New Not Seen by the Supremes

Michael New, a Texas soldier who refused to serve on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia, lost an appeal of his bad-conduct discharge at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.

"It's the end of an 11 1/2-year battle," said New's father, Daniel New. "Is there going to be another round? I don't know. We're looking at options."

Hostile "Coup" Planned

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has just introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Article I
The Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.

Global Warming Figgers

The eco-movement and Al Gore have been repeating the mantra that "the earth has warmed 0.6 degree C in the last century." They claim this has been due to more human-emitted CO2, and project Big Warming on that basis. When we plug in the 1,500-year cycle, however, we have to take away from the scary computer models the 0.5 degrees of warming that occurred before 1940—and thus before much human-emitted CO2.

The earth has warmed only a net 0.2 degrees C of net warming since 1940. Human-emitted CO2 gets the blame for only half of that—or 0.1 degree C of warming over 65 years! We've had no warming at all since 1998.

Cho Wasn't the Only Racist Killer at VT.

Many have asked: "How could the English Department not recognize the horrific implications of these works?"

No one who wonders that, however, is familiar with the poetic oeuvre of one of Cho's own teachers, Virginia Tech's Distinguished Professor of English and Black Studies, Nikki Giovanni.... One of the most celebrated figures of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and recipient of 21 honorary degrees, Giovanni has published poems strikingly similar to Cho's plays in both vileness and incompetence. For example:

The True Import of Present Dialog, Black vs. Negro, by Nikki Giovanni

Nigger
Can you kill
Can you kill
Can a nigger kill
Can a nigger kill a honkie
Can a nigger kill the Man ....

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Hmmm....Is This a Punishment or an Inducement

The article says the Imams are threatening to kick Iranian women out of Iran if they don't follow the strict dress code..... Maybe the guys could leave too, if they wore miniskirts.

Ayatolla: "If the women of this country do not follow our holy dress code, they will be banished to the West where they will be forced to live in freedom, go swimming, go to movies, drive automobiles, wear makeup, and talk to men and no longer will they have the blessings of living here where they enjoy third rate citizen status right behind camels and can be disciplined by regular beatings by any male relative. Nor will they be able to wear the latest rage in Islamic fashion, our new C4 designer vests."

The "Get Your Rosaries Off of My Ovaries" Gals Are Back

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A coalition of religious leaders took on the Catholic Church, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Bush administration on Tuesday with a plea to take religion out of health care in the United States.

They said last week's Supreme Court decision outlawing a certain type of abortion demonstrated that religious belief was interfering with personal rights and the U.S. health care system in general.

Get Ready to See Your NEXT Luxury Condo

So global-warming alarmists now want to limit our use of toilet paper. What's next, one-room shacks with bamboo fences? Don't laugh. That's also on their list of recommendations.

The "Real" Me

Folks keep requesting another photo of me....one a little more up to date. To be honest, I've never been as cute as I was at age 3, that's the reason behind this photo. But stay tuned...new photo's upcoming.

North Korea fails to meet deadline

By BURT HERMAN

SEOUL, South KoreaThe latest missed deadline in the tortuous years of negotiations aimed at getting North Korea to stop making nuclear weapons is not expected to derail the process, but it is a sign of the lingering mistrust between Washington and the communist nation.
North Korea failed to shut down and seal its sole operating nuclear reactor by Saturday as it pledged to do in February at six-nation talks.
The country insisted Friday it would honor the commitment after confirming that funds frozen under U.S. sanctions have been released – its main condition for disarmament since late 2005. LINK

Disney's Decadent Decline

by Ericka Andersen

About twelve years ago, Disney World’s first “Gay Day” caught some unsuspecting families off guard while vacationing in the famed theme park. When the Southern Baptist Convention called for a boycott of Disney World, gay rights groups rallied to support the theme park while social conservatives hoped for a lasting impact as a result of their movement. LINK

Mufti of Jerusalem

By David Bedein

The 27th day of Nisan year marks the day when the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began against the Nazis in 1943. The Moslem cleric who inspired Adolf Hitler with the idea of Jihad was none other than the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Husseini, who did not want masses of exiled Jews to wind up in the land of Israel, which he claimed as a future Arab Palestine, devoid of Jews LINK

Fuzzy Climate Math

By George F. Will

In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a " serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness. LINK

L.A. Police Sued Over Immigrant Policy

By PETER PRENGAMAN

The department prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects, a policy strongly supported by Police Chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The lawsuit was brought on behalf of unidentified police officers who are afraid to speak out but argue the policy creates a situation where the same illegal immigrants are repeatedly arrested when they could have been deported, lawyer David Klehm said. LINK

LET THE LIAR BE NAMED

April 12, 2007 -- HER name is Crystal Gail Man gum.
She is the woman who falsely accused three Duke University students of rape. Yesterday, the attorney general of North Carolina came forward and flatly declared the three young men "innocent of these charges."
That means their accuser is a liar.
Her name is Crystal Gail Mangum. LINK

Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud

By ERIC LIPTON and IAN URBINA

WASHINGTON, April 11 — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, LINK

Nyfong

2/3 of immigrants cost Americans $22,449 a year

WASHINGTON – Someone has finally fixed an approximate taxpayer cost of between 12 million and 15 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.
Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million. LINK

Zack Hill

N. Korea Wants to Delay Reactor Shutdown

By BURT HERMAN

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea wanted to delay a weekend deadline for shutting down its nuclear reactor by a month, but the United States said that was too long, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Wednesday.
``We let them know that this was not acceptable and the issue was dropped,'' he said. Instead, Richardson said the shutdown should only take a ``few days.'' LINK

Advertisers Pull Out of Imus Show

By Paul Farhi and Frank Ahrens

As skittish advertisers began to pull out and calls for his resignation reverberated, embattled shock jock Don Imus yesterday continued a campaign of contrition over racially and sexually insensitive remarks he made, even while insisting that he shouldn't lose his national television show and syndicated radio program. LINK

"I don't deserve to be fired," Imus, 67, said yesterday during his show. "So I should be punished, and I'm being punished, and not insignificantly, by the way. I'm not whining, because I don't feel as bad as those kids feel."

Waxman Peddles Wilson's Lie

Is Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ignorant, lying or counting on the fact that the press is both?He is now picking a fight with Secretary of State Condi Rice based on utterly false premises.
Chairman Waxman insists that Rice explain why in his 2003 State of the Union address the President "asserted that Iraq sought uranium from Niger" and demands that she provide information about what she knew about this assertion and how it ended up in the address. LINK

Column: Gore should make a play for Chrysler

By Rick Haglund

Of all the possible Chrysler Group buyers with billions of dollars burning holes in their pockets, there is only one who has a chance of saving the troubled automaker AND our greenhouse-gassed planet: Al Gore. You can stop laughing now. Al isn't just your typical former U.S vice president, best-selling author, Oscar winner for his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. LINK

A silent springtime for Hitler?

By Alex Beam

In anticipation of Earth Day, everyone wants to do his bit. Leonardo DiCaprio is vamping on an Icelandic glacier for the cover of Vanity Fair, alongside a Photoshopped polar bear. In the same issue, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rants and raves about the un-green-ness of George Bush's EPA, while he and his family work overtime to scuttle a renewable energy wind farm project located a bit too close to the family manse in Hyannis. LINK

Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict

As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms
By Peter Byrne

In the November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts. LINK

Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran

-- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran.
The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran. LINK

Don Imus: the good-natured racist

'THAT'S SOME nappy-headed hos." When white radio shock jock Don Imus dropped this little gem about the Rutgers women's basketball team onto the airwaves, he couldn't possibly have imagined that it would trigger a two-week suspension of his top-rated radio gig, the "Imus in the Morning Show." On the Imus insult meter, "nappy-headed hos" wouldn't rate above a 3. It doesn't even come close to one of his meaner riffs. Regular listeners of the show expect racist and sexist banter. As Imus explained to Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes" in 1998, his show has someone specially assigned to do "nigger jokes." But rest assured, the Imus crew has plenty of kike, wetback, mick, spick, dago, Jap, Chink, redneck and unprintable Catholic priest jokes too. Not to mention the rabid homophobia and occasional Islamophobia. LINK

Rudy saves the America!

A Tale of Two Scientific Consensuses

Environmentalists constantly reference the scientific consensus that human activity is changing the global climate. "You have the strongest consensus we have seen in the science community about global climate change since the conclusion that tobacco caused lung cancer," asserts Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) president Kevin Knobloch. Greenpeace also argues, "There is, in fact, a broad and overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, is caused in large part by human activities." And Friends of the Earth has gone after Exxon Mobil because it "has repeatedly attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change and actively resisted attempts to limit carbon dioxide emissions through law." LINK

Court to Hear Arguments on Whether an Abortion Ends Human Life

(CNSNews.com) - A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday in a potentially groundbreaking case that -- for the first time, according to attorneys -- addresses the question of whether an abortion terminates a human being's life.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis will consider a 2005 South Dakota law that requires abortionists to tell women that their abortion will terminate the life of a living human being. LINK

Bush Administration 'Stupid and Arrogant In a Way Only the Religious Can Be'

DON IMUS: I used to think that all of these things that the administration did were either because of the war criminal Vice-President and that psychopath who was over at the Pentagon, because of them, or because of stupidity. But I really believe, in my heart, that it's arrogance, and maliciousness and mean-spiritedness. Mike Lupica and I, the columnist, tried to find out, and we know everybody, well, not really, when was the last time Vice-President Cheney was at Walter Reed Hospital and they wouldn't tell us and we couldn't find out. We've narrowed it down to hadn't been in the last year. So it's that kind of cynicism and that kind of arrogance and that kind of meanness is what I think we're dealing with as opposed to, I was trying to cut them some slack saying they're just stupid but I think it's way beyond that.

BILL MAHER: Stupid and arrogant, in a way only the religious can be. LINK

The War on Children

It seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances. It may well be as appalling to you as it was to me to learn that there's no easy means of checking whether or not this sort of crime is increasing at a national level. Child molestation is not one of the seven "index crimes" utilized by the FBI to track the crime rate. At best, such crimes will be mixed in with "assaults" or sex crimes in general. There is no central source, and no way to be certain whether the numbers are rising, falling, or standing still. LINK

Jocks won't zip it

Neither the outrage over Don Imus' "nappy-headed ho's" crack nor the sight of a subdued and uncomfortable Imus making an apology tour seems likely to tone down his fellow edgy radio hosts.
Imus yesterday promised that his own show will change and some topics will become off-limits for humor, like, presumably, women's basketball teams.
But the JV and Elvis show on WFNY (92.3 FM) was already making "nappy-headed ho" jokes yesterday, and JV said it's almost impossible to draw strict content lines outside of Federal Communications Commission-prohibited areas like cursing. LINK

Fred Thompson's idea of ‘reform’

A man walking along the edge of a cliff slips and plummets toward jagged rocks and crashing surf, barely saving himself by clinging to the cliff's face. But the cliff is too steep to climb, so he shouts, "Is anyone up there?" A voice fills the sky — G-d's voice — saying: "Have faith and pray. If you have sufficient faith and pray well, you can let go and land gently, unhurt, amid the rocks and surf." The man ponders this promise, then shouts: "Is there anyone else up there?"
This is the "Anyone else up there?" phase of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, which explains the political flavor du jour, Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee. Conservatives are dissatisfied with the array of candidates. Of course, people usually want what they do not see, a candidate who is a combination of John Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln — handsome, energetic and wise. LINK

General Petraeus' letter to the Iraq People

To the Iraqi People:
Monday, April 9, 2007 will mark the 4th anniversary of the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime. For many in Iraq and around the world, it will be a time for reflection on the early days after liberation in 2003 and on what has transpired since then.
As one of those who was part of the "fight to Baghdad," I remember well the hopes and dreams of the Iraqi people when coalition soldiers pulled down Saddam's statue in Firdos Square in April 2003. Looking back, I recall a sense of enormous promise -- promise that, in many respects and for a variety of reasons, has yet to be fully realized. If we are honest with each other, in fact, we will acknowledge that while there have been substantial accomplishments in Iraq since 2003, the past four years have also been disappointing, frustrating, and increasingly dangerous in many parts of Iraq for those who have been involved in helping to build a new state in this ancient land. LINK

Warming Not Behind Hurricane Activity

NEW ORLEANS -- Natural changes in ocean currents are to blame for increased Atlantic hurricane activity in recent years, not man-made global warming as many scientists believe, hurricane forecaster William Gray said on Friday.
"I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring," Gray said in a speech at the National Hurricane Conference. LINK

Why So Gloomy?

April 16, 2007 issue - Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are almost certainly true. What of it? Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. LINK

Leftists who "Support the Troops"

One of the biggest problems we conservatives have always faced is language. Conservatives all too often allow liberals to bamboozle us into arguing issues on liberal terms.
For example: why are we even discussing the "war in Iraq"? What is going on now is not war, but reconstruction. Or more precisely, providing military security for Iraq's social, political and economic reconstruction. The war was clearly over at "Mission Accomplished", and we quickly pulled our major hardware presence from the arena. LINK

Latest New Hampshire telephone poll

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has rocketed to the top of the field of contenders for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary crown, running dead even with Arizona Sen. John McCain at 25% each, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. With Romney’s ascension, the GOP presidential race looks just like the Democratic contest – a three–way battle! LINK

Courier Of The House

Diplomacy: Not content with coddling Syria's terrorist regime, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a fool of herself pretending to be a messenger for Israel's prime minister. But the Israelis were quick to expose the charade.
It seems that trying to take down President Bush isn't enough for the Speaker of the House. On Wednesday, she tried to make Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert look so weak that he needed a U.S. congresswoman to carry messages to Israel's sworn enemies for him. LINK

Easter message

Andrew Bolt writes: I thank a preacher of astonishing moral clarity and courage, who inspired a faith that has brought us unparalleled gifts.
MOCKING Christ has not, in years, seemed this childish – even cowardly. And no, I'm not a Christian.
Of course, this being Easter, Christianity's most holy festival, we've seen some of the usual tributes of disrespect from the cultural elite.
While the ABC refused to show the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, for fear of God knows what mayhem, it had no such fear this week of mocking Jesus, whose crucifixion is remembered today. LINK

Why this scientist believes in God

Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."

I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, "Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative." LINK

Census: Immigration helps big metros grow

WASHINGTON - Without immigrants pouring into the nation's big metro areas, places such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston would be shrinking as native-born Americans move farther out. Many smaller areas, including Battle Creek, Mich., Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Ore., would shrink as well, according to population estimates to be released Thursday..LINK

Why Iran Released the Hostages

The latest looney-tune story from the left was spun by Patrick Cockburn, an intrepid reporter for London’s Independent newspaper. According to this Iranian-sponsored fairy tale, it’s all Bush’s fault.
That’s right. The fact that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards navy seized 15 British sailors and marines and took them hostage in Iraqi waters never would have happened if George W. Bush hadn’t ordered U.S. troops in Iraq to capture Gen. Minojahar Firouzandeh, a top Rev. Guards intelligence officer on Jan. 10, 2007. LINK

Internet Channel Initiative

The CP80 Internet Channel Initiative is a simple solution that would put the choice to access or to block Internet pornography back in the hands of individuals and concerned parents, where it belongs. The solution leverages existing Internet technologies to organize and categorize content on the Web into two Internet channels: the Community Channels (Ports) and the Open Channels (Ports). LINK

BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR

Not only has the highly controversial anthrax vaccine returned as mandatory for members of the U.S. military, but now a medical expert who testified before Congress on the dangers of those shots is warning that under some circumstances civilians could be facing government-ordered anthrax vaccinations. LINK

Worry About the Right Things

For the past two weeks I've written about how the media -- part of the Fear Industrial Complex -- profit by scaring us to death about things that rarely happen, like terrorism, child abductions, and shark attacks.
We do it because we get caught up in the excitement of the story. And for ratings.
Worse, because many reporters are statistically illiterate, personal-injury lawyers get us to hype risks that barely threaten people, like secondhand smoke, or getting cancer from trace amounts of chemicals. Sometimes they even con us into scaring you about risks that don't exist at all, like contracting anti-immune disease from breast implants. LINK

Whitewashing Jihad in the Schools

Three years ago, I wrote about a mock terrorism drill at a public school district in Muskegon County, Mich. Instead of Islamic terrorists, educators substituted Christian homeschoolers. Yes, Christian homeschoolers. Here was the description of the school drill plan:
"The exercise will simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called Wackos Against Schools and Education who believe everyone should be homeschooled. Under the scenario, a bomb is placed on the bus and is detonated while the bus is traveling on Durham, causing the bus to land on its side and fill with smoke." LINK

The Shame of Higher Education

Many of our nation's colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and the new racism. In a March 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned, "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses.. . . The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind." LINK

Broncos Cheerleader Auditions

Prospective Denver Broncos cheerleaders dance for judges on the first day of auditions in Denver, Colorado March 25, 2007. Over 250 women applied for the 34 slots. LINK

Newt, Bilingual Ed and the PC Police

"The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly show up" [to vote] ... "The American people believe English should be the official language of the government ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto. ... Citizenship requires passing a test on American history in English. If that's true, then we do not have to create ballots in any language except English." LINK

The Fitzgerald cover-up

Clarice Feldman
In September of last year, I asked the Department of Justice to look into several actions of in connection with the Libby case suggesting that on their face this conduct seemed unethical. To the best of my knowledge that investigation is continuing.
One of the areas of my concern was the apparent factual misrepresentations he made to the U.S. Court of Appeals in connection with his efforts to force reporters to testify in that case. LINK

The Logan Act

The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.
The text of the Act is broad and is addressed at any attempt of a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority. However, there is no record of any prosecutions or convictions under the Logan Act LINK

Pelosi Defies Bush, Has 'Great Hope' for Syria

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday shrugged off White House criticism of her upcoming trip to Damascus, saying she had "great hope" for reviving U.S. relations with Syria and changing its behavior.
Speaking hours after arriving in Lebanon, Pelosi indicated the Bush administration was singling out her trip to Syria, but ignoring the recent visits by Republican members of Congress. LINK

Botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis

A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 British sailors and Marines.
Early on the morning of 11 January, helicopter-born US forces launched a surprise raid on a long-established Iranian liaison office in the city of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. They captured five relatively junior Iranian officials whom the US accuses of being intelligence agents and still holds.
LINK

Romney Says: Watch My Campaign Grow

BOSTON (AP) - When early polls showed him trailing Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, Mitt Romney urged all listeners to watch his presidential campaign blossom over the long election season.
On Monday, it burst into full glory after just three months.
The former Massachusetts governor, still relatively unknown across the country, bested not only McCain and Giuliani in first-quarter fundraising, but posted a staggering $23 million that rivaled the $26 million previously announced by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. LINK

Bush: Congress Spending Time 'Undercutting Our Troops'

"Instead of passing clean bills that fund our troops on the front lines, the House and Senate have spent this time debating bills that undercut the troops," Bush said from the White House Rose Garden. LINK

"I think the voters in America want our Congress to support our troops in harm's way. They want money to the troops and they don't want politicians in Washington telling our generals how to fight the war," Bush said.

Theoretical cloaking device is created

The Purdue University engineers, following mathematical guidelines devised by British physicists, created the theoretical device that can render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the "cloak."
The design uses an array of tiny needles radiating outward from a central spoke. The device would bend light around the object being cloaked. Background objects would be visible, but not the object surrounded by the cylindrical array of nano-needles, said Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. LINK

Morphing robot ?

While the Defense Department makes frequent use of robots in warfare -- to disarm improvised bombs, or see around corners or upstairs -- their size and structure limit the spaces they can get into. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week issued a request for proposals to develop a "chemical robot" made of soft, flexible materials that can squeeze through openings smaller than its static dimensions and then reconstitute itself to perform a task military task. LINK

Terrorists – coming to a school near you

Authorities fear the school massacre that shook Russia a few years ago may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do in America – only on a grander scale, launching multiple school attacks simultaneously across the country. In 2004, Chechen terrorists associated with al-Qaida seized a school building in Beslan, Russia, and slaughtered 338, including 172 children. LINK

Pastor: Idea Christ died for sins 'insane'

Easter message 'repulsive' – makes 'God sound like a psychopath'



Church of England traditionalists, wearied by the battles over homosexuality in the church and the clergy, are about to take it on their spiritual chins once again when a leading "gay" cleric will tell listeners to BBC Radio 4 that Christianity's traditional teaching on Christ's crucifixion for the sins of mankind is "repulsive," "insane" and makes "God sound like a psychopath." LINK

'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'

According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf. The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday. LINK

Gingrich: Bilingualism is 'Ghetto'

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.
"The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up" to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women. LINK

Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate 'gay'

By LIZ HULL

When two policemen turned up unannounced at Alan Rawlinson's home asking to speak to his young son, the company director feared something serious had happened.
So he was astounded when the officers detailed 11-year-old George's apparent crime - calling one of his schoolfriends 'gay'.
They said primary school pupil, George, was being investigated for a 'very serious' homophobic crime after using the comment in an e-mail to a 10-year-old classmate. LINK

The return of that '70s thing

By George Will

Liberals, dolled up in love beads and bell-bottom trousers, have had another bright idea, one as fresh as other 1970s fads. Although it was first introduced in Congress in 1923, the ERA went nowhere until March 22, 1972. Then Congress sent it to the states to be ratified or rejected by March 22, 1979, the standard seven years stipulated to ensure that there is a contemporaneous consensus for any constitutional change.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445979&in_page_id=1770

By LAURA CLARK

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. LINK

Oceans are not Rising

Ice which sits over oceans does not cause a change in sea level when it melts, because the water is already supporting its weight. The only way sea level can rise is when ice which was over land moves into the oceans.
Ice which is accumulating on land is lowering the sea level, because it is coming out of the oceans and not flowing back in.
The Public Version Vs. the Science Version.
Global warming propagandists have recently been saying that ocean levels are expected to rise 20 feet in the future. This claim is in blatant contradiction to measurements which show that oceans are only rising 0.4mm per year, which is less than 2 inches per century. LINK

Iran Calls for a New Holocaust

By Robert Spencer

The same day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared at a conference in Tehran entitled “The World without Zionism” that Israel should be destroyed, an Islamic Jihad suicide attacker murdered at least five people in the Israeli city of Hadera. No doubt Ahmadinejad had this kind of thing in mind when he stated that “there is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world”: if he condemns attacks against civilian non-combatants, he has kept it to himself. LINK

U.S. formula: Cocky and dumb

By Ralph R. Reiland

Only 6 percent of Korean eighth-graders expressed confidence in their math skills, compared with 39 percent of eighth-graders in the United States, according to the latest annual study on education by the Brown Center at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The problem is that the surveyed Korean students are better at math than the American students.
Their kids are unsure and good, in short, while ours are cocky and dumb -- not exactly a good position for the U.S. to occupy in an increasingly competitive global economy. LINK

'Socks, Scissors, Paper:

By Edward Barnes

Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., is charging a cover-up by the Justice Department in connection with the 2003 theft and destruction of top secret documents by Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. Davis also told FOX News that he is not convinced that Berger was not acting under direction from the Clinton Administration.
"I'm not convinced that he was acting alone," Davis said. "They could have well said, ‘Sandy, do you remember that document way back — that I wrote to you ... We can't get this into the record. This is gonna make us look terrible.' " LINK

Beyond Iraq

By Victor Davis Hanson

A frequent charge is that we are bringing terrorists to Iraq. That is true in the sense that war always brings the enemy out to the battlefield. But it's also false, since it ignores why killers like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (the late al-Qaida chief in Iraq), Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas (Palestinian terrorists of the 1980s), and Abdul Rahman Yasin (involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) were already in Saddam's Iraq when we arrived.
Moreover, the unpopular war in Iraq did not create radical Islamists and their madrassas throughout the Middle East that today brainwash young radicals and pressure the region's monarchies, theocracies and autocracies to provide money for training and weaponry. All that radicalism had been going on for decades - as we saw during the quarter-century of terrorism that led up to 9/11. And rioting, assassination and death threats over artistic expression in Europe have nothing to do with Iraq. LINK

Democrats Shut Down Agency

JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Time now for "Big Politics." Democrats said they were going to make lots of changes if they won control of Congress. Well here's one big change: They finally figured out a way to improve on the public practice of earmarking.
Democrats have shut down the agency that actually identifies who and what last-minute information is being slipped into a bill. So now that they have the power, is this all part of a big cover-up? What are the Democrats trying to hide? With me now is Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn.
So Tom, you know, these earmarks, pork, led to corruption charges against Republicans. A lot of people think that that's part of the reason why the Democrats were swept into office. They promised they weren't going to do it any more, but now they are. Plus, they went one more step. Tell me what it was? LINK

Roadblocks for Mexican trucks in U.S.

By Jerome R. Corsi Recent Guest on the show.

The Department of Transportation pilot test designed to allow 100 Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs anywhere in the U.S. has encountered opposition, both in Congress and in Mexico.
Meanwhile, plans to implement the test are progressing at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, as announced by the Department of Transportation in February. LINK

Ethiopian Evangelist Beaten to Death by Militant Muslims

WASHINGTON, Mar. 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has just learned that an Ethiopian evangelist named Tedase was beaten to death by militant Muslims on Monday, March 26th, as he and two young women were on a street evangelism assignment in Jimma, Ethiopia. This marks the second time in six months that Christians residing in Southeast Ethiopia have been attacked and killed by extremist (Wahabbi) Muslims. LINK

Iran's secret plan

Tehran has recruited and funded eight Islamic fundamentalist organizations to undertake retaliatory strikes against U.S. and British military and economic interests across the Middle East – and perhaps in the U.S. and Europe – in the event Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked, reports a London Arab daily, Asharq Al-Awsat.
The plan, which has been heavily funded and was created by a number of experts in guerilla warfare and terrorist operations, includes suicide attacks against U.S. and British targets in the region as well as their allies. LINK

Senate Ignores Veto Threat, Passes Iraq War Spending Bill

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday passed the Iraq war spending bill 51-47 after President Bush said he would likely veto the legislation over the inclusion of a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
The $122 billion emergency supplemental bill funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but would require Bush to comply with orders to start bringing troops home from Iraq within four months, with a nonbinding goal of ending combat operations by March 31, 2008. LINK

The great escape

Andrew Bolt

GUANTANAMO Bay is not nice. It is not a hotel, but a prison to hold men suspected of working for the world's most lethal terrorists.PUT away your "Free David Hicks!" signs. Scrape the "Bring David Hicks home" stickers off your cars.
As the man himself now admits, he did indeed help al-Qaida.
To be specific, he did aid the terrorist group, which has so far killed more than 100 of your fellow Australians, directly or through proxies in Bali, and murdered thousands more civilians besides.
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