Articles Posted by Fred Mertz
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Surprise, surprise. California’s GOP leaders are telling conservatives to shut up while the Establishment paves the way for a liberal Republican’s ascension to power. Arnold Schwarzenegger, you see, is running for governor and all “good” Republicans need to get in line behind The Terminator. That way we can win. “Win what?” you ask. Who cares? Those are just details on the road to victory. At the present time, the Republican vote is split between four candidates—Schwarzenegger, Bill Simon, Tom McClintock, and Peter Ueberroth—causing recent polls to show Schwarzenegger neck-and-neck with Democrat Cruz Bustamante. Hence, there is great pressure for conservatives...
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National Review May 19, 2003 The Men Who Won The War An 'embed' looks at our soldiers By Jim Lacey Since returning from Iraq a short time ago I have been answering a lot of questions about the war from friends, family, and strangers. When they ask me how it was over there I find myself glossing over the fighting, the heat, the sandstorms, and the flies (these last could have taught the Iraqi army a thing or two about staying power). Instead, I talk about the soldiers I met, and how they reflected the best of America. A lot...
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Headline Story | Islamist 'enabler' threatens 'grave harm to Bush presidency,' Gaffney warns > Norquist's group took seed money from an avowed supporter of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that killed 241 US Marines in a 1983 Beirut bombing. A prominent conservative leader who allegedly has used undeclared foreign money and top political connections to promote terrorist sympathizers is an 'enabler' who threatens 'to do grave harm to the Bush presidency.' Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued the warning in a letter to Grover Norquist, founding chairman of the Islamic Institute, after Norquist publicly accused Gaffney of 'racism...
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<p>February 25, 2003 -- WHAT to make of the fact that a Muslim extremist (or "Islamist") named Sami Al-Arian was arrested and indicted last week on 50 counts, among them conspiracy to finance terrorist attacks that killed more than 100 people - including two Americans? It is not, as Al-Arian claimed when federal agents led him away, "all about politics."</p>
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<p>A Jefferson County grand jury declined yesterday to indict two detectives in the fatal Dec. 5 shooting of an African-American man holding a box-cutter knife with his hands cuffed behind his back.</p>
<p>''Every person in Kentucky, whether a citizen or police officer, has the right of self-defense,'' Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said at a news conference last night, after the grand jury's decision in the slaying of James Edward Taylor was announced.</p>
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I'll make this short and sweet. I have not seen evidence for a reason to invade Iraq or demand a regime change there. Okay, Saddam gassed his own people twelve years ago or so. There have been multiple accusations of his development of weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical weapons development. All the TV footage I see of Saddam Hussein is about 10 years old. Show me the evidence.
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<p>Jeremy Hylemon, 15, will be buried today. For days relatives thought he lay injured in the hospital, but instead it was his friend.</p>
<p>Last night, two families united by unspeakable grief -- and a confounding case of mistaken identity -- continued to grope with something one matriarch could describe only as a '' 'Twilight Zone' thing.''</p>
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It's no joke: Young girls in stitchesBy JACOB BENNETT As they tried to thread the needles on their sewing machines, many of the girls raised their hands to ask for help. The 12 young females were at the Hardin County Extension Office in Elizabethtown on Monday as part of a camp to learn what Liz Kingsland considers to be an old-time skill with a new-age twist: sewing for fun rather than to keep clothes on their backs. That twist keeps sewing lessons in big demand these days — both this week's camp and another next week are full with waiting...
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President Releases National Strategy for Homeland Security Read the National Strategy The President has released the National Strategy for Homeland Security. Attached is the Executive Summary. This document is the first National Strategy for Homeland Security. The purpose of the Strategy is to mobilize and organize our Nation to secure the U.S. homeland from terrorist attacks. This is an exceedingly complex mission that requires coordinated and focused effort from our entire society -- the federal government, state and local governments, the private sector, and the American people.People and organizations all across the United States have taken many steps to...
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from the June 18, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0618/p02s01-ussc.html US extremists conflicted over war on terrorRight-wing radicals fret over 'homeland security,' as American anti-Semitism rises.By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ASHLAND, ORE. - The war on terrorism is conflicting for antigovernment radicals in the United States. Paradoxically, it has the potential for both dampening their sentiments and making them more dangerous – rhetorically, if nothing else. Extreme militia and "patriot" types (especially white supremacists of the Christian Identity movement) are likely to want to defend against attack by non-European foreigners – and in fact see...
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Our Itinerary We will be departing early mornings, arriving afternoons or early evenings. Date Distance* ETE Identifier City Sat May 25 2066 12:49 N40-57AZ Tucson, AZ Mon May 27 349 2:09 57AZ-KSEE El Cajon, CA Wed May 29 449 2:47 KSEE-KOAK Oakland, CA Thu May 30 2328 13:03 KOAK-PHTO Hilo, Hawaii Sat Jun 1 2421 13:08 PHTO-PKMJ Majuro, Marshall Is. Mon June 3 897 4:52 PKMJ-PTPN Ponape, Caroline, Is. Wed June 5 1624 9:05 PTPN-PTRO Koror, Palau Fri June 7 1359 7:52 PTRO-WBSB Sultanate of Brunei Mon June 10 1163 6:44 WBSB-VTSP Phuket, Thailand Thurs June 13 1866 11:35 VTSP-VABB...
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Washington Post May 1, 2002 Pg. 9 [snip] But after months of investigation, the Czechs said they were no longer certain that Atta was the person who met al-Ani, saying "he may be different from Atta," the administration official said. More recently, FBI and CIA analysts who went over thousands of travel records concluded that "there was no evidence Atta left or returned to the U.S." at the time he was supposed to be in Prague, the official said. [snip] See source link for complete article.
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E'town family battles impending deportation (AP) - An illegal immigrant who's been living in Kentucky for seven years says that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led to his family's impending deportation. William Manalastas, 45, a native of the Phillipines, was one of 210 people across the nation tracked down and jailed following the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants that followed the attacks. The Immigration and Naturalization Service specifically targeted men like Manalastas, who come from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries where terrorist activities have been linked to Osama bin Laden. Manalastas, his wife and their four daughters, have...
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<p>WASHINGTON — Tired of poor Kentucky workers losing their money in Ohio's riverboat casinos, one Kentucky lawmaker has declared war on his neighbor.</p>
<p>Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, filed a resolution in the chamber this week that "encourages the purchase and armament of one particularly effective submarine, namely, the USS Louisville 688 VLS Class Submarine, to patrol the portion of the Ohio River under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth to engage and destroy any casino riverboats that the submarine may encounter."</p>
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School shooting foiled By GREG BARTLETT Staff Writer Two male students at J.T. Alton Middle School in Vine Grove have been arrested after allegedly planning to kill numerous people at the school on or near the last day of the school year. "Two male juveniles were actually planning to take the school under siege," said Dale Riggs, chief of Vine Grove Police Department, which arrested the boys Friday. He said the department waited until Tuesday to announce the arrests because, "We wanted to make sure that everyone that was involved has been accounted for." Riggs said the two boys,...
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<p>It's doubtful that the death of one young man will persuade Rep. Bob Damron, D-Nicholasville, of the folly of Kentucky's concealed carry law that he authored in 1996.</p>
<p>But James Brian Morris' needless death at the hands of a licensed gun owner raises anew the threat posed by amateurs packing heat.</p>
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I had interesting conversation with a local man about 10 days ago who I will refer to as Bob. Bob and I struck up a conversation in the local tavern and he told me a story that made my ears perk up. Bob is going through divorce after 31 years marriage and he was complaining that in the past year he was involved in three accidents, and although the other parties were at fault, he ended up paying his $500 deductible in all three cases because the other parties were uninsured. Well, actually, he said one of the accidents involved ...
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"MLK Murder Was a Government Plot" Former CIA participant says he was part of it, Raoul identified as FBI Agent by Pat Shannan New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. murder case, supplied by an insider who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that had come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of Caruthersville, a small town in the boot heel section of that state. In a yet-to-be-published book, former Missouri County Deputy Jim Green reveals his assigned role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual triggerman, and the ...
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New book celebrates West Point bicentennialSpecial to Inside the TurretAs part of the 2002 celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Jon Malinowski and Eugene Palka, two Academy professors (one of whom is a graduate) have sorted through and researched 200 years of maps, photographs, and drawings to create The Spirit of West Point-an intimate, inside, through-the-years pictorial of the military academy.The book explores how the academy has changed over the past two centuries, and how its essence-its "spirit"-has remained uniquely the same.Chapters cover cadet life, academics, athletics, military training, architecture, visiting dignitaries and celebrities, ...
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