Archive for January, 2006

Jan 11 2006

Tsunami Risk

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World Net Daily also had a link on St Augustine Volcano in Alaska which is on red alert for an eruption. It sits on an island in Cook Inlet, making it a candidate for a Tsunami if part of it breaks free. Links here and here, with a web feed on what appears to be […]

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Jan 11 2006

Syria Declared Holy War On US

Just like Bin Laden did in the late 1990’s, apparently Syria’s Bashir Assad declared a Holy War on the US and our presence in Iraq in 2003, according to a Telegraph article covering Paul Bremer’s new book (hat tip WorldNetDaily]: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq’s top Shia leader to declare holy war […]

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Jan 11 2006

Murtha’s Madness

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Rep Jack (‘Runaway” [in your best Python voice]) Murtha has crossed the line. Mac Ranger has a post where Murtha accepted accolades from Code Pink with our own VA Rep Jim (Moron) Moran: Thank You Congressman Murtha! CODEPINK co-founder Gael Murphy and DC coordinator Allison Yorra met with Congressman Murtha to thank him for his […]

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Jan 11 2006

Why Hold Elections?

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Michael Barone skewers James Risen who is upset that our elected leaders lead, and they do not defer to career bureaucrats in making decisions: Risen: Well, I–I think that during a period from about 2000–from 9/11 through the beginning of the gulf–the war in Iraq, I think what happened was you–we–the checks and balances that […]

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Jan 11 2006

NSA-FISA Fuss

To date we have two claims and incredibly wild and baseless accusations. I have said this before on too many posts to link to, but the NY Times only claimed NSA monitored US citizenz without a warrant and the FISA judges expressed concern that information gleaned from NSA monitoring of US citizens ‘tainted’ FISA warrants. […]

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Jan 11 2006

Pakistan Cleaning House of Taliban

Pakistan has had a sustained house cleaning effort going on in the region near their northern border with Afghanistan to clear out Taliban and Al Qaeda: Militants clashed with Pakistani forces in a troubled tribal zone bordering Afghanistan early Tuesday, leaving seven paramilitary troops and 14 suspected insurgents dead, officials said. The firefight was one […]

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Jan 11 2006

Disheartened Liberals, No Filibuster

That sound you hear is the air spilling out of the democrat’s bravado. As I said previously, the Alito hearings are not generating any news against Alito, and the liberals are losing heart while the country ignores their overly strained cries of ‘Wolf!’. Real Clear Politics leads with an assessment of the left and on […]

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Jan 11 2006

Leak Probe Update

Regardless of Russell Tice’s media attention efforts, the probe continues in earnest for who tipped of the terrorists on what we were doing to monitor their communications and stop their attacks. The National Security Agency’s inspector general has opened an investigation into eavesdropping without warrants in the United States by the agency authorized by President […]

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Jan 11 2006

Russell Tice, Fall Guy?

ABCNews is reporting Russell Tice, ex-NSA employee, who apparently was so obsessed about a co-worker being a Chinese spy he who violated rules and tried to investigate her, has decided to admit he was a source for the NY Times story: But now, Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret “black world” operations […]

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Jan 10 2006

Alito Hearings

I have not been writing on the Alito confirmation process because, well… It’s not very interesting. And that seems to general feeling if you check in Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics. The odds of a filibuster will rise or fall based on the success Democrats have in tarnishing Alito today, and that, in turn, […]

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