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Bill O'Reilly reported Friday about Charles Rust-Tierney, a former president of the ACLU of Virginia, who was arrested for posession of child pornography. He also questioned which news organizations would report this story, which was sent out over the AP wire service to all media outlets, major and minor. ABC reported it ( link ), and the Washington Post put it in the "B" section, according to Mr. O'Reilly. The NY Post, a conservative paper, didn't report it (which he didn't point out), along with most of the liberal MSM. The question is: why? O'Reilly says it was because Rust-Tierny is a big liberal ex-president of the ACLU's Va. chapter, and he may have a point. A former NRA chapter president would probably have gotten more coverage, at least from most of the MSM. The story itself is rather graphic, if one wants to report the details. This could be a reason for many outlets to pass on reporting it, as well. Disturbing news sells, though, so I wonder ...

Tom Vilsack dropped out of the Democratic primary race, and it sounded like a tree falling in the middle of a forest. No-one heard it.The same fate awaits Chris Dodd, as well as Joe Biden. These guys are has-beens, and never-will-be's. The real stars of the left are Al Gore and Hillary. Al deserves his place at the table, and has gone to amazing lengths to get there. If he wins an academy award for his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," he could step on Hilary like a bug in the primaries. He has the freedom to be as "left" as he wants, and can try to slide back to the right enough to fool the average voter, after the primaries. Hillary's other biggest threats are Barack Obama and John Edwards, according to the MSM. David Geffen has created a firestorm between Hil and Obama, and Edwards had a minor dustup with Hil a few weeks ago. This looks like choreographed chaos to me, and Hil looks to come out on top. One question: why is there no such heavy brawling betwee...

I've seen this so many times, it hardly suprises me any more. A terrorist attack by a Muslim in a Salt Lake City mall is called something else ( 1 BobG ). Over the years, the MSM have willfully played down numerous individual attacks as not being influenced by Wahabbi ideology. Another example of this MSM non-reporting was just exposed by the NY Daily News . It seems that the Empire State Building attack in 1997 was terrorism, according to the suicide attackers' wife. She says now that she was told to deny his terrorist motive afterward by the Palestinian Authority, so that the "peace process" would not be threatened ( 2 BobG ). Now there's the cab driver, who got into an argument with his passengers "over religion," and ended up trying to run them over ( 3 Malkin ). Could they have been arguing about Islam? Is this not terrorism based on fanatical Islamic faith? What sect(s) of Islam promote this hideous ideology? The Wahabbis, and the Khomenists are ...

BobG from Sweet Spirits of Ammonia has this tidbit : The FBI has taken an American citizen, Daniel Maldonado, into custody. He is being charged with receiving terrorist training by Al-Qaeda in Somalia and with conspiring to use an explosive device. Maldonado, also known as Daniel Aljughaifi, was captured by the Kenyan military and turned over to US law enforcement. When apprehended, he was fleeing the Ethiopian and Somali government forces battling the islamomaniacs of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia. He faces life imprisonment if convicted on the bomb-making charge. The penalty should be death, just as he planned for others. More at FOXNews . ------------------------ What does one make of this guy Maldonado, nee Aljughaifi? Is he just another "misguided soul," who went to Somalia with "good intentions?" I can predict some of that in future reporting. Still, his being in Somalia, and the undeniable connection of the people he was working for with Al...

Lawyers representing a Massachusetts school district named as a defendant in a parent's civil rights complaint have said teachers at Estabrook Elementary School have a "legitimate state interest" in teaching the homosexual lifestyle, and parents have no input into those decisions. "of the people, by the people and for the people", taxpayers, aka parents "have no input into those decisions." The "State" no longer serves the people, the people serve the "State". "A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." - Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president (1743-1826), in a letter to George Hammond, 1792 The arguments came in a recent hearing on the district's motion to dismiss the complaint filed by David Parker, a parent whose concern over the school's promotion of the homosexual agenda to grade-schoolers prompted a meeting with school ...

It's been too long since I featured anything from Sweet Spirits of Ammonia , so here are some recent posts: American Terrorist Returned To US Another Isolated Incident? Al-Qaeda In Japan? Hans Sans Pants Rubbish In Jerusalem Weekend Funny Extreme Internet Jimmy The Duck What's The Matter With Kids Today Crazy Cleric Caught On Tape As always, BobG has the pithiest take on current events. A MUST-READ! (I hope that's not too cheesy, Bob.)

Politics in NY State have gotten very interesting of late. Democrat Governor Spitzer, elected by around %70 of NYS voters, is taking on both legislative houses, especially the Democrat-controlled Assembly, in his quest to "change everything" in Albany. Gov. Spitzer lost the first round, failing to get the combined legislature to vote for one of three candidates his impartial panel had chosen to succeed Alan Hevesi as NYS Comptroller. Assembly Speaker Silver was set on having an Assemblyman take the seat, but none were among the final three chosen by Spitzer's panel. Silver said there were supposed to be five candidates on the final list, and because Spitzer only listed three, their deal was off. The Governor had no say on who was chosen, but had gotten Silver to publicly agree to select one of the panel's recommended candidates. Instead, Assemblyman Tom DiNapoli was elected by the combined legislature to be the NYS Comptroller. Here's where the fun begins. ( 1 NY...

This is worth republishing in full. The latest from Amir Taheri ( NY POST ): February 2, 2007 -- THE claim that Iraq is in a state of civil war or heading toward it has been a staple of Washington political debate for four years now. More cautious commentators prefer "sectarian war," but implicitly draw the same conclusions: Iraqis are a bad lot, better left to stew in their juice of fanaticism and violence. The truth, however, is that, although there is a great deal of killing in Iraq, there is no civil war in any reasonable sense of that term. "Sectarian war" is also hard to sustain. Although there is killing prompted by sectarian hatred, what we have today is a war of the sectarians, not a sectarian war. The difference is not mere semantics. In a sectarian war, the overwhelming majorities of rival religious sects subscribe to the aims of their own side and actively participate in their pursuit. I saw this in the '90s, when I covered the various wars in the fo...

The Western World faces the greatest threat to global democracy and freedom since the fall of the U.S.S.R, yet many in the West blame the U.S.A. for creating it, if not actually being worse than it! If I believed the hype that Kerry spews about the U.S.A. being "a sort of international pariah," I would have to believe that nations around the world are shunning involvement with the U.S.A. That's not the world I see. I see people, services, and commodities from at least 20 different nations every day, and that's a conservative estimate. No nation is more involved with "the world" than the U.S.A, though George Washington is probably spinning in his grave over it. Iraq, the so-called "lost cause," is still the main distraction of the MSM, while the Emirate of Waziristan isn't even a blip on their radar screen. These people need to wake up! The U.S.A. is not a repressive or imperialist "regime" under President Bush. The same can't be ...