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AIDS VACCINE FAILS TO STOP INFECTION, LARGE TRIAL FINDS; SHOWS PROMISE IN BLACKS... DEVELOPING...

This might indicate some kind of biological difference between Caucasians and other races. The good news is that the vaccine could still help people in Asia and Africa.

An experimental AIDS vaccine being developed by VaxGen Inc. does not appear to protect most people from the disease, but showed promise in protecting blacks and Asians, the company said late Sunday.

The company's much-anticipated vaccine only reduced the expected rate of infection by 3.8 percent in the high-risk people who volunteered to take the treatment. But the expected infection rate for the 314 black volunteers who received the vaccine was reduced by 78 percent. The rate was reduced by 67 percent for all nonwhite volunteers other than Hispanics.

Sheryl Crow made “anti-war” comments during the awards ceremony.

GRAMMY officials quicky moved in to action -- "categorically" denying Crow's charge.

"No one contacted any artist to talk about content," GRAMMY President Neil Portnow said sternly.

Most of the people in Hollywood are Leftists, so this is not surprising.

Clooney apparently hasn’t noticed that Saddam’s army was thorougly defeated in the Gulf War.

Clooney, who in interviews with European newspapers has accused Bush of war-mongering over Iraq, is on a growing list of Hollywood celebrities to speak out against war. Others include Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Dustin Hoffman, Madonna and director Spike Lee.

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"We can't beat anyone anymore," added Clooney, who has called it unfair that Americans opposed to war are being branded unpatriotic.

WASHINGTON -- While GPS technology that uses satellites has been a boon to millions who don't want to get lost, others increasingly are turning to the same technology to track people and keep an eye on them.

Spouses who believe mates are having affairs, employers who suspect workers are misusing company vehicles or parents who wonder if their children are where they are supposed to be are among those using devices tied to the global positioning system of satellites.

At least they stripped him of his duties; sounds like he’d been better off if he’d molested altar boys.

In the latest church sex scandal, a Catholic pastor in Florida has just been stripped of his duties after church officials learned that the reverend had placed a personal ad--complete with a naked photo of himself--on a gay web site.

Francis T. Gera, 64, was removed Thursday (2/20) from his post as pastor of Holy Dormition Byzantine Catholic Church in Ormond Beach, Florida. Gera was relieved of his duties when church brass learned of his posting on the Silverfox Pictures Archive web site, which describes itself as, "your one-stop repository for pictures of older men."

Ah, the benefits of Title IX: politicized sports. Apparently women’s sports doesn’t teach respect for the flag.

Statement from Richard A. Berman President, Manhattanville College

What kind of educator encourages disloyalty to this country in wartime?

PURCHASE, N.Y. -- An NCAA Division III college basketball player who turns away from the U.S. flag during the national anthem was jeered by flag-waving students at a road game, even while she was on the bench.

Toni Smith, a senior at Manhattanville College, was booed at Mount St. Mary at a game Thursday night.

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Before Thursday's game, the Mount St. Mary student government handed out small flags before the game. More than 500 people filled the small gym, and jeered Smith at every opportunity.

At the end of the game between Manhattanville and Mount St. Mary, the crowd sang "God Bless America."

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Manhattanville president Richard Berman said he told Smith "what she's doing is courageous and difficult."

They should have escorted Ms. Smith out of the game for creating a public disturbance.

This sounds like the usual can of the pro-Saddam Left.

A Vietnam veteran came onto the court Sunday and held an American flag in front of Manhattanville senior forward Toni Smith after the Division III player again refused to face the flag during the national anthem.

"She disgraced herself and she disgraced the flag," said Jerry Kiley, 56, of Rockland County, N.Y., who was ejected from the arena after he walked onto the court during the first break in play.

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The sociology major previously released a 250-word statement outlining the reasons for her protest, citing "the inequalities that are embedded into the American system" and "the war America will soon be entering."

A former university professor indicted this week as a terrorist leader attended a 2001 group meeting in the White House complex with President Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, administration officials said yesterday.

Sami Al-Arian, a former computer engineering professor at the University of South Florida, had been under investigation by the FBI for at least six years at the time of the June 2001 briefing for a Muslim organization. Numerous news accounts also had said federal agents suspected Al-Arian of links to terrorism.

Looks like irrational prudery isn’t confined to the South. Perhaps the Kent police should send an officer to the art department at Kent State to make sure they don’t depict nudity.

KENT, Ohio - Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman - celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts.

The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure.

And a police officer showed up at her apartment door minutes after she completed her work.

This sounds like a renunciation of American sovereignty.

NEW YORK - Bill Clinton thinks Bono is a leader "we should follow in the new millennium."

The Middle East is already unsettled and is exporting violence to the rest of the world.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II called on Catholics to fast on Ash Wednesday in the name of peace and said again on Sunday he worried a U.S.-led war against Iraq could unsettle the entire Middle East.

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John Kerry US Senate Web Page Biography

This editorial fails to mention that Kerry demonstrated for the Vietnamese Communist victory in Indochina, and that the Vietnamese Communists practiced every kind off terrorism. This makes Kerry a terrorist sympathizer.

We called the Senator's office to find out just what those "legitimate" FARC "complaints" might be. A press aide explained that, "The point Senator Kerry was making was that Colombia's government has long been rotten with corruption, creating a situation where it has failed to provide basic services to rural areas." Even Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe has called for his country "to invest more in its rural areas as an essential element of combating terrorism," the aide added.

That answer, and the mindset it reveals, is certainly worth parsing. No doubt Colombia has its share of corruption, and no doubt the country could stand to "invest more" in poor areas. But what in the world does that have to do with FARC's acts of terror?

If we've learned anything since September 11, 2001, we'd have thought it was that nothing justifies terror against innocents. All kinds of groups in the world have complaints, some of them even legitimate, but all of them don't resort to blowing up social clubs and political assassination. Mr. Kerry's instinct to explain an act of terror as a response to corruption suggests that he thinks terrorists can somehow be stopped by addressing their "complaints." Would Mr. Kerry say the same about al Qaeda, or the IRA?

This was back in the days when “politics ended at the water’s edge.” This disappeared when the Democrats bailed out of the Vietnam War.

Do you remember or know how Kennedy's partisan and political foes responded to the crisis?

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Kennedy asked Nixon's advice. Nixon told him to do what he could to remove Castro and communism from Cuba. The meeting ended with Nixon telling JFK, "I will publicly support you to the hilt."

Kennedy and Nixon that day achieved something like "the kinship of competitors." Mr. Reeves writes. Nixon was good as his word, supporting the president and refusing to attack him.

Others did the same. New York's liberal governor Nelson Rockefeller and Arizona's conservative senator Barry Goldwater, both of whom thought they might run against Kennedy in the next election, met with him individually and gave the president their public support.

But the most important backing Kennedy needed was that of his immediate predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, who had led America through the previous eight years of relative peace and prosperity. He also knew something about amphibious invasions, as he had commanded the biggest in history, in June 1944, on the beaches of Normandy.

Eisenhower was not amused by what had just happened to his country. Called to Camp David, he dined with Kennedy, and then together they toured the grounds. It was on this walk that Ike delivered a stinging reprimand in which he challenged Kennedy's judgment, knowledge and understanding of the world.

Richard Reeves: "That was in private. In public, the two men came back from their walk to face the reporters and cameras. . . . Kennedy told reporters he had asked the General to visit him so he could 'get the benefits of his thoughts and experiences.' Eisenhower told the reporters, 'I am all in favor of the United States supporting the man who has to carry the responsibility for foreign affairs.' "

NOTE: Had JFK backed up the Cuban exiles with military force he could have eliminated the Castro regime and prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This shows that the JFK administration had continued the Eisenhower administration’s plans to depose Castro.

While JFK was sold to the American people as strong, Khrushchev considered him weak. Thus the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Forty-two years ago this spring, in April 1961, a young American president launched an amphibious invasion on a foreign shore. It was such a thorough failure that to this day the words "Bay of Pigs" are shorthand for "American military fiasco." The American-trained Cuban exiles who stormed the beaches of Cuba in hopes of liberating their homeland were, essentially, abandoned and left to die, denied the support they'd been promised by the U.S. government. Fidel Castro crushed them.

The Bay of Pigs invasion was badly planned, poorly executed and almost wildly unrealistic. (Months before it began former secretary of state Dean Acheson told JFK, in a private Rose Garden conversation, that you didn't need Price Waterhouse to figure out 1,500 guerillas aren't going to beat 25,000 Cuban regulars.)

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Surely their conversation at Camp David strongly suggests that neither Kennedy nor Eisenhower considered the latter compromised by events. Quite the opposite, in fact. "Mr. President," Ike questioned him, "before you approved this plan did you have everybody in front of you debating the thing so you got the pros and cons yourself and then made the decision, or did you see these people one at a time?" Kennedy did not directly answer, and then said he'd just approved a plan recommended by the CIA and the Joint Chiefs.

Eisenhower challenged him: Had Kennedy changed any of the military plans? Yes, Kennedy said. How could you change plans after the Cuban exiles were already on their way to the beach? Kennedy said he was trying to keep U.S. involvement at a minimum, and meant to conceal that involvement in fears the Soviets would retaliate by moving on Berlin.

From Eisenhower a verbal smack. "That is exactly the opposite of what would really happen. The Soviets follow their own plans, when they see any sign of weakness they show their strength." JFK said he'd been advised not to show America's hand. Eisenhower hit back: American support, training, materiel and leadership would immediately be obvious to everyone. "How could you expect the world to believe that we had nothing to do with it?" He told Kennedy when America resorts to arms, "it must be a success."

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Europe’s socialism puts it at least a century behind America politically.

I’m surprised that the percentage isn’t higher than sixty.

As Ann Coulter said, “If liberals cared about ideas or knew any facts, they would cease being liberals.”

Insufferable Frenchman

Regis Debray, the insufferable French promoter of Che Guevara and guerrilla war, has an article in Sunday's New York Times explaining how Europe is humbler than America and better in every other way as well. Here is the relevant passage: "Puritan America is hostage to a sacred morality; it regards itself as the predestined repository of Good with a mission to strike down Evil.... Europe no longer possesses that euphoric arrogance." And then, one paragraph later, "the new world of President Bush, post-modern in its technology, seems premodern in its values. In its principles of action, America is two or three centuries behind 'Old Europe.'" Yah. This from a Communist acolyte in a nation that built Saddam's nuclear reactor, protected Libya's Qaddaffi, collaborated with Hitler and has the most anti-Semitic populace outside the Arab world.

Democrats and the War

Also in Sunday's Times is a poll showing just how big the Democratic Party's left problem is. According to this poll 60% of Democrats are against the war with Iraq (and for "containment" instead). Which is hardly surprising since the Democratic Party's leadership having voted for the war is now conducting its own guerrilla operation against it.

The War at Home

I've been watching a Forum on Iraq led by congressmen Chris Shays with his Connecticut constituents. Most of the speakers from the audience (and there were many) were against the war, and all of them spouted the party line laid out by the neo-communist left. I heard some confused people overwhelmed by their own cowardice and mind-boggling ignorance. And not just ignorance about what they hadn't heard or didn't read, but ignorance of what they were being told to their faces by Shays himself. The main theme was if we just leave others -- Saddam included -- alone everything will be all right. Of course not one of them believed this. If they did, they would have protested Clinton's war in Kosovo, but they didn't. They would have been against interfering in the internal affairs of South Africa, but they weren't. This battle is not really about Saddam or even al-Qaeda (and what was the war against the Taliban but a pre-emptive intervention?) It is about the battle between the left and the right, between the forces of statism, religious fanaticism, anti-Americanism and Jew hatred -- in a word global reaction --and the forces of liberty and freedom. And the sooner conservatives understand the seriousness of the conflict we face at home, the safer we'll utlimately be.

Many contemporary Muslim rulers have troubling ties with National Socialism, an ideology known for its dangerous and fanatical extremes. While mainstream Muslims have tended to distance themselves from their extremist counterparts, fanaticism threatens to push the entire Muslim world into the arms of its Fascist fringe. This situation begs examination of both present day and historical intersections between Muslim ideologies and the virulent components of National Socialist extremism: racism, anti-Semitism, death, and destiny.

Saddam Hussein embraces the Baath Party -- formally the Baath Arab Socialist Party -- a nationalist movement especially prominent in Syria and Iraq, borne of the Arab world's perceived need to "produce a means of reasserting the Arab spirit in the face of foreign domination," claims Al-Baath, the daily party newspaper. "Articulated as the principle of Arab nationalism, the Baath movement was one of several political groups that drew legitimacy from an essentially reactive ideology."

Similar reactionary principles guided Adolf Hitler's vision of a people united in the face of foreign (particularly Western) dominance after Germany's crushing defeat during World War I. The motives of both parties seem frighteningly interchangeable …

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"There were Muslims, especially in the later phases of World War II, in the service of the SS, such as those recruited in Bosnia and in the Caucasus," explained Bartov, who is also a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. "I believe there was an entire Waffen-SS division made primarily of Muslims in 1944," Bartov told Front Page.

This column cites many statistics.

During the Vietnam War, on college campuses throughout the country, the conventional wisdom among the anti-war protesters was that the war was conducted for the rich. The “peaceniks” said that Vietnam was an economic war -- a war for natural resources. They said that the majority of American troops serving in Vietnam were blacks, and poor or working class whites.

The unspoken truth about the conventional wisdom was that it was merely Communist propaganda. However, to say so would have been Red-baiting. Just as it is considered Red-baiting now to call the Communist leadership of the Iraq “peace” demonstrators Communist, so it was then to call the Vietnam peacenik leaders Communist.

Calling a Communist a Communist is not Red-baiting. It never has been. It is simply stating a truth. However, the truth is a terrible thing for some people if it does not comport with their perspective.

This column has some interesting points.

So if Hispanics don’t form a race, surely they form a language group? Not exactly. The fact is, all “Hispanics” don’t even speak Spanish. Many of them – possibly up to half - are English dominant, which means they speak English more than Spanish. Some “Hispanics” don’t speak Spanish at all! Why then are they classified as “Hispanics”?

To inflate the numbers and promote the idea of the Hispanic voting bloc, of course!

Among the myriad of anti-American causes that have spilled into the leftwing cesspool known as the "peace movement," support for the bloodthirsty Palestinians is perhaps the most disgusting. To the left-wing America-haters who constitute the new "anti-war" movement, being "pro-Palestine" somehow translates into being "anti-war." Never mind the fact that the Muslim radicals who attacked America on 9-11 used Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel as a model for their sinister plot. The American left views Palestinian radicals as "freedom fighters," therefore liberating "Palestine" has become one of the central battles of the new "anti-war" movement.

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Until terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are brought to heel; until the PLO ceases funding and encouraging terrorism; until there is a deep change in the cultural attitudes of Palestinians, the Arab war against Israeli will persist. Innocent Israeli civilians will continue to be blown to pieces by Jew-hating Muslim radicals; children will continue to be incinerated in their school buses; babies will continue to die in their strollers on city sidewalks; old men and women will continue to be slaughtered by madmen in street-side cafes. These are the realities of the Palestinian "liberation movement." The next time that a Western "peace" demonstrator feels compelled to pick up a Palestinian flag and wave it in the air, he should take a look at the news photos of Jewish bodies strewn across Israeli streets and think about what he is actually supporting.

Discusses how Leftist sentiment trumps artistic merit when the Oscars are awarded. Examples are Barbershop (“The overwhelmingly white Academy membership, on the other hand, probably couldn’t stand having Jesse Jackson brand them as racist.”) and Secretary (feminists didn’t like “the first mainstream movie to present sadism and masochism in a positive fashion” )

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