Archive for June, 2009
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Will our Antique Media learn from this? Good news: NEW YORK, June 20 — A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban and held for the past seven months in the mountainous region near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border escaped, along with a Afghan reporter, by climbing over a wall and finding a nearby [...]
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Unfortunately, I do not think so. Nor does another: President Obama has poured billions of tax dollars into a government take-over of the Auto Industry. Fair Enough. He is pushing through a Socialist agenda for a national healthcare system, which will effectively strip us of our options with regard to our medical care, while simultaneously [...]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
*Sigh* Chasing Christians out of town in America.
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Victor Davis Hanson: One can sympathize with worry not to undermine the resistance by being tied to it, or being concerned about nuclear weapons, or trying to figure the odds of who will win, but all that said, it’s starting to get a little shameful for the professed humanitarian Obama to be seen so nakedly [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
From the Asian Times here and here.
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
If Michael Totten vouches for it: A friend who analyzes Iran for a living recommends a new Web site called Where is My Vote? as an indispensable source of information coming out of Iran. Everyone involved with it is Iranian. Some of the contributors are inside. According to my source, who knows his chops, it’s [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
From iran09: iran09RT: @RonGunzburger: #GR88! quote by an #IranElection p: “I realize now i do not fear death. I fear my daughter will not be free when i die.” 1 minute ago from TwitterFox What an awesome thought. While many Americans shamefully take their freedoms for granted.
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
This is depressing. “These policymakers continue to watch the situation closely and do not rule out helping the state if its condition significantly deteriorates, a senior administration official said. But in that case, federal help would carry conditions to protect taxpayers and make similar requests for aid unattractive to other states, the official said. The [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
From Jim Sciutto of ABC News: jimsciuttoABC#iranelection Govt announces it will recount vote less than 5 seconds ago from web Stunning indeed, and Scuitto asks via Twitter: #iranelection A potentially stunning turnaround but will govt say recount finds Mousavi won or just lost by smaller margin? UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt on the “partial recount” hooey.
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