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LGF Archives: August 2004

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Arnold Hits One Out of the Park

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 7:21:05 pm PDT

The first topic for the GOP Convention is filling up (not quite as fast as last night), so here’s another topic to discuss Arnold Schwarzenegger’s excellent speech. If you aren’t already watching, C-SPAN has it.

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Al-Muhajiroun Freak "De-Arrested"

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 6:50:12 pm PDT

This may be the preface to Abu Hamza’s deportation to the United States: Muslim cleric Hamza de-arrested. Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, held last week on suspicion of being involved in terror offences, has been de-arrested, Scotland Yard said. He had been arrested on Thursday at Belmarsh Prison, south-east London, where he is ...

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Stupid Controversy of the Day

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 4:14:49 pm PDT

Several of my fans (the ones who hate LGF but can’t seem to stop reading) have been emailing me about this absurdly trumped-up story of George W. Bush “flip-flopping,” as if it were important: Bush Recants, Says Terror War Will Be Won. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - President Bush said repeatedly on Tuesday ...

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Call for Islamic "Resistance" in Berlin

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 4:00:42 pm PDT

In October, Berlin will play host to the First Arab Islamic Congress in Europe, titled Berlin Call 2004. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) Their “principal document” says “Stand up and perform resistance!” More from their highly nuanced statement of tolerance and peace: We say a clear and loud NO: - To colonialism, - to ...

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GOP Convention: Day Two

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 3:42:30 pm PDT

The featured speaker this evening will be Arnold Schwarzenegger, and as always you can watch the GOP Convention over the web at C-SPAN. Last night we ended up with over a thousand comments in the convention topics.

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War Against America

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 3:16:50 pm PDT

The Jerusalem Post’s Barry Rubin has a must-read piece on the implications of recent events in the Middle East: War Against America. Something remarkable has happened, even by the Middle East’s usual standards. For the first time in history states in the region are conducting a systematic, covert war against the ...

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Palestinians Celebrate Mass Murder

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 1:39:57 pm PDT

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"The American People Are Inwardly Dead"

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 1:10:20 pm PDT

Martin LeFevre describes himself as “a contemplative and non-academic religious and political philosopher.” And in an article for New Zealand’s far-left Scoop bemoaning the likelihood that Bush will win another term as President, LeFevre also reveals himself to be a barking, America-hating moonbat: Pray for Kerry, Prepare for Bush. (Hat tip: ...

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Religion of Peace Strikes in Moscow

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:36:06 am PDT

Moscow Suicide Bomber Kills Eight, Injures 20. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and at least 20 injured by a female suicide bomber in a central Moscow car park on Tuesday evening, Russian news agencies reported. Local television footage showed a blazing car parked between a large shopping center and the ...

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Religion of Peace Kills Twelve in Iraq

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 7:41:23 am PDT

The holy warriors in Iraq have slaughtered a dozen more helpless hostages, in the name of Allah: Iraq Militants Kill 12 Nepali Hostages. BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A militant Iraqi group said it had killed 12 Nepali hostages and showed pictures of one being beheaded and others being gunned down in ...

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And Again

Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 7:27:00 am PDT

It’s been a long time since they got their mass murderers into Israel, but they’ve been trying almost daily. And eventually, the vicious, debased Palestinian death cult had to succeed: 12 Killed, 100 Wounded in Twin Bus Bombings. Two suicide bombers exploded almost simultaneously on two buses in central Be’er Sheva ...

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Monday, August 30, 2004

MuslimWakeup Gloats a Little Too Fast

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 9:38:50 pm PDT

They’re often touted as a bastion of moderate Islam, but MuslimWakeup.com has dropped the thinly veiled pretense and now links openly to antisemites like Justin Raimondo. And here they are calling out LGF; they really didn’t like my prediction that CBS’s “Israeli spy” scandal was going to fade away quickly: ...

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Giuliani's Moment

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 8:17:31 pm PDT

An LGF Golden Oldie, from the dark days immediately following September 11, when Rudy Giuliani clarified things beautifully by telling Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud to take his $10 million check and shove it sideways up his oil rig: lgf: take this check and... And to show Rudy’s ...

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Another GOP Convention Topic: Day One

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 7:40:01 pm PDT

The first LGF topic devoted to the GOP Convention in Manhattan is filling up so fast with comments after John McCain’s extraordinary speech that I’m opening another thread. You can watch the convention over the web here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. And Rudy Giuliani hasn’t even spoken yet.

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GOP Convention: Day One

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 4:58:41 pm PDT

Here’s the schedule for tonight’s speakers at the GOP convention; you can watch over the web at C-SPAN. One of the speakers will be Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress. (Daniel Pipes identifies the American Islamic Congress as one of the true Moderate Voices of Islam.)

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Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Bunch of Morlocks

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:58:36 pm PDT

It’s official: Indymedia is under investigation by the Secret Service, after several posts revealing private information of Republican Convention delegates. WASHINGTON - The Secret Service is investigating the posting on the Internet of names and personal information about thousands of delegates to the Republication National Convention in New York, officials said ...

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Another Acadhimmi in the Daily Star

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:48:26 am PDT

Lebanon’s Daily Star government rag has been publishing a series of articles by Western academics and apologists for radical Islam, supporting John Kerry for President of the US. Last Friday we had a Kerry advisor promising “radical changes” in Middle East policy if Kerry were elected. And last Wednesday they published a ...

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Toys for Terrorists, Part 2

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:04:22 am PDT

Second Toy Found In Candy Appears To Depict Osama Bin Laden. (Hat tip: Let Israel Win.) MIAMI — In Miami, a wholesaler has announced that his company will recall 14,000 bags of candy. The bags contain a toy that looks like a plane flying into a building and, we found a second ...

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Party in Tehran!

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:53:06 am PDT

The Washington Post headline reads, “Edwards Says Kerry Plans to Confront Iran on Weapons.” Right. He plans to “confront” them with enough nuclear fuel to get Iran’s nuke program really going good, and then trust them to keep their side of the bargain and return all the spent fuel. Such a deal. ...

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Kerry's Page at the U.S.S. Gridley Site

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:42:04 am PDT

At the web site for the U.S.S. Gridley, aboard which John Kerry served his first tour of duty in Vietnam, they have a page dedicated to the inconsistencies in Kerry’s authorized campaign biography: The Kerry Page. (Hat tip: Greg.) These are the comments of radarman Phil Carter: I was an E-5 radarman ...

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LGF Bashed at PW Forum, Warriors Bash Back

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:22:54 am PDT

One of my charming Internet stalkers is trying to stir up anti-LGF sentiment at the Protest Warrior Forum (cutting/pasting something he/she/it Googled up from an obscure weblog, written back in 2002), but having very little success. Heh. Looks like I’m a Nazi again. Yawn. Wonder which banned troll this is? (Hat ...

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Morons on Parade

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:04:27 am PDT

Rich Lowry describes several close encounters of the stupid kind, with the deep thinkers who acted out their fantasies in Manhattan yesterday: More than 57 Varieties of Bush Hatred. Here is a brief recounting of my interactions with various marchers. They shouldn’t necessarily be taken as representative. After each talk I ...

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That Jewish Conspiracy Story

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 9:32:06 am PDT

David Frum puts his finger on the reasons for the “leak” to CBS News of the “Israeli spy” story—which has now, as I predicted, slipped off the media radar as suddenly as it appeared. What seems to be going on here is this: People in the Pentagon broadly discussed proposed American ...

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The Democratization of Information

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 8:35:52 am PDT

John Podhoretz writes about the democratization of the news—and the fear of mainstream media, as they see their formerly absolute control of information slipping away: Media Moans. The last two years in particular have seen the explosion of a new medium — the personal Internet newspaper, or blog — that has ...

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Urban Blights

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 8:11:07 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Bush's Pre-Convention Bounce

Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 7:49:46 am PDT

Election Projection has good news for the Bush campaign: The Republican National Convention begins tomorrow in the midst of a pretty substantial “pre-convention” bounce for the President. His ever-improving job approval and the toll those Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads are taking on Kerry’s numbers have pushed Bush into the ...

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Sunday, August 29, 2004

Poll: Bush vs. Kerry vs. Neither

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 8:15:33 pm PDT

In preparation for the opening of the Republican Convention, I’ve started a new Presidential popularity poll.

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The Fog of Battle

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 6:36:23 pm PDT

I didn’t have time to read this Victor Davis Hanson essay when it first appeared on Friday in the National Review. But it’s a tour de force demonstration of what VDH does best, as he looks at John Kerry’s problems with his past through the prism of military history: The ...

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Indymedia in the Hot Seat?

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 5:20:19 pm PDT

Drudge reports that the Justice Department is demanding the records of “a liberal Internet site” that can only be Indymedia, for publishing private information on Republican delegates. JUSTICE TO WEBSITE: SHOW US YOUR RECORDS Sun Aug 29 2004 16:45:59 ET The Justice Department is demanding records on a liberal Internet site that lists ...

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Ed Koch: On the Right Side

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 3:58:37 pm PDT

Jeff Jacoby talks with lifelong Democrat Ed Koch, and finds out why he’s on Bush’s bandwagon. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) “I’ve never before supported a Republican for president,” Koch told me last week. “But I’m doing so this time because of the one issue that trumps everything else: international terrorism. ...

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JPost: The AIPAC Kerfuffle

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 3:45:24 pm PDT

The Jerusalem Post weighs in on the AIPAC kerfuffle. Let us not, as the media, be naïve. There are two parallel and bitter struggles raging in Washington, now reaching a crescendo. One is between Democrats and Republicans over control of the White House. A spy scandal at this time obviously harms ...

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The Enemy Within

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 3:28:16 pm PDT

The America-hating left takes another turn for the worse, in an utterly deranged image found at (where else?) the New York branch of the Nazimedia newswire.

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Kerry's Personal Vietnam Quagmire

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 1:50:53 pm PDT

Mark Steyn: Something tells me Bush holds all the aces. At the beginning of the year, Thomas Lifson, who was at Harvard Business School with George W Bush, made an interesting observation about the President. He notes that young George “was a very avid and skillful poker player” when he was ...

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The Drums of Hell

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 1:07:58 pm PDT

The drums. The horrible drums. Must ... resist ... their hypnotic ... power ... Maybe Fox News really does suck? Aaiiieee! Must resist ... UPDATE at 8/29/04 1:10:01 pm: They must be so proud of themselves for that vicious display of flag-draped coffins. Parasites. OK. I’m over the drums. UPDATE at 8/29/04 1:19:34 pm: Coffins and puppetheads. ...

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Moronic Convergence Watch

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:49:50 am PDT

Here’s a topic for the chants and signs at the monumental display of idiocy taking place this afternoon in Manhattan. A little good-natured call-and-response, just seen at C-SPAN: Who is the terrorist? Bush is the terrorist! Who is the murderer? Bush is the murderer! It’s getting ugly out there. UPDATE at 8/29/04 11:58:59 am: They’ve set something ...

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Terror Supporters March in Manhattan

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:00:37 am PDT

A large group of pro-terror useful idiots just paraded in front of C-SPAN’s cameras, carrying Palestinian flags and wearing kaffiyeh, chanting “Long live Palestine! Long live intifada!” You can watch this pathetic display of illogic and suicidal weakness over the web at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 8/29/04 11:22:11 am: In a sort of lamebrained ...

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Moronic Convergence in Manhattan

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:32:34 am PDT

Director Michael Moore, left, is joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson at the start of a protest march leading up to the Republican National Convention sponsored by the group United for Peace and Justice in New York, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. The Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin Monday. ...

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French Muslims Whine

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 8:27:45 am PDT

The al-Reuters headline reads: French Govt., Muslims Appeal for Reporters’ Release. But unless there were statements not reported in this article, the French Muslim leaders quoted didn’t say one word about releasing the French reporters—they were too busy covering their asses. French Muslim leaders reacted nervously to the news and promptly denied ...

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Germany, France, Britain: Send Nuclear Tech to Iran

Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 8:14:36 am PDT

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, visiting Jordan, warns of Iran’s rush to achieve nuclear weapons—and says that Europe has a master plan to solve the problem. Just like John Kerry, they plan to supply Iran with nuclear technology. Fischer said an Iranian nuclear challenge only adds to Middle East problems that include ...

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Saturday, August 28, 2004

Carl Lewis Falls Victim to BDS

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 8:56:51 pm PDT

Sadly, Bush Derangement Syndrome (combined with Moonbat Anti-Logic Contamination) has afflicted another former star: Carl Lewis. (Hat tip: Andrew B.) America’s biggest Olympic hero yesterday accused George Bush of exploiting the Athens Games for his own political advantage in the run-up to the presidential election. Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold ...

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Iran: "As Muslims, We Can't Use Nuclear Weapons"

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 8:07:18 pm PDT

Iran is willing to guarantee (I’ve sworn off scare quotes) that they won’t build any nuclear weapons ever. Come on. Trust ’em. Because after all, they’re Muslims. “As Muslims, we can’t use nuclear weapons,” he told reporters in Tehran. “One who can’t use nuclear weapons won’t produce them.” UPDATE at 8/28/04 8:21:30 ...

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 7:13:10 pm PDT

Yes, it’s true. On the first day of LGF’s Kerry Meltdown Watch, we have two front-page entries, with an amazing Cuban policy foot-shot from a Democratic candidate who can’t be bothered to recall his own votes on critical issues: Kerry’s stances on Cuba open to attack. (Hat tip: LesLein.) John Kerry ...

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CNN: "There May Not Be Charges At All"

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 7:01:48 pm PDT

The lone important paragraph, lurking amidst the chaff, in a CNN story about the “Israeli spy” brouhaha: FBI looks at Pentagon worker in Israel spy probe. Government officials said a decision on whether to prosecute has not been made. They say there may not be charges at all, and if there ...

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Powell Cancels Athens Visit

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 6:31:10 pm PDT

Secretary of State Colin Powell cancelled his visit to Athens today, after a virulent anti-American demonstration by Greek Communists who sympathize with Islamist murderers. On Friday, riot police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who took part in a protest against the Powell visit. About 1,500 people who took ...

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Israel: "This is an American Political Story"

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 6:11:02 pm PDT

Israel hits back hard, with a clear knowledge of the motivations behind the leak, in what CBS News is calling the “Israeli spy” case: Jerusalem views ‘spy’ story as local US political fare. Sources in Jerusalem vehemently denied any Israeli espionage in the US, terming as an “internal US political story” ...

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Flipper's Fighting Mad

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 5:51:47 pm PDT

Look out! Kerry Says He’s in a ‘Fighting Mood’. (Hat tip: T. Jefferson.) And if you don’t stop bringing it on, Georgie, he’s going to sic Wesley Clark on ya! Hah! In a 45-minute speech, Kerry stuck to offense against Bush’s record and left defense against the Vietnam War criticisms that have ...

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Palestinian Portrait Swarm Watch

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 5:46:49 pm PDT

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Kerry Meltdown Watch

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 4:19:47 pm PDT

Yes, it’s time for the Kerry Meltdown Watch topic. Here’s the latest in what’s shaping up to be an ongoing series: Kerry citation a ‘total mystery’ to ex-Navy chief. (Thanks to all who emailed.) Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee ...

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More and More Like a Meltdown

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 3:49:17 pm PDT

I guess the Kerry campaign’s strategy is: if a stunt doesn’t work, try it again. Because yesterday they sent a group of pro-Kerry veterans to try to deliver the same letter that Max Cleland brought to Crawford (where Cleland balked at accepting a return letter from the Bush campaign), this time ...

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Kerry's CO Speaks

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 3:15:01 pm PDT

John Kerry’s military records are finally becoming big news, as the smell of Pulitzers overcomes mainstream media reluctance to cover the story. Not even the LA Times can deny that the story has legs; today they print a remarkably even-handed and fair (for them) interview with John O’Neill: For a ...

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Holy Warriors Demand End to French Hijab Ban

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 3:06:03 pm PDT

The mujahideen in Iraq have kidnapped two French journalists, and are demanding that France revoke their ban on Muslim headscarves (hijab) in school, within 48 hours: End Headscarf Ban, Iraq Hostage Takers Warn France. DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two French journalists and given the French government ...

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Two Arrested in NY Subway Bomb Plot

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 1:53:14 pm PDT

As the anarchists prepare to deliberately cause false alarms in Manhattan to “protest” the Republican Convention, New York police have arrested two men for plotting to bomb the subway system: 2 Arrested in Alleged NYC Subway Bomb Plot. In what I’m starting to think of as “Elephant in the Room” journalism, ...

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Chirac: The World Should Impose Peace

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 8:33:32 am PDT

Yesterday Jacques Chirac took a break from denying French antisemitism, to call for the “international community” to “impose” peace on the Middle East: Chirac hits out at international community’s inaction in Middle East. PARIS (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac sharply criticized the international community’s failure to help put an end ...

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Israel, AIPAC Deny Spying Charges

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 7:41:41 am PDT

A prediction: the so-called “Israeli spy” story trumpeted all over the media yesterday is going to turn out to be a massive exaggeration, a diversionary tactic by CBS News to take some of the heat off the Kerry campaign by throwing red meat to the Jew-haters: Israel Denies Spying on ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 7:29:35 am PDT

As more precious time passes without action to stop them from acquiring nuclear weapons, the mullahs are beginning to gloat openly: Iran Says U.S. Lacks Options on Its Atomic Program. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Washington has hit a dead-end over Iran’s nuclear dossier, lacking enough proof to demand U.N. sanctions and too ...

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Kerry 's Plan: "The Media Won't Have the Nerve"

Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 7:24:59 am PDT

The source may be unidentified, but events have confirmed this August 10 story at the American Spectator, outlining Kerry’s plan to deal with the allegations from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Command Confidence. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) According to a Kerry campaign source, senior campaign advisers tasked two Washington-based campaign staffers ...

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Friday, August 27, 2004

Not In My Name

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 7:46:28 pm PDT

For the record, as a cycling enthusiast: though we may ride similar machines, the self-centered grandstanding freaks of Critical Mass do not represent me.

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Saudi Arabian Women's Rights

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 6:06:49 pm PDT

After watching them for more than three years (and having more than one close encounter with their employees and editors), I have more than enough reasons to be more than slightly suspicious of anything that appears in the Arab News. And with that disclaimer, I present the latest evidence (I’m trying ...

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Anarchist All-Stars Head to Manhattan

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 5:28:47 pm PDT

Among the other antisocial morons and borderline criminals who will be attending the Republican Convention in Manhattan with the intent to cause chaos, I’m glad to see that the NYPD is aware of one of the worst—Canadian Islamic agent provocateur Jaggi Singh: Anarchists hot for mayhem. Jaggi Singh, 32, a Canadian ...

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DUmmies: Depressed and Snapping

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 5:02:25 pm PDT

Heh. The news that Kerry’s approval ratings are dropping has hit the Democratic Underground forum/loony bin hard, and they’re snarling and snapping at each other like starving ferrets in a Scotsman’s jodhpurs: Now I’m really depressed about Kerry’s chances.

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CBS: Possible Israeli Spy in Pentagon

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 4:51:06 pm PDT

CBS News reports that the FBI is investigating a possible Israeli spy in the Pentagon. (Thanks to all who emailed, including the nice person with the bogus Hotmail address who wrote “I dare you to post this!” along with some other forgettable comments.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI believes Israel has ...

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RoP Claims Responsibility for Flight 587

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 4:23:00 pm PDT

In March 2002, captured Canadian Al Qaeda operative Mohammed Mansour Jabarah told investigators that the November 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 was caused by Abderraouf Jdey, aka “Farouk the Tunisian,” a Montreal Muslim who trained with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators ...

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Jihad Reaches Central America

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 4:04:16 pm PDT

Central America has gone on alert for a possible terror attack against El Salvador, following threats from the holy warriors of the RoP: Central America Said on Alert for Attack. MANAGUA, Nicaragua - All of Central America is on alert for a possible al-Qaida attack against El Salvador for its support ...

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Free "Bob"!

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 3:17:50 pm PDT

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Russian Airliners Had Bombs in Lavatories

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 2:54:47 pm PDT

Pravda (make sure you have your grain of salt handy) has a report that the two Russian airliners that crashed on Tuesday were blown out of the sky by explosives planted in their rear bathrooms: TU-134 and TU-154 were exploded from their toilets. (Hat tip: Sean II.) At first, the experts ...

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Toys for Terrorists

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 2:41:16 pm PDT

Toy In Candy Bag Appears To Depict 9/11 Attack. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) ORLANDO, Fla. — A bag of candy shocked a local grandmother and will most likely shock you. The toy inside looks like a plane flying right into the Twin Towers. Now, that toy is off ...

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Kerry Mideast Advisor Promises Arabs "Dramatic Change"

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:31:29 am PDT

Augustus Richard Norton, advisor to the John F. Kerry campaign on Mideast foreign policy, is interviewed by Lebanon’s Daily Star, promising Arabs that a Kerry victory would mark a return to serious diplomacy. Arabs, of course, are world-famous for their highly distinguished diplomacy. (Hat tip: Allah.) If US presidential hopeful John ...

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Kerry's Dangerous Secret

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:03:06 am PDT

Stanley Kurtz makes a great point in this column: The Dangerous Secret. The discussion about John Kerry’s service records is just the preface to the real debate, now visible just over the horizon and fast approaching, about Kerry’s extreme pacifist views and his appalling Senate record of voting against every military ...

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Palestinian Terrorists Appeal to UN

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 9:34:12 am PDT

Palestinian terrorists and murderers jailed in Israel are continuing their “hunger strike” stunt, and (what a surprise!) appealing to Kofi Annan: Palestinian hunger strikers urge UN intervention to prevent ‘disaster’. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Paletinians [sic] being held in Israeli prisons appealed for international intervention to prevent their hunger strike developing into ...

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The Pressure-Cooker Theory

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 9:02:52 am PDT

The lone voice of sanity at the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, has an excellent piece today to counter Howell Raines’s smug elitist superiority: The Pressure-Cooker Theory. It is not often that a losing presidential candidate (Al Gore) compares the man who defeated him to both Hitler and Stalin. It is not ...

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Disgraced NYT Editor Welcomed by WaPo

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 8:21:30 am PDT

New York Times editor Howell Raines may have been forced to resign in disgrace in a scandal involving falsified news, but that doesn’t mean he can’t get published in the Washington Post; today they picked up Raines’s lame hit piece (written for Britain’s antisemitic, anti-American Guardian rag) about the stupidity ...

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Explosives Found in Crashed Russian Plane

Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 7:59:25 am PDT

Investigators Find Explosives in Russia Plane Wreck, of a type that isn’t usually used by Buddhists. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Explosives of a kind used by Chechen rebels have been found in one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously, pointing to a terrorist attack, Russian investigators said Friday. The FSB security service ...

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Thursday, August 26, 2004

Europe's New War With America

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 9:03:19 pm PDT

Here’s a good piece at Motley Fool, on the bizarre anti-success policies of the European Union: Europe’s New War With America. This week, the European Union’s (EU) European Commission (EC) opened an investigation into a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) deal that would give them control of digital ...

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Islamic Enclave in Little Rock

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 8:52:56 pm PDT

If the Islamic Center for Human Excellence in Little Rock, Arkansas, has their way, there will soon be an Islamic enclave in Little Rock. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Controversy over building a proposed Islamic community in Little Rock and many residents are not pleased. The planning commission unanimously approved the project which ...

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Howell Raines: Guardian Stringer

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 8:30:03 pm PDT

Reduced to spewing in Britain’s anti-American Guardian, here’s disgraced former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines, still telling the world that George W. Bush is stupid. To be fair, innate intelligence has to do with capability and ignorance to do with variables such as educational opportunity and personal diligence. But ...

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Saudis Invest in Chinese Refinery

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 8:05:38 pm PDT

Saudi Arabia is making huge money deals with China and Russia: Saudi Aramco Figures in Design Deal for $3.5bn China Refinery.

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Haste Makes Waste

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 7:42:24 pm PDT

One of the socially conscious activist musicians on the Vote for Change Tour, Dave Matthews, dumped his tour bus’s toilets all over a bunch of tourists on the Chicago River, and may now face criminal charges: Dave Matthews Band May Face Criminal Charges Over Bus Stink. Authorities in Chicago are considering ...

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John O'Neill in the Lion's Den

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 6:41:23 pm PDT

John O’Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth coolly fends off all attacks with a relentless barrage of facts, in a Question and Answer session with Washington Post readers: Unfit for Command. (Hat tip: Greg.) The whole thing is a must-read, but here are a few excerpts: Arlington, Va.: How would you ...

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"Non-Partisan" Film About 9/11 Opens in Edinburgh

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 4:10:10 pm PDT

A British film about September 11 whose protagonist is Islamic mass murderer Ziad Jarrah has premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival: World premiere for controversial September 11 docu-drama. LONDON (AFP) - The first major screen adaptation of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United ...

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Honor Killing in New Zealand

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 3:48:35 pm PDT

Two days ago New Zealand put Ahmad Riyaz Khan on trial, for the absolutely horrific honor killing of an ex-girlfriend: Jury will see video of woman burned alive. (Hat tip: annelid.) A jury in a murder trial in the High Court at Auckland is to see security video footage of a ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Italian Journalist

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 3:31:06 pm PDT

The holy warriors in Iraq have murdered another helpless hostage for Allah: Islamist group executes Italian hostage in Iraq: Al-Jazeera. DOHA (AFP) - An Islamist group has executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni in Iraq, Arabic-language satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported. Baldoni’s captors, a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq, had ...

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Britain Arrests Abu Hamza

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 3:25:11 pm PDT

Hook-handed Islamic freakazoid Abu Hamza is in even more trouble: Britain arrests radical cleric. London — British Police arrested radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on suspicion of terrorism links Thursday, a move suggesting that Britain intends to charge him, which could delay U.S. attempts to extradite him. Mr. al-Masri was already in ...

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Let the Idiocy Begin!

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 3:21:09 pm PDT

Gaaahhhh! My ... eyes! (Blame: Ms Andi.) (Disclaimer: LGF is not responsible for psychic damage or matted auras resulting from viewing the page linked above. If you are allergic to nude idiots, please consult a psychiatric specialist before clicking.)

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Tough Day for the Jihadis

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 3:03:35 pm PDT

Israel continues their policy of striking hard at the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad: Senior Islamic Militant Wounded in Gaza Blast. GAZA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - An explosion wounded a senior Islamic Jihad field commander in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday in what the Palestinian militant group called an Israeli ...

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Russian Airliners Probable Terror Targets

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 2:55:55 pm PDT

No surprises here, as Russian authorities acknowledge the obvious: Top Russian Official: Plane Terror Likely. MOSCOW - A top Russian official acknowledged on Thursday what many citizens already suspected — that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning ...

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The Najaf Merry-Go-Round

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 1:44:19 pm PDT

Shi’ite clerics Muqtada al-Sadr and Ali Husseini al-Sistani say they have arranged a peace deal in Najaf: Aide: Al-Sistani Brokers Najaf Peace Deal. NAJAF, Iraq - Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed Thursday to a peace deal presented by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani to end three weeks of ...

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Kerry Admitted Writing Own Combat Reports

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 7:51:41 am PDT

In testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, John Kerry admitted writing his own combat reports, and implied that he himself had exaggerated those reports. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reveals that the then anti-war activist admitted to writing many of ...

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WaPo: "Rove's Demonic Chuckle"

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 7:38:34 am PDT

Today the Washington Post prints one of the most vicious columns I’ve ever read in a mainstream newspaper, as Tina Brown hisses and claws at the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth like an enraged ferret: Old Warriors Giving Their Last, Worst Shot. The worst thing about the Swift boat moment has ...

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Jihadis Threaten Rumsfeld

Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 7:18:38 am PDT

Emissaries of the Religion of Peace™ are threatening to murder Donald Rumsfeld. “We tell Rumsfeld: you may have escaped unharmed from our swords, but you will not escape again,” said “the information office of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan” in the statement accompanied by footage of Taliban “victories” in Afghanistan. The statement ...

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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Australia Gets Cruise Missiles

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 9:05:07 pm PDT

Proven allies of the United States get the best weapons: Australia says to acquire new ‘most lethal’ cruise missiles. And that’s the way it ought to be. SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia announced plans to acquire long-range cruise missiles that will give its defence force the “most lethal capacity” for air combat in ...

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Weapons and Explosives Found in Montreal

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 8:53:30 pm PDT

A minivan full of weapons and explosives was discovered yesterday in Montreal: Explosives found in van. MONTREAL—Police found a large stash of weapons and explosives yesterday after an investigation of a suspicious minivan tied up traffic through downtown streets for several hours. Montreal police sent in a robot to examine several pieces ...

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Bahrain: Hitler's Human Side

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 8:25:53 pm PDT

The Bahrain Daily News applauds a new German film that shows the human side of Hitler. (Hat tip: m.) And please notice where they put the scare quotes. BERLIN: A startlingly convincing portrayal of Adolf Hitler in a new German movie about his last 12 days is causing controversy with critics challenging ...

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Alleged Hamas Operative's Daughter Alleges Profiling

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 6:40:08 pm PDT

Here’s a shocker: Racial Profiling Alleged in Muslim Arrest. BALTIMORE - The oldest daughter of a man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative said Wednesday that police used racial profiling when officers stopped her family’s sport utility vehicle while her mother made a home video of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. “We were ...

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S.O.S.

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 6:35:26 pm PDT

Another bullseye from Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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George Soros' Money Goes to Work

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 5:57:53 pm PDT

MoveOn.org, the organized creamy nougat center of the radical wing of the Democratic Party, is preparing to release a slew of anti-Bush ads. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Unveiled Tuesday night in New York, the 30-second videos are the work of artists including directors Rob Reiner, John Sayles and Benny Boom, musician Moby, ...

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Tariq Ramadan May Reapply for Visa

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 5:45:56 pm PDT

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli says that even though Islamic propagandist Tariq Ramadan’s visa to teach at Notre Dame University was revoked by recommendation of the Department of Homeland Security, Ramadan is free to apply for another visa: Islamic Scholar May Reapply For Visa. WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (AFP) - Muslim scholar ...

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Now It's Getting Really Weird

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 4:32:41 pm PDT

Here’s Flipper’s latest shaggy dog story: VC the Swift Boat Dog. A new four-legged angle — actually a dog named “VC” — has suddenly materialized surrounding Sen. John Kerry’s swift boat service in Vietnam. In a 2004 presidential candidate questionnaire for Humane USA, Mr. Kerry was asked whether any pets have had ...

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Hypocrisy on Parade

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 1:14:59 pm PDT

I just happened to turn on the radio, and heard a caller to Michael Medved’s show state categorically that the Kerry campaign has “never attacked Bush’s military service.” Oh, really? John Kerry for President - Key Unanswered Questions: Bush’s Record In The National Guard.

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Modern Journalism

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:54:25 pm PDT

Al-Reuters is at it again, in a photo caption for Cleland’s dog-and-pony show. Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland (C) with former Green Beret Lt. Jim Rassman (R) attempts to deliver a letter to President George W. Bush at the security checkpoint near Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, August 25, 2004. The ...

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Kerry: On the Wrong Side for a Long Time

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:38:32 am PDT

The Blogspirator has a great post about one of John Kerry’s long-time supporters—former Attorney General turned America-hating loon Ramsey Clark. Blogspirator includes scans of two issues of the Communist Daily World newspaper from the 70s, praising Kerry and his Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Here is Ramsey Clark’s endorsement of John ...

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Allah's Divine Spiders

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:38:15 am PDT

Some of the stories that come out of Allah’s spokesmen, the freaky sheikhs of the Middle East, are just bugged-out. The following are excerpts from an interview with Iraqi Sheik Mahdi Saleh Al-Sumide’i, who participated in the battle of Falluja: Sheik Sumide’i: They [the Americans] attacked Falluja and tried to cause great ...

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Kerry Trots Out Cleland

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 9:46:10 am PDT

John Kerry’s lame maneuvering to avoid answering questions about his service record has reached a pathetic new low, as he dispatches Max Cleland to Crawford, Texas, to “try to deliver a letter” asking Bush to condemn the Swift Boat Veterans’ advertisements: Kerry Takes Fight Over Vietnam Ads to Bush’s Ranch. CRAWFORD, ...

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More Islamic Snuff Pictures

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 9:02:13 am PDT

Web Site Shows ‘Beheading of American Spy’ in Iraq. DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamic militant group posted pictures on its Web site on Wednesday of what it said was the beheading of a man it called a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency spy in Iraq. Army of Ansar al-Sunna’s site showed five sequential ...

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Jihad: It's Not Just for Men

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 8:56:34 am PDT

You’ve come a long way, baby: ‘Jihad’ magazine for women on web. Notice the bizarre bland tone of this BBC article, conveying not even a hint of disapproval. The only judgment the Beeb can summon up is that “some” of the articles “take a somewhat patronising attitude.” Radical Islamists have launched a ...

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Kerry Still Supports the North Vietnamese Regime

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 8:38:45 am PDT

As his Vietnam service record is exposed as (at the very least) exaggerated, John Kerry is now calling for a debate on current events and policies. Captain Ed brings it on, in a post about Kerry’s appalling support for a biased UMass-Boston/Joiner Center study of Vietnamese refugees, in which Vietnamese-Americans were ...

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Israel Wins First Gold Medal

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 8:15:20 am PDT

An Israeli windsurfer has won the first gold medal ever for Israel. Mazel tov! ATHENS, Greece - A windsurfer whose first name means “wave” in Hebrew gave Israel its first Olympic gold medal ever Wednesday, taking a plunge in the Saronic Gulf to celebrate. Gal Fridman sailed a remarkably consistent regatta, ...

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Palestinian Anarchy Watch

Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 7:58:28 am PDT

Gaza Gunmen Shoot Palestinian Intelligence Chief. GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed the commander of the Palestinian intelligence service in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding him, killing two bodyguards and fueling fears of spreading chaos. The apparent attempt to kill Tareq Abu Rajab, acting head of the General Intelligence Service, was the ...

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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Columbus's Crew

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 8:42:33 pm PDT

The State Department says Christopher Columbus had an Arab Muslim navigator. But here’s a site that lists Columbus’s Crew on all three ships that made the journey to the New World, and lo ... not an Arab name among them.

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Over a Million a Month

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 6:23:55 pm PDT

A new feature of my backend administration tools tells me that in the last 30 days, Little Green Footballs has had: 1,520,055 total visits, which includes those people who reload the page several times per day), and... 1,183,193 unique visits, counting each visitor only once per day.

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BREAKING: Two Russian Airliners Crash

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 3:43:11 pm PDT

Report: Two Russian Airliners Crash. MOSCOW - Two Russian airliners carrying a total of more than 100 people crashed almost simultaneously south of Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. There was no word on survivors. The first plane was carrying 54 passengers and a crew of eight when it crashed in ...

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Flipper's Biggest Fans

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 3:35:30 pm PDT

I think it’s pretty obvious to most LGF lizardoids that some of Kerry’s biggest fans are in the press, but Jeff Jacoby’s selection of quotes from journalists following the Democratic Convention illustrates it very well: I was standing next to the young speechwriter who worked with Kerry on this speech. . ...

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"The Only Solution ... is Jihad"

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 2:47:04 pm PDT

How many times have you read or heard the claim that Muslim anger at the United States is the result of America taking Israel’s side in their “occupation” of Palestinian land? I see this asserted in at least one news story every single day. The Salafi Society of North America (with ...

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Kerry Backtracks on First Purple Heart

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 2:13:17 pm PDT

Kerry Campaign Backtracks On First Purple Heart Award. Washington —- In a reversal of their staunch defense of John Kerry’s military service record, Kerry campaign officials were quoted by Fox News saying that it was indeed possible that John Kerry’s first Purple Heart commendation was the result of an, unintentional, self-inflicted ...

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Bali Bomber Will Go Unpunished

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 2:03:33 pm PDT

Idris, one of the Islamic mass murderers who confessed to perpetrating the Bali nightclub bombings, will suffer no punishment for his monstrous act. Idris had confessed to his involvement in the attack, but the charges were thrown out because of a recent Indonesian constitutional court ruling barring the retrospective use of ...

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Kerry's Ties to Anti-Bush Groups

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:50:47 pm PDT

As John Kerry and his supporters flood the airwaves with accusations that the Bush campaign is somehow responsible for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (accusations they know are false), Newsmax details the almost unbelievable web of connections between the Kerry campaign and numerous supposedly “independent” groups—and some of these ...

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Tariq Ramadan's Visa Revoked

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 8:04:25 am PDT

Tariq Ramadan, the so-called “moderate intellectual” Muslim who had been invited to spread propaganda at Notre Dame University, has had his visa revoked by the Department of Homeland Security—but the Chicago Tribune, in a stunningly biased article that makes their sympathies very clear, says “some Jewish groups” are to blame. ...

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Kerry: Strange, Stuck-Up ... and Stupid

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 7:52:01 am PDT

Mark Steyn sums up John Kerry pretty well: strange, stuck-up... and stupid. According to Francis Harris in Saturday’s Telegraph, allegations that John Kerry “lied about his Vietnam record” are “unravelling”. Oh, I wouldn’t say that. Right now, it looks like the sanity of the Kerry campaign and its pals in the ...

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Suspected Hamas Operative Videotaped Chesapeake Bridge

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 7:18:00 am PDT

Ismael Selim Elbarasse, a suspected high-ranking Hamas operative, was arrested on Friday videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. (Hat tip: pflick.) A man described in a federal indictment as a “high-ranking” Hamas operative was arrested in Maryland on Friday videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, authorities acknowledged last night. Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale, ...

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None of It's Fair

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 7:01:49 am PDT

John Podhoretz makes a good point about John Kerry’s Cambodian fantasies: None of It’s Fair. Well, one of the charges hurled by the Swift Boat Veterans has thrown Kerry for a loop. They unearthed Kerry’s claim to have driven his boat into Cambodia at Christmastime 1968, ferrying a CIA operative on ...

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Monday, August 23, 2004

Foggy Bottom Promotes Muslim Columbus Myth

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 9:25:49 pm PDT

The US State Department promotes an Islamic embellishment on American history: Islamic Influence Runs Deep in American Culture. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Islamic influences may date back to the very beginning of American history. It is likely that Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, charted his way across the Atlantic Ocean ...

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Librarians For Terror: Part Two

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 7:23:40 pm PDT

Christopher Johnson has an illuminating post on the far-left/Islamist domination of the American Library Association, at Midwest Conservative Journal. The web site for the International Responsibilites Task Force of the ALA’s Social Responsibilities Round Table contains what it calls Alternative Resources on the US War Against Iraq. Without exception, IRTF’s “resources” ...

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Kuwaiti Journalist Denounces Culture of Violence

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 6:48:38 pm PDT

If the Islamic Reformation is ever going to happen, it will be brought into existence in places like Kuwait, by brave people like Sa’ad bin Tefla: Zionism and Imperialism have Nothing to do with Our Culture of Violence. But an unfortunate note: Tefla is the former Kuwaiti communications minister. Journalist and former ...

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Media Whiplash Watch

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 4:06:26 pm PDT

A little earlier today, al-Reuters wire service called Muqtada al-Sadr’s teenage holy warriors impassioned and organized. Now Knight Ridder says they’re weary and dispirited. The hardcore fighters stayed outside. Only a handful of armed men ventured inside the shrine, where few weapons were visible. Mostly, al-Sadr supporters cherished their relative safety and ...

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Justice in the Islamic Republic

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 2:59:02 pm PDT

Here’s a story about the glory of shari’a. An Iranian named Mahmoud had an unfaithful wife. He had her arrested and put on trial for her crime. Mahmoud worried. He worried that she might get away with it. His honor was at stake. So he stabbed his unfaithful wife to death. In the courtroom. Since Mahmoud ...

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Treason Against Rock 'n Roll

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 2:15:45 pm PDT

Alice Cooper beautifully sums up the clowns who will be part of the Vote for Change tour: Alice slams anti-Bush rockers. (Hat tip: Joel.) WINNIPEG — In the eyes of Alice Cooper, all the rock stars campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are guilty of one thing: treason. The shock-rock ...

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Bush: Stop Attack Ads

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:06:25 am PDT

President Bush has called for an end to all attack ads by independent groups. CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush said on Monday advertisements by independent groups attacking Democrat John Kerry’s service in Vietnam should be stopped along with all other ads run by independent groups. The president said he wants to ...

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UN: Slavery is Dead, Long Live Slavery

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:53:21 am PDT

The United Nations is leading celebrations in Paris, as the world commemorates the end of slavery. (Hat tip: Luigi.) Teensy problem. Slavery hasn’t really ended. But that’s no reason to call off the party. Events are being held worldwide to mark the abolition of the slave trade and to highlight the fact ...

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Vonnegut Barks at the Moon

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 8:25:07 am PDT

Kurt Vonnegut has lost his mind. (Hat tip: Allah.) In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were. With good reason. In case you haven’t noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 8:20:52 am PDT

Here’s al-Reuters again, shamelessly propagandizing for Islamic thugs and murderers, painting them as Impassioned and Organized, and completely glossing over the fact that they’re using children as human shields. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - When shrapnel lands in Najaf’s Imam Ali shrine, Shi’ite militants holed up inside the sacred complex casually inspect ...

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CAIR Canada Opposes Shari'a

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 7:39:12 am PDT

Radical Islamic front group CAIR is against shari’a in Canada. While you pick your jaw up off the floor, I should tell you that they’re against using the word—because it might scare the infidels. Shari’a itself they are very much in favor of, but they prefer to use the infidel-friendly term ...

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NYT Says Neo-Nazis, While Islamic Group Claims Responsibility

Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 7:30:10 am PDT

For some unknown reason, without a single shred of evidence, the New York Times blames yesterday’s attack on a Jewish center in Paris on “neo-Nazis:” Neo-Nazis in Paris Vandalize and Burn a Jewish Community Center. (Hat tip: davesax.) PARIS, Aug. 22 - Fire swept through a Jewish community center in eastern ...

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Sunday, August 22, 2004

Arab Child Abuse

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 7:04:58 pm PDT

Female death cultists deploy their expendable human shields: Iraqi Shiite Muslim women and children, part of a group of ‘human shields’ protecting the shrine of Imam Ali, are seen inside the holy site in Najaf. They are part of the several hundred supporters of Moqtada Sadr.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

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Free Speech, Indymedia Style

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 6:30:31 pm PDT

In a topic containing the stolen email addresses of many Protest Warrior mailing list subscribers, a Nazimedia Morlock threatens web attacks against LGF and Instapundit: Re: Phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails of over 1600 RNC delegates! by DownWithRNC (No verified email address) Current rating: 0 22 Aug 2004 TIME TO SHUT DOWN LGF, INSTAFASCIST AND THE ...

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Dhimmitude 101

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 5:03:12 pm PDT

Teachers in Massachusetts are getting an introduction to Islam, thanks to a training course titled The Genesis and Genius of Islam: Teachers prep for questions on Islamic history. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Primary Source, the group that organized the workshop, called “The Genesis and Genius of Islam,” began offering the course three ...

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Protest Warrior Cracked

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 4:41:38 pm PDT

Some Morlock crackerweenies apparently got into the Protest Warrior mailing list somehow, and they have published all the addresses at Indymedia New York: Protest Warrior Cracked. They sent a nasty email to everyone on the list as well. Anyone know what mailing list software PW was using?

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Web of Connections

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 3:41:31 pm PDT

Kevin at Blogs for Bush turns the tables and uses the New York Times association-by-infographic tactic against the Kerry campaign, showing the numerous direct connections between Kerry and the various 527s and their financiers. (Hat tip: avi.)

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Investor's Business Daily: We Are Waiting

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 1:23:47 pm PDT

Can you imagine the war councils taking place in Kerry’s inner circle right now, as the weekly news cycle gets set to begin with a deluge of highly critical articles, from every direction? Investor’s Business Daily now joins the rising chorus: We Are Waiting. (Hat tip: Godzilla.) John Kerry says he’ll fight ...

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Flipper in a Straitjacket

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:49:17 am PDT

Joe Klein of TIME Magazine notices that John Kerry doesn’t always hold consistent opinions: Kerry in a Straitjacket. (Hat tip: foreign devil.) John Kerry suffered a small embarrassment last week that illuminated a big problem in his campaign. The embarrassment involved the not exactly riveting issue of troop redeployments. George W. ...

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Barone on Kerry

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:34:39 am PDT

In US News & World Report, Michael Barone looks at the Kerry Cambodia story—and brings up the character issue: Winter in Cambodia? (Hat tip: Hugh Hewitt.) Character counts. On the Christmas story (which even the pro-Kerry New York Times admits Kerry has not “put to rest”), perhaps Kerry was just confused ...

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The Gaza Pullout Debate

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:22:18 am PDT

Max Singer has a very good piece at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, summarizing the arguments for and against Ariel Sharon’s plan for disengagement: Gaza Pullout Debate. (Hat tip: Lori-Ann.)

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Justice in the Islamic Republic

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 9:50:44 am PDT

Last Sunday in northern Iran, a 16-year old girl was hanged in public for the crime of having a sharp tongue. (Hat tip: Mentat.) On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Ateqeh Sahaleh was hanged in public on Simetry Street off Rah ...

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French Antisemitism Watch

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 8:43:37 am PDT

Arsonists Destroy Jewish Center in Paris. PARIS - Arsonists destroyed a Jewish community center in eastern Paris in a pre-dawn attack Sunday and left behind anti-Semitic graffiti, police said. No one was hurt as flames tore through the center located on the first floor of a six-story building. The center, which served ...

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Flipper Thrashes: "Make Them Stop!"

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 8:11:44 am PDT

After inviting George W. Bush to Bring ... It ... On, John F. Kerry is now begging him to Make ... Them ... Stop. It’s so unattractive when Presidential candidates whine. EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to “stand up and stop” ...

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Boo Freakin' Hoo

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 7:55:34 am PDT

The crybabies are caterwauling again in the Middle East: Arabs Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over Jewish Settlements. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians, backed by the Arab League, accused the United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East peace process after Washington signaled it could accept some ...

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Be the First On Your Block

Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 7:43:17 am PDT

Check out Smug Monkey for a nifty John Kerry bumper sticker design.

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Saturday, August 21, 2004

CAIR Grandfather Denies Everything in Damascus

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 6:47:56 pm PDT

The Associated Press would like us to know that Hamas kingpin Mousa Abu Marzook, on the lam from US justice in Damascus, has denied all the charges against him. DAMASCUS, Syria - A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas indicted in the United States for conspiring to fund terror ...

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The Oliphant-Rall Convergence

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 6:18:09 pm PDT

Over the years, I’ve been a fan of editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant. Even when I didn’t agree with his point, I had to admit that he made me think about it and figure out why I didn’t agree. And his talent as an illustrator is prodigious. But Oliphant’s latest cartoon about ...

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GOP Gets Zero Celebrity Rating

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 6:05:04 pm PDT

Mark Steyn, on the plethora of dim-bulb Democratic celebrities: Dems play second fiddle to celebrity egos. One of the most agreeable aspects of the Republican Party is that there’s minimal risk of running into celebrities. At a Democratic political get-together, the only way to tell who the senators are is that ...

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Possible Terrorist Sighting on Nantucket

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 5:53:12 pm PDT

There’s been a possible sighting of a very elusive top Al Qaeda suspect—on Nantucket Island, of all places: Possible terrorist sighting roils isle. (Hat tip: Haganah::Internet.) HYANNIS — A long-sought suspected Al Qaeda member who has eluded a concerted international dragnet may have been sighted at a Nantucket airport this week, ...

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Norway's Folly

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 4:58:34 pm PDT

Earlier today I reported Norway’s decision to open the door to one of the most insidious figures of the global jihad—Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of the Pakistani Islamist political movement Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). LGF reader evariste emailed a link to a very good article at Asia Times on the recent crackdown ...

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Fatah Splinter Group Calls for Broiling Arafish

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 3:25:19 pm PDT

The weirdness factor just got kicked up another notch in the Palestinian Anarchy; as terrorist thug/former security minister Muhammad Dahlan may be getting ready to make a move on Arafat: Fatah splinter group calls for killing Arafat. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) A leaflet distributed over the weekend by a hitherto unknown group ...

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Iraq Beats Australia, Advances to Semi-Finals

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 2:20:19 pm PDT

The Iraqi soccer team has reached the semi-finals in the Olympics, by defeating Australia today. ATHENS, Aug 21 (Reuters) — Iraq’s war-weary footballers extended their fairytale Olympic run with a 1-0 victory over Australia on Saturday, giving them a chance to make history. Qatar-based midfielder Emad Mohammed struck with a spectacular overhead ...

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Kerry's European Blunder

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 2:16:19 pm PDT

A great piece by John O’Sullivan on John Kerry’s much-vaunted support among Europeans: Half of Europe is leaning to Kerry — but it’s the wrong half. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) Take the question of who supports Kerry. Spain’s Zapatero (who holds office partly by courtesy of Osama bin Laden) is the ...

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US Supports Growth in West Bank Settlements

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 1:59:04 pm PDT

Here’s news of an important shift in US Middle East policy, sure to provoke seething in the usual suspects: US supports some growth in West Bank settlements. NEW YORK (AFP) - In an unannounced policy shift, Washington has given its approval for growth within some Israeli settlements in the West Bank, ...

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9/11 Dramatization: Through Terrorist Eyes

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 8:14:16 am PDT

Britain’s Channel 4 has produced a dramatization of the September 11 atrocities—told through the eyes of the Islamic terrorists who committed them. And it was written by an IRA sympathizer. (Hat tip: TalkinKamel.) A Channel 4 dramatisation of the September 11 plot through the eyes of the terrorists is likely to ...

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Norway's Open Door Policy for Jihadis

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 8:01:59 am PDT

The leader of the Pakistani Al Qaeda-linked terror gang Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, has been granted permission to visit Norway, even though he is banned from normally jihad-friendly Belgium and the Netherlands. The tiny minority of religious extremists in Norway let out an “enormous cheer” at the news. (Hat tip: ...

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Bali Bomber Vows to Continue Jihad

Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 7:26:06 am PDT

Islamic mass murderer Imam Samudra, one of the Bali bombers, may go free thanks to an Indonesian constitutional court decision. And if he does walk out of prison, he vows to kill again—for Allah: Bali bomber pledges fresh attack. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Vowing to carry out more bombings against “unbelievers”, ...

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Friday, August 20, 2004

Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 9:18:36 pm PDT

Here’s the list of Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees. Hmm. All but one are huge contributors to Democratic/Progressive groups. UPDATE at 8/20/04 9:55:21 pm: MoveOn.org: 2004 Election Cycle. 527 Activity: Total Receipts: $9,086,102 Total Expenditures: $17,435,782 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: 2004 Election Cycle. 527 Activity: Total Receipts: $158,750 Total Expenditures: $60,403 (Hat ...

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A Hardening of the Religion

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 8:54:46 pm PDT

Here’s a powerful essay by Charles Moore on the acceptance of “Islamic banking” in Britain: Islam is not an exotic addition to the English country garden. You might think it is good news that “Islamic banking” is now taking hold. This month saw the launch of Britain’s first fully regulated and ...

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North Korea Wants to Be Friends

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 6:48:38 pm PDT

According to the New York Times, North Korea is reaching out and finding acceptance in Asia and Europe. But the Bush administration is standing in the way of this coming utopia, with their unacceptable anti-appeasement policy that stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that North Korea Is Reaching Out, and the World Is ...

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Insane Antisemitism in Saudi Army Journal

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 6:18:16 pm PDT

The Religious Affairs Department of the Saudi armed forces publishes a journal called Al-Jundi Al-Muslim (The Muslim Soldier), and what they’re feeding to their army would make anyone sick: Saudi Armed Forces Journal on the Jews: ‘The Fabricated Torah, Talmud, and Protocols of the Elders of Zion Command Destruction of ...

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A Bad CAIR Day

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 5:39:49 pm PDT

There were some serious setbacks today for the Islamist forward vanguard in the US; here’s some information on the three infiltrators indicted in raising funds for Hamas. Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, 53, is deputy chief of the Hamas Political Bureau. The U.S.-educated Abu Marzook holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and ...

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Internet Dirty Tricks Target Swift Boat Vets

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 5:18:07 pm PDT

Someone who may or may not be in Japan has registered the domains swiftboatvets.org and swiftboatvets.com, to catch people who mistype the domain name for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (swiftvets.com), and redirect them to the Joe Conason hit piece in Salon. Fascinating. UPDATE at 8/20/04 5:28:06 pm: Salon knows about it, and ...

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Kerry Files FEC Action to Muzzle SwiftVets

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 3:06:57 pm PDT

Rather than dealing factually with the ever-expanding allegations of exaggeration and untruth in his Vietnam record, John Kerry is now trying to get the Federal Election Commission to sanction the Bush campaign for collusion with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Can Kerry make a case that Bush broke the law? (Thanks ...

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Strength at Home

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 2:56:59 pm PDT

An extraordinary, moving letter from actor/writer Ben Stein to a soldier’s wife. (Hat tip: Blackfive.) (This is a letter I wrote to the newsletter of an Army unit called The Strykers, stationed in Iraq out of Ft. Lewis, Wash. The editor asked me what I would say to make the wives ...

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Kerry: Lying About Health Care

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:54:10 pm PDT

In New Hampshire, the Union Leader is outraged at another lie being told repeatedly by John F. Kerry—and this one has nothing to do with Vietnam: Mary Ann’s story: Will the big media call Kerry on his lie? (Hat tip: NY Nana.) SEN. JOHN Kerry visits Derry today to talk about ...

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Jihad Recruitment at Birmingham Mosque

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:27:53 pm PDT

The tiny minority of extremists left piles of flyers calling for jihad at Britain’s Birmingham Central Mosque: Fury over appeal on terrorism. A Birmingham Muslim leader today condemned those responsible for leaving leaflets in a mosque which encourages Muslims to become terrorist fighters. Piles of the flyers were found by an official ...

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The Centrality of Jihad in Islam

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:23:05 pm PDT

Lawrence Auster has a must-read piece at FrontPage, arguing for The Centrality of Jihad in Islam. All thoughts of pacifying Islam by assimilating it into the global democratic system must fall down before a simple, terrible fact: Jihad—holy war against all non-Muslims—does not represent a mere excess or defect of Islam, ...

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Free Curly Now!

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:55:17 am PDT

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NYT Suddenly Discovers Swift Boat Veterans

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:07:14 am PDT

Just like the Washington Post, the New York Times waited weeks to cover the Swift Boat Vets story—until they could dig up some dirt on the Vets. Here’s the result, a lengthy promo for the Kerry campaign, coming to the shocking conclusion that some of the people who funded the first ...

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Israeli IOC Official: Mustn't Alienate the Jew-Haters

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 9:46:57 am PDT

The families of the Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Games in 1972 are lobbying the International Olympic Commission to have a permanent memorial in the Olympics’ opening ceremony: Athens 2004 remembers Munich 1972. (Hat tip: deja vu.) It’s utterly shameful that the IOC has never commemorated this ...

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New Swift Boat Vets Ad

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 9:05:03 am PDT

Here’s the new advertisement (Windows Media format) from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; this one deals with John F. Kerry’s “Winter Soldier” testimony to the US Senate in 1971, in which Kerry accused United States soldiers of routinely committing atrocities and war crimes in Vietnam. (Hat tip: westoner.) “John Kerry gave ...

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John Kerry: Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 8:33:00 am PDT

Drudge reports that the party of free speech and liberalism is now trying to ban books. The Kerry campaign calls on a publisher to ‘withdraw book’ written by group of veterans, claiming veterans are lying about Kerry’s service in Vietnam and operating as a front organization for Bush. Kerry campaign has ...

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Iraqi Ingratitude

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 8:27:08 am PDT

Iraqi athletes to George W. Bush: sure, it’s nice that we won’t be tortured by Uday Hussein if we lose, but don’t expect gratitude, infidel: Political ad upsets Iraqi players. (Hat tip: Q.) Iraqi soccer players said they are angered that President Bush has referred to their Olympic delegation in a ...

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"Activists" Threaten Kidnapping

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 8:20:40 am PDT

These are the people the Associated Press calls “activists:” Hamas threat to kidnap Israeli soldiers for release of Palestinian inmates. Surprisingly, Agence France Presse actually labels Hamas more accurately than the Associated Press. (In this article, anyway.) JABALIYA, Gaza Strip (AFP) - A senior Hamas official warned that the radical Islamist movement ...

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AP: Palestinian "Activists" Charged

Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 8:07:45 am PDT

This morning the Associated Press mentions in passing that the United States has designated Hamas a terrorist organization, in an article that refuses to call them “terrorists.” Instead AP continues its drive to legitimize the insanely inappropriate term “activists”—for people who conspire to blow up schoolbuses: 3 Palestinian Activists Face ...

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

French Citizen Held in Poland Terror Probe

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 7:38:57 pm PDT

Poland is one of the US’s more visible supporters in the War Against Radical Islam, so this story should come as no surprise. The Islamists are planning mass murder to intimidate our allies: French Citizen Held in Poland Terror Probe. (Hat tip: MakeMyDay.) WARSAW, Poland - A French citizen has been ...

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Take It to the Post Office

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 7:00:42 pm PDT

Der Kommissar (through his agent, Rusty Shackleford) has assigned LGF an official state-approved Blog Stamp.

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The Gift of the C.I.A. Magi

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 6:44:59 pm PDT

OK. So today we learned that New Mexico is leaking nuclear secrets like a sieve, Iran can thumb its nose at the Olympics, the Saudis are spreading radical Wahhabism around the world, and John Kerry isn’t fit to be President (all right, we already knew that). And then along comes Iowahawk, ...

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Nuke Data Missing from New Mexico

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 5:49:37 pm PDT

The continuing news of leaks in what should be the most highly guarded area of our nation’s security is becoming really, really, frightening: Nuclear Data Found Missing From New Mexico. (Hat tip: locutus.) WASHINGTON - An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the ...

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Flipper Thrashes in the Water

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 5:41:55 pm PDT

Today John Kerry “struck back” against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Except that, well, he didn’t actually deal with one single substantive point: Kerry: Bush Lets Groups Do ‘Dirty Work’. Defending his record, the Democratic presidential candidate said, “Thirty years ago, official Navy reports documented my service in Vietnam and ...

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France Loves Kerry: "Any Argument Kerry Makes is Right"

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 5:12:00 pm PDT

An amazing statement of naked partisanship from a newspaper—in France: European Press Review. (Hat tip: BPP.) Le Figaro from Paris also praised Kerry’s suggestion, but for different reasons. It commented that moving the troops out of Europe to Iraq and elsewhere actually makes those extra 40,000 “unnecessary.” But according to the ...

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Iranian Judoka Gets Away with Hatred

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 4:57:17 pm PDT

The Iranian judoka who refused to fight an Israeli at the Olympics (and whose puppetmasters in Iran released gloating statements about it) is getting off scot-free: Iranian cleared of judo ‘boycott’. (Hat tip: Allah.) Iran has escaped censure over the failure of its judo world champion to fight an Israeli at ...

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The Holy Country of Beheadings

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 4:36:12 pm PDT

Remember all those articles claiming that beheading is “un-Islamic,” that suddenly popped up all over mainstream media when those barbaric Islamic snuff films began appearing? Today in the heart of Islam, three people had their heads removed. In public, with a big sword, following a “trial” in a shari’a court: Three ...

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CAIR Slams Boykin Again

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 4:26:18 pm PDT

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who caused much seething when his remarks criticizing Islam were publicized, is one of the top generals involved in chasing down Osama Bin Laden. So of course, the radical Islamic front group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations doesn’t want him around: CAIR: Muslims ...

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Protest Warrior Manifesto

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 4:19:26 pm PDT

The Protest Warriors have posted their Manifesto, and it’s a good read.

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Olympic Sack Race

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 1:36:40 pm PDT

MSNBC’s Athens Blog reports that a female runner from Bahrain will be running the 100 meters tomorrow—covered from head to toe. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Ruqaya Al Ghasra will have her 11.39 seconds of fame tomorrow. Al Ghasra, who is from the tiny Kingdom of Bahrain, will become the first Arab woman ...

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The Saudi Missionary Project

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 8:17:59 am PDT

Here’s a detailed report on Saudi Arabia’s vast campaign to spread radical Wahhabism around the world—and especially in the United States: Saudi export of strict Islam raises suspicions. (Hat tip: Mentat.) SAN DIEGO - Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching ...

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The Farce Continues in Najaf

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 7:46:19 am PDT

Yesterday’s reported hudna between the Iraqi government and Muqtada al-Sadr didn’t even last 24 hours: Iraqi gov’t says offensive imminent; accuses Sadr of trickery. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - The Iraqi government said an offensive against Shiite rebels in the holy city of Najaf would be launched within hours unless militia leader ...

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WaPo Suddenly Discovers Swift Boat Veterans

Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 7:26:48 am PDT

The shameless bias of mainstream media in favor of John F. Kerry has been one of the big stories of this campaign. Case in point: the Washington Post has totally ignored the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their allegations against Kerry for weeks—until today, when they discovered a small ...

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Bomb Found on Sardinia After Blair Visit

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 8:46:25 pm PDT

More disturbing hints that the leftist-Islamist coalition is planning something big: Bomb Found in Town After Blair Visit. ROME - Police defused a time-bomb in a town near Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s villa on the island of Sardinia on Wednesday shortly after British Prime Minister Tony Blair finished a visit there ...

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Gilberto Gil Does the Right Thing

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 7:38:59 pm PDT

I’m happy to see that genius Brazilian songwriter Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s Culture Minister (who I have admired for many years), has repudiated an image that was shown at a recent concert by a psychotic Bush-hating video jockey: Singing Minister Disowns ‘Die, Bush’ Call. (Hat tip: Baikal.) SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - ...

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Rall Hits New Low, Digs

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 7:10:50 pm PDT

Ted Rall claims to speak for New York City, in another attention-seeking article published at the tinfoil-covered web site known as Common Dreams: NYC to GOP: Drop Dead. This guy has serious parental issues. (Thanks to all who emailed.) The Republican delegates here to coronate George W. Bush are unwelcome members ...

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Arafish Says...

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 1:56:20 pm PDT

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US Shuns Arafish

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 1:54:50 pm PDT

Here’s a nugget of good news, as at least one aspect of our new, improved Middle East policy shows no serious signs of going wobbly: US says it still cannot work with Arafat. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said it still cannot work with Yasser Arafat to bring peace to ...

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Hamilton Gets Gold!

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 1:34:24 pm PDT

An incredible time trial performance from Tyler Hamilton in Athens has won him a gold medal. And that’s not all, as fellow American cyclists Dede Barry and Bobby Julich both took medals as well. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tyler Hamilton dreams of yellow. Olympic gold is close enough. His greatest ride capped ...

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Another Deal for Al-Sadr

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:13:29 pm PDT

Al-Sadr Accepts Plan to End Najaf Fighting. Shall we start a pool to guess when this latest hudna will fall apart?

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Unwrapping Kerry's Story

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:08:15 am PDT

John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson of Power Line have a good piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, summarizing what’s currently known about John Kerry’s Cambodian Christmas fish story: Unwrapping Kerry’s story of Christmas in Cambodia.

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Muslim Power in Canada

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:50:34 am PDT

Here’s a troubling piece about the nature of the Islamic political movement in Canada, which is taking credit for helping defeat conservative candidates: Muslim power in Canada. A few days ahead of the federal elections, three Canadian Muslim leaders met at Concordia University in Montreal to discuss Islamic “committed voting.” The ...

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Marwan Barghouti: Not Hungry

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:24:57 am PDT

The Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike is the same sort of event as their various peace deals and truces with Israel—a farce, staged to manipulate the gullible: Tape shows Marwan Barghouti breaking hunger strike. The Prison Services released a film Wednesday filmed by a hidden camera that shows a man, apparently Barghouti, ...

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Smash the State! See a Show!

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:15:47 am PDT

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has an ... innovative ... idea for preempting the violent protesters at the Republican Convention—give ’em cheap tickets to Broadway shows: Just Keep It Peaceful, Protesters; New York Is Offering Discounts. (Hat tip: Ms Andi.) Thinking about smashing windows or overturning cars during the Republican National ...

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The Holy City of Beheadings

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 8:54:33 am PDT

A day in the life of the police chief of the holy city of Najaf. NAJAF, Iraq — Militants had just kidnapped and dragged his ailing 80-year-old father through the streets. They also beat his brothers until they collapsed. Forty of his men were killed and several were beheaded. It’s tough being ...

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LA Times: Sadr "Steadfast"

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 8:05:17 am PDT

The Los Angeles Times sings a paean to Muqtada al-Sadr and his “steadfast defiance:” Steadfast in Defiance, Cleric Gains Stature With Iraq Masses. BAGHDAD — Militant cleric Muqtada Sadr’s refusal Tuesday to meet with a delegation of Iraqi religious and political leaders is the clearest indicator yet that recent fighting in ...

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Steyn: Sing or Fight?

Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 7:44:08 am PDT

Here’s an excellent Mark Steyn column on the removal of US troops from Europe: Do you want to sing Waterloo or fight it? A wealthy continent liberated from the burdens of military expenditure is also liberated to a large degree from reality. Poor peoples have no choice but to live in ...

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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Kerry Wins the Arab Vote

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:32:49 pm PDT

Amir Taheri says that John Kerry has the Arab vote sewn up. Dislike for Bush has created the most curious Arab coalition in a long time. The pan-Arab nationalists are angry at Bush because, toppling Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime in Baghdad, he destroyed the illusion of a “strongman” leading Arabs to unity ...

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Lantos Slams Egypt on Smuggling Tunnels

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 9:46:37 pm PDT

Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos (a Holocaust survivor) shows his party how it’s done, courageously standing up and telling the truth to the Egyptians: US congressman Lantos criticizes Egypt on Palestinian weapons smuggling. Congressman Tom Lantos accused Egypt of not doing enough to halt the smuggling of weapons by Palestinian militants across ...

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Iraqi Bloggers Go for the Gold

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 9:37:55 pm PDT

The two Iraqi brothers who run Iraq the Model have announced their candidacies for the Iraqi National Assembly, under the banner of the Iraqi Pro-Democracy Party. We believe that we represent an important segment of the Iraqi people that was never organized before under any category as a result of the ...

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 9:23:28 pm PDT

Terrorist Killed While Preparing a Bomb. (IsraelNN.com) PA sources reported during the night that terrorist Majdi Salah was killed in a village in the Ramallah area during the night when a bomb he was preparing exploded. According to the report, his parents were critically injured in the explosion.

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Flipper Needs Every Vote

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 7:35:42 pm PDT

John Kerry’s sister Diana is campaigning for her brother—in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Democrats Abroad Canada Upcoming Events. (Hat tip: Fay.) Dear Democrats in B.C., We have an extraordinary opportunity to get the word out to B.C. ex-pats — both U.S. and U.S./Canadian Dual citizens — about our right to register and ...

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Librarians For Terror

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 6:52:10 pm PDT

Lee Kaplan writes about the hijacking of the American Library Association by radical far-left pro-Palestinian groups and Arab advocacy organizations: Librarians For Terror. It is ... not surprising that American libraries, those on college campuses as well as in neighborhood communities, include a disproportionate number of anti-Israel books. Works by Edward ...

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Call for Protest Against Shari'a in Canada

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 6:34:14 pm PDT

Homa Arjomand, who fled Iran in 1989 to escape the brutal misogynistic barbarism of shari’a law, is one of the leaders of an international demonstration against the legitimization of shari’a in Canada: Call for an International Demonstration Against Sharia Court In Canada. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) Call for an International Demonstration ...

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The Animal Metaphors Multiply

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 6:19:11 pm PDT

Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a flying dolphin named Flipper! No, wait! It is a bird! It’s ... Super Chicken! (Blame lizardoid minion PDM for this one.)

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Israel Strikes Hamas Again

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 5:00:52 pm PDT

The IDF has carried out another missile strike in Gaza, targeting a top Hamas leader—who got away with wounds, unfortunately. But among those killed was a relative of now-deceased Pediatrician of Death, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi. The Palestinian propagandist at al-Reuters, Nidal al-Mughrabi, headlines it in typically biased fashion: Israel Kills ...

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Where's the Media on the Kerry Story?

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 3:38:52 pm PDT

John Kerry’s lies about Vietnam are finally breaking out into mainstream media; the Houston Chronicle is the latest paper to show some guts. Today they published an op-ed by Chronicle special projects editor and Vietnam veteran Lee Cearnal—and to be complete, the story must now also include mainstream media’s appalling ...

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Kerry: Secret Agent Gun Runner

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 3:22:38 pm PDT

Hugh Hewitt reports on another amazing story, in the saga of John Kerry’s ever-expanding Cambodian adventures. In an article for the May 8, 2000 issue of US News & World Report, Kevin Whitelaw wrote: Sen. John Kerry made his first forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War as a Navy lieutenant ...

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The Unseen Intifada

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 2:36:53 pm PDT

At Israpundit, Patrick O’Brien interviews LGF reader and IDF soldier “IDF Dave,” whose photos from the Kalandia checkpoint were featured here last week: The Unseen Intifada.

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S. Africa Makes Deal with Iran

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 1:46:55 pm PDT

In a very unsettling development, South Africa is planning to sell uranium to Iran—and they’re parroting Iran’s line about “peaceful nuclear energy:” SA, Iran discuss defense cooperation. (Hat tip: ploome.) South Africa’s Defense Minister Patrick “Terror” Lekota and his Iranian counterpart Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani met on Monday to discuss an ...

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Moonbat Hackers Plan Sabotage

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 1:38:37 pm PDT

Who needs Al Qaeda to attack America, when we’ve got radical fascists like the Electronic Disturbance Theater living right here among us: Hackers Take Aim at GOP. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.) The point of the electronic demonstrations isn’t to take down a site, according to Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic ...

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Murderous Filth Charged in UK

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 1:18:11 pm PDT

Eight of the Muslims arrested in raids across London have been charged; BBC has the full list of the charges. (Hat tip: McKinnon of that ilk.) DHIREN BAROT, 32, OF WILLESDEN, LONDON Conspiracy to murder. Conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by the use of radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and or explosives. Possessing ...

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The Enemy Within

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 8:29:18 am PDT

Abdurahman Khadr, a Toronto man who trained at Al Qaeda terror camps in Afghanistan, has testified that he saw “a lot” of Canadians there, training for jihad—and they’re now living in the West. “A lot” of Canadians trained at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and some still live freely in Canada, Abdurahman ...

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Guns Interrupted

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 7:45:46 am PDT

We’ve backed down again in Najaf: Delegation of Mediators Arrives in Najaf. Ralph Peters says we are setting ourselves up for disaster, by refusing to win: Guns Interrupted. Our unwillingness to target even a derelict neighborhood mosque packed with ammunition, weapons and terrorists is not only militarily foolish — it’s based upon ...

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NZ Columnist Forgives Antisemitism

Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 7:33:56 am PDT

A New Zealand journalist weighs in with a sneering, whining, utterly wrong-headed column, arguing that there’s no such thing as antisemitism. And if there is, well, it can be forgiven—especially if it comes from Arabs: Cemetery wreckers hurt us, not Israel. (Hat tip: Backspin.) Anti-Semitism was a pathology, I think, of ...

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Monday, August 16, 2004

Another ISM Tool Expelled

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:28:51 pm PDT

Israel has deported another International Solidarity Movement useful idiot: Israel Deports Pro-Palestinian American. A Tel Aviv District Court judge ordered Adam Wilson, a 28-year-old union organizer from New Orleans, La., to leave the country by Tuesday. Wilson is affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-sponsored group in the forefront of protesting ...

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Saudi Arabia: Now With Fewer Zionists!

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:00:26 pm PDT

Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah says they got all the terrorists. It’s all over. Mission accomplished. The House of Saud is now extremist-free. What a relief. Major Battle with Terrorism is Over, Saudi Prince says. Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler says the kingdom’s major battle with terrorism is over, and security forces are pursuing ...

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IJF: "No Decision" on Iranian Hate Stance

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 7:50:34 pm PDT

The mad mullahs of Iran lift their masks and reveal their naked hatred—and the International Judo Federation blinks: Tehran Defiant as Israel Urges Penalty. ATHENS (Reuters) - Judo’s governing body failed to reach a decision on Monday about punishing Iran for its refusal to compete against Israel at the Athens Olympics. Israel’s ...

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Gandhi's Grandson, Useful Idiot

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 6:41:58 pm PDT

Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun, will travel to Ramallah and address “Palestinian peace activists,” at rallies against Israel’s security fence: Gandhi heir to lead rally in Ramallah. The “wall” Gandhi said in a telephone interview with The Jerusalem Post from his home in Memphis, can only disrupt the peace process. “Building a ...

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WaPo Best Blog Contest

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 6:10:39 pm PDT

The Washington Post is holding a contest to name the best political blog.

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Saddam's Agents on the Syrian Border

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 5:30:31 pm PDT

There’ve been stories floating just under the surface of the media sea (and occasionally coming up for air) for quite some time, alleging that during the run-up to the war, Iraq shipped most of its arsenal of banned weaponry to Syria. Saddam certainly had enough time. We spent months telling him, ...

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Moonbat War Council

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:56:42 am PDT

Radical moonbat gangs are meeting in New York, planning to tediously act out their long-denied need for parental supervision—again: NY’s Finest Prep for Anarchy. (Hat tip: ted.) August 16, 2004 — Cops are bracing for radical attempts to “shut down” the Republican convention, with protesters blockading or disabling delegates’ buses — ...

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:55:51 am PDT

Another noxious blast of evil Jew-hatred from our friends (and recipients of $2 billion a year in foreign aid) the Egyptians, from an article published in a religious journal linked to the ruling National Democratic Party: The Jews Slaughtering Non-Jews, Draining their Blood, and Using it for Talmudic Religious Rituals. “Dr. ...

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A Peaceful Islamic Earthquake

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:41:29 am PDT

Terror group threatens Dutch with ‘Islamic earthquake’. (Hat tip: Right Wing Conspirator.) “We address this message to all crusader countries plotting against the Muslims, and which are sending forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, especially Italy and the Netherlands,” organisation al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad said on an website on Sunday. Al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad is ...

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The Terror Masters Revisited

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:29:48 am PDT

Most LGF readers know that the world’s terror gangs cooperate and share resources. But amazingly, as Michael Ledeen writes, many people who should understand this simple concept are still shocked when they discover evidence of it: The Terror Masters Revisited. Saturday’s Washington Post had an article that quotes the usual unnamed ...

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Kerry's Brief Brotherhood

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 9:05:53 am PDT

Last week we mentioned a story questioning whether David Alston, one of John Kerry’s “band of brothers,” was actually on Kerry’s Swift Boat at the time he claimed. Today Byron York squashes the allegation that Alston was never on Kerry’s boat—he was—in an article that raises a host of new ...

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Kerry's Cambodian Problem

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 8:02:59 am PDT

In June 2003, the Boston Globe’s Michael Kranish wrote about John Kerry’s (nonexistent) Christmas in Cambodia—including a lovely story about shooting down a civilian: John Kerry: A Candidate in the Making. (Hat tip: foreign devil.) The Christmas Eve truce of 1968 was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around ...

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French Antisemitism Watch

Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 7:42:41 am PDT

Over the weekend, someone wrote “Death to Jews” on a wall of the Notre Dame Cathedral. PARIS - Anti-Semitic graffiti, including a sign saying “death to Jews,” was found Saturday scrawled on the grounds of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The graffiti, which included a swastika, was written in black marker ...

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

The Battleground

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 8:18:23 pm PDT

Satellite photographs of Najaf and the Imam Ali Mosque. (Hat tip: peace be upon me.)

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Newsweek Bashes Fallaci

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 3:02:40 pm PDT

Christopher Dickey of Newsweek International says Oriana Fallaci is “sowing hatred” and “kindling the flames of a new inquisition against Muslims:” Racism’s Rising Tide. Once again, the all-purpose smear—“racism”—is employed when it’s completely inappropriate. (Fallaci criticizes a supremacist religious ideology—not a “race.”) This article epitomizes what I call the “shared world ...

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Alaa: "Basrah is in Grave Danger"

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 1:10:47 pm PDT

From Alaa at The Mesopotamian: I appeal to people of the World; Please, Please, Please hear the true voice of the Iraqi people. We are facing a terrible conspiracy. The people of the South are being persecuted and massacred, not by the Americans, not by the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police. ...

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Saudis' PR Campaign Update

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:14:13 pm PDT

Martin Kramer draws our attention to an update to Daniel Pipes’ article, The Saudis’ Covert PR Campaign. The Saudis, through their US mouthpiece Qorvis Communications, are denying the allegations in Pipes’ article—but Thomas Lipson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and co-director of a speakers program at the ...

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O'Grady: Kerry Committed "Treason"

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:00:24 pm PDT

Scott O’Grady, the Air Force pilot who survived being shot down over Bosnia in 1995, said on Friday that John Kerry’s actions after Vietnam constituted treason. O’Grady, in an appearance with other military veterans coordinated by President Bush’s re-election campaign, said Kerry helped push North Vietnam’s proposals for the United States ...

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Terrorist PR Corps Evicted from Najaf

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:16:19 am PDT

Iraqi police have ordered all covert sympathizers of the mujahideen to leave Najaf... Oops! Did I write “covert sympathizers?” My bad. Iraq Evicts Reporters From Najaf. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police ordered all journalists to leave the holy city of Najaf on Sunday, just as a new U.S. offensive against militants hiding ...

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Strengthen The Good

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:04:41 am PDT

Alan of the Command Post has started a web site for a terrific cause—bringing people’s attention to charities that deserve our support: Strengthen The Good.

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No Place for Hatred

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:50:13 am PDT

At Yahoo! Sports, Dan Wetzel calls on the IOC to expel Iran from the Olympic Games: No place for hatred. (Hat tip: Cress.) ATHENS, Greece — Arash Miresmaeili of Iran made his statement Sunday when he refused to compete in an opening-round Judo match here against Ehud Vaks of Israel due ...

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Iran Seethes, Threatens

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 9:38:36 am PDT

The peaceful Islamic Republic of Iran is threatening Israel again. “The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran’s advanced missiles,” the ISNA students news agency quoted Yadollah Javani, head of the Revolutionary Guards political bureau, as saying. “Therefore, neither the Zionist regime nor ...

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Podhoretz on World War IV

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 9:23:38 am PDT

Many readers emailed about this important (and lengthy) piece by Norman Podhoretz: World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win. I’ve finally had a chance to read it, and it’s very much worth the time. Podhoretz pulls together many disparate threads in a ...

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Media Biased? Naah!

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 9:02:42 am PDT

Yale economics professor Ray C. Fair created an econometric formula that has predicted elections with a high degree of accuracy—and his formula predicts a landslide for George W. Bush this year. This really irritates New York Times reporter Deborah Solomon, who interviews Fair in an amazingly belligerent way; you have to ...

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Palestinian Terror Enablers for Kerry

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 8:36:03 am PDT

The world’s most biased wire service, Agence France Presse, reports that self-hating Israeli Avraham Burg, one of the authors of the incredibly naïve and willfully blind Geneva Initiative, wants John Kerry to become President: Mideast peace promoters sharply criticise Bush administration. CAUX, Switzerland (AFP) - The authors of the unofficial Geneva ...

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EU Hypocrisy Watch

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 8:14:35 am PDT

European hypocrisy so blatant you can smell it: Magal to participate in tender for European separation fence. (Hat tip: Mr Pol.) After European representatives launched a campaign against Israel’s separation fence, and voted against Israel at the UN general assembly, the EU is planning a separation fence of its own. The ...

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French Media: Jewish Cemeteries Defiled by Americans

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 8:09:43 am PDT

The French press is trying to blame the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Alsace, France, on American neo-Nazi groups; here are Google translations of articles from Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Liberation. (Hat tip: Mr Pol.) UPDATE at 8/15/04 10:01:55 am: Haaretz reports that “a man” has admitted desecrating graves in Lyon. Last Tuesday, ...

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Religion of Peace Strikes in India

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 7:29:48 am PDT

Bomb at India Independence Parade Kills 15. NEW DELHI - A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India’s remote northeast Sunday, killing at least 15 people, including schoolchildren, while a rocket attack during a celebration at a school in the separatist region of Kashmir injured 17, officials said. The attacks ...

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Puppet: Release the Killers for Peace

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 7:24:10 am PDT

Arafat’s puppet prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, says that in order to make progress toward “peace” (there’s that word again), Israel must immediately release all Palestinian terrorists from jail. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Any progress in the Middle East peace process is dependent on the release of all the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners ...

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Death Cult Turns Baby Carriage into Bomb

Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 7:20:12 am PDT

The Palestinian mass murderers who attacked the Kalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem hid the bomb in a baby carriage. The terrorists had purchased a baby carriage to conceal the bomb, but the large presence of security forces at the Kalandiya checkpoint caused them to detonate it prematurely. Two of the cell ...

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Saturday, August 14, 2004

Canadian Shari'a Watch

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 9:29:59 pm PDT

Even though Canadian immigration officials want Muslim women to remove their hijab when arriving in Canada and passing through security, so that all facial features can be seen, Prime Minister Paul Martin says: Let Muslim women keep hijabs on. Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t want Muslim women arriving at Pierre Trudeau ...

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Cycle of Violence

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 7:18:05 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 49.14 miles. Lots of riders on the bike path today, because the streets going south from Marina Del Rey have been graded in preparation for new blacktop, and they’re a nightmare to ride on. We (X and I) went south on our usual route, varied slightly as always, ...

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100,000 Troops to Leave Europe, S. Korea

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 6:39:51 pm PDT

Huge news about our military presence in Europe (in an Observer article that paints it as negatively as possible): US to redeploy 100,000 troops and shut bases. (Hat tip: Ronald.) President George Bush will announce tomorrow that the US military will pull up to 100,000 troops out of Europe and Asia ...

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Kansas City Star Questions Kerry Cambodia Tale

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 6:25:04 pm PDT

The mainstream media deep freeze on the story of John Kerry’s dishonest holiday(s) in Cambodia is beginning to thaw, with a story by Scott Canon in the Kansas City Star: Kerry’s Cambodian links questioned. John Kerry’s “reporting for duty” salute at the Democratic National Convention last month emphasized the key biographical ...

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Update on DNC's Imam Hendi

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 6:10:03 pm PDT

Last month we reported that according to testimony for the 9/11 commission, Imam Yahya Hendi, the Islamic chaplain chosen to give one of the closing benedictions at the Democratic National Convention, had testified as a character witness on behalf of terrorism suspect Sami al-Arian at his bail hearing: DNC’s Imam ...

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The Bloody Olympics

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 3:43:06 pm PDT

A revealing report about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens: Games Opening Ceremony Full of Spectacle. (Hat tip: Ghost.) There was huge applause for Afghanistan on its return to Olympic competition after an eight-year absence and with its first female athletes. The entrance of the more than 500-member U.S. ...

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Allawi: No More Talking

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 2:48:08 pm PDT

“Peace talks” have collapsed in Najaf, and the fighting is about to resume. Apparently, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has had enough of Muqtada al-Sadr’s power challenges. “You have to know, we had agreed with Rubaie on all points but Allawi called him back and he ended the issue,” Ali Samseem told ...

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TinyURL: Not Welcome at LGF

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 2:31:24 pm PDT

TinyURL.com is a good idea. It lets people cut and paste a much smaller web address; for example, a URL like: http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12134 can be replaced with something like: http://tinyurl.com/5ge9s So, you ask, if it’s so useful, why am I banning TinyURL addresses now? (Did I mention I’m banning TinyURL addresses?) Because, like a lot of ...

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Their Own Unique Truth

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 8:54:54 am PDT

Mark Steyn: Democrats peddle their own unique truth. (Hat tip: Joel.) “My truth is that I am a gay American,” announced Gov. James McGreevey to the people of New Jersey last Thursday. That’s such an exquisitely contemporary formulation: “my” truth. Once upon a time, there was only “the” truth. Now everyone gets ...

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Al-Sadr Wants Reparations

Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 7:22:12 am PDT

How long is this farce going to continue? Truce Talks Collapse in Holy City of Najaf. NAJAF, Iraq - Truce talks aimed at ending more than a week of violence between Shiite militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf broke down Saturday, Iraqi National Security Adviser ...

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Friday, August 13, 2004

UK's Telegraph Edges Out US Media

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 7:24:31 pm PDT

The British press (at least, the Telegraph) is doing a better job of covering Kerry’s Credibility Problems than the New York Times or the Washington Post: Critics launch four-pronged assault on Vietnam record Kerry ‘invented Christmas in Cambodia claim’ Kerry’s confusion over Cambodia

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Because They Aren't Puppets

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 6:27:47 pm PDT

That sound you hear is the mainstream media’s cover-up of John F. Kerry’s many credibility issues beginning to fracture. From the San Francisco Examiner: Backlash of Kerry claims. (Thanks to all who emailed.) John F. Kerry’s campaign for president is imploding. And he knows it. The anti-war candidate went public as a ...

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Al-Sadr: "Journalists are Our Brothers"

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 4:02:04 pm PDT

Doug Harper points out a quote buried in a Knight Ridder wire story on the release of British journalist James Brandon by the Iraqi mujahideen—a frank acknowledgment of the relationship between the holy warriors and their comrades in the world media: A kidnapped British journalist was released Friday with minor injuries ...

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We Got Mail!

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 3:53:48 pm PDT

I just received the following email from a helpful visitor to LGF: Hello, Sorry but you are wrong about what the Iraq war was. It was wrong and not right. Just thought you should know, And it was signed with a link to a blog that has really opened my eyes to ...

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On Loathing Bush

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 2:44:00 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson says the left hates George W. Bush for who he is, not what he does: On Loathing Bush. Critics accuse Mr. Bush of Manichaeism — of tough, black-and-white talk about good and evil. They are right. He certainly sounds different from the usual suburban moralist, especially in an ...

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Abetting Beheadings

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 2:40:35 pm PDT

In yesterday’s National Review, Mustafa Akyol condemned the obscene beheading videos that are being circulated around the Islamic world. This is good. We need to see more—much more—of this. But unfortunately, as Andrew McCarthy convincingly demonstrates today, Aykol’s article rests on a bed of extreme denial: Abetting Beheadings. The execution of ...

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The Islamic Reformation?

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 2:16:58 pm PDT

Here’s a must-read symposium hosted by Jamie Glazov, featuring Prof. Khaleel Mohammed, Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University, Kamal Nawash, the Founder and President of The Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism, and Walid Shoebat, former PLO terrorist who has become an evangelical Christian: ...

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A Faulty Seared Memory

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:56:06 am PDT

From the house of Allah.

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Kerry: No Response to Nuclear Attack

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:25:38 am PDT

As John F. Kerry’s record comes under increasing scrutiny, here’s a story that illustrates his true radical pacifist nature. As Michael Dukakis’ Lieutenant Governor, Kerry authored an executive order saying the state of Massachussetts would refuse to take part in any civil defense efforts in response to a nuclear attack ...

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AFP: Flipper's Consistent, Sort Of

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:02:49 am PDT

Agence France Presse shills for John Kerry, doing their best to paint his ridiculous record of flipping in the political wind as “largely consistent.” But with a couple of ... exceptions ... we can chalk up to nuance. WASHINGTON (AFP) - While Republicans are trying to keep Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry ...

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British Journalist Thanks Mujahideen

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 9:02:27 am PDT

As soon as the holy warriors in Basra discovered they had kidnapped a British journalist, they started treating him like what he was—a true friend: Kidnapped UK journalist released. (Hat tip: overwatch.) He thanked Mr Sadr’s aides for working for his release and said once his kidnappers had known he was ...

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Another Islamic Snuff Film

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 8:53:17 am PDT

Islamic Web Site Has Pictures of Beheading. CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site posted still pictures Friday that purportedly show Iraqi militants beheading an Egyptian man they claim was spying for the U.S. military. There was no way to verify the authenticity of the images, and there was no record that ...

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Another Big Problem for Flipper

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 8:37:01 am PDT

Captain Ed has details of another serious discrepancy in Kerry’s seared memory: Did David Alston Ever Serve On Kerry’s Swift Boat? There is apparently considerable reason to doubt that the Reverend David Alston, who spoke at the Democratic Convention, was on Kerry’s Swift Boat at the time he claimed. Kerry could put ...

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Kerry's Memory Overcooked

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 8:18:20 am PDT

According to Drudge Report, John Kerry’s historian, Doug Brinkley, is rushing out a piece for the New Yorker that will “clarify” Kerry’s statement that his 1968 Christmas in Cambodia was “seared” into his memory. Apparently, Kerry searingly forgot that it wasn’t Christmas. Brinkley will claim that Kerry was in Cambodia ...

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Palestinians Lie to United Nations

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 7:37:05 am PDT

On their latest list of “martyrs” killed by Israeli forces, presented to their friends at the United Nations, Palestinians included the name of a teenaged boy who was murdered by Hamas terrorists when he tried to stop them from using his property to fire Qassam missiles into Israel: Palestinians Mislead ...

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The Holy Warrior Demands

Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 7:10:18 am PDT

He may be a murderous inbred moron, but one thing Muqtada al-Sadr does not lack is audacity: Sadr sets conditions for end to Najaf fighting: aide. NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - Shiite Muslim rebel leader Moqtada Sadr issued a list of conditions for an end to more than a week of deadly ...

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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Oriana: Half a Million Copies in Four Hours

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 6:03:07 pm PDT

Italians are incredibly interested in what Oriana Fallaci has to say, even as she is reviled by Muslim and left wing groups worldwide. She published an interview with herself in the newspaper Corriere Della Sera—and it sold out of its first run of 500,000 copies within four hours. Here’s Google’s ...

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Biased British Writer Denied

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 5:53:29 pm PDT

Finally, Israel is getting wise to the tricks of the International Solidarity Movement and their comrades, and denying entry to (or deporting) the worst of them—like Ewa Jasiewicz: Biased British writer denied entry. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) According to the lawyer representing 26-year-old Ewa Jasiewicz, security officials barred her from entering the ...

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Shi'ites Seethe, Threaten Further Seething

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 3:09:34 pm PDT

According to the LA Times, the world’s Shi'ite Muslims are seething with rage over US military actions in Najaf, although they don’t seem very upset over the thugs and murderers who’ve defiled the Imam Ali Mosque by turning it into a storehouse for weapons and a staging area for attacks: ...

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New Jersey Governor Resigns

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 2:35:06 pm PDT

N.J. Governor Resigns, Admits He Is Gay. TRENTON, N.J. - In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation Thursday and acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man. “My truth is that I am a gay American,” he said. “Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with ...

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Pierre Rehov Films Online

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:42:38 pm PDT

Author Phyllis Chesler is hosting two excellent documentaries by Pierre Rehov at her site, free of charge, until September 12. The films are: The Road to Jenin, exposing media falsehoods surrounding the 2002 Jenin incursion, and The Silent Exodus, about the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab ...

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The Kerry Story That Isn't

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 7:51:03 am PDT

A New York Times search for Cambodia: zero results related to John F. Kerry. A Washington Post search for Cambodia: zero results. Mainstream media are doing their best to consign the story of Kerry’s false Christmas in Cambodia to the memory hole. It’s incredibly brazen and more than a little scary, as ...

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WaPo Dons Sackcloth and Ashes

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 7:21:38 am PDT

An amazing admission from the Washington Post today that their coverage of the lead-up to the Iraq War was terribly flawed. It wasn’t negative enough. “We did our job but we didn’t do enough, and I blame myself mightily for not pushing harder,” assistant managing editor Bob Woodward says in the story. ...

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Sudan: The West Wants Our Fabulous Wealth

Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 7:15:01 am PDT

The Sudanese government continues to act like craven murderers, whining that Western countries are lusting after their natural resources, while Sudanese proxy militias rape and kill: Sudan Says West After Country’s Oil, Gold. As if. KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Thursday accused Western nations of interfering in ...

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 8:38:59 pm PDT

An Israeli Army soldier comforts a Palestinian woman at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Ramallah Wednesday Aug. 11, 2004. A West Bank militant detonated a large bomb near Kalandia checkpoint Wednesday, killing two Palestinian men and wounding some 13, including 10 Palestinian civilians and ...

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An Iowahawk Exclusive

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 7:49:47 pm PDT

New revelations tonight about John Kerry’s Xmas mission to the Island of Misfit Toys. There I was, strafing helpless misfit toys with Joey Heatherton, Jill St. John, Lola Falana and Raquel Welch,“ said Kerry. ”Our fire dispersed the insurgents, and I could have shot several of the fleeing toys in the ...

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ABC News: "We Can't Find A Single American..."

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 6:43:57 pm PDT

An amazing statement from ABC News says they haven’t been able to dig up a single person in the entire United States of America who voted for Al Gore in 2000, but plans to vote for George W. Bush in 2004: ABC News’ The Note: First Source for Political News. ...

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The Enemy Within

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 6:30:15 pm PDT

An illegal alien from Pakistan who lived in Queens, New York, was arrested three weeks ago in North Carolina on immigration charges—and in a search of his possessions, police discovered video footage that looks very much like surveillance for terror attacks: Man Is Held After Police Seize Tapes of Buildings ...

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We're Not in Kansas Anymore

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 6:16:30 pm PDT

John Kerry has a little problem making up his mind. But the answer is blowing in the wind. (Hat tip: Soonerborn.)

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Flipper's Lucky Hat

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 5:33:25 pm PDT

If you haven’t read James Lileks on Kerry’s magic hat yet, go now and do so, for it is good.

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An American Hiroshima

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 3:25:54 pm PDT

Nicholas Kristof on the ultimate nightmare, coming soon to a city near you: An American Hiroshima. ASPEN, Colo. — If a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, a midget even smaller than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, exploded in Times Square, the fireball would reach tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. It would vaporize or ...

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Another Islamic Snuff Film

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:45:56 pm PDT

American CIA agent beheaded in Iraq: Islamist website. DUBAI (AFP) - An Islamist website showed a videotape which it said was of a US national and CIA agent being beheaded by members of a Islamic militant group in Iraq. In the poor-quality video, whose authenticity could not be verified, a young Western-looking ...

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Flipper Has Faulty Seared Memory

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:23:41 pm PDT

Here comes the spin on Kerry’s 1968 nonexistent holiday in Cambodia—what was “seared” into his mind was a “mistaken recollection:” Was He or Wasn’t He in Cambodia? Today, on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Kerry Campaign Advisor Jeh Johnson had this to say to the show’s co-host Brian Kilmeade: JOHNSON: John Kerry ...

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Democracy Inaction

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:36:40 am PDT

Is it MoveOn.org, or just an incredibly realistic facsimile? MoveOnPlease.org: Democracy Inaction. (Hat tip: Sundance.) Everything Bad Fault Of Rumsfeld Scientists have found Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, genetically culpable for every contrary event and effect in modern history, including morbid obesity, the Philadelphia Phillies’ 23 game losing streak in 1959 and ...

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Iran: Atomic Weapons are Un-Islamic

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:00:32 am PDT

The mullahs have sent their “moderate” puppet out again, to tell the world that Iran only wants nuclear technology for “peace:” Iran Seeking ‘Peaceful’ Nuclear Program. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is ready to “pay the price” for pursuing a peaceful nuclear program, even if that means being brought before the U.N. ...

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Showdown in Najaf?

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 9:55:57 am PDT

The end game is approaching in the unholy city of Najaf: U.S. Marines Say Readying for Final Assault in Najaf. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. marines said on Wednesday they were preparing a final assault on Iraqi Shi’ite militia in the holy city of Najaf, after a radical cleric ordered his ...

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Chicago Mosque Leader Arrested for Drug Peddling

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 9:26:57 am PDT

A leader of a Chicago mosque has been arrested on drug peddling charges: Mosque official’s release denied. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) A federal judge Tuesday ordered that a leader of a mosque on Chicago’s South Side remain in custody on charges that he trafficked in a chemical essential to manufacture an illegal ...

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Al Qaeda Plans High-Profile Assassination

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 8:59:23 am PDT

At the Washington Times, Bill Gertz reports on new Al Qaeda plots for a series of major attacks in the United States, intended to disrupt the presidential election: Bin Laden hints major assassination. U.S. intelligence officials say a high-profile political assassination, triggered by the public release of a new message from ...

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DNC: The Party of Legal Threats

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 8:36:39 am PDT

From the Kerry camp today, we still have complete silence about the accusations raised by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But the legal hounds have been unleashed to do everything possible to suppress the Swiftee’s advertisement, and smear the people behind it: Groups File Complaint Over Anti-Kerry Ad. WASHINGTON - Three campaign ...

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Religion of Car Bombs

Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 8:14:08 am PDT

Car Bomb Kills 1, Injures 13 in West Bank. KALANDIA CHECKPOINT, West Bank - A car bomb exploded Wednesday near a busy Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank, killing a 60-year-old Palestinian man and wounding at least 13 people, including both Palestinians and Israelis, officials said. The Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, ...

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Exhumation

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 9:26:23 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Squabbling Murder Gangs

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 8:10:10 pm PDT

Several different Islamic terror gangs are vying for the credit in the latest hotel bombings in Istanbul: Kurds Say They Bombed Turkish Hotels. ISTANBUL, Turkey - A previously unknown Kurdish group claimed responsibility for pre-dawn bomb attacks Tuesday against two hotels in Istanbul tourist districts that killed two people and wounded ...

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From Birth to Burial (in the Middle East)

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 6:19:57 pm PDT

Here’s a story about the mainstreaming of Islamic beliefs in Metro Detroit: From birth to burial, region adapts to culture. When the Islamic call to prayer was allowed to be broadcast through the streets of Hamtramck, it thrust religious tradition into the national spotlight and illustrated the growing influence of Muslims ...

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Misplaced Mercies

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 5:55:16 pm PDT

Straightforward words from Ralph Peters, harshing on both Bush and Kerry at the New York Post: Misplaced Mercies. August 10, 2004 — WHEN it comes to killing our enemies, Mom was right: Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. A year after he should have been removed ...

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Europe Astonished!

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 5:48:39 pm PDT

Europe is shocked to discover that the mullahs of Iran are arrogant stone-age lunatics, hellbent on nukes. I know, it is pretty shocking. Hand over nuclear weapons and know-how, Iran tells Britain. Iran has issued an extraordinary list of demands to Britain and other European countries, telling them to provide advanced nuclear technology, ...

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Europe's Choice

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 5:38:02 pm PDT

I missed this excellent Victor Davis Hanson piece a few days ago when it appeared at OpinionJournal, but anything the man writes is worth reading; here he returns to a common theme: Europe’s Choice. (Lotsa hat tips.) McDonald’s is prominent among the stylish cafés of Luxembourg. Dubbed-in “Friends” and “Jerry Springer” ...

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Apocalypse Redux

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 4:54:10 pm PDT

LGF reader Mark R. sent along this very compelling Photoshop work, illustrating recent events in the mind of John F. Kerry: APOCALYPSE THEN APOCALYPSE NOW

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Corsi Apologizes for FreeRepublic Comments

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 3:34:56 pm PDT

It’s increasingly clear that John F. Kerry lied repeatedly about at least one detail of his service history—that he spent Christmas in Cambodia in 1968 (it was “seared” in his mind). We still see no official word from the Kerry campaign on this serious charge. But when you can’t deal with ...

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Kerry: "A Special Mission in Cambodia"

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 3:15:50 pm PDT

From an article in the Washington Post, dated Sunday, June 1, 2003, on Page A01: John Kerry: Hunter, Dreamer, Realist. (Hat tip: Power Line and Hugh Hewitt.) And who is he, really? A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it ...

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Fourth Estate = Fifth Column

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 2:06:12 pm PDT

It has become commonplace for Western wire services to publish pictures of masked mujahideen engaged in killing US and coalition soldiers, photographed in loving closeup: Yahoo! News Photos - Iraq. What would have been the reaction in World War II, if American newspapers had run photographs of bravely posing Waffen SS ...

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The Saudis' Covert PR Campaign

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 8:18:25 am PDT

Daniel Pipes blows the whistle on Saudi Arabia’s underhanded public relations campaign, in which they secretly fund speakers with distinguished credentials to shill for the royal family: The Saudis’ Covert P.R. Campaign. Saudi funding for opinion makers has been known but not its exact specifics. I can for the first time ...

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Kerry's Legal Ambush

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 8:06:29 am PDT

As mainstream media continue to ignore the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, here’s a piece at FrontPage about the transparently dishonest nastygram sent by DNC lawyers to TV stations to scare them out of running the Swift Boat Veterans’ advertisement: Legal Terrorism. It was not until halfway through their letter that ...

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Our Friends the Germans

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 7:31:24 am PDT

The son of a September 11 victim could not be silent in a German court today, as one of the defense lawyers for an Islamic terrorist smeared the United States outrageously: Clash Over ‘Torture’ Charge at German 9/11 Trial. Defense lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying ...

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9/11 Plotter's Retrial in Doubt

Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 7:19:00 am PDT

It looks like one of the September 11 plotters, Mounir El Motassadeq, may go free in Germany, as the US refuses to let German judges compromise our intelligence sources: US blocks al-Qa’eda evidence at Sept 11 plotter’s retrial. The United States has refused to allow German judges retrying the only man ...

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Monday, August 09, 2004

Will Smith: "George W. Bush Lied to Me"

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:54:47 pm PDT

Davids Medienkritik translates portions of an interview with actor Will Smith, published in a major Frankfurt newspaper under the title “George W. Bush Lied to Me.” When asked if 9/11 had changed anything for him personally, Smith answered: “No. Absolutely not. When you grow up black in America you have a completely ...

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The Swifts

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:26:56 pm PDT

Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette has posted an interesting email exchange with Tom Mortensen of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

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Anarchy in the PA

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:12:48 pm PDT

Access Middle East took part in a conference call with Jerusalem Post journalist Khaled Abu Toameh on the situation in the Palestinian Authority. Some foreign journalists have mistakenly portrayed the power struggle as a power struggle between reformists and corrupt officials. I think it that this is inaccurate because these people ...

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Hotels Bombed in Istanbul

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 7:31:07 pm PDT

One Dead in ‘Terrorist’ Blasts in Istanbul. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Simultaneous explosions rocked two hotels in tourist areas of Istanbul early on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring eight, and the city’s police chief said it appeared to be a terrorist attack. Details were sketchy but television pictures showed emergency services rushing ...

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Which Candidate Makes You Feel More Sensitive?

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 6:49:43 pm PDT

The “Question of the Day” at MSNBC: Which Presidential candidate makes you feel safer? With 22,885 responses as of this writing, the results are: Bush: 43% Kerry: 57%

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Bin Laden Backer on His Way to Oslo

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 5:29:52 pm PDT

The Islamic Cultural Center in Oslo, Norway, has invited the leader of the Pakistani Al Qaeda-linked terror gang Jamaat-e-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, to speak at religious gatherings and at the University of Oslo, and it looks like Norway will allow it—even though his obvious links with jihad terrorism were sufficient ...

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Barnes and Noble: "Fit for Command?"

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 2:36:53 pm PDT

The Barnes and Noble page for the book by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth lists the title as Fit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out against John Kerry, in several places. And K-Lo at The Corner points out an image at Barnes and Noble that has apparently been hacked: Fit ...

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USA vs. Babar Ahmad

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 1:42:11 pm PDT

Aaron points out the arrest warrant for Babar Ahmad, the Islamic web designer/publisher who ran Azzam Publications, and who may have been part of the surveillance team that scouted many terror targets in the United States. Fascinating reading, with lots of detail about the internet machinations of these freaks: USA ...

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What's That Smell?

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 1:06:03 pm PDT

Last Friday, after watching the C-SPAN broadcasts of the speeches by Kerry and Bush to an audience of journalists at the UNITY Conference, I was so appalled at the behavior of the journalists that I wrote this entry: Journalism Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny. Today, Editor and Publisher reports that ...

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More Islamic Terror Plots Discovered in UK

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 10:30:59 am PDT

Computers and CDs seized in last week’s British terror raids contain evidence of previously unknown terrorist plots in the US: Computer discs seized in Britain may trigger new security alerts: report. NEW YORK (AFP) - US officials may issue new public safety alerts based on information contained in more than 1,000 ...

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Jewish Students Attacked at Auschwitz

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 10:19:12 am PDT

This is how bad things are getting in Europe; a despicable act that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: Jewish students attacked at Auschwitz. While on a tour of the museum at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Sunday, a group of around 50 Jewish university students from ...

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The Democratic Party's Antisemitism Problem

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 9:02:54 am PDT

With highly visible spokespeople like Al Sharpton, Cynthia McKinney, and Michael Moore, it’s no longer possible to ignore the Democratic Party’s anti-Semitism problem. (Hat tip: Allah.) One of the most prominent figures at John Kerry’s nominating convention was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who seemed almost as fixed a presence at Kerry’s ...

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AP: "A Largely Disbelieving World"

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:46:15 am PDT

I’ve noticed for quite a while that mainstream media is deliberately playing down Iran’s push for nuclear weapons. But here’s an AP release on Condoleezza Rice so packed with skepticism that it oozes out of the monitor: Rice: Iran’s Nuclear Intentions Worrisome. Notice how the AP’s William C. Mann speaks for ...

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Tube Terror Plot Found

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:18:57 am PDT

A plot to bomb the London subway system has been uncovered at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan: ‘Tube flood plan’ to kill thousands. (Hat tip: Smit.) A terror plot to detonate a bomb inside a Tube tunnel beneath the Thames has been uncovered by MI5 chiefs, it was reported yesterday. The ...

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Chalabi Arrest: a Ploy for Saddam?

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 8:09:29 am PDT

An arrest warrant was issued by an Iraqi judge over the weekend for Ahmad Chalabi and his nephew Salem Chalabi. But Salem Chalabi says the charges are intended to derail the trial of Saddam Hussein: Salem Chalabi Says Charges Undermine Saddam Trial. An Iraqi judge issued arrest warrants for both Salem ...

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Another Islamic Snuff Film

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 7:57:45 am PDT

Militants Behead Man in Video on Internet. CAIRO, Egypt - Four masked, black-clad men who said they belong to a group that has claimed responsibility for kidnappings and killings in Iraq beheaded a man identified only as a Bulgarian in a video posted on the Internet Monday. It was not clear when ...

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Al-Sadr Wants to Die, We Won't Kill Him

Mon, Aug 9, 2004 at 7:49:20 am PDT

Muqtada al-Sadr keeps shrieking that he wants to die. Why haven’t we granted his wish? Finding him isn’t a problem; he struts and rants for TV cameras and reporters every day. Iraq Cleric Vows Fight to Death Vs. US. NAJAF, Iraq - A radical cleric whose loyalists battled U.S. troops for ...

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Sunday, August 08, 2004

Fictional Assassin a Fan of Daily Kos

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 8:03:38 pm PDT

The protagonist of a new novel about assassinating the President is a fan of two popular political weblogs: Assassination Porn - Nicholson Baker’s irate new novel. I won’t apologize for giving away the ending because, as with Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth’s thriller about an imagined attempt to assassinate Charles ...

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Trolls and Leprechauns and Dragons, Oh My

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 7:09:27 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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British Shari'a Watch

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 6:34:01 pm PDT

British financial authorities give green light for Islamic bank. LONDON (AFP) - Britain’s financial services watchdog gave the go-ahead for the first Islamic bank in Britain to open its doors. The Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) decision means that the Islamic Bank of Britain will be able to open its first branch in ...

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Newsweek Fawns Over Jihadi Cleric

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 6:22:28 pm PDT

I know I shouldn’t be surprised any more, but the extent to which American media enables the radical Islamist agenda continues to amaze me. In the latest example, Newsweek’s Scott Johnson deferentially interviews an Iraqi Sunni cleric who’s very much in favor of killing American and British troops: “We Pray ...

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New York Post: Wake Up!

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 6:01:49 pm PDT

Would someone in the loop please let the New York Post’s web department know that there’s a serious problem in the Javascript for their rotating ad banners, preventing Mac users with Safari from viewing any of their stories? It’s been happening for several days now.

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A Little Rain

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 5:47:05 pm PDT

I’m on another Tom Waits binge, and this song from Bone Machine touched a nerve tonight: A Little Rain. Well, the ice man’s mule is parked outside the bar Where a man with missing fingers plays a strange guitar And the German dwarf dances with the butcher’s son And tonight a little rain never hurt no one Well, ...

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America's Next Threat

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 4:15:54 pm PDT

An interesting piece by retired Army infantry colonel Bob Killebrew looks at the possible evolution of the Islamic supremacist ideology into America’s next threat: A politically transformed Al-Qaida. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Although today’s terrorists are an indisputable menace, they do not yet threaten global peace or our survival. But the ...

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Aussie Appeasers Annoy

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 4:08:44 pm PDT

Australia’s appeasement bloc is getting loud: Australians Condemn Government on Iraq. CANBERRA, Australia - Former defense chiefs and diplomats condemned Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war Sunday in a major blow to Prime Minister John Howard’s re-election prospects. The 43 eminent Australians including two former chiefs of defense and three ambassadors issued ...

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Heinz Kerry, the Forgotten Radical

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 1:44:32 pm PDT

At the Democratic National Convention, Teresa Heinz Kerry made much of her participation in the anti-apartheid movement when she attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. But a contemporary of hers, now a professor at the University, says Heinz Kerry was at exactly one protest march, in which ...

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Kerry's Cambodian Problem

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 1:17:26 pm PDT

See Captain Ed’s blog for the complete text of the response from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to the Kerry campaign’s threats of legal action against TV stations that show the Swift Boat advertisement. This is powerful stuff; pay special attention to the section about Kerry’s claim that he spent ...

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Where Bush and Carter Converge

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 12:52:28 pm PDT

Another excellent column by Caroline Glick looks at the cases where Bush and Carter converge. ...Suddenly this week we have the Bush administration, less than three months before the presidential elections, demanding that Israel not build in Ma’aleh Adumim. We have State Department officials and spokesmen skewering Israel for announcing plans ...

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Religion of High Explosives

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 12:33:32 pm PDT

Two bombs kill eight and wound 50 in Karachi. KARACHI (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded within minutes of each other in a western neighbourhood of Karachi on Sunday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 50, police and witnesses said. The bombs were attached to two motorcycles parked outside a ...

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Hamas Terrorists in Britain

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 12:21:43 pm PDT

The Sunday Times reports that they found documents left behind by police in a London apartment raided for terrorists, showing that two of the occupants had been trained for mass murder by Palestinian terror gangs: Suicide bomber files found in flat. DOCUMENTS found inside a flat that was raided last ...

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NYT: Diplomacy Fails

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 10:57:07 am PDT

Here’s a real shocker from the New York Times: Diplomacy Fails to Slow Advance of Nuclear Arms. KENNEBUNKPORT, Me., Aug. 7 - American intelligence officials and outside nuclear experts have concluded that the Bush administration’s diplomatic efforts with European and Asian allies have barely slowed the nuclear weapons programs in Iran ...

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Veterans Respond to Globe: "A Surprise False Article"

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 9:16:13 am PDT

The Boston Globe’s Michael Kranish, who is also John F. Kerry’s biographer, wrote a hit piece for the Boston Globe claiming that one of the members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had repudiated his statements about Kerry. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are not backing down. They’ve posted an affidavit ...

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Rock Stars and Radical Muslims

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 9:00:50 am PDT

Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Pearl Jam, Jackson Browne, James Taylor and the other stars on the Bush-bashing “Vote for Change” tour have picked up some new fans: the Muslim American Society, who seem to have overcome their religious objections to infidel music in this case. (Hat tip: Black_Flag.) To refresh your ...

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Suha Does Paris

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 8:13:17 am PDT

Arafat’s wife Suha, living in luxury at the exclusive five-star Hotel Bristol in Paris, has apparently acquired another French habit. Amid all their current travails, it seems unkind to intrude further into the Arafats’ private grief. But Paris is for lovers, and malicious sources insist that Suha has, whisper it not, ...

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You Knew This Was Coming

Sun, Aug 8, 2004 at 7:34:24 am PDT

As international outrage over the genocide in Sudan continues to grow, the Arab Muslim government breaks out the all-purpose boogeyman, guaranteed to enflame the Arab Street: Sudan: Israel supporting Darfur rebels. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters in Cairo his government had “information that confirms media reports of Israeli support.” Ismail, ...

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Saturday, August 07, 2004

Outrage of the Day

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 5:39:30 pm PDT

Excuse me while I highlight the worst idea of the day. John Fonte identified this plague and gave it a name: transnational progressivism. And it’s creeping relentlessly into our government at the highest levels: US invites OSCE to observe election. (Hat tip: Rayra.) Washington, DC, Aug. 7 (UPI) — The White House ...

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Cycle of Violence

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 5:01:41 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 55.77 miles. We went south on the bike path through the beach cities and Torrance, then up into Palos Verdes on the climb out of Malaga Cove, down Paseo del Mar, back up to PV Drive and south to the architectural marvel known as Wayfarer’s Chapel, where we ...

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RoP Threatens Italy, Denmark, El Salvador

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 3:30:34 pm PDT

More jihad threats against Italy, Denmark, and El Salvador, brought to you as always by the Religion of Peace™: Qaeda-Linked Cells ‘To Hit Italy’ After Aug. 15 Truce. DUBAI (Reuters) - A militant group claiming links to al Qaeda said on Saturday its cells in Italy were ready to strike if ...

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RoP Moles in the Navy?

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 8:00:57 am PDT

A San Diego sailor is suspected of having passed Navy secrets about ship movements and security weaknesses to one of the jihadis arrested in Britain last Wednesday: Ex-S.D. sailor allegedly linked to terror suspect. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) E-mail messages from the unnamed sailor, sent in late 2000 and 2001 before ...

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SF Man Fakes Beheading Video

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 7:22:37 am PDT

It’s bad enough that the mujahideen really are hacking the heads off their hostages. But then we have loathsome little American freaks like Benjamin Vanderford who fake beheading videos as a publicity stunt—and this guy was running for office in San Francisco: American Not Sorry for Beheading Hoax. SAN FRANCISCO —A video ...

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Iraq Muzzles the Voice of Jihad

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 7:11:35 am PDT

The Iraqi government has shut down JihadTV for inciting violence and hatred: Iraqi Government Shuts Al-Jazeera Station. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government closed the Iraqi offices of the Arab television station Al-Jazeera for 30 days, accusing it Saturday of inciting violence. A spokesman for Al-Jazeera called the closure “unwise” and said ...

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Teresa: "I Think the President Behaved Correctly"

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 6:55:32 am PDT

The Kerry campaign is surely one of the most sloppy, disorganized, and self-contradictory presidential bids in history; every day brings a new disconnect: Clash And Kerry. On Thursday, Kerry told a convention of minority journalists that he would have reacted more decisively to the news than Bush, who continued reading with ...

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Religion of Peace Threatens El Salvador

Sat, Aug 7, 2004 at 6:51:02 am PDT

The jihad comes to Central America: Group Tells El Salvador Not to Send Troops to Iraq. (Hat tip: Cheko.) DUBAI (Reuters) - A group saying it has ties to al Qaeda vowed on Thursday to strike inside El Salvador if the country sends fresh troops to Iraq, according to a message ...

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Friday, August 06, 2004

Got Another One in Britain

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 7:53:33 pm PDT

The publisher of at least two jihad-promoting web sites has been arrested in London for extradition to the US: Webmaster held on terror charges. (Hat tip: Cracker Barrel Philosopher.) Babar Ahmad, 30, was remanded in custody by a London magistrates court on Friday on a U.S. extradition warrant. American authorities are ...

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Oriana Fallaci: "Europe is Sicker Than I Am"

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 7:36:15 pm PDT

Perhaps the most brilliant paradigm-shattering interviewer of the 20th century, Oriana Fallaci has done her final interview—with herself: Tough Italian Journalist Turns Eye on Self. ROME - Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for ruthlessly grilling her subjects, says she detests interviews but has granted one herself — to herself — ...

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Now Is the Time

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 7:22:41 pm PDT

Peggy Noonan shows the UNITY Conference pseudo-journalists how it’s done: Now Is the Time. I am going to take three months’ unpaid leave from The Wall Street Journal and attempt to support the Republican Party in the coming and crucial election. (Every four years everyone says “this is the most important ...

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Journalism Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 6:00:44 pm PDT

Absolutely amazing undisguised bias was on display today at the UNITY Conference, as some journalists in the audience actually booed President Bush, after giving John F. Kerry standing ovations and softball questions the day before: Bush Defends Terror Alert, Challenges Kerry. I have never seen the leftist bias of the media ...

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Long May He Reign

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 4:09:03 pm PDT

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The Intifada is in Its Death Throes

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 3:00:10 pm PDT

A leader of the West Bank Aksa Martyrs Brigades faces the truth: the intifada is over. Aksa leader: Intifada is in its death throes. It’s not so much what Zakariya Zubeidi, the fugitive leader of the West Bank Aksa Martyrs Brigades, says, but how he says it. Zubeidi speaks in the ...

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A Tribute to Lance Armstrong

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 12:04:25 pm PDT

A great tribute to Lance Armstrong, by Quent Cordair: Lance Armstrong — Role Model for Success. (Hat tip: Infidel.) As I watched a breakaway of five athletes fighting heroically towards the finish of the Tour’s toughest stage — 126 miles of five brutally difficult mountain climbs — with only a kilometer ...

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The Hatchets Are Out

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 11:07:09 am PDT

Boston Globe reporter Michael Kranish says that one of the veterans who signed the affidavit for Swiftboat Veterans for Truth has retracted his allegations against John Kerry: Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry. WASHINGTON — A week after Senator John F. Kerry heralded his wartime experience by surrounding himself at the Democratic ...

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Rudy: Kerry is Moore's Stooge

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 10:24:30 am PDT

Rudy Giuliani caught the odor of Michael Moore lunacy in yesterday’s fatuous statement by John Kerry, and he’s calling Kerry out: Rudy: Kerry is Moore’s Stooge. August 6, 2004 — WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted John Kerry yesterday as a Michael Moore lackey after the Democratic hopeful mocked ...

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Winds of Change: Hatewatch

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 9:45:19 am PDT

At Winds of Change, Lewy14 has posted another eye-opening edition of Hatewatch Briefing.

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Albany Mosque Owned by North American Islamic Trust

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 9:21:27 am PDT

The Albany mosque at the center of a major terrorism investigation is owned by the North American Islamic Trust—a Saudi-backed Wahhabist group that controls about a quarter of America’s mosques, and is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America: Trust owns mosque location. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) The North American Islamic ...

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Albany Mosque Imam: "The Commander"

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 8:59:58 am PDT

The name, address, and telephone number of the imam of the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany, New York, were found in a book in a terrorist training camp in Iraq—with the title, “The Commander:” Iraq Evidence Led Feds to Albany Mosque. ALBANY, N.Y. —Information found in Iraq led federal investigators to ...

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The New Immaturity

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 8:34:41 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson, on the Democratic Party’s Return to Childhood. The best way to sum up this now popular leftist analysis of the rage of Islamic fascists and their sometime supporters in the Middle East would be simply to imagine a different America, in, say, January 1941. So envision a Vice President ...

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Radical Firebrand Activists Killed by the Hundreds

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 8:24:18 am PDT

U.S. Says 300 Fighters Killed in Najaf Battle. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. marines have killed an estimated 300 fighters loyal to a firebrand Iraqi Shi’ite cleric in fierce clashes around the holy city of Najaf in the past two days, a senior U.S. officer said Friday. A spokesman for radical cleric ...

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Sami Al-Arian Case Becoming a Travesty

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 8:00:26 am PDT

Attorneys for Sami al-Arian, the North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are crowing over the ruling of a federal judge, who said that prosecutors will have to prove money raised by al-Arian was used for terror attacks: Burden of Proof Raised in Fla. Terror Case. Terrorists around the world are ...

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Duke University Will Host Pro-Terror Conference

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 7:44:50 am PDT

The vile hate speech and pro-terror ideology of the National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement will be welcomed at Duke University: Duke Will Allow Pro-Palestinian Group To Meet On Campus. (Hat tip: Radian.) DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University will allow a national conference of pro-Palestinian students to be held ...

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New Zealand Antisemitism Watch

Fri, Aug 6, 2004 at 7:29:32 am PDT

There’s been another antisemitic attack on a Jewish cemetery in New Zealand; Silent Running has photographs of the damage: Another Jewish cemetery attacked, 80 - 100 Graves desecrated.

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Thursday, August 05, 2004

British Muslim Moles Condemned

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 8:12:45 pm PDT

Muslim community leaders in Britain are outraged about MI5’s plans to recruit informers to help prevent terror attacks: Muslim moles condemned. MUSLIM community leaders have attacked a drive by Britain’s secret police to recruit north west Asians as spies and informers. The internal security service, MI5, is to set up “intelligence cells” ...

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An Outbreak of MSS

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 7:46:00 pm PDT

Certified grade-A Canadian moonbat “journalist” Antonia Zerbisias whines about her lot in life: Profit, `hot’ stories and the big chill. (Hat tip: munchkin.) A couple of months ago, family members both here and in Montreal contacted me in a panic, upset over suddenly being, as my brother put it, “blindsided” by ...

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Tell Me What You Fear

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 6:34:29 pm PDT

A powerful Flash animation from The Dissident Frogman makes a simple request: Tell Me What You Fear.

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Olympic Passes Stolen in Athens

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 5:10:33 pm PDT

Ten days before the start of the Olympic Games, the Telegraph reports that passes allowing vehicles into the Olympic Village in Athens have been stolen: Olympic security fiasco revealed by stolen passes. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) A security source told the Telegraph that the passes were taken from the windscreens of ...

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RoP Decapitates Woman in Kashmir

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 4:59:14 pm PDT

Woman beheaded, six killed. (Hat tip: Terrorism Unveiled.) Srinagar, India - Suspected Islamic rebels decapitated a woman in Indian Kashmir and left her head hanging in a tree, police said on Thursday, adding that six other people were killed in the restive state. Police were investigating the motive for the beheading of ...

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But Would That Have Been Sensitive?

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 4:45:30 pm PDT

John F. Kerry not only set foot in moonbat territory today, he crossed over into full-blown Michael Moore-influenced dementia when tossed a softball by a New York Times reporter: Kerry Raps Bush on Initial 9/11 Inaction. Notice how the Associated Press is careful to give us a recap of the specific ...

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Kerry: "A More Sensitive War on Terror"

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 3:27:49 pm PDT

Rich Lowry at The Corner points out a “misstatement” from John Kerry today that has so far appeared in ... well, zero news reports. (Hint: it’s not actually a misstatement. Hat tip: Allah.) “I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror ...

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Media Biased? Naah!

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 2:30:55 pm PDT

Al-Reuters resorts to blatant distortion in the caption of this photograph. (Hat tip: Renna.) U.S. President George W. Bush has told a roomful of top Pentagon brass his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States. Bush is pictured in a July 31 file photo. REUTERS/Mannie Garcia ...

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San Francisco Antisemitism Watch

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 2:23:28 pm PDT

More than 50 campaign signs for San Francisco Supervisor candidate David Heller were defaced last night with swastikas inside Stars of David: Swastikas Scrawled On SF Supe Candidate’s Campaign Signs. (Hat tip: Jheka.)

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Kerry Tries to Shut Down Swiftboat Veterans

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 1:48:13 pm PDT

Lawyers for the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are trying to shut down the advertisement from Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, threatening TV stations that choose to air it.

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 1:23:17 pm PDT

A Palestinian boy holds a gun during a rally of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades militant group in West Bank city of Nablus on August 5, 2004. ... Photo by Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters

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RoP Planned Attack on Heathrow

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 8:20:34 am PDT

Even as the British Council persecutes journalists who criticize Islam, British security services are discovering Islamic plots to bomb Heathrow Airport: Al-Qaeda ace may have been arrested in UK. (Hat tip: Ed Moran.) British authorities are believed to have foiled a well-developed plot to bomb Heathrow Airport by one of al-Qaeda’s ...

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NY Mosque Leaders Arrested

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 7:53:42 am PDT

Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, New York, have been arrested in a sting operation, for helping a government agent they believed was a terrorist interested in purchasing a shoulder-launched missile: Two arrested in missile sting operation. (Hat tip: Right Wing Conspirator.) WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Two leaders of a mosque ...

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Britain Shuts Down Criticism of Islam

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 7:42:27 am PDT

The British Council, an organization that “promotes better cultural relations between the UK and other countries,” is shutting down criticism of Islam by suspending Sunday Telegraph writer Harry Cummins, who they say wrote “anti-Islam” articles with the pseudonym “Will Cummins:” British Council anti-Islam probe. This makes the Islamist front group known ...

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Subway Mocks 9/11 in Germany

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 7:29:33 am PDT

You probably heard about the Subway food chain’s anti-American advertising in Germany—but it’s even worse than it first appeared: More Anti-American Images Found at German Subway Stores. (Hat tip: William.) (CNSNews.com) - Picture this: a gigantic cheeseburger (with tomatoes and lettuce) slamming into two high-rise buildings, as cartoon characters run from ...

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The Enemy Within

Thu, Aug 5, 2004 at 7:24:20 am PDT

Here’s some interesting information about the pro-terror Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a stunningly biased “academic journal” that seems legitimate until you start to read their virulent propaganda. Turns out it’s run by a “non-profit” group called the Council for the National Interest Foundation, with numerous links to Islamic ...

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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Jihadis Get Their Ducks in a Row

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 6:46:25 pm PDT

The SoundVision radical Islamic discussion forum for budding young mujahideen, hosted in Bridgeview Illinois, has a helpful Sample Statement Condemning Terrorism, for those times when the infidels ask uncomfortable questions after a jihad operation. Gotta get the story straight in advance. Your Islamic center can adopt, rewrite and issue the following statement ...

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Breaking: Irishman Murdered in Riyadh

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 6:27:34 pm PDT

Irishman shot dead in Riyadh. RIYADH (AFP) - An Irish national was shot dead in Riyadh in the first attack on a Westerner in Saudi Arabia since the mid-June killing of the local chief of the Al-Qaeda terror network. Although the motives of the murder were not immediately clear, the incident ...

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The Real Story on John Kerry's Military Service

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 6:06:21 pm PDT

SwiftVets.com: The Real Story on John Kerry’s Military Service.

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Activist Comes Out of Hole, IDF Grabs Him

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 5:44:23 pm PDT

The Associated Press reports on the arrest of a Palestinian Hamas terrorist at his engagement party, with a headline that leaves out enough key pieces of information to telegraph the bias: Israeli Soldiers Raid Engagement Party. In this piece, we see the creeping legitimization of the horribly neutral word “activist,” for ...

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A Letter From the Wife of a Martyr

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 4:56:44 pm PDT

After continuous exposure, I’ve become a bit inured to the ravings of the Islamic holy warriors. But this one rocked me back on my heels: A Letter by an Alleged Wife of a Martyr to the Wife of Paul Johnson. I’ve mentioned before that the women married to these freaks ...

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Al Qaeda Plans for South Africa

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 3:27:12 pm PDT

Pakistani officials say that two South Africans captured in Pakistan were planning to attack tourist sites in Johannesburg—but the South African government is in denial: South Africa Denies It’s al-Qaida Target. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Two South African men — captured along with a senior al-Qaida terrorist — were plotting attacks on ...

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Pop Stars Bashed by Fans

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 2:32:30 pm PDT

You may have heard about a group of idiotarian pop stars planning a Bush-bashing tour called Vote for Change, featuring Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, the Dixie Chicks, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and others. They’ve announced that, as a show of support for John F. Kerry’s foreign policy, half of the proceeds ...

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Malaysian PM Weeps for Christians

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 10:35:14 am PDT

A weeping Malaysian Prime Minister told the World Council of Churches yesterday that Muslims worldwide are deeply afraid Christians are waging a war against Islam. Muslims worldwide fear Christians are waging a “war against Islam,” Malaysia’s leader said yesterday, blaming the campaign against terror on increased tensions between the religions. In an ...

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Freedom for Me, Not for Thee

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 9:53:35 am PDT

Lina Morales was hired by a telecommunications company in Central Florida, run by Muslims. And she was fired by them. For eating a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Woman Fired For Eating ‘Unclean’ Meat. “Are you telling me they fired you because you had something with ham on it?” Local 6 News ...

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Arab Logic

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 9:07:11 am PDT

The Arab World has made it very clear that they could not care less about the ongoing atrocities committed in Sudan by Arab Muslim militias against native black African Muslims. And now that Western nations have been expressing concern, the Arab World has a new scapegoat behind which to hide ...

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What's Right With Islam?

Wed, Aug 4, 2004 at 8:28:33 am PDT

Eric Ormsby, an Islamic apologist at McGill University (who has been featured at LGF before), writes about a “well-intentioned” book by a “moderate Muslim,” Feisal Abdul Rauf: What’s Right With Islam. (Hat tip: sharona.) One of the more puzzling and, indeed, agonizing aspects of the aftermath of 9/11—especially for those who, ...

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Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The Arab World's Stalking Horse is Crumbling

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 8:21:23 pm PDT

In the latest sign of serious schism between the Palestinian intifada industry and their Arab World enablers, Jordan’s King Abdullah has harshly criticized the Palestinian leadership—and Arafat’s puppet is seething: Angry Palestinian PM rejects criticism from Jordan’s king. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei angrily denounced accusations by ...

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Michigan ACLU Sues to Halt Terrorism Database

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 6:42:49 pm PDT

The American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan is suing the state to prevent Michigan police agencies from participating in a multi-state terrorism watchlist: ACLU Sues to Halt Mich. Police Database. The lawsuit against the federally funded Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange — “Matrix” for short — was filed late Monday in Wayne ...

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The Terror Web

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 6:33:05 pm PDT

Go now and read Lawrence Wright’s riveting, frightening article in The New Yorker. The Madrid bombings were a small part of a long-term plan. Wright is one of the first mainstream journalists to recognize it: The Terror Web. (Hat tip: Beagle.) Highly recommended.

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Spain to Pay Protection Money to Mosques

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 5:37:01 pm PDT

Here’s an idea that could only have come from the terrorist-appeasing Spanish government. Realizing that the Wahhabi-funded mosques in Spain are breeding grounds for the kind of Muslims who carried out the Madrid train bombings, the Al Qaeda-backed socialists have hit on a scheme to call the Wahhabi bluff—they’ll fund ...

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Newsfeed Preferences

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 5:23:52 pm PDT

Yahoo News has been gradually expanding their RSS support, and I’ve added two of their new feeds to the list of choices in our visitor preferences page: Iraq and Middle East.

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Hamas Logic

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 5:02:34 pm PDT

In a change of tactics obviously influenced by their buddies the head-chopping mujahideen of Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Hamas has released one of those by-now-familiar Islamic videos, threatening that unless Israel stops trying to prevent them from firing missiles into Israel, they’ll fire missiles into Israel. (That’s Hamas logic.) Hamas Issues Video ...

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Blind Moonbat Teachers

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 4:46:17 pm PDT

The Education Forum, billed as “A Forum for Teachers and Educators” in the UK, discusses Michael Moore’s agitprop film Fahrenheit 911. (Hat tip: ploome.) Warning: here there be moonbats, disguised as history teachers. A typical quote: It’s not Al Qaida that is killing our men and women in Iraq, it is the ...

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Islamist Torture Fantasies

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 3:16:35 pm PDT

A British Islamofascist released from Guantanamo Bay recounts a tale of monstrous insensitivity, diabolically loud music, and heinous naked women: Guantanamo guards mocked Islam, made jokes about Koran. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Oh, the humanity! Along with other freed Britons, Dergoul had previously alleged that prison guards beat and mistreated him, but Tuesday’s ...

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Enemies with Slick Surfaces

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 2:18:54 pm PDT

Abdurahman Alamoudi, whose American Muslim Council was once described by FBI director Robert Mueller as “the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States,” and who has now pled guilty to multiple terrorism-related crimes, is the subject of a new article by Daniel Pipes: A Slick Islamist Heads to Jail. Alamoudi ...

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Got 13 in Britain

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 2:12:59 pm PDT

British Cops Nab 13 in Anti-Terror Raids. LONDON - Police conducted anti-terrorism raids in London and several towns Tuesday, arresting 13 people believed involved in preparing terrorist acts. London’s Metropolitan Police said the afternoon and evening arrests were “part of a pre-planned, on-going intelligence-led operation.” They said men were detained “on suspicion of ...

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Mecca-Cola On Sale in Israel

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 1:43:58 pm PDT

Israeli Arabs can now slake their thirst with an ice-cold non-Satanic Mecca-Cola—the Islamic cola that supports Palestinian “charities” and whose maker won’t even say the name of “Israel:” Mecca-Cola on sale in Israel. Up until now, Mecca-Cola has been distributed primarily in Islamic countries. Mecca-Cola, named after Islam’s holiest site, first hit ...

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The Wages of Appeasement

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 8:07:25 am PDT

Belmont Club points to news reports that the Islamic terror gang MILF (Mindanao Islamic Liberation Front) has been smuggling large quantities of small arms into Mindanao—in preparation for a resumption of the jihad. The scene is now set for a possible resurgence of fighting. A glance at the map dramatically illustrates ...

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Militants Killed By Activists

Tue, Aug 3, 2004 at 7:39:31 am PDT

Three Militants Killed in Gaza Explosion. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Militants attacking an Israeli armored bulldozer inadvertently killed three other Palestinians Tuesday during an Israeli operation to destroy weapons-smuggling tunnels from Egypt. The roadside bomb in the Rafah refugee camp went off a few yards from where the bulldozer was piling ...

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Monday, August 02, 2004

Jihad and "Follow-Up"

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 8:44:42 pm PDT

Here’s an especially virulent dose of Islamic supremacism, from the group claiming responsibility for this weekend’s church bombings in Iraq: Iraq Church Bombs Response to ‘Crusader War’. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - A group in Iraq claimed responsibility Monday for a series of church bombs this weekend in a statement ...

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The "Censorship" Whine

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 5:01:04 pm PDT

A constant droning mantra of the far left: they’re being censored, their speech shut down, by the dread power of ... gasp! ... evil right-wing disapproval. Steven Zak shuts down some more of their free speech in this op-ed for the Washington Times: ‘Censorship’ whining. But “fear of reprisal” — read: ...

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Irving Barred From Entering NZ

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 4:47:13 pm PDT

Jew-hating Holocaust denier David Irving has been denied entry to New Zealand—but he says he’ll visit anyway: Holocaust denier not put off by immigration ruling. Holocaust denier David Irving, expelled from Canada and Germany for hate speech, says he will come to New Zealand in spite of an Immigration ruling denying ...

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Screamin' Dean's Splinter Group

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 3:23:49 pm PDT

It’s completely obvious to everyone, as police check for truck bombs, that Howard Dean is the Kerry Campaign Attack Dog, right? Just checking. The timing of the alert raised eyebrows among some Bush administration critics. Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean questioned whether there was a political objective to the alert ...

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What's Wrong with Fahrenheit 9/11

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 3:10:59 pm PDT

Several people emailed about this great piece at Victor Davis Hanson’s site, by Joey Tartakovsky: What’s wrong with Fahrenheit 9/11? Instead of addressing Bush’s policies in any honest or serious-minded way, the film’s tactic is ridicule. In the golfing section, and in many others — the exit flight of the bin ...

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Technology vs. Savagery

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 3:04:54 pm PDT

Evil Israeli technology is being used to rob oppressed Palestinians of their age-old right to transport explosives in ambulances: IDF: Palestinian ambulances used to transport bombs. (Hat tip: Azure.) An advanced IDF explosives-detection device employed at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus discovered that a Palestinian ambulance was being used to transport ...

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Islamic Con Leader Calls for International Blasphemy Law

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 2:15:15 pm PDT

At a large Islamic conference in Britain, attended by more than 20,000 Muslims from all over Europe, the opposition leader of Pakistan’s National Assembly called for the United Nations to make defamation of Mohammed an “international crime.” BIRMINGHAM, Aug 2: Opposition Leader in National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday demanded ...

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Self-Regarding Orotund Bromidic Banality

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 10:33:38 am PDT

Mark Steyn turns the scathe-meter up to eleven in this column on Flipper’s bromidic proclivities: He was complacent, arrogant and humourless. How they loved him. The Kerry campaign seems to be the political equivalent of what they call on Broadway a “snob hit”: the longer it is, the more boring it ...

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A Small Victory - Posters

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 10:26:20 am PDT

Michele and Lisa have kindly made their “Have You Forgotten?” poster available for download in several sizes: A Small Victory - Posters.

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Kerry's Arafat Yes-Man

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 9:52:39 am PDT

David Bedein has a sobering piece for those who want to believe, in spite of all evidence, that John F. Kerry is pro-Israel. Bedein describes Kerry’s newly appointed Middle East advisor, Martin Indyk, as Kerry’s Arafat Yes-Man—and backs it up with numerous disturbing examples. In early November 2000, Arafat’s Second Intifada ...

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Palestinian Security Forces

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 8:39:42 am PDT

It’s like a Marx Brothers movie, except with grenades and guns and dead people: Gunmen Kill Suspected Collaborator in Gaza Hospital. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) GAZA (Reuters) - A Gaza jail guard hurled grenades at prisoners accused of collaborating with Israel, and militants later killed one of the wounded men in his ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Hostage

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 7:45:18 am PDT

Al-Reuters says the mujahideen in Iraq have “executed” one of their Turkish hostages: Iraq Blames Zarqawi for Bombings; Turk Executed. In a videotape of the Turk’s execution shown on Islamist Web sites, a masked man shot the hostage while he was seated. When he fell to the ground, the gunman shot ...

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Kerry's Foreign Policy Adviser: Send Nuclear Fuel to Iran

Mon, Aug 2, 2004 at 7:07:19 am PDT

John F. Kerry’s senior foreign policy adviser, James P. Rubin, says that Kerry has a brilliant plan to deal with Iran’s mad dash to obtain nuclear weapons. First, Kerry will defer to the judgment of the United Nations. Second, he will somehow magically secure nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union. And third ...

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Sunday, August 01, 2004

The Terror Gangs' Preferred Channel

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 9:29:58 pm PDT

Here’s a report that one of the Arab world’s largest banks, known oddly enough as Arab Bank, has been operating as a terrorist money-transfer facility for many years: Arab Bank preferred channel for Hamas, Islamic Jihad. I know, you’re shocked. Me too. Israeli intelligence officials claim that Arab Bank, one ...

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Drudge: GOP to Propose Eliminating IRS

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 6:25:08 pm PDT

Wow. A domestic centerpiece of the Bush/GOP agenda for a second Bush term is getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The Speaker of the House will push for replacing the nation’s current tax system with a national sales tax or a value added tax, Hill sources ...

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Kerry Sanitizes His Blog

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 5:28:09 pm PDT

Been to the Official Kerry-Edwards Blog since the Democratic Convention? Well, I hadn’t either, until Jheka asked a question: didn’t the Kerry blog used to have a link to the lair of serious dementia, Democratic Underground? Well, yes, it did. But at some point in the last week, the blog was ...

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An Easy Target

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 2:51:08 pm PDT

One of the New York buildings identified as a possible terror target by Tom Ridge this morning is the Citigroup Center, and in this photograph it’s easy to see why: the skyscraper is built on stilts. (Hat tip: Sydney Carton.)

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Kerry's Support Drops

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 1:43:23 pm PDT

A new Gallup poll shows that not only did John F. Kerry fail to get much of a pre-convention “bounce,” his support among likely voters has now dropped and he’s trailing George W. Bush: Poll: No boost for Kerry after convention. (Hat tip: William.) In the survey, taken Friday and Saturday, ...

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Good News from Afghanistan

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 12:45:35 pm PDT

Something amazing is happening in Aghanistan: 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote. KABUL, Afghanistan - Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 12:13:01 pm PDT

Palestinian girls from Islamic Jihad carry toy guns as they take part in a demonstration against the ongoing Israeli army operation in the northern Gaza Strip, at the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City, Saturday, July 31, 2004. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Rwanda Accuses France of Abetting Genocide

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 10:54:15 am PDT

According to the government of Rwanda, one of the countries John F. Kerry wants to beg for forgiveness may have aided and abetted the Hutu tribes in the murder of almost a million people: Rwanda inquiry into French role. (Hat tip: Radian.) Rwanda is to investigate France’s alleged role in the ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 10:35:32 am PDT

Now why would Jordan want high-tech air-to-air missiles from the US? And more importantly, why would the US consider selling such weaponry to them? Israel Tries to Stop U.S.-Jordan Arms Deal. (Hat tip: Sol.) JERUSALEM - Israel is trying to prevent an arms deal that would put high-tech U.S.-made air-to-air missiles ...

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The Kerry Doctrine

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 10:10:00 am PDT

In his DNC speech, John F. Kerry said: The United States of America never goes to war because we want to; we only go to war because we have to. That is the standard of our nation. In today’s Washington Post, Robert Kagan points out that this statement is utter nonsense, ...

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The Forgotten Enemy

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 9:51:50 am PDT

Michele and her sister Lisa at A Small Victory used some of the photos from my September 11 slideshow to create an excellent poster that they plan to hang on fences and telephone polls in New York, the night before Election Day.

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Coren: God Bless America

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 9:33:33 am PDT

Here’s a wonderful column from Canadian journalist Michael Coren, sick and tired of hypocritical America-bashing: God bless America. I’ve had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours. I’m tired of the America-bashing from mediocrities the world over, and the blaming of every conceivable problem on ...

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Modern Art

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 9:18:57 am PDT

That irrepressible moon god Allah points out an article at the New York Times, about a group of New York artists who have convinced themselves that their only enemy is their own government—and are actively working to incite subversion and unrest at the Republican National Convention: Art Imitates Political Life, ...

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RoP Attacks Baghdad Churches

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 8:47:01 am PDT

Cars Explode Outside Baghdad Churches; 2 Dead. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs exploded outside two Christian churches in central Baghdad Sunday, killing at least two people, wounding several more and damaging cars and buildings. A security source in Baghdad said they were suicide attacks. The first blast occurred outside an Armenian church in ...

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Kerry: No More Troops For Iraq

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 8:33:44 am PDT

John F. Kerry says he “doesn’t envision” sending any more troops to Iraq, because when he gets finished bowing and scraping to France and Belgium and Kofi Annan and the dictators of the Arab world, they’re all going to love us again: Kerry Envisions No More U.S. Troops for Iraq. ...

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ACLU: Terrorists Welcome

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 8:06:09 am PDT

The ACLU has withdrawn from a charity program, turning their backs on more than $500,000 in donations, because they refuse to check their employees’ names against a list of suspected terrorists: ACLU Withdraws From U.S. Charity Program. NEW YORK - The ACLU withdrew Saturday from a program that allows federal workers ...

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Italy Gets 15 Day Warning

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 8:00:40 am PDT

The tiny minority of Islamic extremists has issued an ultimatum to Italy: Qaeda-Linked Group Gives Italy 15 Days to Leave Iraq. DUBAI (Reuters) - A militant group claiming links to al Qaeda has given Italy a 15-day deadline to withdraw its troops from Iraq or face attacks, in a statement sent ...

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NY Target of Suicide Attacks

Sun, Aug 1, 2004 at 7:39:45 am PDT

Sources: Al Qaeda Again Targeting New York. (Hat tip: Ethel.) NEW YORK, July 31, 2004 — ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city. Sources at several law ...

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