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There needs to be a quaint colloquialism Americans can use to describe when a politician looks you square in the eye and tells you an obvious lie. At least, one fit for polite company. Like when our American president bows down low before a foreign potentate and then denies it. Once the picture hit the American media, the White House scrambled to explain that Obama had to bend over to his waist level in order to grasp King Abdullah by both hands when greeting him last week at the G-20 meeting. So what you saw wasn't what you really saw....

Two different stories carried in the same issue of the Jerusalem Post shine a spotlight on the contrasts that exist between the world in which Israel lives and the world occupied by everybody else. One of them deals with the allegations of "war crimes" committed against Palestinians in Gaza during Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" last December. Following more than 6,000 missile attacks against Israeli cities and towns within range of the Gaza border, together with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier then held hostage for ransom by Hamas, Israeli officials concluded that enough was enough. Israel launched a 22-day offensive...

As the current Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza continues, the worldwide propaganda assault against Israel grows exponentially. In the light of this, it's important to review a little history about Gaza. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and completely turned its administration over to the Palestinian Authority. All of the Jewish settlements were disbanded and their residents forcibly removed. The Israeli agricultural, commercial and residential assets – which were considerable – were left for the Palestinians. They promptly trashed and destroyed these valuable assets that would have greatly helped them feed their own people. They were given the...

When Iran successfully launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit on Feb. 1, U.S. State Department official Robert Wood said Iran's activities could "possibly lead to the development of ballistic missiles" and were of "great concern." French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said France was "very concerned" about the launch. UK Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell said the launch underlined the UK's "serious concerns about Iran's intentions." Then they resumed their focus on their various economic implosions where "concerned" had been elevated to "alarmed." What continues to astonish me is how little Western nations seem to grasp the tremendous...

Hal Lindsey does an excellent job breaking down the Israel/Palestine situation as it stands now. Some points made - - An actual timeline of what has happened in Gaza - Israel warns Gazans to flee combat areas - Israel's goals in this action - Geopolitical powers arraying against Israel - History of the Gaza conflict 2005- - How the Palestinians armed themselves in Gaza - How Palestinians use women and children as human shields - The trap of "proportionality" and why that ensures Israels demise - Israel must eliminate the Palestinian ability to wage war

WASHINGTON - South Carolina's senior senator says he's sick of Senator Obama playing the race card instead of talking about his record. Senator Lindsey Graham, a long-time friend of John McCain says it was a low-blow for Georgia congressman John Lewis to compare Governor Palin and Senator McCain's conduct to segregationist George Wallace. "Senator Obama's record has been attacked in a very fair way. The rhetoric and the record don't match when it comes to Senator Obama, and this is not going to work. It may have worked with the Clintons, but it's not going to work with us," said...

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Just back from Washington, D.C., South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham painted a very bleak picture of what he expects for the country if the bailout plan fails. Graham spoke in front of a foreclosed home on Avondale Drive in Greenville. He said if the plan doesn't pass soon, more banks will fold. Businesses will close and people will lose their jobs. As least twice he mentioned that the economy could be headed for a depression.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives against the financial rescue plan. He said: “I have never been more disappointed in the Congress than I am today. I hope every member of the House of Representatives—Republican and Democrat—who voted against this legislation will work in the next twenty-four hours to improve the bill. Now is the time to put the national interest above the self interest. “Speaker Pelosi’s partisan comments before the vote obviously did not help matters. Now is not the time for extreme partisanship...

CAYCE -- On a recent Thursday evening, the South Carolina Democrat sharing the top of state ballots with Barack Obama strode through a restaurant parking lot where the bumper stickers featured the presidential candidacies of Ron Paul, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. Inside the family eatery just outside Columbia, a mix of independents, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Constitution Party members waited. A smattering of members of Southern heritage groups were in attendance. Copies of "Free the South: A Blueprint for Peaceful and Legal Secession," rested on a couple of tables. In a year when South Carolina voter registration shot up...

ASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

Hours after a massive immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, lawmakers and lobbyists began seeking ways to pass bits and pieces of the measure important to their constituents. In an interview earlier this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. _ a backer of the sidetracked immigration bill _ said the one-at-a-time approach may prove impossible, even for tougher border-enforcement measures that now seem popular. "The only way we're going to get Ag jobs or DREAM Act" or pathways to legal status for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, Graham said, "is to do it together. This idea of 'Just do the...

June 27 , 2007 Fellow South Carolinians -- Thank you for contacting me about immigration reform. Debate begins again this week in the Senate and I wanted you to have the facts about the bill. We both know this is a complex subject and the legislation makes many important and long-overdue changes in our nation's immigration policies. Below I have summarized the key provisions of the bill so that you will have all the facts. As my constituent your opinions and thoughts are very important to me. I have listened to your constructive input -- and as you will see...

The most annoying thing about this is the strain of self-congratulation to it. He’s trying so hard to make it work, you see. He’s doing what’s right, the opinions of his benighted constituents to the contrary notwithstanding. And yet some people, to his sacrifice and great good deeds on behalf of Democrats and Mexicans, insist on more. He’s only got eight pints of blood to give, you know. Must be hard to read the bill with your hands nailed to the cross like that. The Obama tantrum wasn’t his only golden moment yesterday. Immigration demagoguery is SOP for this guy,...

Bipartisan immigration bill faces bipartisan fight POSTED: 1:29 p.m. EDT, May 18, 2007 Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the bill started out being about how to deal with illegal immigration "and wound up being about what it means to be an American. ... I think we've got a deal that reflects who we are as Americans." He added, "From the Ph.D. to the landscaper, there's a chance for you to participate in the American dream on our terms in a way that makes this country better." Graham predicted the bill would find "overwhelming" support among lawmakers.

No, Lindsey Graham, YOU Shut Up! By Don Laigle I just got an alert from the Minuteman Headquarters. Here is how it starts out: “ALERT: Congress is ready to GIVE UP on securing our borders against illegal immigration - unless WE do something about it NOW! Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina has said it most bluntly, ‘We're gonna tell the BIGOTS to SHUT UP’! Graham was speaking in front of La Raza, a group that openly collaborates with MEChA, RADICAL- RACIST Chicano extremist political organizations that actively seek the removal of all "white Europeans" from the western U.S.” Senator...

Republican officials said yesterday that four controversial appeals-court nominees have asked the White House to withdraw their names from Senate consideration. Among them is William "Jim" Haynes II, whom President Bush first nominated to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on September 29, 2003. -snip- Mr. Haynes is a victim of elite Washington's fickle support for anti-terror measures and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham's desire for the media spotlight. -snip- Mr. Graham joined Democrats in blocking him to settle a political score. Mr. Haynes is general counsel of the Pentagon, where his transgression in the days following...

As of yesterday I have to say Campbell is right. The final report from the inspector general of the National Archives shows Berger didn't just stuff the odd paper in his socks, he ran a dead-drop operation to get certain documents out of the National Archives before they were seen by investigators of the 9/11 Commission. The Archives has copies of everything he was caught taking, but they do not know if he stole documents in earlier visits.

Top officials of the Clinton administration have launched a preemptive strike against an ABC-TV "docudrama," slated to air Sunday and Monday, that they say includes made-up scenes depicting them as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright called one scene involving her "false and defamatory." Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger said the film "flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions." And former White House aide Bruce R. Lindsey, who now heads the William J. Clinton Foundation, said: "It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our...

Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise Sept. 11 MiniseriesBy JESSE McKINLEY Published: September 7, 2006 Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications. The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made. One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in...

["This has been the most satisfying week I've had since I've been here." —Sen. Lindsey Graham, reacting to the Senate's passage of the immigration bill] Dear Senator Graham, I'm delighted to hear that you found your work on behalf of illegal immigrants so satisfying. And who wouldn't? Tax breaks, billions in new taxpayer-funded benefits, amnesty — you've given so much to those who've chosen to break America's laws and work off the books. But I'm writing today on behalf of an immigrant who hasn't taken advantage of your largesse towards illegals. He's not the member of an ethnic minority and...

Christian author Hal Lindsey proclaimed on national television last night that Islam is a violent religion, with many believers becoming more "radical" the more they read the Muslim holy book, the Quran. "When someone becomes devout and they begin to get really into the Quran and they begin to study what it really teaches, they become what we call a fundamentalist or a radical because the Quran itself and the Hadith teaches violence," Lindsey said on "Hannity & Colmes" on the Fox News Channel. "There are 109 verses that we sometimes call war verses ... these are the verses that...

For those of you who missed Jay Leno over the holiday weekend, last week he had a 100% military audience. Lindsey Lohans salute to the troops is screen captured here for your exclusive viewing pleasure.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — The White House said today that President Bush's top economic adviser, who had served as a paid consultant to the Enron Corporation (news/quote) before joining the administration, had directed a review of the broad economic effects of a potential collapse of the company but concluded it posed little risk to the American economy. The adviser, Lawrence B. Lindsey, who heads the National Economic Council, has said recently that unlike Treasury officials, he never received phone calls from Enron executives seeking help. Mr. Lindsey was paid $50,000 in 2000 for work on an Enron advisory board. ...

Tim Russert, in this morning's interview with Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary, asserted that the resignation of White House economic Advisor Larry Lindsey in December, 2002, had been forced by the administration unhappy at his estimate of the cost of the Iraq War at $100 billion. When Rumsfeld demurred, Russert told him to go back and read about it. From a cursory internet search, Lindsey departure had been expected at the time, and was to return to private business. Should Russert be citing information/ speculation he has gotten trolling Democratic web sites in a supposedly "hard news" forum? (Regretably, I don't...

During the entire course of World War II, only 12 Americans were indicted for treason. All but five were broadcasters charged with aiding the enemy by broadcasting anti-American propaganda. One of those broadcasters was an American known as Tokyo Rose. Another, Mildred Gillars of Portland, Maine, was known as Axis Sally. At her trial, prosecutors charged that her broadcasts were propaganda aimed at convincing soldiers they were fighting for the wrong side. The treason for which she was convicted was a play called "Vision of Invasion." It was designed to scare GIs into not participating in the Invasion of Normandy....

Frist's first interview since the musshy middle announced their deal. As far actual news goes - Rush called Frist's office and at this point all judges will get a vote.

A Republican senator promoting the idea of a payroll tax increase is under fierce attack by some conservatives. Sen. Lindsey Graham's proposal to lift the $90,000 cap on payroll taxes to pay for Social Security reform has prompted the conservative Club for Growth to blanket his home state of South Carolina with television ads accusing the first-term Republican of proposing a "huge tax hike" that would hurt families and small businesses. "Why Lindsey Graham? He is the one Republican who is by far the most outspoken advocate of lifting this cap and raising it very significantly. This would be a...

<p>"Is our country more united today?" Al Gore asked. "Or more divided? Has the promise of compassionate conservatism been fulfilled? Or do those words now ring hollow? For that matter, are the economic policies really conservative at all? Did you expect, for example, the largest deficits in history? One after another? And the loss of more than a million jobs?"</p>

In a closed-door meeting with the 9/11 Commission on April 8, ex-President Bill Clinton said that his admission to a Long Island business group two years ago that he turned down Sudan's offer to arrest Osama bin Laden was "inappropriate," according to 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey. "What the president said, he just didn't understand the facts of the question," Kerrey told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" on Monday. "He answered inappropriately." Commissioner Kerrey told Alan Colmes that he'd been asked to "try to do some follow-up" on Clinton's bin Laden comments to the Long Island Association on Feb. 15,...

Today I learned that FreeRepublic's lost a valued contributor and someone I had come to consider a good FRiend. John J. Lindsay (aka "poet") passed into the Lord's kingdom on the 21st of November 2003 at the age of 70. Not only was he a wise commentator on world events, he also wrote some very moving poetry that I was honored to have periodically posted on the Black threads. I am thankful I got to know him as much as I did and will most certainly miss his participation on FR.com. Utmost FReegards, Mr. Lindsay...Steve/MUD

<p>President Bush's decision to reshuffle his economic team is welcome news, or at least it will be if he follows this house-cleaning with a new, more vigorous growth agenda. This has been the biggest economic shortcoming of the President's first two years.</p>

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The members of President Bush's economic team might not matter because the game plan is bad, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Friday. "If they don't have a good plan, it doesn't matter which team they've got," the outgoing Senate majority leader said in a conference telephone call with South Dakota reporters. Friday's resignation of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is a recognition of failure, Daschle said, calling it overdue. Daschle, who will be minority leader in the next session of Congress, said he hopes the administration will make changes in its economic plan. "We're going in the...

WASHINGTON — A number of their most notable friends and enemies have joined former President Clinton and New York’s U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in saying that the government owes them for Whitewater. In all, 38 individuals, including some of the Clintons ’ best friends, such as Bruce Lindsey and Susan McDougal, as well as some of their staunchest enemies, such as conservative billionaire Richard M. Scaife and former Pulaski County Municipal Judge David Hale, are asking a federal appeals court for reimbursement of legal expenses. The requests, as well as the amounts being sought, are filed under seal...