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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Opie & Anthony Blast Sharpton For Exploiting Jackson Death
Washington Not At Work: So Many House Staffers Watching MJ Memorial That House Internet Starts Running Slowly
Politico reports "that the Committee on House Administration's House Technology Director sent out the following email message to House staffers: 'Just as an fyi the internet is slow as a result of the MJ Memorial Service. A notice will soon be posted on Housenet.'"
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Al Gore Compares The Battle Against Climate Change With The Struggle Against The Nazis
The London Times reported that "Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis. The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change. … Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: 'Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.' He added: 'We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.'"
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Former U.S. Delegate To The U.N. Human Rights Commission On "Obama And Palestine"
Jeff Robbins served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva during the Clinton Administration. He writes that "the refusal of Palestinian politicians, academics and clerics to stipulate that they accept a permanent Jewish state existing next to a Palestinian state is, of course, at once a dirty little secret and the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to the debate over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict... The Administration's purposeful distancing of itself from Israel is likely to empower those who have always believed, and who continue to believe, that in the fullness of time, American support for Israel can be degraded, and with it Israel's ability to survive. Those in the Arab world who have counseled that that is the case—and there are many of them—will take the Administration's insistence that it wishes to be "an honest broker" as evidence that, at long last, American support for Israel has begun to erode, and that it is only a matter of time before it is no longer necessary for them to pretend that it is a two-state solution in which they are interested. If this proves to be the case, the Obama Administration, while intending to be helpful, will have inadvertently dealt whatever prospects exist for Middle East peace a serious blow."
Read the full article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124693682423904037.html?mod=googlenews_wsj to get a full picture of how the Palestinians have refused to even recognize the right of a permanent Jewish state in the Middle East.
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Congresswoman's Ridiculous Resolution To Honor Michael Jackson Referred To House Foreign Affairs Committee
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The Hill reports on its online blog that "the full text of that resolution has been published, and it's…long. The legislation lists Jackson's accomplishments in endless detail, from his #1 hits to the details of his charity work." After concluding the litany of Jackson's accomplishments, and notably making no mention of the less than stellar chapters in his life, the legislation resolves that Congress "(1) recognizes Michael Jackson as a global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises; and (2) celebrates Michael Jackson as an accomplished contributor to the worlds of arts and entertainment, scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, and global food security." To read the full text of the resolution visit http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.RES.600:. This resolution would be in addition to the moment of silence the House already held for Jackson.
It is amazing that the seat of America's government has given a moment of silence, in essence extolling the virtues, of an undeserving figure. It is the symbolism of the act that is bothersome, and that politicians felt it was necessary. Did the House give a moment of silence when John Wayne died? Bob Hope? Have celebrities that lived lives that did not make them a living circus act get moments of silence as well? If this is a common occurence, then perhaps Jackson getting his would be less troublesome, though not all together excusable. Now a Congresswoman plans to add to the already excessive lionization of this freakish figure with a joke of a resolution.
People need to remember that in the early '90s Jackson paid millions of dollars worth of hush money to keep a family from going to trial on child molestation charges. This did not end the child molestation charges. He was later accused of molesting another child, though this second time he went to trial and was acquitted by the jury. He was disturbed on many levels and in no way deserves the over the top media attention that he is getting, the moment of silence in the House of Representatives, or the proposed House resolution. Even CNN's Howard Kurtz said the coverage of Jackson's death was "out of control" and "embarrassing" to the news business. STEVELACKNER.COM therefore expresses a widely held yet unheard sentiment, the sense of disgust about the unending coverage of the death of this human deformity.
We know for a fact that he thought it was perfectly fine to share his bed with children and that he did so. He dangled a baby from a hotel window. He surgically mutilated himself. He erased any sign of his race. This is a disturbed person, not somebody that should be suddenly lifted up as some role model, as some great American hero, or as someone deserving of this absurd amount of attention.
What does it say about our society and culture that Michael Jackson is attracting this kind of attention? It's actually sad. People should be mourning the death of the media before our eyes, not Jackson. The death of a society with any sense of priority and values, not Jackson.
Clearly Jackson means a great deal to lots of people, but that in and of itself is somewhat disturbing because he is not deserving of that kind of adulation. Even if he does mean a great deal to lots of people, that is no excuse for the nonstop media coverage, especially cable news. If ratings alone determined the news, they should be showing topless women wrestling in jello on the news channels. It is a disgrace to the news business. It is concerning that every other story has taken a back seat to Jackson. When the media as a whole displays a complete lack of responsibility in reporting the news it is the job of good citizens to voice opposition.
The point is that so many, especially the media and politicians, are glorifying this man when he is completely undeserving. This is media malpractice, the unending coverage of Michael Jackson's death, as if nothing else is going on in the world of greater importance. Jackson died on June 25th, and it is now July 7th and all we hear about is Jackson, Jackson, Jackson. And the fact that the House of Representatives gave him a moment of silence is, as Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth from Kentucky said, "close to nauseating" and "outrageous."
I support more men in Washington and elsewhere raising their voices, as Republican Congressman Pete King already has, to condemn the excessive media attention and the glorification by political leaders of Michael Jackson. I don't advocate outside control of the media, but I do condemn the lack of responsibility the media itself has displayed.
Feel free to leave your comments.
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Sarah Palin Media Appearances Regarding Her Resignation
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Dennis Prager: "Whether The Movement Toward Left-Wing Authoritarianism Is Finally Defeated In A Latin American Country Is Extremely Significant"
Talk show host Dennis Prager writes an article on the situation in Honduras that is worth reading. To read the article visit http://townhall.com/Columnists/DennisPrager/2009/07/07/obama_is_in_russia,_but_honduras_is_where_the_action_is?page=full&comments=true.
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South Carolina Republicans Vote To Censure Sanford
Fox News reports that "After a 3 hour marathon meeting, the South Carolina Republican party leadership voted to officially admonish, or censure, GOP Governor Mark Sanford over his affair with his Argentine mistress Maria Belen Chapur This is the first time in history that the South Carolina Republican party has voted to censure an elected party official... 'Hopefully, we can move on,' the SC GOP leader said."
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Preacher Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri Calls On U.S. "President Hussein" To Acknowledge That The Jews Carried Out 9/11 In Friday Sermon On Sudan TV
In a Friday sermon at Khartoum, which aired on Sudan TV on June 5, 2009, Sheik Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri called on President Obama "to examine publications issued in America, casting doubt on whether it was the Arabs and Muslims who attacked the two Manhattan buildings... We consider this to be a Jewish conspiracy. 4,000 Jews were absent from work in this usury center – these two buildings in Manhattan were the World Usury Center. 4,000 Jews were absent from work, so that 4,00 Americans would die. The [Americans] must study the issue of 9/11, so they can apologize for it, just like they apologized for the invasion of Iraq."
To watch the full Middle East Media Research Institute video visit
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2166.htm.
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Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abd Al-Raouf Al-Rawabdeh: "Israel Is A Cancerous Body" That Must Be Eradicated
The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by former Jordanian prime minister Abd Al-Raouf Al-Rawabdeh, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on June 27, 2009:
"Israel is a cancerous body. This is agreed upon. Usually, you confront a cancerous body in one of two ways: If you have the power, you use it to eradicate the cancer. But if you don't have the power, you try to contain the danger, until you obtain the power you need in order to eradicate it."
To see the video for yourself visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2167.htm.
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Wall Street Journal Interactive Graphic Provides Key Events Leading To Former President Manuel Zelaya Being Removed From Office
If you are not aware of the background to what is going in Honduras and would like the key events leading to this showdown between the current interim government of that country and the entire international community excluding only Israel and Taiwan, visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124689010867200773.html#project%3DHonduras0906%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive.
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State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly: "I Certainly Would Not Want To Give A Green Light To Any Kind Of Military Action" By Israel Against Iran
The AFP reports that "the Obama administration poured cold water Monday on any notion it is giving Israel the green light to attack Iran or that it is reconsidering plans to engage diplomatically with the Islamic republic. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the United States would not stand in the way of Israel in its dealings with Iran's nuclear ambitions. But State Department spokesman Ian Kelly rebuffed suggestions from reporters that Biden could be seen as giving the Jewish state a green light to attack Iran, which it views as an existential threat. 'I certainly would not want to give a green light to any kind of military action,' Kelly said, repeating Biden's point that Washington considered Israel a 'sovereign country' with a right to make its own military decisions. 'We're not going to dictate its actions,' Kelly added. 'We're also committed to Israel's security. And we share Israel's deep concerns about Iran's nuclear program,' the spokesman said. He also refuted any idea that President Barack Obama's administration would drop its policy to engage diplomatically with Iran."
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Washington Examiner: Government-Forced Contracts Are Card Check's Real Threat
F. Vincent Vernuccio writes in the Washington Examiner that "the Employee Free Choice Act includes a Card Check section to eliminate the secret ballot in union organization elections. The outcry against this antidemocratic process may result in its removal. But even with Card Check removed, the most insidious section of the bill will still remain. Card Check's third section, innocuously called 'Facilitating Initial Collective Bargaining Agreements,' would go much further than simply 'facilitating.' It would allow the government to impose a contract on many businesses and workers who would otherwise negotiate terms for themselves." To read the full article visit http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Government-forced-contracts-are-Card-Check_s-real-threat-7905737-49532997.html.
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Top KGB Defector Says U.S. Still Target For Moscow
Obama has returned to the 1980's Democrat idea of nuclear disarmament. The AP reports that "Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev confidently committed to a year-end deal to slash nuclear stockpiles by about a third on Monday, but the U.S. leader failed to crack stubborn Kremlin objections to America's missile defense plans - a major stumbling block to such an agreement."
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As California Burns, Lawmakers Apologize To Chinese Workers Of The 19th Century
Last week California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the legislature for debating cow tails while the state went bankrupt. Apparently they did not heed his advice and get to work on the pressing issues that face California. The Sacramento Bee reports on the legislature passing a resolution apologizing for the treatment of Chinese workers in the 1800s, writing that "Assembly Concurrent Resolution 42 calls for an apology for forcing the Chinese to pay higher taxes on gold than whites; barring them from holding certain jobs, owning property or testifying in trials; and segregating them and forbidding them from marrying whites or bringing family from China. California politicians, the authors also note, were instrumental in persuading Congress to pass the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred more Chinese immigration."
Nobody denies that the Chinese and others were treated poorly in the 19th century, but now is not the time for lawmakers to be debating cow tails or passing symbolic resolutions. The living citizens of the Golden State elected their legislature to deal with today's problems, and California has no shortage of very big problems. If they were going to apologize, these lawmakers should be apologizing to their constituents for the utter incompetence they continue to display. The California legislature is the perfect picture of the completely dysfunctional liberal legislative body.
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Hillary Clinton To Meet With Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya This Week
The AP reports that "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this week as the Obama administration weighs responses to his ouster. The talks planned for Tuesday would be the administration's highest-level contact with Zelaya" since the Honduran army removed him from power on orders from the Supreme Court, allowing the head of the Congress to become the interim president. The AP reports that "Zelaya met with two senior U.S. diplomats in Washington on Sunday after the Organization of American States suspended" the membership of Honduras in that body. Zelaya got as close as several hundred feet above the Tegucigalpa airport on Sunday but had to turn away because of obstacles placed on the runway on orders of the interim government. Zelaya was in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua on Monday after a late Sunday news conference in El Salvador in which he urged world leaders to return him to power.
The U.S. has already limited military-to-military contacts with Honduras and frozen programs that directly aid the Honduran government. The Obama administration has so far not yet triggered an automatic suspension of all non-humanitarian American assistance to Honduras.
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Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Announced That They Have Taken Control Of All State Security Functions
The Los Angeles Times reports that "the top leaders of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard publicly acknowledged they had taken over the nation’s security and warned late Sunday that there was no middle ground in the ongoing dispute over the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a threat against a reformist wave led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the elite military branch, said the Guard’s takeover of the country had led to a revival of the revolution and clarification of the value positions of the establishment at home and abroad.' … Jafari’s comments came the closest yet to publicly acknowledging what government supporters describe as a heroic intervention by the Revolutionary Guard and critics decry as a palace 'coup d’etat' instigated by military elites loyal to Khamenei. But instead of bowing to such pressure, opposition figures and protesters are preparing for massive nationwide rallies called for Thursday, the 10th anniversary of a 1999 attack by pro-government militiamen on the dormitories of Tehran University that led to weeks of political unrest."
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Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara Dies At 93
The Washington Post reported on its website that Robert McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington. McNamara was defense secretary under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1968, when he became president of the World Bank, a post he held until 1981.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
NY Times: "Most Important Group Of Religious Leaders In Iran Called The Disputed Presidential Election And The New Government Illegitimate"
The New York Times reports that "the most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment. A statement by the group, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum, represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult — if not impossible. 'This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,' said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. 'Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.'"
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The London Times Claims The Saudis Would Allow Israel To Use Its Airspace To Attack Iran
The London Times writes that the "head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites. Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad’s director since 2002, held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility. The Israeli press has already carried unconfirmed reports that high-ranking officials, including Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, held meetings with Saudi colleagues. The reports were denied by Saudi officials. 'The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,' a diplomatic source said last week."
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Honduran President Roberto Micheletti: Nicaraguan Troops Are Gathering At The Border
Reuters reports that "Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti said on Sunday Nicaraguan troops were moving to the mutual frontier and urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to respect Honduran sovereignty. He gave no further details about troop movements in Nicaragua which shares a border with Honduras to the southeast of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa. His comments came as ousted President Manuel Zelaya attempted to fly home a week after he was ousted in a coup. Zelaya is a left-wing ally of Ortega and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez." The AP reports that Zelaya said he could not land at the main Honduras airport because soldiers were blocking the runway with several military vehicles. The pilot of his Venezuelan plane circled around the airport and decided that landing is "totally impossible" because of the trucks in the way.
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Honduras Defies International Community: Loses Membership In OAS And Keeps Zelaya From Landing In Honduran Airport
The AP reports that "ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the interim government in power" since the army sent him into exile under order of the Honduran Supreme Court a week ago. The AP reports that "the interim government said it ordered the military to prevent the landing of a plane carrying Zelaya or any unidentified plane... In Washington, the Organization of American States suspended Honduras as a member late Saturday. Micheletti preemptively pulled out of the OAS hours earlier rather than comply with an ultimatum that Zelaya be restored." Reuters reports that this "was the strongest move yet by foreign governments to isolate the caretaker government."
The Wall Street Journal's reporting is one of the most clear on this story. It does not mindlessly declare the events in Honduras "Central America's first coup since the Cold War era," as does Reuters. Rather it explains in its news article that "Mr. Zelaya wanted to hold a referendum on whether voters wanted to change the constitution. The vote was declared illegal by Honduras' Supreme Court, but the president vowed to press on. Last Sunday, the day the referendum was set to take place, soldiers stormed the presidential residence and seized the leader at gunpoint. Congress later swore in Roberto Micheletti, the president of Congress."
"The government of President (Roberto) Micheletti has order the armed forces and the police not to allow the entrance of any plane bringing the former leader," the foreign minister of the interim government, Enrique Ortez, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "I have given orders that he not be allowed back. We cannot allow recklessness," he told local radio.
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Top Aide To Iran’s Supreme Leader Calls Mousavi A U.S. Agent Saying He Should Be Tried For Crimes Against The Nation
The Associated Press reports that a "top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and said in an editorial Saturday he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation. While hard-line figures had previously demanded Mir Hossein Mousavi to be prosecuted for describing Iran's June 12 elections fraudulent and leading demonstrations afterward, the editorial was the first public declaration that the opposition leader was a foreign agent."
"It has to be asked whether the actions of (Mousavi and his supporters) are in response to instructions of American authorities," said Hossein Shariatmadari in the editorial. He added that Mousavi was trying to "escape punishment for murdering innocent people, holding riots, cooperating with foreigners and acting as America's fifth column inside the country." He called for Mousavi and former reformist president Mohammad Khatami to be tried in court for "horrible crimes and treason," adding that there were "undeniable documents" proving Mousavi's foreign links.
The AP also reports that "on Friday, another powerful hardline cleric said that Iran would put detained local employees of the British embassy on trial for being involved in the demonstrations, in a further effort to prove foreign elements were behind the unrest... There have been no street protests since Sunday, but Mousavi has maintained his opposition to the results, issuing a defiant statement on Wednesday that he considered the government illegitimate and demanded political prisoners be released."
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Sarah Palin Resigning As Governor Of Alaska
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wall Street Journal Editorial Explains Why Norm Coleman Lost His Senate Seat
The Wall Street Journal writes (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640687950076679.html) that "the unfortunate lesson" from the outcome of Al Franken becoming Minnesota's Senator "is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact. Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total." The Journal writes that "the team's real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs... What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right... Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact... Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them."
The Wall Street Journal further points out that this is "now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt for 'new' Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team."
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American Soldier In Taliban Hands In Afghanistan
Is it not sad that Michael Jackson gets more attention by our media than a story like this?
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John Bolton On The "Post-American Presidency" Of Obama And How It's Time For An Israeli Strike On Iran
John Bolton's article "Time for an Israeli Strike?" appeared in the Washington Post today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103020.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns. Bolton persuasively argues that "with Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever... Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel is undoubtedly ratcheting forward its decision-making process. President Obama is almost certainly not... First,Tehran isn't going to negotiate in good faith. It hasn't for the past six years with the European Union as our surrogates, and it won't start now... Second, given Iran's nuclear progress, even if the stronger sanctions Obama has threatened could be agreed upon, they would not prevent Iran from fabricating weapons and delivery systems when it chooses, as it has been striving to do for the past 20 years. Time is too short, and sanctions failed long ago. Only those most theologically committed to negotiation still believe Iran will fully renounce its nuclear program. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has a 'Plan B,' which would allow Iran to have a "peaceful" civil nuclear power program while publicly 'renouncing' the objective of nuclear weapons. Obama would define such an outcome as 'success,' even though in reality it would hardly be different from what Iran is doing and saying now... Since there is no likelihood that diplomacy will start or finish in time, or even progress far enough to make any real difference, there is no point waiting for negotiations to play out... Those who oppose Iran acquiring nuclear weapons are left in the near term with only the option of targeted military force against its weapons facilities. Significantly, the uprising in Iran also makes it more likely that an effective public diplomacy campaign could be waged in the country to explain to Iranians that such an attack is directed against the regime, not against the Iranian people. This was always true, but it has become even more important to make this case emphatically, when the gulf between the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the citizens of Iran has never been clearer or wider. Military action against Iran's nuclear program and the ultimate goal of regime change can be worked together consistently. Otherwise, be prepared for an Iran with nuclear weapons, which some, including Obama advisers, believe could be contained and deterred. That is not a hypothesis we should seek to test in the real world. The cost of error could be fatal."
Another piece by the always persuasive and thoughtful former ambassador to the United Nations is entitled "The Post-American Presidency." In the lengthy essay he writes that "Obama is the first post-American President. Central to his worldview is rejecting American exceptionalism and the consequences that flow therefrom." That can be read by visiting http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/the-post-american-presidency-features-july-09-john-bolton-obama.
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London Times: Iranian "Opposition Leaders Flagrantly Courted Arrest Yesterday By Denouncing President Ahmadinejad’s Government As Illegitimate"
TimesOnline reports that "three of Iran’s most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejad’s Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was tantamount to a coup. 'It’s not yet too late,' he declared on his website. 'It is our historical responsibility to continue our protests to defend the rights of the people . . . and prevent the blood spilt by hundreds of thousands of martyrs from leading to a police state.' Ayatollah Mohammed Khatami, 65, a popular former President, accused the regime of mounting a 'velvet revolution against the people and democracy' and called the security crackdown 'poisonous'. Mehdi Karroubi, 72, another defeated presidential candidate, said that 'visible and invisible forces blocked any change in the executive power'. He added: 'I will continue the fight under any circumstances and using every means.' The regime responded by shutting down his newspaper. One Iranian analyst expressed astonishment at their audacity. 'It looks like they’re trying to become living martyrs,' he said."
To read the full article visit To read more visit http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6618756.ece.
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Taliban Buying Children For Suicide Bombings
The Washington Times reports that "Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say."
To read more visit http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/taliban-buying-children-to-serve-as-suicide-bomber/.
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Honduras Defies U.S. Requests: "Israel And Taiwan Have Said They Support Us, And I Have Faith That Other Governments Will Follow"
Rueters reports that "the Honduran administration has so far rebuffed any attempts to bring back" President Manuel Zelaya. Interim leader Roberto Micheletti argued the ouster of Zelaya was legal as it was ordered by the Supreme Court to stop Zelaya from trying to extend the presidential four-year term-limit. They say Zelaya was himself acting illegally. One of several clauses that cannot be legally altered in the Honduran constitution limits presidents to a single, 4-year term, and the Congress of Honduras said Zelaya, whose term ends in January, modified a ballot question at the last minute to help him eventually try to seek re-election. Zelaya's popularity dipped to around 30 percent in polls recently as he was pushing for the illegal referendum that the Honduran Supreme Court said violated the country's constitution. Chavez, whom Zelaya strongly supports, has used referendums in Venezuela to win the right to run repeatedly. Micheletti was named by the Honduran Congress to replace Zelaya, not by the military, and Micheletti is from the same political party as Zelaya. He was the head of the Congress of Honduras. He said that Zelaya could be met with an arrest warrant if he returned and warned that the only way his predecessor will return to office is through a foreign invasion. He told the Associated Press that “no one can make me resign,” stating that removal of Zelaya was not a coup but a "constitutional succession." He has pledged to go ahead with the presidential election scheduled for the end of November and has even told reporters he would be "in total agreement" with bringing forward the November 29 presidential election "if it would be a way of resolving these problems."
"Israel and Taiwan have said they support us, and I have faith that other governments will follow," Michelletti has also said. Israel and Taiwan are so far the only two countries in the world to express support for the current government of Honduras.
The Supreme Court of Honduras is also defending its decision. Supreme Court Justice Rosalinda Cruz said in an interview that “[t]he only thing the armed forces did was carry out an arrest order. There’s no doubt he was preparing his own coup by conspiring to shut down the congress and courts.” She said that “some say it was not Zelaya, but Chavez governing.” The arrest order she cited was approved unanimously by the court’s 15 justices. I strongly recommend the Christian Science Monitor article below explaining the legal background, written by a lawyer who is a former presidential adviser (2002-05) and minister of culture (2005-06) of the Republic of Honduras.
The New York Times reports that the chief lawyer for the armed forces held up a detention order signed by a Supreme Court judge and insisted that what soldiers carried out over the weekend when they detained President Manuel Zelaya was no coup d’état. “A coup is a political move,” the lawyer, Col. Herberth Bayardo Inestroza Membreño, said Tuesday night in an interview. “It requires the armed forces to assume power over the country, which didn’t happen, and it has to break the rule of law, which didn’t happen either.”
The L.A. Times reports that while "Zelaya addressed a supportive United Nations audience in New York, Hondurans in Tegucigalpa were demonstrating against and, in smaller numbers, in favor of the deposed leftist leader. In Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, several thousand opponents of Zelaya filled a downtown square waving blue-and-white Honduran flags and denouncing Zelaya's ties to Latin American leftists, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez... 'It wasn't a coup!' the crowd chanted. 'Democracy, yes! Communism, no!'" Apparently the United Nations disagreed as the a unanimous vote Tuesday by the U.N. General Assembly condemned Honduras. This would be far from the first time the United Nations was wrong.
"They have only listened to (Zelaya) abroad, they haven't listened to the population. But that doesn't matter. We will continue alone," said Adela Guevara, a hotel worker. How right this hotel worker is.
The AP reports that the Obama administration said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest the military action that forced President Manuel Zelaya into exile. At the State Department, spokesman Ian C. Kelly said the department's top diplomat for the Americas, Thomas Shannon, met with the Chavez-wannabe Zelaya at OAS headquarters on Tuesday evening. Zelaya thanked the administration for supporting his unconditional return to power. The Obama administration appeared to be counting on the threat of Honduras having its OAS membership suspended as leverage in getting Zelaya back in power. The OAS, which groups most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere including the United States, has given the interim leader until Saturday to restore Zelaya or be suspended from the body. Further, the U.S. has suspended some aid to Honduras. "We’ve taken some actions to hit the pause button on assistance programs which we would be legally required to terminate” if the events in Honduras are found to have been a military coup under American law, Kelly told reporters in Washington.
"I'm surprised that Barack Obama is not better informed," retired Honduran Col. Natanael Guevara, 56, said, referring to U.S. condemnation of Honduras for removing Zelaya. "If Honduras falls, Central America falls and then Mexico. I'm ready to put my uniform back on if it means defending my country from Hugo Chavez."
Barack Obama has been meddling on behalf of a Chavez wannabe, but refused to be seen as "meddling" in the Iranian rigged election in which the Islamic fascist dictatorship was killing protestors in the streets. Obama is a bit confused, he has got it backwards. Any time an American president takes the side of the UN-Chavez-Castro-Ortega gang, it should send off alarm signals that something is very wrong. Obama himself refused to sound the alarm immediately in response to Iran's dictatorial brutality, yet immediately sounded the alarm regarding Honduras's removal of Zelaya where in fact there may be no cause for concern at all.
The following are a few more opinion pieces explaining the situation, demonstrating a chorus of criticism of Obama:
1. Washington Post, "Honduras's Coup Is President Zelaya's Fault," by the director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute Alvaro Vargas Llosa, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103210.html
2. Christian Science Monitor, "A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense," by former presidential adviser (2002-05) and minister of culture (2005-06) of Honduras Octavio Sánchez, at http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0702/p09s03-coop.html
3.New York Post, "A Coup To Protect A Constitution," by the Heritage Foundation's Ray Walser, at http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/a_coup_to_protect_a_constitution_176799.htm
4. New York Daily News, "Obama 'meddles' in Honduras -- and chooses the wrong side," by assistant editor of The New Republic James Kirchick, at
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/02/2009-07-02_obama_meddles_in_honduras__and_chooses_the_wrong_side.html
5. Wall Street Journal, "Honduras Defends Its Democracy," by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html
6. National Review Editorial, "The Honduran Counter-Coup," at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Njg4MTU5NzU0OTNkYWZlZjk2ZWZkYzcwNDc0Y2ViMjY=
7. The Weekly Standard, "A Coup for Democracy," by Jaime Daremblum, at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/678eepbj.asp
The following are a couple photos from some of the anti-Zelaya protests:
The message on the American flag below reads: "Obama, help us to defend our democracy, constitution and freedom. Do not support the following Chavez":
Supporters of Honduras leader Roberto Micheletti holding a copy of their constitution:
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Washington Post Selling Lobbyists Access To White House
Politico reports "for $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to 'those powerful few — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health-care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its 'health care reporting and editorial staff.' The offer—which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters—is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival."
This is what Robert Gibbs had to say about this in today's press briefing:
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Study Finds Only 3.5% Of Public High School Students In Arizona Would Be Able To Pass A U.S. Citizenship Test
ABC (http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/central/story/Study-Most-Arizona-students-wouldnt-pass/vAiAFR9bbkuBbiXCgIYW2Q.cspx) reports that "just days before Arizonans join with the rest of the country in celebrating Independence Day, a new study shows most of the state’s high school students wouldn’t pass the test to become American citizens. The Goldwater Institute asked 1,140 high school students 10 random questions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services exam. In order to become US citizens, immigrants must answer six of the 10 questions correctly. According to the Freedom from Responsibility: A Survey of Civic Knowledge Among Arizona High School Students, only 3.5 percent of the students in the study got six or more correct." Just let the successes of the government monopoly on education soak in.
Here are the 10 questions used in the telephone survey:
1. What is the supreme law of the land?
2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
4. How many Justices are on the Supreme Court?
5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?
8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
9. Who was the first President of the United States?
10. Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?
A person that can't answer these questions, let alone answer just six out of ten of them, has no business voting. It's as simple as that.
To read the full study and find out more visit http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article/3211.
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Taxpayer Funded Overseas Travel Up 50% In Congress Since The Dems Have Taken Control
The Wall Street Journal reports (To read the full study and find out more visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html):
"Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as 'codels,' has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data."
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June 2009 Unemployment Report: Jobless Rate At 9.5%
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports that "nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in June (-467,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors, with large declines occurring in manufacturing, professional and business services, and construction. … In June, unemployment rates for the major worker groups–adult men (10.0 percent), adult women (7.6 percent), teenagers (24.0 percent), whites (8.7 percent), blacks (14.7 percent), and Hispanics (12.2 percent)–showed little change. The unemployment rate for Asians was 8.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted. … Employment in manufacturing fell by 136,000 over the month and has declined by 1.9 million during the recession. Within the durable goods industry, motor vehicles and parts (-27,000), fabricated metal products (-18,000), computer and electronic products (-16,000), and machinery (-14,000) continued to lose jobs in June. Since the recession began, employment in motor vehicles and parts has declined by 335,000, or about one-third. In June, employment in construction fell by 79,000, with losses spread throughout the industry. Since the start of the recession, construction employment has fallen by 1.3 million. Mining employment fell by 8,000 in June, about in line with the average monthly decline since its recent peak in October 2008. Employment in the professional and business services industry declined by 118,000 in June. This industry has shed 1.5 million jobs since an employment peak in December 2007. Within this sector, employment in temporary help services fell by 38,000 in June; this industry has lost 848,000 jobs since the start of the recession."
Visit http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm for the full report on the June 2009 employment situaton.
I am glad to see the stimulus is working!
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National Security Advisor James L. Jones Tells Comanders In Afghanistan Not To Recommend More Troops Because Obama Will Have A WTF Moment
Yes, a WTF moment, you read that right. Visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063002811_pf.html to read Bob Woodward's full Washington Post article. Otherwise, here is the relevant excerpt:
[Marine Brigadier General] Nicholson had told Jones that he was "a little light," more than hinting that he could use more forces, probably thousands more. "We don't have enough force to go everywhere," Nicholson said. But Jones recalled how Obama had initially decided to deploy additional forces this year. "At a table much like this," Jones said, referring to the polished wood table in the White House Situation Room, "the president's principals met and agreed to recommend 17,000 more troops for Afghanistan." The principals -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Gates; 
Mullen; and the director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair -- made this recommendation in February during the first full month of the Obama administration. The president approved the deployments, which included Nicholson's Marines. Soon after that, Jones said, the principals told the president, "oops," we need an additional 4,000 to help train the Afghan army. "They then said, 'If you do all that, we think we can turn this around,' " Jones said, reminding the Marines here that the president had quickly approved and publicly announced the additional 4,000. Now suppose you're the president, Jones told them, and the requests come into the White House for yet more force. How do you think Obama might look at this? Jones asked, casting his eyes around the colonels. How do you think he might feel? Jones let the question hang in the air-conditioned, fluorescent-lighted room. Nicholson and the colonels said nothing. Well, Jones went on, after all those additional troops, 17,000 plus 4,000 more, if there were new requests for force now, the president would quite likely have "a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment." Everyone in the room caught the phonetic reference to WTF -- which in the military and elsewhere means "What the [expletive]?" Nicholson and his colonels -- all or nearly all veterans of Iraq -- seemed to blanch at the unambiguous message that this might be all the troops they were going to get.
Peter Feaver of Foreign Policy Magazine writes that "it is wrong for him [Obama], or his senior staff [Jim Jones], to tell (or signal, or hint, or suggest to) the military that they, the military, should censor their advice and judgments based on what they think the President ultimately will decide. If it is the BGEN Nicolson's military judgment that he needs more troops to execute the mission, he should -- no, he must -- convey that information up his chain of command and the President must be made aware of that piece of military advice. Nicolson's military judgment could be superceded by a more senior military commander (say, General Petraeus) who may have a bigger-picture military perspective. But a wise commander-in-chief wants to at least know about the perspectives of the lower ranking officers. And, above all, a wise commander-in-chief does not want the military hearing from civilian presidential advisors (and in this context, retired General Jim Jones is a civilian presidential advisor) that they should not be candid in their advice lest it tick off the president or the secretary of defense."
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Pattonesque Speech Delivered To Marines In Afghanistan By Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson Before Major Military Operation Begins
Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, addressed his troops in Afghanistan before the operation launched early Thursday against Taliban-occupied areas. Nicholson's words truly encapsulate the essence of the American spirit. The following are excerpts from his remarks, made without a teleprompter, at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province:
On the mission in the Helmand River valley:
Our job is to get in there and get it back [from the Taliban] ... We don't want to give the enemy one second to think about what he's going to do. Because we're going to be pushing so goddamn hard on the enemy. Our job is to go in there and make contact with the enemy — find the enemy, make contact with the enemy and then we'll hold on. This is an enemy that's used to having small-scale attacks and having the coalition pull back. There is no pullback. We will stay on him, and we will ride him until he's either dead or surrenders.
On the threat of roadside bombs:
Now, I'm concerned about the IEDs [roadside bombs] and I know you are, too. There's a hell of a lot of IEDs out there. As we get in there, we're going to get a better feel for who these people are who are putting them out. We're going to work the networks. And we're going to kill the guys that have a chance to go out there and lay them. But they are out there, and you need to know that.
On putting the Taliban on the defensive:
All too often, it is us who have to think about where we're going to go, where we're going to attack, what we're going to do. In this case, we're going to be so thick in his AO [area of operation] that he's going to have three choices: Stay and fight, which we hope he does; try to blend into the population and just pretend he's a local, in which case the Afghan army and police can sure as hell help identify that along with local leaders; and the third thing is run. And if he tries to run, we've got people waiting for him.
On the Marines' training and preparation:
You probably know the name of every little terrain feature in that AO. And that's good. Because you're going to need to. You're going to need to very quickly get into his turf and get comfortable and make him the guy on the run. Make him the guy who's going to have these decisions as to what he's going to do.
On defeating the enemy:
We'll kill and capture a hell of a lot of enemy over these next couple of weeks, I'm confident of that. And I hope the enemy does try to go chest-to-chest with you. It would be a hell of a big mistake, and I don't think his last mistake. And I suspect we'll see some of that.
On supporting the Afghan people:
We need to make sure we understand that the reason we're here is not necessarily the enemy. The reason we're here is the people. What won the war in al-Anbar province [Iraq] and what changed the war in al-Anbar was not that the enemy eventually got tired of fighting. It's that the people chose a side, and they chose us. We offer the one thing the enemy can never offer, and that's a future; that's hope. The people are looking to you.
On the need to minimize civilian casualties:
We'll surround that house and we'll wait. And here's the reason: If you drop that house and there's one woman, one child, one family in that house — you may have killed 20 Taliban, but by killing that woman or that child in that house, you have lost that community. You are dead to them. You are done. And when I talked to the governor [about this scenario], I said, 'Yeah, but governor, we will have killed 20 Taliban.' And he goes, 'Yeah, but you will have also killed the local family, and the people will always remember that.' The Taliban didn't kill that local family. You did. And as far as they're concerned, you killed locals and you're done. They will do anything they can at that point to help the Taliban and help the enemy against you.
On the media:
I tell you, personally I want the media out there because we've got a hell of a story to tell. I'll tell you, I've never in more than 30 years regretted embedding the media with the Marines that we've been associated with.
On the conditions in enemy territory, in the desert:
Bottom line, fellas, it's hot. It's gonna get hotter. Your packs are heavy. They're gonna get heavier. Our resupply to you is going to be tough. We're focused on getting you water. We're focused on getting you ammo. Chow will come later. Anything else will come later. We'll get you all the water and ammo you can use, but a lot of it may be by air drop, because the roads to get to you may not be open. And like I said, there is no cavalry. There is no reserve. You're gonna fight. And you're gonna stay there, and you're gonna fight until you win.
Final words:
Bottom line, fellas, is that this is the moment. This is the moment you've trained for. This is the moment you came into the Marine Corps for. This is the moment that all of us have been waiting for for a hell of a long time.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
WSJ: Obama Opposes A "Democratic" "Coup" In Honduras Which Was "A Reaction To Chávez's Rule By The Mob" Tactics Employed By Honduras's President
The Wall Street Journal explains the shameful hypocrisy of Barack Obama when it writes that as far as "military 'coups' go, the one this weekend in Honduras was strangely, well, democratic. The military didn't oust President Manuel Zelaya on its own but instead followed an order of the Supreme Court. It also quickly turned power over to the president of the Honduran Congress, a man from the same party as Mr. Zelaya. The legislature and legal authorities all remain intact. We mention these not so small details because they are being overlooked as the world, including the U.S. President, denounces tiny Honduras in a way that it never has, say, Iran. President Obama is joining the U.N., Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and other model democrats in demanding that Mr. Zelaya be allowed to return from exile and restored to power. Maybe it's time to sort the real from the phony Latin American democrats."
The Wall Street Journal futher explains that "the events in Honduras also need to be understood in the context of Latin America's decade of chavismo." To fully understand the situation unfolding in Honduras, and why Obama is once again wrong on foreign policy, visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640649700876791.html.
Here is Charles Krauthammer explaining the insanity of Obama's Honduras position:
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Six Mousavi Supporters Reportedly Hung By The Iranian Government
The Jerusalem Post reports that "as the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report."
The Jerusalem Post also reports that "the crackdown on the opposition in Iran continued on Wednesday, with authorities banning a newspaper allied to presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi after he denounced Iran's government as 'illegitimate' because of claims of voting fraud in last month's election, a reformist political group said. The closure of the daily Etemad-e-Melli, or National Confidence, is another blow by officials seeking to block media and Web sites critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed June 12 re-election was confirmed this week by Iran's powerful Guardian Council."
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Gov. Mark Sanford Says He "Will Be Able To Die Knowing" That He Met His "Soul Mate"
If Mark Sanford is so stupid that he is willing to turn his disgusting affair into a public spectacle, and publicly declare his mistress his soul mate when he still has a wife and kids, then I say it is about time he resigns. Had he kept his private marital issues private, that would be one thing. But for him to be telling this kind of stuff to an AP reporter demonstrates a complete lack of judgment and sheer stupidity not befitting the governor of South Carolina.
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L.A. Times Editorial: The House Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure Has Laid Out A $500-billion Plan With No Way To Pay For It
The Los Angeles Times writes in an editorial today that "it's remarkable what Congress can do when money is no object, as the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure demonstrated when it put out a blueprint for a reauthorization bill to govern the nation's spending on transportation. It's a cornucopia of goodies that's getting strong reviews from interest groups, mainly because it gives them nearly everything they've been asking for: Environmentalists get a new bureaucracy to encourage green projects, public transit agencies get a big influx of cash, high-speed rail enthusiasts get new trains, and states get billions in additional money to build and improve roads, bridges and highways. There's just one small detail that has been left out -- so far, the committee hasn't identified a way to pay for any of this... We'll reserve judgment until we see the committee's funding proposal. But it takes a lot of chutzpah to propose such a huge spending increase in the midst of an economic depression, after the country has racked up nearly $800 billion in stimulus spending and is considering a healthcare plan estimated to cost north of $1 trillion over 10 years. For now, this bill may be a bridge too far."
Even the Los Angeles Times is blasting the Democrat Congress and White House for its completely irresponsible and reckless spending. This story is in no way shocking, but it is inexcusable. The Democrats must be held accountable for out-of-control spending of taxpayer money. To read this important editorial in full be sure to read http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-transportation1-2009jul01,0,532538.story
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Press Corps Presses Robert Gibbs About "Preselected" And "Prepackaged" Questions For Obama Townhall Events
Even Helen Thomas said that the "I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled."
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