Caroline Glick, famed columnist at the Jerusalem Post, blasts the “fantasists” in the US for once again ignoring the threats by radical Islamic leaders threatening not just Israel, but all of Western civilization.
Maher strikes out with New York Times guest in opener.
-UPDATED-Four more bombs defused in amusement park!Three bomb blasts went off in in Hyderabad, India today.Two targeted an amusement park!At least 44 are dead.A man shines a flashlight on what appears to be blood following one of the blasts.
Hezbollah supporters will be allowed to protest in Brussels on 9-11.The Brussels Journal reported:The Arab-European League (AEL) , a pro-Hezbollah organization of Arab immigrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, is
She’s betraying the country!…She’s playing on our fears!Democratic rivals are scandalized that Hillary would dare claim they are weak on terror.The Washington Post reported:WOLFEBORO, N.H., Aug.
Journey of the Vietnamese boat people…Two million Vietnamese fled their country after the US pulled support from the region.
Hamas terror leader Khaled Meshaal says that Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier they kidnapped last year after the dug a tunnel for 3 kilometers to attack a Jewish guard post outside of Gaza, is alive and well.CNN reported this news tonight:DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) — Israeli soldier Cpl.
-Updated and Bumped-You may have see politicians go at it before– But, you’ve never seen a Congressional smackdown like this!Bolivian politicians brawl in the Chamber of Deputies: That- Was Crazy!Do you suppose they got much done after that explosion on the floor?Voice of America reported on the clashes in Congress:Opposition lawmakers in the Bolivian Congress have exchanged blows with pro-government legislators in an ongoing dispute over control of the nation’s judicial branch.Fistfights broke out Wednesday as opposition lawmakers tried to stop their rivals from bringing charges against the nation’s highest court for suspending four of President Evo Morales’s judicial appointees.Lawmakers from Mr.
Babalu is updating the news.Also, check out Cuban American Pundits for updates.More…
This is just shocking!** The AP is using “friends” of the Iranian Regime as their experts to bash US policy and push the regime’s propaganda!It is always disgusting to see the lengths the media will go to push their anti-US/anti-Bush agenda but today’s use of suspected agents to bash the US is way over the line!Not only does the AP bash military officials for their statements on Iran but the AP is also using well known Iranian apologist Trita Parsi, for one, in bashing US policy on Iran:An intensifying US campaign against Iran It was Iran, warned Madeleine Albright, then-US envoy to the United Nations, that had forged a “tactical alliance” with a Somali warlord and “terrorists” in Sudan.
250 in Pakistan1500 in Iraq50 in AfghanistanEven Far Left politicians are seeing the progress.In fact…
ACTION ALERT: The UN is lining up its 2009 Anti-Racism Conference with the same collection of players that made the last Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa a shocking anti-Semitic international scandal!UN member states Libya (the Chair), Cuba, Iran and Pakistan will meet at the Second Durban Preparatory Committee in Geneva on, August 27, 2007 to make preparations for this next disgusting Jew-bashing conference planned for 2009.As Iranian Fars News reported- Iran is very excited about leading this next UN racism conference.
33 Schools Built- 48 apartment buildings, schools, commercial buildings and parking lots completed in Baghdad- Electricity situation improvesCapt.
The Investigating Officer in the LCpl Stephen Tatum case has recommended that all charges be dismissed!Defend Our Marines has the latest developments in the case.** HERE is the investigating officer’s report.The Washington Post reported the news yesterday:An investigating officer has recommended that a Marine Corps general drop all charges against a Marine accused of murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, finding again that the 2005 shootings were “tragedies” but that the Marine did not violate the laws of combat.Lt.
Doug Ross takes a look at the politics versus reality of the surveilance programs and noticed this blurb by National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell:Even as he shed new light on the classified operations, McConnell asserted that the current debate in Congress about whether to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will cost American lives because of all the information it revealed to terrorists.”Part of this is a classified world.
A German Opposition leader called for the “immediate stop of weapons deliveries to Zionist regime” today.The Iranian Republic News Agency reported:A leading lawmaker of the opposition The Left (Die Linke) party here Thursday called for an “immediate stop of weapons deliveries to Zionist regime” in a bid to de-escalate the ongoing Mideast conflict.
The National Intelligence Estimate was released today.The mainstream media was quick to pounce on specifics of the plan that they hope to use to continue to shape public opinion against the war.
The regime in Iran held a public flogging this week to further terrorize the people into submission.Kamangir posted photos from the event including this one of the Iranian children.(Warning- the photos are not easy to look at.)The Daily Mail has the story on the public flogging.But, they didn’t show the children in the crowd.Two police officers hold the legs of 25-year-old Saeed Ghanbari and another his arms to ensure there is no escape from the punishment of 80 lashes handed down by a religious court.
O Jerusalem, based on the novel by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins dramatizing early events in the founding of the State of Israel, opens in New York theatres on October 17th.J.
US Soldiers arrested a terrorist dressed as a pregnant woman along the Euphrates River on Monday.We’ve seen this before, most recently by Maulana Abdul Aziz at the Red Mosque in Pakistan- pictured here being defrocked.MNF-I reported: AL-OWESAT, Iraq — Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 14th infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., detained several men during an air assault mission along the Euphrates River, Aug.
Bar the doors…
Vlad Putin is making headlines with his bare-chested glamor shots that were taken while he was on vacation in Siberia.Lao in Southeast Asia noticed something interesting about the pictures…A crucifix around Vlad’s neck.Obviously, Russia has deep roots in Christianity, still it is interesting to see a former KGB operative wearing a crucifix.A Christianist in the Kremlin— Uncle Joe must be tossing in his grave.
** Slick Willy gets busted in another lie.Captain’s Quarters catches this nugget from Newsweek on Bill Clinton’s exaggerated non-attempts to “kill” Osama bin Laden:The report also criticized intelligence problems when Bill Clinton was president, detailing political and legal “constraints” agency officials felt in the late 1990s.
Hot for Vlad!August 15, 2007REPUBLIC OF TUVA.
Ambassador Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, responds today to the anti-Israel accusations by the liberal antiwar authors of a new book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.Here is background on this latest anti-Israel book that is being promoted by liberal websites like (surprise!) Daily Kos: In their new book entitled The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy to be published this September 4, Professors Stephen Walt (Harvard) and John Mearsheimer (U Chicago) are resurrecting their argument from last year that US foreign policy has been hijacked by supporters of Israel, who are undermining the US national interest.
A new low for Hugo…Quake aid has stench of Chavez.A Second Hand Conjecture has the latest on Hugo’s rotten tuna caper.The labels’ text acclaimed the “solidarity” of Chavez and Humala with quake victims, while bemoaning the “looting, road blockages, desperation and chaos” in Peru, according to Expreso, which published a photo of a can and the text of a label.El Universal has more on the tuna can clashes.And, more HERE.Garcia is a strong ally of the US while Humala is seen as a Chavez lackey:Mr Garcia, a strong US ally, was elected president last year in a runoff against Ollanta Humala, an ex-colonel whom Garcia repeatedly branded a Chavez lackey, and whose image also appears on the divisive tuna tins.
The Arabs may want to wipe Israel off the map but they sure dig that Hebrew porn!Religion of Peace and ANSAmed reported:(ANSAmed) – TEL AVIV, AUGUST 22 – Despite the diplomatic ice reigning between the respective governments, Israeli erotic sites are reaping enormous success among the Internet surfers of the Arab countries.
Pro-US Freedom’s Watch with help from Vigilant Freedom released several videos to support the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan:Today, those of us who believe we must win the war on terror have an extraordinary opportunity.
Surprise, Surprise: Clinton Doesn’t Appeal to All Women…
Iran denied reports today that it dropped leaflets from helicopters warning locals to evacuate ahead of an Iranian military offensive against Kurdish rebels.The leaflets said that Iran was ready to “cleanse” the area.PKK fighters attend a training session in Northern Iraq, June 2007.
THIS COULD BE HUGE!Did the Iraqi Baathists just surrender???Just as democrats were getting geared up for another surrender vote on Iraq–Former Iraqi Baathists announced that they will join Coalition forces and battle Al-Qaeda in Iraq!Izzat so?Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was voted(?) to replace Saddam Hussein as the leader of the Iraqi Baathist Party after Saddam’s drop, has announced that he will join the Coalition forces in Iraq.ADN Kronos reported:Baghdad, 22 August (AKI) – The leader of Iraq’s banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party’s former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
Young drag queens get stoned in Nigeria!A man throws a stone at riot police called in to disperse protesters shouting abuse at men on trial for dressing as women in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, August 21, 2007.
Nuance?Since the liberal media is now making soldier suicide their latest talking point against the war, it’s only fair that we take a look at the real picture.Last week the mainstream media reported that: “US Army soldiers are committing suicide at the highest rates in 26 years, as last year 99 active troops committed suicide.” To liberals, this was another reason America should declare defeat in Iraq.But, lets take a closer look at the numbers:Click to EnlargeFrom page 11 of the CRS Report to Congress (pdf)-Hat Tip BGIf you look at the numbers you see that the total official number of suicides in the military last year was 155.
The Pelosi Swamp continues to tumble to new depths of public disgust.Here’s one explanation.
The New York Times was spinning the truth on household incomes yesterday to fit their anti-Bush agenda.Glenn Reynolds linked to several posts discussing this anti-Bush agenda-driven journalism at the NY Times.Bizzyblog: New York Times Twists Data to Make Great Personal Income News Appear AwfulBack Talk:Misleading Income Statistics, Courtesy of the New York TimesAs John Wixted reported, excluding the top wage earners, the country has done extremely well during the Bush years:There is more here.
Fred Thompson was in Missouri today.
Islam Watch offers a few suggestions to keep your society free from public stonings of homosexuals and adulterers.Miss Kelly and the BBC offer photo essays on hijabs.
The Khaleej Times and ROP reported on this Iraqi hero who saved the lives of 4 American soldiers and 8 Iraqis:Baghdad : An Iraqi civilian has saved four US soldiers and eight Iraqis by getting in the way of a suicide attacker, the US military command reported Tuesday.The man was killed in the blast when the attacker rushed on a meeting Saturday between the US soldiers and members of a form of civilian defence force in Arafiyah in south Baghdad, the statement said.”If he hadn’t intercepted him, there is no telling how bad it could have been,” one of the soldiers saved by the man’s actions was quoted as saying.The US military also killed five suspected insurgents on Saturday in the southeast of the city, the report said.
We’re starting to get the picture on Obama’s foreign policy:Friends- Bomb.Foes- Coddle.
Palestinians play go fetch the rocket launcher with two children.The body of Fadi Al Kfarna, 11, is seen in a morgue in the northern Gaza Strip August 21, 2007.
“We’re sorry!”They sound like decent people.NGEX reported:The descendants of cannibals in Papua New Guinea, held a ceremony of reconciliation, attended by thousands,where they said sorry for their forefathers’ actions.
The jailed drag queens could still get from 1 to 30 lashes with a horsewhip for their cross dressing!(From 1 to 30 lashes…
American scholar Dr.
Now that is a good psychic!500 are kidnapped by a “psychic” in Iran.How did he do it?…
According to federal agents, passengers have seen the two men on several occasions acting strangely aboard Washington State ferries.National Terror Alert has the latest.Update: Michelle Malkin has more on the ferry riders.
Well, someone is certainly out of touch with American conservatives…It’s just too bad he’s also the chairman of the Republican National Committee!!Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., center, chit-chats with with Sen.
For supposedly hating America and Bush so darned much…
Does this explains Hillary’s fake black accent?Presidential hopeful Sen.
Another day…
The Washington Post today writes about the Bush plan to promote global democracy as outlined in his courageous 2005 Inauguration Address.This democracy plan, you would think, would be something that both parties could agree upon.
UPDATE: Jawa Report posted the video!!Criminal influences on young Muslims…Justin Timberlake, David Beckham and Puff Daddy are targeted in a new video released this week by a radical Islamic website that promotes attacks on Westerners.News of the World reported that soccer stars David Beckham and Wayne Rooney and music stars Justin Timberlake and P Daddy are the targets of a new Al Qaeda murder plot (via AKI): A terrifying internet video call to action for supporters of Osama bin Laden also fingers ex-Arsenal striker Thierry Henry for assassination.
ADN Kronos reported on the growing Islamophobia in the UK:London, 20 August (AKI) – Britons are more suspicious of Muslims than Americans and other Europeans, according to a poll for the Financial Times newspaper published on Monday.
Elvira Arellano is finally sent back to Mexico.Arellano was arrested in Los Angeles after she left her Chicago church sanctuary to attend an immigrant/amnesty protest.This was written by pesosforcongress at YouTube:Arellano illegally entered the U.S.
Kesher Talk saw this in a truck in Hoboken, NJ the other day…Just wondering…
Earlier today Iranian Bazteb News reported on the downed chopper in northwest Iran near the Iraqi border:The Iranian regime reported that weather took down the chopper.Voice of Iraq News reported that the chopper was shot down by a Kurdish faction.6 or 11 Iranian Guards members died in the attack depending on the report.However the chopper came down, we know one thing for sure…This wasn’t it.This is a photo of a downed Lebanese helicopter back in May 2006.Related…
The Russian communists may think the dictators in Cuba and Venezuela are super……But, the opposition members in Venezuela clearly oppose the latest move by the Marxist Chavez to obtain absolute power.
This doesn’t sound too promising…Author Barry Rubin writes that radical Islam has now reached a critical mass in the Middle East in his article today at the GLORIA Center:What has happened now, however, is that radical Islamism has reached a critical mass.
Young “climate change protesters” attacked an Israeli warehouse yesterday near the Heathrow Airport outside of London where they are campaigning against Heathrow’s planned expansion.
Flight 93 hero’s family wants their son’s name removed from the planned Islamic Hijacker Memorial.Thomas E.
