Rice: America Will Enter Talks With Syria, Iran

February 28, 2007 in Global War On Terror, Iran, Iraq, Syria

I can’t imagine anything good coming from negotiations with the primary sponsors terrorism in the world today.    From the NY Sun  WASHINGTON — With congressional pressure mounting against the Bush administration’s military surge in Baghdad, Secretary of State Rice yesterday said America would be participating in a regional conference that would include Iran and”Syria. The [...]

“Mother” coached children to fake retardation to collect benefits

February 27, 2007 in Social Security/Medicare

From ABC News  A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf. Rosie Costello, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court that she collected more than $280,000 in benefits, beginning in the mid-1980s. [...]

Catch the Illegal Immigrant

February 27, 2007 in Border Security, Illegal Immigration

Cross Posted from DeMediacratic Nation Free opinion here, no TimeSelect fee necessary. From the editorial board over at the toilet “paper” of record: “It’s almost enough to make us nostalgic for streaking and sitting on flagpoles. College students from Michigan to Florida have found a new way to get attention, offend others and make a [...]

Those who get it, & those who don’t

February 26, 2007 in 2008 Presidential Election, Anti-War Crowd, Congress, Democrats & The Left, House of Representatives, Iraq, Republicans & The Right, Senate

Here are two articles… the first an editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Joe Lieberman… The Choice on Iraq Two months into the 110th Congress, Washington has never been more bitterly divided over our mission in Iraq. The Senate and House of Representatives are bracing for parliamentary trench warfare — trapped in an escalating dynamic [...]

Nukes, Iran and Sanctions

February 23, 2007 in Ahmadinejad, Global War On Terror, Iran, Terrorism, UN

Back in July The UNSC set a deadline of Aug 31 2006 (my post here) for Iran to either suspend uranium enrichment or face economic & diplomatic sanctions…. That deadline came and went with no significant sanctions imposed nor a commitment by Iran to halt its uranium enrichment and other aspects of its nuclear weapons [...]

February in Iraq…. The unreported news

February 20, 2007 in Anti-War Crowd, Democrats & The Left, Global War On Terror, Iraq, Media, News, Terrorism, US Military

Each month, I try and put together a post of some of the good news out of Iraq. Public opinion of the war in Iraq has diminished considerably, poll results and the November elections demonstrated that full well. Public opinion however is driven in a very large part by how the media portrays what is happening on the ground [...]

Rescuers Try to Reach Mt. Hood Climbers

February 19, 2007 in News

Didn’t we do this already?  GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Rescuers who camped out on Mount Hood set out at daybreak Monday to try to reach three climbers who fell from a snowy ledge and were huddled in sleeping bags and cuddled with a dog amid ferocious winds and blowing snow. “They are on the [...]

Iran Launches Large-Scale War Games

February 19, 2007 in Ahmadinejad, Iran

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran began its largest war games in almost a year Monday, just two days ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to halt uranium enrichment or face further economic sanctions. The elite Revolutionary Guards began three days of ground maneuvers, state-run media reported Monday. State television said the exercise [...]

Dems Vote to lose

February 17, 2007 in Anti-War Crowd, Congress, Democrats & The Left, Global War On Terror, House of Representatives, Iraq, Republicans & The Right, Terrorism

Graphic via News Blaze From the Globe & Mail WASHINGTON — Democrats, now a majority in Congress, fired a symbolic shot across President George W. Bush’s bow yesterday, passing a toughly worded but non-binding resolution that opposes sending thousands more U.S. soldiers into Baghdad’s violent cauldron. Here is the Roll Call on the Vote… How [...]

NY businessman charged with financing terrorism

February 17, 2007 in Global War On Terror

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York businessman was indicted on terrorism charges on Friday, accused of transferring $152,000 to fund the purchase of equipment for use in a militant training camp in Afghanistan. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari was charged with financing terrorism and with money laundering for accepting an unspecified payment to secretly [...]