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  • Severe poverty in U.S. hits high

    03/02/2007 3:11:24 PM PST · by MovementConservative · 77 replies · 1,180+ views
    The Buffalo News ^ | 2/25/2007 | By TONY PUGH
    WASHINGTON - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen. A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of the 2005 census figures, the latest available, found that nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. A family of four with two children and an annual income of less than $9,903 - half the federal poverty line - was considered severely poor in 2005. So were individuals who made less...
  • Ten Years After Empire State Terror Attack, the Truth Comes Out

    02/18/2007 9:42:28 AM PST · by faq · 144 replies · 6,630+ views
    Little Green Footballs ^ | February 18, 2007 | Charles Johnson
    In February 1997, Palestinian English teacher Ali Abu Kamal went to the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, pulled out a gun, and opened fire, killing one person and wounding six others before killing himself. Even though he carried letters ranting about the US and Israel, the media heavily promoted the story that he was despondent and suicidal after a financial loss. Today the killer’s daughter—who works for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian “refugees” (UNRWA)—admitted that this story was a complete fraud. She wants the world to know that her father was “martyred...
  • Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility

    02/17/2007 8:05:58 PM PST · by bnelson44 · 55 replies · 2,414+ views
    Wash Post ^ | February 18, 2007 | Dana Priest and Anne Hull
    Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan's room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses. This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed...
  • Giuliani Continues to Lead Clinton, Gore (New Rasmussn Poll)

    12/21/2006 11:58:01 AM PST · by areafiftyone · 279 replies · 3,055+ views
    Rasmussen ^ | 12/21/06
    Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) continues to hold a narrow lead over Senator Hillary Clinton (D) and former Vice President Al Gore (D) in early Election 2008 polling. Giuliani leads Clinton 47% to 43% in the latest poll. That’s very similar to the 48% to 43% lead he enjoyed in late November. When matched against Gore, Giuliani now leads 46% to 43%. In November, he also enjoyed a three-point lead over the Democrats’ Election 2000 candidate.Against either Democrat, Giuliani leads among men but trails among women. The two Democrats lead among voters under 30, but trail among...
  • Al Qaeda in Iraq Being Wiped Out (strangely, not reported by MSM)

    06/16/2006 7:48:00 AM PDT · by pabianice · 61 replies · 2,616+ views
    Strategy Page ^ | 6/17/06
    June 16, 2006: Al Qaeda in Iraq has been virtually wiped out by the loss of an address book. The death of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi was not as important as the capture of his address book and other planning documents in the wake of the June 7th bombing. U.S. troops are trained to quickly search for names and addresses when they stage a raid, pass that data on to a special intelligence cell, which then quickly sorts out which of the addresses should be raided immediately, before the enemy there can be warned that their identity...
  • Haditha:When A Picture Cannot Tell The Whole Story

    06/13/2006 6:58:10 AM PDT · by the Real fifi · 31 replies · 1,073+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | 6/13/06 | Clarice Feldman
    I have no inside knowledge of what happened in Haditha, of course, but I can examine media stories for sourcing and quality of reporting. When the reports in Time Magazine and others are subjected to close scrutiny, there is much less solid evidence than one would expect a major media enterprise would require before making sensational charges against our military in wartime. All the more reason to presume the Marines’ innocence until proven guilty, and to read with suspicion reports that condemn Kilo Company’s actions in Haditha.
  • Marine Says Rules Were Followed [Haditha]

    06/10/2006 7:14:36 PM PDT · by saquin · 249 replies · 3,906+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 6/11/06 | Josh White
    A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to cover up the shootings, his lawyer said. Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, 26, told his attorney that several civilians were killed Nov. 19 when his squad went after insurgents who were firing at them from inside a house. [...] A corporal with the unit leaned over to Wuterich and said he saw the shots coming from a specific house, and...
  • Time’s “Corrections” About Haditha

    06/09/2006 10:41:37 AM PDT · by Sam Hill · 105 replies · 5,065+ views
    Time/Sweetness & Light ^ | June 9, 2006 | N/A
    This is a now all too familiar pattern with our one party media.The following "corrections" have been added to the very bottom of Time's two blockbuster exclusives on Haditha in their current online versions: Collateral Damage or Civilian Massacre in Haditha?Last November, U.S. Marines killed 15 Iraqi civilians in their homes. Was it self-defense, an accident or cold-blooded revenge? A Time exclusiveBy TIM MCGIRK / BAGHDADSunday, Mar. 19, 2006In the original version of this story, TIME reported that "a day after the incident, a Haditha journalism student videotaped the scene at the local morgue and at the homes where the...
  • Heavy toll of civilians (Taliban) in Afghan airstrike

    05/23/2006 8:53:03 AM PDT · by radar101 · 9 replies · 414+ views
    San Diego Union ^ | May 23, 2006 | Pamela Constable
    BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Fighting in Kandahar province yesterday inflicted the first major civilian casualties in Afghanistan in many months, causing the governor to say: “I urge people not to give shelter to the Taliban.” As many as 80 Taliban fighters and 16 civilians were reported killed early yesterday by U.S.-led forces attacking from the ground and air in Kandahar province, the epicenter of a broadening swath of fighting in southern Afghanistan. Weeping villager Zurmina Bibi told The Associated Press that about 10 people were killed in her home, including three or four children. “There were dead people everywhere,” Bibi said,...
  • Schwarzenegger did not have proper motorcycle license, police say

    01/10/2006 5:24:19 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 83 replies · 2,184+ views
    ap on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/10/06 | Steve Lawrence and Jeremiah Marquee - ap
    SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle illegally over the weekend when he collided with a car in his Brentwood neighborhood, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday. Police Lt. Paul Vernon said Schwarzenegger does not have the proper motorcycle endorsement on his California driver's license, contradicting statements made by his spokeswoman since the Sunday accident that left the governor with 15 stitches in his upper lip. "He does not have the license," Vernon said. Police did not cite the governor because they arrived after the accident, Vernon said. Police referred their findings to the...
  • Passions High at War-Related Rallies (barf alert)

    09/26/2005 11:12:26 AM PDT · by Sprite518 · 2 replies · 475+ views
    THE Asoociated Press ^ | 9/16/05 | By ELISABETH GOODRIDGE
    The AP along with the rest of the media continues to lie to the public about the actual numbers of this protest. So far I have only seen one photo from a distant shot. It looked no more than 2 to 3 thousand people. A far shot from the 100,000 the MSM is claiming, and pipe dream from the 300,000 ANSWER is claiming..
  • Blatant Kyoto lie from the MSM (It's all Bush's fault!)

    09/15/2005 12:14:00 AM PDT · by American in Singapore · 13 replies · 551+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sept. 14, 2005 | Timothy Gardner
    ...U.S. companies, unlike their counterparts based in most other industrialized countries, are not required to cut emissions because President George W. Bush backed out of the Kyoto Protocol early in his first term. The pact went into force this year...
  • Rove Breathes Easier

    07/15/2005 6:26:52 PM PDT · by TheGeezer · 106 replies · 3,542+ views
    Slate ^ | 7/15/05 | David Wallace-Wells
    Rove breathes easier: The New York Times reports that Karl Rove learned the name of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame from columnist Robert Novak.
  • ABC Poll: Support Seen for Patriot Act Extension

    06/09/2005 10:14:44 AM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 29 replies · 738+ views
    ABC News ^ | June 9, 2005 | GARY LANGER
    Against a backdrop of heightened public concern about government intrusions, six in 10 Americans favor extending the Patriot Act, but majorities oppose expanding it by adding new FBI powers to issue subpoenas and access U.S. mail. Fifty-nine percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll favor continuing the additional investigative authority in terrorism investigations that was granted to the FBI starting in 2001. President Bush urged such an extension of the Patriot Act today. But there are some compunctions behind that support: Just half the public now says the United States government is doing enough to protect the rights of Americans...
  • FOX REPORTS 68% of Evangelicals say "BUTT OUT"

    03/24/2005 3:39:57 PM PST · by davidosborne · 137 replies · 2,148+ views
    FOX | 23 March 2005 | FOX
    68% of Christians favor DEATH over LIFE...? I wonder where FOX got that "fact" from.....
  • Schiavo recovery impossible, experts agree

    03/21/2005 12:53:21 PM PST · by ambrose · 256 replies · 4,639+ views
    Reuters ^ | 3.21.05
    Schiavo recovery impossible, experts agree 21 Mar 2005 18:02:01 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, at the center of an emotional and political storm over whether she should be allowed to die, will almost certainly never recover from her unconscious condition, neurologists agree. She is in a permanent vegetative state, and no one has ever come back from such a condition, according to the American Academy of Neurology. "Approximately 10,000 to 25,000 adults and 6,000 to 10,000 children in the United States are diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state," the Multi-Society Task Force on...
  • Oil Jumps Over $50 as Bush Nears Victory

    11/03/2004 6:57:46 AM PST · by the invisib1e hand · 10 replies · 144+ views
    yahoo/reuters ^ | 110304 | reuters
    LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices leaped back above $50 on Wednesday as President Bush (news - web sites) edged toward U.S. election victory, a result which traders said would bolster fuel demand and underpin anxiety over security of Middle East supply. U.S. light crude by 1230 GMT rose 63 cents to $50.25, reversing part of a 12 percent pull-back over the past week. Brent crude was up 57 cents at $47.12 a barrel. White House Chief of Staff Andy Card said Bush was convinced he has won re-election but will hold off a formal victory declaration to give Democrat John...
  • An unforgivable error [Why WI Freepers Should Cancel Subscription to Milwaukee JS]

    10/26/2004 8:27:11 AM PDT · by BigJohn44 · 6 replies · 670+ views
    Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 10/26/04 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board
    "In retrospect, it has become obvious that too few U.S. troops were assigned to perform too many assignments in the immediate aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s downfall in Iraq. It is easy to understand how, grappling with the job of restoring order in Iraq, the overextended, undermanned occupation force should have failed to guard buildings such as government offices, hospitals and museums that were looted by vandals. What is not so easy to understand, much less forgive, is the failure to guard a particularly large and sensitive Iraqi military facility."