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Al-Qaeda has threatened British and Saudi embassies after claiming credit for the attack on the American embassy in Yemen.  The Islamic Jihad,  part of Al-Qaeda Organization in Yemen, called for the shutting the U.S. and British Embassies in Yemen, pledged to launch more attacks against foreign interests, foreigners, Yemeni high-ranking officials, demanded U.S. and British [...]

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I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t bother with this one, but it suddenly popped into my head how important it is that the clip is seen by as many people as possible. It may very well be Obama’s Greg Stillson moment, and I hope it has exactly the same ultimate effect on his career prospects.
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John McCain Represents a Stark Contrast to Barack Obama

A Friend sent me this video. I hope the McCain campaign picks up on it. Powerful.
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Barack Obama Tries To Persuade Iraqi Leaders To Delay Draw-Down Until After Election
Treason is a pretty simple concept.  Here are a few choice definitions:
A violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously [...]

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Jemley is being painted as a hero for refusing to obey orders that he never received, could never receive, and was in no imminent danger of receiving. He fled his commitment to show up one weekend a month. He has no honor, no integrity, no personal courage. He has nothing except troubles that he has [...]

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I nearly slept through it this year. I had my earplugs in, and didn’t sleep well over night, so I was very tardy getting up. Just like that day. In 2001 I didn’t hear the phone ring. Mr. Right did, and came into the bedroom to report the news he had been told over the [...]

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Thursday, September 11, 2008, marks the 7th anniversary of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks against our nation. Few people if any seem to be focused on this upcoming anniversary this week — it’s almost as if many Americans have forgotten those 3,000+ lives lost, and the way in which those attacks forever changed our [...]

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It’s no longer a phrase heard much anymore, but the Progressives used to title themselves “the reality based community.” They understood the real world, unlike the cruel, self-centered, self-serving conservatives surrounding them. Of course, that being the case, Obama must be the reality based candidate. However, Cheat-Seeking Missiles, riffing off a Washington Post editorial, points [...]

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Obama’s getting the press, but McCain’s saying the important stuff, at least to those who believe that Israel, as the sole liberal democracy in the Middle East, deserves our support:
American presidential candidate John McCain told Israel’s Channel 2 News station that stiffer sanctions might stop Iran’s threats against Israel. In the interview broadcast Monday, the [...]

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Glenn Greenwald on government surveillance:
It was also as clear a violation of the Fourth Amendment as can be. For the Government to invade our communications with no probable cause showing to a court is exactly what the Founders prohibited as clearly as the English language permitted.
But today, the Democratic-led Congress — with the support of [...]

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