A Muslim in Dearborn Michigan has pleaded guilty to helping the terror gang Hizballah: Dearborn resident helped terror group. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) DEARBORN — A Dearborn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing material support to Hezbollah, a foreign terrorist organization. Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, 33, admitted to hosting meetings at his Dearborn home ...

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Mapes' Book Will Defend the Indefensible

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 10:23:05 am PST

Well, here’s a development that will provide plenty of blog fodder, as fired CBS News producer Mary Mapes is shopping a tell-all book in which she actually plans to argue the Killian documents are legitimate—whatever that means to Mapes: CBS News Producer Fired In Memogate Will Shop Her Book. (Hat ...

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Chrenkoff Interviews VDH

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 9:57:34 am PST

Here’s a very interesting interview with Victor Davis Hanson, conducted by Arthur Chrenkoff. You are a life-long Democrat, a classicist and an old-style farmer skeptical of big business, yet after September 11 you’re finding yourself on the same side of the fence as Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice. Do you see ...

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Bush: "You Get Your Troops Out of Lebanon"

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 9:32:34 am PST

A blunt statement from the President: Bush Demands That Syria Leave Lebanon. ARNOLD, Md. - President Bush on Wednesday demanded in blunt terms that Syria get out of Lebanon, saying the free world is in agreement that Damascus’ authority over the political affairs of its neighbor must end now. He applauded the ...

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Palestinian Summit Charade

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 8:54:32 am PST

I haven’t written about this “summit meeting” between Palestinians and Europeans, because it’s basically a sham. Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen has not said a single word about cracking down on the culture of terrorism; instead he spouts the same gibberish about “unifying security forces” and “reform” that we’ve heard so many ...

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Planned Attack on Grand Central Station

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 8:18:18 am PST

One of the suspects arrested (and now released) for involvement in the Madrid train bombings had a computer disk containing detailed plans and technical information about Grand Central Station in New York: Report: Madrid Train Bombers Also Targeted New York. And Spain waited eight months to tell the FBI and CIA ...

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The Peculiar Institution

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 7:54:48 am PST

A must read: Lee Harris’s dispassionate but utterly damning examination of one of the central problems of the Middle East: The Peculiar Institution: Understanding Why Palestinian Terror Is Different. Terrorism is a Palestinian tradition that must end. But in order to bring about this desperately needed change, not only must the ...

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Sea Change in Syria

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 7:36:23 am PST

The waves of change sweeping across the Middle East now reach Syria: Lebanon ‘victory’ spurs Syrians to demand a voice. DAMASCUS, Syria — Demonstrations that brought down the government of neighboring Lebanon on Monday inspired Syria’s intellectuals and activists to issue new calls yesterday for greater political participation in their own ...

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Ward Churchill's Wisconsin Speech

Wed, Mar 2, 2005 at 7:22:39 am PST

Here is video of Ward “Little Eichmanns” Churchill’s speech on “Racism Against Native Americans” at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, in which he defends the murderer Leonard Peltier: March 1, 2005 speech. (Hat tip: Adamski.) The Wisconsin State Journal has a report on Churchill’s hate speech; note that he goes ...

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

ACLU Sues Rumsfeld

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 9:27:32 pm PST

The ACLU is taking a break from persecuting the Boy Scouts, eradicating crosses from State seals, and giving awards to the Council on American Islamic Relations, to sue Donald Rumsfeld for “torture:” ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights lawyers will file a lawsuit in federal ...

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Mainstream Media Makes a Big Mistake

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 7:59:15 pm PST

NBC News reported earlier today that one of the judges in Saddam Hussein’s war crimes tribunal had been murdered in Baghdad. But it turns out that NBC had the wrong judge: Judge on Iraq war crimes tribunal assassinated. (Hat tip: jmc.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - A judge working on the special tribunal established ...

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One in Four Americans Would Nuke Terrorists

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 7:06:58 pm PST

According to a new Gallup poll, more than one in four Americans would use nuclear weapons against “terrorist facilities” if needed: One in Four Americans Would Use Nukes Against Terrorists, Gallup Finds. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) NEW YORK More than one in four Americans would go so far as to utilize ...

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Don't Mess With Texas Women

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 6:34:06 pm PST

This happened in Dallas. Do not mess with Texas women. (Hat tip: [Engineer].)

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Olbermann Takes Off the Blinders

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 6:28:45 pm PST

From the “Jewels in the Ash Heap” category, Democratic Underground reports that even ... yes! ... Keith Olbermann is beginning to see the light: Democratic Underground Forums - Olberman: Bush Doctrine Seems to be Working in the Middle East. (Hat tip: 40.) Of course, the DUmmies are seething about it. And ...

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Virginia Muslim Admitted Plan to Kill Bush

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 6:13:19 pm PST

According to an FBI agent, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali (the Virginia Muslim accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush) admitted his guilt on many occasions: Suspect Said to Admit Plan to Kill Bush. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Virginia man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to assassinate President Bush has admitted his ...

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How Many People Are Reading?

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 4:42:09 pm PST

The Wall Street Journal says 32 million people now read blogs: Some eight million Americans now publish blogs and 32 million people read them, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. What began as a form of public diary-keeping has become an important supplement to a business’s online strategy: ...

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Blame George W. Bush

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 3:21:58 pm PST

Baby Bashar is feeling the heat from days of protests in Lebanon, and he knows he won’t be able to invoke Hama Rules with the US military sitting watchfully right next door in Iraq—and so: Syria Says Might Pull Army from Lebanon in Months. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

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Making Saddam Smile

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 3:10:54 pm PST

The life of an imprisoned ex-dictator is normally devoid of happiness. But a ray of sunshine recently illuminated Saddam Hussein’s jail cell, when he learned that Spain had caved in to terrorism. Saddam last met his defence counsel in December and conveyed his greetings to all “free people” of the world ...

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Free Speech for Terrorists?

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 8:38:39 am PST

Here’s an excellent essay by Andrew C. McCarthy on one of the global jihad’s most powerful weapons, a weapon we allow them to use against us: Free Speech for Terrorists? (Hat tip: aboo-Hoo-Hoo.) With an enemy committed to terrorism, the advocacy of terrorism—the threats, the words—are not mere dogma, or even ...

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Federal Judge Orders Release of Padilla

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 8:14:36 am PST

A federal judge has ordered that accused Al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla be charged or released. SPARTANBURG — A federal judge in Spartanburg has ordered that an American citizen held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig in Charleston should be charged with a crime or released. U.S. District Judge Henry ...

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Imprisoned WTC Bombers Had Pen Pals

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 8:00:24 am PST

Amazingly, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were sending letters to other Islamic extremists throughout the world (and getting replies!), advocating jihad and praising Osama Bin Laden—while in Supermax prison in Colorado: Imprisoned terrorists still advocating terror. Letters and articles obtained by NBC News show that while behind bars, the 1993 ...

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AFP: Bin Laden a "Dissident"

Tue, Mar 1, 2005 at 7:45:47 am PST

In the caption for a photograph of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Agence France Presse enlightens those of us who were so rash as to call Osama Bin Laden a “terrorist.” When after all, he’s just a “dissident.” Picture dated 08 November 2001 shows Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri at his hideout ...

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