Just a few months ago, Operation Rogue Thunder began to reclaim the streets of Jamia and Adel, Iraq, from the grip of violence. Today, the streets not only are peaceful, they’re also thriving.
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"People are very happy now that the neighborhoods have gotten better," she said. "We feel safe enough to travel and come to work. We all just want life to go back to normal, and the past two months have been a good sign that life is allowing that to happen."
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Among other successes in the community were the allocations of micro grants to people interested in opening, re-opening or refurbishing their small businesses.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48076
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Coalition Forces See Iraqi Neighborhood’s Markets Flourish
Baghdad Comes Alive
For someone who has returned periodically to Baghdad during these past four and a half years of war, there has been one constant: it only gets worse. (snip) For the first time, however, returning to Baghdad after an absence of four months, I can actually say that things do seem to have gotten better, and in ways that may even be durable.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/70990/page/1
Conflict besets Andover High
The social studies teachers say they merely wanted to provide their students different perspectives about conflict in the Middle East when they invited [only] a group with a history of condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians to speak at Andover High School. The teachers never expected that their invitation to the group Wheels of Justice would set off the firestorm that has ensued ... /snip/
Jake Lebowitz, 14, a freshman who attended the evening forum, said the controversial subject should not have been featured in school without an opposing group at the same time to strike a balance.
[only two possible explanations: 1) just another case of liberal academia run rampant, or 2) these 'teachers' were literally to dumb to realize what the fourteen year old does. you pick]
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/08/conflict_besets_andover_high/
Mums with guns
Monday is Ladies Night, and Lorrie McNally is a regular here. So is her 62-year-old mum. The air is thick and smoky, and the place is packed. People are forced to shout over the boom, boom, boom. But these women aren't clutching cocktails - they're gripping guns. /snip/ ''Women are the largest-growing demographic in the gun industry,'' NRA spokeswoman Ashley Varner says.
[and for good reason; there's a reason guns are called the 'great equalizer']
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21754148-5006007,00.html
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Nation of Islam Allowed to Review PBS Documentary on Moderate Muslims
A conflict of interest involving the radical Nation of Islam and the Washington, D.C., affiliate of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) is an example of unethical journalism that benefits extremist Muslims, according to a national security expert and a Hollywood filmmaker. Martyn Burke, director of documentary films at ABG Films, and Frank Gaffney, president of the conservative Center for Security Policy, produced a documentary for a PBS series - "America at a Crossroads" -
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200708/CUL20070830a.html
The Left fakes Right
After six long years of pandering to the primates of Kos and Huffpo, the Democrats have suddenly discovered the War on Terror. Didn't you notice? That's because they didn't tell anybody. It's a stealthy flip, right in the middle of the dog days of August when nobody is paying attention. The Party Line just flipped.
Suddenly Demcrats are sounding responsible.
"We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working. We're just years too late changing our tactics. We can't ever let that happen again. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.And this new war requires different tactics and strategies. We've got to be prepared to maintain the best fighting force in the world."
That may not sound like the real Hillary Clinton, but it is. Sure she's still blaming Bush, but the tone is very different.
/snip/
The funny thing is that the media are pretending nothing has changed. But on Iraq and national security, the whole top Democrat apparatus has suddenly moved from the Far Left to the Middle Right. The biggest question, of course is: Are the Dems realizing the error of their ways? Or are they just Faking Right, like Meadowlark Lemon and the Harlem Globetrotters?
[nice to see that despite Bush's unilaterally, single-handedly screwing everything up, 'we' are now beginning to make progress]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/the_left_fakes_right.html
Patterico on the LA Times
It made waves yesterday when Andres Martinez ,the editor of the Los Angeles Times resigned, and accused his own paper of having an "agenda", but Patterico, who's been watching the paper for a long time, says here are some real improprieties the paper has been involved in in recent days:
"It creates an appearance of impropriety when one of the fired U.S. Attorneys directly contradicts the major premise of an L.A. Times article published about him - and five days later, there is still no correction.
It creates an appearance of impropriety when the paper splashes on the front page the fact that rationales for firing the U.S. Attorneys were "detailed after the fact" - and saves for the 27th paragraph the fact that they were detailed before the fact as well.
It creates an appearance of impropriety when the paper tells readers that Carol Lam was targeted after she prosecuted Randy "Duke" Cunningham - and fails to tell readers that she was initially targeted several months before the Cunningham scandal saw the light of day.
These distortions, taken together, form a pattern. Misleading stories like these constitute a real appearance of impropriety on the part of the Los Angeles Times - one far worse than any "appearance of impropriety" caused by today's non-scandal. Such stories create the overwhelming impression that (to use former editor Martinez's words) the newsroom's "ostensibly objective news reporters and editors" have an "agenda" - namely, to keep the U.S. Attorney "scandal" alive for as long as possible.
And the facts, and basic concepts of fundamental fairness, can go to hell."
http://patterico.com/2007/03/22/6014/martinez-blasts-la-times-newsrooms-agenda-and-ostensibly-objective-news-reporters-and-editors/
Stripper visits school in booking mix-up
A stripper performed for a classroom full of British teenagers, spanked a birthday boy and asked him to rub cream all over her after a booking error by the teen's mother. It is believed the mother thought she had booked a gorillagram to rush into her 16-year-old son’s classroom for a birthday surprise - but a stripper turned up instead. (Snip) The newspaper quoted the student as saying that it was when the stripper pulled some cream out of her bag that the teacher took action.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22723210-5001028,00.html
Monday, November 19, 2007
New Report to Show U.N. Overestimated AIDS Epidemic
The United Nation's top AIDS scientists this week plan to acknowledge that they long have overestimated both the size and course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been ebbing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily impacted areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the sweeping revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978.html?hpid=topnews
U.N. official says Iraq showing progress
UNITED NATIONS -- A top U.N. official reported to the U.N. Security Council Monday that recent developments in Iraq have opened an opportunity for progress. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe briefed the U.N. Security Council that sectarian tensions are still problematic in Iraq but that recent trends including recently released figures that show September having the lowest number of causalities in 2006, are reason to believe that there is an opportunity for progress.
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2007/11/19/un_official_says_iraq_showing_progress/7541/
Russia warns Czechs over 'big mistake'
Moscow - Russia's military chief has told the Czech Republic that hosting a US missile defence shield would be a ''big mistake'' and urged Prague to delay a decision until a new US president was elected. The Czech Republic is considering whether to accept a radar station that would form part of a US missile shield - a system designed to intercept and destroy missiles from “rogue states” but which Moscow sees as a threat to its security.
[they're pushing to delay any finalization in the knowledge that should a democrat be elected president the shield will be killed in Washington]
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22287077-38200,00.html
Russia to resume Cold War bomber flights
Russia will immediately resume long-range strategic bomber flights on a "permanent" basis, ending a 15-year suspension of the missions, President Vladimir Putin has said. Mr Putin said a halt in long-range bombers' flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia's security as other nations had continued such missions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/17/wputin217.xml
'Too late' to stop N Korea's bomb
The Australian, by Peter Alford Original Article Posted By: Photoonist - 10/4/2006 3:31:49 PM Post Reply Tokyo - While the rest of the world looks to Beijing to stop North Korea from exploding a nuclear bomb, a leading Chinese analyst says it is too late -- China cannot act without doing worse harm to its own interests. ''Basically, our country's work of persuasion with the (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) in the 12 years that the DPRK developed its nuclear program had been a failure,''
la dir post = no url...
Atomic Numbers
At 3,000 centrifuges, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran's nuclear program is "irreversible." Why do we pretend that the Islamofascists in Tehran do not mean what they say?
To become a European or United Nations diplomat is it required that you know nothing about 20th-century history?Hitler made his goals plain in "Mein Kampf" more than a decade before Neville Chamberlain deluded himself into thinking he was not bent on world domination.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=279331377204364
Italy Breaks Up European Terror Cell
MILAN, Italy - A Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, Italian police said Tuesday, announcing the arrests of 20 terror suspects. Police said the suspects, mostly Tunisians, were arrested across Europe as part of the sweep against a cell based in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.
[bumber stickers in Italy]
http://breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SO863O3&show_article=1&catnum=0
Terrorism: Jihad has failed, former Libyan Islamist tells al-Qaeda
Tripoli - A former leader of an armed Islamic group in Libya, Numan Bin Uthman, has written a letter to al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri telling him that Jihadi groups in Arab countries have failed. (Snip)
"I aks you to stop the armed operations in the Arab countries, to guarantee the security of Muslims and to retract your threats toward the West, to take away from them the terrorism card used by some Western governments to hate Islam and Muslims,"he said.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1524980329
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Judge upholds Arizona voting law requiring proof of citizenship
A federal judge ruled today that key parts of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote are constitutional and don't violate federal or state law.
U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver issued a summary judgment against nine of the plaintiffs' claims,
- including cornerstone c
- omplaints that the law known as
- Proposition 200 violates the National Voter Registration Act and constitutes a poll tax.
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