Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Thursday Nov 2, 2006

New Iraq is working hard to get rid of the old ways GulfNews.com ^ | 10/25/2006 | Amir Taheri

snip...Since liberation, an estimated 45,000 Iraqis have been killed, largely because of insurgent and terrorist activities. Yet, there are few signs that a majority of Iraqis are prepared to raise the white flag of surrender.

Several events in the past two weeks have highlighted the growing isolation of the jihadists and their Saddamite allies. One event is the creation of a tribal alliance, bringing together all Arab Sunni clans of western Iraq together in a united front to "chase Al Qaida out of Iraq".

A second noteworthy event is the almost unanimous approval by the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament) of a new plan for peace and reconciliation. Backed by all ethnic and religious communities through their political parties, the new plan further underlines the marginalisation of the jihadists and Saddamite groups.

More importantly, the plan envisages the creation of a unified information office to harmonise the sermons delivered at mosques, regardless of their sectarian affiliations. The idea is to use the mosque as a forum for a unified and democratic Iraq rather than a hub of sectarian agitation.

A third event was the Makkah meeting held on Saturday. It brought together prominent Muslim Sunni and Shiite clerics from Iraq and eight other Muslim countries to discuss and approve a declaration demanding an end to sectarian feuds in Iraq. An initiative of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the gathering reflects growing impatience with the jihadists throughout the Muslim world.

The Makkah gathering represents the first major effort by Sunnis and Shiites towards the mutual recognition of one another as acceptable versions of the same faith, since 1947.

Despite the dramatic increase in terrorist attacks in recent weeks, new Iraq is holding its own because Iraqi morale is holding. That morale, however, is under constant attack from… snip

Hugh Hewitt: What The MSM Doesn't Know And Doesn't Care To Find Out

When unique visitors to HughHewitt.com crashes through 125,000 on a single day, I know the public is engaged.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2006/11/02/what_the_msm_doesnt_know_and_doesnt_care_to_find_out

Cal Thomas: The 2006 choice

If conservatives believe enough has not been done to advance their agenda, let them work to elect more conservatives, not hand control of Congress over to a party controlled by far-left liberals who have no intention of moderating their tone or watering down their beliefs after the election.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/11/02/the_2006_choice

Larry Elder: Low black voter turnout -- who's to blame?

The so-called black leadership wants blacks to think of themselves as victicrats.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2006/11/02/low_black_voter_turnout_--_whos_to_blame

Emmett Tyrrell: Not a normal election

What throughout the decades of the Cold War was called the Liberal Establishment has been drained of ideas and meaning. It is what historians call an Old Order, a passing Old Order.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2006/11/02/not_a_normal_election

David Strom: What John Kerry Really Meant

John Kerry, Democrat Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 candidate for President is back in the news reminding us all why we didn?t vote for him.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidStrom/2006/11/02/what_john_kerry_really_meant

Jerry Newberry: With 'A' Company: The Grunts

The KOP isn't a very big place, not much more than a scrape on the side of a mountain. The troops that call the KOP ?home? live under harsh and extreme conditions ... so it doesn't take long before you start recognizing faces and putting names to those faces. In a brief time, they become your friends.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryNewberry/2006/11/01/with_a_company_the_grunts

Janice Shaw Crouse: The Girls Who Loved the Greatest Generation Guys

Greatest Generation guys - young men who considered their military service a badge of honor and who wore their military identity with quiet pride. I grew up knowing that the Marines were heroes because my dad told us about his "buddies."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2006/11/01/the_girls_who_loved_the_greatest_generation_guys

Henry Edmondson: Education Woes

A report, issued by the non-partisan ?Education Schools Project,? alleges that most education schools are engaged in a "pursuit of irrelevance," with curricula in disarray and faculty disconnected from classrooms and colleagues.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HenryEdmondson/2006/11/01/education_woes

Marvin Olasky: Hungary, Iraq and shredding machines

Iraqis have endured oppression for decades. They now face the prospect of more tyranny unless the United States stays the course

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2006/11/02/hungary,_iraq_and_shredding_machines

Halp us Jon Carry

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2006/11/02/halp_us_jon_carry

Rich Galen: Uh, oh. You mean I was right?

If Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, her constituents will demand she reward them with policies they (and the rest of the Howard Dean/MoveoOn.org wing of the Democratic party) are panting with desire to embrace.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=uh,_oh_you_mean_i_was_right&ns=RichGalen&dt=11/01/2006&page=2

- Case in point re: Pelosi: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sanfran30oct30,0,7328529.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Chuck Colson: Is It a Sin not to Vote?

That?s a question that?s been very much in the news in the wake of the supposed exposé by David Kuo, author of Tempting Faith.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/11/01/is_it_a_sin_not_to_vote

Herman Cain: Armchair Presidents

It?s easy to give someone advice after the fact, and even then, there is no measure that the advice would have been a better decision. The armchair presidents claim to have the winning play for fighting terrorists and preventing future terrorist attacks on American soil.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HermanCain/2006/11/01/armchair_presidents

Suzanne Fields: Keeping up with the Joneses

But there's a voting cohort between Generation Xers and boomers that bears watching. They're the not-so-young Generation Jones. If they're not "the lost generation," they're invisible to most of our culture commentators.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SuzanneFields/2006/11/02/keeping_up_with_the_joneses

Alan Reynolds: Rhetorical overheating

The British government released the "Stern Review" on global warming by Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist for the World Bank.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2006/11/02/rhetorical_overheating

Ann Coulter: Jihad is fun! Vote Democrat!
(Excellent historical stats on midterm pickups)

John Kerry is the "botched joke" of American politics. For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid, (b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them tomorrow.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2006/11/01/jihad_is_fun!_vote_democrat!

Thomas Sowell: Cast of characters: Part II

This year, the Democrats are running as "None of the above" and polls show that they may well win the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/11/02/cast_of_characters_part_ii

A FINAL LESSON FROM A FALLEN HERO
By Laura Ingraham
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14636.shtml

Common Sense vs. Nonsense - A Simple Choice This November
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14634.shtml

John Kerry: A One Man Quagmire
By JB Williams
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14649.shtml

UNICEF Attempts to Intervene in Nicaraguan Abortion Debate
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14631.shtml

ARTICLES DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14643.shtml

Federal Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Town's Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226818,00.html

Why I Have Faith in Values Voters
by Rep. Steve King
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17806

Democrat-Controlled Senate Would Be Disastrous for Judicial Nominees
by Sen. Elizabeth Dole
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17814

Who's to Blame for Anti-Gay-Marriage Initiatives?
by Linda Chavez
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17800

Apology Not Accepted
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17829

The Big Stem-Cell Breakthrough
That you're not hearing about . . .
by Wesley J. Smith
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/886hpnnn.asp

Five Days to Go
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6002

Unanswered Questions, Disturbing Thoughts
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6001

No Viet Cong Followed Us Home, Al-Qaeda Will
November 2nd, 2006
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6000

J.R. Dunn asks Has Kim Jong Il Backed Down? While the media focuses on Kerry’s bomb, there is reason to be optimistic about the situation in North Korea. Provocative and stimulating reading.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5996

Pelosi's illegal alien employees
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6512

Rejecting mutli-culti barbarism

Female genital mutilation is a life-altering barbaric practice, which has no place in America. Thank goodness a Georgia jury handed down a “guilty” verdict and a judge imposed a ten year sentence on a father who assaulted his own two year old daughter in the name of Islam. The AP speculates that this may be the first such conviction in the USA.

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6513

Early voting results encouraging
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6514

Expose how much so-called N.Y. Times exposé cost us
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4304189.html

Clinton: Democrats Will Take Power Because Republicans Have Abandoned Principles (Principles? Unbelievable)
http://www.nysun.com/article/42805?access=215871

THE MODEL OF A MAJOR MODERN DEMOCRAT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022006/postopinion/editorials/the_model_of_a_major_modern_democrat_editorials_.htm?page=0

Navy sets sail as fear of coup in Fiji grows
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20692007-2703,00.html

Call off protest, pleads Hilali
(uh no, that's not how I read it)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20692049-2702,00.html

The Curse of Kerry
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_curse_of_kerry_opedcolumnists_rich_lowry.htm?page=0

We're just asking for trouble
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20690285-7583,00.html

Christians are guilty of prejudice, too
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/christians-are-guilty-of-prejudice-too/2006/11/02/1162339985160.html

The Truth About Muhammad
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25185

A border bonfire smolders
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg2nov02,0,4034633.column?coll=la-opinion-center

Experts: Polling method suspect; Zogby disagrees
(no kidding, Zogby is really something)
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1162461478265550.xml&coll=1

James Webb and lessons in make-believe
http://jewishworldreview.com/1106/hanson110206.php3

Democrats find religion, churchgoing voters
(More from the party of separation of church and state)
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-11-02T131550Z_01_N01160966_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-FAITH.xml&WTmodLoc=PolNewsHome_C2_politicsNews-3

Air Plot Said to Target Cities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103097.html

Sore-loser Kerry stuck in Vietnam
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/COL05/611020323/-1/columnists

U.N. official accused of
steering contracts to his friend
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--un-procurement1101nov01,0,3895565.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

Can't Muslim men control their urges?
(You need to read this)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1071-2432347,00.html

Vermont poised to elect America's first socialist senator
http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1937064,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

Newsnight defends Taliban report
(Unbelievable)
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/021106/newsnight_defends_taliban_report

U.N. Agents Tried to Stop Nicaragua's Vote on Abortion
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14645.shtml

Iran Tests Shahab-3 Missiles in Military Exercise
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aI7fOBx2dFM0&refer=home

When Tolerance Invades
by Ellen W. Horowitz
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6657

McCaskill Watch
Missouri ACORN Workers Indicted, 35,000 Questionable Forms!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/missouri-acorn-workers-indicted-35000.html

The Unreported Good News From Iraq Vs. the Leaked News
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/unreported-good-news-from-iraq-vs.html

CHAVEZ’S HAND IN OAXACA? (Read the whole blog)
http://www.publiuspundit.com/

Check it out (All the links here):
Midterm prediction - Right Wing News has the collective opinion of right-of-center bloggers (including yours truly) on whether the GOP will hold the House and Senate.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006713

South Park Tackles Evolution
http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006726

Did You Vote in '06? By CavalierX
(Read it or Weep)
http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006724

I’m not as optimistic as others, but maybe they know something I don’t (http://time-blog.com/allen_report/2006/10/why_some_top_republicans_think.html).

All eyes on Kerry

Theory: John Kerry planned the “botched joke.”
http://vikingpundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/all-eyes-on-kerry-theory-john-kerry.html

Religion of peace update – Jeff Jacoby reviews the march of jihad in countries all around the world. Time to wake up, Europe.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/01/scenes_from_the_jihad?mode=PF

Al-Qaida able to build nuke weapon inside U.S. Determined terrorists with less than $10 million could murder 100,000 Americans within months
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52733

US Says Has Evidence, Syria, Iran And Hizbullah Are Plotting To Topple Democratically Elected Lebanese Government
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3322572%2C00.html

UN Admits Syria Arming Hizbullah, UNIFIL Takes Nights Off
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114650

Kerry Used Soldier's Funeral To Solicit Campaign Help. Authors Say Representative Asked Parents To Speak Out Against President Bush
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52726

Libs At Georgetown Stop Minutemen co-founder Jim Gilchrist
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006256.htm

Michael J. Fox's TV Ads Are All Wrong
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17815

Kerryism [Victor Davis Hanson]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmEzZGYwYzk0ZDE3YTM0NjY4MmY3Nzg3NDNjNzM5MjY=

Sheesh.
Immigrant vote drive disappoints backers
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-01-immigrantvoters_x.htm

Irey Nailing Murtha on Abscam (new ad) http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/nailing_murtha_on_abscam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get on the phone It is time to get on the phone. While sending money to candidates will help them out now, what will help even more is calling voters. You can help. The RNC has put together a little project and turned it into an inter-blog competition. Let's see which Right of Center Blog can call the most voters and encourage them to vote. It's very easy. Go here. You'll provide your contact information and then, on the screen, you'll see the name of an individual to call and check boxes for once you've called them. It's time to Get On The Phone. Go try it out here. http://www.gop.com/NeighborToNeighbor/Signup.aspx?refid=8&CampaignId=4 http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/get_on_the_phone Campaign Video, Hanging Patricia Madrid on Her Own Words http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/more_of_hanging_patricia_madrid_on_her_own_words Yesterday's fantastic Heather Wilson Ad http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/fantastic_ad_from_heather_wilson Dang, how'd I miss this yesterday? BREAKING: Kerry pulls list of Democrats he's campaigned for from his website The former Presidential nominee is ratcheting up his efforts to protect Democrat candidates from himself. (Not to worry, Redstate has the cached page) snip: The organization Fidelis America recovered the deleted page, which indicates that he raised and/or contributed $3,173,000 to 18 Senate candidates and $1,058,000 to 20 House candidates. Bob Casey, Jr. was the top recipient of funds among Senate candidates, collecting over $586,000 from Kerry, and Tammy Duckworth, was the top recipient of funds among House candidates, collecting over $209,000 from Kerry. Included in the removed portion of Kerry's website are two candidates pictured in uniform, along with three known veterans. Where are they on this -- besides seeking shelter for themselves, and abandoning their fellow soldiers who Kerry so insulted? http://www.redstate.com/stories/breaking_news/breaking_kerry_pulls_list_of_democrats_hes_campaigned_for_from_his_website For the record again: Who's Enlisting in the Military? http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm - In which we remember that Seymour Hersh is a turd (the pig who backed Kerry and claims to have seen a tape of our guys engaging in atrocities; After which he stated "there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq." Don't forget to read his background (in post link) http://www.redstate.com/blogs/leverkuhn/2006/nov/02/in_which_we_remember_that_seymour_hersh_is_a_turd Winning Small WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS: Majorities in Congress aren’t formed by the national zeitgeist, as Mr. Rove cheerfully points out. They are built one race at a time. And in dozens of close contests this fall, the outcome will be determined largely by one often-overlooked minority group: the mostly white and mostly conservative voters who live in America’s small towns. Residents of rural areas make up only a fifth of the country’s population. That’s a little less than African-Americans and Hispanics combined. But unlike voters in those minority groups, small-town whites are often kingmakers in national politics. In 2004, they voted for George W. Bush by nearly a 20-point margin. Newspapers ran headlines that baffled their urban readers: “Rural Values Proved Pivotal,” “Conservatives in Rural Ohio Big Key in Bush Victory,” and “G.O.P. Won With Accent on Rural and Traditional.” This year, those same right-leaning small towns make up a major voting bloc in a half-dozen make-or-break Senate races, like those in Missouri, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia. They also dominate battleground House districts throughout the country, from Idaho to northern New York. If rural America embraces Republicans with the same fervor it did two years ago, Democrats will almost certainly be denied a majority in the Senate and may fall short in the House. In part, the electoral importance of small towns reflects a profound rural bias hardwired into our political system. The Constitution grants two Senate seats to each state regardless of its population. As a consequence, a majority of senators are elected by voters in 26 sparsely settled states that together contain less than 18 percent of the country’s population. Mr. Mann's own book on rural America suggests why the GOP will never lose the filibuster electorally. http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/wisdom_of_the_f.html PURITY VS. ELECTABILITY: Abandoning the See-Saw of Centrism (Sally Kohn, November 2, 2006, AlterNet) If you listen closely this election season, you can hear the sound of Democratic candidates scraping their bottoms in a hasty rush toward the center. But the reasoning is unclear. In a political climate where once-preposterous, archconservative ideas are now the status quo, shifting the political center of balance to the middle would only aid that Right-wing tilt. As the center of politics is masqueraded as the new left, the right becomes the new center. If Democrats seem generally allergic to articulating moral convictions and standing up for what they believe, election season exacerbates this condition. http://www.alternet.org/story/43787/ The problem is that their convictions are amoral and they're running in a moralist society, which is why they have to keep their ideology so carefully hidden in order to be competitive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NICE TIMING, KARL: Iraq Set To Condemn Saddam, as U.S. Vote Nears (ELI LAKE, November 2, 2006, NY Sun) http://www.nysun.com/article/42757 Two days before Americans vote in congressional midterm elections, a court in Baghdad could deliver a boost to President Bush's party — a guilty verdict and even a death sentence for Saddam Hussein. On November 5, the Iraqi High Tribunal is scheduled to deliver a verdict against the deposed Iraqi dictator and his co-defendants for their role in the 1985 murder of 148 Shiite Arabs in the town of Dujail. The decision would mark the Iraqi court's first verdict against Saddam after more than two years of proceedings, three changes in chief judges, and the murder of four defense lawyers. The decision could dominate the November 5 and 6 news cycles before the November 7 midterm elections in America, where the Iraq war has become a political loser for Republican candidates at the state and federal levels. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (From the WTH files) NEVER HEARD OF THE DIVISION OF LABOR?: NATO Behind The Attack On Madrasa? (Syed Saleem Shahzad, 02 November, 2006, Asia Times Online) http://www.countercurrents.org/pak-shahzad021106.htm via: http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/never_heard_of_1.html The New York Times lies about John Kerry http://www.tigerhawk.blogspot.com/

LOL Spock Video
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/203442.php

Shock: Men's Testosterone Drops Over Past 20 Years
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/203429.php

South Park Evolution (total)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/01/video-south-park-on-evolution/

Hello! Four Indicted In MO ACORN Scandal; Over 35,000 Fraudlent Voter Registrations
—Ace
I can't blame the media, I guess, for ignoring this story. I did. Even though Larwyn kept feeding me Gateway Pundit links.

I can't ignore it anymore.

Kid Rock Joins Bouchard Campaign in Michigan
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/ade95c9a-94b1-453f-81ca-60ac8ba9b132

36% Ashamed To Be A Democrat

Yep, Zogby has confirmed Democrats are ashamed to be democrats:

We asked, are you proud or ashamed of your political party, and 71 percent of the Republicans said that they were proud, which is not good. That means some 20 percent are not proud, are ashamed or not sure. But for the Democrats it was 64 percent who said that they were proud - meaning one in three are ashamed

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/11/1/175446.shtml?s=lh

From Powerline Blog:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/

A Salute to those fine men and women of 1st Bridgade/34th Infantry, who made a banner in answer to Kerry.

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015732.php

Columnist Stephen Morse of the Daily Pennsylvanian greeted Bob Casey with a few questions yesterday when Casey arrived to speak at the University of Pennsylvania. Morse tried to get a comment from Casey about the cancellation of John Kerry's scheduled appearance with Casey. Morse also asked Casey questions about what Morse views as Casey's underreported pro-life stance.

Morse reports that for his efforts he got an elbow to the stomach from Casey campaign spokesman Larry Smar:
http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?section=2&keyword=27

I decided to leave the media pack and go off on my own. I was met with nothing less than Larry Smar obnoxiously covering my camera with a folder, accusing me of working with Virginia Davis (Rick Santorum's press secretary) and an off-camera elbow to the stomach. Thanks Larry!

Morse has posted video of his encounter with Casey and Smar (sans the elbow to the stomach) at the link above on The Spin, site of online comments by the Daily Pennsylvanian's columnists.
http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?section=2

The U.S. government has expressed concern over "mounting evidence" that Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are planning to topple the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378306758&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

At the same time, Walid Jumblatt, longtime leader of the minority Druze community in Lebanon, says that Syria is sending arms to Hezbollah without impediment. "As long as the Syria-Lebanon border is not being monitored effectively, the flow of weapons will continue and there will be instability," Jumblatt said during a visit to Washington.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20061031-100116-5406r.htm

He added that the image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has soared in the Arab and Muslim world because of the tough resistance his fighters put up against Israel, although Nasrallah still does not command anything like majority support in Lebanon.

I guess that's why those Syrian arms are so important.

Mike Can Win
http://time-blog.com/allen_report/2006/11/upset_in_michigan.html

Pelosi to Dems: 'Do as I say, not as I do.'
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/pelosi_to_dems_do_as_i_say_not_as_i_do

***Excellent
Your 109th Congress
The Fruits of a Republican Majority
(mind you, doesn't include legislation blocked by the democrats... i'd love to see that list)

http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/your_109th_congress

Irey Nailing Murtha on Abscam (new ad)
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/nailing_murtha_on_abscam

Get on the phone

It is time to get on the phone.

While sending money to candidates will help them out now, what will help even more is calling voters. You can help.

The RNC has put together a little project and turned it into an inter-blog competition. Let's see which Right of Center Blog can call the most voters and encourage them to vote.

It's very easy.

Go here. You'll provide your contact information and then, on the screen, you'll see the name of an individual to call and check boxes for once you've called them.

It's time to Get On The Phone.

Go try it out here.

http://www.gop.com/NeighborToNeighbor/Signup.aspx?refid=8&CampaignId=4
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/get_on_the_phone

Campaign Video, Hanging Patricia Madrid on Her Own Words
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/more_of_hanging_patricia_madrid_on_her_own_words

Yesterday's fantastic Heather Wilson Ad
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/fantastic_ad_from_heather_wilson

Dang, how'd I miss this yesterday?

BREAKING: Kerry pulls list of Democrats he's campaigned for from his website
The former Presidential nominee is ratcheting up his efforts to protect Democrat candidates from himself.
(Not to worry, Redstate has the cached page)

snip:

The organization Fidelis America recovered the deleted page, which indicates that he raised and/or contributed $3,173,000 to 18 Senate candidates and $1,058,000 to 20 House candidates. Bob Casey, Jr. was the top recipient of funds among Senate candidates, collecting over $586,000 from Kerry, and Tammy Duckworth, was the top recipient of funds among House candidates, collecting over $209,000 from Kerry.

Included in the removed portion of Kerry's website are two candidates pictured in uniform, along with three known veterans. Where are they on this -- besides seeking shelter for themselves, and abandoning their fellow soldiers who Kerry so insulted?

http://www.redstate.com/stories/breaking_news/breaking_kerry_pulls_list_of_democrats_hes_campaigned_for_from_his_website

For the record again:
Who's Enlisting in the Military?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm
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In which we remember that Seymour Hersh is a turd
(the pig who backed Kerry and claims to have seen a tape of our guys engaging in atrocities; After which he stated "there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."

Don't forget to read his background (in post link)
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/leverkuhn/2006/nov/02/in_which_we_remember_that_seymour_hersh_is_a_turd

Winning Small
WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS:

Majorities in Congress aren’t formed by the national zeitgeist, as Mr. Rove cheerfully points out. They are built one race at a time. And in dozens of close contests this fall, the outcome will be determined largely by one often-overlooked minority group: the mostly white and mostly conservative voters who live in America’s small towns.

Residents of rural areas make up only a fifth of the country’s population. That’s a little less than African-Americans and Hispanics combined. But unlike voters in those minority groups, small-town whites are often kingmakers in national politics.

In 2004, they voted for George W. Bush by nearly a 20-point margin. Newspapers ran headlines that baffled their urban readers: “Rural Values Proved Pivotal,” “Conservatives in Rural Ohio Big Key in Bush Victory,” and “G.O.P. Won With Accent on Rural and Traditional.”

This year, those same right-leaning small towns make up a major voting bloc in a half-dozen make-or-break Senate races, like those in Missouri, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia. They also dominate battleground House districts throughout the country, from Idaho to northern New York. If rural America embraces Republicans with the same fervor it did two years ago, Democrats will almost certainly be denied a majority in the Senate and may fall short in the House.

In part, the electoral importance of small towns reflects a profound rural bias hardwired into our political system. The Constitution grants two Senate seats to each state regardless of its population. As a consequence, a majority of senators are elected by voters in 26 sparsely settled states that together contain less than 18 percent of the country’s population.

Mr. Mann's own book on rural America suggests why the GOP will never lose the filibuster electorally.

http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/wisdom_of_the_f.html

PURITY VS. ELECTABILITY:
Abandoning the See-Saw of Centrism (Sally Kohn, November 2, 2006, AlterNet)

If you listen closely this election season, you can hear the sound of Democratic candidates scraping their bottoms in a hasty rush toward the center. But the reasoning is unclear. In a political climate where once-preposterous, archconservative ideas are now the status quo, shifting the political center of balance to the middle would only aid that Right-wing tilt. As the center of politics is masqueraded as the new left, the right becomes the new center.

If Democrats seem generally allergic to articulating moral convictions and standing up for what they believe, election season exacerbates this condition.

http://www.alternet.org/story/43787/

The problem is that their convictions are amoral and they're running in a moralist society, which is why they have to keep their ideology so carefully hidden in order to be competitive.

NICE TIMING, KARL:
Iraq Set To Condemn Saddam, as U.S. Vote Nears (ELI LAKE, November 2, 2006, NY Sun)
http://www.nysun.com/article/42757

Two days before Americans vote in congressional midterm elections, a court in Baghdad could deliver a boost to President Bush's party — a guilty verdict and even a death sentence for Saddam Hussein.

On November 5, the Iraqi High Tribunal is scheduled to deliver a verdict against the deposed Iraqi dictator and his co-defendants for their role in the 1985 murder of 148 Shiite Arabs in the town of Dujail. The decision would mark the Iraqi court's first verdict against Saddam after more than two years of proceedings, three changes in chief judges, and the murder of four defense lawyers.

The decision could dominate the November 5 and 6 news cycles before the November 7 midterm elections in America, where the Iraq war has become a political loser for Republican candidates at the state and federal levels.

(From the WTH files)
NEVER HEARD OF THE DIVISION OF LABOR?:
NATO Behind The Attack On Madrasa? (Syed Saleem Shahzad, 02 November, 2006, Asia Times Online)

http://www.countercurrents.org/pak-shahzad021106.htm

via:
http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/never_heard_of_1.html

The New York Times lies about John Kerry
http://www.tigerhawk.blogspot.com/

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