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Choose which conservative website is imbecilic, idiotic, and created and visited by cretins. ALL OF THEM!, None of them, newsmax.com, lucianne.com, gopusa.com, foxnews.com, drudgereport.com, freerepublic.com, michaelsavage.com, rushlimbaugh.com Ballot #19581: has 24 total votes.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Sunday compared Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal to Hitler's gas chambers and called on Israel to lift travel restrictions on nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu. Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets. "When I think about nuclear weapons, I've been to Auschwitz concentration camp," Maguire said during a joint press conference with Vanunu in Jerusalem. "Nuclear weapons are only gas chambers perfected... and for a people...

AT WAR Question Authority What the media got wrong about Spc. Wilson and Secretary Rumsfeld. BY JOHN R. GUARDIANO Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:01 a.m. To the media, it was a dramatic revelation of Bush administration hypocrisy and incompetence: A lowly American GI courageously speaks truth to power, thus showing that the emperor has no clothes. But to this Marine veteran of the Iraq war, the hullabaloo over Army Spc. Thomas J. Wilson's question reveals far more about media bias, prejudice and ignorance than it does about the U.S. military and Iraq. Spc. Wilson asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why,...

The use of weapons in the four-year-long intifada was a mistake and should end, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday in an interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. Abbas, who is expected to win the January 9 presidential elections in the Palestinian Authority, said Palestinians should resist the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza without resorting to violence. It is important to "keep the uprising away from arms because the uprising is a legitimate right of the people to express their rejection of the occupation by popular and social means," he said. "Using the...

CNN, BBC and Eurosport refuse to air Arad campaign Turn down requests to air adds on missing navigator, after state and a foundation last week issued a $10 million reward for new information on his fate.Eitan Rabin MIA IAF navigator Ron Arad. Three major international networks – The BBC, CNN and Eurosport – are refusing to air adds of the “Born to be Free” foundation for the release of missing IAF navigator Ron Arad. Last week, the state and the foundation formally issued a 10 million dollar reward leading to either the return of Arad, or confirmation as to his...

Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon waged a spirited defense of the IDF's ethical conduct Sunday, telling the cabinet the media distorted reports of alleged Israeli maltreatment of Palestinians. Ya'alon likened the barrage of stories about alleged abuse by IDF soldiers to a tennis-ball machine hurling one "mud ball" after the other. He was backed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who said the media is beset by a "sick desire" to publish reports that are incorrect. Sharon characterized this as "very grave" for the IDF, and said it "causes tremendous damage to Israel's public-relations efforts abroad." Sharon called on...

Walk onto the popular-music floor of Virgin Records in midtown Manhattan, and you encounter, as you’d expect, kids with shoulder tattoos and pierced body parts, wandering through rows of the latest hip-hop, altrock, and heavy-metal CDs as heavily amplified beats thunder. At the checkout counter, though, is a surprise. A single book is on display: perennial radical Noam Chomsky’s latest anti-American screed, 9/11—an impulse item for the in-your-face slackers of the Third Millennium. Strictly speaking, 9/11 is a non-book, a hastily assembled collection of fawning interviews with Chomsky conducted after the terrorist attack on New York City and the country,...

The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle There’s a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and discussion of the so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception. Can anybody understand that? No, they can’t understand it. —Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror, 2003 Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The death toll, he argued, was minor compared to...

www.frontpagemag.com       Return to normal view The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky FrontPageMagazine.com | September 26, 2001URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/horowitz/2001/dh09-26-01p.htm WITHOUT QUESTION, the most devious, the most dishonest and -- in this hour of his nation’s grave crisis – the most treacherous intellect in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses that have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America’s right to defend herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist" anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among the demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training grounds; and wherever...

Oh, great. Someone is now going to "sit down" with Spec. Thomas Wilson to, in the inimitable words of Donald Rumsfeld, "find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know." Wilson is the Tennessee National Guardsman in Kuwait who stood up to the secretary of defense on Wednesday asking why he and his comrades were forced to scour garbage dumps for discarded, rusted metal that they could bolt onto their insufficiently armored vehicles as they prepare to head into the war in Iraq. Rumsfeld, according to...

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan won a standing ovation from the U.N. General Assembly, a rare public display of support in response to recent calls for his resignation from several U.S. lawmakers. U.S. deputy ambassador Patrick Kennedy joined fellow diplomats as they rose to their feet Wednesday, despite President Bush's refusal to support the U.N. chief pending the results of an investigation into alleged corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.[snip]"In 15 years I've spent at the United Nations, this is the second time that the General Assembly had a standing ovation for a leader," he said. The...

As fundamentalist brethren were out beating the bushes for Bush, the annual convention of Western Washington's Episcopalians recently showed in a small way how "mainstream" churches are putting themselves on the margins. The diocesan convention approved a resolution condemning the security wall that Israel is building, ostensibly as protection against terrorists coming from the occupied territories. Debate was cut off before a priest, waiting at the microphone, could offer an amendment to condemn indiscriminate killing by Palestinian terrorists as well as Israeli soldiers. Instead of acting as bridge builders, mainline churches are increasingly, unreservedly embracing one side in the Middle...

Six decades after the mass extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany, more than 50 percent of Germans believe that Israel's present-day treatment of the Palestinians is similar to what the Nazis did to the Jews during World War II, a German survey released this weekend shows. 51 percent of respondents said that there is not much of a difference between what Israel is doing to the Palestinians today and what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust, compared to 49% who disagreed with such a comparison, according to the poll carried out by...

I don't know how many people will be interested in this but I was listening to the radio tonight in Barcelona when a news story came on referring to the "Hebrew Army" and the number of innocent (they were referring to "unarmed civilians") Palestinian deaths it had caused this year. I wrote a letter to the radio (paraphrase) asking them to reconsider the use of the term "Hebrew Army" explaining that it was as equal to referring to the Spanish or Italian (etc) Army as "The Catholic Army" with negative connotations.

This has been a wretched year for Kofi Annan. The U.N. secretary general has looked a forlorn figure on the world stage: Hugely overshadowed as a global leader by George W. Bush and Tony Blair, he has appeared weak and clueless in confronting major problems, including terrorism, WMD proliferation in Iran and elsewhere, and genocide in Sudan. At the same time, the massive scandal over the U.N.'s administration of the Iraq Oil for Food program has brought the world body's reputation to an all-time low. To cap it all, in the wake of a series of internal scandals, the U.N.'s...

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), one of the most adroit and deceptive Islamist groups in America, is preparing its fourth annual convention, which will be held in Long Beach, CA on December 18. It is beyond predictability that this unfortunate event, with participation by some of America's worst apologists for and adherents of Islamist extremism, will hear from its podium extensive complaints that American Muslims are targets of slander, hate, and threats from ordinary non-Muslims, and protests against "ethnic profiling," as well as other forms of purported harassment, by law enforcement. But the same MPAC that comports itself as...

AP articles published on the internet at numerous news outlets, including CBS, tell the story of 8 US soldiers named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit over enlistment extensions they considered unfair. The AP article as published on the CBS website, Soldiers Decry 'Unfair' Extensions, states:The lawsuit contends the policy is a breach of the service contract because it extends the length of service without a soldier's consent. It also alleges the contracts were misleading because they make no reference to the policy, said Staughton Lynd, an attorney for the soldiers. No mention is made of Staughton Lynd's significant past and...

When Secretary of State Colin Powell stepped down earlier this month, the flood of political obituaries were packed with praise, but almost all contained obligatory paragraphs highlighting the top diplomat’s “low point”: his February 2003 speech on Iraq to the United Nations.But no matter how much conventional media wisdom says otherwise, Powell’s presentation on the eve of the Iraq War remains as true today as it was then, which is to say almost entirely so. To claim, as the New York Times editorialized recently, that “Mr. Powell in fact offered half-truths, poorly analyzed intelligence and outright fantasies” is pure fiction...

"To hold a pen is to be at war." -- Voltaire If Abraham Lincoln were president today, CBS and the New York Times might be boarded up, with Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, and even John Kerry rotting in jail. I'm not saying that would be a good thing. The point is simply that the line between treason and free speech in America has moved a considerable distance in the last 142 years. In 1862, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus on his own authority as a way of dealing with the Peace Democrats, better known as copperheads. The copperheads were...

WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups. Dozens of organizations have been subjected to scrutiny, according to the ACLU, which was filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the FBI on Thursday to try to find out why. "We think it's clear that the public is interested in the possible return of FBI spying on political and religious groups," said Ann Beeson, the ACLU's associate legal counsel. The FBI denies singling out individuals or groups...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: AMERICA’S GREATEST WAR CRIMINAL By Ron Holland from Southern Caucus http://www.southerncaucus.org Abraham Lincoln should without a doubt be named America’s greatest war criminal. His war of invasion not only killed over 600,000 innocent Americans but it was obvious from his earlier speeches that he had previously advocated the prevalent constitutional right of democratic, state by state secession. Lincoln’s War also effectively overthrew the existing decentralized, limited federal government that had existed and governed well in the US since established by America’s founding fathers. Lincoln bastardized a respected federal government with limited powers into a dictatorial, uncontrollable Washington federal ...

LONDON -- Actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother and the father of a Guantanamo detainee on Saturday launched a new political party devoted to human rights. The Peace and Progress Party says it will field candidates and endorse politicians with strong human rights records in the next general election. Organizers discussed the party's platform and strategies at a conference that drew several hundred people. "Our goal is to ring the alarm bells about the human rights abuses our government is sanctioning, and to act as a focus for people who want to stand up against them," said Vanessa Redgrave's brother, political...

Since Nov. 2, I've had an icky feeling in the pit of my stomach. As an ardent Bush backer, my queasiness has nothing to do with the glorious election results, but is prompted by a murder that occurred the same day in Amsterdam. Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's short film "Submission," about the treatment of women in Islam, written by female Dutch parliamentarian and former Muslim Aayan Hirsi Ali, had aired in August on Dutch TV. Van Gogh was riding his bike near his home when a Muslim terrorist shot him, slashed his throat, and pinned to his body a...

<p>Announced on ABC Radio News, Dan Rather leaving CBS News. No details.</p> <p>" NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Rather has announced he will step down as "CBS Evening News" anchor next March."</p>

Pg 104…to 107 The third team selected to go into the box was 585….on October 25, 2001, the weather cleared and TIGER 03’s ten Special Forces sergeants finally reached their landing zone outside Dasht-e-Qaleh, a village in the upper northeast corner near the Tajikistan border.

Not welcome ... demonstrators light candles as they protest in front of the National Stadium ofSantiago, Chile, in protest at the APEC summit and US President George Bush's visit. Photo: AP

Watch "Breaking Point - Hating America" Sunday at 9 p.m. and midnight ET, hosted by John Gibson. The anti-American Europeans had worked themselves into a fever pitch in the days leading up to the U.S. election, in anticipation of what they were sure would be a result that would prove they had been right all along (about Bush, about the Kyoto Accords, about WMD, about the Iraq Invasion and Occupation, etc.), and that they had finally been able to educate and raise the consciousness of the American voter. When George W. Bush was returned to the White House the gasp...

(Communists who believe in Trotsky) US media and liberal establishment: accomplices in the assault on Fallujah Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board 9 November 2004 A murderous operation is under way in Fallujah and the entire media and political establishment in the US is an accomplice in the crime. The unfolding massacre in the Iraqi city has failed to elicit an outcry, or even significant questioning of the assault, from these circles. No editorialist at a major newspaper or television news commentator has even hinted at moral qualms over the American onslaught. Not one columnist at the...

VA. - An institution that intends to have a significant impact on the future leadership of the country has been quietly growing in Purcellville and will graduate its first full four-year class of students this month. Patrick Henry Bible College is not your ordinary school of higher learning. "The campus is immaculate, everyone is clean-cut and cheerful. The students about 75% of who have been taught at home rather than in schools - are required to sign a statement of faith before they arrive, confirming (among other things) that they have a literal belief in the teachings of the Bible."...

Jewish groups have objected to a French decision to allow the television arm of Lebanon's Hizb Allah movement to continue broadcasting to Europe using a French satellite operator. The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish organisations accused the French government of failing to protect citizens from broadcasts by the Hizb Allah's Al-Manar TV, which CRIF says includes anti-Semitic films that incite Muslims to attack Jews. "We French citizens are under attack as Jews by this television," CRIF president Roger Cuikerman said on Friday. Arabic-language satellite television is popular with France's five million Muslims, mostly of North African descent. List of...

PARIS - France's audiovisual watchdog agency said Friday it has reached an accord with a Lebanese TV channel linked to the anti-Israel group Hezbollah that allows it to remain on the airwaves in France. The deal came after media regulator CSA had threatened to ban broadcasts by Lebanon's Al-Manar via a Paris satellite operator. Jewish groups complained the network had aired an anti-Semitic series. The regulator on Tuesday gave Al-Manar a license it requested to continue broadcasts through satellite operator Eutelsat into France and many other parts of Europe, the CSA said on its Web site Friday. The CSA took...

Nobles: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for giving some law school students a lesson in Constitution 101. [snip]Knaves: The U.S. media, for taking every opportunity to cast our troops in the worst possible light. [snip]Is one Marine, wary of "dead" terrorists rigged with bombs, more important than the 40-plus Marines who gave their lives in the battle? Does one Marine, weary of fighting and seeing his buddies cut down by fanatics, trump the torture chambers, starving prisoners and disfigured victims that U.S. forces found throughout the city? It would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.[snip]And all the media can...

For over a year now, an ongoing battle between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups has taken place in the streets of San Francisco. Long used to running the show, the anti-Israel crowd is now routinely counter-protested by groups like San Francisco Voice for Israel and Protest Warrior. And judging by the behavior at last weekend’s counter-protest, they’re not too happy about it. The following after-report from San Francisco Voice for Israel provides the details. They say that when a caged rat is cornered, it lashes out. A perfect example of this was the Justice In Palestine rally on Saturday, November 13,...

WHY all the fuss about the recent killing of an unarmed Iraqi in a mosque by a US marine? We are only outraged because the murder has been captured on film, and the US army is only appalled because the marine was stupid enough to commit murder in front of a camera. This is war, and in war this sort of abhorrent behaviour continues every minute of every day all over the country. Check the facts. The US army is able to provide a reliable estimate of the number of insurgents killed (about 1600), but has no idea of the...

Senator John Kerry believes he lost the 2004 presidential election becuase of the video from Usama Bin Laden that surfaced just days before the November 2 election. He told FOX News senior correspondant Geraldo Rivera that he believes the tape may have scared the American electorate.Rivera spoke to Kerry in a holding room to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. 'Tough luck, Senator,' Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrats election loss. Rivera said Kerry responded by saying, 'It was that Usama tape-it scared them.' [the American people]Kerry said...

Legendary pop singer Linda Ronstadt said that supporters of President George W. Bush "voted against themselves" when they reelected the president to a second term and exclaimed that "now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers" because of the war in Iraq. In an article that appeared in USA Today on Wednesday, the 58-year-old crooner spoke openly of her disgust following the recent presidential election. "People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," she exclaimed. When commenting on how she felt about the war in Iraq, Ronstadt noted, "I worry that some people are entertained by the...

Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell was undermining the Pope's efforts to build bridges with Islam, a leading Muslim said yesterday. Keysar Trad, of the Lebanese Muslim Association, said a speech by Cardinal Pell last month in America linking communism and Islam had offended many Muslims. The cardinal said Islam might become the communism of the 21st century, attracting those who were alienated and embittered, as well as justice seekers. A Catholic inter-faith expert said yesterday that the speech left fences to mend, while the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, which will discuss action at its meeting this weekend, said...

Last night I was sickened listening to the glee in the NBC radio report of this so-called crime. In one swoop there are demoralizing our troops in a combat zone, producing propaganda for our enemies around the world, and getting revenge on the President for his victory. In my mind, this is also about making emends in the MSM for the perception that the (half-hearted) NBC response to the false AL-Qaqaa story represented a stand for decency and honor (and the memory of David Bloom). I think with the help of local talk radio and the Freepers in NYC, we...

I'm so damn mad about the cruxifiction that the brave Marine in the NBC video is taking. It make me want to put a boot up someone's behind, but since that would get me in trouble I've decided to try and take some action. If this goes to court martial I think we should take up a defense account for this guy and his family. Before that we can Freep the hell out of the media and the NIS for that matter. Any suggestions about how to support this guy would be appreciated and make my feel better.

I'm wondering if a FReeper with some experience in the arena would like to set up a fund for the Marine who shot that wounded terrorist in the mosque. I get the feeling he is going to be railroaded and will need some help. Whether it be for lawyer's fees, support for his family, or simply just to show him that there are real Americans who support him, I'd like to contribute to such a fund. Suggestions?

What happens when you send an anti-war activist to Iraq with our Marines? You get an ordinary wartime incident blown out of proportion and presented in such a way that a good soldier ends up accused of war crimes. One of our fighting men has come "under investigation" for shooting a terrorist who was pretending to be dead in a mosque. of course, the media is spinning this as a "shooting of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi". Fact is that this was a terrorist playing dead, hoping one of our troops would get close enough to kill, or hoping to escape...

I recently received an email from a reader advising me on the use of propaganda. He found my style similar to that of Ann Coulter--lots of name-calling such as hippies, femmies, and commies--and thought that I should be more "subtle." "Leftist-hippy is not funny," he wrote. I couldn't agree more. There is nothing more sad, more frightening than a leftist hippy. He then gave me suggestions for more obscure references, for coining my own phrases, and becoming a paradigm of propaganda expertise. His suggestions were studied, thought out, and purposeful. Trouble is, I really like Ann Coulter. She is on...

During the campaign, President Bush and Dick Cheney gave the ominous impression that there was a dire threat that terrorists could incinerate Americans at any time if that powder puff John Kerry got anywhere near the Oval Office. Mission accomplished. Tell those wolves to scat, and let that eagle soar, baby. ... The president is putting his own counsel, Alberto Gonzales, who wrote the famous memo defending torture, in charge of our civil liberties. Torture Guy, who blithely threw off 75 years of international law and set the stage for the grotesque abuses at Abu Ghraib and dubious detentions at...

(Washington, DC—November 10, 2004) It wasn't quite "Read my lips," but in the last presidential debate in Arizona, George W. Bush clearly stated that he would not support amnesty for illegal aliens. One week after being narrowly returned to office, the president has reneged on that pledge. Bush has dispatched Secretary of State Colin Powell to Mexico City to open discussions with the Mexican government about the size and scope of amnesty for illegal immigrants and for a massive new guest worker program. "President Bush and Karl Rove have seemingly missed the message of their own, and the Republican Party's,...

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. assault on Fallujah is prompting some disgruntled military families to once against take their anti-war and anti-Bush views public. The fighting in Fallujah brings "predictions of casualty levels not seen since major battles in the Vietnam War," the families said in a press release issued on Tuesday. "Military families with loved ones currently serving in Iraq -- in Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, Baghdad and other areas -- have deep and continuing concerns about the failed policies of the Bush Administration in Iraq that are putting their loved ones, all of our troops and the people of...

Halo 2, the sequel to the top selling game for Microsoft's Xbox, will be released on November 9th. Joe Staten, the Microsoft employee and writer responsible for the storyline of both games, will use the new game (targeted at teens) as a political protest against the Bush Administration. For those who don't know story of the Halo games, it takes place in the future when vicious and radically religious alien forces called "The Covenant" are in a war with the human race and have trapped a lone human warship light years from Earth near the heretofore unknown Halo, a huge...

Excerpt: Die-hard fans will notice that the core gameplay in Halo 2 remains largely unchanged. The most impressive new feature is the ability to wield two weapons at once. But the biggest step forward is that Staten's story about an invasion of Earth is now told from the perspective of both the humans and the Covenant aliens. Since Master Chief was already well established, Staten and his father, a professor of theology, developed a set of religious beliefs that could explain the Covenant's actions in the sequel. They zeroed in on the idea of the Halos — 10,000-kilometer-wide ring worlds...

Pop quiz: Who’s responsible for the attacks of 9-11? If you said the United States, you’re well qualified to teach American students about the defining historical event of their lives. That, at least, is the conclusion reached by Dickinson College. This September, in a bid to resolve the lingering dilemma over how best to broach with students the subject of the attacks, and terrorism generally, the Carlisle, Pa-based college sponsored a contest. Together with the Smithsonian Institution, the college invited educators across the country to submit lesson plans proposing creative ways to teach the subject of September 11. The four...

Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says By JAMES RISEN Published: November 8, 2004 WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - The Bush administration has failed to recognize that Al Qaeda is now a global Islamic insurgency, rather than a traditional terrorist organization, and so poses a much different threat than previously believed, says a senior counterterrorism official at the Central Intelligence Agency.

The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, who in her first postelection column last week accused President Bush of "dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule," apparently thinks she went too easy on the Republican. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that her second postelection column, published yesterday, bordered on the hysterical. "Just how much did Karl Rove hate not being one of the cool guys in high school in the '60s? Enough to hatch schemes to marshal the forces of darkness to take over the country?" Miss Dowd asked. "Oh, yeah," she...