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EDWARDS
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“EDWARDS
TO HOST POLITICAL MEETING AT HOUSE OF CONFEDERATE HERO.” The Drudge
Report. February 7, 2003.
Edwards
has quietly set a Saturday afternoon meet 'n greet at the William Aiken
House in Charleston, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The
controversial meeting at the Aiken House, sponsored by the South Carolina
Democratic Leadership Council, comes as the NAACP continues its call for
an economic boycott of South Carolina to protest the flying of the
Confederate battle flag on the State House grounds.
South
Carolina is the first Southern primary in which African-Americans are
expected to make up half of the voters.
This
could mean that the Democrats have run so many non-Clintonite Southerners
out of their party that the remainder is 50% black. Aiken,
once the South's largest slaveholder [he owned a rice plantation on
Jehossee Island worked by more than 700 slaves], supported the Confederate
cause by donating supplies and large bond subscriptions. Aiken turned his
house over to Confederate Brigadier General Beauregard for use as a
temporary headquarters during the Union shelling of lower Charleston.
When
Aiken declined to attend the ceremony raising the U.S. flag over Fort
Sumter after it was retaken by Union forces, the Confederate DieHard was
arrested by the order of U.S. Secretary of War and was taken to
Washington, D.C.
This
appears to be a failure to uphold the First Amendment. The
Edwards gathering at the Aiken House, scheduled for 3 PM, marks a bold
symbolic move by Edwards, who has pledged to “honor” and “endorse”
the NAACP’s boycott.
The
NAACP’s assault on the Confederate flag is part of the ongoing promotion
of hatred of white Southerners. By endorsing the NAACP boycott Edwards
shows that he is anti-Southern. |
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REPORT:
Bin Laden moving family to Libya... |
Gertz, Bill and Scarborough, Rowan. “Inside
the Ring, Bin Laden to Libya?” The Gertz File. February 7, 2003.
Al
Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is making preparations to move his family to
Libya, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Osama bin
Laden is an international criminal, and if he takes him in Khaddafi will
be an enemy of the United States. Khaddafi may not have learned as much
from getting bombed in the 1980s as we have been led to believe. |
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North
Korea issues war threat to USA... |
Borger, Julian. “US is told: turn on us and
you get total war.” The Guardian (UK). February 7, 2003.
However
careful the Bush administration is with words, it clear that its North
Korea problem is getting bigger by the day, and they are well aware that
Pyongyang is raising the temperature with every degree Washington turns up
the heat on Baghdad..
This
indicates that Kim Jong Il is coordinating his strategy with Saddam.
On
Wednesday, when Mr Armitage's boss, Colin Powell, was at the UN making the
case against Saddam Hussein, the North Korean government announced its
intentions to reactivate its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon which is also the
core of its revived nuclear weapons programme. Yesterday, with
characteristic hyperbole, Pyongyang also warned of “total war” in
response to a pre-emptive US airstrike, after the Pentagon put two dozen
long-range bombers on alert to move out to East Asia.
Given
that we can turn North Korea into a parking lot, their threats seem empty. |
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ABSOLUTELY
FABULOUS: Courtney and Chelsea do London... |
Courtney Love |
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Discarded
Computer Had Confidential Medical Information; Lists thousands of people
with AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases... |
Wolfe, Charles. “Discarded Computer Had
Confidential Medical Information.” The Washington Post. February
6, 2003.
“This
is significant data. It's a lot of information with lots of names and
things like (the numbers of) sexual partners of those who are diagnosed
with AIDS,” Auditor Ed Hatchett said. “It's a terrible security
breach.”
A big
security loophole: securing the data when the equipment is taken out of
service. |
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PAPER:
MUCH MORE TO SADDAM-QAEDA TIE... |
Lathem, Niles. “Much More To Saddam-Qaeda
Tie.” New York Post. February 7, 2003.
WASHINGTON
- The United States has extensive proof of communication between Iraqi
officials and an al Qaeda-affiliated group - but has been reluctant to
reveal the information because of its sources, The Post has learned.
A
stream of intelligence links Saddam Hussein's government to Ansar al
Islam, which wants a Taliban-style government in Kurdish northern Iraq,
sources said. |
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“Miller
Time: Not everyone in Hollywood is pro-Saddam.” OpinionJournal.com.
February 7, 2003. |
No one will ever
confuse Dennis Miller with Bob Hope. But during a recent appearance on
“The Tonight Show,” the comic sounded some awfully Republicanish notes
about U.S. intervention in Iraq and revealed himself to be a “Bush
fan.”
Surprisingly,
there are some actors in Hollywood who are patriotic; this article names
several. Note that it accurately characterizes the “anti-war” types as
“pro-Saddam.” |
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Glazov, Jamie. “The
‘Peace’ Movement: a Front for the Anti-American Left?”
FrontPageMagazine.com. | February 7, 2003
This is a symposium
What kind of peace movement has a North
Korean-adoring communist sect running it? Jamie Glazov talks to Michael
Berube, Ronald Radosh, Sean Wilentz and David Horowitz. |
As
the anti-war rallies increase in intensity, a significant question
consistently surfaces: is this peace movement a "peace" movement? What
kind of peace movement has a North Korean-adoring Communist sect running
it, calls for revolution and pretends that Saddam is the victim?
(1) Gentlemen, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Let's begin with a
general theme: what do you think is the nature of the "peace" movement?
(2) What is legitimate dissent and what is
betrayal of your country?
(3) What exactly does it mean that a North
Korean-adoring Communist sect is running the "peace" movement? Does this
matter?
(4) How can this movement be a "peace" movement
when its leaders are calling for revolution and pretending that Saddam and
North Korea are the victims?
(5) How does this "peace" movement differ from
the anti-Vietnam War movement?
(5) Some people, like our guest Michael Berube,
have maintained that the movement has broadened and overcome its origin.
Is this the case?
(7) Can there be a decent left - as
Michael Walzer has asked? After all, we've been through this with the
Communists during the Cold War. The Vietnam movement had its victory and
it clearly helped the Communists win. How can the left at this point in
time support despots like Saddam in good conscience?
(8) Isn't the left just an anti-American
movement at this point? Isn't its unity based on perceiving the US as the
Great Satan? What positive program would lead it to line up with women
hating, homosexual-hating, democracy-hating religious fanatics -- other
than its own fanatical hatred of America? In this context, the question
must be asked: how can individuals, such as our two guests Mr. Berube and
Mr. Wilentz, associate with this "peace" movement, support it, or not be
appalled by what the left has become? |
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Schanzer, Jonathan. “The
Al Qaeda Connection.” The New York Post. February 7, 2003. |
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Beinart, Peter. “Al
Sharpton is a world-class bullshi--er.” Jewish World Review. February
7, 2003. |
Al
Sharpton is a world-class bullshi--er. In a devastating 1996 review in
these pages, Jim Sleeper noted that Sharpton’s first autobiography, Go
and Tell Pharaoh, included lies about his age (36 at the time, not
38), his residence (Englewood, New Jersey, not Brooklyn, New York), and
even his motivation for writing the book (Sharpton attributed it to his
1991 stabbing; Sleeper showed that Sharpton hatched the idea months before
that). …
According to Al Sharpton, the behavior of Al
Sharpton is synonymous with the cause of civil rights, and therefore any
criticism of Al Sharpton is, by definition, an attack on racial justice.
By running for president, Sharpton is effectively asking the Democratic
Party to bless that proposition. He knows that, by treating him as a
legitimate candidate, the party is ratifying his self-coronation as the
leader of black America. And, if the Democratic Party and the media accept
him as the leader of black America, the post-Martin Luther King Jr.,
post-Jesse Jackson civil rights movement will become, in effect, whatever
Sharpton says it is. |
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Young, Steve. “LET'S
GET RID OF SADDAM --- ON EBAY!” Jewish World Review. February 7, 2003. |
If
there was some idiot out there willing to pay $5 mil for an annoying
Hollywood writer and his family, certainly we can find some jokers who
would be willing to take plenty of other irritants off our hands.
For example, before we put our boys and girls in harm's way, perhaps we
can use the Ebay auction diplomatically to get rid...
SADDAM
HUSSEIN - Bid now and receive a YASSAR ARAFAT at NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.
I mean, some wealthy, good Samaritan out there who
could make a decent offer, then whisk Saddam away to somewhere who cares. |
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Smith, Russ. “Mark
Twain's tears.” Jewish World Review. February 7, 2003. |
And in Pensacola, FL, it was reported by the Associated Press that middle
school teachers in Escambia County are now forbidden to hand out copies of
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to their pupils. According
to AP: “School officials said one parent of a seventh-grader complained
about the usage of Mark Twain's 19th-century novel, which chronicles the
adventures of a white boy and a runaway slave and uses racial references
more than 200 times. …”
Thanks to political correctness Farenheit 451
is here. These types are so caught up with Twain’s use of the “N-word”
that they forget that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an
anti-slavery novel.
This column says that The Boston Globe is
owned by The New York Times. |
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Malkin, Michelle. “The Hillary
amendment.” Jewish World Review. February 7, 2003. |
While her lips moved, her hands were busy helping Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.,
craft an amendment to subvert federal immigration laws. It's buried in the
Congressional Record of Jan. 21 and was passed successfully as part of the
Senate omnibus appropriations bill. Senate Amendment 233 forbids any
federal funds appropriated under the act from being used to remove, deport
or detain illegal aliens who happen to be related to victims of Sept. 11.
The Democrats can’t repeal the immigration statutes,
so they’re trying to nullify them with backdoor legislation like this. |
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Orin. Deborah. “HILLARY
ROMPS IN DEMS' PREZ POLL.” New York Post. February 7, 2003. |
WASHINGTON - A new poll says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could sweep the
entire field of Democratic presidential candidates if she wanted to
challenge President Bush in 2004 - fueling talk she's leaving the door
open to doing just that.
I believe that she won’t run unless Bush looks
beatable. Of course, if the Democrats win in 2004 progress in the war on
terrorism will halt.
It is important to remember that Hillary is an
extreme Left-winger who demonstrated in favor of the Communist victory in
Indochina during the Vietnam Era. |
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Nagourney, Adam. “Confederate
Flag Boycott Tests Presidential Candidates’ Resolve.” The New York
Times. February 6, 2003. |
The state N.A.A.C.P. has for two years urged Americans who oppose the
flying of the Confederate battle flag, including the six Democratic
presidential candidates, to refrain from spending in South Carolina until
the flag is removed. The prohibition, said James Gallman, the president of
the state's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, applies to hotel rooms, caterers and restaurants, not to
mention business conventions and family reunions.
…
Two candidates — Senator John Edwards of North
Carolina and the Rev. Al Sharpton of New York, the only black candidate —
have said they would honor the boycott. |
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Zuckerman, Mortimer B. “Clear
and compelling proof.” U.S. News & World Report. February 10,
2003. |
America on tap. It is ironic that the same America that has brought peace
and liberty to so many millions around the world is seen by some now as a
greater threat than Saddam Hussein. We saved Western Europe during the
Cold War and dealt with the crises in the Balkans and Kosovo in the 1990s.
Today, we are expected to protect Taiwan from China, to mediate between
India and Pakistan, to resolve the crisis with North Korea, and even to
settle a dispute between Morocco and Spain about a small island in the
Mediterranean, home to several dozen goats. Europeans want us to be on tap
but not on top. …
A good part of the European moaning is really a
psychological crutch to draw attention away from weaknesses at home--what
the French writer Jean-François Revel called “weapons of mass
distraction.” Europeans cannot muster the political will to develop their
own military, so they recoil from any use of force. We cannot be
constrained by these apologies for impotence when we face dangers that
metastasize almost daily. … |
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Zuckerman, Mortimer B. “Midnight
for Baghdad.” U.S. News & World Report. February 10, 2003. |
There is a real difference
between being kicked by a mule and reading about being kicked by a mule.
We know. That is why terrorism is viewed by 91 percent of Americans as the
top threat to us compared with just 64 percent in Europe. We cannot
tolerate the prospect of Islamic fundamentalists getting their hands on
weapons of mass destruction. They are immune to civilized political
process, motivated not so much by a specific grievance as by a generalized
hatred of the West. Not only are they prepared to commit suicide in
service of their hatred; they have no bases or cities or assets we can
destroy and thereby deter them. We have to pre-empt them.
…
Yet too many people are still
fixated on finding a smoking gun. Is there one? Even as "smoldering guns"
emerge, the question misses the more crucial point. The answer is not in a
detail but in a very large series of facts. Iraq is located in the midst
of a region that has been a hotbed of global terrorism, including Shiite
Islamists, personified by their ruling mullahs in Iran; Sunni Islamists of
al Qaeda, funded primarily by Saudi Arabia; and Baathists from Iraq. They
all have America in their gun sights. They would all be inspired if Saddam
is allowed to flout the U.N. resolutions and erode America's credibility.
They would all be less constrained if Saddam could get away with his
deception. They would all be encouraged to overcome the psychological
impulses not to use such weapons. |
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This was an
attempt to find an article about a North Vietnamese poet who who writes
for the official newspaper of the People’s Army of Vietnam. He wrote an
article that said that Vietnam was better off under French colonial rule
than under Communism. |
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Remembering
Phung Quan, Free Vietnam Alliance.
vndemo@fva.org |
In the poem titled "Against
Corruption and Wastage," in the second issue of the "Giai
Pham," Phung Quan describes what a person traveling North Vietnam
witnesses: desolate villages, intense poverty, and young people with no
hope. The poem concludes with the narrator vowing:
I want
to mold poems into bullets
To shoot into the hearts of the ones responsible
Those who squander the blood of the people
Like they squander money with no value!
Within
two months of the publication of these powerful verses, Ho Chi Minh signed
an edict curtailing freedom of the press in North Vietnam. Those in the
leadership recognized themselves as the individuals depicted by Phung Quan
and could not tolerate such dissent. |
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Selfa, Lance. “Why
is colonialism respectable again?” Socialist
Worker Online.May 10, 2002. (p 9). |
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Thich Quang Do. “IDENTIFICATION
OF THE MANY SERIOUS DAMAGING ERRORS COMMITTED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF
VIETNAM (CPV) IN ITS DEALINGS WITH THE PEOPLE AND THE BUDDHIST CHURCH OF
VIETNAM.” Vietnamese Canadian Federation Newsletter. January, 1992.
Thich
Quang Do Secretary-General of the National Executive Council Unified
Buddhist Church of Vietnam
Vietnamese Canadian Federation
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The
Vietnamese Communist regime has been persecuting Buddhists, including
imprisoning them in the “re-education” gulag. Those familiar with the
start of the Vietnam war may remember the monk who burned himself to
protest mistreatment of Buddhists by the Roman Catholic Diem regime. |
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