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Latest Articles: Editorial
WHO LOOKS FOOLISH, ALAMO HEROES OR US?
Post Date: 2007-03-08 16:30:54 by christine
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On this date back in 1836, the Alamo fell. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops. To a man, the defenders of that mission fort knew they would never leave those ramparts alive. They had several opportunities to leave and live. Yet, they chose to fight and die. How foolish they must look to this generation of spoiled Americans. It is difficult to recall that stouthearted men such as Davy Crockett (a nationally known frontiersman and former Congressman), Will Travis (only 23 years old with a little baby at home), and Jim Bowie (a wealthy landowner with properties on both sides of the Rio Grande) really existed. ...
Brothers In Arms
Post Date: 2007-03-07 21:42:43 by tom007
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An interview with General Wesley Clark, ICH: SEVEN COUNTRIES IN FIVE YEARS
Post Date: 2007-03-07 18:33:31 by tom007
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An interview with General Wesley Clark, ICH: SEVEN COUNTRIES IN FIVE YEARS AMY GOODMAN: Do you see a replay in what happened in the lead-up to the war with Iraq -- the allegations of the weapons of mass destruction, the media leaping onto the bandwagon? GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn’t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran. I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went ...
George Bush Athorizied the Leak of classified information to the New York Times
Post Date: 2007-03-07 18:15:15 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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George Bush Authorizied the Leak of classified information to the New York Times
I Call for Justice
Post Date: 2007-03-07 12:10:01 by BeAChooser
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I Call for Justice By Clarice Feldman In this week's episode of Rome (a superb HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the Nation's Capital), Servilia, whose son was killed in a power grab, knelt before the door of manipulative Attia, mother of Octavian and lover of Marc Anthony, the two men responsible, calling out in a haunting cry, "Attia of the Julii, I call for justice." She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses (which were taken seriously in those days) were the one remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs. I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he has had none in this ridiculous matter. But at whose door do I ...
Denis Collins: One of Libby's Peers?
Post Date: 2007-03-07 12:08:36 by BeAChooser
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 Denis Collins: One of Libby's Peers? There's a lot that's disturbing about Scooter Libby's trial and the verdict. One buffoon that stands out among the buffoons is juror Denis Collins. "I'm a political hack, a foaming at the mouth lib." REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) I get the feeling that he's a Joe Wilson wannabe. Collins exhibits that same slime factor. Special Prosectuor and egomaniac Patrick Fitzgerald was handed a gift when political hack Collins landed in the jury pool. Collins wasn't satisfied with convicting Scooter Libby. Sure, he was pleased that he had the opportunity to ruin his life; but he wanted ...
Repost of a great Duet
Post Date: 2007-03-07 00:41:16 by tom007
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Buchanan: Corruption In The Schools
Post Date: 2007-03-06 11:40:13 by Brian S
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Posted: March 6, 2007 Fifty years ago this October, Americans were jolted by the news that Moscow, one year after drowning the Hungarian Revolution in blood, had put an 80-pound satellite into Earth orbit. In December, the U.S. Navy tried to replicate the feat. Vanguard got four feet off the ground and exploded, incinerating its three-pound payload. America was humiliated. Khrushchev was Man of the Year. Some of us yet recall the Vanguard newsreels and the humiliating laughter. Stunned, America went to work to improve education in math and science, and succeeded. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of high school seniors began to rise, reaching a high in 1964. However, test scores ...
Unlike Hitler, Bush Gives Appearance Of Sanity
Post Date: 2007-03-06 08:16:27 by innieway
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"I believe in the universality of freedom," George Bush told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington recently, "and I believe that this country, this grand country of ours, has an obligation to help people realize the blessings of freedom." This belief, you might even call it a "faith," reflects the "calling" American presidents have long had to improve, if not remake, the rest of the world in their own image. Bush is only the latest occupant of the White House to expound this view. He told AEI he has turned the Afghani "failed state" into a democracy. The late Ronald Reagan also said Americans, whom he believed ...
Death by Emergency Plan
Post Date: 2007-03-06 06:17:58 by Ada
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A strange culture of emergency has taken over this country, and the slightest provocation triggers it. It could be an expected terrorist or just an old-fashioned weather warning. The officials are quick to swing into action, and tell you what to do. The problem is that these demands are often based on nothing other than government plans that are not in your best interest. It behooves all of us to think carefully about genuine preparedness, which might often involve bucking the system and telling the emergency nazis to mind their own business. A case in point is the disastrous weather emergency that befell Enterprise, Alabama, last week. The first warnings about a tornado came at 10:30am, ...
Could Tremors in the Subprime Mortgage Market Be the First Signs of an Earthquake? (Almost a must read)
Post Date: 2007-03-05 22:14:04 by tom007
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Could Tremors in the Subprime Mortgage Market Be the First Signs of an Earthquake? Published: February 21, 2007 in Knowledge@Wharton This article has been read 10,035 Times For months, the steady drip of news about troubles in the subprime mortgage market looked no worse than one would expect: merely a comeuppance for lenders, borrowers and investors who should have known that high-interest loans to people with poor credit were risky. During the same period, many economists started breathing again after concluding that the superheated home market of recent years had not become the bursting bubble many had feared. While home prices are leveling off, there has been no deep, widespread ...
Haha, Wingnut says Coulter insane, Malkin sane
Post Date: 2007-03-05 21:24:27 by Mekons4
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The Britney Spears Of The Right By Cliff Kincaid March 5, 2007 The political equivalent of Britney Spears shaving the hair off her head, Ann Coulter made headlines at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by calling Democrat John Edwards a faggot. Wearing a leather dress and a Christian cross around her neck, Coulter must be a liberal infiltrator whose purpose is to give conservatism a bad name. I really felt sorry for those Republican presidential candidates who attended CPAC and were forced by the liberal media to respond to Coulter's remarks. It's guilt-by-association, but Coulter had to know that making such a remark would put those candidates in an ...
WARNING: THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT IS AT HAND
Post Date: 2007-03-05 18:40:04 by boonie rat
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WARNING: THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT IS AT HAND By Greg Evensen February 5, 2007 >http://NewsWithViews.com The Patriot's Preamble "Let it be known far and wide that American Patriots will come together in the year 2007, to unite the citizens and statesmen of the Republic of the United States of America. They will gather with the purpose of maintaining our nation's sovereignty, to reinstate our Constitutional and Natural Rights, and to free the American people from institutional servitude. They will come to pursue this course with Honor, Dignity, and Courage, while acknowledging that unless God keeps our nation and guides her steps, we will have labored in ...
Trouble Looming for Rice; Sunni Allies Balking at Cooperation
Post Date: 2007-03-05 17:26:48 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rice's "Sunni strategy" is running into trouble. Her idea was to bolster a ring of moderate Sunni Arab allies as a front-line defense against Iran's regional ambitions. But the Sunnis don't appear to be cooperating, and the proponents of the plan within the State Department are heading for the exits. This weekend, Iran's Holocaust-denying president was fêted by King Abdullah, the Saudi monarch who rules the linchpin Sunni state in Ms. Rice's attempted anti- Iran alliance. Meanwhile, Iran's Sunni proxy in Gaza, Hamas, is divvying up key posts with Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party in a Palestinian unity government. ...
Ron Paul: The Coming Entitlement Meltdown
Post Date: 2007-03-05 12:53:22 by Brian S
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March 5, 2007 David Walker, Comptroller General at the Government Accountability Office, appeared on the show “60 Minutes” last evening to discuss the federal budget outlook. If you saw the show, you know that he painted a very sobering picture regarding the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations. If you didn’t see the show, Mr. Walker’s theme was simple: government entitlement spending is like a runaway freight train headed straight at American taxpayers. He singled out the Medicare prescription drug bill, passed by Congress at the end of 2003, as “probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s.” When ...
Looks Like A Stock Market Crash This AM
Post Date: 2007-03-05 09:31:10 by tom007
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Just my observation - all red on the screen.
Nikkei drops 2.18 percent amid jittery over market direction
Post Date: 2007-03-04 21:40:02 by tom007
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Nikkei drops 2.18 percent amid jittery over market direction The Associated Press Published: March 4, 2007 TOKYO: Japanese stocks fell Monday morning with the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index dipping 2.18 percent as traders remained jittery over the course of the markets. The dollar was lower against the yen. The Nikkei fell 375.61 points, or 2.18 percent, to finish Monday's morning session at 16,842.32 points, marking the fifth straight session of decline. On Friday, the index lost 235.58, or 1.35 percent, to finish at 17,217.93 points, losing nearly 1,000 points, or 5.5 percent since Tuesday, when the selloff in Asian markets was triggered by a plunge in Chinese stocks. The ...
Negotiate with the Taliban
Post Date: 2007-03-04 14:01:47 by scrapper2
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LONDON -- Washington and Ottawa keep telling us how well things are going in Afghanistan. But Vice-President Dick Cheney's brief visit there last week showed just the opposite. Cheney arrived at Bagram air base, formerly the nerve centre for the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Today, it plays the same role for the U.S. occupation. A suicide bomber attacked the base's main gate, killing 22 and hugely embarrassing Cheney. Worse, the 60-km "secure" highway between Bagram and Kabul has become so dangerous that Cheney had to fly into Kabul on a U.S. Air Force transport to meet with the American-installed figurehead leader, Hamid Karzai. Anti-Western forces are quickly ...
A Nation of Stupid Children, Who Refuse to Give Up the Lies
Post Date: 2007-03-04 07:41:05 by Ada
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By the age of eight or nine, most children realize that Santa Claus isn't a real person, just as they know the Easter Bunny and similar pleasantries are only make-believe, tales of imagination offered to add a bit of fun to the holidays. The great majority of children give up these fantasies without experiencing emotional upheaval that remotely approaches serious trauma. Those very rare children fortunate enough to be raised by adults who accord them the seriousness and respect they deserve know such stories to be ones of invention from the beginning. Unfortunately, the great majority of Americans – led by a relentlessly trivial and mendacious political class and a comparably ...
Conservatives Go Wild, Assemble Circular Firing Squad
Post Date: 2007-03-03 21:42:39 by Dakmar
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CPAC Conference Pours Salt on the Wounds of Conservative Failure; Polls Show Americans Rejecting Conservative Ideology WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the nation's top conservative leaders and activists desperately seeking a strategy to unify their splintering coalition at this week's CPAC conference in Washington, current polling figures compiled by the Campaign for America's Future show the American public's large and growing rejection of conservative ideology and its failed policies. -- 81 percent of Americans favor a federal minimum wage hike. 17 states voted to raise their minimum wage in 2006. (Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg, 01/13/07 - 01/16/07) -- ...
U.S. Picks Wrong Moment To Poke The Russian Bear
Post Date: 2007-03-02 11:31:01 by Brian S
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NOT to pursue the imagery too far, but America is toying with the Russian bear that now lives just beyond the edge of America's new backyard, the countries formerly in the purview of the former Soviet Union that are now in NATO. The administration is talking about positioning pieces of its beloved $90 billion Star Wars ballistic-missile defense system, which hasn't been shown to work yet, in Poland and the Czech Republic. The envisaged elements of the system would be poised on the border between NATO and Russia, but the administration is claiming that it would be directed against possible attacks by North Korean or Iranian missiles. To put the system on the border with Russia and ...
Buchanan: Fresh Troops – Or Fresh Thinking?
Post Date: 2007-03-02 11:09:37 by Brian S
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Posted: March 2, 2007 Six years after Donald Rumsfeld agreed to a second tour of duty as secretary of defense, to rebuild the military, Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker told Congress his Army "will break" if not relieved of the present burdens. Colin Powell says the Army is "almost broken." This week, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there is a significant risk that the United States today may be unable to respond quickly and fully to another crisis should it arise. Howls erupted across the spectrum for more billions for more men for the Army and Marine Corps. What these revelations ought to trigger, however, are hard questions of our leaders ...
Quicksand
Post Date: 2007-03-02 06:37:54 by Ada
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Most of the pundits agreed that President Bush’s televised “surge” speech had failed. It was uninspired, he delivered it without conviction, and it didn’t even produce a slight bump in the polls. The Democrats, no longer shocked and awed, attacked it, and some Republicans joined them, Sen. Chuck Hagel calling it the worst foreign policy mistake since the Vietnam War; few Republicans were hardy enough to support it. Bush himself seemed demoralized as he delivered the speech, as if he didn’t even expect anyone to believe him. It struck me as the weariest hype I have ever seen. But he hinted that Iran still poses a threat to the United States. Are we back in the ...
Head of Walter Reed Hospital Fired
Post Date: 2007-03-01 20:19:50 by tom007
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Head of Walter Reed Hospital Fired Associated Press | March 01, 2007 WASHINGTON - The Army said Thursday that the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers. Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command as well as Walter Reed hospital, was relieved of command by Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey. In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had "lost trust and confidence" in Weightman's leadership abilities "to address needed solutions for soldier outpatient care" at Walter Reed. ...
Frim Todays Co Springs Police Blotter
Post Date: 2007-02-28 13:28:44 by tom007
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Motor Officer Myers was conducting speed enforcement in the vicinity of 2300 W. Uintah when he clocked an eastbound vehicle at 41 in a 30 mph zone. The vehicle turned into the gas station parking lot (southwest corner) after turning south on 19th St. She stopped the vehicle and instead of placing the car in park, put it in reverse and the car rolled back striking the front of the motorcycle. Officer Myers observing the vehicle rolling backwards dismounted the motorcycle and was not struck. When he approached the 16 year old driver, she was still talking on a cell phone. No injuries to either drivers and minimal damage.
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