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Adam Gadahn, al-Qaida's US-born spokesman, arrested in
Pakistan
guardian.co.uk  A US-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested,
Pakistani authorities said today , hailing an intelligence coup that
struck a blow at the organisation's public relations apparatus. Reports of
the arrest of Adam Gadahn in Karachi came on the same day the
California-born American appeared in a web video in which he called on
American Muslims to launch attacks in the US.Mark
Williams, Tea Party Organizer on MSLSD
YouTube video This has got to be one of the most ridiculous rants you will ever see. This MSNBC host just comes unglued with his own rant at a tea party organizer and accuses him of doing exactly what the host is doing himself. I guess this us typical of the treatment conservatives get on MSLSD and is perfectly acceptable to station management. Set up a false premise then - answer my question - don't answer my question - cut off his mic, he won't answer my question!!! - your answers are offensive, you're offensive, blah, blah, blah. LOL Just who is being offensive here? Iran Starts Mass-Producing Cruise Missiles
Gateway Pundit The Iranian Defense “Nasr 1 missile is a cruise missile capable of destroying 3-ton weighted vessels,” Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said at a ceremony to inaugurate Nasr 1 production line at the defense ministry’s Aerospace Industries Organization. Vahidi also said that Nasr 1 is a short-range coast-to-sea and sea-to-sea missile which could be fired from coasts and all types of vessels. Iran developing massive launch site
The Jerusalem Post Iran is building a new rocket launch site with North Korean assistance, Israel Radio quoted IHS Jane’s as reporting overnight Friday. The new launcher, constructed near an existing rocket base in the Semnan province east of Teheran, is visible in satellite imagery, according to the report. Also, Islamic nations will back Iran strike: An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be quietly supported by a wide coalition of Islamic nations, including a number of extremist states, Deputy Minister of the Negev and Galilee Ayoub Kara said Saturday. Obamacare’s Kabuki End Game
The Heritage Foundation  The doctors in lab coats surrounding President Barack Obama as
he gave his latest health care speech yesterday were not there to give the
President a physical; that happened Sunday. No, these doctors were props,
dressed to impress for what the White House claims is their “final push”
for the President’s government take-over of the health care industry. The
President again repeated the same old tired claims he has been making for
months: “The proposal I’ve put forward gives Americans more control over
their health care,” “our proposal is paid for,” and “my proposal would
bring down the cost of health care for millions.” But there is one huge
difference between the Senate bill and what the President kept referring
to as my/our proposal: the Senate bill actually exists.US government rescinds 'leave internet alone'
policy
The Register The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce. Instead, an “Internet Policy 3.0” approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, according to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance. Star Wars laser
successfully destroys ballistic missile
ZD Net At 8:44 p.m. (PST), February 11, 2010, a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform. Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting. See photos and videos. SECURITY ALERT: U. S. Census Scam
NewsEmergency.com Here are some tips to help you recognize fraudulent activity or unofficial data collections. If you are contacted for any of the following reasons Do Not Participate. It is NOT the U.S. Census Bureau. Pakistan's New Taliban Leadership
Eurasia Review When it became known on 16 February that the number three of the Afghan Taleban, Mulla Baradar, was arrested in the Pakistani city of Karachi, a wave of triumphal relief went through the US and other media. This, politicians and terrorism experts proclaimed with verve, was a sea change in Pakistan’s policy. Its leadership finally had realized, they say, that it also had to take up the fight against the Afghan Taleban. This assumption, however, has more to do with wishful thinking than with reality. A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore
Investors.com Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you. If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed in Sunday's New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it." British winter was the coldest for 31
years guardian.co.uk After suffering snow, sleet, rain and consistently freezing temperatures, the knowledge that the Met Office has officially recognised winter 2009-10 as the coldest in 31 years brings with it a certain grim satisfaction. Provisional figures from the forecaster show the UK winter ‑ which in forecasting terms lasts from the start of December until the end of February ‑ has been the harshest, in temperature terms, since 1978-79. | ||
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Common Sense Solutions for the Health Care
Crisis
By Alan Burkhart The biggest fiscal and political boondoggle in US history, the Democrat's so-called "health care reform," is coming down the pipe. Barring a miracle, it's coming soon to every home in America. A tragedy, that. We could have done so much better. What led the left in this country to create such a monstrous and patently unsustainable legislative behemoth as this? They've created yet another Frankenstein monster that is already causing an uproar among the people and likely will catapult the Republicans back into power. Hold the Champagne on Military Commissions – It’s a Head
Fake
by Andy McCarthy The Washington Post article that Dan posted about last night is a head fake. President Obama is not caving on military commissions. He has already caved on them: He failed (thankfully) to abolish them, Congress enacted legislation endorsing them again in 2009, and the administration has already directed a commission trial for the Cole bombers. The real agenda here is to close Gitmo. How Quick the Message Fades
By Frank Salvato It is stunning to find out that there are still some elected officials in Washington DC – especially on the Right side of the aisle – who don’t fully understand the message being sent by the American citizenry regarding their grotesque spending addiction. No, I’m not talking about earmarks or pork barrel spending, which in and of themselves should be egregious enough to warrant defeat in the next election. I am referring to how US Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) was thrown under the bus when he demanded that his fellow Senators actually allocate existing funds for a program they wanted to implement. All Rhetoric, No Reality from White House on Health
Care
By Conn Carroll  Flanked, again, by doctors in lab coats,
President Barack Obama gave yet another speech this afternoon urging
Congress to pass his health care reform plan. The President again claimed
his plan lowers health care costs. It doesn’t. The President again claimed
his plan would not give government bureaucrats or insurance company
bureaucrats more control over health care. It does. The President again
claimed that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like
your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” That simply is not true. The
President again said his plan gives the American people the same health
care as Members of Congress. It doesn’t.Polar Bear Politics
By Alan Burkhart Throughout the last several decades, one of the environmentalist left's trademark tactics has been to use symbolism instead of substance. This, as any thinking person already knows, is due to the fact that the extreme left, as it becomes ever more extreme, finds it increasingly difficult to push its agenda based on its own merit. This leaves them little choice but to use smoke and mirrors to foist their remarkably bad ideas on the rest of us. Pelosi Backwards On “Tea Parties” and
GOP
By: Christopher G. Adamo Democrats continue to bounce between occasional brief attempts at pandering to grassroots America, and their more innate reversion to unrestrained contempt for the beliefs and sentiments of the heartland. In the process, they reveal a willingness to resort to any concocted lie in hopes of fooling enough of the people, enough of the time, to advance their insidious agenda. Jim Bunning's Finest Hour
By Jeri Thompson Sen. Jim Bunning cut a deal with Democrats to release the hold he had blocking a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits and subsidized COBRA health insurance. But the impact of his stand against more deficit spending will hang over Washington for some time. When he said on the floor Tuesday night that, "If we cannot pay for a bill that all 100 senators support, how can we tell the American people with a straight face that we will ever pay for anything? That is what senators say they want, and that is what the American people want." Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the
democratic process
By Orrin Hatch  America's Founders gave us a system of governance
designed to limit government power and maximize liberty. The legislative
branch is different from the executive, and the Senate is different from
the House. No single branch has all the power. That can be frustrating for
those with ambitious agendas, but everyone benefits by respecting those
checks and balances even as we fight over policies. Barack Obama and the date-rape of
America
By David Kupelian Good Americans from sea to shining sea are grappling right now with how to mentally process what they're witnessing in Washington, D.C. The spectacle of a far leftist president literally forcing socialized medicine down the throat of an unwilling center-right America is reminiscent, perhaps more than any other contemporary metaphor, of date rape. We Have No Choice
By Governor Chris Christie Adapted from Gov. Chris Christie's remarks to about 200 mayors at a meeting of the New Jersey League of Municipalities. When I started in office, I had to close a $2.3 billion shortfall in the $29 billion annual budget -- and only $14 billion was left. Of that $14 billion, $8 billion could not be touched -- because of contracts with public-worker unions, bond covenants and commitments the state made in accepting federal stimulus money. We had to find a way to save $2.3 billion in a $6 billion pool of money. Points and Counterpoints
"The scientific enterprise will
never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the
overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged... From the
standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule
of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and
so little done, the truth about the climate crisis -- inconvenient as ever
-- must still be faced." -- Al Gore
 "Bipartisanship is a two-way
street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans
have left their imprint. When the public sees what is in this bill...
when we show them what the priorities are and what it's been boiled down
to, what it means to them sitting around their kitchen table rather than
us sitting around a table at Blair House, the response will be positive."
--Nancy Pelosi
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