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 Donahue Off Air | European Markets Down | US Confidence at 10 Year Low
Texas Man Sentenced to Doghouse | Teacher Has Sex With Her 7th Grade Student
Dane Bans Germans, Frenchmen From Pizzeria | America Warns France
UN Future On the Line | Snow Falls On Levant

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The low ratings are hardly surprising; see Ann Coulter’s “Give Us 22 Minutes, We'll Give Up the Country.”

NEW YORK - MSNBC fired Phil Donahue on Tuesday, abruptly ending the veteran talk show host's return to television after six months of poor ratings.

Given the European fears of an apocalypse if the Iraq operation starts this isn’t surprising.

European equity markets slumped with Germany's Dax hitting its lowest level in more than six years on Tuesday as concerns about war in Iraq, accounting irregularities and disappointing corporate results produced a triple-whammy of bad news.

America isn’t immune to to this hysteria, and defeating the terrorists is the quickest path to economic recovery.

US consumer confidence has dropped to its lowest level since October 1993, prompting fears about the prospects for economic recovery.

FEBRUARY 25--A Texas man convicted of abusing his stepson by whipping the boy with a car antenna and forcing the 11-year-old to sleep in a doghouse, has cut a plea deal that calls for him to be sentenced to spend 30 consecutive nights in a doghouse, The Smoking Gun has learned. Curtis Lee Robin last week pleaded guilty to a felony charge of injury to a child and, along with his attorney and an Orange County prosecutor, signed the below "Agreed Punishment Recommendations" form that will be forwarded to District Court Judge Buddie Hahn in advance of Robin's March 13 sentencing. The plea agreement calls for Robin to receive an 8-year probation term, pay a $1000 fine, and "sleep in doghouse on his property or at Orange County Jail for thirty (30) consecutive nights."

A 35-year-old seventh-grade teacher was charged with having sex with one of her students at least 20 times at the teacher's home.

Jodi Thorp, 35, surrendered to authorities Monday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors claim she had sex with the boy at her Mendham home between June 2001 and September 2002. The boy is now 15.

The boy, whose name was withheld, had been in Thorp's seventh-grade social studies class and was one of the first participants in a nonprofit business Thorp ran called HUGS, Helping Underprivileged and Gifted Students, prosecutors said.

Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in WW II. Mr. Bjerre should be commended for his gratitude for America defeating the Nazis.

Aage Bjerre, who owns Aage's Pizza on the island of Fanoe, said he's tired of French and German attitudes toward the United States.

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He added: "Frenchmen have a lifetime ban here. Their attitude toward the United States will never change."

One wonders what kind of action we can take against France.

PARIS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States fired a warning shot Tuesday across the bows of France, the leading critic of its Iraq policy, saying it would view any French veto of a new U.N. resolution authorizing force as "very unfriendly."

America is asking the U.N. to impose its own agreement with Saddam. If it fails to do so it will be as useless as the League of Nations was in the 1930s.

As it launches an all-out lobbying campaign to gain United Nations approval, the Bush administration has begun to characterize the decision facing the Security Council not as whether there will be war against Iraq, but whether council members are willing to irrevocably destroy the world body's legitimacy by failing to follow the U.S. lead, senior U.S. and diplomatic sources said.

Maybe the Palestinians will throw snowballs instead of rocks.

A rare snow storm swept across the Middle East on Tuesday, closing highways and schools in Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, cutting power and blanketing the steeples and palm trees of Jerusalem in wintry white.

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State Dept Chooses Communist Vietnam Over Virginia | Mogadishu Debacle

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Link to my response “This Is Why We Didn't Vote Democrat”

An unlikely dispute has broken out between the commonwealth of Virginia and communist Vietnam--and the U.S. State Department is siding with Hanoi.

This was a debacle because our soldiers had no armor or air support due to the timorous Clinton Administration. In ordinary combat a concentration of enemy forces draws massive firepower.

If our forces in Iraq are allowed to use all of their resources there won’t be a repeat of Mogadishu.

… The Mogadishu battle, after all, had left the indelible pictures of a dead American dragged through the streets--not to mention the impression of seemingly endless numbers of armed enemies shooting from every crevice and rooftop.

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 Democrats Secretly Oppose War on Terrorism | Ignorance of Antiwar Types
 Arab Nazism |  Vietnam Anti-war Lies | Census Hispanic Overcount
 Left Supports Palestinian Terror | Leftist Censorship at Oscars
 

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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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 Dems Want America to Imitate Europe | 

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Pathetic. She doesn’t even remember her major. I believe that she was friendly with the military dictators of Nigeria.

Woodrow Wilson also wanted to surrender American sovereignty, which means that they haven’t learned anything since WW I.

Apparently the Democrats have forgotten that we started this country so we wouldn’t have Europeans bossing us around.

Thank Heaven for C-Span. For two days it broadcast the speeches by Democratic presidential hopefuls attending their party's winter meeting, and for two days we were reminded why the Dems keep losing elections. They claimed to speak up for "the regular people," but it became clear that their "regular people" are more like George Clooney than Ward Cleaver.

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Former Senator Carol-Mosely Braun, who avoided prison a few years back, wowed the crowd with: "Duct tape is no substitute for diplomacy!" When she was asked what her college major had been, she responded haltingly, "Uh…I think history…but I'll get back to you on that." (nervous laughter)

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But perhaps the most disturbing speech was that given by so-called Demohawk Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lieberman fell all over himself to explain how you can be for a war against Saddam in Iraq and still wage war against Bush at home … Translation: If America becomes as liberal as France and Germany on issues unrelated to Iraq, France and Germany will help us in Iraq.

Strip away the Democratic rhetoric, and what you'll find is the core belief that America should really stop acting like a super power. The Democrats believe the best way to protect against terrorist attacks is to act less like a dominant force and more like a domesticated global partner. This essentially requires that we sign on to treaties such as the one creating the International Criminal Court, or remain bound by accords like the ABM treaty, regardless of whether they are in our national interest.

Why stop there? Let the Europeans dictate our tax policy as well. In recent days the heads of the European Central Bank and euro-zone finance ministers have expressed "deep skepticism" about President Bush's tax cut plan. Whether the issue is tax policy, gun control, health care, abortion, the environment, or the death penalty, Democrats are more in sync with Europe than America.

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