Hezbollah Seeks to Overthrow Lebanese Government

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah will take to the streets next week to try to topple the government, political sources said on Friday, in a move that would stoke tension in a country already reeling after the assassination of a minister.

A political crisis has been brewing for weeks with the pro-Syrian Hezbollah demanding more say in a government dominated by ministers from an anti-Damascus coalition.

The anti-Syrian camp's rejection of that demand means Hezbollah will now work to bring down Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's 16-month-old government. Siniora's allies say Hezbollah's real aims are to block an international court into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri

http://today.reuters.com

This is the developing BIG story in the Middle East..........Hezbollah must not gain control of this country...at all costs!

New Savage Twist to Violence in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 24, 2006 (AP)— Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said.

The fiery slayings in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Hurriyah were a dramatic escalation of the brutality coursing through the Iraqi capital, coming a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2677808&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

**The peaceful religion of Islam never ceases to live up to it's billing!

Israel Demands Total Palestinian Truce or No Cease Fire

JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip Nov 24, 2006 (AP)— The Palestinian prime minister said Friday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.

Similar proposals in the past have failed to curb fighting, and a spokesman for the ruling Hamas group quickly stepped back from the cease-fire talk...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2677481&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

**It's interesting that Israel's enemies only discuss cease-fires after they have gotten their butt's kicked.....Stick to your guns on this one Israel!

Uzbekistan Accused of Conducting War On Islam

Nov. 23, 2006— Uzbekistan's strategic alliance with the United States — forged soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks — is unraveling, officials said, due the the government's failure to reform and stop the ongoing persecution of its Islamic citizens.

The Central Asian country, which borders Afghanistan, was once deemed an important potential partner by Presidents Clinton and Bush, and a U.S. airbase in the south of the country became a jumping off point for American troops attacking the Taliban inside Afghanistan.

But that relationship changed irrevocably last May, when Uzbekistan's government forces were accused of massacring several hundred civilians in the city of Andijan, and human rights organizations cried foul.

In August, a well-respected Islamic cleric who often criticized the Uzbek authorities was shot to death as he passed through a police checkpoint. Uzbekistan's government-controlled media described the killing of Muhmmadrafik Kamilov as "the elimination of a suspected militant,"

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2675729&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

**If fighting and killing Islamo-Fascists is called 'War on Islam' so be it.......Sooner or later people will finally get it that this war is about kill or be killed!!

Ethically Challenged Hastings Says He's `Completely Competent' to Chair House Committee

WASHINGTON - Vilified by editorials across the country, an embattled Rep. Alcee Hastings on Wednesday hotly defended his potential chairmanship of the House intelligence committee, saying in a five-page letter that it's a position he's "completely competent" to hold.

The impassioned defense came as Hastings' possible elevation to chair the committee has created a political firestorm and an early test for House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, who's said to favor Hastings for the post.

Though acquitted by a federal jury of bribery charges in 1983, Hastings was impeached by the House of Representatives five years later and removed from the federal bench in 1989 by the Senate.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16078177.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_nation

**The myopia and amnesia this guy displays should disqualify him alone........Alcee, go away... you're a disgrace!

Rancher Seeking to Clear His Land of Illegals Loses in Court

For years, Roger Barnett has holstered a pistol to his hip, tucked an assault rifle in his truck and set out over the scrub brush on his thousands of acres of ranchland near the Mexican border in southeastern Arizona to hunt.

Hunt illegal immigrants, that is, often chronicled in the news.

“They’re flooding across, invading the place,” Mr. Barnett told the ABC program “Nightline” this spring. “They’re going to bring their families, their wives, and they’re going to bring their kids. We don’t need them.”

But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr. Barnett finds himself the prey.

Immigrant rights groups have filed lawsuits, accusing him of harassing and unlawfully imprisoning people he has confronted on his ranch near Douglas. One suit pending in federal court accuses him, his wife and his brother of pointing guns at 16 illegal immigrants they intercepted, threatening them with dogs and kicking one woman in the group.

Another suit, accusing Mr. Barnett of threatening two Mexican-American hunters and three young children with an assault rifle and insulting them with racial epithets, ended Wednesday night in Bisbee with a jury awarding the hunters $98,750 in damages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/us/24border.html?th&emc=th

**What is it with the US/Mexico border??....Here's a guy protecting his property and he's being vilified!...Republicans better heed the call of voters to CLOSE THE BORDER...or they just may find themselves in the minority for quite some time......C-L-O-S-E it! Terrorists, remember??

World War I Veteran, 111, Dies One Week After Receiving Victory Medal

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - Ernest Charles Pusey, one of the nation's longest living World War I veterans, died a little over a week after he was honored with a medal for his service to the country, family members said. He was 111.

Pusey's death Sunday left fewer than 25 living U.S. veterans of World War I out of nearly 5 million who served, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

"I was deeply saddened to learn that Mr. Pusey had passed away. It was my privilege to meet with him," Gov. Jeb Bush said in a news release. "We should not forget him, and other veterans, who sacrificed so much for this country."

The governor had presented Pusey with a World War I Victory Medal on Nov. 10, the day before Veteran's Day. Pusey didn't recall receiving a medal after the war, and nobody could find any evidence that he had.

During the ceremony at Pusey's trailer, the veteran talked to Bush about his time on the USS Wyoming during the war, and "stopping at different cities out there."

A black-and-white photo of the battleship hung on the wall of his trailer near a framed letter of congratulations from President Bush, and the president's brother added the glass-encased medal to a table near Pusey's recliner.

Pusey was born in 1895 in Washington. He joined the Navy in 1917 and spent much of the war patrolling the sea lanes around the British Isles.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/nov/23/112307822.html

**God Bless America's Veterans!.....Take a moment and 'give thanks' for the sacrifice the men and women of our Armed Forces have made throughout the ages! Our freedom is their gift......

Muslim Clerics Oppose Pakistan's "Protection of Women" Anti-Rape Bill

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Senate overcame opposition from hardline Muslim lawmakers and amended its rape law on Thursday to make it easier to prosecute sexual assault cases.

Human rights activists have long condemned the rape law for punishing — instead of protecting — rape victims while providing legal safeguards for their attackers. The legislation, known as the Protection of Women Bill, comes amid efforts by Islamabad to soften the country's hard-line Islamic image and appease moderates and human rights groups who opposed the law.

The amended law would drop the death penalty for people found to have had sex outside of marriage, though they still would be subject to a five-year prison term or $165 fine.

Judges also will be able to choose whether to try a rape case in a criminal court or Islamic court which should make it easier convict rapists.

Under the current Hudood Ordinance, rape victims could only raise a case in the Islamic court. It requires testimony from four witnesses, making a trial of an alleged rapist almost impossible

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/latestNews/0,4855,81,00.html

**We will continue to document in this space, the many stories of hypocrisy found throughout the Religion of Islam....The story above illustrates Islam's view of woman as chattle!

Norway Courageously Expels Founder of Terror Group Back to Iraq

OSLO, Norway — A court Wednesday rejected an appeal by the founder of Ansar al-Islam, an Islamic terror group in Iraq, and upheld a government order to expel him from Norway as a threat to national security.

The Kurdish leader Mullah Krekar, a refugee in Norway since 1991, challenged the order to strip him of his refugee status and deport him to Iraq.

In its ruling, the Borgarting appeals court in Oslo rejected his appeal, found that the government has the right to expel him, and ordered Krekar to pay $44,960 in legal costs.

Krekar's lawyer, Arvid Sjoedin, said he would review the ruling before deciding whether to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The latest decision upholds a September 2005 ruling by the Oslo City Court that also said the government's grounds for expelling Krekar as a security risk were valid.

The appeals court said it was unlikely that Krekar could be expelled immediately, "because conditions in Iraq are currently such that he cannot be returned due to Norway's international obligations" to ensure his safety.

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/latestNews/0,4855,81,00.html

**It's about freakin' time other countries sprout some cashews and start deporting known terrorists!!.Kudos Norway!!...The sooner the international community joins together to expel radicals the sooner the terrorists will begin to see the resolve of their enemy.

Grandma Suicide Bomber: Hamas Sinks to New Low

A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack claimed by Hamas in almost two years.

The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, approaching troops operating to curb daily rocket attacks, the army said.

"Troops saw a woman approaching them in a suspicious manner and identified her carrying an explosive device," a spokeswoman said of the incident in the northern town of Jabaliya.

"They then threw a stun grenade in her direction but she managed to blow herself up," the spokeswoman said, adding that three soldiers were lightly hurt.

Within minutes the armed wing of the Hamas claimed the bombing. This was the Islamist group's first suicide attack since January 2005, when a bomber wounded seven Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/23/061123191646.uun5bkuy.html

**The religion of peace has struck again, spreading the love in the bits and pieces of poor Granny...vile..vile..vile....Does she get the benefit of 72 virgins? At least the only one killed was the bomber herself!

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Alternative to Abortion Clinics

Nov. 16, 2006 — Abortion clinics are now outnumbered nationwide by "crisis pregnancy centers," which, usually funded by Christian groups, often set up near abortion clinics to dissuade women from having abortions.

When Andrea went to have an abortion in Indianapolis, she arrived at what she believed was Planned Parenthood. She saw signs advertising "free pregnancy test" and went inside the building.

When she started talking to the staff, she was asked how she felt about having an abortion, and she became suspicious.

"I said, 'Is this Planned Parenthood? I had an appointment,'" she said

She was then told it was not, and she realized she had mistakenly walked into a crisis pregnancy center. "I felt deceived. I felt confused," Andrea said.

One Building, Two Clinics

In recent years, crisis pregnancy centers have proliferated across the country. There are now more than 2,000 of them, and they outnumber abortion clinics.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2659682&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

**You gotta give it to them...the right-to-life camp is motivated, innovative, and committed to their cause.....which gets results.....Republicans should be so motivated on other conservative causes!

800,000 Attend Anti-Syria Protest Inside Lebanon: Slain Leader Buried

By ZEINA KARAM

BEIRUT, Lebanon Nov 23, 2006 (AP)— Allies of a slain Christian government minister turned his funeral into a powerful demonstration of anger against Syria on Thursday as hundreds of thousands jammed downtown Beirut to pay their respects.

The coffin of Pierre Gemayel, wrapped in the flag of his Phalange Party white with a green cedar emblem was brought from his hometown and carried through applauding throngs in downtown Beirut to the St. George's Cathedral, where the packed congegration sang hymns.

Police estimated some 800,000 participated in the rally and funeral.

In a rare move, the head of the Maronite Church, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, left his mountain headquarters to lead the funeral service. Family members and dignitaries, including France's foreign minister and the Arab League secretary general, were participating.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2675489&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

**It would be fantastic if the people used this latest assasination to say "enough is enough"...and expel Hezbollah from the grassroots level....taking matters into their own hands!

Scholarship For Whites Sparks Outrage

BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2006 — Joe Mroszczyk, president of the College Republicans at Boston University, admits he set out to stir up a hornet's nest when he came up with the idea of offering a whites-only scholarship at the school. But he got a little more buzz than he bargained for."To tell you the truth, we didn't see this coming," Mroszczyk said. "The Drudge Report picked it up yesterday, and today I just finished a round of national interviews. It's kind of overwhelming."

All the media attention is focused on a $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship offered by Mroszczyk and the BU chapter of the College Republicans. Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher; they must write two essays; and, here's the kicker, they must be at least one-quarter Caucasian.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2674267&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312


**This is a perfect illustration of the double standards rampant within the race hustling industry!

3 Sunni Suicide Bombers Slaughter at Least 144: Worst Attack Yet

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three suicide car bombers and two mortar attacks shook Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum Thursday afternoon, killing at least 144 people and wounding 236 others, many of them seriously, police said.

The bombs and mortar shells struck at 15 minute intervals beginning about 3 p.m., with the first suicide bombing striking a vegetable market.

Angry residents and armed militiamen flooded the streets hurling curses at Sunni Muslims. Police said the death toll was expected to rise significantly.

Heavy clashes broke out Thursday afternoon between gunmen and guards at the Shiite-controlled Health Ministry building in north Baghdad, security officials said.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061123/D8LIRVF80.html

Islamic US Army Soldier Sentenced to Death After Murdering 2 Officers With Grenade

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar (search), who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier, stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He showed no emotion.

He could have been sentenced to life in prison with or without parole for the early morning March 2003 attack, which also wounded 14 fellow members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division (search) at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

The 15-person military jury, which last week took just two and a half hours to convict Akbar of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, deliberated for about seven hours in the sentencing phase. After jurors reached a verdict, they voted on whether to reconsider the decision after one juror asked that they do so.

The sentence will be reviewed by a commanding officer and automatically appealed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154979,00.html

**F-L-U-S-H this filth..............a traitor of the lowest order!

Navy Commander Keith White Praises Staff on Efforts Helping Iraqis: Cites Many Successes in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- He helped manage over 1500 projects valued at $2.7 billion in some of the most dangerous cities in Iraq including Baghdad, Fallujah and Ramadi. Navy Commander Keith White concluded his Iraq tour Nov. 8 and says he plans to spread the word when he returns home that "we're making a difference here.

It's truly remarkable what the Iraqi people are accomplishing as they work to rebuild their country and provide a future for their children ... especially considering the obstacles they must overcome daily as they work toward that goal."

He says the reconstruction mission in Iraq continues to be a daily challenge. "We work to build hospitals, schools, police and fire stations, water and wastewater treatment facilities, power plants and roads. Our Iraqi contractors and their crews show tremendous courage every day getting the job done despite threats, kidnappings, and killings."

White served as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Central District's Deputy Commander during a 6 1/2 month deployment. He's a Naval Reservist with 18 years service and as a civilian works in Iowa for the Muscatine County Highway Department as its County Engineer repairing roads and bridges. He manages a staff of 30 in Iowa compared to the 350 U.S. and Iraqi personnel he supervised from his Baghdad office.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=76701

**Unlike the mega-media....we are committed to bringing success stories to you from Iraq......there are lots of then.....and they need to be heard

NAACP Defending Imams 'Right to Pray' After Removal from Flight

Monday, November 27th, 8:15 AM, at the US Airways ticket counter located in the Reagan National Airport, Imam Omar Shahin, one of the six Imams removed from US Airways flight 300, will join Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the MAS Freedom Foundation, Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center of Philadelphia, Rev Graylan Hagler of the United Church of Christ, Hillary Shelton, director of the NAACP-Washington National Office, and other interfaith members for a press statement, public prayer, and flight departure on US Airways.

The "pray-in" is in response to US Airways' removal of Imam Omar Shahin and five other Imams traveling from a religious leader's conference in Minnesota. Three of the Imams were observed praying prior to departure. Subsequent to boarding the plane, the six were removed from the flight, handcuffed, and detained in the airport for questioning for over five hours. Upon release, US Airways and other airlines refused to allow them to purchase tickets for other scheduled flights to Phoenix.

"The detention of these religious leaders, and the refusal of the airline to allow them travel, is a gross example of blatant Islamophobia and the violation of the civil rights of Muslim passengers", said Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=76707

**We believe that this airline incident is a set-up......a ploy undertaken to for the sole purpose to sue the airlines in an effort to stop profiling!! Time to take up a collection to buy these clerics all 1-way tickets!!

Rhode Island Judge Faces Legal Quandary as Gay Couple Seeks Divorce

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lesbian couple married in Massachusetts has filed for divorce in Rhode Island, setting up a legal conundrum for judges in a state where the laws are silent on the legality of same-sex marriage.

Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston of Providence were married after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage starting in 2004.

They filed for divorce in Rhode Island on Oct. 23, citing irreconcilable differences, Chambers' attorney, Louis Pulner, said Wednesday. Ormiston declined to comment.

Rhode Island Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah Jeremiah Jr. has yet to decide whether his court has jurisdiction and said he believes it is the first filing for a same-sex divorce in the state. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 5.

Massachusetts became the only state to allow same-sex couples to marry after the state Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to ban it.

Until recently, though, it was up in the air whether out-of-state couples could marry in Massachusetts. In September, a Massachusetts judge decided that nothing in Rhode Island law specifically banned gay marriage and said Rhode Island couples could legally marry there.

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/marketplace/0,4913,3,00.html

**Isn't this lovely........the homosexual mafia now has court time tied up in sorting gay divorce......time to pass the Protection of Marriage Constitutional Amendment....need we say more?

Top Marine: Time to Expand The Corps To Face Terror

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps may need to increase in size to sustain deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan without sacrificing needed training or putting undue stress on the corps, the new Marine commandant said Wednesday.

At a meeting with reporters, Gen. James Conway also warned that it could take years to adequately train and equip the Iraqi security forces — longer, perhaps, "than the timeline that we probably feel ... our country will support."

"This is tough work, it doesn't happen overnight," and patience by the American people will be needed, he said. On the plus side, he said Marines he's talked to in recent days are encouraged by the progress they are seeing among Iraqi forces.

Conway said the current pace of Marine rotations to Iraq — seven months there and seven-to-nine months at home — is limiting other types of training that units can receive and could eventually prompt Marines to leave the service.

"There is stress on the individual Marines that is increasing, and there is stress on the institution to do what we are required to do, pretty much by law, for the nation," said Conway.

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/latestNews/0,4855,80,00.html

**Let's see if the Democrats follow through on their promise to .."listen to the Commanders on the ground"..........Don't hold your breathe!

Army Land Warrior System: Deploying 'Super Soldiers'

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Army officials in Washington announced that the Army intends to deploy its new Land Warrior System within a year.

The Army News Service reported on Nov. 20 that deployment of the system will bring the Pentagon closer to its gaol of integrating computers and advanced technology on the battlefield down to the level of the individual soldier.

The Land Warrior System underwent successful field-testing last summer.

The Land Warrior System consists, a wearable, computerized system incorporating lasers, navigation modules, radios and other advanced technology to assist soldiers in communicating and fulfilling their battlefield responsibilities more accurately.

Infantry troops for the first time will be carrying digital equipment designed to ameliorate some chronic battlefield problems, such as locating other infantryman, identifying the enemy and getting orders in "real time."

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061122-091905-6867r

**Invest, invest, invest in military technology before the Democrats start their old trick of gutting the US military in favor of domestic entitlements...EVIL is not going away, and it must be destroyed!

Conservative Movement Will Survive GOP Defeat

A movement that survived Robert Taft’s untimely death in 1953, the Senate censure of Joseph McCarthy in 1954, Barry Goldwater’s crushing defeat in 1964, Ronald Reagan’s failure to win the 1976 Republican presidential nomination, the Iran-contra scandal of 1986, and Newt Gingrich’s sudden fall from grace in 1998 can easily outlive the 2006 elections. Especially when the results constituted a rejection of “Big Government Republicanism,” not traditional conservatism.

Even so, there were conservative political gains. Democrats won seats in the House and Senate by presenting moderate to conservative candidates with pro-life, pro-gun views. At least nine new conservative Republicans won House seats, bringing the membership of the conservative Republican Study Committee to nearly 100.

The 2006 elections were in fact a rejection of the spend-and-elect philosophy that characterized congressional Democrats for nearly 40 years while they were in power and then came to epitomize congressional Republicans in the latter part of their 12 years of rule. As David Keene of the American Conservative Union wrote, too many Republicans came to do good and stayed to do well for themselves, their families and their friends

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**As we have said many times....these next 2 years are vital to positioning Republicans for '08 and beyond.......stand united on conservative principles and win.....or equivocate and slide back into perpetual minority status....

Man Stopped at Airport With Large Sum of Cash and Laptop With Nuclear Information Remains in Custody

Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan Report:

The U.S. citizen who was arrested last week who authorities say was carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop containing information about nuclear materials will continue to be held by federal authorities after prosecutors appealed a ruling which would have set him free on bond.

Sisayehiticha Dinssa appeared in federal court yesterday for a detention hearing and was granted a $20,000 unsecured bond by a federal magistrate. The prosecutors in the case objected and appealed the ruling to a district court judge asserting he was a flight risk. Judge Paul Borman agreed and overturned the magistrate's ruling. Dinssa is currently in the detention of the U.S. Marshals in Detroit.

Dinssa was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after he was flagged for secondary inspection on entry to the U.S. at the Detroit Airport. Customs officials became suspicious of Dinssa when a narcotics dog signalled the scent of drugs on the money in his possession.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/man_stopped_at__1.html

**This article says "arrested last week".!!!!! Why has this incident not been reported extensively in the mega-media??#@$#%$#&!.....These stories get buried to lull us to sleep...

More 2008 White House Contenders Ready to Pounce

WASHINGTON — A number of 2008 presidential contenders appear to be inching closer to making their first official steps as candidates.

Republicans Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, New York Gov. George Pataki and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are all in preparatory stages.

Democrats Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are also being watched carefully for suggestions they are making moves in the White House's direction.

None officially has announced they are running, but either they or those close to them are saying they soon will be announcing whether they will toss their hats into the ring.

This comes on the heels of other recent announcements, including Republican Sen. John McCain, who last week filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to begin an exploratory committee; former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also has started an exploratory committee and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is raising money at a fast clip, and announced over the weekend that he will announce his intentions sometime after the holidays.

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/latestNews/0,4855,2,00.html
**The Republicans have a large stable of candidates for '08.......the debate will be most interesting as the GOP searches for a unified message........BEWARE HILLARY!

High School Teacher Gives Homework With Anti-American, Pro-Hamas Phrases

RALEIGH, N.C. — A high school Spanish teacher has resigned because of an extra-credit assignment he gave that included anti-American phrases and defended the Palestinian group Hamas.

Khalid Chahhou resigned from Smithfield-Selma High School last week after students alerted school officials about a word-search puzzle he assigned that contained phrases including "destroy America" and "terrorist."

"I think some of the people in the class were kind of afraid, because how the world is today, you never know with people," said Chris McDaniels, a sophomore at the school in Johnston County southeast of Raleigh.

Chahhou acknowledged that he gave students the assignment, but he declined to comment further, telling The News and Observer of Raleigh: "I don't want to talk about this dark page in my life any more."

He did not immediately respond to a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday.

Shakil Ahmed, president of the Islamic Association of Cary, a Raleigh suburb, said Chahhou told him he made the puzzle after seeing news reports of Israeli troops killing Palestinians.

http://www.foxnews.com/comp/latestNews/0,4855,80,00.html

** Well, Well...the evidence just continues to pile up that public schools are infested with liberal America haters.....Exposing our children to these messages is a moral outrage...It's time for Republicans to sound the alarm!!

Katrina Victims Scam Church Then Skip Town With Money

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.

"Take it up with God," an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.

The church was also shocked by an ungrateful interview the couple gave with WHBQ-TV in Memphis.

"I really don't like this area," said Delores Thompson. "I really didn't, and I didn't know anybody, so that's why I didn't move in and I sold it."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_GIFT_HOUSE?SITE=TXCLU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

**The untold story of Katrina is the abuse of FEMA's largesse by Katrina victims......FEMA cash gift cards were redeemed for everything from Scotch to lap dances to sex-change surgery....Lots of ungrateful hucksters lived in the Big Easy!

Emboldened Hezbollah Assasinates Next in Line to Lebanese Presidency: Region Descending Into Chaos

By SAM F. GHATTAS

BEIRUT, Lebanon Nov 21, 2006 (AP)— Pierre Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of one of Lebanon's most prominent Christian families, was gunned down Tuesday in a carefully orchestrated assassination that heightened tensions between the U.S.-backed government and the militant Hezbollah.

Anti-Syrian politicians quickly accused Damascus, as they have in previous assassinations of Lebanese opponents of its larger neighbor. Gemayel, 34, an outspoken opponent of the Syrian-allied Hezbollah, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure killed in the past two years and the first member of the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to be slain.

The assassination, in Gemayel's mainly Christian constituency of Jdeideh, threatens further instability in Lebanon at a time when Hezbollah and other parties allied with Syria are planning street protests unless Saniora gives them more power.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2670835&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

** Israel's failure to use overwhelming power on Hezbollah this past summer during the short invasion of Lebanon has emboldened these terrorist factions.....It is a lesson we better learn in Iraq and around the world....CRUSH THE ENEMY.....there is no negotiating with a culture of death!

Terrorist Group, Hezbollah, Threatens Lebanese Government

BEIRUT - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah pushed Lebanon closer to a precarious political showdown Sunday by calling on his followers to prepare for peaceful street protests to bring down the U.S.-backed government.

As Nasrallah made his televised appeal, a prominent Druze leader warned that the Lebanese government was in danger being toppled by a "coup" and urged leaders to act quickly to avert a deadly new civil war.

Nasrallah's threat to take his demands to the streets came as negotiations over the composition of a new unity government are stagnating and optimism is fading that the country can avert a volatile confrontation.

"No one knows what will happen if there are protests in the street," said Zouheir Kseibati, Beirut bureau chief for the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Hayat daily newspaper. "No one can control it. It will be a disaster."

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/world/16054168.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_world

**It's time for one of Israel's famed targeted killings........this piece of pond scum needs to be taken out...Israel will not allow this guy to ascend to power.....You heard it here 1st!

Public School Teachers Emphasize the Indians' Side

By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them.

The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.

Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.

He has replaced it with a more realistic look at the complex relationship between Indians and white settlers.

Morgan said he still wants his pupils at Cleveland Elementary School in San Francisco to celebrate Thanksgiving. But "what I am trying to portray is a different point of view."

Others see Morgan and teachers like him as too extreme.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/nov/21/112103664.html

**This is exactly the kind of anti-Americanism that the liberal teacher's unions and college professors foist upon unsuspecting students at taxpayer expense......I can't think of a better example to use to demonstrate that school choice is a winning issue.....Hello? GOP?

Kansas Republican Eyes Presidential Bid

Sen. Sam Brownback, who is considering a White House bid in 2008, said Monday the Republican field has room for a 'full-scale Ronald Reagan conservative' and pledged to make a final decision next month.

The Kansas senator said he was not discouraged from running by the Democrats' strong gains in this month's midterm elections, including majority control of the House and Senate.

'It does not make it less likely,' he said in an interview. 'I really believe that the basic conservative ideas and ideals were not repudiated. Our execution was.'

A more daunting challenge for Brownback are the better known potential candidates. Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani have set up presidential exploratory committees. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., also are weighing bids.

http://interestalert.com/story/11200016aaa06302.ap/siteia/REPUBLIC/republicans.html

**Could this be the C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E candidate we've been talking about...... armed with core values intact, and ready to storm the '08 campaign??

Judge Rejects Request for NSA Documents from Liberal, Fringe Group: 'People for The American Way'

The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday.

The People for the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act. The group sought to find out how many wiretaps were approved and who reviewed the program.

President Bush has acknowledged the existence of the program, which he calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. The National Security Agency monitors phone calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and people in other countries when a link to terrorism is suspected.

http://interestalert.com/story/11200000aaa034fd.ap/siteia/REPUBLIC/republicans.html

**These anti-American, left wing activists are hell bent on revealing all our secrets to our terror foes.....this time the judge got it right!

Overheard Making Anti-American Comments, 6 Men Taken Off US Plane

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Six passengers were removed from a departing flight Monday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and were taken for questioning by police, an airport spokesman said.

The passengers were boarding US Airways Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m. when crew members "saw suspicious activity" by the men and called airport police, said the spokesman, Pat Hogan. Police escorted the men off the plane and took them to be questioned, he said.

A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, said Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. Police were called after the men refused requests by the captain and airport security workers to leave the plane.

The crew described the men as Middle Eastern in appearance, Hogan said, though he didn't immediately know where they were from.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PASSENGERS_REMOVED?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US


**These stories are rarley reported through the mega-media outlets........We are committed to profiling these incidents whenever they occur.......Did we use that word: P-R-O-F-I-L-I-N-G???? oops!

Illegal Hispanic Day Laborers Win Racial Lawsuit

By JIM FITZGERALD
Associated Press Writer

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A suburban village discriminated against Hispanic day laborers when it closed a hiring site and stepped up police patrols on the streets where they looked for work, a federal judge ruled Monday.

"Since August 2004, and continuing into this past summer, the defendants have engaged in a campaign designed to drive out the Latino day laborers who gather on the streets of Mamaroneck to seek work," Judge Colleen McMahon wrote. "The fact that the day laborers were Latinos, and not whites, was, at least in part, a motivating factor in defendants' actions."

"We're very pleased," said Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which represented the day laborers. "The court found that indeed the village of Mamaroneck had engaged in intentional discrimination and was motivated by racism."

The ruling could influence the treatment elsewhere of day laborers, who have become an increasingly visible symbol of the immigration issue as they solicit construction and landscaping jobs.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DAY_LABOR_LAWSUIT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

**Where's the outrage?? Illegal aliens demanding taxpayer funded day labor halls!!?? It's time for ICE raids nationwide!

Lightning Rod Clinton Attorney General Files Challenge to Terror Law

WASHINGTON

Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system.

It was the first time that Reno, attorney general in the Clinton administration, has spoken out against the administration's policies on terrorism detainees, underscoring how contentious the court fight over the nation's new military commissions law has become. Former attorneys general rarely file court papers challenging administration policy.

Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is the only detainee being held in the United States.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/20/D8LH6KHG1.html

**Who dug up this fossil?? Burn up American children in Waco then turn around and defend the enemy!! Stick to shuffleboard.....Can you imagine 4 more years of these people??

Rookie Senator Obama Calls for Troop Withdrawal in 6 Months

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, called this afternoon for troop withdrawal from Iraq starting next year and negotiations with Iran and Syria over the war-torn country's future.

In a speech sure to draw political fire, the Democrat told attendees of a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event downtown that withdrawal should begin in the next four to six months and that those soldiers should be moved to Afghanistan to focus on terrorist groups again gaining strength in that country.

Obama, who is considering a run for president in 2008, also advocated negotiating Iraq's future with neighboring Iran and Syria, an option President George Bush has rejected as he blames both countries for meddling in the U.S. effort to install a democratic government.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=252128

**The young Senator from Illinois has shown his inexperience and why he is in need of much seasoning........not qualities you want in a President!

Iranian Madman Wants 100,000 Atomic Centrifuges: Ready By 2007

Iran's president said on Monday his country planned to install 100,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium in the future, a much higher figure than previously stated, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.

"We intend to install 100,000 centrifuges and, God willing, Iran will be able to provide for its needs in nuclear fuel by next year," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by ISNA. The Iranian year starts in March.

Iran plans to start up its first nuclear power station, which has faced several delays, in 2007.

http://beta.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8075736946691820990

**An oil-rich country needs nuclear power for what reason?? Answer: N-U-K-E-S! Get it?

Liberal Rep. Charles Rangel Stokes Draft Fears In Effort To Politicize Military

By JOHN HEILPRIN
The Associated Press
Sunday, November 19, 2006; 4:11 PM

WASHINGTON -- Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars and to bolster U.S. troop levels insufficient to cover potential future action in Iran, North Korea and Iraq.

"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Rangel said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900376_pf.html

**Rangel is the proto-typical wedge politician with no shame.......to play on the fears of Americans at th expense of the military is well...downright....un-American.....Shame on you Charlie!

Republican Governor Wants Gay Wedding Vote

By DAVID WEBER
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to order an anti-gay marriage amendment question onto the ballot if legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.

Romney said he would file a legal action this week asking a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to direct the secretary of state to place the question on the ballot if lawmakers don't vote directly on the question on Jan. 2, the final day of the session.

Romney, an opponent of gay marriage who decided not to seek re-election as he considers running for president, made his announcement to the cheers of hundreds of gay marriage opponents at a rally on the Statehouse steps.

Romney, an opponent of gay marriage who decided not to seek re-election as he considers running for president, made his announcement to the cheers of hundreds of gay marriage opponents at a rally on the Statehouse steps.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAY_MARRIAGE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

**Watch Out For This Guy in '08....Solid, Conservative willing to stand for his core values...Mmmmmmm

Dutch Muslims Say Burqa Ban Violates Their Rights

Dutch Muslims are outraged at a proposed government ban of face veils, saying it was over the top, ill-conceived and infringed religious rights.

On Friday the Dutch cabinet said it was proposing a bill banning clothing that covers the face in public, targeting in particular Muslim woman wearing the burqa or niqab.

The burqa is an Islamic veil covering the entire face and body and a mesh screen to see through, while the niqab is a veil covering the face but leaving the eye area clear. The garments are worn by a few dozen women in the Netherlands.

Rita Verdonk, minister of immigration and integration, said the bill proposed a ban on the basis that covering the face constituted a risk to public order and safety.

The ban would be imposed in public and "semi-public" places such as schools, courts, ministries and trains, her spokesman Martin Bruinsma told AFP.

"In this country, we want to be able to see each other. The ban is a question of security," daily De Telegraaf quoted on Saturday the minister as saying.

But representatives of the country's Muslim population were unimpressed.

"They are going to have to find a better argument than security. It is an infringement on the freedom of religion," said Ahmed Markouch, a Moroccan mosques representative.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/18/061118141256.yfhauen2.html

** It's about time that world leaders start making a stand against radical Islam. Kudos!

Republicans Plot to Bring Down Pelosi ... and Clinton With Her

New Speaker's embarrassing week has made it easier for her opponents to attack

	Nancy Pelosi ranks second-in-line to the presidency after Dick Cheney

Republican strategists plotting their party's comeback after it lost control of Congress have identified the "first lady" of Democrat politics as a key target in the 2008 White House campaign — even though she will not be running.

Senior party operatives told The Sunday Telegraph that they are already co-ordinating plans to attack Nancy Pelosi, the liberal Californian congresswoman and Speaker-in-waiting who suffered a damaging rebuff from her own party caucus last week.

The Republican strategy is not only to undermine Mrs Pelosi's control of the House but also to associate her in voters' minds with Senator Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination.

"Two years of Pelosi gives a good idea of what four years of Hillary will be like," said Tom DeLay, the Republican powerbroker who ran his party in the House before he was caught up in a lobbyist corruption scandal. "They are both committed liberals and we will make that clear to the American people."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/19/wus19.xml

**Time to start throwing some sharp elbows at the LIBS...Bi-partisanship to a LIB means: "Do it our way or no way...."

Democrats Split on How Far to Go With Ethics Law

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — After railing for months against Congressional corruption under Republican rule, Democrats on Capitol Hill are divided on how far their proposed ethics overhaul should go.

Their initial proposals,....None of the measures would overhaul campaign financing or create an independent ethics watchdog to enforce the rules. Nor would they significantly restrict earmarks, the pet projects lawmakers can anonymously insert into spending bills, which have figured in several recent corruption scandals and attracted criticism from members in both parties.

Sweeping change, however, may be a tough sell within the party. Representative John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, was embarrassed by disclosures last week that he had dismissed the leadership proposals with a vulgarity at a private meeting. But Mr. Murtha is hardly the only Democrat who objects to broad changes.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who will oversee any proposal as the incoming chairwoman of the Rules Committee, for example, said she was opposed to an independent Congressional ethics watchdog. “If the law is clear and precise, members will follow it,” she said in an interview. “As to whether we need to create a new federal bureaucracy to enforce the rules, I would hope not.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/washington/19ethics.html?th&emc=th

**Ethics, shmethics!..... Why give up the perks now that we're in power?...Right Nancy??