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BY NIBRAS KAZIMI

There is always a moment during a raging battle when one side realizes that the field has been won, and the other side collapses in retreat and confusion. The curious thing about the Iraqi insurgency is that this moment has arrived, yet both the victors, in this case the Americans and the Iraqi government, and the losers, Al Qaeda and the other jihadist groups, are reluctant to acknowledge it.

But make no mistake, the battle has been turned and we are witnessing the beginning of a jihadist meltdown.

Six months ago, many of the strategists behind the Sunni insurgency, faced with a more effective counterinsurgency effort, began to wonder just how long they could keep their momentum given their diminishing resources and talent. These strategists realized that their “resistance” would just peter out over time, as classical insurgencies tend to do. Some argued that, given one last push, the Americans would be sufficiently distressed to grab at cease-fire negotiations that would end with a hasty American withdrawal, leaving the insurgents to work things out with a much-weakened Iraqi government on more favorable terms.

Others, like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the organization founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saw that there was no future for their vision of establishing a Taliban-like state should these negotiations with the Americans get underway, which would only serve to strengthen the hand of the rival insurgent factions that counsel this course.

This sense that they were running out of time compelled Al Qaeda to take a bold initiative of declaring the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq four months back, appointing the hitherto unknown Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as its head. This was no propaganda stunt for Al Qaeda. This was the real thing: the nucleus state for the caliphate, with al-Baghdadi as the candidate caliph.

But this was a fatal strategic mistake for Al Qaeda, a mistake that threatens to pull down all the other jihadist insurgent groups along with it. Al Qaeda tried to leap over reality, but it was a leap into the abyss of uncertainty. Trying to pick a caliph is fraught with historical and judicial complications since there is no historical precedent — not even from the time of the Prophet Muhammad — that would serve for an uncontroversial transfer of power. It is one of the most delicate ideological matters among jihadists, a matter so sensitive that most of them have decided to leave it aside for the time being lest it result in splintering off dissenters.

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Now if only the American press would report on this jihadist meltdown so that policymakers in Washington can rally the martial spirit to bring this battle to a crushing end for the enemy.

Read the whole thing.

In light of this article, it is even more puzzling why the Dems have become so animated in their efforts to declare defeat for us in Iraq.  Maybe their desire to “Get the President” is stronger than their desire to promote the interests of the US and the rest of the free world.  Could be.

By Christopher Chantrill

I think this “crisis” will be overblown by the MSM, but this article contains some good stuff about govt interference in our lives, and its inevitable consequences:

Thank goodness the Plame Game is over and Scooter Libby safely convicted for-what exactly was it?  Now we can concentrate on the next Big Thing: the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market. As a broker acquaintance commented: “Anyone could have seen that was coming.”

After “Bush Lied” it’s “liar loans.”

Companies which specialize in making loans to sub-prime customers are falling right and left. Marginal borrowers are having trouble paying the interest on their variable interest rate loans. Poster child for the industry’s troubles New Century Financial, has been cut off by its lenders, de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange, and barely surviving. Other companies are having so much trouble and downsizing that the market for office space faces a sudden glut in places like Orange County, CA, where the industry is concentrated.

The only thing that is uncertain is just how President Bush is to blame for the whole thing.  But never fear: the central skill of practical politics is to take the latest systemic government failure that “anyone could have seen was coming” and confidently blame it on the president.

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But let us look at the big picture.  Let us look at the big things that we spend money on.  There is housing, health care, education. Those are the big three.  Then there is transportation, food, clothing, housewares, recreation, savings.  Then there is taxes.

Notice anything?  The big three--housing, health care, and education--are so important that the governing class feels a compelling need to supervise them in detail.

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One fine day we are going to stumble upon the radical notion that people ought to pay for the necessaries of life with their own money and with the minimum of privilege, subsidy and government control.

Progressive people will declare it to be a question of human rights.

Practical people will declare it to be a matter of common sense.

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Read the whole thing; it’s chock-full of goodies.

I’m going to start buying beachfront land in Barrow Alaska right away.

It appears that there is an imminent land rush about to ensue.

That is if you read and agree with James Lovelock of Great Britain who says global warming is going to get so bad that nearly EVERYONE on planet earth will die and as puts it:

“Before this century is over, billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic,” predicted James Lovelock, a renowned environmental scientist.

Now I love the Northern Lights as much as the next guy, but can you imagine how nice that will be laying out in a lawn chaise looking up at the skies in a bathing suit on the sandy shores of Barrow Alaska?  I have oceanfront views available for $19,999 this month only.

I particularly want those of you who are ardent Global Warming Enthusiasts to send your deposits in right away.  Apparently there is going to be a limited supply of this prime property.  Wait, there won’t be anyone here to buy.

We’ll all be dead.

Never mind.

By James Lewis

It is already painfully clear that models of anthropogenic global warming are ridiculously inadequate, and do not meet the basic tests of experimental science, no matter how many “scientists” yell “consensus.” Now comes a serious question from a serious scientist that threatens to undermine the fundamental premise of the alarmists.

Danish physicist Bjarne Andresen has raised the interesting point that there may be no global warming, because there is no such thing as global temperature! That is because the earth atmosphere is not a homogeneous system. It’s not a glass lab jar in your high school physics lab.

Says Andresen,

“It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth. A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate."(Italics added.)

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As Andersen suggests, global warming hype may be more politics than science.

Read the whole thing.

So, at the heart of all this verbiage about global warming(from any cause) is a meaningless statistic?  Sounds very likely.

There is a consensus.

Everyone thinks this way.

You are wrong.

Don’t you dare say otherwise.

(Ooops, we’re lying).

While previous posts may have focused on the competing science contra the Global Warming myth, this one focuses on the suppressive tactics used by the Left.

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Is this the future of computing?

I certainly hope so. Looks cool

This is an update on an earlier Daily News Rush story:  Are Muslims On Target To Take Over Minneapolis?

Bacon, Bacon, Bacon

Pigs used to fly through the checkout lanes at Minneapolis area Target Stores.  Used to, that is, until a few Target cashiers who take their practice of Islam to extremes, clipped the flying pigs’ wings by refusing to scan any item containing the ‘sinful’ pork, including frozen pepperoni pizzas. This was reported in the news media earlier in the week and there has since been an appropriate uproar from Target customers who are irked at the petty nonsense they have to put up with just to bring home some bacon. This pettiness could cause some Target customers to shop elsewhere for their sinful pepperoni pizzas, an outcome Target Stores is hoping to avoid.

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A few days ago Bill Barnwell asked the question in part, Is Gandhi burning in hell? 

His argument was that Gandhi had done so much good work that he MUST be in heaven.

Bill is a great Pastor and a good theologian.  But, I differed with him.  When you read his post you will see my comments as well.  You are welcome to make your own.

Then I heard Fred Thompson of perhaps Presidential Candidate potential quote from a speech about Gandhi he made which is Quoted Here. You have to read this.  It will change (for the worse) your view on Gandhi.

Gandhi is held up as a hero of the peace movement today.  If Europeans, the British and Jews had listened to him people in United Federation of Deutschland (Europe) would all be speaking German today, and there would be no Israel because there would be no Jews.

Come to think of it that is the drumbeat of the PEACENIKS.  Go Gandhi - destroy Israel.

So, as to the question, Is Gandhi burning in Hell?

My guess?  Yep!

The Washington Post reports on a bill which clears the way for the District of Columbia to elect its very own Representative. Eric Muller wonders about the constitutionality of this development. Fun speculation ensues.

Late Friday evening, Castro died of natural causes at his home…

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New caution from climatologists daring to speak out against oppression.

Two leading UK climate researchers have criticised those among their peers who they say are “overplaying” the global warming message.

Professors Paul Hardaker and Chris Collier, both Royal Meteorological Society figures, are voicing their concern at a conference in Oxford.

They say some researchers make claims about possible future impacts that cannot be justified by the science.


The pair believe this damages the credibility of all climate scientists.

They think catastrophism and the “Hollywoodisation” of weather and climate only work to create confusion in the public mind.

They argue for a more sober and reasoned explanation of the uncertainties about possible future changes in the Earth’s climate.

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Excuse me if I copy anyone… I searched…

On February 7th, 2007 Byron York wrote and article about how Joe Wilson was picked to go to Niger.

According to the Senate report, Valerie Plame Wilson sent her e-mail on February 12, 2002 — the day before the vice president was briefed on the African uranium matter. The discrepancy between the two dates seems glaring, but was not included in the Senate report. That is because, according to a source familiar with the committee’s investigation, the CIA did not include the document in the materials it turned over to the committee. Senate investigators apparently never knew the exact date of the vice president’s request, so they never knew it came after Plame’s e-mail.

What does the new information mean? On February 12, 2002, the Defense Intelligence Agency released — inside the government, not publicly — a report covering the Africa uranium issue; its title said that Niger had “signed an agreement to sell 500 tons of uranium a year to Baghdad.” CIA officials told Senate investigators the report spurred requests for information from both the State Department and the Department of Defense. Knowledgeable sources speculate — and they stress, they are speculating — that those inquiries from State and Defense were made on the 12th, the day the Defense Intelligence Agency report was sent around, and that Valerie Plame Wilson, in suggesting her husband be sent to investigate, was reacting to those requests, and not to the vice president’s question, which came the next day. In this new version of events, Dick Cheney was the last guy to request more information, not the first; the notion that his request started the whole affair seems wrong.

Read the whole thing… It’s like she lied or something…

PlameGate: Although the criminal investigation and trial are over and didn’t find any wrong doing, there is yet another investigation taking place in Washington DC today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  We shall call it the PlameGate. 

What a dramatic pursuit this is on the part of Democrats to go after their Commander in Chief.  After over six years of trying, this is the worst misstep they can come up with to go after the Bush administration.  In this highly improbable situation, loaded with exaggerated claims and characters, the effect would be humorous if it weren’t so criminal.  This is not going to be forgotten quickly by the voters; Democrats will be remembered for their petty and impotent politics. 

In today’s heavily democrat led CIA Leak Investigation probing into why an investigation wasn’t initiated in the Valerie Plame name leak of 2003, it was Plame’s own testimony that could end up incriminating not only herself, but her own husband, Joe Wilson.

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By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

War On Terror: Al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to being the mastermind for a lot of terrorist crimes. Old news? Hardly. His confession appears to link al-Qaida to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

War critics argue that Saddam Hussein had little to do with terrorism, and nothing to do with al-Qaida. Since there was no Iraq-al-Qaida link, they say, the U.S. should never have invaded to get rid of Hussein, no matter how evil he was. But something interesting has come out of the interrogations of the lead al-Qaida suspects at Guantanamo.

In particular, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confirmed what was suspected all along: He was the driving force and chief planner behind 15 years of al-Qaida terrorism — nearly 30 attacks and plots in all. That includes 9/11, the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and, much earlier, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

If so, it further cements the evidence that Iraq was, at minimum, a willing partner of al-Qaida’s in the decadelong burst of terrorism that culminated in 9/11. Indeed, Mohammed’s Gitmo confession neatly ties the ‘93 WTC bombing and 9/11 to Iraq and al-Qaida. After all, Iraq had the means — oil money — and the motive — revenge for Hussein’s humiliation in the 1991 Gulf War.

Of particular interest is the revelation about Mohammed’s involvement in the ‘93 bombing. It shows a linkage not only between the ‘93 WTC attack and 9/11, but also between Iraq and al-Qaida.

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It’s pretty clear that al-Qaida and Iraq, far from being enemies, were tactical allies against the U.S. As such, removing Hussein wasn’t a distraction from our war on terror; it was vital to it.

Read the whole thing.

Information like this is the antidote to the MSM’s ongoing campaign of lies, half-truths and fabrications about the war in Iraq, the overall war on terror, and terrorists in general.  We have to kill them before they kill us.

Muslim’s don’t like pigs, right? So a school in England though… “Hey, let’s change the ‘Three Little Pigs’ to the ‘Three Little Puppies’.

Story Here

The Honley Church of England Junior School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, decided that since pigs are offensive to Muslims, it should rework the classic tale and call it “The Three Little Puppies” instead, according to the Daily Mail of London.

Did it work? Did the act of capitulation make Muslims feel more at home?

Islamic leaders, however, condemned the move as misguided and said decisions like this were turning Muslims into “misfits” in society.

The moral? Changing everything in an attempt to NOT offend is, perhaps, MORE offensive than not changing…

This line of thinking:

“We have to be sensitive if we want to be multi-cultural. It was felt it would be more responsible not to use the three little pigs,” said committee member Gill Goodswen, head teacher of Stile Common Junior School.

is likely to do more harm than good, but is indicative of the left’s desire to make sure that no one has hurt feelings.

Morons!