Saturday, 15 March 2008
 

Just be there!

Via email from William "1stCav" Page:

From Dan in NY...

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

Fighting the Insurgency at Home
Action Alert

Who:    Gathering of Eagles, Eagles Up!, Rolling Thunder, and more!
What:    Eagles Muster to denounce Winter Soldier II
Where:  Washington, DC and Silver Springs, MD
When:  Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15

Have you had it with the left wing organizations demeaning and slandering our troops at every opportunity?  Has the escalation in attacks against our recruiters across the nation, which progressed to the bombing of the Recruiter Station in Times Square last week, alerted you to the fact that we are fighting a REAL INSURGENCY in this country?

In NY City this weekend we held a rally in support of our troops and our recruiters in Times Square.  You can read my after action report here:

http://tinyurl.com/yv34lr

This morning I discover the cretins from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), who are running their program to slander and defame this generation of American Warriors in the same fashion as their guiding lights from the old VVAW did to our Vietnam Veterans, noticed our display of patriotism in Times Square.

Their response:

You are going to eat it if unless you cease and desist from your planned "events".

Their earlier comment on the bombing of the Times Square Recruiter Station was:

Fuck recruiters.

I don't know about you, but it gets my Irish up when someone can, in effect, condone and endorse domestic terrorism against our troops and then threaten more against anyone who supports the troops.

Up until now I have wanted to protest their planned defamation of our warriors at the Labor College in Silver Springs, Maryland, but work requirements were going to restrict my travel only to the Saturday Rally and March in DC.  Now, wild horses couldn't keep me away on Friday.

I condemn in the strongest language the willful terrorist enabling of the AFL-CIO for allowing this group to use the Labor College for their planned seditious  blackballing of our American Troops. 

I strongly recommend that anyone with a union card and patriotism join us in a mass burning of union cards outside the university gates on Friday to demonstrate to the fat labor bosses what we think of their collaboration. 

I demand that any media organization planning to cover the IVAW lie fest explicitly  include in their reports the above IVAW quotes to demonstrate IVAWs true level of support for our troops.
I demand that any media organization who runs anything on the IVAW propaganda campaign specifically use the DUPES process outlined here: http://tinyurl.com/2lmmqq   to perform their due diligence on anything the IVAW may claim.

The agenda for Friday, March 14th is:

Truth Challenge against IVAW Winter Soldier II
National Labor College
10000 New Hampshire Avenue
New Hampshire Ave and Powder Mill Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20903
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/3attuz
Starting 8am, All Day

The agenda for Friday Night, March 14th is:

Support our Wounded and counter Code Pink
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave.
Georgia Ave and Elder Street
Washington DC 20307
Map Link: http://tinyurl.com/257qwf
From 7pm until the Troop Bus returns from dinner

The agenda for Saturday, March 15th is:

Eagles Muster and March
Washington Monument
15th St NW south of Constitution Ave
Map Link:  http://tinyurl.com/2jw8wq
From 10am.  March at 1pm to Capital

Bring your flags, signs, banners, whistles, cowbells, megaphones and anything else you think will be required to get our message across.  Never again will one generation of warriors abandon another!

Never Again!

www.eaglesup.us/

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I just realized this information is also posted here on the GOE site.

See also: A bomb threat against the Gathering of Eagles

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 15, 2008 at 11:59 PM in Caring about our troops, Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I'm moving my daily roundups back to Old War Dogs

I've talked thing over with Russ and we've agreed it makes sense for me to start posting my daily Politics and National Defense Roundups at Old War Dogs for the foreseeable future. As I explained when I started posting them at Bill's Bites, my main reason was fear of causing friction within the pack by being too open with my opinions about who should get the Republican presidential nomination. Now that John McCain has the nomination sewn up there's no longer any danger of that. I sense no danger of upsetting any member of the pack by bad-mouthing Billary or that Obama kid -- We sent the only Hillary fan in the pack on his way months ago -- so it's time for me to start contributing more to the main site and restrict my place to "friends and family" items.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 14 March 2008
 

2008.03.13 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• Winter Soldier II Off To A Lying Start
• Winter Soldier II: The curtain opens; Plus: More on the anti-recruiter war;
  Update: Pinkos disrupt Move America Forward press conference;
• Pittsburgh Anarchists Plan Violent Take Over of Military Recruiting Station on March 19th!
• Winter Soldier Redux
• Lying about military service
• Antiwar Liars on Parade
• Heroes on tour

• Saddam supported at least two al-Qaeda groups: Pentagon; Update: What it means

• Breaking: Americans nab high-value Osama lieutenant

• The Tired Gaza Two-Step

• McCain’s new POW ad: 35 years ago today…
• "John was offered early release [by the North Vietnamese], and he told them to shove it."
• Video: McCain lets Obama off the hook for Wright

• Stating the obvious
• The Democrats' Race & Gender Campaign

• Controversial minister leaves Obama campaign
• Obama issues statement repudiating Wright ...
  [Too little, too late, even if he means it, which I doubt]
• Obama 'Strongly Condemns' Wright's Statements
• Jeremiah Wright, the Sister Souljah of 2008
• Oprah’s boards burning with Wright responses;
  Wright accuses America of creating the HIV virus
• Rezko Played Bigger Role, Obama Says
• Racism or victimhood?
• Wright and Obama: It Only Gets Worse
• 2007 Profile: Wright provides “spiritual guidance” for Obama, Oprah 
• The audacity of hate, Part Three, The audacity of hate, Part Four
• Obama's Spiritual Mentor Speaks
• Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright Has Formal Role in Obama Campaign and Plays Significant Role in His Life
• Senator Obama's Foreign Policy Judgment
• Senate 97, Obama 0
• Obama's budget vote could come back to bite him
• Obama and the Minister
• Barack Obama hoards the race issue
• The Audacity of hate, Part Two

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 14, 2008 at 12:45 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 13 March 2008
 

2008.03.13 Politics and National Defense Roundup

I've never had a lot of use for Geraldine Ferraro, and I still don't, but she has definitely done the country a favor by pointing out that there's no way  that Obama kid would ever have gotten close to a presidential nomination without having a black father. I don't have any problem with the idea of having a black President, or a female President, if the time ever comes when the most qualified candidate just happens to be black or female. So far that hasn't happened.

Worth knowing about today:

• Summer Soldiers by Any Other Name
• Hot Air TV: Sen. Jean Fraud Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II
• Unclassified memo warns military personnel of anti-war threats to recruiters, Army installations/facilities
• Salon’s Preview of Winter Soldier II Propaganda
• Low-hanging fruit: Antiwar organizer hates the troops, America

• Support for war effort highest since 2006
• Pew: Majority of Americans see a successful conclusion in Iraq
• Iraqi Troops May Move to Reclaim Basra’s Port

• Canada comes through 
• Canada votes to extend Afghan mission

• No "ass-kissing chickenshit" he
• The Fall of Admiral George B. McFallon
• Warriors welcome resignation
  Current and former military officials welcomed the resignation of Navy Adm. William J. Fallon, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, saying he failed to prevent foreign fighters and munitions from entering Iraq.
• Can We Get A Fact Check From Fred Kaplan?

• Report: IDF kills mastermind of Jerusalem terror attack

• Linda Foley’s Mouth Shrills Again

• Campaign 2012 begins: Mitt to form PAC to elect Republican candidates

• Confirmed: Hillary’s supporters the coolest in America
• Hillary channels Brenda Lee over Ferraro contretemps

• Rezko-Obama: Beyond “Guilt By Association”
• One of Obama's Earmarks Went to Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama
• Obama requested million-dollar earmark for … his wife’s hospital?
• Obama's Pastor After 9/11: 'America's chickens are coming home to roost.'
• Obama's Pastor's Other Comments on 9/11
• VDH: Race and the Democrats
• Mickey Kaus: Psst!--Ferraro Was Right
• The audacity of hate
• Guilt by Association
• The Wright Stuff
• Video: Jeremiah Wright and “God damn America”
• Does Barack Agree?
• Video: Obama’s pastor takes highly nuanced approach to racial divisiveness;
  Update: More nuance: “God damn America”; Update: Role with campaign?
• Obama's Achilles' Heel
• Racial Issue Bubbles Up Again for Democrats 
• Sacked for stating the obvious
• Ferraro Defends Remarks About Obama as ‘Statement of Fact’ After Leaving Clinton Team
• Obama on Race and the Race
• WSJ: Obama and the Race Card
• Obama's Self-Portrait

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 12 March 2008
 

2008.03.12 Politics and National Defense Roundup

My politics and national defense blogging may get sorta sporadic for a while. Those of you who've been reading everything on my blog and not just my daily roundups know that thing have finally started moving on the Social Security front and it looks like I may get a little bit of my money within the next couple of weeks. You also know I have a pasture to expand -- If my help shows up we'll start on that this afternoon -- and some remodeling I'd like to have done on the house. I'm not going to quit blogging all together but my threshold for what's important enough to mention may be higher some days than others.

Worth knowing about today:

• Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Major Assault Begins Thursday
• IVAW nutball update: One membership terminated, another indefinitely suspended
• The anti-recruiter movement: Bombs, vandalism, assassination threats, and now a call to “cage” the troops
• IVAW Sets Timer On Dishonor Bomb
• Jesse MacBeth to Winter Soldier: Exposing Dahr Jamail
• The return of Micah Wright

• Fred Kaplan: Fallon wasn’t pushed out over Iran
• Max Boot: Fallon didn't get it
• Fred Kaplan: "Fox" Fallon Wasn't Hounded Out

• Ethnic dispute tears al Qaeda, Hayden says

• Khatami: Heretic?

• The Bad War: the left vs. military recruiters.

• Thomas Lifson: The Air Force Tanker Deal

• President Bush Comes Out Full Force Against 'Fairness Doctrine'

• BBC Fabricates Home Demolition Report
• On the other side of the firing line 

• David Mamet: No longer a “brain-dead liberal”
• David Mamet, “Classical Liberal.”
• When a huge liberal tree falls out of the forest, will anyone listen?

• Video: Spitz resigns, pretends that he’s sorry
• Spitzer Resigns In Wake Of Prostitution Scandal
• Spitzer [D-NY] Spent $80 Grand on Hookers - Update: Resigning Tomorrow?
• Sooner or Later, Spitzer Will Affect The Presidential Race

• Client Number Nine's Troubling Number Two

• Romney for Veep?

• VDH: The Obama-Clinton-McCain Paradoxes

• The Rezko Scandal, In a Nutshell

• Is Hillary McCain's Fifth Column?

• Obama and the judges
• Ferraro quits
• Welcome to the 21st century, Gerry
• Speaking Truth To Power
• Ferraro booted from Clinton campaign for telling the truth about Obams
• Is time on Clinton’s side?
• Hillary at 3 a.m.
• Team Obama Provides McCain With Anti-Hillary Ad Fodder
• Flashback! HRC once thought taxes should be open (H/T: Heather Faith Brinkley)

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 12, 2008 at 12:03 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 11 March 2008
 

2008.03.11 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• Blackfive: Admiral Fallon Steps Down
• Fallon Gonged in Favor of Petraeus
• Fallon resigns as head of Centcom; Update: In the works for awhile?
• Admiral Fallon Resigns as Head of Centcom
• Top Middle East military commander resigns

• The Pentagon vs. Petraeus

• Saddam had “no operational ties” to AQ: Pentagon

• Boeing: We was robbed … after we robbed others!

• In Havana, A Page From McCain's Past

• Porkutopia: All three presidential candidates to sponsor moratorium on pork

• Sources: Spitzer to quit tomorrow; Update: He was a good tipper, says escort
• Will Spitzer resign — or deploy the Clinton/Craig strategy?
• Spitzer aides to NYT: He’s out; Update: “Inevitable,” sources tell ABC;
  Update: Maybe not, says yet another aide;
  Update: Spitzer used escort service for more than a year
• Video flashback: A very special message from New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer
• NY Post: Spitzer Has Been a John for At Least Six Years
• NY Post: Spitzer’s been using hookers for at least six years;
  Update: Feds feared Spitzer was being blackmailed
• Left and right agree: Eliot Spitzer [D-NY] must go;
  Update: “At least six years and possibly for more than a decade”
• The Rise And Fall Of Elliot Sptizer (D-NY)
• Spitzer [D-NY]: From Cloud Nine to Client No. Nine
• The Spitzer Scandal: Lust Plus Pride

• “Ain’t no party like a Clinton party”

• Ferraro: Pickin’ on me ‘cuz I’m white! Update: Twenty-year flashback!
• The Democrat Punch and Judy show continues
• Obama Says Ferraro Race Comments Are ‘Patently Absurd,’ Campaign Calls for Ouster
  [The only thing Ferraro did wrong was to tell the truth and the only thing Clinton did wrong was to say she doesn't agree with Ferraro.]

• Where in the world is Michelle Obama?

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 11, 2008 at 01:08 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 10 March 2008
 

2008.03.10 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• Michael Yon: Guitar Heroes
• Michael J Totten: In the Villages of Al Anbar

• In Tanker Bid, It Was Boeing vs. Bold Ideas
• A Good Deal of Credit to McCain for Stopping a Bad Deal

• New Jihad Watch: Afghans with fake Mexican passports

• Mahmoud Abbas' Official PA Newspaper Glorifies Mass Murder

• The continuing war on recruiters that the Left doesn’t want to talk about

• Right in ‘08: The conservative campaign to end race/gender preferences

• Glenn Reynolds: No 'freedom to keep secrets'

• Monday moocher of the morning

• Strike Three For The Times: Self-Inflicted Scars
• Is This Any Angrier Than Hillary's 'Shame On You, Barack Obama'?
• A Good Deal of Credit to McCain for Stopping a Bad Deal

• ABC: Spitzer led feds to prostitution ring, not vice versa
• Right Now, Hillary Wishes Spitzer Had Backed Obama
• Gov.Elliiot Spitzer (D-NY) Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
• Sources: Spitzer under prostitution investigation
• What Spitzer was up to today before the news broke
• A walk down Spitzer Memory Lane
• The fall of Eliot Spitzer: “Client Number 9?”
  Update: Report - Expected to resign; Report - indicted?;
  Update: “I apologize to my family. I apologize to the public.”
  Rumor: Resignation at 7pm?; Federal wiretap info; Wall Street cheered
• America’s worst governor linked to hookers? Update: The Emperor’s Club?
  Update: Spitzer to resign? Update: Spitzer apologizes; Update: Caught on federal wiretap; Update: Video added; no resignation; Update: Not indicted;
  Update: Hillary scrubs website of Spitzer references; Update: New details

• Rising tide lifts One America
• 'The message from the Democratic campaign is that America is an unreliable ally.'

• Hello, faddah, hello, mama, here I am at Camp Obama
• Michelle Obama: ' What I Notice About Men, All Men... Is That 'Me' Is First.'
• Obama to Hillary: How come I’m qualified to be VP but not president?
• The Governing Downside of a Unity Ticket
• Obama ridicules idea of being Clinton's running mate.
• Obama: I Am Not Running to be Hillary’s No. 2
• WSJ: Obama’s pastor pretty much openly campaigning for him from the pulpit
• Obama's Constitution
• Sure, Obama's a smart, sweet guy — but can he fight?

• Hillary Isn't Playing the Experience Card Quite Right.
• Daschle: First Lady isn’t The Apprentice
• The Monster: A Loyal Clinton Soldier Turns in His Badge
• Girl Power, Clinton-Style
• Sniping by Her Aides Hurt Clinton’s Image as Manager

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 10, 2008 at 02:00 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Saturday, 08 March 2008
 

2008.03.08-09 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• 19-yaar old femail medic earns Silver Star in Afghanistan

• Last surviving U.S. World War I vet honored by president

• Col. Harry G. Riley: Lock Arms with American Defenders

• Rallying for recruiters–and gearing up for next ANSWER paroxysm

• Does AQ have moles in British police forces?
• 4 London Met Officers AlQaeda Sleeper Cells
• Report: Al Qaeda Spies Believed to Have Infiltrated British Police Force

• President Vetoes Latest Dem Scheme to Handcuff Anti-Terror Efforts
• Bush vetoes bill banning waterboarding [and a bunch of other interrogation techniques]
• Bush to veto intel bill with interrogation restrictions

• Celebrating mass murder in Gaza
• Eight arrested in probe of Jewish seminary attack

• Oh, You Meant THOSE Engineers?

• Children of the corn…

• Right at home
  Michelle Malkin may seem like any mild-mannered blogger in her Baltimore-area home, but she's reviled by liberals like almost no one else online. ...
• MM: Why I talked to the Baltimore Sun and not the New Yorker

• Free speech includes the right to be rude

• Judge: Reporter in contempt over anthrax story
• Judge: USAToday reporter in contempt, must personally pay fines

• More states consider immigration bills
• Investigating criminal alien arrests in Milwaukee

• Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in 5 states

• The McCain imperative
• The Audacity of Gratitude
• Red phone ad (John McCain remix)
• Elisabeth Bumiller makes the news
• Bumiller Attempts to Distance Self from Unprofessional Behavior
• John McCain: Hot-Headed Cancer Patient!
• A Lovable Maverick Flashes His Temper
• New McCain Ad
• L. Brent Bozell: From the Right, He Looks Too Blue

• Give Me A “P”!

• The SNL Barack-calls-Hill-at-3am skit
• Over the Top
• Girl in Hillary's 3 a.m. Ad Actually an Obama Supporter
• ScrappleFace: Obama Apologizes to Hillary for 'Monster' Remark
• Trouble Ahead for the Democrats?
• Mark Steyn: Chain, Chain, Chain, Chain of Fools
• Michael Barone: Clinton Has Only One Plausible Path to the Nomination

• Rezko cash three times what Obama admits: Sun-Times
• The "Evolving" Barack Obama
• Barack Obama Gets Bogged Down
• Obama in Senate: Star Power, Minor Role
• Obama and FARC: What's the link?
• Things just keep slipping out
• Obama takes Wyoming
• Snap! The NYT Swipes at Obama
• The limits and perils of rock stardom
• Obama Wants McCain to Apologize for Truth Spoken By Steve King
• Obama adviser: Obama naive, “knee-jerk” on telecom immunity
• Huckster

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 8, 2008 at 12:09 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Friday, 07 March 2008
 

2008.03.07 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• NEFA Foundation sources: Fat traitor is indeed dead

• Michelle Malkin Special report: Tracing the Left's escalating war on military recruiters

• Karl Rove: Alive!

• Strike Two for the Times
• Video: McCain Gets Angry?
• McCain Loses Cool on NYT Reporter Asking About Kerry's VP Pitch
  [Go, Johnny, go! Go! Go! :-) ]

• Hillary: You want him on that phone! You need him on that phone!

• The Tragedy of the Democratic Party

• Clintons blocking release of pardon papers
• Cattle futures redux?
• Report: Clinton Campaign Will be Sued for Plagiarism

• Sharpton on video: We could walk if Obama doesn't get the nomination
• Obama's Plouffe: Retreat, At Any Cost
• Obama Flips His Previous Flop On Iraq
• Will an Obama collapse bring political apocalypse?
• Monstergate
• We Won't Have Samantha Power to Kick Around Any More
• "You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'"; Update: Samantha Power resigns
• The book tour from hell continues
• Soft Power and Liberal Fascism
• Obama, Power, and Obama Power; Letters to a Blogger
• Top Obama advisor tells the truth
• Charles Krauthammer: The Great Non Sequitur
• Obama's Messianic Politics
• Giving limousine liberals a bad name
• Michele Obama: portrait in audacity
• Barack Obama and Me

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 7, 2008 at 12:21 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Thursday, 06 March 2008
 

2008.03.06 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• NY Bombing: Why letters to NY Congressional contingent?; Update: “We did it!”
• Surveillance video: The Times Square bombing
• Surveillance Camera Video Reveals Bicyclist Sought in Big Apple Bombing
• Bomber Hits NYC Recruiting Center
• Homegrown IED Targets Manhattan Military Recruiting Station
• Explosion at Times Square recruiting station;
  Update: Bloomberg blasts the blast;
  Update: Security video released
• Bombing at Big Apple military recruitment center;
  Update: Kos diarist claims right-wing plot

• Woodrow W. Keeble - Someone You Should Know
• The German who fought for America — and peace

• Iraqi intel chief: Iran sponsoring al-Qaeda in Iraq
• 11 killed, 44 held in raids on al-Qaida
• Turkey Resumes Strikes in Iraq's North

• Senior British diplomat: Contrary to NIE, no reason to believe Iran has suspended nuclear weapons program

• Shooting at Jerusalem Seminary Kills 10
• Palestinian “resistance” liberates 10 yeshiva students from their corporeal forms;
  Update: 500-600 bullets;
  Update: Hezbollah connection?

• Three “Middle Eastern militants” arrested in Manila plot against US embassy

• Congress Threatens To Pull Funding for Air Force Tankers

• The threat from the open northern border

• Amazing Climate Predictions Revealed — Climate Models Reviled

• Thrice a hero

• Hillary: You know who has a “lifetime of experience”? John McCain

• Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself
• Hillary picking up the mo? Or just enough to get cocky?

• Top Obama advisor: Hillary’s a “monster”
• Tough Math on the Democratic Side
• Far left ready to blow the lid off the Democratic convention, maybe literally
• So much for that Glacier-Messiah ticket…
• Obama: What’s in Hillary’s tax returns? Update:Clinton compares Obama to who?

• The book tour from hell
• NAFTA Dance: Harper’s Chief of Staff outed as one source
• Obama’s foreign policy advisor: He’s not ready for the 3 a.m. phone call
• Did Rezko find sinecures for Obama staffers? Update: A primer on the Chicago Way
• Obama-Rezko And Media Ignorance Of “The Chicago Way”
• VDH: Let Obama Be Obama
• Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection
• The arrogance of impotence, Obama style
• NAFTA Dance: Canadians On The Mole Hunt!
• A Chavez/Obama Axis?
• Has Obama Peaked?

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 6, 2008 at 12:01 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Wednesday, 05 March 2008
 

2008.03.05 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Yesterday in a nutshell: McCain clinches, Billary does well enough to remain in the race at least another six weeks.

Worth knowing about today:

• FISA bill may never come to vote

• IVAW's Winter Soldier II March 13 Foundation Of Frauds
• Draft card-burning deja vu

• WaPo Editor: 'I Want More Muslim Journalists'
• Washington Post Wants to Hire More Muslims

• Muslim Sailor Convicted of Supporting Terrorists
• Ex-sailor convicted of giving Navy secrets to terror supporters

• The Finish The Freaking Fence Act
• Conservative Senate Republicans get serious about immigration enforcement

• Iraqi forces stand up as U.S. mentors step aside
• Michael J Totten: In the Slums of Fallujah
• Gen. Petraeus re Al Qaeda: 'Rip out their roots'

• Iraqi security: Turkish planes bomb border

• The return of Theater of Jihad
• Gaza: Quran Plays Hide & Seek From Israeli Missile

• Files in Colombian Rebel Laptop Show Chavez's Ties to Rebels
• Venezuela moves tanks to border
• Hugo says Venezuela doesn’t want war, but the US does
• Venezuela Military Buildup Is Destabilizing to Region, Military Experts Say

• 2008 a “Last Hurrah” for campaign-finance reform?

• President Bush endorses John McCain for president

• A Game of Survivor
• Dems Face a Long Brawl
• Duel of Historical Guilts 
• Obama camp: What's Clinton hiding?
• Hillary hangover: Who won more delegates last night?
• Texas Caucus Count Takes Wind Out of Clinton’s Wins
• Obama Gets Super Delegates Under Affirmative Action 

• Has Obama Peaked?
• Obama's First 100 Days
• Obama senior advisor blames Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism
• Samantha Power and Senator Obama OK with 'equivalent of ethnic cleansing'?
• The unanswered Rezko questions, courtesy of Chicago media
• ABC: Rezko in $50 million hole
• It’s all about the Glass Jaw
• The Audacity of Outrage

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 5, 2008 at 12:54 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Tuesday, 04 March 2008
 

2008.03.04 Politics and National Defense Roundup

I got back from a just-under 6 hour trip to my nearest conveniently located VA Medical Clinic about 5. I'm going to spend a few minutes catching up on the news, then I may grab a nap before I try to do much blogging. BTW, I am pleased to be able to report that there will be a VA Medical Clinic in Vincennes IN by about 1 Sept 08. It's not going to be full service right at the start but at least it's a start.

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I'll get some links up later but the big news on the horserace front is that we have at least another month six weeks to enjoy watching Obama and Billary slug it out and give us lots of material to use against whichever of them eventually comes out on top.

Worth knowing about today:

• McCain claims GOP nomination, , Shucksterbee finally drops out
• Video: McCain clinches, takes it to the Democrats on Iraq
• Clinton camp alleges dirty tricks in Texas
• Clinton Camp Blasts Obama TX Operation
• Alamo Tuesday showdown: Will Hillary finally get a gold medal?
  Update: Obama takes Vermont;
  Update: McCain wins Ohio; more polling hour extensions;
  Update: 10 percent of “Democrat” voters in Ohio and Texas are GOP crossovers;
  Update 8:38pm: Long lines in Dallas; Huckabee plans for “concession;”
  Update: It’s official–McCain clinches nomination;
  Update: Hillary gets her gold in RI, leading in OH;
  Update: Hill wins Ohio, RI, “We’re going all the way!”

• Bad news for al Qaeda. . .and for liberal talking points
• Military: Iran using Shiite proxies to try to kill leaders of Anbar Awakening

• Joe Lieberman: A Surge To Help Afghanistan
• Taliban: We knew Harry was in Afghanistan; British journo: Yeah, they did

• Colombia: Chavez gave $300M to FARC terrorists;
  Update: FARC wanted nukes?

• FISA Compromise in Works

• Terrific: Illegal alien students registering US voters

• Ukraine: We may skim off the pipe

• Hillary endorses McCain over Obama?

• Republicans rejoice: Hillary claims “momentum”

• New Hillary ad: If Obama’s so worried about Afghanistan,
  why didn’t he hold hearings on NATO?

• Clinton hits Obama vetting as just the start
• Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him look “blacker”

• NAFTA Dance: Byron York summarizes the deceptions
• Blue on blue: Liberal saint attacks leftist Messiah
• Michelle Obama: America 'Just Downright Mean'
• H. Ross Obama
• The Facts About Nafta-Gate
• An Open Letter to Barack Obama
• Obama Tangles With The Press
• The Tide Begins to Turn on Obama
• A prophet in his hometown: press relations nightmare
• When Will Obama Talk To The Press About Rezko?
• Guy who wants to negotiate personally with Iran:
  Israel can’t negotiate with a party that won’t recognize its right to exist
• Video: Doctrinaire liberal promises to listen to you before he votes liberal
• Video: How “The West Wing” prepared the way for Obama, and vice versa

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 4, 2008 at 12:02 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Monday, 03 March 2008
 

2008.03.03 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• The Patton of Counterinsurgency

• FISA Reform Renewal Likely
• Reyes: Deal on FISA all but done

• Latest on the al Dura Case
• Israel begins Gaza withdrawal after anti-rocket operation
• Ed Morrissey: Another Gaza re-run

• Security Council Slaps Iran With New Sanctions
• World: Maybe that NIE was wrong after all
• A third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran

• Chavez warns of war with Colombia

• US Airstrike in Somalia Targets Terrorists
• U.S. airstrike in Somalia targets unnamed AQ leader? Update: “Confident” target was hit
• U.S.-Guided Missile Strike Targets Terror Suspect
  U.S. forces struck an Al Qaeda training camp in Southern Somalia Monday and officials say they're confident the military hit the intended target, FOX News has confirmed.
• U.S. says it launched missile attack in Somalia
  Pentagon officials say military going after al-Qaida suspect in border town

• Senator McCain has an alternative to government-run health care.
• Rumor: Rove wants Romney on the ticket

• Holding Hillary accountable for the Clintons’ Saudi-funded donors
• Will Ohio and Texas put Hillary out of her misery?;
  Update: Women (or is that womyn) debate Steinem’s gynocidal remarks
• Charlie Crist: Hillary’s primary victory in Florida should count
• Chickenhawk v2.0: Gloria Steinem, Wes Clark shrug at McCain’s military service
• Political Strategy According to Gloria Steinem
• Stumping For Hillary
• A vile woman
• Betting on Rezko

• Hillary, Effectively Hitting Obama on Rezko
• The Democrats’ Irrelevant Commander-In-Chief Debate
  Hillary says she’d be better. But do Democratic primary voters really care?
• Hillary: Obama Says He's Too Busy To Protect the Country

• Ask Obama
• Obama unscrubbed
• Obama's Power politics
• Obama's Election 'A Transforming Moment For the World'?
• Robert Novak: Obama's Former Friend
• Obama's mentor accused of extortion
• Seven Things to Know About the Rezko Trial (H/T: Tom Elia)
• Rezko beginning to intrude on Presidential Campaign
• John Fund: Obama and Chicago Mores
  On Tuesday, Barack Obama may well wrap up the Democratic nomination. Yet how he rose so quickly in Chicago's famously suspect politics -- and who his associates were there -- has received little scrutiny. That may change today as the trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, ...
• Obama; No Gun Shops Within Five Miles of Schools; Porn Shops Okay
• Obama: “I remember May Day”
• “Brilliant” potential C-in-C blows Rockefeller’s record on the war;
  Update: Lame spin attempt flops
• Let's All Apologize To Obama For Misunderstanding Him
• Obama’s NAFTA Dance: Goolsbee “misquoted”
• The Obamessiah’s sermonizes on the Sermon on the Mount; supports Jeremiah Wright
• Ready on day one -- to appease Israel's enemies
• Barack Obama and the uses of doubt
• Obama adviser denies trade remarks

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 3, 2008 at 12:05 AM in Politics and National Defense | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Sunday, 02 March 2008
 

2008.03.02 Politics and National Defense Roundup

Worth knowing about today:

• Michael Yon: Friday with Ambassador