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Sean Penn’s account of his recent trip to postwar Iraq – written in two articles published in the San Francisco Chronicle – reveals the deep changes that have taken place in liberated Iraq, and the shallow man who observed them. A more generous soul might have considered apologizing for the unkind words directed at President Bush and his counselors who are responsible for the freedoms that Penn now acknowledges are burgeoning in Iraq, yet Penn cannot bring himself to praise the Americans who brought this about, acknowledge his role in opposing Operation Iraqi Liberation, or, indeed, rise above the pettiest concerns...

Contents IntroductionWhat is the PSM/ISM?ISM Rewriting History ACT NOW! - OPPOSE GOOGLE'S PLAN Automatically send emails opposing Google's planSign a petition Introduction According to Lee Kaplan, writing for FrontPageMagazine.com: The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google. If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. … The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) are related and interconnected organizations that have one goal: the...

WASHINGTON — Pentagon police on Wednesday turned away family members of troops killed in Iraq who wanted to confront Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the reasons for the war in Iraq. The group of about 20 was stopped before entering Pentagon property by about a dozen officers, who told the protesters they did not have the proper permission to enter the building. Organizers said they have been petitioning for the meeting for weeks, but department officials are ignoring their requests. “The man who was too busy to personally sign the Killed in Action letters these families received is apparently...

"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, CubaFOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or...

JERUSALEM – Reports that he received prior warning about yesterday's deadly London terror attacks "have no basis in reality," former Prime Minister Benjamin Netantyahu told WorldNetDaily this morning. "Absolutely not. The reports are entirely false," said Netanyahu, still in London on a trip to address a corporate investment conference yesterday at the Great Eastern hotel near the site of one of the blasts. Immediately following the attacks, media reports quoted an Associated Press story claiming British intelligence told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before yesterday's explosions it had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city. The AP...

Code PinkoBy Jean PearceFrontPageMagazine.com | March 26, 2003 Like any other group, Communists come in a lot of shapes, sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink, they’re on the nightly news, and more than anything, they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October, these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast, the one about how concern for their...

When The New York Times, “Nightline,” and CNN nominate a young blonde for sainthood ahead of the Pope, it’s time for a reality check. Especially when that blonde, Marla Ruzicka’s sole purpose is to legitimize our enemies, cause problems for U.S. troops already in harms way, and morally equivocate dead terrorists with victims of 9/11. Jane Fonda lite—but unfortunately without having been spat upon by right-thinking veterans. The recent death of Ruzicka, an American “activist” in Iraq, elicited an orgy of gush—everywhere from Time Magazine to The Guardian of London to Al-Jazeera. A 28-year-old San Franciscan, Ruzicka was in Iraq...

Go to this link and click "Contact Us" near the bottom. http://www.historychannel.com/global/feedback/faq.jsp?NetwCode=THC&level_1=nodes_38&level_2=nodes_71&level_3=nodes_86&x=27&y=19 A Letter to the History Channel (feel free to copy, paste and edit): To Whom it May Concern - I would like to express my displeasure with your recently broadcast program about the life of Benjamin Franklin. One-hundred-five minutes into the 120 minute broadcast is when the comment of one of your "experts" completely ruined and brought into question the veracity of the entire program. The comments by this "expert" demonstrate either a historical error made the the HISTORY Channel, or an attempt by the HISTORY Channel to...

As American post-conflict combat deaths in Iraq overtook the wartime number, the administration counseled patience. "The war on terror is a test of our strength. It is a test of our perseverance, our patience, and our will," President Bush told an American Legion convention. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice embellished the message with what former White House speechwriters immediately recognize as a greatest-generation pander. "There is an understandable tendency to look back on America's experience in postwar Germany and see only the successes," she told the Veterans of Foreign Wars in San Antonio, Texas, on Aug. 25. "But as some...

Brent Benjamin booted Justice Warren McGraw off the state Supreme Court Tuesday. With 1,616 of 1,965 precincts reporting, he outpolled the incumbent Democrat with 307,165 votes to 279,103. Benjamin said he will dedicate his 12-year term "to following the law of West Virginia" and "making certain everyone has a fair and equal opportunity for justice with no favoritism for any one group or individual." Benjamin rode to victory on the crest of an unprecedented wave of negative ads financed largely by Massey Energy Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship. Blankenship estimated today that he dumped between $3 million and $3.5 million...

A horde of the pink unwashed descended on Fox News' headquarters in New York City yesterday afternoon to hold a "Shut-up-athon" against the number one cable news outlet in America. Led by Code Pink, the leftist feminist group founded to oppose the war on Iraq, about a thousand demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of Fox's building on 6th Avenue at 48th Street. Police were everywhere to keep order, which they did with great success. FReepers Coleus, Laserlock, ELS, Trueblackman, kristinn and two lurkers held a counter-demonstration there to support Fox News and to educate the public about Code Pink's...

This year marks 225(older, but timeless article) years since our Founding Fathers gave us our National Birth Certificate. We continue to be the longest on-going Constitutional Republic in the history of the world. Blessings such as these are not by chance or accidental. They are blessings of God. On July 2, 1776, Congress voted to approve a complete separation from Great Britain. Two days afterwards — July 4th —the early draft of the Declaration of Independence was signed, albeit by only two individuals at that time: John Hancock, President of Congress, and Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress. Four days later,...

<p>ALBANY, N.Y. -- Michael Benjamin, a former Wall Street trader seeking the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, charged Tuesday that Gov. George Pataki and state GOP Chairman Alexander Treadwell are trying to block his candidacy, possibly because he is Hispanic. The little-known Benjamin made the charge in a news release that carried the headline: "Sign at GOP headquarters in Albany: Hispanics need not apply." In two telephone interviews with The Associated Press, Benjamin provided no evidence to support the anti-Hispanic claim, but argued "there is no other reason for them not to sit down with me."</p>

Tonight at 9:30 p.m., C-SPAN2 presents a press conference by some military families who went on a tour of Iraq last week that was orchestrated by Medea Benjamin.I attended the press conference today. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl. I did.

November 10, 2003 He's Spoiling for a Chance to Take On Schumer By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ n New York Republican circles, Michael Benjamin has become a bit like the kid on the basketball court begging the other players to pass him the ball. Even as the party has all but given up any hope of finding a candidate who can beat New York's well-funded senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, next year, Mr. Benjamin has been trying to convince the party's leaders that he is the man for the job. Mr. Benjamin, 33, has put more than 40,000 miles on his Ford...

BENJAMIN CALLS SCHUMER FAILURE TO OPPOSE PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION DISGRACEFUL New York, NY- United States Senate candidate Michael Benjamin (R-NY) today called Senator Charles E. Schumer's support of the barbaric partial-birth abortion procedure disgraceful. "I find it shocking and appalling that a senator from New York would support a procedure tantamount to infanticide," stated Benjamin. Partial-birth abortion, a procedure whereby a developed baby is partially delivered from the womb feet first, leaving just part of the head still within the mother, thus allowing an abortionist to thrust steel scissors into the back of the baby's head, removing the brain and collapsing...

October 1, 2003 What the War Revealed By David Quinn In the run-up to the recent Gulf War, I received a letter from a reader of the Irish Catholic, for which I was at that point still editor, declaring that if I kept up my support for the United States’s position with regard to Iraq, I would find myself automatically excommunicated from the Church. I had previously heard of Catholics who supported the war being described as dissidents, but to say that such people could consider themselves excommunicated was to take things to a new level entirely. My reader’s reasoning...

Ben Franklin comes to us almost too neatly packaged in a series of indelible images and unforgettable vignettes. He's the fellow on the hundred-dollar bill or the man Americans remember for flying a kite in an electrical storm. But recent scholarship, reflected in several new biographies and a well-received PBS special, reminds us of a richer, more complicated story behind the schoolbook images; more surprising, it makes a powerful case that Franklin was probably the most indispensable of the Founding Fathers. Begin in 1723, when the strapping, Boston-born apprentice arrives penniless in Philadelphia at age 17, having torn loose from...

MICHAEL BENJAMIN CALLS ON SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE SCHUMER CAMPAIGN FUND-RAISING PRACTICES. New York, NY - In a letter to the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Republican Senate candidate Michael Benjamin today requested a formal investigation into the campaign fund-raising practices of Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York. This request stems from recent newspaper reports indicating a pattern of questionable fund-raising activities by Senator Schumer, as well as the massive fine imposed on him by the Federal Election Commission for taking illegal campaign contributions. On January 27, 2003, Senator Schumer accepted $47,000 from 30 employees of...

Benjamin Undeterred by Incumbent Competition By Peter Savodnik (view the article at www.thehill.com) The Hill - "The Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress" Michael Benjamin has all the makings of a first-rate Senate candidate. The New York Republican is sharp, aggressive and perfectly at home talking tax cuts, welfare reform or judicial nominees. He speaks Spanish (good for reaching out to Latinos), he’s spent years combating domestic violence (should help with women), and he says the voters he’s met like him. The only obstacle facing the 33-year-old Wall Street equities trader is his opponent, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. With...