While I disagree with the hand-wringing in this column, I can't help but be struck by this little nugget of moral clarity about the nature of jihadi terrorists.

What can be seen time and again on various sites is that Islam, a great religion, has as some of its most devoted followers people whose fantasy is the mass murder of innocents -- women, children, non-combatants. I can't think of any other ideology or religion whose believers -- even the most perverted -- consider themselves martyrs for committing suicide in order to kill random shoppers or commuters. Japan's notorious kamikaze pilots in the Second World War targeted battleships, which is not to defend their actions, but simply to note the huge moral difference between targeting a battleship and a subway car.

And yet that is precisely the difference. In war, military forces attack military forces. As such, the kamikaze attacks are justifiable, even if they repulse Westerners as antithetical to our values. But the jihadis are much more interested in causing terror through mass casualties -- and generally target cvilians, not soldiers, because they are an easier target to reach and kill.

Those who seek to draw a moral equivalence between soldiers seeking to kill soldiers (and, unfortunately, unintended civilian victims) and terrorists looking to kill civilians have lost their moral compass.

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I wish that diplomatic niceties allowed President Bush to make such a statement publicly, rather than confining it to a private conversation.

President Bush cursed Hezbollah's attacks against Israel in private conversations with foreign leaders Monday that were picked up by a microphone.

Bush expressed his frustration with the United Nations and his disgust with the militant Islamic group and its backers in Syria as he talked to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the closing lunch at the Group of Eight summit.

"See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it's over," Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

He told Blair he felt like telling U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who visited the gathered leaders "to get on the phone with (Syrian President Bashar) Assad, make something happen."

That will not, of course happen. Diplomacy is a formal dance with specific rules of etiquette. And the UN, rife with anti-Semitism for many years, will keep on trying to condemn Israel rather than the terrorists who have triggered the crisis in the Middle East.

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This is unusual

In the face of the fierce Israeli assault on Hezbollah -- the Party of Allah -- in Lebanon, A number of Arab governments have condemned. . . Hezbollah.

With the battle between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah raging, key Arab governments have taken the rare step of blaming Hezbollah, underscoring in part their growing fear of influence by the groupÂ’s main sponsor, Iran.

Saudi Arabia, with Jordan, Egypt and several Persian Gulf states, chastised Hezbollah for “unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts” at an emergency Arab League summit meeting in Cairo on Saturday.

The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said of Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel, “These acts will pull the whole region back to years ago, and we cannot simply accept them.” Prince Faisal spoke at the closed-door meeting but his words were reported to journalists by other delegates.

The meeting ended with participants asserting that the Middle East peace process had failed and requesting help from the United Nations Security Council.

Such a condemnation is virtually unprecedented. Israel is always accused of being the bad actor by Arab nations. Is this a tactical move by these Arab leaders, or are we seeing a strategic shift in the Middle East -- one in which Iran, not Israel, is seen as the greater threat to regional stability?

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This week I have three bits of information for you regarding the Watcher's Council.

First, the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Bleeding Iraq by Right Wing Nut House, and Singing Out of the Flock. by Iraq the Model. You can go here for the full results of the vote.

Second, The Watcher is making his regular offer of link whorage for those interested in submitting a post for consideration in the Non-Council category. Details here.

Third, Dr. Sanity is leaving the Council due to time constraints (she is writing a book). That leaves us with an open seat. Information on how to apply for that seat can be found here.

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Thanks to Steven Sanders of American Thinker for the reminder.

Here’s an interesting question in light of current world events, “What terrorist organization was responsible for the most number of American deaths prior to the 9/11 attacks?” A tough question and the answer might surprise you.

J. Cofer Black, the U.S Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism from 2002-2004, gives the answer. He was at a press conference in 2004 when asked by an A.P. reporter about the greatest international terror threat. His answer

Thank you very much. The answer to your question is in particular from the American perspective, if I can be allowed that. Before 9/11 the terrorist group that had killed more Americans actually was Hezbollah and with the catastrophic attacks of 9/11 Al-Qaeda moved up in that deplorable category as having killed more Americans.

Lest we forget, the folks fought by the Israelis today are the same folks who gave us 241 dead Marines in Beirut and who also killed 63 destroying our embassy there in 1983. They killed 2 U.S. servicemen in another attack on the embassy there in 1984. This is the same Hezbollah that killed Colonel William Higgins and CIA Station Chief William Buckley and other Americans in Lebanon during the 1980s, and who kidnapped many more. And these are the same folks who hijacked TWA flight 847 in 1985, and dumped Navy diver Robert Stetham's dead body on the airport runway.

There is only one proper position for American patriots to take on Israel's actions against Hezbollah today -- unequivocal support as it seeks to root out and destroy the terrorists of the "Party of Allah".

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I would have figured it was ALL of the French.

Lance Armstrong renewed his verbal attack on the French, bashing their World Cup team during an American awards show and using a derogatory word to describe the players.

"All their players (France) tested positive ... for being a** holes," the seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Daily News on Friday.

The French World Cup team immediately offered their unconditional surrender to Armstrong.

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A sad loss of a decent man.

Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, the unassuming billionaire who last year abandoned a race for Arkansas governor a post once held by his father died Sunday after unsuccessful treatments for a blood disorder, his office said. He was 57.

Rockefeller died Sunday morning at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences with his family present, said Steve Brawner, the lieutenant governor's spokesman.

Bone marrow transplants Oct. 7 and March 29 at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center failed to cure an unclassified myeloproliferative disorder. He returned to Arkansas on July 8 and immediately entered the hospital. The next day, Rockefeller notified Gov. Mike Huckabee that he could not continue his duties, at least temporarily.

May those who knew and loved him be comforted in this time of loss.

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Common sense used to prevail on editorial pages in this country. Not so today, when so many newspapers have come out against israel's war of self-defense against Hezbollah and the Lebanese government that has given these jihadi terrorists a safe haven from which to attack Israel.

One editorial page on which common sense does still prevail, though, is that of the Las Vega Review-Journal.

On June 25, Hamas guerrillas tunnelled across the border into Israel, killed Israeli soldiers, kidnapped Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit, and brought him into Gaza. Then, this week, the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese border and brought them back into Lebanon.

Israel has responded to these provocations militarily, as any sovereign nation would. And who is condemned for breaking the peace? Why, Israel, of course.

Yeah, folks seem to forget that. Israel didn't go to war in a vacuum. What would we do if Mexico or Canada were providing shelter for al-Qaeda to attack the United States? We all know that the response would be unlikely to involve polite diplomatic notes. Why shouldn't the Israelis respond appropriately to the acts of war committed against it?

At a triumphant news conference Wednesday, Hezbollah's leader, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, said his group would not bow to pressure from the Lebanese government or the world community to release his two Israeli hostages, unless Israel agrees to a prisoner exchange.

"What do they want us to do? Hand over the soldiers and apologize?" he asked. "What kind of world are they living in?"

The kind of world we are living in, is one in which kidnappers hand over their hostages ... and are sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Damn straight -- assuming the kidnappers don't end up dead on the floor during a rescue operation conducted by highly-trained professionals. A pity that the Mossad couldn't have punched Nasrallah's ticket right during the press conference, just to make it clear exactly what civilized folks expect to happen to such scum.

Failing that, such provocations can lead to war, an endeavor which never seems to accomplish much for the Arab fans of endless war, except to allow them to beat their chests, wail over their dead and play "victim" some more.

And it has led to another war that will visit endless destruction upon Arabs -- and which will once again be painted as being all the fault of big bad Israel.

Like a sleeping dog that seeks only peace, Israel has backed away so as to give no offense, until there is no further room to retreat. This week, a Hezbollah missile -- possibly manufactured in Iran -- hit Haifa, on the seacoast. Israel now has every right to do whatever proves necessary to stop her tormentors.

Nor have they any remaining right to complain about her bite.

And therein lies a difference. Israel has been engaged in targetted strikes with legitimate military objectives. Hezollah has flung rockets in the direction of israel, not terribly concerned about what it hits. While both sides have caused civilian casualties, there is a difference -- those caused by Israel have been in spite of its best efforts to avoid them, while those caused by Hezbollah have been the objective of the attacks. That is an important difference.

It is now clear what the Arabs mean by "occupied territories" -- to anyone who didn't get it, long ago. If the population of Israel were reduced to 10, and those 10 Jews were living on a houseboat moored in Haifa harbor, the Arabs would bemoan their ongoing victimization by the Zionists, and demand that the Israelis "withdraw from this occupied houseboat immediately."

And would no doubt be supported by the international community, which fears provoking followers of the "Religion of Blow Yourself To Pieces To Killl Infidels".

The world has been patient with such murderous lunacy long enough. Maybe it's time to condemn someone new, for a change.

I agree whole-heartedly -- but don't expect to see anything of the kind.

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Vin Suprynowicz of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is a libertarian, and admits that on principle he supports open borders -- but only once teh welfare state is eliminated and replaced with a true system of free enterprise capitalism. Absent that, he argues that our nation's immigration laws should be vigorously enforced.

We can't even get the federal government to stop enforcing their absurd marijuana laws when we so direct them by majority vote. So, if they "have to enforce all the laws," why in hell won't they enforce sensible immigration laws, currently on the books, that have overwhelming public support?

In support of that position, Vin takes on the standard "pragmatic" arguments against even trying to enforce those laws.

The "pragmatic" objections are pretty lame.

"Who would replace them in the work force?"

All the regular work -- and lots more -- got done when millions of boys went into the armed services on short notice in 1941. If we need more workers, stop sending out "disability" checks to drunks. When they get hungry, they'll work.

"But once we give them amnesty, they'll pay more in taxes than they cost us."

Actually, under the proposed Senate amnesty, illegals could cost us billions more. Remember, the reason 85 percent of Mexicans currently in this country are here illegally is because most don't have the education or job skills to beat out would-be immigrants from Asia, Africa, or Europe in any fair contest for high-paid jobs, in the first place.

"Actually, the reverse is true: The federal government will give billions to the illegal aliens," writes author Bradley Steffens and Las Vegas-based certified financial adviser and tax preparer Scot Fairchild. Nothing in the Senate amnesty legislation "prevents illegal aliens from qualifying for the earned income credit. All a family of four has to do is file a tax return showing earnings lower than $37,263 (tax year 2005) and it will be eligible for the EIC. The credit can be up to $4,400 (tax year 2005) per family. A family filing five years of back taxes could receive a check from the government for $22,000. Multiply that by the estimated 3 million illegal alien families, and the government could pay out $66 billion in earned income credits, roughly $660 for each of America's 100 million taxpayers."

What's that? "But it's not feasible to round up and deport millions of illegal aliens"?

Wrong. Former Managing Editor John Dillin recalled in the July 6 Christian Science Monitor how "Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve." We had 3 million illegal migrants.

"President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic ... quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents -- less than one-tenth of today's force."

Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner. On June 17, 1954, "Operation Wetback" began. Over the objections of "business-friendly" politicians like Lyndon Johnson and Pat McCarran, some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, more than 50,000 aliens were caught. An additional 488,000, fearing arrest, fled the country. By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas alone, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had voluntarily fled the Lone Star State. Illegal migration had dropped 95 percent by the late 1950s.

Yeah, that's right -- jobs will get done if we incentivize work rather than idleness. The newly legalized immigrants will have a claim on more taxpayer money. A serious effort at rounding up some illegals will lead many more to return home. Remember those three arguments and use them the next time you are told why we cannot make a serious effort to enforce the immigration laws we have rather than pass new ones.

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I've seen few defenses of the Vietnam war made so concisely and so eloquently. And it takes a Canadian writer, looking at the ignoble role of his own country in support of deserters and draft dodgers, to say it.

Let's get something clear here.

Vietnam was a moral war.

A bunch of folks written off at the time as loonies by the left predicted that if South Vietnam fell it would become a brutal Communist dictatorship that would herd dissidents into concentration camps, that other south Asian nations would also fall.

Well, after Saigon fell, those predictions came true. Life in Vietnam, particularly for ethnic Chinese, became so horrific that it gave birth to the boat people, who were thousands of desperate souls who crammed themselves and their children into leaky boats and cast themselves into the ocean to get away from the monsters who'd "liberated" their homeland.

They became fodder for sharks and pirates, but it was worth the risk to get out of yet another "people's democratic republic" under a red flag.

Another Communist, Pol Pot, who conquered Cambodia, was worse. He killed off millions of his own countrymen; their skulls are still heaped in pyramids around that nation.

After the war, North Vietnamese leaders admitted they'd been defeated militarily, but that was irrelevant. The real war was won in the streets of America.

In a very real sense, every U.S. draft dodger and deserter helped consign the millions who suffered and died under south Asian communism to their fate.

Maybe there is still hope for Soviet Kanuckistan after all.

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Of all the audacity!

Fawaz Damra admits to having raised money in this country for terrorist activities here and abroad. But the AP and UPI (and, by extension, many newspapers around the country) choose to depict him as a sympathetic character.

An Islamic religious leader convicted of concealing ties to terrorist groups remains jailed in Michigan seven months after he reached a deal with the U.S. government to be deported.

The agreement called for Fawaz Damra's deportation to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Egypt or the Palestinian territories. But so far, no one has been willing to take the former imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, officials said.

There is no definitive rule on how long Damra can be held in jail, according to his attorney, Robert Birach.

I've got a suggestion -- how about until his stinking jihadi corpse rots and disintigrates into dust?

But the article gets even worse, if you can imagine that.

Damra is having a difficult time in jail and misses his wife and three children, who still live in the Cleveland area, friend Haider Alawan said.

"He's a man without a country," Alawan said.

Tough shit -- I'm sure that the families who died as a result of operations he supported miss their dead loved ones. And I'm sure those who survived the attacks have had a difficult time, too. The sympathy belongs with them, not with this jihadi pig.

Seems to me that now would be a great time to return him to his native Philistine Authority in Gaza -- where I'm sure he would get the opportunity to participate in the jihad for which he raised cash, at least until the Children of Israel send him on to his infernal reward.

H/T Debbie Schlussel, Ace of Spades HQ)

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If you can't beat your opponent, buy him off. That is the secret of Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell, who is paying one of her primary opponents to get out of the race.

A vocal former opponent's silence is important enough to Sen. Maria Cantwell's re-election effort to pay him $8,000 a month -- nearly as much as her campaign manager -- to join her campaign staff.

The Cantwell campaign initially refused to say last week how much it would pay Mark Wilson to drop his Democratic primary challenge to the senator and his harsh criticism of her opposition to immediate U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.

But campaign manager Matt Butler issued a statement Thursday disclosing Wilson's salary.

It isn't much lower than Butler's salary, which, according to Cantwell's quarterly Federal Election Commission report, was $26,192 for the first three months of 2006, or $8,731 a month.

I don't know about you, but if that isn't illegal it sure ought to be. It looks suspiciously like a bribe to me.

Oh, ">by the way -- go take a look at what he was saying about her until he took the bribe new job.

(H/T GOPBloggers)

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Just a few more IP addresses have been made available for all of us to use.

TO THE lay observer it seems like an infinite network of computers, servers and cables stretching around the globe.

But the worldwide web is filling up. So quickly, it turns out, that programmers have had to devise a new one.

Of the internet addresses available, more than three quarters are already in use, and the remainder are expected to be assigned by 2009. So, what will happen as more people in developing countries come online? The answer is IPv6, a new internet protocol that has more spaces than the old one: 340,282,366,920,938,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 spaces, in fact. “Currently there’s four billion addresses available and there are six billion humans on Earth, so there’s obviously an issue there,” said David Kessens, chairman of the IPv6 working group at RIPE, one of five regional internet registries in charge of rolling it out.

Every device that is connected to the internet — websites, computers and mobile phones — needs an “internet address” to locate it on the network.

When the internet was developed in the 1980s, programmers had no idea how big it would become. They gave each address a “16-bit” number, which meant that the total number of available addresses worked out at about four billion (2 to the power of 32).

But as use grew, it became clear that the old protocol, IPv4, wasn’t big enough, so a new one was written based on “32-bit numbers”. That increased the number of available addresses to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion — enough for the foreseeable future, Mr Kessens said.

I guess this means we can all have multiple IP addresses without putting a strain on the system.

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So how far must one go before getting charged with a terrorist conspiracy? the Washington Post's Dahlia Lithwick is concerned about the federal government prosecuting "thought crimes".

The government claims to have foiled two major terrorism plots in the past month -- both in early planning stages that had not crossed the line from talk to action. In late June, seven men were arrested in Miami on suspicion of concocting a plan to blow up, among other places, the Sears Tower in Chicago. Then, several men were arrested in the Middle East in connection with plotting suicide bombings of transit tunnels between New Jersey and Manhattan.

This shift -- toward disrupting attacks long before explosives are stockpiled or targets scoped out -- makes some sense, given what we know about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and last year's mass-transit bombings in London. The difference between grandiose gym talk and a lethal terrorist strike can be bridged in a nanosecond, with a box cutter and a phone call.

But it's also a shift from prosecuting tangible terrorism conspiracies to prosecuting bad thoughts. And we need to think carefully before we go further down that road.

While Lithwick's piece is full of hand-wringing liberalism, she does raise some valid points. What is the line between line between the fantasies and boasts of a few oddballs and an actual terrorist conspiracy?

But unfortunately, Lithwick seems unwilling to recognize that stopping terrorism before the terrorists have acted is the only way to head off the conspirators. In particular, she appears to think that the arrest of teh Miami plotters (seeking to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago) might have been an over-reaction by the feds.

But I wonder -- if my buddies and I were to take similar actions while discussing the possiblility of blowing up the Washington Post offices where Lithwick works, would Dahlia be as willing to give us the benefit of the doubt as she is the accused terrorist plotters?

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UPDATE: I seem to have used a certain term in this post, a term that I have always understood as referring to immigration status, but which i am now informed is racially/ethnically insensitive. I apologize. I won't change the word on my site, though, because I do not go back and hide my mistakes or bury evidence of my own errors.

Something has got to be done to fix this problem -- not only do border-jumping immmigration criminals walk among us with impunity, those arrested on serious criminal charges are let free -- even when they are repeat offenders eligible for deportation.

TAMPA - The immigration agent didn't like the looks of Manuel Pardo's Social Security card. When the 20-year-old from Mexico was questioned, he admitted it was fake.

Pardo and several other immigrants were picked up at a brothel in Dover that night in June 2003, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report shows. Five months earlier, Pardo tried to attack some people with a shovel and was charged with aggravated assault. He served 24 days in county jail.

After Pardo was picked up at the brothel, the federal immigration agent ordered him to remain in Orient Road Jail until he could be transferred for deportation proceedings.

Federal officials said Pardo was deported, but three weeks ago he was back in the county jail, charged with driving without a valid license. Although it is a felony to return to the United States after deportation, he was released on $500 bail.

He walked out nine hours after he was picked up.

It seems we don't have sufficient jail space to hold criminal wetbacks pending their deportation -- even when the charges are directly related to their immigration status.

It seems clear that one step needed is the adoption of a policy that either expeditites or eliminates hearings in such situations. Our policy needs to be that such deportations occur quickly and efficiently.

Load 'em up! Ship 'em back! Rawhide!

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It is sad that some of these movies are on the list -- they are among those I would rate as Hollywood comedy classics. And one just breaks your heart, because even though the criticisms of it are accurate it is a snapshot of American culture and a masterpiece of music and animation in film.

Let me give you a few examples -- you can read the rest.

There is the classic parody of the formula western.

“Blazing Saddles”
The granddaddy of them all when it comes to language and situations that wouldn’t fly today. Mel Brooks’ Western spoof came out in 1974, when certain indelicate references to race and womanhood could still elicit guffaws rather than protests. Cleavon Little plays Bart, an African-American who is assigned by evil politician Hedley Lamaar (Harvey Korman) to serve as the new sheriff of a town in the hopes his presence will so offend the citizens that he’ll drive them out so Lamaar can grab their land. Because the townspeople apparently were expecting a white man, Bart isn’t exactly embraced. A particular slur that starts with the letter that comes after “M” is sprinkled liberally throughout, but there are also plenty of sexual references as well, including the scene soon after Bart arrives and the folks dive for cover when he reaches into his pants to retrieve a document and says, “Excuse me while I whip this out.” Since Brooks is an equal-opportunity offender, he assaults the sensibilities of Native-Americans, Jews, Chinese, Irish, women, horses, the handicapped and others. If “Blazing Saddles” were pitched in Hollywood today, Brooks would have been hastily escorted off the lot, and executives would quickly issue a statement that the move had nothing to do with him being short and Jewish.

And another parody -- this one of the string of disaster movies that made box-office gold in the 1960s and 1970s, although I will agree that the pedophilia jokes are a bit much.

“Airplane!”
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker skewered the disaster genre in this 1980 release that hurled one gag after another at audiences without the slightest regard to whether it rubbed anyone the wrong way. There was the bit with the two black gentlemen seated together whose speech is incomprehensible to the flight attendant until Barbara Billingsley of “Leave It To Beaver” fame offers to translate, explaining, “I speak jive.” There was Peter Graves’ Captain Oveur, who makes suggestive remarks to a young boy visiting the cockpit including, “Do you like gladiator movies?” There was the little boy who asks a little girl seated next to him how she likes her coffee: “Black, like my men.” There were the repeated drug references by Lloyd Bridges (“Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue.”) There was the Air Israel plane wearing a yarmulke. And on and on. Today the PC police would have to hire extra help in order to monitor this one picture.

And then the fantastic parody of liberal political correctness itself.

“Team America: World Police”
Few political satires exist at all. Fewer still jab the right and the left equally hard, and do so using marionettes and extremely bad taste. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of “South Park,” made this 2004 parody of the old “Thunderbirds” TV series with the intent of ridiculing all elements of the war on terror. It includes a reference to the Film Actors Guild by showing a news clip with the words “Alec Baldwin — F.A.G.” They make fun of the Broadway show “Rent” with their own called “Lease” that includes the song, “Everyone Has AIDS.” The film ridicules foreign languages like Spanish, French and Arabic by boiling them down to caricature levels; Kim Jong-il, the bad guy in the movie as in real life, greets people with “Herro” and calls weapons inspector Hans Blix “Hans Brix.” This picture is politically incorrect in the most virulent manner because it exists not to express a point of view, but rather to harpoon a broad section of the famous and powerful while offending as many as possible.

I guess the point is that parody and satire really have no place in cinema today -- it makes liberals uncomfortable.

And then this classic -- offensive, but because of the time in which it was made and teh bit of culture it keeps frozen on film.

“Song of the South”
This mixture of live action and animation probably doesn’t fit snugly into the category of politically incorrect comedies, simply because it isn’t a straight comedy but more a lighthearted family picture. Also, the depictions of African-Americans here weren’t mean to elicit laughs, but were done in earnest in an attempt to portray life in a particular time period, right after the Civil War. But there’s no doubt this could never be made today the same way. In fact, Disney has refused to even release the film on home video in the United States (although it is available overseas) because the portrayals of African-Americans would create a firestorm today. Uncle Remus, a wise old black man, tells the story of Brer Rabbit and his pals to cheer up little Johnny, a white kid. But most of the black people are shown as subservient to whites. This isn’t exactly “Birth of a Nation,” but in terms of racial stereotypes, it’s in that ballpark. “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song.

Must we really sanitize our past as a way of making a better future?

Anybody want to offer their own list?

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I'm hoping my darling wife doesn't see this story. The last thing I need is for her to start hearing sounds in the attic.

Almost immediately after Rebecca Peña moved into her house in Old East Dallas last month, strange things began to happen.

The chandelier would rattle. Once, when she was playing dominoes, she saw water begin to slosh – Jurassic Park-like – in a glass. She heard footsteps at night.

A family member suggested it was ghosts, but Ms. Peña was skeptical.

"I said, 'No, man, the footsteps are too heavy for ghosts,' " said Ms. Peña , 25, manager of a dry-cleaning business.

She thought it was more likely to be an animal.

But when she and her boyfriend took a flashlight and finally investigated the attic earlier this week, they discovered that they could definitely rule out mice.

She said the attic had been cordoned off with cloth. Beer and water bottles, a blanket and old shirts were littered about.

In short, someone had been living there, apparently sneaking out when Ms. Peña went to work and sneaking back before she returned.

She believes the intruder would jimmy the front door, walk through her living room and up the stairs.

"I work 12 hours a day, and nobody's there. My kids are in day-care," she said. "Somebody could do it and not get caught."

Could someone really get away with something like this? It looks like they may have, if the rest of the story is correct. Peñafrightened the guy out of the house, but he seems to have gotten back in. What happened when teh police came is even stranger.

When she went back in her house, she said, she thought she heard more noises coming from the attic – either the man had not really left, or someone else was up there.

According to the police report, Ms. Peña went into the attic and saw the man. She told him to leave, but he refused. She locked the door leading to the attic until police arrived, the report says.

Police said they searched the attic and found signs someone had been living there but were unable to find anyone.

Ms. Peña said that when they came back downstairs, she and the police heard more noises coming from upstairs, but a second search also came up empty.

On the advice of police, Ms. Peña had the attic door boarded up. When she left for work on Friday, she kept the television turned on.

I'm sure that there is some "public interest lawyer" preparing a suit right now, accusing Ms. Peña of violating the civil rights of the former resident of her attic. I mean, he isn't really an intruder who has been breaking and entering her house in violation of the law -- he is merely an undocumented resident willing to live in place Americans don't want to live.

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Looks like another instance of the Mexican government acting to undermine American sovereignty.

Two Tucson-based immigrant-aid groups were expected to sign an agreement of hospitality with the Mexican government Tuesday evening.

Members of the Coalición de Derechos Humanos/Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras and the faith-based No More Deaths movement were scheduled to sign the document, along with Jesus Lopez Quiroz of Mexico's National Institute of Migration and Enrique Flores Lopez of Sonora's State Commission for the Care of Migrants.

No More Deaths members say the agreement will formally allow the U.S.-based organizations to provide food, water, footwear and basic medical care to migrants on the Mexican side of the international border.

No More Deaths, which provides food, water and medical assistance to illegal entrants in distress on the U.S. side, has a new program of providing aid to migrants returned by U.S. authorities to Mexican ports of entry at Nogales and Agua Prieta.

The Coalición de Derechos Humanos/Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras is a grass-roots organization that aims to promote respect for human and civil rights and fights what it calls the militarization of the southern border region.

When are we going to cut off aid to the Mexican government until it acts to stop, rather than assist, the violation of our border by its citizens? And will the American government take action against these groups that are clearly aiding and abetting the violation of American law?

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Truth Laid Bear has a list of bloggers in the Israel and Lebanon who are covering the situation. The Bear also has a page devoted to topical posts on the crisis.

(H/T Tammy Bruce)

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He is willing to put his life on the line for you -- are you willing to do something to save his?

Rare is the occasion when a Navy SEAL needs help from his fellow Americans. Perhaps even rarer is the day an ordinary American can help a Navy SEAL. But Justin, 27, whose last name is not being disclosed at the request of the Defense Department, is in need, and Americans, especially readers in the Washington area, have an opportunity to help.

Last month, the Iraq war veteran was diagnosed with leukemia, which is normally treated with chemotherapy. Justin, however, has a rare condition that makes his best chance of survival dependent on a bone marrow transplant. Tragically, neither of Justin's siblings -- who often are the best match for transplants -- is a suitable donor. This makes the chance of finding a donor, according to Justin's sister, Jodi, about one in 25,000. Unless a match can be found, leukemia patients often die within months.

So, last week Justin's hometown newspaper, the East Brunswick, N.J., Sentinel, published a story asking local residents for help. While the Navy SEALs are busy conducting their own donor search, the potential donor field could be increased significantly if Washington-area readers are able to drive the three hours to Spotswood, N.J., where on Saturday the local high school is holding a one-day donor search, courtesy of the Defense Department's Donor Program (www.dodmarrow.org).

Testing is painless. Volunteers would be administered a simple swab on the inside of the cheek to find out if they're a match. That's it. In the rare case you are a match, the marrow extraction process itself is also relatively simple. The procedure includes the taking of a small amount of marrow via needle from the back of the pelvic bone, according to the Defense Department's Donor Program, at either Georgetown University Hospital or the University of Maryland's Greenbaum Medical Center in Baltimore. Patients are fully anesthetized at all times. Concerned readers are encouraged to contact Eddy Medina of the Defense Department program (800-627-7693 ext. 223) to learn more about the testing and procedure.

As quoted in the Sentinel, Justin's sister said: "When he was told that there was only a 30 percent chance of recovery, he replied, 'That's good. There was only a 10 percent chance of me becoming a SEAL'.?" The drive is being held at Spotswood High School, 105 Summerhill Road, Spotswood, N.J., this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Are you the person that Justin -- or someone else in need of a bone marrow transplant -- needs in order to live?

(H/T Michelle Malkin & Conservative Musings)

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In 2032 I will, God willing, turn 69. The data used to determine which states need special monitoring for racial discrimination in voting will turn 68 -- making it more than old enough to collect social security if that program still exists.

That is why today's knee-jerk renewal of certain provisions of that law is an absurd act of political cowardice by the House of Representatives.

The House yesterday easily approved an extension of key provisions of the landmark Voting Rights Act, after GOP leaders quelled a rebellion within the party's Southern ranks that threatened to become a political embarrassment.

Before the 390 to 33 vote to extend the measure for a quarter-century, the House defeated four amendments that would have diluted two expiring provisions and possibly derailed final passage before the November congressional elections. With the House hurdle now cleared, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said he hoped to bring the extension to the Senate floor before the August recess.

The act's temporary provisions do not expire until next year, but Republican leaders had hoped that early action would earn goodwill from minority voters as members of Congress head into a brutally competitive fall campaign season.

"Today, Republicans and Democrats have united in a historic vote to preserve and protect one of America's most important fundamental rights -- the right to vote," said House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

Wrong, Mr. Speaker. Democrats and Republicans have become a sleuth of pander-bears. These provisions were meant to expire in 1970, and use data that is woefully outdated to limit the effective coverage of the act to aonly a few states.

It seems clear that some members of Congress have been in hibernation for the last four decades.

In urging adoption of the act, Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, recalled marching on Bloody Sunday, a turning point in the movement for black voting rights in 1965, when the police in Selma, Ala., beat 600 civil rights demonstrators.

“I gave blood,” Mr. Lewis said, his voice rising, as he stood alongside photographs of the clash. “Some of my colleagues gave their very lives.”

“Yes, we’ve made some progress; we have come a distance,” he added. “The sad truth is, discrimination still exists. That’s why we still need the Voting Rights Act, and we must not go back to the dark past.”

Fine, I can accept some sort of renewal of these provisions of the VRA. But none of these provisions is about turning the clock back four decades. Indeed, one of the defeated amendments (opposed by Democrats as a killer amendment) would have targetted voting issues as they exist TODAY, not back when I was still an infant.

A second amendment, offered by Rep. Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. (R-Ga.), would have made every district potentially subject to the pre-clearance requirement, by including any jurisdiction where voter turnout fell below 50 percent in a presidential election. It would have eased the pre-clearance requirement for jurisdictions with voter turnout above 50 percent in three consecutive presidential elections, presuming that no court had found that discriminatory voting practices were employed. The measure failed 318 to 96.

Wow -- considering voter turnout in elections taking place TODAY was labelled as being against civil right. Applying the law to what happened in 2004 and what will happen in 2008 is not as important as correcting what happened in the election when Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater. Good grief -- would you accept the advice of a doctor who shunned MRIs and CAT scans and stuck strictly to old-fashioned x-rays because that was what he learned in medical school back in the 1960s? Of course not! Then why engage in the illogically absurd practice of using antiquated measures to determine racial discrimination -- and demand that they continue to be used for another quarter century?

Even suggesting that the renewal be done for a decade rather than a quarter century was labelled as a poison pill. Never mind that those who wrote these provisions thought it sufficient that they expire after five years -- now, four decades later, anything less than an extension of 25 years is tantamount to repealing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

I've expressed my frustration over this issue a number of times in the past. I'm not persuaded by anything I've read today. Far from being a profile in courage, the blind renewal of these provisions of the VRA is a profile in political and moral cowardice.

Here's hoping the Senate has the backbone either to make the Voting Rights Act relevant to the problems that exist today or to allow these provisions to expire as their authors intended them to do.

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Bob Dunn over at Fort Bend Now is reporting that the 5th Circuit will expedite the GOP appeal in the Tom Delay replacement case. The schedule is as follows.

Ruling late Thursday afternoon, the 5th Circuit agreed to a schedule proposed by BenkiserÂ’s attorneys, by which they would file their opening brief tomorrow, the state DemocratsÂ’ attorneys would file a response by July 21, the GOP would file a reply by July 26 and an appeals court panel of judges will take the case July 31.

The panel of judges will determine on July 31st whether theyÂ’ll hear oral arguments in the case.

That would permit them to rule by the August 4 date that the Texas GOP is claiming it needs to name a replacement -- and to come up for a replacement for THAT candidate if he/she is on the ballot for another office.

UPDATE: The Houston Chronicle, being the local paper of record, contains only a small blurb with significantly less information.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday granted an expedited hearing to the Texas Republican Party on its quest to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the ballot.

An order signed by Judge Fortunato "Pete" Benavides said the court will take up the case on July 31, but did not commit to hearing oral arguments.

Attorneys have until July 26 to file briefs.

The Texas Republican Party is appealing a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks that GOP Chair Tina Benkiser cannot declare DeLay ineligible to appear on the ballot and that the Republicans can take no action to replace DeLay. The lawsuit was brought by the Texas Democratic Party.

So much for fully informing the constituents of CD22 about a situation that directly impacts them. And only 9 hours later than the much more informative Fort Bend Now post cited above.

Thank God for Bob Dunn.

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I almost hesitate to write on this, for a liberal on another site accused me of being disrespectful and contemptuous of my students for noting their reading deficits in a recent post. But the reality is that students reaching high school do have literacy and/or fluency problems, and educators need to address them.

The Washington Post article notes this issue.

Educators said it's difficult to pin down one cause. Bad teaching, chaotic home lives, low expectations for some students, cultural bias, the fact that older students simply don't read enough -- all have been faulted.

And student attitude can be a factor.

"By late elementary school, kids who are struggling readers have developed strategies to avoid reading," said Sylvia Edwards, a reading specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education. "They are under the radar, scraping by."

Even in relatively affluent areas, over 20% of kids reach high school with serious reading difficulties -- a problem that is even more marked among minority and special population sub-groups. And unfortunately, most teachers at that level are not trained to teach reading, because that is a skill teacher training programs for secondary teachers presume is unnecessary because students are expected to be functionally literate by the time they reach middle school.

The teaching of reading therefore needs to continue beyond the primary grades, into the upper elementary grades and on through graduation. The high-stakes testing regimens of NCLB make this even more essential, for without those reading skills there is little hope of students ever passing the exams needed to graduate. That will mean revamping our teacher training paradigm, and retraining teachers already in the classroom to meet that new reality.

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A raid by Hezbollah terrorists operating out of Lebanon has resulted in Israeli military action in that neighboring country.

The Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah infiltrated the Israeli border Wednesday in a brazen raid, capturing two Israeli soldiers, killing three others and prompting Israeli attacks on the airport in Beirut and bridges, roads, power stations and military positions across the hillsides of southern Lebanon. Five more Israeli soldiers were killed after the army entered Lebanon in pursuit, one of the military's highest one-day death tolls in more than four years.

The capture of the soldiers and the fighting effectively opened a second front for Israel, whose troops entered the Gaza Strip last month in search of a soldier seized June 25. Within hours, reverberations rolled across an already tense region. The United States blamed Syria and Iran for the abduction, and Israeli tanks and troops moved toward the Lebanese border throughout the day. In Lebanon and elsewhere, the attack emboldened Hezbollah's supporters, who greeted the news by handing out sweets and setting off fireworks.

The fighting took a dramatic turn early Thursday with Israeli attacks on the Beirut airport and Hezbollah's television station in the capital's predominantly Shiite Muslim southern suburbs. Lebanese television reported that Israeli aircraft attacked two runways, forcing the facility to close and sending flights to airports elsewhere in the Middle East. Footage showed a column of black smoke drifting over the modern facility, considered an emblem of Lebanon's post-civil war reconstruction.

This is not a conflict Israel sought -- it is part of a response to the murderous actions of a foe tht wants noting less than the destruction of every Jew in the Middle East. Israel has time and again made concessions in search of peace, but the jihadis are unwilling that even a tiny sliver of teh Middle East remain in the hands of non-Muslims..

May God continue to bles teh people of israel, as he did their fathers in days of old.

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Texas Republicans have told the 5th Circuit that it needs a quick decision -- and that August 4 is the latest date for a decision that would allow for the replacement of Tom DeLay on the November ballot. It also asked Judge Sparks to stay his decision pending appeal.

Republicans pleaded with federal courts Tuesday to allow them to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the November ballot, saying that time is running out to make the change.

In separate motions to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and to U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, the Texas GOP said picking a DeLay replacement could "easily take 28 days" and must be completed by Sept. 1 so the state has enough time to print ballots.

Last week, Sparks ordered that DeLay's name remain on the ballot, saying efforts by Republican Chair Tina Benkiser to replace him by declaring that DeLay has become a Virginia resident violated the eligibility requirements of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution sets residency eligibility for election day.

The Republicans asked Sparks to set aside the portion of his order that prevents the party from moving forward with selecting a new nominee.

"Given the time it will take (the Republican Party) to fulfill the requirements in choosing a replacement nominee, or nominees if the replacement candidate is already on the ballot, as is likely, the Court of Appeals' decision in (the Republican Party's) favor would have to issue before Aug. 4," the party said in a motion to Sparks.

The motion filed by party General Counsel Donna Garcia Davidson told Sparks the party wants only to proceed with the replacement process while the case is appealed to the 5th Circuit.

Party attorney James Bopp Jr. asked the federal appeals court for an expedited hearing because of the tight time frame. He proposed that all briefs be filed in the case by July 26 and that a hearing be held July 31.

While I don't think that the selection process would take that long, there is no legitimate reason for not permitting Galveston and Brazoria Counties to pick their representatives for teh District Executive Committee -- or for them to meet and decide on a replacement candidate in the interim.

After all, what is the worst possible outcome? Wasted action and Delay remaining on the ballot.

Unless, of course, you are a Democrat -- in which case the worst outcome is the selection of a candidate even more likely to beat Lampson than Tom DeLay is.

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The entire purpose of the Geneva Conventions was to ensure that the laws of war were followed by all combattants. By acting in a certain manner, they acquired certain rights and protections -- and failing to act in that manner (uniforms, organization, refraining from intentional attacks on civilians) put one outside those protections.

We've just taken away our enemy's incentive for following the laws of war with this decision.

The Bush administration has agreed to apply the Geneva Conventions to all terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, bowing to the Supreme Court's recent rejection of policies that have imprisoned hundreds for years without trials.

The Pentagon announced yesterday that it has called on military officials to adhere to the conventions in dealing with al-Qaeda detainees. The administration also has decided that even prisoners held by the CIA in secret prisons abroad must be treated in accordance with international standards, an interpretation that would prohibit prisoners from being subjected to harsh treatment in interrogations, several U.S. officials said.

The developments underscored how the administration has been forced to retreat from its long-standing position that President Bush be given extensive leeway to determine how to interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects captured in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Until recently, the White House and Defense Department have pursued such anti-terrorism policies with little interference from Congress and the courts, but that has begun to change.

Since 2002, the administration has contended that the Geneva Conventions would be respected as a matter of policy but that they did not apply by law to terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or in U.S. military custody elsewhere. Administration officials have voiced concern that the conventions are too vague and could expose the military to second-guessing about appropriate treatment.

Now why would anyone follow rules if there is no penalty for breaking them? our terrorist enemies have now been tols that there are no consequences for engaging in terrorism rather than civilized military conduct -- so we can expect that terrorism will continue unabated.

What really needs to happen is on-the-spot executions of terrorists -- or detention followed by hearing-less executions for those who we believe have useful intelligence.

At least until the terrorists begin to follow Geneva.

WILLisms has an interesting look at the issue of Geneva and terrorists.

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Is internet gambling such an overwhelming problem that we need to effectively ban it? I don't think so.

The House easily approved a bill yesterday to curb online poker games, sports betting and other Internet-based wagering that gained infamy as a central focus of a major lobbying scandal.

The 317-to-93 vote came nearly six years to the day after a similar measure went down to surprise defeat. At the time, unknown to its conservative supporters, the bill was derailed by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the office of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, on behalf of the disgraced lobbyist's gambling clients.

"This is the opportunity to expunge a smear on this House done by many lobbyists," Abramoff included, said Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Va.), one of the legislation's chief sponsors. "Now is the time to set the record straight."

The bill that was passed yesterday seeks to restrain the booming but difficult-to-regulate Internet gambling business. Proponents of the crackdown said the industry, which is mostly based overseas, provides a front for money laundering, some of it by drug sellers and terrorist groups, while preying on children and gambling addicts. Americans bet an estimated $6 billion per year online, accounting for half the worldwide market, according to analysis by the Congressional Research Service.

Critics said the bill overreaches and would be difficult to enforce. At its heart are two provisions. One would update the 1961 Wire Act, which bars gambling entities from using wire-based communications for transmitting bets, to include the Internet. The other aims at cutting off the money flow from players to Internet gambling sites by barring the use of electronic payments, such as credit-card transactions.

The biggest losers could be the estimated 23 million Americans who play poker over the Internet. "This bill would needlessly make outlaws of the millions of adult Americans who enjoy online poker, and is the latest example of how our representatives in Congress are ignoring real issues facing our country," warned the grass-roots Poker Players Alliance, in an alert to its more than 25,000 members.

While I consider the "ignoring the real issues" line to be a red herring (Congress can do many different pieces of legislation at once -- it isn't like nothing else was going on while this one worked its way through the committee and the full House), I agree that this is an area where there is no genuine reason to intrude. Given teh fact that we are legalizing gambling in more and more states, it seems absurd to prevent people from using the latest technology to gamble from their homes -- or to ban the most practical method of dealing with the financial transactions that go along with it.

And for the record, i don't gamble on the internet.

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It appears that the jihadis have attacked another non-Muslim democracy in an attempt to impose their backwards system upon its people.

A series of seven explosions killed at least 174 people on crowded commuter trains and stations Tuesday evening in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said.

Officials said at least 464 people were injured in the blasts in the city's western suburbs as commuters made their way home. All seven blasts came within an 11-minute span, between 6:24 and 6:35 p.m. (12:54 and 1:05 p.m. GMT).

Analysts are comparing the attack with the mass transit bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London last year, saying they all involved a series of mutiple blasts and were well-coordinated.

There was some confusion about the number of dead and injured as information was compiled from hospitals and explosion sites in Mumbai, the west Indian seaport previously called Bombay.

"There still are bodies being recovered," said Pooja Saxena, with the International Federation of the Red Cross, speaking early Wednesday.

The Indian governemnt attributes the attack to Indian Muslim radical Dawood Ibrahim, who has connections to several al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

This is not the first such attack in India. It has a long history of violence by Muslims against Hindus, dating back to before its independence from Britain. Indeed, at one time the Mughals ruled most of the Indian sub-continent with the iron fist of Islam. Thirteen years ago, the Indian stock exchange was the site of a bloody attack.

I join with my Indian brothers and sisters in mourning the deaths of innocent, and urge them to resolve to root out the jihadis among them, showing no mercy at all to those responsible for this unspeakable horror.

Interesting coverage at Captain's Quarters.

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Rogue prosecutor Ronnie Earl, the political hack who needed no fewer than six grand juries to indict Tom DeLay on crimes that didn't even exist under state law, doesn't want to let the people have a view into the operations of his office.

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is suing to keep secret the details about his investigation of indicted former House majority leader Tom DeLay.

The Houston Chronicle filed a request under Texas' open records law in March seeking vouchers, hotel and airfare receipts, budget documents, memos and e-mails describing the expenses for the DeLay inquiry and related investigations.

DeLay, indicted last year on conspiracy and money laundering charges connected to the financing of 2002 state legislative races, resigned from Congress on June 9.

Earle, in his attempt to keep details of his investigation out of public view, appealed to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, arguing that releasing the information could compromise the prosecution.

The state's lawyer, who reviewed examples of the information, generally ruled that Earle didn't have to disclose secret information related to grand jury investigations. But the attorney general noted that the public records law requires disclosure of "information in an account, voucher, or contract" relating to the expenditure of public monies, the Austin American-Statesman reported Tuesday.

Now this is the same Ronnie Earle who allowed his investigation to be followed by a friendly documentary producer who has released the film before the trial, prejudicing the ability of Delay to get an impartial jury. But he doesn't want to let the newspaper in the largest city in the state -- the one most read in CD22 -- have access to public douments that would show the lenghts that this latter-day Captain Ahab has gone to harpoon his nemesis.

Furthermore, what is he trying to hide? Any evidence this investigation produced would have to be turned over to the DeLay defense team as a part of discovery. Is he contemplating a (or should I say "another") violation of DeLay's rights by withholding some of that evidence?

Seems to me that Ronnie Earle's refusal to produce document under the Public Information Act is the basis for an independent investigation of the Travis County prosecutor's office, and his conduct in the DeLay case.

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It looks like Japan may come to realize that the best defense is a good offense when it comes to a rogue state like North Korea.

In their toughest comments to date on North Korea's missile tests, Japanese officials on Monday called for a debate on whether Japan should pursue military capabilities that would enable preemptive strikes at North Korean missile bases. Japan currently does not possess such technology.

At the same time, Japan backed away from pushing for a vote at the U.N. Security Council on Monday on a measure to impose tough sanctions on North Korea. U.S. and Japanese diplomats have continued to face regional opposition to the plan, particularly from China and South Korea, the communist state's most important benefactors.

Ultimately, regional objections must be ignored. The reality is that the North Korean dictator cannot be permitted to have access to nuclear weapons or their delivery systems. That means that force must be applied, because he has repeatedly indicated his unwillingness to give them up.

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And the world is a cleaner place for it.

Shamil Basayev, the ruthless Chechen rebel leader responsible for terror attacks that led to the deaths of more than 800 people, was killed Monday when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded in this village of red brick houses next to a muddy field.

This was teh bastard responsible for the Beslan massacre of school children two years ago. I'm sure there is a special corner of Hell reserved for him. I hope he has already received his 72 virgins -- only to discover that a penis is denied him in the afterlife.

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This isn't comforting -- because many of the planes from Hobby Airport fly right over my part of town.

Houston police and the federal Transportation Security Administration disagree over who is responsible for allowing a man with what appeared to be bomb components board an aircraft at Hobby Airport last week.

Although the FBI eventually cleared the man of wrongdoing, police officials have transferred the officer involved and are investigating the incident while insisting that the TSA, not police, has the authority to keep a suspicious person from boarding a flight.

"Our job is not to be the gatekeepers," police Capt. Dwayne Ready said. "That burden falls squarely on the airline and TSA to make that final decision.

"We are looking at our role in the situation to make sure our policies were adhered to," he said. "During follow-up, we are finding that there simply was not a material threat."

TSA spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said screeners have the authority to stop people from going beyond the checkpoint to the boarding areas, but they rely heavily on local police.

"It's just agencies talking with each other," Ready said, downplaying the disagreement.

This article is really distressing, the further you read. Sounds like there are turf battles in all this.

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Tthe winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The Wild, Wild West(ern Europe) by Gates of Vienna, and Declaration of Independence: A Fisking by Outside the Beltway. 

You can find the full results of the vote here.

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When the FBI raided the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-Cold Cash In The Freezer), I argued that it was absurd for Congress to claim that it was exempt from search warrants issued according to the Fourth Amendment.

Well, a federal judge backed my position today.

An FBI raid on a Louisiana congressman's Capitol Hill office was legal, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said members of Congress are not above the law. He rejected requests from lawmakers and Democratic Rep. William Jefferson to return material seized by the FBI in a May 20-21 search of Jefferson's office.

In a 28-page opinion, Hogan dismissed arguments that the first-ever raid on a congressman's office violated the Constitution's protections against intimidation of elected officials.

The attempt to apply the Speech and Debate Clause to this was patently absurd. The judge dismissed it out of hand. Futhermore, he also rejected the notion that the raid breached the separation of powers.

"No one argues that the warrant executed upon Congressman Jefferson's office was not properly administered," Hogan wrote. "Therefore, there was no impermissible intrusion on the Legislature. The fact that some privileged material was incidentally captured by the search does not constitute an unlawful intrusion."

I particularly love this quote.

If there is any threat to the separation of powers here, it is not from the execution of a search warrant by one co-equal branch of government upon another, after the independent approval of the third separate, and co-equal branch. Rather, the principle of the separation of powers is threatened by the position that the Legislative Branch enjoys the unilateral and unreviewable power to invoke an absolute privilege, thus making it immune from the ordinary criminal process of a validly issued search warrant. This theory would allow Members of Congress to frustrate investigations into non-legislative criminal activities for which the Speech or Debate Clause clearly provides no protection from prosecution.

Read the whole opinion here.

(H/T Captain's Quarters, Stop the ACLU, Gay Patriot, GOPBloggers)

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If the ACLU is the "voice of civil liberties" from teh Left, then the Right has two such groups -- the ACLJ and the Alliance Defense Fund. The ADF is profiled today in the Washington Post.

A 29-foot war memorial shaped like a cross should be allowed to remain on public land. A teacher should be able to emphasize references to God in the Declaration of Independence. Protesters should be permitted to approach women near the doors of an abortion clinic.

These courtroom fights and dozens of others pending across the country belong to the portfolio of the ambitious Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal consortium. It spends $20 million a year seeking to protect what it regards as the place of religion -- and especially Christianity -- in public life.

Considering itself the antithesis of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Scottsdale-based organization has used money and moxie to become the leading player in a movement to tug the nation to the right by challenging decades of legal precedent. By stepping into the nation's most impassioned debates about religion in the public sphere, the group aims to bring law and society into alignment with conservative Christianity.

There are those who argue that the group's Christian orientation puts it at odds with the First Amendment. That is nonsense. While the First Amendment clearly forbids establishing a religion as the national church, there is nothing in it which prohibits the people from enacting laws which reflect their views -- even if those views grow from their faith. And there is certainly no requirement that people of faith take a backseat to secularists. That is why the Alliance Defense Fund exists.

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The kind folks over at GOPBloggers highlighted this group this morning. After the press has raised questions about Romney's ability to get support from evangelicals because of his religion, I'm glad to see this response.

ButÂ…HeÂ’s a Mormon.

Yes, Gov. Romney is a Mormon. We are not. According to the liberal media, this is an unbridgeable gap, and evangelicals will never turn out to support a faithful Mormon like Mitt Romney. As usual, the media have it wrong. And they root their error (as usual) in a fundamental misunderstanding about American evangelicals—seeing us as ignorant and intolerant simpletons who are incapable of making sophisticated political value judgments.

To be perfectly clear, we believe Gov. Romney is not only acceptable to conservative Christians, but that he is clearly the best choice for people of faith. He is right on all the issues, and he has proven his positions with actions. He is a gifted and persuasive spokesman for our political and moral values. Here is the bottom line: the 2008 election is for president, not pastor. We would never advocate that the Governor become our pastor or lead our churches—we disagree with him profoundly on theological issues. But we reject the notion that the president of the United States has to be in perfect harmony with our religious doctrine. In fact, that is not a test that has been applied before—after all, Jimmy Carter was probably more theologically in line with evangelicals than Ronald Reagan, yet we believe that Reagan was clearly the better choice in 1980.

Let’s leave the absurd religious litmus test to the Democrats. What we want is a president who shares our moral and political values and will put them into action. A President Romney would do that—just as he’s done in Massachusetts—making him stand head and shoulders above the rest of the field.

Finally, it is not just our theory that evangelicals will support Governor Romney. In March, 2006, he shocked the political establishment by finishing second at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll in Memphis, Tennessee. We led the grassroots effort that put him above John McCain and George Allen, and where did he get the vast majority of his support? From the very Southern evangelicals who the media is convinced will not support a Mormon from Massachusetts.

Go by and take a look at the group's site.

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I've noted more than once that Judge Sparks' ruling might mean DeLay coming back to Texas and making the run for Congress.

Well, look at Time Magazine.

A source close to the ex-Congressman tells TIME that DeLay is planning an aggressive campaign to retake the House seat he quit in June if an appeals court lets stand a ruling by a federal judge last week that his name must stay on November's ballot—even though he has moved to Virginia.

"If it isn't overturned, Katy bar the door!" says a G.O.P. official. "Guess he'll have to fire up the engines on the campaign and let 'er rip."

So it may be that the result of the lawsuit by the JackAss Party is the return of Tom DeLay to Congress -- because after all, they went to court demanding that he remain the GOP candidate.

(H/T Captain's Quarters, Strata-Sphere, Texas Rainmaker, Outside the Beltway, Blogs for Bush & GOPBloggers)

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Corporal Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Palestinians two weeks ago.

His cousin, Jonathan Shalit (who discoverd singer Charlotte Church), writes to remind us all that those who target Israelis in such ways are not "militants" but terrorists, just like those who committed murder on 9/11 and 7/7.

It is now a fortnight since Palestinian terrorists tunnelled under the Gaza border and crossed into sovereign Israeli territory, bringing fear and bloodshed to an ordinary Sunday tea time.

They killed two soldiers who were guarding an army post and, infamously, kidnapped a 19-year-old boy, Corporal Gilad Shalit.

He has not been seen since.

The only news of him for his grieving parents and an anxious Israeli nation comes in the form of repeated ransom demands from the Hamas terrorists believed to be holding him hostage on the direct orders of their Syrian-based leader, Khaled Meshaal.

I have a personal connection to these terrible events: Cpl Shalit is a relative of mine.

I do not want to claim that Gilad is more than a distant cousin. He is not.

He is less than half my age and, although I am told we have met, I cannot recall it.

But he represents the sort of direct connection to the land of Israel shared by many, if not most, British Jews.

To me, and to them, this abduction is not just another episode in this long-running conflict, happening in a place far away.

This is not just another anonymous Israeli. It is personal.

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I was up at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library yesterday, on a bus trip with a group from church. While in the gift shop, I bought myself a ball cap for the USS George H. W. Bush, CVN 77 -- because this Navy brat has always had a soft spot for ship ball caps, ever since my father gave me one when he was XO of USS Savannah.

Imagine my surprise -- and my pleasure -- to come across this article today.

David Rushing was perched high above the ground Saturday morning in the cab of the big blue crane at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s shipyard.

He was awaiting orders to lift into place the final large piece of the George H.W. Bush, the aircraft carrier being built at the yard. The section to be moved was the 700-ton "island," the tall structure found atop all carriers that houses each ship's bridge, its main flight control center and radar and communications equipment.

On this day, which marked a major milestone in the construction of the 10th and final Nimitz-class carrier, Rushing waited for his instructions. They came from an unlikely source - the ship's namesake and the country's president from 1989 to 1993.

"David Rushing, this is George H. W. Bush," the former president announced via walkie-talkie, while standing under a ceremonial tent on the ship's flight deck. "Are you receiving me clearly in the 900-ton crane?"

Rushing replied: "Yes, sir, Mr. President."

"David, contact your crane crew and hoist the island house and bring it to the flight deck," Bush said.

"I copy, Mr. President. Hoisting the island house to flight deck," Rushing responded."

In October, the USS George H. W. Bush will be formally christened and launched into the James River. In 2008, she will be delivered to the Navy and join the fleet -- a fitting tribute for the youngest man ever to serve as a pilot in the US Navy, a combat veteran who survived to serve his country as a Congressman, UN Ambassador, Special Envoy to China, CIA Director, Vice President, and President.

The former president looks at the matter with typical humility and grace.

"This may be the nicest thing that's ever happened to me," Bush said, adding that he's had "far more than his fair share of nice things" happen to him. "They've named this ship after me and I'm not even dead yet.

"One thing I want to make clear is that I certainly don't feel entitled to this high honor. I feel no sense of entitlement nor sense of possession - simply pride and honor."

And lest we ever forget that the Bush family, while springing from a background of wealth, privilege, and power, is very much an all-American family, is very much a typical American family, consider this little anecdote.

To remember the day, Barbara Bush used her digital camera to snap pictures of the island as it was moved into position. Her husband and daughter posed in front of the massive structure for some shots.

These are folks who could have had any number of pictures taken and fowarded to them by the official photographers. Consider it one of the perks of being a former President and First Lady of the United States -- and the parents of the sitting President. But instead you've got just another family taking pictures for the family album. It sort of reminds you that we have, since the founding of the Republic, strived to avoid aristocracy and made "Citizen" the most honored and honorable title any Anerican can claim.

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