Olmert denies giving Pelosi a peace message for Assad.
Jimmy Carter supports her trip. Of course. He is the one who interfered with the Clinton administration in North Korea, just like Pelosi has done here, which ultimately led to the nuclear mess we have there today.
The Washington Post calls Pelosi’s shuttle diplomacy foolish.
She violated a long-held understanding that the United States should speak with one official voice abroad – even if the country is deeply divided on foreign policy back home.Â
Rejecting this longstanding concept, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos declared that, “We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy. I view my job as beginning with restoring overseas credibility and respect for the United States.”
News of Hugo Chavez allowing, if not sponsoring himself, al Qaeda to establish a training camp on Margarita Island in Venezuela is beginning to bubble up. Not surprisingly, this news has not risen to the level that the mainstream media feels we need to know. They’re probably waiting until the dirty bomb or mushroom cloud goes off before reporting it. No need to investigate now you know. Where is Brian Ross when you need him?
As is being reported elsewhere, the terrorists/Islamofascists are learning to speak Spanish with a Mexican accent, and to look, dress, and act Mexican (however you do that I have no clue). Then it is just a short waltz across the unguarded Mexican border to deliver terror to the United States. But don’t take my word for it. Just pick your search engine of choice for a combination of al Qaeda, training camps, Venezuela, and/or Chavez and see for yourself.
Update 1/13/08: Just discovered that the website out of Caracas, “http://www.militaresdemocraticos.com” no longer exists. No doubt taken down by the Chavez ‘government.’
A story in the Military Times gives a window into the strategic thinking–or lack thereof–of the Democrats who now control the House.
We are the ones who now cannot put a name to the war we are in. Formerly called the war on terror.   The house majority prefers, instead, to let the enemy choose the name, based on where they are fighting, training, or attacking.  It’s just wait and see where the bombs go off and call it that, which is absurd.
Want to see how the new President of the United Nations handles criticism that is wholly justified and historically factual? See no evil, hear no evil, stricken from the record. Watch this video.
New Jersey official documents say they either deposited $551 million, $56 million, or $0 into its Teachers Pension fund.  It turns out that the actual amount was zero. Where did it all go? Â
BTW, New Jersey has been run by democrats since the 2000 election, a point the New York Times feels is not important for this article. Right! You know if republicans were in charge, they would have found the courage to mention it.
No, it’s not about Democrats v. Bush this time. This time it’s about special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is fighting release of documents in the now ‘closed’ Valerie Wilson debacle. From today’s Opinion Journal Online. . .
Mr. Fitzgerald is fighting release of the affidavits he filed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to justify compelling two reporters to testify about their conversations with Mr. Libby, and to throw one of them in jail for 85 days until she did so. Also under court seal are eight pages of a redacted 2005 D.C. Circuit opinion by Judge David Tatel that explained the court’s decision to support Mr. Fitzgerald’s pursuit of the reporters.
Thomas Sowell reminds us again that there is but one Commander-In-Chief, only one Secretary of State, and only one President of the United States.
Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy.”
Sowell points out “Democrats can have any foreign policy they want” if and when they are elected to the White House.” Democrats in Washington today are not being guided by the U.S. Constitution, they seem to be using the moveon.org version.
When blacks reject blacks, you have to wonder what’s up with that?
Leftist black racists in Oklahoma don’t want other blacks to be free. Some 2,800 blacks in Oklahoma have just been racially rejected by the Black Caucus of the Oklahoma legislators. How in the world did this come about?
As a follow-up to my post of March 15 (Here Comes The Race Card), the CBC has rebuked the agitators on the left and decided to partner with FOX broadcasting to co-sponsor presidential primary debates this fall. Proving, as this writer puts it, that a broken clock is right twice a day.Â
“The CBC Institute is committed to presenting the presidential candidates to the broadest audience possible,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the institute, said in a statement. “Collaborating with Fox News provides an opportunity to take this presidential election to millions of households.”
It is a symbolic set-back for the rabid left to be sure, when the CBC decides NOT to play along with the race card. Rep. Bennie Thompson has it right.
It’s a war going on. Have you ever seen something like this before? The murder rate in Philadelphia is bad and getting worse. Communities are meeting to complain about it to try to get citizens to turn in the bad guys. Meanwhile, the police department has released interactive maps of shootings and murders for a real picture of just how bad it is, complete with a laundry list of victims. Â
It’s no joke when I meet someone from Philly and IÂ tell them that ‘I’m glad you got out alive.’
Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.