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SUPERBOMB!

The US has made a superbomb which could be used to frighten Iraq into submission.

The giant device contains 21,000lb of high explosive and dwarfs the huge "daisy cutter" bombs used against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Big Blue...

In the Vietnam War a “daisy cutter” was a normal bomb with a long fuse that protruded from its nose. The long fuse exploded the bomb before it could burrow into the ground.

The new superbomb is an upgrade of an already devastating weapon used by the Americans against al Qaeda and the Taliban.

*Nicknamed Big Blue, it contains 21,000lb of conventional high explosive, an increase from the 15,000lb BLU-82 "daisy cutter" used at least four times on tunnels and caves in Afghanistan.

* It was originally designed to clear helicopter-landing zones in Vietnam and works by detonating a few feet above ground level and destroying everything in its path.

* The warhead is packed with Gelled Slurry Explosive, which is detonated with a high explosive booster. The slurry is poured into the bomb's casing which is then loaded on to a plane and launched by parachute at 6,000ft.

Will be GPS guided...

Congressman Says Jews Are Pushing War...

The Middle Easterners would hate us if Israel didn’t exist.

Jewish organizations condemned Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) yesterday for delivering what they said were anti-Semitic remarks at an antiwar forum in Reston, where he suggested that American Jews are responsible for pushing the country to war with Iraq and that Jewish leaders could prevent war if they wanted to.

At the forum, attended by about 120 people at St. Anne's Episcopal Church on March 3, Moran discussed why he thought antiwar sentiment was not more effective in the United States.

"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," Moran said in comments first reported by the Reston Connection and not disputed by Moran. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."

Moran, a seven-term incumbent representing Alexandria, Arlington County and part of Fairfax County, yesterday apologized in a statement, saying, "I made some insensitive remarks that I deeply regret.

Man trapped in bathroom by cat...

A Canadian man had to be rescued by police after his cat went berserk and trapped him in a bathroom.

Kerry Will Halt Attacks On Bush During Iraq War...

Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio and former senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois plan to maintain their staunch antiwar rhetoric, even if fighting breaks out between the United States and Iraq.

''The congressman will continue to support the troops, but you can support the troops and challenge the policy,'' Doug Gordon, Kucinich's chief of staff, said yesterday.

Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, who voted to authorize military action but has accused President Bush of rushing into war, said he will cease his complaints once the shooting starts.

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Within the field, four of the five members of Congress voted last fall to authorize military action. Those voting ''Yes'' were Kerry and Senators John Edwards of South Carolina and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, as well as Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri. Senator Bob Graham of Florida voted against the resolution.

The strong pro-administration positions taken by Edwards, Lieberman, and Gephardt in particular have prompted some criticism on the campaign trail this winter, particularly in Iowa, where there is a vocal antiwar movement. Each has been regularly upbraided by residents opposed to their votes.

Anti-War Demonstrators Destroy 9/11 Memorial In CA...

La Hambra must have politically correct police. Damaging private property isn’t “free speech;” it is malicious mischief.

The vandalism included burning and slashing an American flag.

LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since.

However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

Rees said in order for police to take any action, the owner of the fence would have to file a complaint.

Jeff Collison, owner of The RV Center in La Habra, who has allowed residents to add patriotic symbols to the fence on his property, said he just might do that.

Libraries post Patriot Act warnings; Santa Cruz branches tell patrons that FBI may spy on them...

9-11 terrorist used library computers to communicate

The patriot act does require a warrant, which theoretically minimizes gratuitous snooping.

The Justice Department says libraries have become a logical target of surveillance in light of evidence that some Sept. 11 hijackers used library computers to communicate with each other.

But the signs ordered by the Santa Cruz library board -- a more elaborate version of warnings posted in several libraries around the nation -- are adding to the heat now being generated by a once-obscure provision of the Patriot Act.

Section 215 of the act allows FBI agents to obtain a warrant from a secret federal court for library or bookstore records of anyone connected to an investigation of international terrorism or spying.

Unlike conventional search warrants, there is no need for agents to show that the target is suspected of a crime or possesses evidence of a crime. As the Santa Cruz signs indicate, the law prohibits libraries and bookstores from telling their patrons, or anyone else, that the FBI has sought the records.

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Churchill ‘Invented’ Iraq | Mass Taxpayers Don’t Pay Higher Tax When Given the Chance

Meanwhile, I have a confession to make: It was my grandfather, Winston Churchill, who invented Iraq and laid the foundation for much of the modern Middle East. In 1921, as British colonial secretary, Churchill was responsible for creating Jordan and Iraq and for placing the Hashemite rulers, Abdullah and Feisal, on their respective thrones in Amman and Baghdad. Furthermore, he delineated for the first time the political boundaries of Biblical Palestine. Eighty years later, it falls to us to liberate Iraq from the scourge of one of the most ruthless dictators in history. As we stand poised on the brink of war, my grandfather's experience has lessons for us.

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Had the Allies held firm and shown the same resolve to uphold the rule of law among nations that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair are demonstrating today, there is little doubt that World War II, with all its horrors, could have been avoided. Indeed it was for that reason that Churchill called World War II the "Unneccesary War." Tragically, the same sickness that infected the League of Nations -- a feebleness of spirit, an unwillingness to face the realities of the world we live in, and a determination to place corrupt self-interest before the common good -- now afflicts the governments of France, Germany and Belgium .

I can think of few actions more shameful than the recent vote by these three nations in the counsels of NATO to deny the Turks -- the only NATO country to share a common border with Iraq -- the protection they need against the very real possibility of an Iraqi missile attack. This region, in particular, was one of the great disappointments of my grandfather's career. After the creation of Iraq, Iran and Palestine, he wanted to create a fourth political entity in the region, Kurdistan. Against his better judgment, he allowed himself to be overruled by the officials of the colonial office, a tragic decision which, to this day, has deprived the Kurds of a nation of their own and caused them to be split up under Iran, Iraq and Turkey, each of which has persecuted them for their aspiration to self-determination -- none more so than Saddam.

As President Bush and Mr. Blair intend today in the case of Iraq, Winston Churchill in 1948 favored the threat and -- if need be the reality -- of a pre-emptive strike to safeguard the interests of the Free World. Aware of the dangers ahead, Churchill believed that the U.S. -- while it still had a monopoly of atomic power -- should require the Soviet Union to abandon the development of these weapons, if need be by threatening their use.

The Truman administration chose not to heed his advice. The result was the Cold War, in the course of which the world -- on more than one occasion -- came perilously close to a nuclear holocaust.

Before World War I all of the Middle East had been provinces of the Ottoman (Turkish) empire.

Churchill’s failure to stick to his instincts has led to ethnic strife in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.

One wonders if the Soviet agents in the Truman administration helped to squelch this idea.

The Cold War included the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War.

As recently as last November, Massachusetts voters shot down a ballot initiative that would have abolished the state income tax. At the time this was hailed as yet more evidence that the tax revolt was over, that voters really do prefer paying higher taxes to cutting "services." Even in 2000, when the Bay state's voters approved a tax cut, 41% dutifully voted for keeping the rate at 5.85%.

Well, the state's new 2002 income tax form gave these folks a chance, literally, to put their money where their mouths were: A check-off box offeredthem the option of paying the old 5.85% rate instead of the new, lower 5.3%.

Only a fraction of the 1,055,161 citizens who two years ago said they preferred the higher rate actually paid it. In his column for the Boston Herald, Howie Carr worked out the math, citing state Department of Revenue figures listing a mere 345 people out of the first 855,786 filers -- 1/25th of 1% -- opting to pay the higher rate. Total extra revenue gain? $34,668.

This would be a good alternative to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s “Tax Me More Fund.”

As expected, nobody wants to pay higher taxes themselves, just on the other guy.

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Leftists Recruiting Students to Commit Illegal Acts | ‘Skip Class for Peace’ at Cornell
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That the anti-war demonstrations are led by communists, while underreported in the mainstream media, is not exactly breaking news. However, the reports from the protest indicate that a new stage of radical quislingism is about to begin. Desperate to prevent President Bush and the American military from liberating the Iraqi people, the Communists have begun openly recruiting college students like you to participate in illegal acts, designed to disrupt the lives and empty the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. All of this took place last Wednesday with the tacit approval of many Stanford professors - a full two dozen cancelled their classes in support of the demonstration, and, according to the protest organizers, a full sixty pledged their support.

Cornell University’s Anti-War Coalition—comprised of students, employees, campus religious leaders, and professors—urged students to "Skip Class for Peace" last week as part of their ongoing effort to protest U.S. military action in Iraq. (Presumably, earlier proposals for “Make the Dean’s List for Peace” and “Work Overtime for Peace” were nixed.) In lieu of attending classes, the wild mob of Stalinists gathered at the entrance to the main administration building and blamed the United States and Israel for world terrorism.

The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition directed the rally, which was implemented locally by Amy Levine, a graduate student in anthropology, Tom Armalchi, an undergraduate student in industrial and labor relations and Alex Bomstein, an undergraduate student active in the local Green Party. These students are leaders of Cornell Students for Peaceful Justice (CSPJ).

Although Cornell does not have an ANSWER chapter or a Young Communists chapter, CSPJ has strong ties to pro-Communist organizations. Their website prominently features writings from ZMag, a Noam Chomsky-style publication that accused President Bush of planning a genocidal rampage in Afghanistan and has frequently published work sympathetic to Palestinian terrorists. CSPJ also has ties to the "United for Peace” organization headed by longtime Communist Leslie Cagan, who views Castro's dictatorship as the societal ideal.

Student Leftists, who pride themselves on being the voices of tolerance and peace, used their anti-war rally to engage in an orgy of hatred, vitriol, and profanity. Predictably, not a single speaker at the event spoke in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s human rights record, the Iraqi government’s history of aggression, or Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program. All of the hatred was directed toward America and Israel.

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Other students took to the streets with pro-drug slogans from the 1960s. One such sign offered the compelling anti-war argument, "Drop Acid, Not Bombs."

Microsoft a “digital Standard Oil”

More conservatives listen to NPR than Leftists. See Coulter, Ann. “Give Us 22 Minutes, We'll Give Up the Country.” FrontPageMagazine.com February 20, 2003.

Horowitz, David. “The Leftist Media.” FrontPageMagazine.com. March 11, 2003. 

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