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With all due respect, this is absurd on many levels. If John McCain is nominated and loses, it is because he doesn’t appeal to enough Americans, including the base that he has repeatedly betrayed (as Thomas Sowell puts it) over a long period of time. The suggestion that McCain and McCain alone is capable of fighting this war, given his experience, seems to be the core of the concern. Let me suggest that VDH and others who make this claim are wrong. McCain never treated Bill Cohen, Clinton’s defense secretary, with the kind of personal animus he showed Donald Rumsfeld....

Latest ratings book: Levin 3.9, Savage 3.5 Evidently Chuck Schumer isn't the ratings magnet Savage thought he was. I wonder if Savage is contributing to Democratic campaigns again, like he did with Jerry Brown when he gave him over $5,000.

Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners By OREN ALT, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago KETZIOT PRISON CAMP, Israel - Israel on Monday began releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in a gesture meant to strengthen moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after the two sides' recent agreement to try to reach a peace deal. The release of the 429 prisoners began a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was not bound by the December 2008 target for the peace agreement set at last week's U.S.-hosted Mideast summit in Annapolis, Md. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

Remember our troops Thursday, November 22, 2007 Remember our brave troops this Thanksgiving day.

Levin #1 in New York 6-8 PM (12+ demo) AM and FM bands! He crushes Savage: 4.9 to 3.5 (Savage is #8 overall) Levin also beats Savage in 25-54 demo, 3.3 to 2.4

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Once again, Mark Levin is #1 in New York on the AM band during his time slot (6-8 PM), crushing Michael Savage in ALL demographics, and beating all news and sports programs. In the all important Fall book ratings, Levin beat Savage in the 12 plus demo by 4.1 to 3.4, and in the 25-54 demo by 2.9 to 1.9. Levin has beaten Savage in 12 out of 13 ratings books. Tonight, Savage will do what he always does when he is defeated by Levin -- he will go on the air and claim to have beated WABC during his...

What could possibly make the Lebanon situation worse today than it was yesterday? Only yesterday the hapless Israeli defense minister, Amir Peretz, said that Israel expected the "international community" to take control of Lebanon's border crossings. Peretz's pointless whine was in response to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement on Saturday that the new UN force in Lebanon won't either disarm Hizballah terrorists or try to interdict shipments of weapons to Hizballah from Syria. But what Peretz said changed nothing. The Son of UNIFIL force won't do anything to inconvenience Hizballah or its Syrian and Iranian suppliers. But yes, today,...

The Foreign Secretary spoke his mind on the Middle East — and became a target in Washington WHEN JACK STRAW was replaced by Margaret Beckett as Foreign Secretary, it seemed an almost inexplicable event. Mr Straw had been very competent — experienced, serious, moderate and always well briefed. Margaret Beckett is embarrassingly inexperienced. I made inquiries in Washington and was told that Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, had taken exception to Mr Straw’s statement that it would be “nuts” to bomb Iran. The United States, it was said, had put pressure on Tony Blair to change his Foreign Secretary. Mr...

Somali Muslims join radicals to fight common enemy, the US June 13, 2006 By Abdifatah Ismail The fall of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, to Islamists comes at a time when anti-terror surveillance on the Horn of Africa is at its height. At present, several western countries including the US, Germany and France have military bases in Djibouti, the northern neighbour of Somalia. From the bases these governments patrol the Red Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean in a bid to protect Western interests in the region from not only the marauding Somali pirates, but also possible al-Qaeda assaults....

A primary breeding ground for Islamic terrorism is the 1,359 mosques that Saudi Arabia has established, at an average cost of $160,000 each, throughout the world over the past few decades. In the West, where costs are higher, millions of dollars were spent on individual "Islamic Centers." Since the 1970s, Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars to spread their form of conservative Islam (Wahabbism). Most of this effort was directed as countries that already had a majority Moslem population. There, the Wahabbi clerics often ran into problems with other Islamic sects, which Wahabbis consider, to various degrees, heretical. That,...

Washington: A senior American general who served as a combat commander in Iraq has accused the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, of squandering the lives of United States soldiers by ignoring military advice on how to conduct the campaign. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Major General John Batiste, who resigned last year after 12 months stationed in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, said the Pentagon chief had caused "unnecessary deaths" by committing "strategic blunders of enormous magnitude".

Valerie Plame should be the next Director of Central Intelligence, not Gen. Mike Hayden. Now that the CIA's Praetorian Guard has -- with the connivance of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte -- rid itself of Porter Goss, the CIA is confidently preparing to march back into the intelligence dark ages that preceded 9/11. Gen. Hayden -- former head of the National Intelligence Agency and most famous for his strong defense of the NSA terrorist surveillance program -- is slated to be nominated for the DCI post today. Hayden, now Negroponte's deputy and choice for DCI, will face tough questioning in...

Michael "Savage" Weiner lied on the last night - said he beat Mark Levin in New York. You can't believe anything this pseudo-conservative says. Mark Levin beat Weiner in yesterday's ratings in New York. In fact, he has beaten Savage in every single ratings book in New York since they went head-to-head. Here are the official numbers (grouped by age) in New York City: 12+ Levin 4.2 12+ Savage 3.7 18-49 Levin 2.1 18-49 Savage 1.8 25-54 Levin 2.4 25-54 Savage 2.0 35-64 Levin 3.9 35-64 Savage 3.3

Levin beats Savage again in New York - 4.2 to 3.7

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces shelled Iranian Kurdish guerrilla positions inside mountainous northern Iraq early on Friday morning to repel an attack, a Kurdish official said. "This morning Iranian Kurdish fighters infiltrated the border into the Iranian side and the Iranian army bombed the area and repelled them. The shelling hit Iraqi land at Sidakan,"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chinese national living in Southern California admitted on Wednesday trying to arrange the sale from China to the United States of 200 shoulder-fired missiles that can be used to bring down airplanes. Chao Tung Wu, 51, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to conspiring to import the missiles for a buyer who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. When Wu was indicted in November along with another man, Yi Qing Chen, they became the first people charged under a 2004 U.S. law forbidding the import of aircraft-destroying missile systems into the United...

NEW YORK, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Though by most accounts secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are friendly, the 72-year-old Defense chief may not be taking his partially eclipsed status very well. Though he has given no sign he might depart early, rumors have flown for weeks that Rumsfeld could leave after the quadrennial defense review expected by the end of 2005, report Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Klaidman in the March 14 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 7). Among those said to be eying Rumsfeld's post is newly retired...

George W. Bush visits India and Pakistan this week. His trip will be a study in contrasts that will test the elasticity and endurance of U.S. foreign policy in a tough neighborhood at a time when he cannot afford to make any mistakes.In India, he will find a vibrant, increasingly diversified economy with gargantuan energy requirements and a truly democratic political culture. The focal point of his visit will be to sort out the details of America's proposals to help India develop its civilian nuclear capabilities so that it can provide for the country's burgeoning energy demands. The trick will...