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Americans Still Want to Hear "Merry Christmas"

Chances are that you'd rather hear Merry Christmas than Happy Holidays when you're out shopping for the holidays.

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Stem Cell Truth

Important, researched post about embryonic stem cell advocates that the lies they tell:

But those "officially" involved in the embryonic research debate have been lying so consistently for so long that their lack of integrity is hardly questionable: the politicians especially, and the referendum campaigners and yes, even some of the scientists. If we really are at the end of the debate over embryonic research, we should look back and ask why they had to lie so much if their position was supposedly so strong. Given what they have said in the past, who knows what they'll start saying now?

And here is a stem cell morality essay.

And there's always the embryo stem cell Rush Limbaugh factor...

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Maybe Republicans Aren't So Close Minded After All

Brendan Loy, hurricane blogger extraordinaire, has long thought that Rudy Giuliani will be the GOP presidential nominee. Loy notes that Frank Rich of the New York Times is only now discovering that maybe American's aren't as narrow minded as he thought:

 

Why is Rudy doing so well? People in the know used to think the rubes just didn't realize Rudy has dressed in drag and once lived with 2 gay guys; they just remembered him as the star of that 9/11 show they saw on TV that one time.

 

But now it's dawning on the pundits that Americans probably know all that stuff by now, so why isn't Rudy sunk? They're shuffling around for explanations. You could say "terrorism fears trump everything," or "the rest of the field is weak." But Rich thinks the right answer is that Americans really aren't as narrow-minded as they are portrayed...

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The USS Cole Bombing, Badawi and the Yemeni's

As I noted last week, it had been reported that Jamal al-Badawi, had been released from prison in Aden, Yemen. Badawi is a suspect in the USS Cole Bombing, an al-Qaeda terrorist attack on our country.

The State Department now says that Badawi is now in prison in Aden, Yemen.

More excellent information is here and here.

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Fred Thompson's Campaign Starting to Impress

Conservative Republican churchgoers are backing Fred Thompson for the GOP presidential nomination. Fred now ties John McCain with this group of voters. Some conservatives think that Fred was the winner of last Sunday's Republican candidate debate on Fox News.

And Thompson is sending the kind of signals I like on illegal immigration and national sovereignty-at least as far as the Law of the Sea Treaty is concerned.

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California Fires Caused by Arson - Is Terrorism Involved?

The environmentalist wackos and their left leaning media supporters are claiming that global warming caused the horrific California wildfires, but it looks like arson is the cause. And the arson could have been and act of jihad terrorism, as the FBI recently warned. There has recently been suspicious activity at California fire stations.

Via Instapundit, here's a California wildfire news aggregator.

One arson suspect has been killed and another arrested. Here's +http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/24/socal-arson-suspect-killed-another-arrested/trackback/ post.

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USS Cole Bombing Terrorist Released in Yemen

Outrageous:

Al-Qaeda terrorist Jamal al-Badawi, who particpated in the attack on the USS Cole and has a bounty on his head from the United States, surrendered to authorities in Yemen—and was promptly released after making a promise not to do any more nasty terror stuff.

More links from lawhawk.

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Al Qaeda in Iraq

Conditions in Iraq are improving. The Maliki government is slowly making progress on legislative reform. The Sunnis and Shi'ites have begun to cooperate with each other. The New York Times reports that voters in the US associate Iraq with the War on Terror - to me that's always been a no brainer. AJ Strata reports the defeat of al-Qaeda in the Anbar and Diyala provinces:

The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. forces in Iraq will begin leaving in December and that the first out will be the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division in Diyala province. That move would cut Army ground brigades to 19.

Soldiers from a brigade in adjacent Salahuddin province will expand their coverage into Diyala when III Corps returns to its home base at Fort Hood, Texas.

12 former captains in the Army wrote a piece this week critical of the Iraq War. But none of these retired captains have served in Iraq since The Surge began.

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The USS Cole Bombing: What Did the Government Know in Advance?

There is mounting evidence that the government knew enough prior to al-Qaeda's bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, that the USS Cole should never have been refueling in Aden, Yemen on the day of that attack. Mike Kasper the creator and blogger of the Able Danger Blog, has a top-notch post/summary. From the New York Post on 9/17/2005:

September 17, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Members of a secret Pentagon intelligence unit known as Able Danger warned top military generals that it had uncovered information of increased al Qaeda "activity" in Aden harbor less than three weeks before the attack on the USS Cole, The Post has learned.

In the latest explosive revelation in the Able Danger saga, two former members of the data-mining team are expected to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee next week that they uncovered alarming terrorist activity and associations in Aden weeks before the Oct. 12, 2000, suicide bombing of the U.S. warship that killed 17 sailors.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the Defense Intelligence Agency's former liaison to Able Danger, told The Post that Capt. Scott Phillpott, Able Danger's leader, briefed Gen. Peter Schoomaker, former head of Special Operations Command and now Army chief of staff, about the findings on Yemen "two or three weeks" before the Cole attack.

"Yemen was elevated by Able Danger to be one of the top three hot spots for al Qaeda in the entire world," Shaffer recalled.

Shaffer and two other officials familiar with Able Danger said contractors uncovered al Qaeda activities in Yemen through a search of Osama bin Laden's business ties.

The Pentagon had no immediate comment.

Be sure to read Mike's entire post.

Here's a USS Cole clip from ABC's movie, The Path to 9/11

Able Danger resources in the blogosphere:

• Able Danger Blog
• Able Danger Blog Roll: Complete list of Able Danger news article and blogosphere posts (updated through 5/22/2007)
• AJ Strata's Able Danger archive at his blog, The Strata-Sphere (recent post, The Clintons and Able Danger is here be sure to read the comments too)
• Ed Morrissey over at Captain's Quarters has many archived Able Danger posts on the 911 Commission category page (see the last post there entitled, Confirmation of Able Danger Raises Even More Questions, which also has lots of interesting comments/trackbacks)

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Iraq: Death, Violence Decreasing

The Iraqi people continue to show signs that they are finished, disgusted with al-Qaeda:

al-Qaeda is running out of land to operate from, the noose is tightening. Their brutality creates a backlash among the people they ‘control’ so fierce that if US and Iraqi forces can provide a modicum of security the locals line up to swear on the Koran to destroy al-Qaeda. Salahadin may be al-Qaeda’s last stand in Iraq and the final chapter of the war. Reconstruction may be just around the corner.

It's an al-Qaeda quagmire.

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