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Audio of Justice Clarence Thomas Interview

Here's the audio of Mark Levin's great interview yesterday of Clarence Thomas for the launch of his new book, My Grandfather's Son.

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Clarence Thomas Dines with New Media

Some of my favorite bloggers and conservative journalists got to attend a dinner hosted by Clarence Thomas and his wife. Ed Morrissey and Paul Mirengoff were there as was Bill Kristol. This event was to honor the publication of Justice Thomas' new book, My Grandfather's Son. From all accounts Clarence Thomas is an amazing individual who has overcome tremendous difficulties in his life. He is not anything like Anita Hill and many of the Democrats in Congress tried to paint him in 1991 during his SCOTUS nomination hearings. He is worthy of our utmost respect.

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Justice Clarence Thomas & Anita Hill's Lies

Powerline offers an excellent, succinct summary of Anita Hill's complicity in the attempted political assination of Justice Thomas back in 1991. And Scott Johnson is right, there are parallels to last year's Duke non-rape case.

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Justice Clarence Thomas Interviewed on 60 Minutes

Clarence Thomas' new book is out today, My Grandfather's Son.  60 Minutes did an interview of Justice Thomas last night. Rush Limbaugh will air a 90 minute interview of Justice Thomas on his radio program today.

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Do You Know Who Ali S. Mohamed Is?

This post at the Able Danger Blog describes how National Geographic entered into a contract with investigative journalist, Peter Lance, to produce a documentary based on his book, Triple Cross. But National Geographic reneged on the deal well into the project:

They took a documentary based entirely on my work which was highly critical of the negligence of (FBI) agents like Cloonan and former AUSA Patrick Fitzgerald - currently the U.S. Attorney for Chicago and Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case - and make it appear that they were somehow on top of the Ali Mohamed scandal.

The Ali Mohamed scandal? What is that? I really didn't know. So I spent a few hours reading about him in the New York Times archives (subscription required). Sure enough, what Peter Lance has written about this terrorist, Ali S. Mohamed, is confirmed by several articles in the Times, going back many years. I was going to write a timeline of Mohamed's life, but I found an excellent one in the San Francisco Chronicle here. Here are just a few amazing facts about the life of Ali S. Mohamed: he was born in 1952, served as an officer in the Egyptian military, moved to the US, served in the US military at Fort Bragg, was a member of Al Qaeda and an FBI informant, surveilled the US African Embassy buildings and was a conspirator in the bombings of the embassies, trained Osama bin Laden's body guards, was involved with the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and more. Unbelievably, there is no record at this time that this terrorist has been sentenced for his crimes.

Here's Wikipedia:

"While he was subpoenad in Rahman's trial, Ali Mohammed was not arrested until years later — on 10 September 1998, when he attempted to flee to Egypt after being subpoenaed in the aftermath of the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania. After eight months of imprisonment without trial, Ali Mohammed entered a guilty plea in May 1999. What happened after that is unclear. The trial proceeded, but there is no record of any sentencing or even a conviction. As late as February 20, 2002, CBS News reported that "Mohammad pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing."[2] There has been no further news of his whereabouts, his sentencing, or whether he was released."

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A Most Excellent Multi Media Moment

Yesterday, Saturday, a drive to Orlando-instead of listening to the radio, we listened to 5 Glenn and Helen Podcasts (just scroll down to download each) via my Ipod. These podcasts are really, really good:

Fat Kids and Beer (download here)

Glenn and Helen Interview John McCain (download here)

Interview with Chris Anderson who wrote the book,  The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (download here)

Interview with Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan on North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War in General (download here)

Interview with Andy Kessler on the Revolution in Medicine (download here)

And for your Sunday viewing pleasure, don't miss this little video ditty, Al Gore's Penguin Army (HT: MacsMind).

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The Da Vinci Code: Truth and Opportunity

Pastor Mark D. Roberts has developed a web page where he has posted much Christian/Bibilical truth where The Da Vinci code is concerned. This is an excellent information resource, and it will continue to be as the movie opens in just a few days. Pastor Roberts write that he expects the movie is likely to bring in $1B.

I found Pastor Roberts' page from Hugh Hewitt's blog. Hewitt says:

The series is, simply, masterful. I cannot recommend it highly enough if you want to be prepared to discuss the book/movie with believers, non-believers, or anyone in between.

I also think the series demonstrates the incredible potential that the blogosphere has made available to scholars/writers who know how to use their learning to help a broad audience understand a complex subject, and to do so with all the tools available to a talented blogger, especially links, diagrams, photos etc. This series should get a chapter in a book on the evolution of the blogosphere as a tool of serious, effective teaching.

Technorati tags: Catholics, Christianity, Religion, Dan Brown, Movies, TheDaVinciCode

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Demonization of Religion/The Koran

From Dirty Harry at Jackson's Junction:

Liberals cry theocracy at the drop of a hat. Liberals lie in history books, they lie on television, they lie in their films -- all with the single goal of stigmatizing religion to such a debilitating degree that it ceases to exist. Liberals want religion exterminated. And yet...These same degenerate religious bigots actually have the gall to be horrified when their project works. They have the unbelievable nerve to be outraged when one of their creations treats the Koran with disrespect. What did they expect? People in the military have  spent a majority of their lives held in the sway of liberal propaganda. They've been institutionalized in public schools, movie theaters, and anywhere else the mainstream media holds court -- to disrespect and loathe religion.  That there have been so few incidents is a miracle.

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Book Abuse Is Not Front Page News

It's way past time for the MSM to have a reality check:

Now we have had two weeks of debate over whether we have mistreated six hundred or so of these terrorists captured on the battlefield, out of uniform, bearing arms against us. What has been the focus of this controversy? Cattle prods and bullwhips for interrogation? Beatings? Naked pyramids and leashes? No. It's whether or not we abused a book. This has been front-page news for two or three weeks now, ever since Newsweek decided to run a poorly-sourced item about Gitmo guards flushing a Qu'ran down a toilet. Now we have the Pentagon report detailing five supposed events where guards mistreated copies of the Muslim scripture, and the media and the blogosphere have reacted like this is another My Lai.

RELATED: Malkin Thinks that President Bush's Guantanamo Bay Answer Was Weak, Does Amnesty International Think We're Stupid?, Newsweek: Fake But Accurate Watch, Newsweek/MSM: It's Bush's Fault, Blog Post Roundup of the Newsweek Gitmo Lie (Sorry, Er I Mean Story)

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