China admits forced abortions, sterilizations in eastern province
BEIJING — China’s family planning agency admitted
that officials in the eastern province of Shandong had carried out
forced abortions and sterlizations, state media reported Monday. National
Population and Family Planning Commission spokesman Yu Xuejun said the
commission and Shandong family planning agency had sent two joint teams
to investigate reports of forced […]

Paris - An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action against
France, which it describes as “enemy No 1“, intelligence officials said
on Tuesday.

“The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the
Islamic martyr,” said the group’s leader, Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also
known as Abdelmalek Dourkdal, in an […]

North Korea has agreed to give up its nuclear weapons and nuclear
weapons programs.  Once it has regained international trust, it
will be allowed to have a civilian nuclear program.

BEIJING - North Korea pledged to drop its
nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties in a
unanimous agreement on Monday with other countries at arms talks, the first-ever
joint […]

Text of joint statement from North Korea
nuclear talks
Text of the joint statement issued Monday by six nations at talks in Beijing
on North Korea’s nuclear program:
For the cause of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in northeast
Asia at large, the six parties held in a spirit of mutual respect and equality
serious and practical talks […]

Euro-Gloaters

Media: Far and wide, but mostly in Europe, the world’s media see
Katrina’s devastation as a sign of America’s cultural inferiority and social
backwardness. But let’s look at the facts.
‘The Shaming Of America,” reads The Economist’s headline. French left-wing
daily Le Monde’s headlines speak of “fractures” in American society. Spain’s and
Germany’s newspapers take turns gleefully blaming President Bush.
No […]

MSM fishing for anti-Bush criticism, came up
empty.  ABC’s Dean Reynolds interviews evacuees at the Houston
Astrodome.  By the intimations in his questioning, he appeared to
be seeking out, or at least expecting criticism of Bush.  Instead
he found criticism of local officials and praise for President Bush.
A video excerpt can be viewed here.  The full text follows.

“I’d
like to […]

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Cindy Sheehan announced plans to move to New
Orleans in order to make the media pay attention to her again. The
protester admitted that she is going through withdrawals and depression
since the media stopped listening to her and focused on Hurricane
Katrina.
“My story is important,” said Cindy. “More important than a few dead
people killed […]

BIDEN: “That’s what I want to know about because without any knowledge
of your understanding of the law, because you will not share it with
us, we are rolling the dice with you, Judge.”
* * *
BIDEN: “See, you’ve told me nothing, Judge.
With all due respect, you’ve not — look, it’s kind of
interesting, this Kabuki dance […]

Sept. 13, 2005 — Amid
the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina struck, a local congressman used National Guard troops to check
on his property and rescue his personal belongings — even while New
Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC News
has learned.
* * *

“I did not seek the use of military assets […]

Chief Umpire vs. Demagogic
Buffoons

Grinning fraud Joe Biden, at his most insufferably fatuous,
found John Roberts’ “umpire” metaphor “inapt.” Your job isn’t simply to
call balls and strikes, he lectured him, but to determine the “strike
zone.”
True, having to bat while knowing that the umpire can call any
pitch a strike no matter how wild is like trying to live […]

President Bush yesterday said he takes personal responsibility for the federal
government’s stumbling response to Hurricane Katrina as his White House worked
on several fronts to move beyond the improvisation of the first days of the
crisis and set a long-term course on a problem that aides now believe will
shadow the balance of Bush’s second term.
“Katrina exposed serious […]

DATE:September 12, 2005
TIME:
[…]

Nomination Hearings for Supreme Court Justices

Here
are the complete transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings
on […]

KUWAIT
CITY (AP) - Kuwait wants former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his
detained former aides sentenced to death for alleged crimes committed
during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of this oil-rich state, a Justice Ministry
official said Sunday.
I’m sure they are not the only ones who want him executed for his
crimes.  I have no doubt that the U.N. still prefers […]

The Washington Times reports that:

The city of New Orleans followed virtually no aspect of its own
emergency management plan in the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans officials also failed to implement most federal
guidelines, which stated that the Superdome was not a safe shelter for
thousands of residents. (Source)

Points in the article include the following:

the mayor could […]

Before we hold FEMA and/or Brown accountable, we should first have a clear idea of those things for which they are and are not responsible.

What does FEMA do?
One way to look at what FEMA does is to think about the life cycle of disasters. Emergency managers prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond to them when […]

In a piece in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen said the following about John Roberts:

Instead, the nominee for chief justice of the United States punched
every career ticket right on schedule. He was raised in affluence,
educated in private schools, dispatched to Harvard and then to Harvard
Law School. He clerked for a U.S. appellate judge (the storied […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, FEMA is providing mass care to disaster victims at shelters and
medical units across the Gulf Region and distributing vital medications and
supplies, tetanus vaccines, and maintenance medications for diseases such as
diabetes, heart disease, anxiety and other conditions, Michael D. Brown,
Department of Homeland Security’s […]

BATON ROUGE, United States (AFP) - Lieutenant General Russel Honore lived up to his ‘John Wayne dude’ nickname, blasting complaints that red tape or poor security were snarling relief efforts as “B.S.”  The fiery general, in charge of the military component of the mission, lost his rag during a press conference after President George W. Bush’s […]

I am joining Michelle Malkin in the effort to help reunite lots children with the families.

Look hard at these photos,
send them around, e-mail the networks and cable news stations and press
them to air the names and faces of Katrina’s lost children–every night
until they are all found, if need be. Let’s get O’Reilly and Greta and
Shep […]