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As the year draws to an end and President Bush enters his final month in office, there is much commentary about the Administration's record over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories assail and distort the President's record and recycle myths and unfounded allegations that have been leveled for the better part of his two terms. Historical accuracy requires a response to the litany of attacks leveled against President Bush, and while there's not enough space to respond to all of them, here are five of the most egregious:

I need help. I want to put together a nice consolidated packet of the major problems with Obama. I'm looking for information on his ties with all his questionable friends and illegal activities. His statements on abortion and infanticide and hs comments about Christians and his questionable ties to his cousin in Africa. I would especially like to find any audio, video, or transcripts of him calling himself the "Anointed," or "Chosen One". I realize I could do searches, but I am hoping that someone out there can make my work real easy. Yea it may seem I'm lazy, but...

This may be a very effective email we could send to everyone between now & Election. Included the most powerful, convincing points, thought-proving facts, videos. PLEASE USE it! I already emailed to 50, and will email 100 tomorrow Shocking Videos & Facts You MUST See Before You Vote On The President! I am not a Democrat nor a Republican, I was recently one of those” undecided voters”, but after exhaustive research, I’m relieved that I’m no longer undecided. What I have discovered shook me up. How come I didn’t hear these things from the media? If you are reasonable, open...

Before You Vote… By James D. Agresti - The views expressed here are those of the author and are not endorsed by http://justfacts.com/ Before you walk into a voting booth on election day, there are certain facts you should be aware of. Barack Obama and his allies in the press have buried these facts and are hoping they stay buried. They are uncovered here, each one accurate, in context, and thoroughly documented by footnotes to reliable sources. THE ECONOMY Barack Obama has been blaming the current economic crisis on Bush, yet he fails to identify even one specific policy that...

'Obama Jeopordy' is an educational game I worked on whenever I found new information about Barack Obama and his radical history. There are 50 statements and "question" answers. A few examples of the game here. I'm not sure how I can post a link to it. Maybe someone can help me with that? Or you can email me if you want a copy. 2. Barack Obama said that this Black Liberation Theology preacher has been his "spiritual mentor and father figure" for 20 years. (Who is Trinity United Church of Christ Rev. Jeremiah Wright?) 5. This is to Black Liberation...

Other than Obama’s rude childish habit of shouting over top of McCain and making pompous faces anytime he wasn’t talking, he didn’t say much. But he did manage to do more than his fair share of talking without ever uttering a single truth, not that truth matters much in this country anymore. • Obama talked about the need for holding those responsible for the current financial crisis accountable. But he didn’t include himself, his leftist friends who turned the mortgage industry into another failed welfare program, his campaign advisors who stole tens of millions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

WASHINGTON - Even when Rep. Charles Rangel tries to explain how he got into his tax mess, he mangles the facts so much it's easy to see how his accounts — and accountants — are muddled. And this from the lawmaker who has such a big say in determining who pays taxes and how much. The chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee spent the past week reeling from a series of embarrassing revelations: He failed to report about $75,000 in rental income over two decades from a beach villa he owns in the Dominican Republic; he owes...

In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual.

Gun Facts version 5.0 is now available A new version of Gun Facts is now available, both as a free e-book and as a printed version. Gun Facts debunks all common gun control myths. Organized by gun control myths and with over 480 detailed citations, firearm policy wonks can rapidly refute the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, the Legal Community Against Violence, and other cauldrons of canards. Gun Facts 5.0 has 94 packed pages of information. Gun Facts is grouped into chapters on common gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, international, etc.) which make finding...

British newspaper writing is famously more vigorous and readable than its American equivalent. But this comes at a price: there’s a good chance that anything you read in a British newspaper isn’t true. When I worked as a leader writer for an American ­paper I was embarrassed when I was told that it was official policy not to trust any item in any British paper except the FT. American journalists work within a stringent code of ethics. If a journalist for a major paper or TV network is found to have run a false story — perhaps because it was...

Traveling across the web, the above cartoon turned up. More specifically, the above interesting cartoon turned up. It was first posted at a site (jaspar jottings) where the poster was if he was a racist for posting the cartoon. Of course, it an Obama supporter posing the question. Apparently, it had not occurred that posting carefully-documented information is not usually an M.O. of a racist. Some well-concealed facts about Obama and his Muslim upbringing. How many did you know?

Today, the NY Times has the first part of a special series - War Torn:Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles. It appears that the troops are coming home and becoming murderers. Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories. Lakewood, Wash.: "Family Blames Iraq After Son Kills Wife." Pierre, S.D.: "Soldier Charged With Murder Testifies About Postwar Stress." Colorado Springs: "Iraq War Vets Suspected in Two Slayings, Crime Ring." Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the...

Many people here know that socialists/liberals like to tell people/voters sedative fairy tales as one can see during this US presidential electoral campaign... But the facts are hard and true.... A new study about the french National Healthcare from Georges LANE,economy professor at Paris-IX-Dauphine University,was published by "Contribuables associés" very recently(=associated taxpayers)and aired by the magazine "Valeurs Actuelles" last week.... And the result is stunning: 1/Actually the average french worker is paying more than a half of hese incomes for a partial health coverage.For a full health coverage french have to take another insurance. 2/Despite this huge taxes the "Social...

Fred Thompson once fought fire with fire. Fire was admitted to the hospital with third degree burns covering eighty percent of its body.

I really think that this is one of the big stories of the day. Maybe because it is something I've been saying for years ... about liberals, that is. It looks like we have a high-powered brain scientist serving as the latest advisor to the Democratic party. Drew Westen conducted research which leads to his conclusion that politicians – liberal politicians -- should try and appeal to people's emotions, rather than bogging them down with data and facts. Where did we first find out about this research? Why, at the ultra-left wing "Take Back America" convention, that's where. The study...

Today, FIRE announced the decision by a disciplinary panel at Tufts to find the conservative student newspaper, The Primary Source, guilty of “harassment” for, among other things, publishing a satirical ad that listed less-than-flattering facts about Islam during Tufts’ Islamic Awareness Week. You can see the ad here, and Eugene Volokh has also published it with excellent commentary over at his blog, but, just to make sure people see the ad for themselves, I have reprinted the full text: Islam Arabic Translation: Submission In the Spirit of Islamic Awareness Week, the SOURCE presents an itinerary to supplement the educational experience....

-- If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Mayers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice. -- 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight. -- Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours. -- Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys. -- Jack and Jill went up the hill. Only Jack came down. Jill was a terrorist. -- The only reason you're...

Test your knowledge and common sense in this simple 10-question test. Caution: This section contains sound science, not media hype, and may therefore contain material not suitable for young people trying to get a good grade in political correctness. Question 1

A nation which is able to confront an enemy is a nation which knows where she comes from. Learn the US history without politically correctness and revisionism. You have been told that the US cavalry constantly massacred innocent Native Americans in their villages, because of a "genocidal" expansion. It is a lie. The war on the Great Plaines was complex, and most of the time, the story behind the "politically correct myth" is much more illuminating. Watch this video. Learn your history, see where you come from. And fight politically correctness at home.

Many historians in America are complaining that people are not interested in American History, and not ready to want accuracy. Here is a video about Custer's Last Stand, in words and pictures. Enjoy 6 minutes of accurate American history! (this video was done by a Custer historian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA

Every Easter season the anti-Jesus crowd comes out of the woodwork creating some "controversy" about Jesus. This latest one, like many, is years old and was dusted off for the latest round of baseless attacks on Jesus' historicity. Historian Paul L. Maier explains further: Thanks for the profusion of e-mails I’ve received over the last two days regarding the Talpiot tombs discovery in Jerusalem, a.k.a., “the Jesus Family Tomb” story. Some of you also suggested that “life seemed to be following art” so far as my A Skeleton in God’s Closet was concerned. Believe me, this is not the way...

Brazil described as “childish and amateur” Bolivia’s indication that it may cancel a scheduled presidential bilateral summit, if Brazil does not pay more for Bolivian natural gas. According to reports in Sao Paulo’s press Brazil’s Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim reacted “harshly” to his Bolivian counterpart, David Choquehuanca, statements who conditioned the next summit to the evolvement of natural gas negotiations. Brazil’s Foreign Affairs ministry, Itamaraty, described the threat to cancel Bolivian president Evo Morales visit to Brazil as “childish and amateur”, reported Folha de Sao Paulo. Over the weekend Choquehuanca said that “the final declaration from the two presidents...

WASHINGTON - President Bush promised a diplomatic offensive to win support for Iraq from Middle Eastern countries that, if anything, have become more hostile to U.S. policy in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's execution. In doses of rhetoric hard to square with facts in the region, Bush portrayed the ordinary people of the Middle East as being behind U.S. goals in Iraq, in his speech to the nation Wednesday night. And he declared the need to address Iran's and Syria's support for insurgents, without acknowledging his refusal to engage either country diplomatically, as many U.S. allies and the Iraq Study Group...

I found this unbelievable. Even with all this snow, mean temperatures in Denver, CO are not lower than usual. Fascinating.

Let’s shag a few easy fly balls to warm up, shall we? The Chickenhawk argument goes something like this: anyone who favors military action should not be taken seriously unless they themselves are willing to go and do the actual fighting. This particular piece of work is an anti-war crowd attempt to silence the debate by ruling that the other side is out of bounds for the duration. Like all ad hominem attacks, (argumentum ad hominem means “argument against the person”) it is an act of intellectual surrender. The person who employs an ad hominem attack is admitting they cannot...

INCORRECT NEWSWEEK CLAIM: “The 2003 invasion of Iraq did more than divert essential resources from Afghanistan; it created a test lab for new insurgent weapons and tactics that have since been adopted by the Taliban.�RESPONSE: The assertion that the Iraq invasion “diverted� resources from Afghanistan is a talking point of critics of the Bush administration. It is an opinion, not a fact.Resources to Afghanistan have increased since Operation Iraqi Freedom began. In March 2003, the United States had about 9,500 troops in Afghanistan. Today, there are more than 21,000 U.S. forces either under U.S. or NATO command in Afghanistan...

In an Oct. 4, 2006 editorial, “How to Lose a War,� the Washington Post makes a series of unfounded accusations, based largely on three books on Iraq written by its reporters. A few of the most egregious errors of fact are corrected below:INCORRECT WASHINGTON POST CLAIM:  “President Bush and his most senior aides meanwhile stubbornly refused to listen to advisers who warned of the consequences of their policies.�RESPONSE:  The president listened to the advice and recommendations of a broad range of people with differing views on how to approach the situation in Iraq. The suggestion that he may have...

An Army Major who worked with detainees at Guantanamo Bay as a nurse has given (Patterico) an exclusive series of interviews on his experiences at that facility. In the opening segment, Patterico describes how he came to know this person, and how he verified his bona fides. Posts to come will include the following topics: Part Two: Stashiu arrives at GTMO, and tells us what the terrorists are like. Part Three: Hunger strikes, suicides and suicide attempts, and mental illness. Part Four: Treatment of the detainees Part Five: Stashiu reacts to Big Media pieces about GTMO. It should be interesting,...

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NTRODUCTION: Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalist, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment. Gun Facts has 84 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy. Each chapter lists common gun control myths, then lists a number of documented and cited facts that directly dispute the gun control claim. Thus when a neighbor, editor, or...

Serious movement in D.C. – and if I hadn't been there, I would not have believed it. For several months Joan Wire and her daughter have been trying to secure an appointment with a highly effective government official we'll simply call Mr. Washington. Joan Wire is the stalwart wife of Mike Wire. Mike is the storied "man on the bridge," the single most critical eyewitness in the saga of TWA Flight 800, the 747 that was inexplicably blown out of the sky on the night of July 17, 1996. The CIA built its notorious zoom-climb animation around Mike's position on...

Need some freeper help. I will be going to freep Cindy Sheehan and the lefties. It was suggested that we also have some brief (bullet point etc) fact sheets for folks who 'turn up' on our side. The goal is to rapidly inform folks who know what they believe is right and have some facts to back them up BUT who aren't as involved as we are and may lack some of the finer points to slap the libs around.I would love some links etc to GOOD (ie no stretches) fact sheets. I am also fine with summarizing such sheets...

Here's the real debate: is it the team of Gov. Arnold Schwarzneegger or Democrat Phil Angelides who is telling the truth about upcoming gubernatorial debates? The Schwarzennegger campaign, in recent emails to reporters, suggested that the camp of Phil Angelides has been guilty of game-playing in getting a debate together. Campaign spokeswoman Katie Levinson, in a recent email, slammed what she called "the Angelides campaign's recent publicity stunts, unilateral and fictitious agreements and ongoing debates with themselves in the media," saying they were "an attempt by a flailing campaign to divert attention from Mr. Angelides' $18 billion tax hike." Schwarzenegger...

Each year about this time, some parents write in to ask for suggestions of things for their children to read during the summer, in order to counteract the steady diet of liberal-left indoctrination they have been getting in schools and colleges. This year there is a new book that is almost tailor-made for that purpose. Its title is "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies" by Gregory Jackson. In it, all sorts of political and media spin are shot to pieces by hard facts. If you think that the Constitution of the United States provides for "separation of church and state," that...

WASHINGTON – It should be glorious to be William Gray, professor emeritus. He's the guy who predicts the number of hurricanes for the coming tropical storm season. He works on a country road leading into the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the atmospheric science department of Colorado State University. He's mentored dozens of scientists. He's a towering figure in his profession and in person. He's loud. His laugh is gale force. He can be very charming. He's also angry. He's outraged. He recently had a shouting match with one of his former students. It went on for 45...

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2006 – No good can come of speculation surrounding a Nov. 19 incident in Haditha, Iraq, in which 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed in the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. Marine Gen. Peter Pace also stressed that investigations into alleged misconduct by U.S. Marines in the incident are not yet complete. Appearing on CNN's "American Morning" for what was to have been an interview focusing on the nation's Memorial Day observance today, Pace told Miles O'Brien that two investigations are still in...

A growing number of students and parents are becoming painfully aware of the anti-American bias that occurs at universities throughout the United States. This is not just a matter of indoctrination, but can actually undermine the security of our country, as generations of students learn opinions rather than facts and are taught that defending the United States is a foolish cause. FSM Contributing Editor Charles Mitchell offers the examples of indoctrination that you've never heard and raises the question - why should parents, students, and taxpayers have to pay for professors who would rather teach their own beliefs rather than...

Ethnic studies — a relatively new field — could be harmed by the plagiarized passages and made-up facts discovered in University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's work, a panel found. But scholars of ethnic studies, and those who have been closely watching the investigation, have varying opinions on whether there will be a "Churchill effect" on the field. The stinging report that became public last week rejected Churchill's assertion that there are different research standards for ethnic studies scholars. Panel members also found that the tenured professor strayed from the "bedrock principles" of scholarship. The five-member investigative panel arrived at...

For Immediate ReleaseApril 8, 2006 President's Radio Address       Audio      In Focus: Immigration      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, Members of the United States Senate reached a promising bipartisan compromise on comprehensive immigration reform. Unfortunately, this compromise is being blocked by the Senate Democratic leader who has refused to allow Senators to move forward and vote on amendments to this bill. I call on the Senate Minority Leader to end his blocking tactics and allow the Senate to do its work and pass a fair, effective immigration reform bill.  Radio Address 200620052004200320022001  Radio Interviews 20052004 Immigration is an emotional...

WASHINGTON — A magazine news story suggesting the Bush administration will go to war to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb is long on hype and short on facts, a senior administration official said Sunday. The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh claims in his report that the Bush administration is increasing clandestine activities inside Iran to create regime change and to plan a major air attack. According to the report, members of the Air Force are "drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to...

The number of New York City residents receiving public assistance fell to 402,281 last month, the lowest number since December 1964, at the start of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty, and a decline of nearly two-thirds from its peak of nearly 1.2 million in March 1995, officials announced yesterday.

• Dick Cheney once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean. • Crop circles are Dick Cheney’s way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie down. • Dick Cheney is ten feet tall, weighs two-tons, breathes fire, and could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing. • The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Dick Cheney out. It failed miserably. • Contrary to popular belief, Dick Cheney, not the box...

George Washington used warrantless interception of mail between the British and Americans. In fact, Washington contrived a means of opening British letters without breaking the seals, take copies of the contents, and then let them go on. That fascist Washington, reading mail without a warrant! Abraham Lincoln used warrantless telegraph wiretapping. Lincoln even arrested newspaper publishers. That fascist Lincoln reading every American's telegraph messages and arresting newspaper men without a warrant! President Wilson ordered the warrantless interception of all cable communications between the United States and Europe. That fascist Wilson reading every American's cable wires without a warrant! President Roosevelt...

It is past time that the president insist that his subordinates get the facts out about Iraq's terror connection. by William Kristol 01/16/2006, Volume 011, Issue 17 THE WEEKLY STANDARD IT'S CONVENTIONAL WISDOM. In fact, it's more than conventional wisdom. It's an article of faith among the enlightened: There was no connection, at least no significant connection, between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.Senate minority leader Harry Reid put it this way: "There was [sic] no terrorists in Iraq." His colleague, Carl Levin, member of both the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee, says Iraq's...

Dems In '06 Need To Face The Facts WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------- Since they lost the 2004 elections, Democrats have been giving each other a tremendous amount of free advice. There will be a slew more as the 2006 midterm elections approach - plenty of expensive advice, too. Nobody has asked for mine. That is about all the motivation I need to offer some, on the house. I think the Democrats should shelve all the fancy thinking about how they need to develop a new "values vocabulary," reframe old issues in news terms, learn how to use God-talk, be...

By Al Knight Denver Post Columnist It's been hard lately to ignore the fact that major elements in the electronic news media have stopped concentrating on the collection of information, and have instead focused on predicting the future. It's not a good choice. For one thing, foretelling the future is a really tough job and most journalists have no obvious qualifications for the task.

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Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced nearly four tons of VX, but UN inspectors believed Saddam had imported 600 tons of VX precursors -- enough to produce 200 tons of the nerve agent. VX was clearly important to the regime. According to UNMOVIC’s March 6, 2003 report, [i]n a top secret letter, written in 1987 by the Director-General of Al Muthanna [a large chemical weapons production and storage facility near Baghdad] to senior government officials, the importance of the agent to Iraq was recognized. In the letter, VX was compared to a nuclear weapon: “two tons carried by...

Note: This article may seem pedantic, but it is aimed at those who are not “insiders” on the history of the Middle East.I keep hearing the phrase, “It’s their land,” regarding Palestinian claims to Israel. Terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad publicly assert that their aims are to reclaim every inch of Israel as part of a proposed Palestinian homeland. Unfortunately, these ownership claims are echoed by “activist” groups like the International Solidarity Movement and the Palestine Solidarity Movement, both with throngs of naïve followers on U.S. and European college campuses. The followers are too eager to take these...

The head of an activist Hispanic organization asserted last week in an interview "there's no data" to support allegations that massive numbers of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. 1) are depressing wages for American workers; and 2) are taking jobs from American workers. For the record, neither of her assertions is true - but then again, so much of the illegal immigration debate is devoid of honesty. Janet Murguia, executive director for the extremist National Council of La Raza, told the Arizona Daily Sun: "As long as there's a need for a labor force that's going to fill very...