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Mexico Presidential Election Watch: Mark In Mexico is Live Bogging the Election
Mexican presidential candidates Felipe Calderon (R) of the National Action Party (PAN) and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in Mexico City. Mexico’s presidential elections were too close to call said TV Azteca and Televisa, according to exit polls broadcast minutes after the end of the race.
Mark in Mexico is live blogging the election here.
Latest results at time of post:
UPDATE IV, 10:05 pm:
% reporting: 15.23
President
PAN (Calderon): 39.19
PRD (AMLO): 35.34
PRI (who cares): 18.81Senate
PAN: 36.24
PRD: 29.35
PRI: 25.50Diputados
PAN: 35.84
PRD: 28.47
PRI: 25.93
Technorati Tags: Mexico, FeipeCalderon, AndresManuelLopezObrador
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Cox & Forkum: Independence Day 2006
Cox & Forkum: Independence Day 2006
The National Archives has an excellent Web site for the Declaration of Independence, including a detailed history and high-resolution images of the actual document. From the introduction:
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation’s most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson’s most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in “self-evident truths” and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. We invite you to read a transcription of the complete text of the Declaration.
Click this link for a larger image.Â
Just a day away from the birthday party……
Stay tuned……
Technorati Tags: Cox&Forkum, IndependenceDay, DeclarationofIndependence, FourthofJuly
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Iran Nuclear Watch: The Military’s Problem with the President’s Iran Policy
Author Seymour Hersh appeared on CNN with Wolf BlitzerThe New Yorker: LAST STAND
The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
If you like fiction, anonymous sources, carping at the President and Defense Secretary by retired old fart generals who were passed over and pundits from lefty “think tanks,” you might like Hersh’s story. The incessant Bush and Rumsfeld bashing gets a little old but hey – Hersh has an agenda – and it ain’t the truth.Hersch adds nothing new and his piece appears to be outdated in lieu of the last couple of weeks events.
Stay tuned as Iran attempts to forestall the inevitable – a halt in uranium enrichment.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Wide Awakes Radio Watch: Stop The ACLU Radio
Stop The ACLU: Stop The ACLU Radio Show
If you haven’t heard yet, a huge line up of conservative bloggers will now be getting their own talk radio shows on Wide Awakes Radio. The launch is on the 4th of July, and we will have our first show next Saturday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. That will be a weekly show for the time being.
Wide Awakes Radio’s Main Website is here
Here you will find true conservative political discussion, not like that crap that comes out of D.C.
We have some of the hottest Right Thinking Political Bloggers, lined up and ready to explain why the Left sucks, why Bush is wrong on immigration and what we can do to make it all better.
We launch on July 4th at 6 A.M. Pacific and you can call us at 1-888-407-1776 (even our phone number drips Patriotism 4th of July, 1776!)
Looks interesting……
Check it out.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
H/T Expose The Left
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Technorati Tags: WideAwakesRadio, StopTheACLU
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Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Bill Keller of The New York Times, with the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Exose the Left: Keller: ‘If You’re Under The Impression That The Press Is Neutral’, ‘That Couldn’t Be More Wrong’ (VIDEO)
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller appeared on Face the Nation to defend his treasonous decision to publish information about the SWIFT program, which tracked terrorists’ banking accounts.
Keller attempted to play the sympathy card, saying the public doesn’t know when the NY Times DOES NOT publish sensitive information. If that wasn’t disgusting enough, Keller continued his defense and summed up the leak as “one man’s breach of security is another man’s public relations.â€
As if that wasn’t disgusting enough; Keller continues to amaze us when he is asked for his closing thoughts about the incident as we begin to celebrate Independence Day:
Ian’s video is here: VIDEO – .WMV
Watch it all for a stomach turning experience.
Bill Keller is a LIBERAL SANCTIMONIOUS HORSES ASS.
The Wall Street Journal calls home out with Fit and Unfit to Print
Mr. Keller’s argument that the terrorists surely knew about the Swift monitoring is his own leap of faith. The terror financiers might have known the U.S. could track money from the U.S., but they might not have known the U.S. could follow the money from, say, Saudi Arabia. The first thing an al Qaeda financier would have done when the story broke is check if his bank was part of Swift.
Just as dubious is the defense in a Times editorial this week that “The Swift story bears no resemblance to security breaches, like disclosure of troop locations, that would clearly compromise the immediate safety of specific individuals.” In this asymmetric war against terrorists, intelligence and financial tracking are the equivalent of troop movements. They are America’s main weapons.
Which brings us back to the New York Times. We suspect that the Times has tried to use the Journal as its political heatshield precisely because it knows our editors have more credibility on these matters.
As Alexander Bickel wrote, the relationship between government and the press in the free society is an inevitable and essential contest. The government needs a certain amount of secrecy to function, especially on national security, and the press in its watchdog role tries to discover what it can. The government can’t expect total secrecy, Bickel writes, “but the game similarly calls on the press to consider the responsibilities that its position implies. Not everything is fit to print.” The obligation of the press is to take the government seriously when it makes a request not to publish. Is the motive mainly political? How important are the national security concerns? And how do those concerns balance against the public’s right to know?
The problem with the Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don’t. On issue after issue, it has become clear that the Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush Administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it.
Bill Keller have lost all credibility. The New York Times and their minions are scrambling on the TV talk shows to rationalize their decision. The public is NOT with them and will vote with their feet and walk away from buying their newspapers and advertising their products/services. Bankruptcy for the New York Times would not be too good for a pompous ass like Keller and his Publisher Arthur Sulzberger.
Perhaps Mr. Keller has been listening to his boss, Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who in a recent commencement address apologized to the graduates because his generation “had seen the horrors and futility of war and smelled the stench of corruption in government.
“Our children, we vowed, would never know that. So, well, sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be this way,” the publisher continued. “You weren’t supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights,” and so on. Forgive us if we conclude that a newspaper led by someone who speaks this way to college seniors has as a major goal not winning the war on terror but obstructing it.
How can this dynamic duo even pretend to use the First Amendment for their misdeeds? And blame the Bush Administration for being embarassed that people leak to the press? Or government abuse or secrecy?
How do you spell OVER THE TOP BIAS?
Among the program’s successes was the capture of an Al Qaeda operative
known as Hambali, believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 bombing of
a Bali resort, several officials said.Blogosphere:
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Global War on Terror Watch: Hugh Hewitt Vs. Eric Lichtblau on CNN Reliable Sources
Expose The Left: Hewitt Takes On Lichtblau, NY Times: ‘Story Helped Terrorists Elude Capture’ (VIDEO)
Conservative Hugh Hewitt appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources, opposite of a liberally stacked panel, which included Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post, and Geneva Overholser from the U. of Missouri School of Journalism.
Even though he was outnumbered, Hewitt did manage to fight it out with Lichtblau, who refuses to appear on his nationally syndicated radio talk show. Hugh expressed the sentiment most Americans seem to feel; that what was done helped the terrorists. Moderator Howard Kurtz calls this thinking a “political attack†on the New York Times, however doesn’t think to mention that this was a “political attack†on the administration.
Watch the VIDEO – .WMV
Ian has a full transcript here.
Since this program was taped a few days ago it appears the MSM has coalesced around a “company line.” This line of defense is: All of the terrorists knew about this program anyway.
But, then the reader has to ask: Why publish a story everyone knew about on the front page of the New York and Los Angeles Times?
Does the MSM seem a little disingenious when called on the carpet for a bad call?
You betcha…..
Hugh Hewitt last week calls Eric Lichtblau out:
He declines interviews with me, but agrees to CNN and NPR.
He’s making money off of his “scoops.”
His reporting while in California was critized as deeply dishonest and partisan, especially with regards to Congressman Darrell Issa’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1998.
And Lichtblau’s been waging a “war against the war” since 2002. (More here and here.)
And why won’t Lichtblau or Bill Keller be interviewed by non-MSM press? Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles times had the guts to go on Hewitt’s radio program last week (listen to the interview here). And he revealed some interesting facts of how and why the Los Angeles Times reached their decision to publish this story. Why not Keller and Lichtblau? Is it beneath you?
The MSM wagons are certainly circling around to defend the New York and Los Angeles Times on First Amendment grounds. It is obvious by polling data and blog traffic that they are smarting (circulation,advertising,public opinion) from their bad decision to reveal classified secrets for a program according to Lichtblau and Keller about which every terrorist knew or should have known.
The New York Times cannot have a “scoop” and then next week when it is no longer in vogue or they face intense criticism say no it wasn’t. And why not?
How do you spell HYPOCRISY?
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President 2008 Watch: Senator Joe Biden – “I’m IN”
Union Leader: Slamming Bush, Biden declares candidacy
After more than 30 years in the United States Senate and nearly 20 years after his first try for his party’s Presidential nomination, Joseph Biden has no doubts about making another run for the White House.
“I’m in,†the Delaware Democrat said Friday as he began a five-day visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state.
“I know I’m supposed to hedge, but I’m in.â€
Biden dropped out of the 1988 nomination race amid allegations of plagiarism. He then suffered a cerebral aneurysm virtually on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.
Good ol’ slow Joe Plagiarising Biden – welcome to the Presidential 2008 ARENA.
Hey Joe!
Who will write your speeches this time?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran AGAIN Rejects Deadline for Response to P-5-plus-1 Proposal
Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Bushehr, south of Tehran. Iran has again rejected a deadline to respond to an international offer aimed at resolving a nuclear standoff after world powers said they expected a “clear and substantive response” by mid-July.
AFP: Iran rejects deadline for nuclear response
Iran has again rejected a deadline to respond to an international offer aimed at resolving a nuclear standoff after world powers said they expected a “clear and substantive response” by mid-July.
“A deadline is not an issue. We think such statements are not constructive and they will not help in resolving the problem. We will respond next month (according to the Iranian calendar),” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
He said several committees were studying the offer and that Iran would deliver its response “sometime” after July 23.
In the meantime, yesterday, President Ahmadinejad traveling in Africa said Tehran will continue its uranium enrichment programme, despite international calls to halt the sensitive project, reported state television on Saturday.
“The Iranian government and the people have decided, and without any doubt with dignity and glory we will pass this phase,” said Ahmadinejad, after explaining Iran’s fuel cycle programme to Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo in Gambia.
Ahmadinejad is in Gambia to address the African Union summit.
And Iran continues to STALL…..
Rejecting allegations that Iran was seeking to buy time, Asefi said: “It is not a question of tactics and wasting time. It is a multi-dimensional package and takes time to examine”.
“There are ambiguities (in the package) which need to be discussed with the Europeans,” Asefi added.
“We will submit a logical response considering our country’s rights and interests,” he said, referring to the demands for a freeze in enrichment, a process which provides fuel for nuclear plants but can also form the core of an atomic bomb.
“Alleviating the West’s concerns should not be interpreted as sacrificing our interests,” Asefi added.
And what Asefi is really saying to the Western media cycle is:
Iran will take its good time in telling you fools NO. But, in case you infidels do NOT understand we will try to turn the negotiations into BLAMING YOU. And, by the way, infidels, Iran has every intention to make a nuclear weapon – so stick it.
Stay tuned for the Western response……
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
Technorati Tags: Iran, MahmoudAhmadinejad
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Day By Day by Chris Muir July 2, 2006
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