Traditionalist clerics in Iran are blocking the extradition of senior al-Qa'eda members, including one of Osama bin Laden's sons, amid growing evidence that they are masterminding terrorism in other countries. Western and Arab intelligence sources quoted in The Washington Post said up to 400 al-Qa'eda terrorists were being sheltered in eastern Iran close to the Afghan border by an elite religious militia, the Jerusalem Force.
On the CNN Web site, even after Gray Davis had conceded, they were sticking to the loser's talking-points:
''Schwarzenegger, who, like Hitler, is a native of Austria . . .''
CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland....
Before Election Day, the official line was that the recall was part of a pattern of hardline Republican subversion of the democratic process, going back through the Florida recount to the Clinton impeachment. In an about-turn so fast poor old DNC honcho Terry McAuliffe must have gotten whiplash, the new line was that the recall reflected a voter anger against incumbents that would spell disaster for Bush next year....
The two Republican candidates -- Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock -- pulled 62 percent of the vote between them; the Democrat, Cruz Bustamante, got 31.7 percent.... Just to recap: Republicans 62 percent, Democrats 31.7 percent -- in the most liberal state in the nation. As long as all those angry voters keep expressing their anger by voting for Republicans over Democrats by two to one, I think I can live with it.
There's also amazing article by Jill Stewart relating how the LA Times warped the news to try to defeat Schwarzenegger-- to the point that the Times apparently leaked its "groping" story to the Democrats before publication. 24 reporters devoted to digging up dirt on Schwarzenegger, and no interest whatever in investigating the rumors of Gray Davis' violent fits.
Quite a commotion has erupted at Michigan this month as the mayor of Detroit and governor turned their noses up at a $200 million gift offered to the public school system by philanthropist Robert Thompson. A retired asphalt magnate, Mr. Thompson offered to give the money to set up 15 new high schools.The catch was that the new schools would be charter schools....
"Every time a kid leaves the Detroit system that's $7,000 walking out the door," [Detroit mayor Kwame] Kilpatrick told the Detroit News.... [Daily Sun]
Get that? They don't want to save the taxpayer money. They just want bigger budgets to play with. Ride them out of town on a rail.
Rush Limbaugh's "Offended" Critics are Wrong by Harry Binswanger
Racism is judging a person's character or actions by his race instead of by his individual merits. That's the sin Limbaugh was accusing the media of committing; he wasn't doing it.Racial Censorship and the Witch-Hunt Against Rush Limbaugh by Walter Williams
Limbaugh's statement is opinion that can be characterized as correct or incorrect -- but racist, no.
An Open Letter to ESPN on Rush Limbaugh by Joseph Kellard
ESPN was uncomfortable with Limbaugh's comment because it's true. It is just as racist to hope a man will succeed because he is black.
Rush Limbaugh and Racial Censorship by Thomas Sowell
It is one of the sad signs of our times that a furor was created because Rush Limbaugh expressed an opinion as to why a particular quarterback seemed to him to be over-rated.
Rush Limbaugh: Hearing the American Sound by Edwin Feulner
Rush Limbaugh doesn't just talk about the values Americans hold dear, he puts them into action.A Rush Limbaugh For the Left? by Thomas Sowell
The liberal vision of Rush Limbaugh is that he is some guy who appeals to ignorant rednecks and Joe Sixpacks. As with so many things that liberals believe, they feel no need to test their notions against reality. Actual research on Rush Limbaugh's audience has shown that they are above average in both education and income.
A Tribute to Rush Limbaugh by Jeff Jacoby
"I approach my audience with enormous respect," Limbaugh wrote in a 1994 article for Policy Review, the journal of the Heritage Foundation. "These are the people whose most heartfelt convictions have been dismissed, scorned, and made fun of by the mainstream media. I do not make fun of them."
Media Bias on Media Bias by Thomas Sowell
Anyone listening to Rush Limbaugh knows that what he is saying is his own opinion. But people who listen to the news on ABC, CBS, or NBC may imagine that they are getting the facts, not just those facts which fit the ideology of the media, with the media's spin.
Senator Daschle vs. Rush Limbaugh: Who is Promoting Violence? by Thomas Sowell
Liberals can be very "understanding" about violence -- provided it is violence from the left.
From YahooNews (AP): Gaza Strip Blast Kills Three Americans. This story from Wednesday was displaced within hours by the "Defense Drops Bombshell" in the Kobe Bryant hearing story (words from an actual FoxNews headline). When news this relevant to the War on Terrorism is so easily shoved aside for celebrity sex scandal news, it's unlikely that telling tid-bits like the following will ever make headlines:
A team of U.S. investigators who photographed the charred sports utility vehicle was pelted with rocks by about a dozen Palestinian youths as about 200 Palestinians looked on. As the angry crowd chanted "Allahu Akbar" -- "God is great" -- the Americans rushed back into their cars, surrounded by nervous Palestinian security officers with rifles raised. Palestinian police beat some people in the crowd while pushing the spectators back, and the cars sped away under a hail of stones.
The Palestinian Authorities have arrested three over U.S. convoy attack. But Little Green Footballs featured a Palestinian Authority cartoon that places blame for the blast on Jews.
Young Khomeini is convinced that the coming upheaval will depend principally on those who once supported his grandfather and have now become disillusioned. I asked him what he would like to see happen, and his reply this time was very terse and did not require any Quranic scriptural authority or explication. The best outcome, he thought, would be a very swift and immediate American invasion of Iran.
It hurt me somewhat to have to tell him that there was scant chance of deliverance coming by this means. He took the news pretty stoically (and I hardly think I was telling him anything he did not know). But I was thinking, wow, this is what happens if you live long enough. You'll hear the ayatollah's grandson saying, not even "Send in the Marines" but "Bring in the 82nd Airborne." I think it was the matter-of-factness of the reply that impressed me the most: He spoke as if talking of the obvious and the uncontroversial.