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Christopher Hitchens vs. Al Sharpton in mp3 format is downloadable from HERE without to much hassle. Thanks to KKant at richarddawkins.net for converting the audio and posting it.

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Joel Mowbray takes a look at the visa applications of the 9/11 terrorists. They should have been denied on thier face.

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"Michael Moore finds himself on the business end of a documentary," and Louis Wittig writes about it at The Weekly Standard.

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The Jerusalem Post reports three people were killed in an attack on a Bible publishing house in Turkey: Assailants killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey's tiny Christian minority. The three victims were found with their throats slit and their hands and legs bound at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a

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El Rushbo from last Tuesday: I will predict to you that the Drive-By Media is practicing and putting together their damage control on this, what they will do, if I'm right, we will soon see reports on whether Kerry has a point. They will go out and they'll explain what he actually "meant," what he was "trying to say."He went on last Tuesday to expand slightly on the point, and then today he said

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DRUDGE HEADLINE: 12 SMARTCARDS THAT CONTROL ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES GO MISSING IN TENNESSEE Not surprising is the fact that the voting precinct where this happened, Bishop Byrne H.S. on East Shelby Drive, is a South Memphis Democrat Stronhold. From Drudge:Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location! The

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From today's Washington Times, Liberal bloggers rip party over Lamont:National Democrats have abandoned their anti-war Senate candidate in Connecticut, say liberal bloggers who earlier this year were heavily courted by top Democrats in their quest to take over Congress. Democratic nominee Ned Lamont -- darling of the left-wing blogosphere -- now trails Sen. Joe Lieberman by 10 points or more,

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Kathryn Jean Lopez writes at NRO: "I'm pro-life, I'm pro-life, Tucker, so I mean, I don’t run from that." So Congressman Harold Ford Jr. told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson on Monday. It’s often been taken as a given that the attractive, smart, affable Ford is pro-life. On Fox News Sunday this past weekend Chris Wallace stated flatly in addressing Ford, “You are pro-life.” But is Congressman Ford

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In the wake of the John Kerry controversy, there is still a long held assumption among moonbat types that the military is made up largely of disadvantaged drop outs. Tim Kane's Heritage study that completely derails this notion is here, it's entitled Who Bears the Burden? Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Recruits Before and After 9/11. An event featuring Kane on the same subject,

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NY TimesIn Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right, i.e. Dems try to win by being conservative.

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The WaPo has a comprehensive and searchable database of congressional voting for all members of the House and Senate. Harold Ford Jr.'s record can be viewed here. Also, from the website On the Issues, here is a recap of Jr.'s votes on taxes: Voted NO on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Dec 2005) Voted YES on providing tax relief and simplification. (Sep 2004) Voted YES on

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Yahoo! News: Antonin Scalia debates ACLU President Nadine Strossen on TV. The audio podcast in MP3 format can be found here (right click, then "Save As..."), courtesy of CSPAN. The video is here in Real format.

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Ford pretends to be a tax-cutting, conservative Reagan Democrat: "I'm the only one in this race who has voted for a strong anti-illegal-immigration bill. I'm the only one in this race who has actually cut a tax," Ford said during a campaign stop in this largely white town just west of the Tennessee river. It is in towns like Camden that the balance of power of the next U.S. Senate will be

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Ann Coulter wrote a great column last week about reaction to the Foley scandal. A few highlights: ...[T]he same Democrats who are incensed that Bush's National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman's instant messages. ... ... When Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee found unprotected e-mails from the

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From Captain Ed at FrontPageMag: Mob Rule at Columbia:"Eliana Johnson reports in the New York Sun that a mob of students assaulted Gilchrist, shut down the event, and then cheered their version of free speech." This NY Sun story is here, entitled Violence at Columbia:Students stormed the stage at Columbia University's Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim

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Via Michelle Malkin: The Open Borders Lobby is starting a boycott of companies that won't hire people who give bogus Social Security numbers:A local group fighting for immigrant rights is calling for a boycott of two nationally known companies. Dunkin Donuts and Applebee's are accused of discriminating against immigrant workers whose names don't match their social security numbers.Wouldn't most

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National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County, Wash:The Pierce County Sheriff's Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in the military and if he

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FoxNews: Captors Release Two FOX News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza Aug. 14

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Fox News is strangely silent on this, but as the Boston Globe reports, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni, an American, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, of New Zealand, were kidnapped at gun point yesterday in Gaza City. In a follow up story in the Jerusalem Post says New Zealand is sending diplomats to seek their release.

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For once we get some honest reporting in the print media via an AP story in the Philadelphia Daily News, with the much to the point title Lieberman loses, which reads: "They call Connecticut the land of steady habits," a jubilant Lamont told cheering reporters. "Tonight we voted for a big change." Sounds about right - I bet they were cheering. Via Taranto's Best of the Web, where he writes "

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Reuters Photo Fraud "Reuters Commits Four Types of Fraud - An overview of the photo hoaxes committed by Reuters, discovered so far."

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The MSM just keeps getting in deeper and deeper.

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The Jawa Report examines Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon, and meet Lebanon's most unlucky property owner. Also at Jawa, It looks like Lebanon's most famous stringer/photoshop user-abuser Adnan Hajj has an alter ego.

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Michelle Malkin: Hizballah hits U.N. - Where's the outrage?

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The Reuters doctored photo, Kana body posing, and exagerated death tolls are just the tip of the iceberg. A must seen video is at YouTube called "Pallywood" which chronicles satged scenes and events that somehow keep ending up as "news".

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