The Washington Times reports that House Speaker Hastert has ordered the Capital Christmas tree to be called, er, well, the Capital Christmas Tree!  A quote from the story:
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert has told federal officials that the lighted, decorated tree on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol — known in recent years as […]

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One of the many destructive aspects of Feminism as it has been implemented in the West is the virulent demonization of Men.  It turns out that it is not enough for the movement extremists and their allies to advocate equal rights.  The women leading the Feminist movement have consistently set out to demonize men so […]

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If you are interested at all in the growing titan that is China then go read the Spiegel Online interview with the China’s Deputy Minister of the Environment, here is the first question and answer (all emphasis in following quotes added):
SPIEGEL: China is dazzling the world with its booming economy, which grew by 9.5 percent. […]

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The Washington Times does yeoman’s duty today in reporting a bunch of raw facts and numbers about the disposition of training and forces in Iraq:
There are now about 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. They have trained and equipped about 212,000 Iraqi security forces, including infantry, commandos, special police battalions and a variety of military support […]

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The quality of ‘freedom’ and ‘autonomy’ for nations that comprise the EU to determine national policies has been made clear.  There is none that the EU beaurocracy does not wish to allow, even without formal ratification of the EU Constitution.  From this story at Breitbart News:

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Vice President Dick Cheney is constantly underestimated.  Given the chance to speak to the public he is a capable and serious advocate for whatever position he is supporting.  The Washington Post has an article today called Sympathetic Vibrations where they detail his most recent success in making points in support of the War in Iraq:
Democrats […]

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From the CNN story Man accused in $200,000 Lego Internet Scam:

Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.
Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their […]

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The NY Times has published a troubling story about people stealing LIGHT POLES in Baltimore:
Thieves are sawing down aluminum light poles. Some 130 have vanished from Baltimore’s streets in the last several weeks, the authorities say, presumably sold for scrap metal. But so far the case of the pilfered poles has stumped the police, and […]

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The neverending stream of bad decisions, lack of leadership, and massive pork funding continues at NASA.  From the Washington Post we learn that NASA is just not getting the funds it needs to continue as is and develop their feeble plans for the future:

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Perhaps the jihadiis remember when the Soviet Army did the same during the Afganistan Occupation of the 1980’s that we helped the mujahadeen defend themselves from.  There is a brief report from a South African news site called News 24, here is a brief quote from the original story:
Baghdad - The Iraqi army said on […]

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Oh you just have to love the research that comes out of government supported Academies don’t you?  Important research funded by tax money that investigates the really important issues relevant to the public.  Like the age old ‘Beer Goggle’ Effect.  Here’s a quote from the article at the BBC called ‘Beer Goggle’ effect explained:
Scientists believe […]

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Thanks to Betsy’s Page for the link to this post at Camp Katrina highlighting the bias of the NYT.  Go read the full post, here is a short quote:
An accurate account from the New York Times?  Yes.  But it also, quite deliberately, leaves the reader in the dark about the reason why our soldiers were […]

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From today’s article at New Science.com entitled Official Chinese Bird Flu Deaths could be ‘tip of iceburg’:
A respected Japanese scientist, who works with the World Health Organization, has told New Scientist he fears that China’s official tally of laboratory-confirmed human bird flu fatalities – just three – is only the tip of the iceberg.

Masato Tashiro, […]

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Thanks to Powerline and the Claremont Institute for providing the links on this most important day.  Following is the full text of George Washington’s Proclomation establishing Thanksgiving as a national holliday for the very first timey:
Thanksgiving Proclamation
George Washington
City of New York, October 3, 1789
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence […]

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Thanks to Powerline and the Claremont Institute for providing the links on this most important day.  What follows is the full text of Abraham Lincoln’s original Proclomation establishing Thanksgiving as the national holliday we know it as today:
Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day

October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with […]

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Looks like the word has gotten out that the U.S. is weak and without fighting spirit.  Check out this report at Insight Magazine, here’s a quote:
The overwhelming assessment by Asian officials, diplomats and analysts is that the military simply cannot defeat . It has been an assessment relayed to government officials over the […]

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Thanks to Instanpundit for the link to Sen. John Kerry’s original and official statement on the beginning of war in Iraq.  Here is the text:

Thursday, March 20, 2003
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to the commencement of military strikes in […]

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Go read Michael Barone’s article over at RealClearPolitics entitled The (Very) Big Lie, here is a key excerpt:

To the charges that Bush "cherry-picked" intelligence, the commission co-chaired […]

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There is an extremely disturbing thread  over at the Democratic Underground, which I am not going to repeat any of here.  The statement itself dehumanizes ANYONE who does not agree with the poster, declares that such people can’t be tolerated any longer, and in the end calls for all of those evil, fascist, emotionless, robotic, […]

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A recent post over at Random Jottings brought to mind something I have been considering for a while.  Here’s the quote that is relevant:
I suspect what’s driving liberal Democrats, especially of my generation, crazy, is not that they fear Iraq will become a Vietnam, but that they are terrified that it won’t. Their peace of […]

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Thanks to Gateway Pundit for covering President Bush’s last stop on his Asia Trip.  Here’s the story at Yahoo News.

"Mongolia and the United States are standing together as brothers in the cause of freedom," Bush told Mongolian troops and lawmakers in a speech at the Government House.
After two days in China partly aimed at nudging […]

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Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the link to A Brief History Of A Long War, over at the Mudville Gazette.  Whatever happens in the days to come, the War in Iraq that we are now fighting will continue to be an important item of discussion that will need the sort of facts and history as […]

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Thanks to LGF for the link, the story from the Jerusalem Post:

The Elaph Arab media website reported on Sunday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group, may have been killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The […]

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Ok seriously, you do, trust me here.  Thanks to Warren Bell over at The Corner for providing the Link to a really funny video of two chinese students lip syncing the Back Street Boys ‘I Want It That Way’.  To quote Warren:
Warning: If you’re seeing this for the first time, this is funny enough to […]

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More coverage of the record trade deficits this year in today’s article in the Washington Post entitled U.S. Trade Deficit Hangs In a Delicate Imbalance.  Its actually does a reasonably good job pointing out some of the dynamics involved.  And there is the choice quote from the typically clueless economist:
"We get cheap goods in exchange […]

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