The names of over 31,000 American scientists that reject the theory of anthropogenic global warming are to be revealed on Monday.

Although this will occur at the National Press Club in Washington, DC., it seems a metaphysical certitude media will completely ignore the event.

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM's Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of "settled science" and an overwhelming "consensus" in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.

It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science - including 9,021 PhDs, are not "a few." Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not "skeptics."

With over 31,000 now on the list, all with degrees in science -- including 9,000 PhDs! -- what might this do to the nonsensical premise of there being a consensus concerning this issue?

Probably not much, because apart from conservative websites, talk radio hosts, and Fox News, nobody is going to report it.

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Dear friends,

Our soldiers are turning defeat and disaster into victory and hope. But we could still fumble—if the American people don’t hear the truth now. There remain serious perils in Iraq and this is a time for action.

Please help me get out the truth about what our soldiers are accomplishing in Iraq by helping to get 'Moment of Truth in Iraq' stocked in bookstores, and especially in free libraries and military exchanges.

Here's how: Please print out a copy of the handout to the left and give it to your local bookstore manager, librarian, or military exchange. (Or all three if you can!)

Click Here to download the PDF "Moment of Truth in Iraq" Handout

The handout will provide everything they need to order Moment of Truth in Iraq. But what will really motivate retailers and librarians is you, the customer, a member of their community, requesting they do this.

To make this appeal at least 10 times more effective, give a copy of the flyer to a friend or family member and ask him or her to do the same. Two people asking the same library or store to stock a book is at least ten times more effective than one person asking.


If we pull this off we can get the message about what our soldiers are achieving to millions of people!

Thank you for your help,

Michael

Mike Reagan published a great piece in NewsMax on The Haditha Marines, below are some excerpts from his article:

You'd hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government's case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do.

In a surprise development on the day Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum's court-martial was scheduled to begin, all charges against him were dropped without explanation.

Tatum, facing charges of reckless endangerment and aggravated assault that couldhave sent him to prison for 18 years, was the fifth Marine - and the second of three enlisted men - to be exonerated, leaving only one enlisted Marine still facing court-martial.

Tatum's exoneration should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the real facts in the case. During an ambush by insurgent forces in Haditha, 15 civilians and nine insurgents were killed by Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.

Full details of the incident on Nov. 19, 2005, were supplied in great detail to the entire command structure the very night of the engagement, and the incident was regarded for what it was - a tragic result of an enemy ambush. No further action was required or taken.

Months later, however, Time magazine published a story reporting that the Marines had gone on a rampage, wantonly killing innocent civilians to avenge the death of their fellow Marine killed in the IED explosion.

Using Time magazines fallacious account of the civilian deaths, Pennsylvania's Democratic Rep. John Murtha went on a rampage of his own, telling every media outlet that would listen that the Marines had committed "cold-blooded murder." He first claimed that his information came from a briefing from the Marine Corps commandant, but when that claim was disproved, he admitted that his source was Time magazine.

Murtha's charges were broadcast far and wide, and before any investigation of the incident could get underway, the media joined Murtha in finding the Marines guilty of a massacre.

In the ensuing media firestorm that broke out, many news reports here and abroad compared the Haditha deaths to the infamous My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

Neither Murtha nor the mainstream media bothered to check Time's sources: two known insurgent propagandists and insurgent-friendly Haditha residents living under the guns of insurgent killers who were the only authority in town.

Yet all this time, the media and Rep. Murtha continued to peddle the insurgent lie that a massacre had taken place in Haditha, even though all murder charges had long ago been dropped in favor of lesser charges.

There was a crime, but it was the media and Rep. Murtha who committed it against heroic Marines whose careers have been destroyed and some of whose families were bought to the edge of bankruptcy defending their sons.

Read the article in its entirety here: http://www.newsmax.com/reagan/haditha_marines/2008/04/03/85135.html

According to an article in World Net Daily:

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam?

The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as "L Soetoro Ma," worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army.

Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled also as a Muslim, according to documents in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta.

The Loatze blog notes:

"All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young 'Barry Soetoro' being a Muslim would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam."

Israel Insider online magazine notes that in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," he acknowledges studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."

"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies,"

wrote Obama.

The Indonesian media have been flooded with accounts of Obama's childhood Islamic studies, some describing him as a religious Muslim .

Speaking to the country's Kaltim Post, Tine Hahiyary, who was principal of Obama's school while he was enrolled there, said she recalls he studied the Quran in Arabic.

"I remember that he studied 'mengaji (recitation of the Quran),"

Tine said, according to an English translation by Loatze.

Also, Loatze documented the Indonesian daily Banjarmasin Post caught up with Rony Amir, an Obama classmate and Muslim, who describe Obama as "previously quite religious in Islam."

The Los Angeles Times, which sent a reporter to Jakarta, quoted Zulfin Adi, who identified himself as among Obama's closest childhood friends, stating the presidential candidate prayed in a mosque, something Obama's campaign claimed he never did.

Obama's official campaign site has a page titled "Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." The page states, "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ."

But the Tribune found Obama did attend mosque.

It quotes the presidential candidate's former neighbors and 3rd grade teacher recalling Obama "occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers."

In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."

The Times' Nicholos Kristof wrote Obama recited, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent," the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer.

A proposed law in Indiana would make it a requirement for parents to volunteer at their children's school.

If the state legislature passes House Bill 519, the bill would require all parents to volunteer 13 hours each school year, either in the lunchroom, chaperoning field trips, or wherever the district needs help.

Cleveland schools CEO Eugene Sanders said volunteerism is almost impossible to legislate.

"If there's a way to encourage it, create incentives, that's the better way. The difficulty is what are your options to address it if it doesn't occur? Your legal options are limited in that kind of setting,"

Sanders said.

The bill's incentive is a $100 fine for parents who don't fulfill the requirement.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Academy Principal Sam Vawters said he can always use more parent volunteers, but he doesn't think that's the way to do it.

Parent, Darlene Boyd, agrees:

"I wouldn't want anyone to be forced to come here. Either you want to be here or you don't."

According to the bill, if a parent doesn't fulfill the requirement and refuses to pay the fine, the money would be taken out of the parent's state tax refund.

Of course the bill is sponsored by a Democrat, Sandra Williams (D-Cleveland) from District 11.

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Dems Iraq Plan Not Supported by Most Americans, McCain Leads Obama/Clinton in Poll, World is NOT Running Out of Oil, Economy Expected to Avoid Recession in 2008

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For a party whose presidential candidates pledge they'll remove U.S. troops from Iraq immediately upon taking office without regard to conditions on the ground or the consequences to America's security a late February Gallup Poll was bad news. The Obama/Clinton vow to pull out of Iraq immediately appears to be the position of less than one-fifth of the voters.

Only 18% of those surveyed by Gallup agreed U.S. troops should be withdrawn "on a timetable as soon as possible." And only 20% felt the surge was making things worse in Iraq. Twice as many respondents felt the surge was making conditions better.

Nearly two out of every three Americans surveyed (65%) believe "the United States has an obligation to establish a reasonable level of stability and security in Iraq before withdrawing all of its troops." The reason is self-interest. Almost the same number of Americans (63%) believe al Qaeda "would be more likely to use Iraq as a base for its terrorist operations" if the U.S. withdraws.

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Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

The poll showed Arizona Sen. McCain, who has clinched the Republican presidential nomination, is benefiting from the lengthy campaign battle between Obama and Clinton, who are now battling to win Pennsylvania on April 22.

McCain leads 46 percent to 40 percent in a hypothetical matchup against Obama in the November presidential election, according to the poll.

That is a sharp turnaround from the Reuters/Zogby poll from last month, which showed in a head-to-head matchup that Obama would beat McCain 47 percent to 40 percent.

Matched up against Clinton, McCain leads 48 percent to 40 percent, narrower than his 50 to 38 percent advantage over her in February.

Among independents, McCain led for the first time in the poll, 46 percent to 36 percent over Obama.

He was behind McCain by 21 percent among white voters.

For the matchup between McCain and his Democratic rivals, 1004 likely voters were surveyed. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

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The U.S. economy will likely avoid a recession but growth will slow to a crawl during the first half of this year, a panel of business economists forecast on Monday.

Among the panel of 49 National Association for Business Economics economists surveyed between January 25 and February 13, about 45 percent said they believe a recession will have occurred by the end of this year. But most believe it will be short and shallow.

The remaining 55 percent said a downturn will be relatively muted.

"While a slight majority of our panel of our forecasters expects the economy to avoid a recession in 2008, growth is expected to average just 0.75 percent before accelerating in the second half in response to fiscal and monetary stimulus,"

said Hughes-Cromwick.

The economists say that the stimulus package, signed into law earlier this month, with tax breaks for businesses and tax rebates worth up to $600 per individual and $1,200 per couple, could boost economic growth in the second half to a 2.8 percent annual rate.

That would bring growth for the year to 1.8 percent, still down significantly from the 2.6 percent growth projected in the prior survey taken in November.

About 40 percent of those surveyed said the fiscal stimulus package will help ward off a recession. Another 30 percent believe it will keep any recession short and mild and the remaining 30 percent polled believe the package will either have a negligible impact, is unnecessary, or is coming too late.

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According to an article in the The Times of London, leading oil industry experts say, human factors, not geology, will drive the oil market.

A landmark study of more than 800 oilfields by Cambridge Energy Research
Associates (Cera) has concluded that rates of decline are only 4.5 per cent
a year, almost half the rate previously believed, leading the consultancy to
conclude that oil output will continue to rise over the next decade.

Peter Jackson, the report's author, said:

"We will be able to grow supply to well over 100million barrels per day by 2017."

Current world oil output is in the region of 85million barrels a day.

The optimistic view of the world's oil resource was also given support by
BP's chief economist, Peter Davies, who dismissed theories of "Peak Oil" as
fallacious. Instead, he gave warning that world oil production would peak as
demand weakened, because of political constraints, including taxation and
government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaking to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil, Mr Davies said
that peaks in world production had been wrongly predicted throughout history
but he agreed that oil might peak within a generation "as a result of a
peaking of demand rather than supply".

He said it was inconceivable that oil consumption would be unaffected by
government policies to reduce carbon emissions. "There is a distinct
possibilty that global oil consumption could peak as a result of such
climate policies," Mr Davies said.

Cera analysed the output of 811 oilfields, which produce 19 billion barrels
a year, out of total world output of 32 billion.

Cera reckons that oil output, including unconventional oil, such as tar
sands, could allow oil to peak at much higher levels of as much as 112
million barrels per day, with average rates of more than 100million bpd.

The Cera analysis targeted oilfields producing more than 10,000 barrels a
day of conventional oil and concluded that overall output was declining at a
rate of 4.5 per cent a year and that field decline rates were not
increasing.

This is much lower than the 7 to 8percent average rate that is generally
assumed in the industry. Typically, Peak Oil theorists believe that the
output of oil reserves can be plotted on a graph as a bell curve, rising to
a peak and then falling rapidly.

The race for the Republican nomination for president is finally over, as Arizona Sen. John McCain secured enough delegates to win the top spot on the ticket.

"The contest begins tonight," McCain said in his victory speech, referring to the upcoming battle against a still-to-be determined Democratic opponent.

"I want to thank all of you here and all the Republicans, independents and independent-thinking Democrats, in all parts of the country, who supported our campaign for the nomination and have brought us across the finish line first, an accomplishment that once seemed to more than a few doubters unlikely."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who had refused to suspend his campaign, finally called it quits and phoned McCain to inform him of his decision.

"I extended to him not only my congratulations, but my commitment to him and to the party to do everything possible to unite our party, but more importantly to unite our country, so that we can be the best nation we can be – not for ourselves, but for the future generations to whom we owe everything, just as we owe previous generations all that they have done for us," Huckabee said.

McCain noted in his speech:

"Now we begin the most important part of our campaign: to make a respectful, determined and convincing case to the American people that our campaign and my election as president, given the alternatives presented by our friends in the other party, are in the best interests of the country we love. ... Our campaign must be, and will be, more than another tired debate of false promises, empty sound bites or useless arguments from the past that address not a single American's concerns for their family's security."

McCain, 71, gained the 1,191 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination with a series of primary victories. President Bush has invited him to the White House tomorrow for a show of support.

Recently Angelina Jolie wrote an article that was published in the opinion section of the Wahington Post entilted "Staying To Help Iraq".
In the article Jolie stated,

"What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made."

She goes on to say that we should step up our financial and material assistance.

The progress that she refers to is the progress made by the "surge" that has been effective in recent months in reducing our military losses and increasing security overall in Iraq. She met with Gen. David Petraeus and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. She even talked with American troops. Jolie feels that our recent success in Iraq has paved the way for increased humanitarian assistance and has asked for more money and effort in that area.

"As for the question of whether the surge is working, I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to scale up their programs"

, reported Jolie.

Jolie is not only an actress but is a humanitarian activist and a United Nations good will ambassador. She works with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Her article is about the Iraqi refugees still in Iraq and those that fled the country. It is her opinion that we have now reached a point in Iraq where humanitarian assistance can be effective.

Refreshing: Someone from HollyWeird that makes some sense.

HE PLANS TO DISARM AMERICA !

A premature withdrawal from Iraq, giving al Qaeda a huge victory and giving terrorists a base from which to attack America, Europe, and Israel. An end to developing a missile defense system to protect us from missile attack, and "deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal." Cutting billions of dollars in programs needed to modernize our Army so it remains the most powerful force on earth.

This is Senator Barack Obama's plan for a national "defense" in his own words:



We've seen drastic reductions in our military capabilities from liberal administrations before, with disastrous results. In 1996, defense spending in America was fully 40% lower than in 1985 under Ronald Reagan. These cuts led to a loss of air and sea lift capability, reduced research and development in new technologies, and the delay or cancellation of critical modernization programs. As a result, when America was attacked in 2001, former Reagan Administration Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that defense cuts had been so severe that our capability to fight the War on Terror had been greatly diminished. We are still paying the price for that "holiday from history."

At a time when we face increasingly hostile rogue nations like Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, which are actively seeking or supporting those who seek nuclear weapons to threaten the United States and its allies, it makes no sense to pursue a policy of disarmament. We must maintain a strong nuclear deterrent, including a robust arsenal and defense shield, and modernize our military to protect America.

One year ago, the main stream news media depicted the "Surge" in Iraq as a certain failure.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews said on January 10, 2007:

"A lot of people are going to go to bed tonight terrified,"

NBC's Jim Miklaszewski said on the January 8, 2007 Nightly News:

"Many experts warn, it's too little, too late,"

The next morning on NBC's Today, the network's graphic describing Iraq was:

"Lost Cause?"

NBC's Tim Russert hinted that the main stream news media was not interested in covering a successful U.S. mission in Iraq, telling anchor Brian Williams:

"with the surge in Iraq and the level of American deaths declining, it is off the front pages."

Is a lack of successful "Surge" coverage a huge favor to the Democrats ? After all, the lack of coverage of the success leaves the Democrats with not having to explain their opposition to the successful "Surge".

One has to wonder if the "Surge" was not successful, would John McCain have been given a pass by the main stream news media or would he have been deluged with criticism for his support of the "Surge"?

I think most know the answer to that question.

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On Today's Show:

Are the Polar Icecaps melting because of Global Warming ? :

Not according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back.

Dem Candidates Planning October Surprise ?:

Right in the middle of the hottest presidential primary in decades, both Obama and Hillary are sending their foreign policy honchos to Damascus. These advisors are people who have a chance of running US foreign policy in the next administration.

Marines Not Welcome in Liberal Land :

As you have probably heard by now the Berkely City Council passed a resolution condemning the recruiting actions of the US Marines Corp on January 29. The resolution further stated that the Marines were not welcome in Berkeley.

The "Surge" A Year Later :

The U.S. led forces have successfully tamped down violence, and the Pentagon has forged critical pacts with Sunni fighters against al-Qaida in Iraq.
After a sharp initial spike in military and civilian casualties, the numbers make a strong case that the surge generally accomplished its main goal.

Al Qaeda on its Way Out in Iraq :

Al-Qaeda is finally admitting what the Main Stream Media and the Democrats cannot and won't: al-Qaeda is on its way out in Iraq and victory is getting closer by the day.

Are the Polar Icecaps melting because of Global Warming ? Not according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.

A Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express stated that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming alarmists and supporting arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception - Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.

Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.

Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.

An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.

In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.

Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.

Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.

More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.

This just in from The American Thinker:

Get this:

Right in the middle of the hottest presidential primary in decades, both Obama and Hillary are sending their foreign policy honchos to Damascus. These advisors are people who have a chance of running US foreign policy in the next administration.

What are they doing in Damascus? Not having a Christian conversion experience, for sure. Damascus is a world sanctuary for Islamic terrorists. One of them, Imad Mughniyeh, was just assassinated there. He ran Hezbollah's secret operations from Damascus.

Damascus has also been the transit point for thousands of jihadis going to Iraq to commit suicide-murders against Americans and Iraqis. If you want to talk to Al Qaida and the gang, Damascus is your place. Syria's President Assad is also Iran's best buddy in the Arab world. (Iran is the State Department's biggest terror-sponsoring state.) So Assad is the go-to guy for all the terror sponsors.

The New York Sun writes:

"The same week that a terrorist mastermind harbored by the Baathist regime in Damascus was assassinated by a car bomb, both one of Mr. Obama's foreign policy counselors, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a long-time critic of Israel, and one of Mrs. Clinton's national finance chairs, Hassan Nemazee, were meeting with President Assad."

If you're too young to remember the name Zbigniew Brzezinski, he is Jimmy Carter foreign policy genius, on whose watch the Iranian mullahs got into thirty years of power -- with a nuke coming right up. Brzezinski still thinks today that he and Jimmy were right to bring in old mass-murdering Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. These people are never wrong. Would you trust this guy to represent the United States against Islamofascist terror types?

It's obvious that Hillabama desperately need to send a can't-wait message to the people who attacked us on 9/11. So urgent that they can't even wait for the Democrats to declare a presidential candidate, or to defeat John McCain. This must be a message Hillary and Obama are coordinating with each other, since they are sending both of their foreign policy advisors at the same time to the same place.

Question: What message would that be?

Here's a fair guess. They are telling Terror Central to hold any plans to attack us during the presidential election. Why? Because another 9/11 attack before the election would give the presidency to John McCain, who looks like a hard-ball guy militarily.

It's the reverse of the October Surprise Theory: Call it the October Surrender Theory. The Terror Masters have huge leverage with the Democrats, because they can keep Obama or Hillary out of the White House. You can bet that they know it. They are using that leverage today.

To get the terrorists to cooperate, the Dems would have to be making promises. What are they? That's easy. The Democrats have been telling us in the Op-Ed pages for years.

First. Give up US cooperation with Israel. (See Jimmy Carter's latest book.) The aim is a US-imposed "peace treaty" -- which would be very fine if Hamas and the gang could be trusted to follow a peace treaty. But as Yasser Arafat made so clear when Israel offered him 90% of the West Bank, a peace with Israel is not what they want. Arafat told Bill Clinton at Camp David that he would be assassinated if he signed a peace treaty with Israel. If anything, Palestinian politics today is even more radical today than it was then.

Remember, this is the fantasy life of the Left. Facts don't count.

Read More at The American Thinker.

"This is an OUTRAGE! When did the city of Berkeley become an independent nation ? When did it legally seperate from the United States ? If terrorists were to attack Berkeley, you can bet your a** that they would be screaming for the Marines to come to their rescue. It just goes to show what kind of morons these liberals really are." J.R.

As you have probably heard by now the Berkely City Council passed a resolution condemning the recruiting actions of the US Marines Corp on January 29 of last year. The resolution further stated that the Marines were not welcome in Berkeley.

"The people of Berkeley should want the Marine Corps present near Berkeley High School, Berkeley City College, and University of California no more than they would want other violent influences downtown," read the resolution.

The resolution also encouraged citizens to disrupt Marine recruiting efforts:

"The Council of the City of Berkeley encourages all people to avoid cooperation with the Marine Corps recruiting station, and applaud residents and organizations such as Code Pink, that may volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by non-violent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley."

In response to a letter by the city council of Berkeley, Calif., telling Marine Corps recruiters they are not welcome in the city, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said:

"Well if they said that, I am disappointed. The Marine Corps should be welcome in any place in the United States."

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(Republicans have accused Reid of rearranging the Senate schedule to prevent a vote on the Semper Fi Act, according to The Hill newspaper.)


Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he is demanding an apology from the city council stating:

"I would be satisfied with an apology but nothing short of that," said Cornyn. "Everything I have seen indicates they have felt the sting of public opinion, but they have not understood the depth of outrage at what they have done."

Earlier this week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) introduced in the Senate the Semper Fi Act of 2008, which would reprimand the Berkley City Council and strip the city of $2 million in earmark spending allotted in the omnibus spending bill passed at the end of 2007.

Cornyn was asked if he thought it was the role of the Senate to reprimand city councils, he said:

"When it comes to spending federal tax dollars, sending them to localities like the city of Berkeley is our responsibility," he said. "As far as I am concerned, we should make sure not one red cent of tax dollars goes to support Berkeley, particularly in any way that would indicate approval of this outrage."

When asked if he thought this would be punishing citizens who had no part in the council's decision, he said:

"Well, all the folks in Berkeley elected their local representatives. I suggest they take this up with them."

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Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)weighed in also:

"I think that action was reprehensible," he said. "I don't like what they did. But, there again, I am not going to try and tell the local government in Berkeley what they should or shouldn't be doing. But we obviously have opinions, and we can all voice those opinions. So if there is something that voices our opinions, sure."

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Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and John McCain (R-AZ) were the big winners in the "Potomac Primary," sweeping MD, VA and Washington, D.C. and winning by enormous margins over their opponents.

Obama won MD with 60 percent of the vote to 36 percent for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and McCain bested Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) 55 percent to 30 percent.

Obama got 64 percent of the VA vote to Hillary's 35 percent; McCain won by a narrower - but still respectable - nine percent margin over Huckabee (50 percent to 41 percent).

And in Washington, D.C., Obama and McCain each won by a crushing 51 points (75 percent to 24 percent for Obama, and 68 percent to 17 percent for McCain).

Preliminary exit polls show that in VA and MD, Obama got 90 percent of the black vote, but split the white vote with Hillary, and that he won nearly 6 out of 10 of the women's vote in both states. In VA Obama got 80 percent of under-30, as well as 53 percent of the 65+ vote; and for the first time, voters making less than $50,000 a year chose him over Hillary 59 percent to 40 percent.

Unless Huckabee packs it in after tonight and there's no reason he shouldn't keep going until March 4th, as he's expected to do well in TX - McCain still has to fight for the conservative vote in the WI primary on February 19th and in OH, RI, TX and VT but this trio of wins may create a bandwagon effect.

Early exit polling in VA show that Huckabee got two-thirds of white evangelicals and those who self-identify as "very conservative." While McCain edged Huckabee out amongst voters who call themselves "somewhat" conservative, he won moderates by a 2:1 margin. Unlike other contests where McCain got strong support from independents, this time he split these votes with Huckabee 38 percent to 35 percent, with 20 percent voting for Ron Paul (R-TX).

In its exit polling Fox News found that 62 percent of Republican voters in VA said they "frequently" listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and other conservative talk show hosts all of whom have been attacking McCain for not being conservative enough and these voters supported Huckabee over McCain by a 10-oint margin (48 percent to 38 percent). Limbaugh, for instance, has also been attacking Huckabee as a phony conservative (Paul is so far out of the Republican mainstream Limbaugh doesn't waste air time on him), so these voters are voting against McCain rather than for Huckabee or Paul.

Exit polls in MD found Republicans split down the middle over whether McCain is a "true conservative," but those who cited terrorism as the most important issue facing the U.S. country picked McCain by 34 points over Huckabee (64 percent to 27 percent), and those who voted their pocketbooks gave McCain a 20 percent margin over his rival.

According to CNN, Obama now has a slim lead over Hillary in the delegate count (1,215 to 1,190) and McCain has roughly four times as many delegates as Huckabee (812 to 217).

Iraqi commandos rescue an 11-year-old Iraqi boy Jan. 29 near Baghdad.

Three days earlier, the youth had been taken for ransom by al-Qaeda agents. The kidnappers had demanded $100,000, then $80,000, from the boy's parents to secure his release. The kidnappers had threatened to behead the youth if they weren't paid. The boy's father, a mechanic, couldn't afford to pay the kidnappers.

The al-Qaeda kidnapping cell is linked to 26 previous abductions.

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A year ago in Baghdad: Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. Iraq's government was adrift, and U.S. commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war.

"The surge" was launched Feb. 14, 2007, with the 82nd Airborne as the vanguard of an American troop buildup that would climb to 30,000 extra U.S. soldiers.

A year later Iraq looks very different.

The "surge" in Baghdad and surrounding areas was seen as a last ditch effort to salvage the American mission in Iraq.

The U.S. led forces have successfully tamped down violence, and the Pentagon has forged critical pacts with Sunni fighters against al-Qaida in Iraq.

After a sharp initial spike in military and civilian casualties, the numbers make a strong case that the surge generally accomplished its main goal.

Before February 2007 was out, 1,801 Iraqis and 81 U.S. soldiers would die. By contrast, January 2008 saw figures of 609 and 39, respectively.

Anbar province, which stretches to the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Syrian borders west of Baghdad, fell virtually silent. It had been the heart of the Sunni insurgency and a bastion for al-Qaida in Iraq.

Sunni tribal leaders who had been fighting the Americans, began in late 2006 to turn on al-Qaida, fed up with the terrorist organization's brutality and austere brand of Islam.

U.S. forces exploited the shift sponsoring similar movements in Baghdad and regions to the north and south. An estimated 80,000 members of the so-called Awakening Councils or Concerned Local Citizens are now fighting with and not against U.S. and Iraqi forces.

The first half of the surge year saw enough casualties to make 2007 the deadliest for American troops, with 126 killed in May alone, along with 2,155 Iraqis. In all, at least 831 Americans have died in 12 months of the surge.

The sharply lower figures for the second half of 2007 have only returned the pace of U.S. losses to what they were in late 2003 and early 2004. The Iraqi death toll is back down to where it was at the close of 2005.

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Al-Qaeda is finally admitting what the Main Stream Media and the Democrats cannot and won't: al-Qaeda is on its way out in Iraq and victory is getting closer by the day. In their own words:

Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an "extraordinary crisis". Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military "created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight". The terrorist group's security structure suffered "total collapse".

These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province once the group's stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39 page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.

The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that is almost as startling.

That second document is a bitter 16 page testament written last October by a local al-Qaeda leader near Balad, north of Baghdad.

"I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector,"

the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20.

"We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers," he says. "Those people were nothing but hypocrites, liars and traitors and were waiting for the right moment to switch sides with whoever pays them most."

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You have to absolutely love this video "it says it all" !

J.R.

Latest Exit Poll Results

Highlights from results of exit polling in the Super Tuesday primary states:

RACE AND GENDER

In the Republican races, John McCain won among both men and women.


CONSERVATIVES AND MODERATES


John McCain won a majority of the votes of Republicans who called themselves moderates, while Romney won just 38 percent of the votes of Republicans who call themselves conservatives. McCain won 39 percent of self-described Republicans, compared to 34 percent for Romney. Huckabee got the votes of 21 percent of Republicans and 24 percent of conservatives, enough to keep Romney from winning in a number of states. McCain won in California, Illinois and Missouri, states where he won among moderates but conservatives splintered between Romney and Huckabee, giving McCain the overall win. McCain won in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, all states where moderate and liberal Republicans made up well over 40 percent of the voters. McCain even had a problem with conservatives in his home state of Arizona, where he only managed to tie Romney among the two-thirds of voters there who called themselves conservatives. But his strong support among moderates, liberals and independents there gave him the win. Romney won in Utah and in his home state of Massachusetts, both states where Huckabee gained relatively few votes.


KEEPING THE FAITH


White, born again, evangelical Christians voted mostly for Huckabee, who got 38 percent of their vote. Thirty percent voted for McCain, while just 27 percent voted for Romney. Huckabee won in Alabama, Tennessee and his home state of Arkansas, states where two-thirds of the voters were born-again Christians. Evangelicals have been Huckabee's base, and they also helped him win in Georgia, his standing bolstered by the six in 10 Republican voters there who were evangelicals. But in California, Romney, McCain and Huckabee ran about even among evangelicals.


ECONOMIC WORRIES


Voters in both parties most frequently picked the economy as the most important issue facing the country. Given three choices, 48 percent of Democratic primary voters picked the economy, 29 percent said the war in Iraq and 19 percent said health care. Clinton won over half of those voters most concerned about the economy and health care, while Obama won a majority of those voters most concerned about Iraq.


Republican primary voters had four choices for that question and 39 percent picked the economy; 23 percent picked immigration, 19 percent picked the war in Iraq and 15 percent said terrorism. McCain won with 42 percent of those Republicans who cared most about the economy, 40 percent of those concerned about terrorism and 19 percent of those concerned about the war in Iraq. Romney won with 44 percent of those Republicans who cared most about immigration, a key issue that helped him compete in California, where the issue was nearly as important as the economy, but it wasn't enough to get him the win.


Republicans had a far rosier view of the economy's condition, although few called it excellent; 36 percent said it was good. Romney had an advantage among voters who felt the economy was in good condition, while McCain was favored by those who felt negatively about the economy. Among Democratic primary voters, just 9 percent called the economy excellent or good; 51 percent called it not so good and 40 percent labeled it poor. Obama won narrowly among those few Democrats who called the economy excellent or good, while Clinton won among those who felt the economy was in poor condition.


CANDIDATE QUALITIES

On the Republican side, Romney won among the 45 percent of Republicans who favored a candidate who shares their values, while McCain won among voters who favored a candidate with experience and who says what he believes. McCain also won 68 percent of the vote of those few Republicans who said they were mostly looking for a candidate who can win in November.



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