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The Boulder police are on this on. Should have this wrapped up in no time. ARTICLE

The left-wing group that calls itself People for the American Way got the shock of its life when it honored peacenik Canadian rocker Neil Young - and he said President Bush's anti-terrorism measures were necessary. "We can't forget what brought us together and what we're living for, what makes us who we are, even though to protect freedom it seems that we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time," Young said Tuesday at the limousine-liberal group's annual dinner in (where else?) Beverly Hills. More than a few eyebrows were raised, Reuters ...

President Bush has justified U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, in part, on "world opinion." That is a very weak argument, indeed. The U.S. government has a constitutional obligation to defend the United States whether or not the rest of the world supports us. And, in the case of Afghanistan, the world most definitely does not support us. International polls demonstrate conclusively that the world opposes our actions. The biggest public opinion survey conducted thus far by Gallup International – taking in 37 countries in late September – found that only in the U.S., Israel and India did majorities support military ...

Sen. John McCain (R-Az) hinted Wednesday morning that the expected retirement of House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tx) is somehow tied to the burgeoning Enron scandal. While McCain said he didn't believe Armey was personally implicated in any wrongdoing, the leading Senate Republican invoked the Enron bankruptcy imbroglio out of the blue when asked about his congressional colleague during an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus. The curious exchange went like this: IMUS: Have you talked to Dick Armey? Do you know why he's retiring? MCCAIN: No. I do not know. I do not know why he's.... IMUS: ...

A couple of calls and a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman showed me the need for an EIB Economics Seminar to debunk some of the left's big myths. Our economics education is so inept, someone has to do it - and who's more qualified than Professor Limbaugh? Back in 1984, I saw a Roper poll where more than 50% of Americans said there should be a limit on how much Americans can make. Well, hell's bells! That is flat out ridiculous! Yet this always pops up, as it did on Tuesday when we heard Friedman say that Bush ...

Here is a lenghty article. Since it is a lenghty article I have put the link here. It is about a journalist beaten in Pakistan/Afghanistan. Beaten Journalist

Oh, and this is juicy. It's good. I have a great bit of analysis on this economy and the Democrats' attempt now to blame the tax cuts for the lack of surpluses and the re-emergence of deficits. First question: How in the world can tax cuts equaling $300 billion wipe out a projected surplus of 1.4 trillion? Second question: How in the world can tax cuts reduce government revenue at all when, from JFK to Reagan, they have always increased government revenue? The answer to both questions is "They can't," but facts don't matter to the Democrats. As soon as ...

Most of the discussion of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism reconfiguration of the justice system has focused on whether or not these changes violate the U.S. Constitution. I'm plenty concerned about that too, but there's another legal standard that the Bushies appear to be flouting—the Geneva Convention. Consider the plan to try some accused terrorists in military tribunals and wiretap their meetings with lawyers. The Fourth Convention, issued in 1949 and titled "Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War," safeguards "as a minimum" the rights of all "persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including ...

The Associated Press brings us a fantastic story of teenage love triumphing over all odds. Headline: "H.S. Yearbook Will Feature Lesbians." Out of Dover, New Hampshire, the article reads, "Two girls will be listed in their high school yearbook as "class sweethearts" after the superintendent Tuesday overruled the school principal and said same-sex couples were eligible for the title. Dover High School seniors overwhelmingly named Nicole Salisbury and Ashley Lagasse as "class sweethearts." The school's principal, Robert Pedersen, pointed out that the ballots asked students to pick "one male and one female," and that the vote invalidated the results. Students ...

Former senior Federal Aviation Administration official Linda Hall Daschle, wife of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, was cited in a report on Wednesday for failing to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy she announced in 1996 against violent airline passengers - a pledge that some say could have prevented the 9/11 terrorist hijackings that killed 4,000 Americans had it not been ignored. With Mrs. Daschle serving, first as Deputy FAA Administrator and then as Acting FAA Administrator from 1993 to 1997, the agency received hundreds of complaints throughout the 1990's about passengers who had become unruly, assaulted flight crews and threatened ...

Here is an interview with the piece of trash American Taliban. The article is linked below due to length.

Has anyone heard if this piece of trash is dead? I have not heard anything. ANOTHER OBITUARY His name was Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. He was a spokesman for Osama bin Laden. He pledged that America would suffer "a storm of planes." He made a televised statement in October praising the September 11 attacks. A Kuwaiti newspaper says he was killed in the fighting at Kandahar. He is survived by two goats and a sheep. May he rest in pieces.

This is the transcript from the Larry King Live show. The father of the American Taliban is hoping the US shows his son mercy. I have linked the article below since it is rather lengthy.

LONDON: The United States has asked Britain to help prepare military strikes against Somalia in the next phase of the global campaign against terrorism, the Sunday Telegraph reported here. US President George W Bush indicated last week that Somalia, Yemen and Sudan were likely to be the next targets in the war on terrorism because of their links to Al-Qaeda. A team of British military top-brass which visited the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, last week was asked to prepare a strategy for attacks on sites in Somalia, the paper said. They have now returned to London to ...

BACKGROUND: Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) has made misleading statements regarding the resistance of U.S. nuclear power plants to terrorist attacks. Rebuttal statements come from a National Center for Public Policy Research paper written by nuclear scientists Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford and an interview with Gerald Marsh. Rep. Markey: "Recent studies have concluded that an aircraft attack on spent nuclear fuel could have the same impact as a ten kiloton nuclear bombŠ" Scientists: "If the dry-storage facility were directly hit by the jetliner, a fewŠ [fuel storage] casks might be broken, but the ensuring fire could not disperse ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military suspended the air drops of large bundles of humanitarian aid after the death of a civilian in Afghanistan. Officials said a 1,200-pound container of humanitarian supplies hit a house northeast of Mazar-e-Sharif. The bundle contained food and cold weather gear. It crushed the house, killing a woman inside. Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said the death is obviously very unfortunate, and the United States deeply regrets the loss of life. She said the U.S. Central Command wants to determine how the accident happened, and take steps to prevent another one. In the meantime, she said crews ...

I want to prove to you what I've always said about the Democrats wanting to make as many of us as possible into beggars, into people who think they're losers who can't ever get a job. After all, it's easy to say these things. Anybody can come on the radio and say anything and then run off to the doctor. But I'm going to back it up here with an Associated Press story that ran on Sunday. "A requirement that certain able-bodied public housing tenants perform community service or face eviction is being put on hold before most communities ...

If anyone wants to read a feel good story. Here it is. Our military men rock. Miracle

CHAPEL HILL, NC -- A rabbi who was charged earlier this year with assault on a female has left his ministry. Rabbi Pinchas Lew moved to Chapel Hill three years ago to run the Chabad House, a center for Lubavitch Judaism. He spent much of this year defending his reputation after word got out that he drove the getaway car in an armed robbery that resulted in the shooting of a convenience store clerk eleven years ago in Iowa. Lew was also accused this summer of exposing and fondling himself in front of a 20-year-old housekeeper who worked at ...

It's about time! I was beginning to worry that George II didn't have it in him, that he might wander off to vacation in Omaha again. But finally, the bombs are raining down on Afghanistan and, as Martha Stewart says, that's a good thing. Oh, don't get me wrong -- I deplore war and killing and violence. But, hey, I'm a pragmatist, I know where I live, this is America and dammit, somebody's ass had to get kicked! Our Leader, a former baseball club owner, could have at least had the decency to wait one more day until the baseball ...