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Recent attention given to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, in the mainstream media is being orchestrated by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as a means to be sure the House is in Democratic hands when she runs for president in 2008, a source in the GOP leadership says. Geopolitical analyst Jack Wheeler, publisher of intelligence website, To the Point, says one of DeLay's colleagues told him: "Hillary's fingerprints are all over it. She has no intention of having to deal with an opposition party controlling the House as her husband did for six years and Ronald Reagan did for eight....

A terror attack was prevented today at a checkpoint outside Shechem at the same time as security forces revealed the prevention of a massive multi-pronged attack between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Two PA Arabs tried to pass through a roadblock southwest of Shechem, near Har Gerizim this afternoon. One looked suspicious and was spotted with a pipe bomb. The soldiers isolated the terrorist and searched him, finding two more bombs on his person. The second terrorist then tried to stab one of the soldiers with a knife. He was subdued and the explosives detonated in a controlled manner by IDF...

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2005 – The number of terrorist incidents in Iraq have dropped to the lowest level since March 2004, defense officials said. There are between 40 and 60 incidents each day in the country, they said, sharply down from the terrorist effort in the week of the Iraqi elections in January. Even this doesn’t tell the whole story. Of those incidents, roughly half have no effect. This means terrorists launch an attack, but no lives are lost, nor is any property damaged. But “let’s not downplay this,” said a senior defense official. “Some of the attacks are horrendous,...

Associated Press BRAINERD, Minn. - Alma Esser gets around in a wheelchair and can't see very well, but the 95-year-old knew exactly what crashed through her bedroom window. "I knew it was a deer," she said. "It was right in front of me." Esser was sitting in her living room Sunday when she heard a crash. A few seconds later, the deer wandered into her living room. Esser made it out of her apartment and yelled for help after the deer got tangled in some curtains. She found a minister who was giving an Easter sermon. "I said, 'There's a...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has been cited by a report as the cause of an upsurge last year in Canadian anti-Semitic attacks, now running at a record pace. The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, releasing its 2004 audit of anti-Semitic attacks in Canada, said last year's media coverage of Gibson's film and its alleged depiction of Jews as the "Christ killer" led to an often violent spike in attacks against the Canadian Jewish community. "Whereas only nine incidents in 2003 had religious connotations to the story of Jesus' death, there were...

N Korea attacks Rice 'tyranny' claim By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 17/03/2005) North Korea's row with America over its nuclear weapons programme turned personal yesterday when it called on Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, to withdraw her claim that it was an "outpost of tyranny". A foreign ministry spokesman said the country could not deal with someone so "bereft of political logic". Accusing Miss Rice of being "no more than an official of the most tyrannical dictatorial state in the world", he said: "It is quite illogical for the US to intend to negotiate with the DPRK...

A small bomb attached to a car exploded in Jerusalem this morning, but failed to injure anyone. Secuity forces do not yet know the motive for the attack. The bomb went off before sunrise in the Ramot neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, damaging three other cars nearby. Ramot is adjacent to several of the capital's Arab neighborhoods, but police are still exploring the possibility that the attack may have been criminally motivated. Also this morning, IDF troops caught three PA Arabs near Kibbutz Kfar Aza trying to break through the fence between Gaza and pre-1967 Israel. The IDF troops opened fire...

<p>A man apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for miles and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, said police in Tampa, Fla.</p> <p>"He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.</p>

ROCK ISLAND -- Good Samaritans helped save an elderly man's dog from a pit bull in Rock Island Wednesday afternoon. The pit bull had apparently broken its leash to attack the smaller dog, a Yorkshire terrier, near the intersection of 18th Avenue and 41st Street. Moline Fire Department paramedic Chad Snook and his partner were on their way back to Fire Station 3 shortly after 2 p.m., after taking a patient to Trinity Medical Center's West Campus, when they thought they saw a pit bull attacking an elderly man. Mr. Snook, of Colona, got out of the ambulance and was...

Warren Buffett, one of the world's most successful investors, has launched his most withering attack to date on the US trade deficit, describing Americans as "rich spending junkies" who could turn into a nation of "sharecroppers". In his annual letter to investors in Berkshire Hathaway, the fund he has run for more than 30 years, Mr Buffett painted a bleak picture of a future US in which ownership and wealth had continued to move overseas, leaving the economy in thrallto foreign interests and faced with financial turmoil and political unrest.

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

AMSTERDAM - Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to emigrate and his client list had surged. But he was still taken aback in November when a Dutch filmmaker was shot and his throat was slit, execution style, on an Amsterdam street. In the weeks that followed, Mr. Hiltemann was inundated by e-mail messages and telephone calls. "There was a big panic," he said, "a flood of people saying they wanted to leave the country." Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous...

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Police said they thwarted plans to attack an airport, malls, a church and U.S. troops with the arrests of three members of a terrorist group who allegedly came to the Philippines to train militants to make bombs. The two Indonesians and a Malaysian, all alleged Jemaah Islamiah members, were arrested in southern Zamboanga City in December, along with a Filipino member of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group. Bomb-making manuals, parts and money were seized, officials said.

MANILA (Reuters) - Explosions in the business district of the Philippine capital and two southern cities on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded nearly 130, with besieged Muslim rebels claiming two of the attacks.

January 22, 2005 -- Lee Hochberg of OPB, for the national network, did a piece, this evening, that criticized Catholic parishes for their penurious attitude toward the victims of sex abuse -- he calls it "priest abuse." It is a perfect line for whiplashing a politically incorrect religion. Catholics don't support "choice." (In this case, the term "choice" means the right to execute small humans without a trial.) Priest abuse. Let's examine that.....(snip)

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If the Oklahoma City bombers refused to participate in a U.S. election, would the final results be considered “illegitimate?” What if the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, the Communist Party USA, or the Southern Indiana Regional Militia refused to vote in American elections? Would it matter and, really, who gives a damn? The Left-Wing, e.g. the New York Times, has been trying to hold the Iraqi elections to this type of ridiculous standard regarding Sunni participation. Granted: Sunnis make up 32-37% of Iraq’s population. While their representation is important, the majority of terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing Iraq have...

The American Embassy warned US citizens in Kuwait on Thursday to be cautious, saying "terrorists" have been conducting surveillance of at least one building where Westerners live. According to The AP, it was the fourth security-related message from the embassy this month. The embassy warning message pointed to two shootouts this month between Kuwaiti police and armed suspects that killed four. The embassy warden message said it has "information that the group behind the recent shootings did not distinguish between official and civilian targets and that they conducted surveillance of at least one facility known to house a large number...

Boxer Using Rice Attacks to Raise Money. BOXER LAUNCHES FUNDRAISING DRIVE Tue Jan 25 2005 22:03:11 ET Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) took her opposition to Condoleezza Rice to a new front: She has used it in a fundraising pitch to Democratic donors. The pitch went out Tuesday evening. On behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Boxer referred to Rice’s “misleading statements leading up to the war in Iraq and beyond,” and implored donors to “put the brakes on four more years of misdirection in Iraq and reckless policies at home” by helping elect more Democrats next year. ROLL CALL...