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Old News, Reported Poorly

Posted by On the Right on Monday, July 07, 2008 11:13:44 AM

US removes Saddam’s yellowcake uranium — from first Gulf War

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Courage [Good Luck]

Posted by On the Right on Monday, July 07, 2008 11:11:40 AM

McCain: I’ll balance the budget by cleaning up entitlement programs

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That's What Most Are

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:43:14 PM
"We're Just Like Anyone Else. . ."  Robert Spencer turns a critical eye onto non-critical journalism.
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Post 9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises Biometrics Link Foreign Detainees To Arrests In U.S.

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 5:16:35 PM

Amazing: “Hundreds” of foreign jihadi suspects … have U.S. criminal records

In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.
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Missing In Action

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:50:08 PM

On the cusp of the “most spectacular” victory against Al-Qaeda


Did you know that the US and Iraq will shortly conclude “one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror”?  You wouldn’t if you read American newspapers or watched American television.  The Times of London reports on the approaching end of al-Qaeda in Iraq as the forces of Nouri al-Maliki and the US close the trap on 1,200 AQ terrorists in Mosul

And what have we won?  AQ has sustained an unmitigated defeat in Iraq.  They have lost tens of thousands of recruits and fighters, men that would have otherwise volunteered for other missions in which they didn’t have to face the American military.  They have lost their supposedly divine endorsement; why would Allah have called them to action, just to see them destroyed by the infidels?  The sheer bloodthirstiness of their actions in Iraq have exposed them as drug-driven demons, not righteous jihadists.

The Times of London has this right: the victory in Mosul gives the West the most spectacular victory of the war.  Too bad the American media missed it.  (via Instapundit)



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Flying Blind

Posted by On the Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:01:23 PM

Report: Pentagon worried that Israel doesn’t know where Iran’s nuke sites are

Left unmentioned is the fact that even if Israel does know where every last nuke site in Iran is and somehow manages to put a bomb on the target, there’s no guarantee that any major damage will be done. Do note the contradiction, though, between the idea that attacking Iran is futile because at least part of their nuclear infrastructure is secret and the idea that we don’t need to act now because western intel assures us they’re still years away from having a bomb. Both are staples of dovish arguments, which makes no sense. Either you think we know the extent of Iran’s program and can time our response accordingly or you don’t think we know, in which case we have to err on the side of caution by assuming the worst and acting sooner. How can anti-war types maintain both positions simultaneously? Simple — because they’re willing to let Iran have the bomb in order to avoid another war. That’s been their position all along but they can’t push it in those terms or else they’ll be seen, rightly, as weak and it’ll wreck the Democrats’ chances yet again. Unfortunately for them, Israel isn’t as willing, so someone had really better start pressing Obama and McCain to hash out their contingency plans for the aftermath of an IAF attack. The Democratic Party might be ready to gamble on a nuclear-armed Iran behaving like a Cold War rational actor, but Kadima surely is not.


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Whew

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 9:33:30 PM

Obama: Rest assured, I’m still fully committed to abandoning Iraq

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Let's Get Our Act Together

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 9:26:10 PM
Bomb-sniffing dogs to wear “booties” in Muslim homes

Guidelines being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) urge awareness of religious sensitivities when using dogs to search for drugs and explosives. The guidelines, to be published this year, were designed to cover mosques but have been extended to include other buildings.

Ibrahim Mogra, one of Britain’s leading imams, said the measures were unnecessary: “In Islamic law the dog is not regarded as impure, only its saliva is. Most Islamic schools of law agree on that. If security measures require to send a dog into a house, then it has to be done. I think Acpo needs to consult better and more widely.

“I know in the Muslim community there is a hang-up against dogs, but this is cultural. Also, we know the British like dogs; we Muslims should do our bit to change our attitudes.”


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CNN Poll: Most Say Founding Fathers Wouldn't Be Impressed

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:41:49 PM
Poll: 69% say Founding Fathers would be disappointed in America

Who do these poll takers talk to?
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Barack Obama Now Wears His Patriotism On His Lapel

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:38:22 PM
Strange new respect: Obama wraps himself in the flag

Tired of having his patriotism questioned, the Democratic candidate has made Old Glory a major visual element of his campaign.

When the flag-pin issue arose in October, Obama said he had made a deliberate choice not to wear one shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks because he believed the pins had become a "substitute for, I think, true patriotism."

"You start noticing people wearing a lapel pin but not acting very patriotic," he said then. "Not voting to provide veterans with resources that they need. Not voting to make sure that disability payments were coming out on time."
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Islam And The World

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:40:42 AM
The Struggle against Jihad and Islamic Supremacy  An American writer says that it's time to draw the line.

al-Qaeda's Plan 'B'  "Western civilization is doomed. Its last bastion, America, lacks the will for a long war."

The Integration Myth  Yes, America does a better job of integrating Muslims, but this may actually make the problem worse.

Why the Brits are Freeing Terrorists  "The British ruling class just doesn't get religious fanaticism."

Non-Muslims: Worse than Animals  An ex-Muslim spills the beans on what Muslims are really taught to think about non-believers.

Schoolboys Punished for Refusing to Pray to Allah (UK)...
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ANOTHER CASE OF THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:24:33 AM

This puppy has managed to do what Islamic
terrorists haven't - spark Muslim outrage.
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Constitution

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 12:09:29 AM
The United States Constitution was written in 1787, adopted in 1788, and took effect in 1789, replacing the Articles of Confederation. It remains the basic law of the United States Federal (central) government.
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Supply And Demand

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, July 05, 2008 12:00:49 AM
There is no mystery behind the rise in oil prices. They rose too high too fast because of booming demand for oil for petrochemical products, electric power and shipping from many emerging economies (particularly China, India and the Middle East). Meanwhile, the supply of oil slipped in the US, Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria and Russia.
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Obama & Oil

Posted by On the Right on Friday, July 04, 2008 11:23:11 PM

Barack Obama's new ad says he "worked his way" through college and law school. But his campaign says he had two summer jobs.

FactCheck.org: Obama's Work Claim

"When somebody opens a business, they're speculating. When somebody fills two gas cans, they're speculating that the price today is cheaper than it will be in the future."

The Economist: The Oil Price: Don't Blame the Speculators

"If you take the speculators out like the Democrats are suggesting, all you're going to do is move the speculators offshore to places like Dubai and lose American jobs -- and also lose control over the market. Is that what they want?"

"How come none of the senators from these ethanol states ever complain about the speculation in corn or wheat that's driven up the prices of bushels? It's only oil. Why is that? It's because they have a bias against oil."

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