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Hunter To Hold Line On Buy America, Block EADS Bid To Make Tankers Defense Daily 11/21/2006 Author: Jen DiMascio< In his new roles as ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee and presidential candidate, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) intends to "hold the skirmish line" on provisions that boost manufacturing in the United States. That includes doing his best to block a team consisting of Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. that is competing against Boeing [BA] to replace the Air Force's aging tanker fleet. Airbus is a commercial subsidiary of EADS. "I will fight...

A Mid-Sunday afternoon call comes to Roger & Team Hedgecock. A friend embedded in the district office of Congressman Duncan Hunter. Heads up for a news conference on Monday October 30th at 11am at the Broadway Pier. “Duncan will announce for higher office. He’ll seek a job that becomes vacant in 2008 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”Duncan will apparently announce the formation of an “exploratory committee,” which will allow him to begin raising funds for a PA Avenue campaign. Formation of such a committee does not always result in an actual candidacy…A couple of GOP Senators in deep trouble with their...

EADS: Break-even Outlook For A380 Now At 420 Aircraft Dow Jones 10/19/2006 LONDON (Dow Jones)--Airbus now needs to sell around 420 A380 aircraft to break even on the delayed program, according to a presentation given at an investor meeting of parent company, European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV (5730.FR) Thursday. The break-even outlook is updated for 2006 and updates the 2005 business case, which was based on 270 A380 orders, according to a presentation by Airbus Chief Financial Officer Andreas Sperl. Toulouse-based Airbus has so far booked 159 orders for its double-decker A380 aircraft, but earlier this month announced...

The United States and its allies will fail in the so-called "war on terror" without the support of Pakistan and its intelligence service, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday, September 30. "You will be brought down to your knees if Pakistan doesn't co-operate with you. That is all that I would like to say. Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you would not manage anything. Let that be clear," he said. "And if the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) is not with you, you will fail. Let that be very clear also. Remember my words: if...

The bodies were still warm when Lieutenant Ron Rutten found them: nine corpses in civilian clothes lying crumpled by a stream, each shot in the back at close range. It was July 12, 1995, and the UN-declared “safe area” of Srebrenica had fallen the previous day. The lush pastures of eastern Bosnia were about to become Europe’s bloodiest killing fields since 1945. Refugees poured into the UN compound. But the Dutch peacekeepers (Dutchbat) were overwhelmed and the Serbs confiscated their weapons. “From the moment I found those bodies, it was obvious to me that the Bosnian Serbs planned to kill...

KRAKOW, May 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An open letter signed by 100 over Polish Catholics on the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, calls on Catholic clergy who collaborated with the communist regime to come forward. The letter follows revelations in Zycie Warszawy daily earlier this month that Msgr. Michal Czajkowski of Warsaw was an informant on the activities of fellow clergy including Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, a hero of the Solidarity movement murdered by communist agents. The letter from the laity urged priests to admit their guilt in collaborating with the communist regime, saying, "priests and others...

by Mark Finkelstein October 2, 2006 - 16:32 Day One: Suspicious-but-not-explict emails. Day Two: Explicit instant messages, but no evidence Foley met with boys. Day Four: Instant message indicating Foley was indeed seeking to meet and possibly had already met with a boy. Foley deserves what he's gotten and what is likely to come. But it seems increasingly plausible that the timed release of information - of ever-increasing seriousness - is part of a calculated campaign to keep the story in the news and inflict the maximum amount of political damage on the GOP. That would seem the logical inference...

Democrats must gain at least six seats to grab control - a feat that is suddenly not so farfetched. WASHINGTON -- Democrats are within striking distance of taking control of the U.S. Senate on Election Day, a series of new polls for McClatchy Newspapers and MSNBC showed today. Democratic Senate candidates are tied, have a slight edge or an outright lead in every one of 10 pivotal battleground states. No Democrat trails in those races; no Republican leads. Democrats must gain six seats to capture control of the 100-member Senate.Democratic candidates have a strong chance to win all seven at-risk...

The moonbats know as Quakers and MOBILIZING MOTHERS were spotted by the scout Mr. Trooprally after breakfast. The alarm went out the team deployed. Earlier this week Dr.Raoul at the internet intelligence monitoring site found a lefty bragging about one of their criminal activities. The commie had vandalized the Montgomery Country military recruiting center. The cowards did their deeds late at night. As one of my good friends says, “The only things the leftist can do is destroy. They never build or create anything.” Member of the DC Chapter called the police but of course they did nothing. Montgomery Country...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia handed over to China a destroyer equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry on Thursday, finalising a $1.5 billion deal analysts say boosts Beijing's clout in its stand-off with Taiwan. "The handover act was signed today, and a Chinese flag was hoisted on the ship," a Russian defence industry source told Reuters, requesting anonymity. The warship was the fourth Project 956E 'Sovremenny' (Modern) class destroyer built at the Northern Shipyard in Russia's second city St Petersburg and sold to China under a 2002 deal through Russia's state arms trader Rosoboronexport. In the late 1990s China bought two...

'Not your father’s Oldsmobile’: F-15E+ Super Eagle unveiled By Guy Norris New-build aircraft would cover any significant service-entry delays for F-35 JSF Boeing has revealed details of the proposed F-15E+ “Super Eagle”, which is being offered as a “fourth-generation plus” fighter stopgap to the US Air Force in case of significant delays to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The new-build proposal, expected to be offered at a target price of $59 million (2006 US dollars) versus roughly $60 million-plus for the baseline F-35, would be available in 2012-13 assuming an authority to proceed decision in 2009. “That...

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends. Wal-Mart sent the following confidential memo to managers, instructing them how to answer questions from employees about new pay ranges and wage caps. The document was provided to The New York Times by WakeUpWalMart.com, a union-funded group that is critical of the retailer. Wal-Mart executives say they have embraced new policies for a large number of their 1.3 million workers to better serve their customers, especially at busy shopping...

Pelosi needs to resign for… Wm Jefferson, D-LA, taking bribes ($90k in his freezer?!?) Barney Frank, D-NY, Involved with running a male escort service…and being a perv Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, Battery on Capital Hill Police…and a crappy hairstyle Former Rep Gerry Studds, D-MA, liquoring up a 17-yr old page and havin sex with him…and being a perv I am sure that the Great Ones on this site could ask more…but her demanding the resignation of the entire Republican leadership is absolutely rediculous. Can she really be that stupid? Yes, she can. And how about her “criminal” activities? Something about illegal...

If you believe that just a thin sliver of luck stands between us and further terrorist attacks in our major cities, and that only one political party can be trusted to be serious about national security, you have to believe that Rep. Foley’s sexual folly could endanger all of us. Whether or not he was abused as a teenager is purely irrelevant: We are not turned into irresponsible zombies by childhood trauma. Rather than falling for Foley’s trendy excuses, we need to think about the clear consequences. Soon, the suicide-murder cult of Ahmadinejad will have nukes; they might already have...

The Department of Transportation, acting through a Security and Prosperity Partnership "working group," is preparing in 2007 to issue North American biometric border passes to Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. "trusted travelers" according to documents released to WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi under a Freedom of Information Act request. "The FOIA documents show the organizational chart and the composition of a 'shadow Department of Transportation' which includes formal membership from Mexico and Canada's Departments of Transportation," asserts Corsi. "SPP has in effect created a fully-functioning trilateral Department of Transportation which will dictate policy to Mary Peters as soon as...

Air Force Association August 2006, Vol. 89, No. 8 By Robert S. Dudney, Editor in ChiefBack to Demolition Derby? The Air Force should prepare itself for budget combat. Critics frequently dispute USAF’s claim that it needs to modernize its aircraft fleets. For anyone who may have harbored an honest doubt, though, the question was answered by a June exercise in Alaska. Twelve super-sophisticated F-22s, in simulated combat, posted a startling 108-to-zero record against current-generation “enemy” fighters, reported Gen. John D.W. Corley, USAF’s vice chief of staff. Against the same foes, older F-15s and F/A-18s did one-tenth as well as the...

Some members of Congress have stated that we must first secure our borders before we can even discuss immigration reform. I part company with some of these folks, because despite their tough talk, their view of immigration reform, even post-border security, still translates into a diluted version of amnesty, and the allowing of “day-workers” to transverse our border, and potentially abuse their privileges. While I disagree with the latter part of that plan, the first part is correct, or at least, it was until recently. One of the biggest obstacles to real border security and immigration reform has been our...