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Twenty Years after TWA 847, No Lessons Learned By Debbie Schlussel Twenty years ago, this week, Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847, and trampled Navy Diver Robert Stethem to death. Stethem's only crime was being American. The hijacking and murder was among the first televised Islamic terror attacks against Americans, unfolding on TV screens over 17 days. Twenty years later, disturbing kowtowing to Hezbollah terrorists shows we've learned nothing from Stethem's brutal murder at the hands of Islamic terrorists. On September 11, 2021, will it be worse? On June 15, 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized the TWA flight in Athens. Identifying...

Jihad on “24”: FOX, Kiefer Sutherland Repent to Radical Islam By Debbie Schlussel It was too good to be true. FOX’s “24” is the most exciting show on TV, this season. Action. Adventure. And it actually tells the truth about Islamic terrorists. They are here on our shores, pretending to be loyal Americans, and they are plotting to take over our country. With the help of plenty of complicit Muslim-Americans, working for the government and government contractors. Unfortunately, 9/11 wasn’t enough to prove that to many Americans. Way too many Americans—especially the ones deciding what we see on the big...

Republican Victory Tour Arrives in Modesto Dear Friend: I will be visiting Modesto on Tuesday as part of the "2004 California Victory Tour" to rally support for President George Bush and our Republican candidates. Please join me and California Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim to show your support, sign up to volunteer, or pick up a bumper sticker or yard sign. We need your help and your vote on election day. Sincerely, Congressman Darrell Issa Join Congressman Issa in supporting our President and other local Republican Candidates. WHERE: 118 West Orangeburg Ave. Modesto WHEN: Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 3pm to...

This Friday!VISTA, CA -- Congressman Darrell Issa will host a town meeting featuring Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security on Friday, August 13 for a discussion focusing on immigration enforcement efforts. The meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m., PT in the all-purpose room of Margarita Middle School in Temecula.Congressman Issa strongly supports operations conducted by the Border Patrol Mobile Patrol Group, which during the first half of June resulted in 422 apprehensions of illegal aliens by twelve Border Patrol Agents. Congressman Issa and Under Secretary Hutchinson will discuss issues surrounding immigration enforcement and answer questions from...

Ortiz says Libyan leader seemed sincere, offered him a throat lozenge. TRIPOLI, Libya - A Republican congressman led a delegation of Americans into uncharted territory Monday: a meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and a tour of a Libyan nuclear reactor. The extraordinary meeting - in a tent beside the ruins of Gadhafi's house, bombed by U.S. warplanes - is a hallmark of improving relations between the United States and Libya after decades of animosity. "It was an extremely positive two hours," said the delegation's leader, Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania. "We discussed the hope that we will achieve...

<p>Rescue California, the campaign committee funded by Rep. Darrell Issa to gather signatures for last year’s recall campaign, has morphed into “Rescue California… from budget deficits” and will sponsor a spending limit initiative that it hopes to place on the November ballot. The measure is largely patterned after a limit authored by Assemblyman John Campbell and Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and offered as the most conservative alternative during December’s debate over spending limits and reserve requirements. It would cap spending growth at the rate of population growth and inflation, with half of any revenue above that amount going toward an accelerated repayment of Schwarzenegger’s $15 billion bond, if that passes in March. The other half would go to a new budget reserve that could reach 10 percent of the general fund. Excess monies after that would be split between school construction and sales tax reductions.</p>

<p>As the immigrant population continues to boom here and across the country, North County residents echoed national debates in 2003 about housing, voting rights, driver’s licenses and a new amnesty plan for illegals. Those debates could intensify in 2004 as new proposals related to immigration surface at the local, state and national level.</p>

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Recall Rancor: In California, the forces that are trying to stop the recall of the state's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, are taking a new tack in their effort to paint the recall's main sponsor, Rep. Darrell Issa, as an extremist: They're trying to link him to Nazi sympathizers. Issa, a San Diego Republican who has given the recall movement about $1 million of his own money, is using the effort as a platform to launch a campaign for governor, and so, he has become a lightning rod for the pro-Davis forces. According to a report in The Sacramento Bee, Democratic...

<p>Members of Congress yesterday joined a raucous crowd of roughly 1,000 Iranians on the lawn of the Capitol to voice their support for student uprisings against Iran's Islamic fundamentalist government.</p> <p>"We are here to stand with the Iranian people, who are resisting an oppressive regime, a regime that has refused to reform," said Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, who led the crowd in chants of "Iran Ahh-zad," which means "Free Iran."</p>

<3>Join us as we kick off California's Taxpayer Revolution!Independence Day from Gray Davis Hosted by: Coolleen and Buck Johns Co-Sponsored by: Rescue California, The Lincoln Club of Orange County, and the Republican Party of Orange County. Featured Speaker: CONGRESSMAN DARRELL ISSA 2600 Mesa Dr. Newport Beach July 4th 4:00 pm-7:00 pm Hosted food and refreshments Casual dress Bring the kids RSVP: Karen Hawkins 949 856-2200 fax 949 846-2313 khawkins@inland energy.com

Many in California are just getting to know the potential candidates for Governor, especially those who were not involved in the 2002 effort to defeat Gray Davis. On Saturday, Congressman Darrell Issa spoke at the Brooks Firestone Annual Event. Here is what he told them, though he did not repeat these comments at the Orange County Republican Party Flag Day Dinner that evening. He urged Republicans to hold a convention to pick a single candidate to be an alternative to Davis, saying that any GOP contender who hopes to be governor "cannot be a candidate that has a social agenda."...

Aides to House Rep. Darrell Issa (R-49) who himself aspires to be Governor, plan to file papers as early as today to creating yet another campaign to recall Governor Grey Davis.Aides said that Issa plans to provide six figure donations as seed monies for the new recall effort called Rescue California. Sacramento political consultant Dave Gilliard who will manage the new effort and represents Issa as well as half a dozen GOP'ers said: 'This funding is substantial and more than enough to do the job that needs to be done.'Gilliard said the committee will have sufficient money to hire professional...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government charged American Airlines on Friday with discriminating against passengers perceived to be Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian or Muslim in its first racial bias complaint against an airline.The Transportation Department alleged that 10 people, mostly U.S. citizens, were removed from their flights or denied boarding even though they had tickets and passed security checks.Most of the incidents cited in the administrative complaint occurred within three months of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the department said.American said it would fight the charges and denied that passengers were discriminated against by its crew or the crew of American...

<p>U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, a multimillionaire Republican car-alarm magnate, said Wednesday he will devote himself personally and lend financial support to the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis and announced his interest in replacing the governor.</p> <p>"Most people assumed I'd announce I'd be running for Senate, but I think for the people of California this is more important," the 49-year-old Issa, R-Vista, said during a telephone interview from Fresno, where he spent the day meeting with potential recall supporters in the agricultural community.</p>

Congressman Protests Use of French Marble By ROBERT GEHRKE .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A Colorado congressman is asking the Bush administration to stop making headstones for military veterans from marble bought from a French-owned company. If the Veterans Administration agrees to Rep. Scott McInnis' request, the additional marble would come from two other quarries - one a Swiss-owned operation in the Colorado Republican's district. ``The French have done everything in their power to undermine the very troops whose sacrifice from which they now stand to profit,'' McInnis said in a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J....