STARE DECISIS: IS THE US CONSTITUTION "WRITTEN IN STONE" OR "A LIVING DOCUMENT"

The answer depends on a few factors; chiefly it depends on what issue is before trhe court, and whether you ask the question of a leftist or a conservative.

Leftist - like Schumer and Leahy - selectively apply the term, albeit with some consistency: The US Constitution is "a living document" when the issue before it is whether a conservative principle should be UPHELD; in these cases they argue we must OVERTURN the past, AND BE PROGRESSIVE.

When the issue is before the Court is whether a LEFTIST decision should be overturned, then the answer is "NO; IT IS WRITTEN IN STONE."

This is another example proving how UNPRINCIPLED the Left - the Democrats - have become. (others HERE; scroll down.)

The Left's current witch-hunt against Bush appointees is discussed HERE at THE AMERICAN THINKER; Clarice Feldman has links to more than a dozen decisions and opinions by Justice Breyer which shed light on this issue.

The Home Gun Smitth

The Home Gunsmith.com Has some very neat plans for a home shop built SMG (submachine gun). Here is what the site owner has to say about gun control:

My own view is that the gun not only belongs in the hands of the agents of the state (they can never be disarmed) but in the hands of the people as a whole. This is the surest way of maintaining the correct balance of power between state and citizen. The mad rush of government to create a 'gun free' Utopia will not, of course, have any effect on the crime rate. The criminal, by definition, does not obey the law and is therefore unaffected by any anti firearms legislation. Gun control will, however, create more and more victims of violent crime as long as we allow ourselves to be disarmed behind the smokescreen of 'Crime control'. This is the unpalatable truth you will never read in the media or hear from any politically correct politician.

Unfortunately, while we continue to allow the media anti gun propaganda mills to churn out their lies, myths and misinformation we will continue to see the destruction of the ancient liberties and freedoms once securely enshrined under the "Common laws of England".

When any government deprives a citizen of his freedom or property, the individual must take action to publicise his grievances. To this end, I hope to illustrate in the following pages, the futility of gun control, and that no amount of arbitrary legislation can ever prevent those wanting firearms from owning them. The individual who has the ability to construct his own homemade gun can never be permanently disarmed by any level of gun control legislation.

So as to allow you to get a 'feel' for the subject of homemade guns, the following pages illustrate how a reasonably light weight and portable homemade Machine gun was assembled from readily available 'Off the shelf' materials and components. No lathe or milling machine was required or used.

The firearm that can truthfully be described as "a homemade gun" should be one built using the type of hand tools and materials that the average individual could easily acquire.

The barrel is unrifled so this device will not produce a tight pattern. Where spray and pray is an appropriate tactic this could be an excellent weapon. Spare parts should be easy to come by. Until pipe fittings are made illegal. Don't laugh. Cold medicine is now a behind the counter medicine in the hopes of reducing meth manufacture. As a government tactic this seems to have worked. Now much of our illegal meth is imported. Nice to see our government supporting international trade. This policy also has the advantage of making those with colds suffer if they need more than the government approved cold medicine allowance. The perfect government policy. The War On Some Drugs was always a prototype for the War On Guns. If American gun owners really took this to heart the Drug War would be over in America in short order.

H/T Commenter PRCalDude at Hot Air

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

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PEW POLL RESULTS: Democrat Malaise and Pessimism, and their love of Leftist Policies

POWER LINE - on Barone and the recent global Pew Poll/"Attitudes Survey":

... what is striking is how much optimism is reflected in the survey, world-wide. Global economic growth has sparked a high level of confidence in the future, even in Africa. The United States, however, is an exception:

Most strikingly, only 25 percent of Americans are positive about the direction of the nation, down from 41 percent in 2002. In only a handful of the 47 nations are there declines of similar magnitude -- Uganda, the Czech Republic, France, Canada and Italy. ***

[B]y a two-to-one margin Americans say their children will be worse off than we are. There's a similar response in Canada, Britain and Brazil. The even more negative verdicts in Western Europe and Japan can be explained as a cool assessment of the combination of low birthrates and overgenerous welfare states.

But what basis do Americans have to suppose that, for the first time in history, a younger generation will be worse off than their parents? Perhaps it's just a feeling that things cannot possibly get any better. In any case, we seem to be in a pronounced national funk.

Barone concludes by suggesting that Americans should snap out of it. Good advice; but I think what we are seeing is partly faux pessimism. As Barone notes:

It's partly a partisan response: Almost all Democrats are negative about the nation's future.

RELIAPUNDIT: I think the decidedly MORE PESSIMISTIC attitude by Democrats in the USA is because - as Leftists - they are temperamentally more pessimistic, and have been for a LONG TIME. And they are MORE LIKELY to see reality through a partisan lens than right-wingers.

[ASIDE: This was proved by a poll in the book FAILING TO WIN: A poll in the book had results which proved that right-wingers were more principled than Democrats and applied core principles to issues; whereas leftists/Democrats selectively applied principles depending on the partisan slant of the question in the poll.

The particular poll in the book was about Iraq: when the situation wa expressed abstractly using hypotheticals and fictitious president and fictitious foreign land, then the Democrats supported Bush's policies in iraq2. But when the question was posed using REAL names and places, then the Democrats OPPOSED them. The Republicans who answered the poll answered the same regardless of whether the places were real or fictitious/hypothetical.]

Remember Carter's Malaise speech? Carter blamed America for its miserable state and wanted more sacrifices. lowered expectations and more statist interventions. Carter:

we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next 5 years will be worse than the past 5 years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.

CARTER DID NOT SEE THAT LEFTISM WAS THE PROBLEM, AND NOT THE PEOPLE. Carter suggested we needed (1) QUOTAS on foreign oil, (2) mandated limits on oil use by PRIVATE utilities, (3) a NEW HUGE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY, and (4) RATIONING.

FUNNY: He saw the energy crisis much like toady's Dems see the "healthcare crisis": as something which can only be solved by MORE GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT RATIONING. GEE: I WONDER WHY?!

What saved America in the 1980's was not the smörgåsbord of leftist policy carter suggested; it was Reagan and his right-wing approach: lower taxes, smaller government and more faith in free people and free markets.

FAITH IN FREE PEOPLE AND FREE MARKETS: THAT IS TRUE OPTIMISM.

Leftists are people who have no faith in free markets or the people, and that's why they FEEL they NEED to have BIG Government - in order to intervene on behalf of particular people (victims) and particular issues THEY favor.

BOTTOM-LINE:

Democrats/Leftists NEED to feel bad and pessimistic in order to JUSTIFY their GRANDIOSE/BIG GOVERNMENT policies.

FOR EXAMPLE:

They NEED to say that global-warming is man-made AND that it will "destroy life as we know it" in order to make the GOVERNMENT BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL AND IN ORDER TO ENACT FAR-REACHING CHANGES IN OUR LIVES.

Little crises just can't motivate or justify their colossal UTOPIANISTIC and "revolutionary" policies.

Don't become a victim of their pessimism. Don't fall for their prescriptions: they're worse than the disease.

NBA ROBBERIES AND NBA REF BETTING SCANDAL: ARE THEY RELATED?

JUST ASKING. BECAUSE OF THIS:

Police Seek Link in NBA Player Robberies

Two hulking NBA stars were bound with duct tape and robbed of cash and jewelry by masked gunmen in separate holdups that have Chicago-area detectives wondering whether someone is targeting professional athletes.

New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry 6-foot-11, 285 pounds was tied up along with his wife and an employee at his mansion in suburban Burr Ridge on Saturday.

Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker, who is 6-foot-9, 245 pounds, was similarly robbed along with a relative at his $4 million townhouse in Chicago's exclusive River North section on July 10.

No one was injured in either case.

"Our guys are talking to Chicago to determine if it's just a copycat or a coincidence or if there is a relationship there," Burr Ridge police Cpl. Tim Vaclav said.

MAYBE THESE ROBBERIES ARE PAYBACK, OR A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO COVER THEIR GAMBLING LOSSES?

THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS WE'RE WINNING IN IRAQ!

I am left speechless (From the New York Times via U.S.S. Neverdock):


"Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with."

... As a result, civilian fatality rates are down roughly a third since the surge began."

And the Iraqis are stepping up to the plate.

"We traveled to the northern cities of Tal Afar and Mosul. This is an ethnically rich area, with large numbers of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens. American troop levels in both cities now number only in the hundreds because the Iraqis have stepped up to the plate. Reliable police officers man the checkpoints in the cities, while Iraqi Army troops cover the countryside. A local mayor told us his greatest fear was an overly rapid American departure from Iraq."

Tell that to the Democrats who want to cut and run.

"In war, sometimes it’s important to pick the right adversary, and in Iraq we seem to have done so. A major factor in the sudden change in American fortunes has been the outpouring of popular animus against Al Qaeda and other Salafist groups, as well as (to a lesser extent) against Moktada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army."


Go read the whole thing.

A sane moonbat?

A good email from a British reader below:

I thought you'd like to take a look at these two articles. The first, by George "moonbat" Monbiot in The Guardian acknowledges that the recent floods in England cannot be attributed to global warming.

The second in The Daily Telegraph by Charles Clover asserts that the floods are evidence of global warming.

To be honest, I can't be bothered to read them in full. It does make me wonder though, that if the science is settled and climate catastrophe is almost upon us, why aren't the warm-mongers singing from the same hymn sheet?

There's something else that puzzles me. If, when it's hot it's global warming (the heatwave in France a few summers ago) and when it's cold it's global warming (Peru this year) and to prevent global warming we've to cut CO2 emissions, how will anyone know that the measures taken have had the desired effect?

Philosopher Keith Burgess Jackson makes a similar point to the above





Weatherman John Kettley isn't surprised by the current British floods

This year's apparently extraordinary weather is no more sinister than a typical British summer of old and a reminder of why Mediterranean holidays first became so attractive to us more than 40 years ago. Because, while we are being drenched, a heatwave has brought temperatures of 40C (104F) or more across other parts of Europe. To many people the disparity may seem to indicate some seismic and sinister shift in our climate.

In fact, temperatures are exceptional only in eastern Europe, where a band of air has been moving westwards from Asia Minor. Central Europe is experiencing temperatures of 30-35C (85-95F) - just what you'd expect for this time of year, along with the blue skies and light winds.

The weather patterns across Europe are all linked in such a way that the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean never enjoy, or suffer, the same weather at the same time. And now we are feeling the full force of two extreme fronts from the West and East that are usually modified by a third from the South.

While central Europe feels the heat from the East, we have always been influenced by weather systems generated over the Atlantic, picking up energy from this huge pool of water.

We also feel the power of the strong ribbon of winds known as the Gulf Stream - a highly energetic jet, fluctuating several miles above our heads and hugely important in determining our weather. As the summer evolves, the jetstream and rainbands above us are normally gradually pushed to the north-west of Scotland by a third weather system, a milder pocket of high pressure blowing up from the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Ultimately, this more friendly system plants itself across the rest of the country.

But this year that modifying weather pattern has yet to arrive. So the cold of the West has collided with the intense heat of the East. The result is flash floods and torrential downpours.

There is no particular reason for the sluggish movement of the Azores front. It's just one of those things. But a similar situation worked in reverse in 1976 when we enjoyed a fantastic hot summer and it was cool and wet in central Europe - such are the mechanisms of our complex weather machine....

In my view, none of the severe weather we have experienced is proof of 'climate change.' It is just a poor summer - nothing more, nothing less - something that was the norm throughout most of the Sixties and has been repeated on several occasions more recently. Going further back, history also shows that 1912 was an atrocious summer. It was so bad, in fact, that we are still some way short of the torrential downpours that happened that year. It seemed particularly bad at the time because 1911 had been such an exceptionally good summer.

So, taking a long view, there is a pattern of warming and cooling. The Edwardians were experiencing a period of significant warming (much like now) following a cold Victorian spell. There was a period of warming from the Twenties through to the end of the Fifties and, after a cooler period, there has been a further significant warming over the past 20 years.

In the final analysis, this summer may be just such a 'blip' in the charts. But we still have plenty of summer to go and it takes only one slight shift in the jetstream to change rain into sun and bring a late renaissance for holidaymakers here in Britain.

More here

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HILLARY'S YOUTHFUL LETTERS

The NYT has some (no doubt carefully selected) excerpts from letters written by Hillary during her college years. The excerpts below give some idea of the pathologies that drive her: Inauthenticity, misanthropy and narcissism

"Since Xmas vacation, I've gone through three and a half metamorphoses and am beginning to feel as though there is a smorgasbord of personalities spread before me," Ms. Rodham wrote to Mr. Peavoy in April 1967. "So far, I've used alienated academic, involved pseudo-hippie, educational and social reformer and one-half of withdrawn simplicity." ....

"Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals?" Ms. Rodham wrote in an April 1967 letter....

Her letters at times betray a kind of innocent narcissism over "my lost youth," as she described it in a letter shortly after her 19th birthday. She wrote of being a little girl and believing that she was the only person in the universe. She had a sense that if she turned around quickly, "everyone else would disappear. "I'd play out in the patch of sunlight that broke the density of the elms in front of our house and pretend there were heavenly movie cameras watching my every move," she says. She yearns for all the excitement and discoveries of life without losing "the little girl in the sunlight."

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Does Muhammad Surf?

Just asking.

DHIMMITUDE DEFINED: FLUSHING A KORAN IS A CRIME, BUT BURNING OLD GLORY ISN'T

FULL STORY WITH LINKS HERE,
AT MICHELLE'S PLACE.

NYTIMES CAUGHT DISSEMBLING AGAIN - ABOUT POLLS REGARDING IRAQ

THE NYTIMES POLLED 1600 ADULT AND FOUND THAT SUPPORT FOR THE WAR HAD INCREASED - FROM 35% TO 42%, (A 29% LEAP!) - SO... WHAT DID THEY DO!?

TRY TO SUPPRESS IT.

TOM MaGUIRE HAS ALL THE DETAILS - RTWT; EXCERPT:

... isn't it good to know that the Times will carefully suppress and doublecheck good news for Bush as it emerges? i know none of us want them to print good news for Bush only to have to run a correction (or confirmation!) a few days later.

And do any amongst us doubt that the Times would be equally diligent about sitting on good news for the Dems until it could be verified?

I am sure they have done so many times, but just never called it to our attention, and of course there is really no way to monitor them - puzzling results seem to be pretty much fully suppressed, with only the question numbers available to indicate a missing question.

THE NYTIMES: Hurting our side and helping the enemy - al Qaeda and the Dems. Complete round up HERE.

WILL HILLARY BE INDICTED BEFORE SHE'S NOMINATED - OR AFTER?

FROM DOUG ROSS: Hillary's Slithering from Legal Jeopardy Nearing an End?

The ability of Hillary Clinton to slither away from legal scrutiny is uncanny. Consider Travelgate, Whitewater, and the Barrett Report, all examples of alleged crimes and coverups that would have toppled a Republican administration.

Now a civil case brought by Clinton fundraiser Peter Paul threatens to dismantle's Hillary's hard-won reputation for evading legal jeopardy. According to insiders, on Sept. 7, 2007 the appellate court will rule whether Hillary will be included as a defendant in the case. No matter the outcome, though, she will be forced to testify under oath regarding the fundraising for her 2000 Senate campaign.

Equal Justice Foundation launches new site and documentary film

And, on Friday, the Equal Justice Foundation of America named the Hillary Clinton Civil Fraud suit brought by Peter Paul "The Most Important Whistleblowing Case in the Nation for 2007

MUCH MORE AT DOUG'S PLACE - HERE.

Reliapundit: BOTTOM-LINE: Is Hillary a crook? YUP. You know what they say: BJ lied and Hillary SWORE to it.

REASON # 4,139 WHY PAMELA IS THE BEST

Freaking awesome.

Click here for the whole story.

Minding the Campus

I just found a new site (via Instapundit) called Minding the Campus that concerns how the Race, Class, Gender (RCG aka Angry Studies) people are undermining liberal education.

A good place to start is this piece on the Ward Churchill case, recently in the news, by KC Johnson of Durham in Wonderland/Duke Lacrosse case fame.

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

2007 ASIA GAMES SHOCKER: IRAQ BEATS SAUDI ARABIA IN FINAL!

RTE (IRELAND):

The Iraqi national football team has won the Asian Cup for the first time, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the final in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The team includes Sunnis, Shias and Kurds and has been widely praised for its uniting influence on the country.

TAKE THAT AL QAEDA!

ABC/AP:

Defying orders from authorities, celebratory gunfire resounded across Baghdad and revelers poured into the streets after Iraq beat Saudi Arabia to clinch its first Asian Cup soccer championship on Sunday while mosques broadcast calls for the shooting to stop.

Security forces, meanwhile, enforced a vehicle ban in an effort to prevent a repeat of car bombings that killed dozens celebrating Iraq's progress to the finals in Asia's top soccer tournament.

Iraqis welcomed the victory as a chance to show the world they can come together and expressed frustration that their politicians couldn't do the same.

"Those heroes have shown the real Iraq. They have done something useful for the people as opposed to the politicians and lawmakers who are stealing or killing each other," said Sabah Shaiyal, a 43-year-old policeman in Baghdad. "The players have made us proud, not the greedy politicians. Once again, our national team has shown that there is only one, united Iraq."

The Iraqi team, known as the "Lions of the Two Rivers" beat three-time champions Saudi Arabia 1-0 in its first appearance in the Asian Cup final.

The jubilation over the victorious run of the team has given Iraqis a rare respite from the daily sectarian attacks, with men of all ages cheering and dancing in the streets after the quarterfinals and the semifinals.

But extremists seemed just as determined to destroy national pride and unity.

EXTREMISTS AND DEMOCRATS!

THE PLURALISTIC DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF IRAQ: CHAMPIONS.

KEEP AN EYE ON NETANYAHU

With the rising threat of a war which will eclipse all others on the horizon, the fortunes and hence the leadership of tiny Israel is a very overlooked key to the future state of the world's peace. Considering the malignant Islam threat that is focusing on the annihilation of Israel for the moment (today Israel, tomorrow the west), the occupants of this tiny sliver of land may well be the proverbial boy with his finger in the dike.

Their poor leadership over these past years under an indecisive and puppet leader, Olmert has created a leadership vacuum in desperate Jewish Israelis who have the spirit to do what needs to be done but noone to lead. Not only has Olmert groveled and appeased the Islamist neighbours time and time again, he quakes before the all important foreign media who influence the opinions of the world for and against Israel.

The whisper in the wind to replace the hapless Olmert is the head of the opposition, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu and Olmert literally can't stand each other. There is no question of this, and yet Olmert, who hates speaking to the foreign press, sends them over to Netanyahu to speak for the Israeli government. Why is this? Well apparently Netanyahu has been doing this for years and for other governments (specifically Ehud Barak's). He has no problem speaking to the press and looks completely at home doing so.

So who is he? Well, he was the foreign minister of Ariel Sharon. Whatever you might think of some of Sharon's tactics, he was a fighter when in power, in the tradition of some of Israel's other greater lions, like Moshe Dayan. From all appearance, Netanyahu looks to be a lion in his dealings with the Arabs and with that other savage enemy, the foreign press.

Netanyahu loves the Fox media and hates the BBC, in terms of friends and enemies of Israel. Understandable, considering that one is Conservative (as evidenced by the Left's rabid thrashing against it) and one is a cesspool of Leftist propaganda. His response to the media on Israel's infamous 'disproportionate' response is a quickfire reference to actions taken by England during previous wars, such as the leveling of German cities like Dresden with huge casualties. He points out that appeasement actions like the giving up of the Gaza Strip have gotten Israel nowhere.

What Israel needs is a firm, decisive leader who is unafraid to confront and defend, both against the Islamist enemy but also against that other fickle foreign entity, sometimes friend, usually enemy, the media.

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Cross-posted here

MEIN KAMPF SHOULD BE PUBLISHED IN TODAY'S GERMANY

"Mein Kampf" is one of the dozen or so books I keep in front of me on my table where I do my writing. I even read it sometimes. It is a very important document for conservatives to read -- showing as it does how close in thinking Hitler was to modern Leftists -- including the antisemitism, of course. Some excerpts from an article in The Times of London:

Horst Moeller, a leading German historian, has called for the book to be published openly for the first time since 1945. The Bavarian state authorities own the copyright to Hitler's writings, but maintain an effective ban by refusing all requests to print it. Officially, the book cannot be bought in Germany, Israel, Norway or Switzerland. It is illegal to own it in Austria and to sell it in the Netherlands. But the book is available for sale in the US and Britain, as well as through internet bookshops. About 3,000 copies are sold every year in the UK.

Holocaust survivors are understandably unhappy at the prospect of a book that caused such bloodshed becoming freely available once more in the country that gave birth to Nazism. Yet whatever sympathy one may feel for those who suffered, no book should be banned, however pernicious. Allowed to fester in the dark corners of neo-Nazism, Hitler's ideas continue to hold a spurious glamour for the twisted few: held up to the light, they shrivel. In treating this disease, exposure to fresh air is always more effective than quarantine.

Quite apart from the issue of free speech, there is the practical consideration that book-banning is virtually impossible in the internet age. The Nazis themselves tried, and failed, to ban and burn the "degenerate" books they feared, and in the process lent those works underground status. Today any neo-Nazi with half a brain (rather more than the usual complement), can download Mein Kampf and feel aggrieved and special for having to do so in secret.

Source

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The Fruits of Israeli Appeasement: one IDF hostage - held for a year - reported killed

MVRWC has a must read post about the IDF hostages and related matters. RTWT. EXCERPT:

Two years ago, we gave up the Gush as a show of good faith.

And in return, we got thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli civilians, women, children, schools.

Last year, Israel should have fought until these men [Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit] were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed.

Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing, and now, Israel has again released palestinian terrorists from its prisons in exchange for nothing, calling it a show of good faith to the evil bastards who hold these men captive.

Originally, the plan was to negotiate the release of prisoners in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but in the end, they just let the terrorists go free.

The Israeli government has again closed its eyes to what happens when you appease terrorists and negotiate with evil:

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

THESE FACES ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT.

More Leftist Support for Free Speech and Open debate

Not likely:

"Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

Source

Censorship is the only way Leftists can deal with truth. They are desperate for people not to hear the other side of any argument.

There are more details and comments here


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BRIT MD/WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS ANOTHER NHS HEALTH SCANDAL AND HORROR STORY

INDEPENDENT (UK): Whistleblower: Surgeon breaks cover over NHS beds crisis

Specialist wards full to breaking point. Patients with serious injuries denied care. A health service paralysed by arguments about funding. Martin Bircher, one of Britain's most senior consultants, speaks out.

One of Britain's leading trauma surgeons has broken cover to expose the scandal of a national shortage of emergency trauma beds which is leading to thousands of serious injury victims suffering in agony.

IS THIS ANYWAY TO RUN A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!?

IF THE BRITS CAN'T RUN "TAXPAYER FINANCED UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE" THERE, THEN WHY SHOULD WE DO IT HERE!? IT MAKES NO SENSE. YET THAT'S WHAT ALL THE DEMS RUNNING FOR POTUS WANT TO DO.

DON'T BE FOOLED.

RTWT!

MOST EVERYONE IN THE UK KNOWS THE NHS SUCKS. BUT MICHAEL MOORE STILL PROMOTES SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.

MICHAEL MOORE IS A EITHER A CHUBBY MORON OR A BIG FAT PINKO LYING SOB.

MORE PROOF WE AR PREPPING FOR STEPPED UP WAR AGAINST IRAN AND AL QAEDA

SOME NEWS ITEMS FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS:

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia for collective efforts against extremism, terrorism EXCERPT:

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Saturday reiterated their resolve against extremism and terrorism, and vowed collective efforts against the scourge that was not only a threat to global peace and security but also undermining progress, particularly in the Muslim countries.The talks at the Royal Palace between President Musharraf and Khadamin Haramain al Sharifain King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz covered wide-ranging international and regional issues, especially the threats from extremists to the Ummah.

Musharraf, Bhutto Meet Secretly In Abu Dhabi EXCERPT:

Musharraf and Bhutto are widely reported to be working on an alliance designed to bolster the increasingly embattled president's political strength.

THEY MET IN ABU DHABI - AN ALLY IN THE GWOT.

THEN THERE'S THE IMPENDING ARMS DEAL TO SAUDI ARABIA.

AND THE FACT THAT MUSHARRAF IS OPENLY WARRING WITH TALIBAN IN PAKISTAN AND THE TRIBAL REGIONS.

ALL THIS ADDS UP: PAKISTAN IS GOING TO THE MATS AGAINST THE RADICALS. AND SAUDI'SWILL DO SO AGAINST IRAN.

THE BBC HAS A VIDEO REPORT ON THIS HERE.

THE END OF THE HOT DOG: NYTIMES PROMOTES MUSLIM/HALAL PUSHCART FOOD IN NYC

SEEMS LIKE THE NYTIMES DOESN'T LIKE THE GOOD OL' AMERICAN HOT DOG, AND WANTS TO PROMOTE HALAL FOOD. EXCERPT:

Halal may have trumped the hot dog as New Yorkers' street food of choice. One pushcart in Midtown Manhattan began by catering to late-night cabbies.

THEY EVEN PUBLISHED A COORDINATED PROMO PIECE ON IT CALLED THE DECLINE OF THE DOG.

SHEESH: I GUESS THERE'S NO END TO THE LEFT'S SELF HATRED OF THE WEST AND AMERICA AND ALL THINGS AMERICAN.

THIS GOES ALONG WITH THE FACT THAT THE ACLU FIGHTS SILENT PRAYER IN SCHOOLS FOR JEWS & CHRISTIANS, BUT DEFENDS MUSLIM FOOT-BATHS BUILT AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE ON THE SAME TYPE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.

WHAT'S NEXT... APPLE PIE BEING REPLACED BY "Sawaiyyan"?!

NEXT THING YOU KNOW THEY'LL START DISPARAGING OUR TROOPS!