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i have to give credit to david limbaugh - he predicted that kerry would find a way to blame bush for OBL video, and sure enough, he did. limbaugh nicely gives props to freep for reporting on what is without doubt a new low even for a spineless jellyfish like kerry.

It's that time again, folks. This is our time to send all the liberals searching for their Prozac. It's time we extract our pound of retribution from each of their socialist hides. And the best way to do that is to vote straight Republican. Unfortunately, we rejected some of the most Constitutionally oriented candidates in the primary process. No matter, though. We can still work with those we have running. The Republicans are, after all, an electable bunch. Sure, I can nit-pick and find problems with most of them. Nevertheless, collectively, the Republicans are fielding a pretty good group --...

The fact that at least some batches of this year's flu vaccine, manufactured by Chiron in England, have turned up contaminated and thus will not be allowed to be used in the United States has created something of a crisis. The United States is now short some 48 million doses of flu vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 36,000 people die every year from flu, even when vaccine is available. So tens of thousands of people are probably at risk. What caused what could well become an annual vaccine crisis? In a nutshell, too much litigation, too much...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blasting the Bush administration for the flu vaccine shortage, despite her own role in causing the crisis with her health care reforms in the 1990s. "They're more interested in tax cuts for the rich than for flu shots for everyone who needs them," Clinton railed Monday afternoon at a press conference at New York's Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center. "This administration has their priorities wrong," she added. "And we've really paid a big price for their negligence." But according to the Wall Street Journal, though Hillarycare as a whole crashed and burned in 1994, the...

WASHINGTON When Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, warned against the descent of an "iron curtain" between the West and the Islamic world, he appeared to put the onus of avoiding confrontation only on the West. The Palestinian issue and the pre-emptive war in Iraq have undoubtedly accentuated anti-Western sentiment among Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia. But the conduct and rhetoric of Muslim leaders and their failure to address the stagnation of their societies has also fueled the tensions between Islam and the West. Relations between Muslims and the West will continue to deteriorate unless the internal crisis of the...

<p>MoveOn.org, that ultra-right, ultra-funded group of John Kerry worshippers has reached a new low ... they are blaming President Bush for the rash of hurricanes!</p> <p>The group is blaming "global warming" on the supposed increase in hurricanes, and is pointing their fingers at George Bush for "making extreme weather stronger."</p>

Iran's Foreign Minister at the United Nations Friday described the United States as extremist and said its use of unbridled militarism causes terrorism. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Kamal Kharrazi said, "The prevailing world realities illustrate that unbridled militarism and blind terrorism are mutually reinforcing," giving the attack against Iraq as an example. Kharrazi also called on the international community to work toward disarmament and non-proliferation in a comprehensive and non-discriminatory manner. He insisted that Iran have the right to possess nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and said his country will "leave no stone unturned" in order to provide assurances...

AS British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley sat blindfolded and begging for his life at a terrorist compound somewhere in Iraq on Monday, his Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was celebrating the launch of a high-speed tilting train service in central London. Standing on a platform at Euston station, smiling for the cameras beside Virgin boss Richard Branson, Mr Blair showed no outward sign of the dilemma that surely simmered inside him. Faced with perhaps the most difficult moral decision imaginable for a politician, Mr Blair is aware he is the only man on Earth who can save Mr Bigley's life. Painfully,...

People from all walks of life keep asking me the same question: “Are there moderate Muslims?” I know myself that there are, but… Many of the moderates are faced with intimidation by militant Muslims (“Islamists”). Muslims also have to contend with their own old cultural habits, hateful religious leaders, a bigoted press, and schools that teach hatred and homicide bombings. As usual, just as things seem the darkest, I happen upon something that brightens my spirit -- at least a little. Last week, FOXNews mentioned the organization “Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism” (FMCAT). I immediately went to their website, and...

Washington (CNSNews.com) - A coalition of former Vietnam prisoners of war gathered in Washington on Thursday to denounce John Kerry's anti-war activism, which, they said, labeled an entire generation of veterans as "atrocity-committing monsters." A new documentary called "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," featurs POWs explaining how Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971 was used against them in interrogations by North Vietnamese communists. "When these people came back from the war and were vilified, spit upon and so forth, that was largely due to the efforts of this man [Kerry]," said former POW, Col....

"The Russians are coming...The Russians are coming..." Well, that could have been the headlines in Israeli newspapers until a few days ago, before Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to Israel. Now, after meeting with Israeli officials, the headlines could be, "Russian FM: Chechen Muslim terror evil, but justifies support for PLO Terror State and help for Iranian Nukes." The day before the Russian Foreign Minister came to Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin, to express his shock at the seizure of the Russian school in Beslan. Sharon told Putin that, "We must concentrate political and...

September 6, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The long knives are out for Democrat John Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, as infighting rages while his slumping campaign struggles to come back against President Bush. "You'd think they could find a man to throw overboard one of these days," zinged Republican strategist Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's "Meet the Press." She said Democrats blamed 1988 loser Michael Dukakis' stumbles on campaign manager Susan Estrich and Al Gore's 2000 fumbles on campaign chief Donna Brazile, and "now they're trying to blame poor Mary Beth Cahill"...

A question well worth careful consideration by the voting public was raised by a surprising statement (surprising to me, at least) that Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel made this week to the Iowa delegation at the Republican National Convention in New York City. Hagel criticized the campaigns of Pre- sident Bush and U.S. Sen. John Kerry for "debasing" the presidential campaign by focusing too much on Kerry's military service in Vietnam three decades ago. Hagel's criticism seems to me to raise this serious question: Does the "debasing" blame truly rest equally on Bush and Kerry? After all, Bush has asked Kerry...

Don’t Blame Bush Kerry’s Vietnam problems are of his own making. It's all George Walker Bush's fault. The entire controversy floated by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is the result of President Bush's desire to besmirch John Kerry's tenure in Vietnam. That's the Democrats' story, and they're sticking with it. Too bad it's not true. "The President keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country," John Kerry told the International Association of Fire Fighters in Boston August 19. "Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that. Well, if he wants to have...

A New York Times poll of 9/11 victim families released on Sunday shows that more Americans who lost relatives in the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history hold President Clinton responsible rather than President Bush. "As for assigning blame, more of those interviewed blamed former President Bill Clinton than blamed Mr. Bush for the awful human damage inflicted on American soil that day," the Times said. The paper declined to release specific figures for the finding, based on a survey of 339 relatives of 9/11 victims, explaining, "The study differs from a scientific survey in that the total population...

Who's to blame for nation's Vietnam wounds? Kerry August 29, 2004 BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement Every serious nation, in the course of history, loses a war here and there. You hope it's there rather than here -- somewhere far away, a small conflict in a distant land, not central to your country's sense of itself. During America's ''Vietnam era,'' Britain grappled with a number of nasty colonial struggles. Some they won -- Malaya -- and others they lost -- Aden -- or, at any rate, concluded that the cost of achieving whatever it was they wanted to achieve...

Every serious nation, in the course of history, loses a war here and there. You hope it's there rather than here -- somewhere far away, a small conflict in a distant land, not central to your country's sense of itself. During America's ''Vietnam era,'' Britain grappled with a number of nasty colonial struggles. Some they won -- Malaya -- and others they lost -- Aden -- or, at any rate, concluded that the cost of achieving whatever it was they wanted to achieve was no longer worth it.

Janet Jackson, who took a lot of flak for her "wardrobe malfunction", claimed that US President George W Bush had deliberately used the incident to distract the country from the Iraq war

Poll: Voters Blame Corruption, Not Bedroom, For Gov's Resignation McGreevey Will Resign In November POSTED: 11:06 pm EDT August 16, 2004 UPDATED: 11:29 pm EDT August 16, 2004 TRENTON, N.J. -- The public weighs in on the controversy surrounding Gov. James E. McGreevey. The consensus is that the governor's resignation has little to do with his sexual preference and more to do with corruption in his administration. Nearly half of the people polled by Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind said corruption was the chief factor. Only eight percent said it was because he is gay. Several of McGreevey's associates have been...

There's not much more that can be said about this . Over the course of the campaign: Teresa Heinz Kerry has claimed that someone sent out a bogus bad cookie recipie in her name. John Kerry has claimed that his secret service agent knocked him down on the ski slope. The Kerry campaign has claimed that NASA leaked the "bunny suit" photograph. When asked about his oft-repeated attacks on "Benedict Arnold CEOs" by the Wall Street Journal, Kerry said "overzealous speechwriters" were responsible for the line. Kerry claims he was misled into war and what voting for the Iraq resolution...