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Charles Johnson continues to produce mind-boggling results in documenting the outrageous bias and outright fraudulence in the mainstream media depiction of the Lebanon war. Yesterday Charles demonstrated still more staged photojournalism from Lebanon by an AP photographer. (Charles linked to "Al-AP at it again with staged photos.") Other striking instances of similar phenomena at work are on display in "Leading BBC reporter caught lying," "Green Helmet Man admits staging photos, AP spins furiously," and in "Azzim Tamimi uncensored." For Charles, it's all in a day's work. Charles and Little Green Footballs are notable examples of what Professor Stephen Cooper of...

With all that’s gone on during the last week in England and it’s ramifications here in the United States, we should be happy to know that someone, somewhere, was doing some good old fashioned electronic surveillance. As someone in our government was determined enough to check out bank records, it was also revealed that some of the airline bombers were duly unemployed, yet suspiciously had thousands of pounds in their British bank accounts. But when those Islamo-fascists (our friends over at CAIR hate it when we call them that) act up, they now know they’ll have more time to not...

Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school. Ahmadinejad swept to a surprise victory in last year's presidential race by promising the country's poor a fairer share of Iran's oil wealth and emphasizing his own humble origins that led many to vote for him...

Before there was YouTube's crush of do-it-yourself video online, Josh Wolf was busy taking media into his own hands. As one of the Internet's earliest videobloggers, Wolf thrust himself onto the front lines of citizen journalism, uploading his politically spiked, home-grown content onto www.joshwolf.net. While bypassing old media gatekeepers — like editors and programming schedules — Wolf, 24, gained unprecedented access to the Web's global stage, but he also fast won notoriety for his attempts to democratize the media. Last year, Wolf earned the wrath of Al Gore's youth cable channel, Current TV, when he criticized the new station's hiring...

Just a quick post to tell you about an exciting new website: Rightroots. Rightroots provides you with a quick and easy way to financially support conservative congressional candidates... I have proudly endorsed Rightroots and I hope you will too, by visiting them today and making a contribution to one or all of the candidates Rightroots has listed. If the Democrats gain control of the Congress, “today’s environment” will seem mild compared to what we’ll have to endure in 2007 and 2008 – total gridlock for the President and for the country. I see the tactics of Harry Reid and Nancy...

There have been great revolutions in the political discourse in this country, and many of them have happened in the last hundred years. You can think of Fireside Chats, Cable Television, and the expansion of the Print Media as huge innovations effectively educating and enlightening the masses. In the last 20 years however, two new powerful mediums have emerged, both of which give not only the intelligent and entertaining a voice, but give the average American a voice. Let’s take a look. In August of 1988, a man hit the airwaves popularizing a new format of AM radio, now known...

The FairTax was on the primary ballots in three Georgia counties yesterday. I have the results of the voting! Here you go. Gwinnett County: Total Votes: 35,755 Yes - 31,068. 86.9% No - 4,687 13.1% Cobb County: Total votes: 39,458 Yes - 33,598. 85.15% No - 5,860. 14.85% Fayette County: Total votes: 11,517 Yes - 9,828. 85.33% No - 1,689. 14.67% According to Boortz the results of this vote will be personally handed to President Bush today via a Washington insider. The purpose of which is to convey the FACT that there is great support for this solution to current...

An adjunct psychology lecturer at the University of Arizona resigned Saturday after writing to a conservative blogger she wouldn't care if his 2-year-old son was killed the way JonBenet Ramsey was. Deborah Frisch's comments on the Web site www.proteinwisdom.com created such a furor she has been lambasted on countless conservative Web sites. Her boss at the University of Arizona also received irate e-mails calling for her termination, she said. Alfred Kaszniak, head of the psychology department, said he has received close to 300 emails about the incident. "The majority were very angry and many of them were using similar kinds...

I have a web site on which I post information about myself and my business. It's a hosted site, and I have my own domain. I've been using FrontPage to create and upload material. I'd like to add a blog to the site, and would appreciate suggestions for software. I'm thinking/hoping I can update the blog without having to worry about overwriting the rest of the web site. Would it involve some sort of FTP transfer? Thanks.

Dogs of war incline toward caution, which after all is how they grew up to be dogs. More worrisome are puppies, who do not know what danger is. Gavrilo Princeps, the Serbian gunman who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand dead in June 1914, was a puppy. So are the Hamas kidnappers, who at this writing still hold Israeli Army Corporal Gilad Shalit, and the Mehdi Army shooters who reportedly disposed of several dozen Sunni civilians in Baghdad on the weekend. The North Koreans, by contrast, are just nasty old dogs who long ago got loose from their leash. Wars start because...

***scroll for updates: the moonbat 'fesses up, loses her job?***Jeff Goldstein, who has been such an inspiration and good friend ever since I started blogging, is under attack. He--and his toddler son--have been the subject of abuse and harassment from a nutball leftist troll, who appears to hold a prominent teaching position at the University of Arizona and seems to have a history of abusing and stalking blogs. Some of the messages she left for Jeff: "I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way. Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you...

Today news of Ken Lay’s heart attack and unexpected death has reached me. I did not know this Mr. KennyBoy Lay person but he seemed to be a good man and like me he knew how to treat people and make money from oil and energy markets. Damn I miss manipulating the price of crude. I have been thinking that many times well known people who are connected by celebrity and a random fact seem to die in groups of three... This is not GoodSTRENGTH IS POWER

Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection. Jimmy Wales Political junkies who can't get enough of Daily Kos or RedState (depending on party preferences) may now have a new Web 2.0 toy in the form of Campaigns Wikia. As with Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other wikis, contributors to Campaigns Wikia will be able to edit any section of the site, provided that they register for free accounts first. Campaigns Wikia was unveiled, appropriately, on July 4, with an "open letter to the political...

In an effort to fight the war on terror, the Air Force is putting up $450,000 for a three year study of...blogs. One scientist involved in the project is already proving, with this revelation, that he is worth the money:       "Blog entries have a different structure," Ulicny said. "They are typically short and are about something external to the blog posting itself, such as a news event. It's not uncommon for a blogger to simply state, 'I can't believe this happened,' and then link to a news story." I can't believe this is happening. Check it out here.

First, let us separate the hype from the facts. The "free internet" is not going to end, and it might not even go any slower. The two-tier system will not threaten democracy, but it is still a bad idea. My first problem with the concept of a two-teir network is that it attempts to create an artificial scarcity situation to squeeze money out of big companies while robbing you of services you have already paid for.

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. ... [18 points total]

I have been asked what it means to be a conservative. I have compiled a list of 15 values that can be identified as conservative. See how many you agree with. Pro Life - You believe that at the very least, any unborn child who could live outside the womb is fully human and has the same civil rights as the rest of us. You may also believe that assisted suicide and euthanasia (mercy killing) are morally wrong. Pro Gun Rights - You believe that the founding fathers intended to guarantee every citizen the right to defend himself either individually...

Conservative sweetheart Ann Coulter, a take-no-prisoners commentator whose latest book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” takes a shot at four high-profile widows of 9/11, has the Left panting breathlessly for her head. Hillary calls her “vicious.” New York’s governor, moderate Republican George E. Pataki, skewers her as “far worse than insensitive.” (Let’s see. “Insensitive” is 10 years in the slammer. The penalty for “far worse than” has got to be indeterminate hard time at Gitmo.) Commentator Leonard Pitts Jr. reviles her as “mean, malicious, the barbed-wire front woman for a cabal of bloviators, bully boys and blowhards…” But wait. Before...

I would just like to further introduce my blog to the scene. I welcome any advice or criticism, and thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I am a student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. I am attracted to blogging about social conservative issues relating to DC and the Catholic Church, but I also write about St. Louis and Missouri politics when I'm feeling homesick--and anything else I think is worth my time and yours. Let me know what you think. Welcome to PP&P!

I would like to introduce myself to the forum as "Calhoun" the co-editor of yet another, but quite different, conservative blog at http://www.politicaloverload.com Myself and my fellow editors are all relatively young conservatives who have, for some time, found ourselves increasingly disenchanted with not just the direction of the Republican Party but the conservaitve movement itself. We're a website dedicated to returning conservatism to its limited government roots with an emphasis on re-establishing and strictly maintaining the concept of federalism. We view the modern so-called "conservative agenda" of everything from to the Federal Marriage Amendment to abortion to the Federal...