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Mike Huckabee: "I Think This Two-State Solution Is Nonsense."

Mike Huckabee moved to the right of both parties when it comes to Israel in an interview with an evangelical magazine. He was asked, "What about Israel and the Palestinians? Any hope there?" The following was his answer:

"I've been to Israel 10 times; I've also been to virtually every other country in the area. This may put me in such a small minority, but I think this two-state solution is nonsense. If we're trying to get these two warring factions to occupy the same piece of real estate with two political entities layering over each other, that's absurd. We wouldn't tolerate it and they're not going to tolerate it. We shouldn't try to prolong the sense of that happening. [Israelis] not only have a right to existence, which is a fundamental agreement dating back to the early 1900s in the Balfour Declaration, but a right to a secure homeland. The tiny sliver of real estate they occupy, surrounded by people who are hostile to them, is really a very vulnerable place for them. Hoping for this two-state solution is simply not practical."
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Newt Gingrich Rips Al Gore's "Facts" At Congressional Hearing

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Dem Congressman John Dingell: "Nobody In This Country Realizes That Cap-And-Trade Is A Tax"

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Obama Playing Politics With National Security Regarding Release Of Interrogation Memos And Threat To Bring Charges Against Attorneys Who Wrote Them

The Washington Post reports that "a source familiar with White House views said Obama’s advisers are further convinced that letting the public know exactly what the past administration sanctioned will undermine what they see as former vice president Richard B. Cheney’s effort to 'box Obama in' by claiming that the executive order heightened the risk of a terrorist attack." In other words, pure politics took a higher place than national security. The New York Times explained the political motives behind releasing the memos and threatening to bring the lawyers who wrote them up on criminal charges when it wrote that "Mr. Obama and his allies need to discredit the techniques he has banned. Otherwise, in the event of a future terrorist attack, critics may blame his decision to rein in C.I.A. interrogators." This is what not allowing Cheney to "box-in" the White House actually means. Obama is putting future political considerations ahead of national security.

In fact, the Washington Post reports that "five CIA directors -- including Leon E. Panetta and his four immediate predecessors -- and Obama's top counterterrorism adviser had expressed firm opposition to the release of interrogation details in four top secret memos in which Bush administration lawyers sanctioned" enhanced interrogation techniques. George Tenet, who served as CIA director under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, told CBS's "60 Minutes" in April 2007: "I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us." Yet Obama ignored them all so that Cheney could not "box-in" the administration.

President Obama's national intelligence director Adm. Dennis C. Blair told colleagues in a private memo last week that “high value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country." It appears that the White House tried to suppress this key part of Blair's memo. The New York Times reports that "Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." In other words, the Obama White House appears to have attempted to cover up their own intelligence director's assessment that the techniques used allowed for high value information to be gathered.

Cheney has objected to Obama's only releasing legal memos. The fact that Obama only released the legal memos justifying the techniques used by CIA interrogaters and not any showing the successes of the interrogations is evidence itself of Obama's political calculating. Cheney first said on "Hannity" that the White House should declassify documents that show the success of the techinques used in thwarting terrorist attacks. Hillary Clinton then responded by saying that Cheney was not a "reliable source of information." Cheney has hit back by showing that he is indeed a reputable source. He has now formally requested the Obama administration declassify two specific documents on intelligence obtained from the enhanced interrogation program that Obama has decried as torture, according to a copy of Cheney's request obtained by POLITICO. POLITICO reports that "the form filed with the National Archives' Presidential Libraries section on March 31 of this year shows that Cheney asked for declassification review of the two items from a folder called 'detainees' within 'OVP Cheney immediate office files.' The titles of the memoranda or reports were blacked out for classification reasons, however, one memo sought was dated July 13, 2004, and totaled eight pages, and another dated June 1, 2005, totals 13 pages. Cheney filled out the request himself--it's in his handwriting... National Archives officials said earlier this week that the request has been routed to the CIA for action. POLITICO obtained Cheney's request under the Freedom of Information Act."

The CIA has openly stated that the methods used helped stave off a monumental terrorist attack in the United States. CNSNews.com reports "that the Central Intelligence Agency said that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of enhanced techniques' of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles. Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, 'Soon, you will know.' According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack — which KSM called the 'Second Wave'– planned ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles."

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal saying he has asked Adm. Blair "to provide me with a list of the dates, locations and names of all members of Congress who attended briefings on enhanced interrogation techniques. Any investigation must include this information as part of a review of those in Congress and the Bush administration who reviewed and supported this program. To get a complete picture of the enhanced interrogation program, a fair investigation will also require that the Obama administration release the memos requested by former Vice President Dick Cheney on the successes of this program. An honest and thorough review of the enhanced interrogation program must also assess the likely damage done to U.S. national security by Mr. Obama's decision to release the memos over the objections of Mr. Panetta and four of his predecessors. Such a review should assess what this decision communicated to our enemies, and also whether it will discourage intelligence professionals from offering their frank opinions in sensitive counterterrorist cases for fear that they will be prosecuted by a future administration."

John McCain has described Obama's actions as a "witch hunt." McCain rightly said during an interview with CBS's "Early Show" that "if you criminalize legal advice, which is basically what they’re going to do, then it has a terribly chilling effect on any kind of advice and counsel that the president might receive." He compared the potential prosecutions with the actions of “banana republics” that “prosecute people for actions they didn’t agree with under previous administrations. To go back on a witch hunt that could last for a year or so, frankly, is going to be bad for the country, bad for future presidents — precedents that may be set by this, and certainly nonproductive in trying to pursue the challenges we face.”
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Georgetown University Constitutional Law Professor: "The Case For A Federalism Amendment"

Professor Barnett's piece in the Wall Street Journal points out that the constitution allows state legislatures petition Congress for a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. Barnett says that "before becoming law, any amendments produced by such a convention would then need to be ratified by three-quarters of the states... State legislatures can petition Congress for a convention to propose a specific amendment. Congress can then avert a convention by proposing this amendment to the states, before the number of petitions reaches two-thirds." This is a very interesting constitutional mechanism being proposed by Barnett for states to respond to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. To read the article visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044199838345461.html
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Judge Prohibits Rod Blagojevich From Going To Costa Rica For Celebrity Reality Show

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Cheney Interviewed About Interrogations And Asks That Obama Also Release Memos Showing The Sucess And Providing The Full Context

Here was Hillary's lame response to Dick Cheney's remarks:

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Charles Krauthammer On Obama's Visit To South America

Charles Krauthammer can be heard at the beginning of this clip, followed by two other commentators.

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Dennis Prager Vs. Perez Hilton On Gay Marriage

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Lewis Black On "Kids Earth Day"

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President Obama’s National Intelligence Director: "High Value Information Came From Interrogations In Which Those Methods Were Used"

The New York Times reports that President Obama’s own national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the interrogation techniques banned by the White House produced significant information that helped the nation in its struggle against Islamoterrorists.

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday. Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of various interrogation methods including waterboarding, which the Obama administration claims amounts to illegal torture.
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Obama Leaves Door Open To Prosecution Of Bush Administration Officials Over Interrogation

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Miss California Stands By Her Gay Marriage Answer

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Ahmadenijad's Entourage Screams "Zionazi" At Elie Wiesel

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Hamas TV Sermon: "Their Property Will Be Destroyed And Their Sons Annihilated, Until Not A Single Jew Or Zionist Is Left On The Face Of The Earth"

A Hamas Friday sermon aired on Hamas Al-Aqsa TV on April 3, 2009 in which the preacher compared Jews to dogs, called for genocide against all Jews on the face of the earth, and said that Jews had a plot to take over the world as seen in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." To watch this sermon visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2080.htm

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Obama Announces $100 Million In Cuts Amounting To 1/4 Of %1 Of His Budget

This spending cut is a joke. It is laughable. The Associated Press pointed out that Obama set the bar so low, considering that $100 million amounts to:

--Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.

--4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.

--Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.

--7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.

--1/10,000th of the government's operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.
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Ahmadenijad's Keynote Anti-Israel Speech At UN Conference On "Racism" Sparks Western Delegate Walkout

A number of Western nations boycotted the Durbin II conference, a boycott led by Canada. Others who decided not to attend were the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Italy, and of course Israel. However, there were countries that did show up. But when Ahmadenijad began his anti-Israel diatribe, delegates from 23 nations walked out of the hall in protest, as other delegates clapped in support of the Iranian president. A display of a world divided so starkly between better nations and the plainly evil ones.

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Another Planned Parenthood Exposed Breaking The Law

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Gay Judge Calls Miss USA Contestant A "Dumb Bitch" Because Of Her Opinion On Gay Marriage

Miss California was asked by a gay judge, Perez Hilton, whether all states should follow the lead of Vermont and legalize gay marriage. Here was her response:


Perez Hilton responded to her answer with a video blog saying "she lost not because she doesn't believe in gay marriage. Miss California lost because she is a dumb bitch." Classy.

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Two-Year Anniversary Of Sen. Harry Reid’s Declaration That The "War Is Lost"

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Clown-Hair Wearing Men Interrupt Ahmadenijad's Keynote Speech To UN Conference On Israel-Bashing

Three French Jews wearing colorful clown wigs rose from their seats and began yelling at the Iranian leader. The three, Jeremy Cohen, Rafael Hadad and Jonathan Hayoun, are members of France's Jewish student union (UESJ).

"We waited for our chance, pulled the wigs out of our pockets and called him a racist," Cohen said. "We wanted to do something meaningful, and we took advantage of Ahamadinejad's speech. We dressed as clowns because we wanted to show that his speech and the entire conference is a joke."

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Hamas Killing Off Political Foes

Human Rights Watch says that at least 32 Palestinians have died and several more have been maimed by Hamas since Israel's January military assault on Gaza. They are targeting people thought to be "collaborators" with Israel as well as members of Fatah. Also, between the start of the Israeli assualt, on 27 December, and the end of January, 49 people were shot in the legs and 73 Gazan men had their legs and arms broken, the report said.
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Obama Finally Announces US Will Boycott Durban II Conference

The US has decided to boycott the "Durban II" UN Conference on Racism. Obama said that it was "with regret" that America would not be attending. Obama further said, "Hopefully, some concrete steps come out of the conference that we can partner with other countries on to actually reduce discrimination around the globe, but this wasn't an opportunity to do it." He also criticized the conference's draft declaration as diplaying "antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive." It has long been expected that the weeklong UN meeting in Geneva would repeat the anti-Israel rhetoric of the first UN racism conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman echoed Obama's remarks, calling it "a hypocrisy summit." He said "the fact that a racist like [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is the main speaker proves the true aim and nature of the conference."
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Wounded Iraq And Afghanistan Vets To Run Boston Marathon

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Qatari Cleric Sheik Muhammad Al-Muraikhi: "Treat The Jews As Our Enemies...Because They Are Infidels."

Sheik Muhammad Al-Muraikhi said the following in a Friday sermon, which aired on Qatar TV on January 9, 2009:

"We do not treat the Jews as our enemies just because they occupied Palestine, or because they occupied a precious part of our Arab and Islamic world. We will treat the Jews as our enemies even if they return Palestine to us, because they are infidels. They rejected Allah and His messengers."

To see the video for yourself visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2077.htm
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