In the Bronx recently, Senator Clinton’s
remarks about school vouchers reveal that she is either ignorant of
very important related facts or that she is lying to her audience in
an attempt to manipulate them by fear.  Futhermore, in either case her
argument overall is logically quite flawed.  According to Glenn Thrush, Clinton tried to make the case
. […]

President Bush is open to making a more
detailed case for the administration’s position on the Dubai port
transaction by addressing concerns over security risks.

The Bush administration said Sunday it will accept an extraordinary
offer by a United Arab Emirates-based company to submit to a second -
and broader - U.S. review of potential security risks in its deal […]

The Gray Lady has rasied (or lowered)
cowardice and hypocrisy to new levels.  Revealing that they have
the spine of a jelly-fish and the courage of a scaredy-cat, The NY Times
calls Moderate Muslims fence-sitters for not standing up to Islamic
extremists and praises journalists who had the courage to print the
Danish cartoons.  Yet they did not print the […]

Israel is now officially a hostage of Iran:

If the United States launches an attack on Iran, the
Islamic republic will retaliate with a military strike on Israel’s main
nuclear facility.Dr. Abasi, an advisor to Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard, said Tehran would respond to an American attack with strikes on
the Dimona nuclear reactor and other strategic Israeli sites such as
the […]

South Dakota Senate passes bill to ban abortion.  (HB 1215)

The measure, which would ban nearly all abortions in the state, now
returns to the House, which passed a different version earlier. The
House must decide whether to accept changes made by the Senate, which
passed its version 23-12.

The bill, if cleared by the two houses of the legislature, […]

President Bush said Tuesday that the deal
allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go
forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

“After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction
ought to go forward,” Bush told reporters who had traveled with him on
Air Force One to Washington. […]

IERRE, S.D. (AP) — Modern science can prove that life begins at
conception, legislators agreed Friday, barreling ahead with legislation
they hope will entice the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse itself and
outlaw abortion.
The potential challenge vehicle, HB1215, was sent 5-1 to the Senate floor by the State Affairs Committee.
The
bill, which had earlier cleared the state House by […]

Recently, a Swedish website was shutdown for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons.
Now, a Russian newspaper has been closed for publishing a it’s own
cartoon the purpose of which was actually convey the notion that
violence was not a part of the teachings of the major world religions..

“Мы внимательно обсудили эту статью, посмотрели, и
чтобы не разжигать межнациональную рознь, мы […]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has put in for a Purple Heart award - and she received the decoration yesterday.

The former first lady garnered the award without being wounded in
combat - or sustaining any kind of injury at all - as is usually the
case with Purple Heart recipients.

Neither has Clinton ever served in the […]

There is a very interesting and revealing investigative report at Popular Mechanics Science Blog on the
Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and
Response to Hurricane Katrina.  It does an excellent job at
exposing the under-reporting of the positive, over-exaggeration of the
negative, flawed reasoning in the finger pointing, and contradictions
in in some of their criticisms.  With […]

The House of Representatives Subcommittee on
Global Human Rights and International Operations (part of the Committee
on International Relations) today  held a pointed hearing on
whether the Internet in China is “a tool for freedom or suppression.”
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Cisco Systems executives testified.
Some comments by James Keith that echo sentiments I have expressed previously.

“We are firm in […]

The following news is getting a lot of attention in various websites and blogs:

A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over
significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate
sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers with
influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.
The
Bush […]

Another Iraqi General says WMD Went to Syria

Interview with Ryan Mauro -
2/14/2006
Ali
Ibrahim al-Tikriti was a southern regional commander for Saddam
Hussein’s Fedayeen militia in the late 1980s and a personal friend of
the dictator. Units under his command dealt with chemical and
biological weapons. He was known as the “Butcher of Basra” due to his
campaigns and defected […]

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion
during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow
hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.
Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert
and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot
by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, […]

U.S. Consitution - Article I, section 8:
Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
. . .
To provide […]

In Googlecurrent, Michelle Malkin is not depicted favorably . . . not at all.  She wonders if it is  possibly because of her views on Google’s policy in China.

Sarah Pacatte’s 13 year old son, Gabriel Mordeai, died during a
“choking game.”  Although both Gabriel and his twin brother Samuel
were warned by their mother not to play the game, Samuel stopped but
Gabriel did not.
Reporting on a similar death caused by this game gives further details:

Initially ruled a suicide, 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn
[…]

There has been large scale protests, violence, attacks on
emabassies, and so on in response to a cartoon that first appeared in
Denmark depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammed.  An Iranian
newspaper is promoting a contest of cartoons about the Holocaust to see
if the Westerners will be as open to free speech as they were with the
cartoon which Muslims […]

A crowd of about 400 demonstrators have attacked the Danish embassy in
Tehran with petrol bombs and stones in protest over the publication of
cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.
Iran’s Commerce Minister Massoud Mirkazemi was quoted as saying Iran was severing all trade relations with Denmark.
Earlier
on Monday about 200 protesters threw several fire bombs […]

How’s this for reporting:

Specter: Administration broke law
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, says President George W. Bush’s
warrantless surveillance program appears to be illegal.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Specter called the
administration’s legal reasoning “strained and unrealistic” and said
the program appears to be “in flat violation” of the […]