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Here is the speech by Ted Cruz without Fox news running interference.

....Cruz, who in his opening statement argued that the Gang of Eight legislation has “grave problems when it comes to border security,” lamented that the committee had voted down “every serious border-security proposal,” and predicted that “this bill will not pass” as a result. Cruz and Cornyn got into a testy exchange with Gang member (D., N.Y.), who suggested that Cruz’s opposition to the bill had less to do with his desire for increased border security than with his opposition to a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. (Cruz filed an amendment that would bar illegal immigrants from becoming citizens.)...

What gives? Will contact Jim and get to the bottom of this

Need advice for a friend that was just caught going through US border. My friend a canadian citizen enlisted in the US army in 1988 at 22 in the hopes of persuing a military career. Was dissapointed to find out that he could not persue the disciplines he was interested in. (which was entirely different from what the recruiter told him) Went awol 5 months from joining. Has been to the US on numerous occasions but not since 911 happened. Had to take care of an issue in the US and was arrested by the border patrol. Identified himself with...

Does anyonw know how I can access FR at work when the system won't allow to laod the page.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney went into Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson’s studio for a conversation about politics. At least it should have been about politics. Instead, Mickelson decided he wanted to grill Romney on the Mormon church and Mormon theology. (I also thought Mickelson’s comments on politics, namely that the President should overrule the Supreme Court when in the President’s opinion the Court oversteps its bounds, were a tad on the screwy side as well.) Mickelson’s station, WHO, had a video recorder on the governor that was recording his off-air comments, something that Romney was unaware of. On the air, Mickelson...

Given Michael Moore’s anti-war tendencies, you wouldn’t envision him to possess so much rage. However, following his well-publicized dustup with CNN last week (please see Business & Media Institute reports on the subject here and here), the controversial schlockumentarist has published an open letter threatening the network with reprisals.

It is a tired conceit of the political left that conservatives, simply because they hold different views from their own, are inherently stupid. Consequently, whenever a Republican occupies the world’s most powerful political office — the U.S. presidency — the incumbent is generally portrayed as sort of an idiot-in-chief. It was the case both for great Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and lesser ones like Gerald Ford, who opponents said was so stupid he couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Predictably, this slander has now attached itself to George W. Bush.

Samuel Alito, appearing with Arlen Specter shortly after his nomination to the court, amiably endured the Pennsylvania senator's lightweight babblings. Expect to be asked about "super-duper precedent," Specter, still enamored with his phrase from John Roberts' hearings, informed Alito. Like Roberts, Alito will no doubt humor this gibberish before the senators. Then hopefully he'll disregard it. Supreme Court Justices take an oath not to stare decisis but to the Constitution. If stare decisis becomes a more fundamental doctrine than the Constitution itself, then we've lost it for good.

Subscription required thus no excerpt Canadian special forces soldiers in southern Afghanistan have killed Taliban and Al-Qa'ida rebels over dozens of operations in recent months as they work secretly in small units, military sources say. The modest contingent of troops from Joint Task Force 2 is an integral part of coalition efforts to stem the tide of insurgency that has risen since campaigning began for tomorrow's elections. JTF2 commandos have joined counterparts from the United States and some British Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, in fighting that has claimed more than 1,200 lives in six months, defence sources say. Authorities...

A good illustration of the collusion between axe-grinding victims and the cynical media that exploit them appeared after one of last year's presidential debates: a placard was crassly put up in "spin alley" to direct reporters to "9-11 widows" who were eager to provide them with quotes disparaging George Bush for not making the right noises during the debate. Cindy Sheehan and the media's manipulative use of her brings this episode back to mind. We're witnessing a replay of the media's cynical catering to the 9-11 widows, dubbed the "Jersey Girls," which began with great interest but then trailed off...

THE 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers...

July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...

WASHINGTON, June 8 - Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism. "In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery," she has warned in speeches. Society and the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility, she has argued, toward a culture of government regulation and dependency that threatens fundamental freedoms. "We no longer find slavery abhorrent," she told the conservative Federalist Society a few years ago. "We embrace it."...

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing? A top Muslim scholar said the Muslim minority in Sweden would abide by Swedish law in confronting a Christian preacher who insulted Prophet Muhammad, urging his fellow Swedish Muslims not to take the law into their own hands or commit any violent acts to avenge the remarks of the Christian cleric. Norwegian celebrity evangelist preacher Runar Søgaard, in a sermon at Filadelfia church in Stockholm on March 20, repeated claims that Muhammad was "a confused pedophile" since his wives included a girl aged nine years old. Søgaard is under protection by Swedish...

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Two of the world's leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming. A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, says his work was rejected by the American publication, Science, on the flimsiest of grounds. A separate team of climate scientists, which was regularly used by Science and the journal Nature to review papers on the progress of global warming, said it was dropped after attempting to publish its own research which raised...

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Registration req'd WASHINGTON - (AP) -- U.S. officials say one terrorism suspect imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay is a former Iraqi soldier and al Qaeda member who plotted with an Iraqi intelligence agent in August 1998 to attack the American and other foreign embassies in Pakistan with chemical weapons.There is no public record of such an attempt being made, although the U.S. Embassy staff in Islamabad was reduced that month amid heightened security concerns after the Aug. 7 truck-bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. On Aug. 20, 1998, the United States responded with cruise-missile attacks on al...

Washington, DC, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Iran is already under attack. The opposition is at work both within and beyond its borders, restless, coordinating and sharing intelligence. Its ranks number in the tens of thousands, most of whom are young and savvy with experience in clandestine activity. Their arsenal, however, includes neither guns nor grenades, but keyboards and flat-screen monitors. In a country where free speech has price, Iranian bloggers are having a bonanza - and the hardliners have begun to take notice. The blogging phenomenon has exploded in the Islamic Republic. Today an estimated 75,000 Iranians maintain online Web...