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Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant (he of the annoying, "heh-heh-heh-heh" laugh) visited the Imus show this morning and lived up to his longstanding prefix, "Ignorant". And if you think I'm being cruel about his laugh, don't worry, it was openly mocked on the program by, if you can believe it, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Or maybe that was an impersonator, I'm not sure. In any event, his comments have defined a high-water mark for ignorance. Allow me to describe what kind of garbage he dispensed this morning...

Americans have had no lack of dramatic news this year. The Boston Red Sox finally broke the 86-year-old "curse of the Babe" and won a World Series.... But events that don't make headline news often are more important than those that do. That quiet backdrop is explored by Sir Harold Evans, a British journalist, in "They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine -- Two Centuries of Innovation," (Little Brown & Co.) In an interview in the winter issue of "Invention & Technology" magazine, he is quoted as saying that America became economically strong through the "adaptive...

Nomination list highlights culture gulf between Hollywood elite and intended clientele Not that it’s any surprise, but the Hollywood whose-its have once again done what they could to stick their proverbial fingers into the eye of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”. Never mind foreign films, “The Passion” became one of the biggest cinematic events in recent memory, yet it is nowhere to be found among the Golden Globe nominations. Let's face it; it wasn’t expected that the whiney cheesy lefties in Hollywood would allow a movie about Jesus to actually win anything, but they could have at least...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

AWAKE Oh AMERICA! ENEMY IS NEAR!! "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13) Awake America, No more sleepy, You’ve got no time. Don't be afraid. You are powerful. Get up with a devine strength ! God is with you ! All the Nations join hands with you !! People of different caste, creed, colour, culture, raise and language are walking with you !!! Don't feel sorry for your dreams. You used to dream big. You used to think big. Come up ! Forget the lust. You are a strong Nation; Prosperous land you have. You...

FROM KRANISH ARTICLE WRITTEN IN MARCH: "Steven Michael Gardner served side by side with John Forbes Kerry in Vietnam, was wounded under Kerry's command, and was manning twin .50-caliber machine guns on a night that has forever haunted Kerry -- the night his crew killed a young boy in a sampan." LINK TO ORIGINAL BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE FROM MARCH. I briefly reached Kranish on his cell phone, and he asked me to leave a message on the office phone. I left him the message challenging him to do an update of this story. It haunted Kerry? Kerry's report did not...

I searched for this, apologies if posted already. I won't dignify the article by quoting the whole thing, but here are some excerpts:A medical cause for 'Bushisms'?It is an article of faith with millions of Americans, most of them on the left, that George W. Bush is stupid. Many reasonable people think his policies are ill-advised, but millions more insist Bush must be a moron because he sounds stupid.The president's tortured "Bushisms" are chronicled daily and have been collected in books. Two of the more notorious are "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your...

Note: Newsweek is reporting that the source for the CBS allegations against Bush is Bob Burkett, someone with a grudge against the National Guard and Bush. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5974040/site/newsweek/ Six months ago, the Boston Globe reported major "issues" with another Burkett story that was posted on FR at the link noted. Link to original boston.com (Globe) article is here: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/02/13/doubts_raised_on_bush_accuser?mode=PF First few paras: ++++++++ For at least six years, a retired Texas National Guard officer has maintained that President Bush's record as a member of the Guard was purged of potentially embarrassing material at the behest of high-ranking Bush aides laying the...

Authenticity backed on Bush documents By Francie Latour and Michael Rezendes, Globe Staff | September 11, 2004 After CBS News on Wednesday trumpeted newly discovered documents that referred to a 1973 effort to ''sugar coat" President Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, the network almost immediately faced charges that the documents were forgeries, with typography that was not available on typewriters used at that time. But specialists interviewed by the Globe and some other news organizations say the specialized characters used in the documents, and the type format, were common to electric typewriters in wide use in...

Are editors at the AP ignoring their own newswire? Believe it or not, they have posted yet another bogus Nat'l Guard story which ignores an earlier AP story which casts doubt on the very memos used to write the subsequent story!

LOMBARD -- James R. Wasser, second in command under Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry on PCF-44 in Vietnam, will speak at the August 25 meeting of the Democrat Party of DuPage County at their campaign office at 1000 Rohlwing, Lombard. Wasser was one of the 13 men who fought with Kerry in Vietnam who were on the podium at the Democrat National Convention to help introduce the nominee before he gave his speech accepting the his Party's nomination for President. Among the 13 were the boatswain, gunnery mates, and petty officers who crewed the boat skippered by Kerry when he...

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231 Writen: August 6, 2004 Modified: August 15, 2004 Sources: Michael Kranish,“Veteran Retracts Criticism of Kerry ,” The Boston Globe, 6 August 2004 . Jodi Wilgoren, "Vietnam Veterans Buy Ads to Attack Kerry," The New York Times, 5 August 2004. Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty, (NY, HarperCollins, 2004). Jim Rassmann, "Shame on the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush," Wall Street Journal, 10 Aug 2004: A10. Ron Fournier, "McCain Condemns Anti-Kerry Ad," Associated Press, 5 August 2004. Michael Kranish, "Kerry Faces Questions Over Purple Heart," The Boston Globe , 14 April 2004: A1. Michael Kranish, "Heroism, and growing concern about war,"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrat John Kerry, whose nominating convention highlighted his war service and focused on national security, has narrowed the gap on President Bush's strong suit of protecting the country, according to an Associated Press poll that shows the race remains tight. Flanked by his Vietnam crewmates, Kerry delivered an acceptance speech last week laden with references to patriotism, his decorated military record and his qualifications for commander in chief -- a theme underscored by speaker after speaker over the four-day gathering. Advertisement The images and rhetoric registered with a number of voters. In the AP survey conducted Tuesday...

There is a rumble when the bedrock of free civilization is shaken, and few heed the warning - just prior to the earthquake, when relentless forces threaten to destroy the foundations of freedom. That rumble echoed, ignored, the morning of June 29, 2004, when John Kerry stepped to the podium for rehearsal of his acceptance speech for the Democratic Party's nomination. He turned to his audience of reporters and spoke, specifically to them: "Members of the Fourth Estate, I have called you here to tell you that your reign is over." According to eyewitness accounts, there were titters of laughter,...

Cathy Young's opinion piece "Obscene gloating over US failures in Iraq" (May 22, 2004) explored the sickening phenomenon of journalists rooting for the enemy while their country - this country - is at war. By surveying news and features (let alone opinion pieces), it comes through that the US press has a stake in failures of the Iraq mission. For a contrast, we can as easily see that the Boston Globe has been working hard to make the judicial takeover of marriage law in Massachusetts succeed. The connection between these two is that they both reflect the great intellectual fallacy...

It was 10 days ago now that WorldNetDaily first blew the whistle on the fake rape photos that were being disseminated internationally in an effort to exaggerate the extent of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Explicit photos depicting rape of Iraqi women by U.S. American GIs were picked up from porn sites in the U.S. and abroad by Arab and Muslim propagandists and posted on Internet sites and published in newspapers. Certainly, these horrifying bogus images of brutality have persuaded millions that the prisoner abuse scandal is far worse than it really is. Perhaps those expectations are par for the...

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<p>THE DEFENSE Department, environmentalists, and industry all support the long-delayed US ratification of the international Law of the Sea treaty. But there is a danger that Senate conservatives opposed to any multilateral agreements will keep the chamber from voting on it, at least until after November's election.</p>

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would never know this from the reporting by America’s dominant Left-leaning news media. Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington, D.C. home and charged with “prohibited financial transactions” from, acting as “an unregistered agent of,” and “conspiring” to act as a spy, both before and after the incursion a year ago, for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). Known in Arabic as the Mukhabbarat, the IIS has reportedly been involved in terrorist operations, intimidating and killing Iraqi defectors and dissidents, and according to Anwar...

<p>Who should wear the `terrorist' label?</p> <p>WITH THIS WEEK'S 9/11 anniversary comes reflection on all that has changed these past two years. Even our language has shifted; the word terrorism itself casts a different shadow. It has always, of course, been a powerfully negative label. But post-9/11 the word's potency has multiplied. In the current climate, the terrorist tag effectively banishes its holder from the political arena. More than ever, it condemns rather than describes.</p>