Saturday, November 10, 2007

China's Saber Rattling Continues: Ruh Roh

 
Ten months ago, China shot a satellite out of orbit for the first time. Now The Daily Mail reports:

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.

At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.

That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.

American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

According to senior NATO officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy... The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.

One NATO figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age... The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.

The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines... And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.

...Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its "backyard"... Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships... said the U.S. had paid relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War: "...It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan."

Update: Reliapundit points us to this Hot Air thread, which questions the date and significance of this incident.

Hat tip: Blue Crab Boulevard

Special Comment: Olbermann owes us an apology

 
Keith Olbermann owes this country an apology.

It will not be offered, of course.

He does not realize its necessity.

There are now none around him who would tell him or could.

An apology is this pundit's only hope of regaining the slightest measure of confidence from a clear majority of viewers.

Not confidence in his "special comments" nor his narrow focus on his vision of the president's singular evil nor even that of the man who has sent him into apoplexy, Bill O'Reilly.

In a larger sense, this pundit needs to regain our confidence, that he has some basic understanding of what defense of this country represents -- of what it must do if we are to defeat not only terrorists, but terrorist sympathizers disguised as journalists.

Because it is evident now that this pseudo-journalist intends to be a contractor for an extremist ideology that more closely resembles an oppressive statist form of government than a religion.

The so-called newsman revealed this last Friday -- and every weekday, it seems, as he fairly spits through his teeth, words of unrestrained fury directed at the man who occupies the highest office in the land. Without respect, without moral standards, and without the common sense God granted a sponge, this faux journalist preaches of a "lost freedom" for which he can point to not a single incident.

That the man who compared the U.S. military to terrorist murderers and who advertises the falsehood of moral equivalence with every breath, that this man still has a job despite his appalling ratings is testament to an MSNBC management team that couldn't organize a bake sale.

With increasing rage, he and this management team have repeatedly told us that America is a fascist country, their demented disagreements so completely at odds with every form of legitimate, rational opposition that they are unique in the annals of American journalism.

It now shows us a frightened little man who has decided that a commanders-in-chief may have the right to pop a cap into Osama bin Ladin -- but he may never, ever, ever wiretap the man should he call into the United States.

This is a frightening, and a dangerous, delusion, Mr. Demi-Journalist.

Between your misguided confidence in your infallibility -- despite never providing a day of service to your country nor ever possessing a scrap of classified intelligence -- and your rages better suited to a thwarted three-year old, you have left the unnerving sense of a newsman coming unglued in prime time - a chilling suspicion that perhaps we have not seen the peak of the anger; that we can no longer forecast what next will be said to, or about, anyone who disagrees.

There needs to be a delegation of responsible individuals -- from the U.S. military or intelligence communities -- who can sit you down and explain the reality of the situation in which we live.

There needs to be an apology to the President of the United States.

And more than one.

Apologize, sir, for even hinting that the American military -- the same military that protects your crumb-laden pie-hole -- is equivalent to those who would blow-torch prisoners, winch their skulls into shards, and shred children with ball bearings.

Anything else, "Mister" Olbermann, is truly unacceptable.

Lawyer-boarding

 
The one-of-a-kind Ramirez.

Project Valour-IT and the U.S. Marines' Birthday!

 
The United States Marines Corps celebrates its 232nd birthday today! Happy birthday, Marines!

Please visit the Project Valour-IT Veterans Day Fundraiser, which provides voice-activated laptop computers to injured and disabled veterans.

Among the blogs covering Project Valour-IT: A Blog for All, Blog o' Fascists, Blue Crab Boulevard, Hot Air, LGF, Michelle Malkin, Soldiers' Angels Network, and Velvet Hammer

Photo o' the Day: A beautiful couple

 
Natalie Portman visits --err-- with --uhmm-- sorry about that folks, lost my concentration for a moment -- some politician.

Line o' the Day: John O'Neill's ambush

 
Don Surber:

Democrats keep blaming their presidential losses on the stupidity of the American people. They’ve made “swift-boating” a verb, as if John O’Neill somehow ambushed John Kerry in 2004. The two first debated Kerry’s accusations of war crimes by all Vietnam vets in 1971. Helen Keller could have seen O’Neill coming.

News tidbits the mainstream media is too 'busy' to report

 
A reader of National Review sent Jonah Goldberg the following note:

Chuck Hagel, a GOP Senator with no real national following, gives a speech criticizing the administration's Iran policy and I see it on MSNBC and CNN. Joe Lieberman, the fomer Democratic nominee for VP, gives a speech going after the Democrats stand on national security and nothing... crickets.

I guess it's only good to have "Mavericks" in one of the political parties.

Oh, these naive youngsters make me chuckle. Remember, whippersnapper, there's no such thing as a "maverick Democrat."

So, what did Lieberman actually have to say? We have to go outside the country to find out. The Financial Times reports:

The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a "hyper-partisan, politically paranoid" liberal base that could endanger the final nominee's chances of winning next year's presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said yesterday.

He argued that... Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a "moral, internationalist, liberal and hawkish" foreign policy that was established by presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.

"The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders," he said... "[Today's Democrats] are inclined to see international problems as a result of America's engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force - the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in."

Hmmm. Odd that I didn't catch that speech in the newspaper.

Hillary's campaign admits to having planted a question during an Iowa town hall meeting and promises not to do so again:

The tape of the event shows that the question and answer went as follows:

Question: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming How does your plan combat climate change?

Clinton: "Well, you should be worried. You know, I find as I travel around Iowa that it's usually young people that ask me about global warming."

The campaign's admission that it planted the question may be another blow to the New York senator's image as a trustworthy politician... Clinton's critics have accused her of being a double-talker who refuses to answer tough questions specifically. Now her campaign has acknowledged planting at least one question... Already her rivals have begun to criticize Friday's revelation...

Seriously? A reporter wrote the phrase "trustworthy politician"? Put simply, this entire line of reasoning is patently unfair to Hillary. She doesn't mind tough questions, so long as they are carefully scripted ahead of time.

And how is Hillary's actual campaign going? Not well. Two New Hampshire polls are sowing panic and discord among Hillary's campaign staff. They show Hillary's lead is dropping faster than a sky-diving Michael Moore with a bad parachute:

Two new reputable polls of New Hampshire Democratic Primary voters will show statistically significant drops in support for frontrtunner Hillary Clinton, Democrats who have seen those polls said today.

The polls will be released this weekend and are embargoed; though I'm not privy to the embargo agreement, I'll be a little vague out of respect for the polling organizations... One of the polls shows that the gap between Clinton and Barack Obama narrowed by more than 10 points. Her biggest decline was seen among older voters...

Finally, there's a rumor swirling in the Hillary camp: Dick Cheney is a possible vice presidential running mate for Senator Clinton.

Okay, I just made that part up, but doesn't it seem a match made in heaven?

Mahmoud was checking out my blog

 
Okay, Tehran's a big place, so it probably wasn't Mahmoud. But this morning's visitor...

...happened to be viewing this post and -- specifically -- this image:

Hey, Mahmoud, be sure and come back over the infidel holidays to see the 2007 Turkey of the Year Awards. That is, if you don't end up in someone's 10-ring before then.

How about an energy bill with "energy" in it?

 
House Republicans are fighting to increase domestic oil and gas production. Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO):

We want an energy bill that has energy in it... Gasoline prices are an average 85¢/gal higher since the Democrats took control of Congress in January. Markets react to what they think Congress will do. Every proposal the Democrats put on the table reduces energy supplies instead of increasing them.

Joe Barton (R-TX), the Energy and Commerce Committee's ranking minority member, said yesterday that the energy bill which the House passed in August took 2 trillion barrels of shale oil off the table by rolling back EPACT provisions.

He also suggested that if Democrats really wanted to reduce oil prices, they would insert language to allow Alaska National Wildlife Refuge leasing and an inventory of US Outer Continental Shelf deposits.

If ANWR had gone on line 10 years ago, it would have been producing 3 million b/d by now. If an OCS inventory had been conducted and prospects drilled, that would have given us another 1 million or 2 million b/d, and oil prices wouldn't be approaching $100/bbl... If the Democrats want an energy bill, we'll help them. If they simply want higher prices to discourage consumption, they're already getting that.

Democrats appear to be living in some sort of dream world. U.S. oil consumption greatly exceeds domestic production. This gap will only increase, even as alternative sources of fuel (such as ethanol and other biofuels) come on-line.

Meanwhile, Cuba is permitting foreign countries to drill in the Gulf within 50 miles of Florida. That's right, countries such as China are already drilling -- without our permission -- within spitting-distance of the U.S. Do the Democrats care?

No. The Democrats have vowed to suppress oil exploration in the areas marked "No." That's "The No Zone", where promising reserves go untapped, even while China drains oil from the Gulf of Mexico.

Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)? To give you a sense of scale, if ANWR occupied the area of a football field, the requested exploration region is the size of a postage stamp. But, no - the Democrats oppose tapping a tiny scrap of land in ANWR. New refineries? Of course not. The Democrats oppose those, too.

Democrats say they want oil independence and instead force Americans to become more dependent upon foreign oil each and every day.

Preposterous? Ludicrous? Of course. It's just business as usual with the current Democratic leadership. Sometimes I think the only thing keeping the Earth aligned on its axis is the gyroscopic energy of FDR, Truman and JFK spinning in their graves.

Every time you visit the gas pump, I want you to remember your crack Democratic leadership team that prevents energy exploration here in the US.

Hat tips: Gateway Pundit and Larwyn

Friday, November 09, 2007

The photo the mainstream media can't ignore

 
This is the photo that captured the essence of sacrifice and victory in World War II.

Now the Iraq war, a controversial struggle to free millions from despotism, has its own Joe Rosenthal.

This incredible photo was taken by our generation's Ernie Pyle. The best journalist working in Iraq -- Michael Yon -- described this scene:

A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Infantry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope.

The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ” Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.” The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.

The reason this photo is rippling through the blogosphere at the speed of light is its resonance. It highights a stunning series of succesess spurred by Gen. David Petraeus' surge... while the mainstream media and Defeatocratic Party remain utterly silent.

Splash sums it up perfectly (hat tip: Libertas):

Hey, libs… Hear that sound? That’s history rolling on without you again.

The Iraqi people continue to express their thanks to Americans in hundreds of ways. To read a newspaper or visit a movie theater, though, you'd never know it.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Roy Spencer on Global Warming

 
Rush Limbaugh was fooled today by a slick, professional and plausible global warming scam. In effect, it was a false flag operation designed to perpetrate a hoax, thereby positioning Limbaugh as a gullible fraud.

James Lewis at the American Thinker:

The hoax looks very professional. A fraudulent scientific journal was created on the web, called the "Journal of Geoclimatic Studies."  The journal is fake, the article claiming to disprove the popular Global Warming meme is fake, the Editorial Board is fake, and the authors are faked.

The key to this fraud is its professionalism. All the visible features of the hoax are superficially possible. They do not stand up to deeper examination, but the hoaxers succeeded in fooling Rush for some minutes before he caught it.... We have previously warned about likely Black PR in the blogosphere. It is possible that others have been planted.  We will undoubtedly see other Black PR ops as the election season heats up.

First off, let's call 'em blog ops. Secondly, the positive side of this story was the link I discovered to Dr. Roy Spencer at WeatherQuestions.com.

...globally averaged temperatures are unusually warm today (at this writing, 2007). While a majority of climate researchers believe that this warmth is mostly (or completely) due to the activities of mankind, this is as much a statement of faith as it is of science. For in order to come to such a conclusion, we would need to know how much of the temperature increase we've seen since the 1800's is natural. So, let's examine current temperatures in their historical context. Over the last 100 years or so globally-averaged surface temperature trends have exhibited three distinct phases.

The warming up until 1940 represents the end of the multi-century cool period known as the "Little Ice Age", a particularly harsh period for humanity. This warming must have been natural because mankind had not yet emitted substantial amounts of greenhouse gases. Then, the slight cooling between 1940 and the 1970's occurred in spite of rapid increases in manmade greenhouse gas emissions. One theory is that this cooling is manmade -- from particulate pollution...

At least in the context of the last century or more, today's global temperatures are unusually warm. But when was the last time that the Earth was this warm?. You might have heard claims in the news that we are warmer now than anytime in the last 1,000 years. This claim is based upon the "Hockey Stick" temperature curve, which used temperature 'proxies', mostly tree rings, to reconstruct a multi-century temperature record. That "warmest in 1,000 years" claim lost much of its support, however, when a National Acadamy of Science review panel concluded in 2006 that the most that can be said with any confidence is that the Earth is warmer now than anytime in the last 400 years. Note that this is a good thing, since most of those 400 years occurred during the Little ice Age.

But it turns out we don't need to use "proxies" for temperature like tree ring measurements -- there are actual temperature 'measurements' that go back over 1,000 years. Borehole temperatures are taken deep in the ground, where the seasonal cycle in surface temperature sends an annual temperature pulse down into the Earth. Dating of these underground temperature pulses from Greenland, reveals much warmer temperatures 1,000 years ago than today.

...we see that substantial natural variations in temperature can, and do, occur -- which should be no surprise. So, is it possible that much of the warming we have seen since the 1970's is due to natural processes that we do not yet fully understand? I believe so. To believe that all of today's warmth can be blamed on manmade pollution is a statement of faith that assumes the role of natural variations in the climate system is small or nonexistent.

The fact is, science doesn't understand why these natural climate variations occur, and can not reliably distinguish between natural and possible human influences on global temperatures. So, if scientists have no other natural explanation for a warming trend, they tend to assume that it is manmade. And it is indeed possible to explain the temperature changes over the last 100 years by carefully tuning climate models with some estimated effects from volcanic eruptions, sunlight intensity variations, manmade aerosol emissions, and greenhouse gas increases. But this is simply one possible explanation -- one that ignores or minimizes any natural sources of temperature variability...

Climate modelers and researchers generally believe that an increase in the greenhouse effect from manmade greenhouse gases causes a warming effect that is similar to that from an increase in sunlight.

I believe that this is incorrect.

It is now reasonably certain that changes in solar radiation cause temperature changes on Earth. For instance, the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo caused a 2% to 4% reduction in sunlight, resulting in two years of below normal temperatures, especially over Northern Hemisphere land areas.

But the Earth's natural greenhouse effect (again, mostly from water vapor and clouds) is under the control of weather systems -- especially precipitation systems -- which are generated in response to solar heating. Either directly or indirectly, those precipitation systems determine the moisture (water vapor and cloud) characteristics for most of the rest of the atmosphere.

Read the whole thing and be sure to forward it to your liberal progressive friends.

Sorry, I keep doing that. I keep forgetting that the left is trying to escape its horrifically failed, liberal past through a careful rebranding effort. My sincere apologies to the liberals progressives.

Animator vs. Animation

 
A very cool, very creative Flash presentation by Alan Becker.

Check it out. Macromedia Flash fans will love it.

Job Counseling for Depressed Leftists

 
The numbers are in. Circulation at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, home of the incoherent Tom Teepen, is down 9%. The Washington Post, suffering from the infection known as Richard Cohen, is down 3 1/4%. And the New York Times, which hit the trifecta of addled leftists (Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, and Frank Rich), dropped 4 1/2%.

I hear Jiffy Lube is hiring.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Saudis at the Vatican

 
Reuters reports on a historic meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Vatican City:

Pope Benedict and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah held a historic meeting on Tuesday and discussed the situation of minority Christians in the Islamic country where the Vatican wants them to have more freedom.

...The Vatican wants greater rights for the 1 million Catholics who live in Saudi Arabia, most of them migrant workers who are not allowed to practice their religion in public... They are only allowed to worship in private places, usually homes, and cannot wear signs of their faith in public...

...Vatican officials often ask why church construction is banned in Saudi Arabia while Muslims can build mosques in Europe.

Why indeed.

Gateway Pundit has the best reaction to the gift of... a sword.

...The perfect gift for every Christian religious leader on your list... It's perfect for those hard to slice Vatican vegetables.

Amerikabomber: Manhattan in flames

 
Atlas links to Paul Belien, writing in the Washington Times:

Had Charles Martel not been victorious," Hitler told his inner crowd in August 1942, "then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world." Hitler told Mr. Speer that Islam is "perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament."

...During the Second World War, the Nazis worked on plans to build the "Amerikabomber," an airplane specially devised to fly suicide missions into Manhattan's skyscrapers.

Albert Speer, the Nazi minister for armaments, recalled in his diary: "It was almost as if [Hitler] was in a delirium when he described to us how New York would go up in flames. He imagined how the skyscrapers would turn into huge blazing torches. How they would crumble while the reflection of the flames would light the skyline against the dark sky." Hitler hated Manhattan. It was, he said, "the center of world Jewry." Less than 60 years later, Hitler's plans were executed by Muslim immigrants living in Germany. At the 2003 trial of the network around Mohamed Atta (the pilot who flew into the World Trade Center), Shahid Nickels, a German convert to Islam and a friend of Atta's, said that the Islamists had targeted Manhattan because it is "the center of world Jewry, and the world of finance and commerce controlled by it."

The parallels between Nazism and Islamism are overwhelming. Yet the subject is a taboo. When last March the German historian Matthias Kuentzel, author of "Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11," was to give a lecture at the University of Leeds (Britain), the university authorities cancelled the lecture after threats from Muslim students...

Charles Martel de Steuben is best remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, which has traditionally been characterized as an event that halted the Islamic expansionism in Europe that had conquered Iberia. "Charles's victory has often been regarded as decisive for world history, since it preserved western Europe from Muslim conquest."

Hat tip: Larwyn

US Navy shoots down two ICBMs simultaneously

 
The Honolulu Advertiser reports that a US Navy missile defense test was a smashing success:

The Missile Defense Agency and Navy for the first time shot down two simulated ballistic missile targets yesterday off Kaua'i as the U.S. military heads toward a 2009 goal for operational use.

...The shoot-down was conducted by the Pearl Harbor-based cruiser USS Lake Erie. At 6:12 p.m., a target missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands. Moments later, a second identical target was launched.

The Lake Erie's Aegis weapons system detected and tracked the targets. About two minutes later, Lake Erie's crew fired two SM-3 missiles, and two minutes after that, they successfully intercepted the targets outside the Earth's atmosphere more than 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean and 250 miles northwest of Kaua'i.

The Aegis system guided the SM-3 intercept missiles through its first, second and third stages. Each SM-3 carries a kinetic warhead that ejects from the third stage and crashes into the target missile. Yesterday's test was delayed by several hours when boaters strayed into the Pacific Missile Range Facility... The Missile Defense Agency and Navy are modifying 15 destroyers and three cruisers to have Aegis ballistic missile defense capabilities.

In 1983, Ted Kennedy ridiculed Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) programs, calling them "reckless Star Wars schemes."

The only similarity of missile defense to the sci-fi film is Kennedy's increasing resemblance to Jabba the Hut.

If I were Ted Kennedy (*** shudder ***), I would be getting pretty damn sick of being wrong.

Hillarylocks

 
Charlotte Observer's Kevin Siers

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

What can and must be done

 
On August 25, 2006, three unidentified males described as Middle Eastern entered the offices of a school bus sales and service company in Bergen, NY. The men were attempting to purchase school buses and requested access to buses the company had in inventory. They left the building after the request was refused and they then observed the bus service lot from a parked maroon sedan type vehicle with unidentified Ontario license plates for approximately 10 minutes.

On August 24, 2006, two males entered the Dorchester Bus Shop in Saint George, South Carolina and attempted to buy a school bus. They sped away after being referred to another school bus sales company in the area.

On July 27 and 28, 2006, an identified student transport contract company based in New Hampshire received two telephone calls from subjects in New Jersey who were attempting to purchase used school buses from the company. The callers, a male and female, identified themselves as representatives of a company that solicits import and export business that uses port facilities in the Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.

On May 19, 2006, two Saudi Arabian men boarded a bus full of students in Tampa, Florida speaking Arabic and remained on the bus for at least 30 minutes before officials removed them for questioning. They then gave conflicting reasons about why they had entered the bus... ("Two Saudi men - one wearing a black trench coat despite the Florida heat -- [terrified] a busload of Tampa schoolchildren by boarding a school bus and remaining for the entire ride to school, all the while laughing and speaking Arabic...")

One of the Canadians arrested on terrorism charges in June 2006, was a bus driver for a local high school. Nourddine Zendaoui, 40, was identified as a central suspect in a cell targeted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. They believe Mr. Zendaoui is a seasoned terrorist and explosives expert affiliated with the Algerian terrorist faction Salafist Group for Call and Combat, which is loyal to Osama bin Laden.

Four men described as Middle Eastern tried to buy a surplus ambulance, two former police cruisers and an old truck from St. Petersburg College this summer, prompting college employees to alert authorities, SPC administrators said Thursday... In response, the FBI interviewed college employees, expressed an interest in the men and installed surveillance devices in the vehicles in advance of a scheduled pickup, ...But the buyers, who made at least two previous trips to the campus, never showed up for the third and final meeting... College officials could not provide a description of the men other than they were about 40 and appeared to be Middle Eastern.

Federal law enforcement authorities notified school districts in six states that a computer disc found in Iraq contained photos, floor plans and other information about their schools, two U.S. officials said Thursday... The officials said last month FBI agents in charge of those areas alerted local education and law enforcement officials about the finding.

* * *

While Democrats attack non-lethal interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, the hidden war on terror in the United States continues. For purely political purposes -- and at great risk to the national security of the United States -- Democrats have pilloried Michael Mukasy, the nominee for Attorney General.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed was silent until exposed to a few minutes of highly uncomfortable but non-lethal waterboarding, after which he babbled like a teenage girl on the telephone. What he squealed to American personnel prompted the arrests of terrorist/murderers Majid Khan, Hambali, Rusman “Gun Gun” Gunawan, Yazid Sufaat, Jose Padilla, and Lyman Faris.

The infection of domestic terror continues to fester while Democrats pretend that Republicans -- but not those who wish to kill our children in a reprise of Beslan -- are the enemy.

References: US Department of Justice, St. Petersburg Times, Canada's National Post, USA Today,

Also see: American Thinker and Deroy Murdock's Questioning Interrogation

Terrorist Sympathizing Journalist of the Year Award

 
Ray Robison has named the clear winner of the prestigious -- and hotly contested -- Terrorist Sympathizing Journalist of the Year Award. I won't keep you in suspense any longer.

And the winner is:

Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald for her masterful "Terror suspects' beards are safe now."

Rosenberg exposes the terrifying scissors wielded by malevolent Gitmo captors who engage in, dare I say it, beard-trimming.

Oh, the humanity!