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Not sure they are quite in this category but the leaked climate emails certainly show a new side to the cliqueish group of self-important zealots who want to control the world for the next fifty years or so. Arrogance in this field is nothing new. We've had hints for awhile now, brought to light by the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen (herself a former lab researcher) then later from the chief

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The spectacle hasn't even begun and yet, it has begun:A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views.Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but will tell the jury "why they did it." He says the men will

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This Congress and administration seems to like working in the dark. Appropriate, too. Arkansas Senator Blanche Lambert's impassioned speech earlier in the day against the public option--but in favor of courageously allowing the public option to become a reality-- highlighted the afternoon. Ms. Lincoln vowed not to vote yes on a bill if it contains a public plan, which appears the kind of

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I deplore hackers, therefore the hacking of emails from the Hadley CRU has been somewhat of a conundrum so far. Perhaps it can be better rationalized by thinking of it as 'civil disobedience' in the form advocated by various greens and government scientists. Of course we are all waiting for Mr. "Millions of Degrees" to weigh in with outrage about this but maybe he's laying low thinking they'll

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Before everything was so ridiculously politicized...

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Questions, questions, questions. Tom Maguire's question about whether there are any DOJ lawyers left to prosecute KSM and crew based on their prior pro bono work on behalf of said terrorists is certainly a good one and was not well answered by Holder at the hearings.From that same testimony, the AG said he will 'consider' giving Senator Grassley the names of all the recused lawyers within DOJ

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From the email..

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Has the American public been subjected to a crude political ruse this past week? Harry Reid provides some evidence by his scheduling of another Saturday Night Special (this group does everything on Friday and Saturday, apparently) to vote on socialized medicine.Meanwhile the entire week is almost gone and the buzz has been about a terrorist captured in 2003 instead of the pending take over of 1

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Holder and his Republican opponents just spent an afternoon splitting hairs over the definition of "battlefield". The AG explained that since al-Nashiri killed sailors overseas in Yemen while KSM killed mostly civilians in America (apart from the Pentagon), they warrant different court proceedings.The right remains appalled along with Glenn Greenwald: -- what convincing rationale can anyone

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A strange thing happened in China regarding Obama's brief visit with his half-brother Mark Obama. Background--Mark has a loose auto-biography coming out about growing up with the same father Barack mentioned in "Dreams from my Father" except Mark's version sounds more like "Nightmares from my Father"-- not too many Kodak moments based on the early descriptions. Obama wrote about meeting Mark in

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Some interesting and thought-provoking questions, particularly with respect to catching bin Laden (or Zawahiri)...Here's Jon Kyl pressing for an answer as to why Holder thinks he has a better chance to get a conviction in federal court than a tribunal after KSM and the others had already expressed an interest to plead guilty at Gitmo. His reply--that he doesn't know what KSM might do today--

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A previous post attacked the apparent political hypocrisy of Congressman Joe Sestak, so turnabout is fair and balanced play. Here's Rudy Giuliani, a former SDNY prosecutor and mayor of New York, condemning Obama for bringing the Gitmo Five to the Big Apple...But here's the mayor talking about the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui: "At the same time, I was in awe of our system," the former mayor

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From the yellow brick road to recovery: Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.There's one problem, though: There is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona; the state has

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Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak was all over the late week air defending Obama's Holder's decision to bring the Gitmo Five to Manhattan for trial. So what does he think about the Major Hasan investigation? He's worried about grandstanding:But notice his rather blank pause on O'Reilly when Bill asks whether the former Navy Rear Admiral believes in military tribunals:KSM to Manhattan? Upholds

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Obama's presumed bow to the Japanese emperor, and I say presumed because Gibbs hasn't weighed on whether he might have lost a contact lens or something, made the silly news of this slow news weekend. Here's another compilation showing past protocol. My take is that our first Pacific president is not an idiot--he's doing this purposely to make a statement about how he perceives American

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Andrew Cohen has a piece in the Sunday WaPo wherein he tries to destroy six myths about bringing KSM to the Big Apple for a show trial. Here's some feedback:1. .. The fact that the feds are bringing him to New York to stand trial indicates that they have plenty of other evidence that they can use to get their conviction. Yes, and most of it occurred before Bushitler took office. Does Holder

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Here's one of the songs that helped launch Ms. Eileen Twain into 'Shania', but not without controversy, as she explains. The power of rogue.

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Obama's trip to 'Asia' is producing some interesting copy so far. Of course his bow before the Japanese Emperor has made some news as did the dodge of a reporter's question about Fat Man and Little Boy. The latter was not hard to understand considering the fact he's promoting a world without nukes. As to the bow, just part of the global apology tour. But some might be surprised by this

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What an amazing president. The day after he leaves for Asia (where he refused to defend the dropping of the atomic bombs) he dumps KSM on New York City.Reactions are predictably heated. My previous thoughts on this construct are here but events call for an addendum.The basic question is why. What's in it for the Chicago administration? Their stock answer has been something like "upholding

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After 9/11 everybody was talking about stovepiping, meaning federal and state agencies refused to cooperate with each other due to turf or territoriality resulting in unconnected dots and missed attacks. That was supposed to be in the past. Maybe not.This NPR article sums up many angles in the Hasan case, quoting former co-workers at Walter Reed. Was he crazy? They thought so, claiming he

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This is a day to thank the many men and women who have served this nation in uniform through the years. I'd particularly like to thank those who have signed up during times of ongoing threat, especially any who've signed up since Friday because of Friday. Bloggers can pontificate but they are not going to win any wars (some of us are lower than dogs). But bloggers can offer their opinions, for

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It's bad enough that Ugo Chavez is trying to shut down golf courses in Venezuela for being a useless bourgeois endeavor, now 'researchers' and various other nuts in Europe have suddenly discovered the hidden evil of the golf ball itself:The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the

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It seems there are competing anonymous leaks between the major papers and networks on Hasan's communication with radical Imam Aulaqi:A terrorism expert with access to information about the case cautioned against drawing any conclusions from Hasan's communications with Aulaqi. The expert said it appears that Hasan may have reached out to the cleric as part of academic research he was conducting.

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The evidence is coming in to suggest that Malik Hasan's barbaric actions were not rooted in a terrorist organization, rather, he acted alone. A lone nut.While the left and some others might want to jump to the conclusion that his actions meant nothing regards the GWoT they should be reminded that Major Hasan's actions fit right in with the 1998 fatwa commandment of Usama bin Laden to kill

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This Times has the inside baseball scoop on what the One told his flock before the health care vote, mentioning 'teabag' people and 'extremists'. Not sure how he thinks the Blue Dogs will win their districts with the GOP hammering them on their voting for trillions in new entitlements--he must have promised them something very interesting (maybe help from a new improved ACORN?). But this comment

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