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Minuteman volunteers build a fence along the U.S./Mexican border near Palominas, Ariz., Saturday, May 27, 2006. Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.

ASSociated Press: Minutemen installing Ariz. border fence

Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps plans to install a combination of barbed wire, razor wire, and in some spots, steel rail barriers along the 10-mile stretch of private land in southeastern Arizona.

They hope it prompts the federal government to do the same along the entire Arizona border.

President Bush has pledged to deploy as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to strengthen enforcement at the border. The guardsmen would fill in on some behind-the-lines Border Patrol jobs while that agency’s force is expanded.

President Bush has had FIVE years and the border has NOT been secured - even after 9/11. If the federal government won’t secure the border then private citizens should.

And where is the National Guard that the President promised?

But the Minutemen have said it’s not enough. The group’s founder, Chris Simcox, said they want a secure fence and they’re starting at the site where his first patrols began in November 2002.

Rancher Jack Ladd and his son, John, were hopeful the effort would limit the illegal immigrants and drug runners who have cut the small fence along the property or just driven over it to cross into the U.S.

“We’ve been fighting this thing for 10 years with the fence, and nobody will do anything,” Jack Ladd said.

Most of the day was dedicated to speeches from politicians and Minutemen leaders and celebrating large donations the Minutemen group has been receiving.

Minuteman spokeswoman Connie Hair said it would take up to three weeks to build the estimated $100,000 fence. So far, the group has raised $380,000 for more border fences, she said.

Timothy Schwartz of Glendale, Ariz., who was among at least 200 volunteers gathered, said he wants to see a fence along the border from California to Texas.

“We’re not going to stop,” Schwartz said. “We’re going to stay here with a group and keep building.”

Michelle Malkin has DO-IT-YOURSELF BORDER CONTROL

The Minutemen began a fence-building project in Arizona today–and they didn’t ask Mexico’s permission.

Wanna help? Go here.

And why not?

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Ned Lamont, Sen. Joe Lieberman

Los Angeles Times: Strong Signs of Rift Among Democrats

Support for a challenger to longtime Sen. Joe Lieberman indicates tensions over Iraq war.

The liberal challenge to Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) escalated Friday when the political arm of MoveOn.org, an influential online advocacy group, endorsed the political newcomer opposing his bid for renomination.

Gaining the support of MoveOn’s political action committee was Ned Lamont, a businessman who wants to unseat Lieberman largely because of the veteran lawmaker’s staunch support for the war in Iraq.

The group announced its backing after polling MoveOn’s members in Connecticut.

MoveOn has emerged as a leading voice for left-leaning activists, and the endorsement marks the first time that its PAC has sought to unseat an incumbent Democratic senator.

“Lamont’s message resonated with members who want a senator who will stand up to President Bush on key issues and represent the views of most people in Connecticut,” said Eli Pariser, executive director of the MoveOn PAC.

With the endorsement, the group will seek to raise money and generate volunteers for Lamont among MoveOn’s 3.2 million members nationwide.

Lamont earlier this week gained an endorsement from Democracy for America, a liberal grass-roots group that Howard Dean established as his campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination foundered. Dean gave up his leadership role when he became chairman of the Democratic National Committee last year, but the group is headed by his brother, Jim Dean.

Lamont’s candidacy also has become a priority for many liberal websites, such as Daily Kos — whose founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, recently appeared in one of Lamont’s television advertisements.

With the involvement of these groups, the face-off between Lieberman and Lamont in Connecticut’s Aug. 8 primary has emerged as the focal point of tensions between Democratic liberals and centrists over the party’s direction.

Lefties eating their OWN in a Democrat Party civil war. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.

But, the LEFT wants to dominate the Democrat Party. Will they succeed?

We can only hope…….

Stay tuned……..

Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga and Lamont in Hartford.

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Iran’s former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi taken during a news conference in Tehran on June 21, 2005. Karroubi urged Saturday May 27, 2006, for direct talks with the United States to break down the ‘walls of mistrust’ between their countries, but said his nation would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel and pursue other technological advances.

New York Times: U.S. Is Debating Talks With Iran on Nuclear Issue

The Bush administration is beginning to debate whether to set aside a longstanding policy taboo and open direct talks with Iran, to help avert a crisis over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, European officials and Americans close to the administration said Friday.

European officials who have been in contact with the administration in recent weeks said the discussion was heating up, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice worked with European foreign ministers to persuade Iran to suspend its efforts to enrich uranium.

European leaders make no secret of their desire for the United States to join in the talks with Iran, if only to show that the Americans have gone the extra mile to avoid a confrontation that could spiral into a fight over sanctions or even military action.

But since the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the crisis over the seizure of American hostages in November that year, the United States has avoided direct talks with Iran. There were sporadic contacts during the war in Afghanistan, in the early stages of the Iraq war and in the days after the earthquake in Bam, Iran, at the end of 2003.

European officials say Ms. Rice has begun discussing the issue with top aides at the State Department. Her belief, they say, is that ultimately the matter will have to be addressed by the administration’s national security officials, whether talks with Iran remain at an impasse or even if there is some progress.

But others who know her well say she is resisting on the ground that signaling a willingness to talk would show weakness and disrupt the delicate negotiations with Europe. Ms. Rice is also said to fear that the administration might end up making too many concessions to Iran.

Administration officials said President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have opposed direct talks, even through informal back channels. As a result, many European officials say they doubt that a decision to talk is likely soon.

The prospect of direct talks between the United States and Iran is so politically delicate within the Bush administration that the officials who described the emerging debate would discuss it only after being granted anonymity.

Another anonymous source New York Times piece touting those fools from the Council on Foreign Relations who want United States enegagement with Iran.

Discussion about possible American contacts with Iran has been fueled not simply by the Europeans, but by a growing chorus of outsiders with ties to the administration who have spoken out in favor of talks.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in a recent column in The Washington Post, raised the possibility that the recent rambling letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President Bush — dismissed by Ms. Rice as an offensive tirade— could be seen as an opportunity to open contacts.

Both Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former top aide to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, and Richard L. Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state under Mr. Powell, have also advocated talks with Iran.

“Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends,” Mr. Armitage said in a telephone interview. “You’ve got to talk to people who aren’t our friends, and even people you dislike. Some people in the administration think that diplomacy is a sign of weakness. In fact, it can show that you’re strong.”

Mr. Armitage held the last high-level discussions with Iran, after the Bam earthquake. In November 2004, Mr. Powell sat next to the Iranian foreign minister at a dinner during a conference in Egypt on Iraq, but he said they engaged only in small talk.

Ths piece was probably dictated to the New York Times by master-leaker Richard Armitage. But, he and other Iran appeasers/engagers like Kevin Drum miss a salient point:

Iran Does NOT WANt to Negotiate!

Iran stalls and uranium enrichment continues. The United States policy is for Iran to halt all uranium enrichment and subject their nuclear facilities to complete and thorough IAEA inspections, then negoitiate.

If Iran were to comply, then negotiations would be welcome. Before then……NO WAY!

The current Bush Administration policy is the RIGHT one.

Stay tuned…….

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Flap is returning home to Thousand Oaks today from Northern California.

So, please head over to the Bear Flag League Community over at N.Z. Bear’s The Truth Laid Bear and read some of the excellent posts.

Flap knows you will be glad you did and……..

See you soon!

Day By Day by Chris Muir

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