Saturday, February 21, 2009
Conan O'brien Taking Over "Tonight Show"
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Rick Santelli Vs. Chris Matthews
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Rick Santelli Vs. Steve Liesman On Obama's Housing Plan
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
UN: Iran Holds Enough Uranium For Nuclear Bomb
The Financial Times reports that "Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday... They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz. If such a quantity were further enriched it could produce more than 20kg of fissile material – enough for a bomb. 'It appears that Iran has walked right up to the threshold of having enough low enriched uranium to provide enough raw material for a single bomb,' said Peter Zimmerman, a former chief scientist of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
The new figures come in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, released on Thursday. This revealed that Iran’s production of low enriched uranium had previously been underestimated... Iran’s success in reaching such a 'breakout capacity' – a stage that would allow it to produce enough fissile material for a bomb in a matter of months – crosses a 'red line' that for years Israel has said it would not accept."
This announcement comes, not from the Mossad or the CIA, but from the United Nations. It comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. If Obama begins negotiations with Iran he may be affording the Iranians the stalling time they need to build the most dangerous weapon. If Obama fails to understand the threat posed by an Iranian bomb and naively engages in futile diplomacy with the Islamic Republic, Israel will have no choice but to circumvent Obama and launch a military strike. America and Israel must do whatever is necessary to make sure that Iran does not get the bomb. It seems, however, with the current administration in Washington, Israel's military may be the only option in putting an end to Iran's nuclear program.
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George Mitchell Indicates He Supports Ending Isolation Of Hamas
The Jerusalem Post reports that during a conference call with Jewish leaders, "US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell expressed support during for Egyptian efforts to forge a Palestinian national unity government, indicating that America could take a new tack on Fatah-Hamas reconciliation... In sharp contrast to the Bush administration, which opposed a Palestinian national unity government, Mitchell said that should Egypt bring the sides together it would be 'a step forward.'" The Jerusalem Post described this saying that "the fact that the US would support a Palestinian structure aimed at incorporating and potentially co-opting Hamas rather than working to exclude it suggested the contours of a fresh approach by the Obama administration."
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Dubai Bans Israeli Tennis Player From Tournament
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Lone Gitmo Judge Says Hell No To Obama Order To Suspend Hearing For The Mastermind Of The 2000 Attack On The USS Cole In Yemen
U.S. Army military judge Col. James L. Pohl refused the Obama administration's request to delay the arraignment of Abu al-Nashiri, the accused planner of the 2000 USS Cole attack in Yemen. The Saudi Arabian is accused of orchestrating the October 2000 Al Qaeda suicide bombing that killed 17 American sailors. The Pentagon war crimes prosecutor has been seeking military execution against Nashiri. Pohl's decision goes against Obama's recent executive order, which put a hold on all military tribunals for 120 days while the administration reviews how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within the year. ''The Commission is bound by the law as it currently exists not as it may change in the future,'' Pohl wrote in a three-page ruling. He added that ''the public interest in a speedy trial will be harmed by the delay in the arraignment." The USS Cole's former commander, Ret. Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, criticized Obama's order saying that "delay in moving forward with the military commissions process is denying justice to the victims who have suffered as a result of these terrorist acts." He also praised Pohl's decision calling it "a victory for the 17 families of the sailors who lost their lives on the USS Cole over eight years ago." Pohl’s refusal to suspend al-Nashiri’s arraignment came as a surprise since every other military commission judge had complied with Obama's executive order, including one delaying the case against five men charged with plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks. Family members of the 9/11 victims who were in Guantánamo to witness proceedings in that case expressed outrage.
However, Judge Pohl's action did not last. Judge Susan Crawford, who is in charge of Guantanamo Bay hearings, nuetralized Judge Pohl's action by dismissing the charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges were dismissed without prejudice, which means that new charges can still be pressed against him later.
You may be surprised by this story because the mainstream media has failed to report it. The media did report the Obama executive order as saying Gitmo will be closed within one year. But the media kept it hidden from the public that within that executive order Obama was also putting a halt to all Gitmo military tribunals that Congress approved, including those against top Islamoterrorist masterminds. Obama should not be halting these tribunals that Congressional legislation put in place. He should not be slowing down the process of justice so that his administration can do feel-good "reviews" of the military tribunal system that Congress set up to deal with the jihadists at Gitmo. "Reviews" which, by the way, may end up endangering us all by granting people like Nashiri more rights than those that Congress has devised for Gitmo proceedings, perhaps even having barbarians like Nashiri enter the American criminal justice system.
Cmdr. Lippold put it best: "We shouldn't make policy decisions based on human rights and legal advocacy groups. We should consider what is best for the American people, which is not to jeopardise those who are fighting the war on terror - or even more adversely impact the families who have already suffered losses as a result of the war."
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Monday, February 16, 2009
The Spendocrat's "Stimulus"
The NRSC ad:
Of course the NRSC ad above would like us to forget the three Spendlican Senators that voted for the bill removing all Republican leverage and making the threat of a filibuster to force changes into the bill an impossibility. Overall, however, the Democrats do own this abysmal and wasteful bill. Every House Republican voted against it, and every Senate Republican aside from three RINOs voted against it as well.
The following video gives some examples of, in Chuck Schumer's words, the "porky amendments" that were a part of the "stimulus" bill:
The Onion does a radio news parody about $160 billion in stimulus being deposited in a roiling a mass of snakes.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
UK MP Who Chairs The Home Affairs Select Committee Says Geert Wilders Was Rightly Banned From Britian...And, By The Way, I've Never Seen His Film
Below is the film made by Dutch MP Geert Wilders. You can watch the film and then develope an informed opinion as to whether Wilders should be barred from entering the United Kingdom because of his politically incorrect views. Alternatively, you can choose to act like that shmuck MP Keith Vaz and strongly defend banning someone from Britain and having them turned around at Heathrow airport without even having seen the film made by the person you are banning.
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Founder Of Islamic TV Channel Now Being Charged With Beheading His Wife In NY
The Buffalo News writes that "Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light." He is now being charged with second degree murder. The police are investigating the very gruesome killing. Hassan's wife was beheaded. Her husband was an influential member of the local Muslim community. He was even given an award in 2007 by the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations.
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