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• Trials in New York? Terrible Idea

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  Cross posted by gary fouse fousesquawk Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “I got rights.” The decision of the Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his main cohorts to stand trial in US Federal Court is a blunder of monumental proportions. As I see it, once the lawyers [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:44pm EST
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• Sarah Palin, Carrie Prejean, Michelle Bachman-all in MSNBC Crosshairs

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk  Have you noticed how the mad-hatters at MSNBC are going after three prominent conservative women-Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean? I mean night after night after night. First it’s MSNBC’s butter and egg man, Ed Schultz, followed by Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. It [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:24pm EST
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• After Ft Hood-Where do we go from here?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   Council on American Islamic Relations Director Nihad Awad   In my past postings on Ft Hood, I have tried to be cautious in my feelings and responses. As I said, I don’t want to say anything that would aggravate an already delicate situation in the wake of this latest [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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• Are you a “Phobe”?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   With the events at Ft Hood, I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot of talk about Islamophobia in the coming days and weeks. We may also be discussing other forms of phobias as they apply to people. There is a host of terms used [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:17pm EST
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• CAIR/ISNA Troubling Responses or Silence

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   There have been several troubling incidents recently in the US involving segments of the Muslim community. Among those are the Zazi case in New York, where the FBI has charged one person with planning terrorist acts and another with lying to the FBI and tipping Zazi off [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:28pm EST
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• A Book to Read-”Muslim Mafia”

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   ” This is not a book about Islam or Muslims in general. It is about the threat from Shariah Islam and violent jihad propagated by a criminal class of Muslims known as the Muslim Brotherhood or the “Ikhwan mafia”. This secretive organization dominates most established Muslims groups [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:44pm EDT
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• Fox News is Conservative-So What?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   With all the uproar over the White House attacks on Fox News, I thought I would consider the oft-repeated charge that Fox is to the right and not really “Fair and Balanced”. I have thought a lot about Fox’s “fair and balanced” claim, and to be honest, [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
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• Dick Cheney-An Honorable Man

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  Cross-posted by   Gary Fouse fousesquawk   I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Dick Cheney in recent weeks-especially since he began speaking out and defending the actions of the Bush administration in the war on terror and criticizing the Obama administration as well. Certainly, Cheney’s words and criticism, such as his speech last [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 8:13pm EDT
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• White House Invitations and the Slandering of a Wounded DEA Agent

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk This week, while perusing an article on David Horowitz’s Frontpage Magazine blog, I came across a piece of information that hit me like a punch in the stomach. The article in question, written by Ben Johnson and which is linked below, concerns a cultural meeting organized by [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:57pm EDT
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• What to do in Chicago?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk     Now that the Olympic issue has been put to rest, I think it is time to talk more about one of the factors that probably contributed to the selection of another city to host the games (Rio de Janeiro). That is the brutal death of 16-year-old honor [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 4:15pm EDT
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• Film makers start petition for release of Polanski

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk (Hat tip to Hot Air) A petition demanding the release of convicted child-rapist (yes, convicted child-rapist) Roman Polanski has been initiated in France by an outfit called the SACD, an organization which represents performance and visual artists. It appears to be a joint French-American (Hollywood) venture. Here is [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 4:13pm EDT
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• Glenn Beck Day

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk This past Saturday, conservative Fox News commentator Glenn Beck was honored for his success by his hometown of Mt Vernon, Washington and presented with the keys to the city by the mayor. No big deal, right? Wrong. Apparently, the symbolic act of giving a day to a local son [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
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• The Obama/Clinton Foreign Policy- Please our Adversaries-Stick it to our Friends

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   The latest developments in American foreign policy being carried out by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can only leave me shaking my head. It makes one wonder who are friends really are and who our enemies really are. Our new administration doesn’t seem to [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
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• Town halls and tea-parties-Where do we go from here?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   No matter what the news media would have us believe, the ordinary, working, tax-paying Americans have won some significant battles in the past few months. From the town hall meetings to the tea parties, the videos and the blogs show that we have let our voices be [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
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• Republicans, Tea Parties, and Harvey Milk

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi spoke in front of reporters and made an “emotional” appeal for conservatives to tone down the rhetoric (in other words, shut up). In doing so, she invoked the memory of the tragic murder in San Francisco where city supervisor Dan White shot and killed [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:03pm EDT
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• ACORN-What Must be Done

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk     <a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOJMYL8TW6E/SrGBTiG3ZfI/AAAAAAAACU8/N1TnbLPQ1rk/s1600-h/acorn22.jpg”><img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 126px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOJMYL8TW6E/SrGBTiG3ZfI/AAAAAAAACU8/N1TnbLPQ1rk/s400/acorn22.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”"id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382225202257552882″ /></a> How high does it go? Is there any remaining doubt that ACORN is a criminal organization? Only partisans on the left and nitwits can truly believe that ACORN is an honest organization with a" [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
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• Joe Wilson-Enough is Enough

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   I had never heard of Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) until his outburst at President Obama’s speech before Congress. I remarked at the time that he had apologized and that such apology was appropriate. That should have been the end of it. But of course, it’s not. As anyone [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 7:38pm EDT
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• Pollution in Venice

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk For years, people have decried the pollution that has plagued the city of Venice. The canals are dirty, the city is sinking, the paint is faded and now this year’s Venice Film Festival has added new filth to the city’s burden with the appearances of Michael Moore, [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
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• Van Jones- A Failure of Vetting?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Now that Van Jones has stepped down (in his own classless way), it is time to ask, as many pundits have been doing for the past week, if the appointment of Jones to a White House position was a breakdown in the vetting process. Hardly. It’s not as [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
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• How will the Dems repackage health care?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk No matter what they say publicly, the Democrats and the White House know full well that the majority of the public want no part of government health care. Obama is floundering and trying to use his oratorical skills to convince us that its a good deal. One [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
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• The Politicization of Kennedy’s Death

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk As my regular readers know, I have refrained from criticizing the late Senator Ted Kennedy out of respect for his passing. I am also reluctant to take shots at those of his colleagues and followers who are mourning his death. Something, must be said, however, about the [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 3:33pm EDT
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• Mark Lloyd-The Architect of the Fairness Doctrine?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk That old bugaboo, the Fairness Doctrine, is still waiting in the wings. With Obama and the Democrats in power, only public vigilance is standing between us and the shutdown of conservative talk radio. Oh, the Henry Waxmans of the world will assure us that nothing is in [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
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• Shame on Holder; Shame on Obama

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Eric Holder Posturing Now that Attorney General Eric Holder has “made his decision” to go ahead and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA “harsh interrogations” for possible criminal charges, I for one would like to explain why I think this is an outrage. First of all, I view [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
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• Where did the anti-war movement go?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Cindy Sheehan “Enough already”- Charles Gibson If you haven’t heard much about the anti-war movement in the past seven months, there is a good reason. No, it’s not because President Obama ended our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan; he hasn’t. It’s because Barack Obama-not George Bush is our president. [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
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• Who is Spreading “Disinformation”?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk I’m just a simple guy, not a technocrat who can break down every facet of the health bill debate, and I presume I will be getting no more urgent e-mails from the Chief White House Spammer, David Axelrod, debunking all the “disinformation”, but a couple of things [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
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• Arlen Spector at the Town Hall

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk (Tip of the hat to the great Don Martin) Uncanny resemblance, don’t you think? Get Grizzly! Share and Enjoy, Then, Join Us! : Print this article! Digg del.icio.us Facebook Google Bookmarks E-mail this story to a friend! LinkedIn RSS SphereIt StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Yahoo! Buzz co.mments FriendFeed FSDaily MySpace NewsVine Turn this article into a PDF! Ping.fm Propeller Reddit [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
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• Support Whole Foods Markets and Free Speech

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk My fellow blogger, Hamilton Roberts, has alerted me to a boycott that is being formed by left-wing ObamaCare proponents against Whole Foods Markets. Why would they boycott a market? Because their CEO, John Mackey, has just written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal opposing government health [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 11:28am EDT
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• Secretary Clinton-Ugly American

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk I have put up a few sarcastic comments about Hillary Clinton’s angry outburst in Kinshasa last week, but now I would like to make a couple of serious observations. I think I speak with some degree of authority. While I have never been an employee of the [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
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• Lily Burk-Another Outrageous Murder Case in California

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Lily Burk-Another victim on the altar of liberalism Last month, there was yet another murder case in California that should have been prevented-had only the criminal justice system done its job. This time, an innocent 17-year-old girl named Lily Burk was murdered in Los Angeles by a recently [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
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• The Health Care Issue-From a Personal Perspective

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk What is to become of them? When I listen to the issues surrounding the health care debate, I look back at the last eight years of my mother’s life and how the system dealt with her. I think her experience with the health care system is relevant to [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
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• Another Campaign Against Israeli Products (AHAVA)

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Previously, I have reported on the activities of anti-Israeli activists trying to cause disruptions at Trader Joe’s stores selling Israeli products. Now the wacky ladies at Code Pink are on the march organizing a de-shelving operation aimed at stores selling AHAVA products. AHAVA is an Israeli cosmetics [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 12:46pm EDT
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• Anti-Semitism in France-The Case of Ilan Halimi

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Ilan Halimi I am linking an article about this story which was printed in the Brussels Journal and which has full details. <a href=”http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4021″>http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4021</a> Essentially, it involves the case of a young French Jewish male named Ilan Halimi, who, in January 2006, was kidnapped by a group of young African [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 11:57am EDT
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• The Persecution of the Baha’is in Iran

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk The seven Baha’i community leaders now on trial for their lives in Iran Iranian Baha’i women hanged in 1983 for teaching Baha’i classes to Baha’i schoolchildren Among the other disturbing issues going on in Iran-with their nuclear development and crackdown on protesters, one other issue has been largely lost [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 4:45pm EDT
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• The Henry Louis Gates Incident

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Professor Henry Louis Gates- A victim of racist cops? I was going to pass on commenting on the Henry Louis Gates incident in Cambridge this week because I was not familiar with Gates and felt that I didn’t really know the facts well enough to come to a [...]
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  Posted: July 23, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
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• Jimmy Carter breaks with his church-Good riddance

  —Grizzly Groundswell

  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Jimmy Carter with one of his human rights comrades-in-arms, Hugo Chavez This week, that pest Jimmy Carter made news again, this time leaving the Southern Baptist Church because they refuse to ordain women pastors and they preach that women should be subservient to their husbands. That’s all well and [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
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• Misfits in Our Universities

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   Columbia University A few days ago, I wrote a blurb about ex-Colorado University professor Ward Churchill, a left-wing radical who was fired by CU and has now lost his lawsuit in court. I called Churchill a misfit who basically hates his country. I stand by that comment. I [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
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• Case Against Professor William Robinson is Dismissed

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   UC Santa Barbara The University of California at Santa Barbara has recently been embroiled in a controversy over sociology Professor William Robinson after he sent an e-mail to his students with images that compared the state of Israel to Nazis. Two offended students complained and an investigation was [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 10:03pm EDT
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• Where is CAIR on Iran?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk Mr Awad, Mr Hooper? I periodically check out the official website of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) to see if they have issued a statement on the happenings in Iran. I have thus far, failed to find any mention of Iran on their site. Of course, [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 8:10pm EDT
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• Mark Sanford, John Ensign, William Jefferson, Barney Frank-And you want bigger government?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk     “We need a bigger ship.” Every time you think the latest bit of legislation or big government program is a good idea, you need to remind yourselves of people like…. Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Barney Frank, William Jefferson, Barbara Boxer, Larry Craig, Monica Conyers, Eliot Spitzer……. I could go on [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 1:42pm EDT
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• Anti-Israel De-shelving Operation at Trader Joes Fizzles

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  Cross posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk I am happy to post this article from the Jewish Journal on the attempt by a San Jose activist group to organize a de-shelving operation at Trader Joe’s stores selling Israeli products. Kudos to Trader Joes for standing up to these yahoos. According to the article [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
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• The Iranians and Their Government

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   The Iranian “election” -and the winner is……. (Tip of the hat to the great Don Martin) I must confess I have very mixed reactions to the happenings in Iran over the “re-election” of Ahmadinejad. That’s because I vividly remember the hostage crisis thirty years ago, when our diplomats were [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2009, 3:15pm EDT
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• More thoughts on the Holocaust Museum shooting

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC The shooting at the Holocaust Museum, combined with the shootings in Arkansas and Kansas, have continued to spur a public discussion on the motives of the shooters and their political implications. Many pundits on the left have continued to use the Tiller murder [...]
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  Posted: June 15, 2009, 11:15am EDT
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• Trader Joe’s under leftist assault over Israel

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  Cross-posted by gary fouse fousesquawk     I received this message from a colleague alerting me to the fact that Trader Joe’s, a well-known market for imported foods and wines, is now under pressure to stop selling products made in Israel (like Israeli cous cous, for example). This effort is being launched by South [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
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• What will Obama say in Cairo?

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk With President Obama on his way to Cairo to deliver an address labeled as a message to the Muslim world, speculation is rife that this will be yet another “apology” to be issued on behalf of America for all the “wrongs” we have committed. The speech, which will [...]
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  Posted: June 02, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
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• The Sotomayor Pick

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    “I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.” (With apologies to my Latina wife-who makes all the decisions in my family) I have been thinking a lot about [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
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• My Email to George Galloway (The Cat Man)

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk  The figure on the left is George Galloway. He is a member of the British Parliament (really). In this photo, he is having tea and crumpets with Uday Hussein  Thursday night at the University of California at Irvine, he called me a liar. I am flattered. In connection with the previous posting, I have [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
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• Some Reflections on the Hate Fest at UC-Irvine

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  George Galloway on the left, Uday Hussein on the right Galloway will be at UCI May 21. Uday can’t make it. He’s dead. There is yet one more event scheduled by the UC-Irvine Muslim Student Union in concert with their program entitled:”Israel-The Politics of Genocide”. That will be May 21, when the [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 7:44pm EDT
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• Day 4 at the MSU Hate Fest at UC Irvine

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  Amir Abdel Malik Ali cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   “I went down to the demonstration to get my fair share of abuse” Today, the Muslim Student Union at UCI brought in their old stand-by, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, to light the fire at the flagpoles again. Ali makes 2-3 appearances at UCI every year, and [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
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• Cynthia McKinney speaks at UC-Irvine (sort of)

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  Cross-posted by Gary Fouse fousesquawk   Cynthia McKinney at UC-Irvine, May 13, 2009 with “security” in red and black t-shirts (Photo by Fousesquawk. Can’t you tell?) Today marked day three of the Muslim Student Union-sponsored week of anti-Israel events at UC Irvine. Today’s featured speaker was ex-Georgia Representative and Green Party presidential candidate (really!) Cynthia McKinney. [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 9:08pm EDT
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• Day 2 at MSU UC-Irvine Israel Bash

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  cross-posted by gary fouse fousesquawk   Day Two of the Muslim Student Union Festival of Hate at UC-Irvine featured American activist Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish lady who travels from campus to campus giving the same spiel about how Israel is an occupier and oppressor of Palestinians. Ms Baltzer appeared at UCI last [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
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