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Obama Wrecked Iraq?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

John Bolton plan of nation building until our economy explodes. Bin Laden best friend for recruiting terrorist!
Bush’s former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, on how Obama screwed up his predecessor’s handiwork in Iraq, the coming regional arms conflict—and what the president should say in his speech tonight about his decision to withdraw American [...]

Bigot starts ground zero church: Where’s the outrage?

Monday, August 30th, 2010

I guess not…..
A pastor who hates Muslims, Mormons and gays will start preaching Sunday. Will mosque opponents speak out?
A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn’t [...]

BP was warned of gas danger, contractor says

Monday, August 30th, 2010

What should happen….?
MSN-He incriminates engineers, including one who refuses to testify at presidential inquiry
A contractor to BP testified Tuesday that he warned BP that it risked gas leaks in the Macondo well if it cut back on stabilizers for the pipe going down the hole. The warning, he told the Coast Guard-led inquiry into the [...]

Caught! Fox News Funding ‘Terror Mosque’ at Ground Zero

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

How ironic…..!
S-Jon Stewart demands that Americans stop watching Fox News as the only way to cut off the revenue stream to “these bad dudes.”
The Kingdom Foundation, funder of the Ground Zero Mosque is run by Alwaleed bin Talal, the largest shareholder in Fox News.
Fox News owner Alwaleed bin Talal, who, according to Fox News, [...]

Glenn Beck’s Hypocritical Revival

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

DB….But the most striking thing about Beck’s heartfelt evangelism was its hypocrisy.
“We’re dividing ourselves,” Beck lamented. “There is growing hatred in the country. We must be better than what we’ve allowed ourselves to become. We must get the poison of hatred out of us, no matter what smears or lies are thrown our way… we [...]

Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck’s Civil Rights Rally: ‘I Have A Scheme’

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Beck gone wild…..
HP-”The Daily Show” has a knack for going on vacation when important things happen, so it’s nice to see Jon Stewart proactively “report” on Glenn Beck’s Aug. 28 civil rights rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In a segment dubbed “I Have A Scheme,” Stewart picked apart Beck’s plan to “restore [...]

“Nationalizing Marriage: Judges don’t get to decide if a law is ‘asinine’”

Friday, August 27th, 2010

The Independent Institute
by Research Fellow William J. Watkins Jr.
A federal district judge in California has ruled that it’s unconstitutional to define marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman.
The impact of the decision, should it stand, is that it nationalizes marriage—one of many matters the 10th Amendment leaves to the people and the [...]

Ann Coulter Dropped from Conservative Conference over Participation in Gay Republican Event “HOMOCON”

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Pro-hate groups destroying the conservative movement!
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has been told she is no longer welcome to offer the keynote speech at WorldNetDaily’s “Taking America Back National Conference” because she is speaking at an event sponsored by a gay Republican group.
WorldNetDaily, a far right news website, posted on a story on its website [...]

Cops: Cabbie Stabbed After Fare Asked, ‘Are You Muslim?’

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Did the hate speech on this issue cause this hate crime?
AOL-Authorities say a New York City cab driver is recovering after being brutally stabbed by a passenger who first demanded, “Are you Muslim?”
The attacks occurred as New York is in the midst of a contentious debate over plans to build an Islamic community center and [...]

Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

A real hero!
HP…..But if we say that a mosque and community center should not be built near the perimeter of the World Trade Center site, we would compromise our commitment to fighting terror with freedom.
We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting. We would feed the false impressions that [...]

“COIN Thinking on a Larger Scale Might Work”

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

The Independent Institute
by Senior Fellow Ivan Eland
After years of “firepower-based slaughter” in Afghanistan and Iraq, taking their toll on local populations, the U.S. military had to re-learn the hard lessons of fighting a guerrilla war in Vietnam: using high-casualty strategies against possible terrorists “alienates indigenous populations, already very unhappy with foreign occupation”. These same local [...]

“The Cordoba House Symbol”

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

The Independent Institute
by Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa
“New York… was right not to designate the building…two blocks from Ground Zero, a historical landmark. The decision paves the way for the Cordoba House, the controversial Muslim-led interfaith cultural and community center that the owners intend to erect in lieu of the edifice targeted for demolition. [...]

BRING OUR WAR $$ HOME: How’s the war economy working for you?

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

FROM EC
By Lisa Savage
Is the U.S. really leaving Iraq? And will we be at war with Iran soon? While still mired in Afghanistan?
While the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be reduced from a high of 165,000, many of those will be redeployed to Afghanistan. And after Aug 31 there will still be 50,000 [...]

Franklin Graham, Evangelical Minister: Obama’s ‘Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim’

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

HUH, I guess Reverend Graham will be cancelling all the mission trips……
HP….”I think the president’s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his [...]

Afghanistan

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

From EC
By Craig Harrington
The United States has been in Afghanistan since October 7, 2001. The ongoing conflict and occupation has cost the United States roughly 1700 lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.
After the NATO coalition forces overthrew the Taliban government in Kabul, the U.S. turned from an army of conquerors to a group [...]