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The Time is Now for Israel to Strike Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:35:36 AM

Time for an Israeli Strike?

By John R. Bolton
Thursday, July 2, 2009

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.

Iran's nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalize a deliverable nuclear weapons capability.

Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel is undoubtedly ratcheting forward its decision-making process. President Obama is almost certainly not.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070103020.html

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These People are Evil

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:07:37 AM

EXCLUSIVE: Taliban buying children for suicide bombers

By Sara A. Carter (Contact) | Thursday, July 2, 2009

Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.

A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/taliban-buying-children-to-serve-as-suicide-bomber/


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Washington Post Sells Itself to Others

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:06:36 AM

Washington Post sells access, $25,000+


By MIKE ALLEN | 7/2/09 8:04 AM EDT

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html



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Congress Continues to Waste Our Money

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:03:59 AM

Congress's Travel Tab Swells

Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos

By BRODY MULLINS and T.W. FARNAM

WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html
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Good Job Stimulus Package and Thank You President Obama

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:02:37 AM

467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent



By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Jeannine Aversa, Ap Economics Writer – 43 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy


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North Korea Fired Two More Missiles Today

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:01:20 AM

Official: N. Korea Fires Four Short-Range Missiles

Thursday, July 02, 2009

North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles within four hours on Thursday, Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News.

While the surface-to-ship missiles, with a range of less than 62 miles, are not capable of reaching Japan, the test-fires are a move that aggravates the already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529814,00.html
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Hope He is Going to be Okay

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:19:45 AM

AFP

Military official says American soldier missing since Tuesday has been captured by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan and 'all resources' are being used to find him.
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Senators Ask Questions About Another of Obama's Greatest Hits

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:15:18 AM
I've linked to a story about this dead hostage for freedom for the terrorist before and now Senators Sessions and Kyl are asking questions:

Senators question U.S. role in hostage deal

Clarification sought on negotiations

By Sara A. Carter (Contact) and Eli Lake (Contact) | Thursday, July 2, 2009


Two senior Republican senators sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday expressing concern over reports that the administration negotiated "directly or indirectly" with terrorists for the release of British hostages in Iraq.

In a letter made available to The Washington Times, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jon Kyl of Arizona said that the U.S. release last month of Laith al-Khazali, a member of a militant Shi'ite group called Asaib al-Haq, may have been part of a deal to gain freedom for three British hostages held since 2007. On June 21, the group sent the bodies of two British hostages to the British Embassy in Baghdad. The other three are still being held.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/senators-concerned-us-part-of-deal-over-hostages/?source=newsletter_must-read-stories-today_more_news_carousel


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ACORN's Lies

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:07:34 AM

ACORN head claims a home is lost every 13 seconds; here's rest of the story

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor

 

Bertha Lewis, national president of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), issued a news release yesterday repeating a claim she has previously made that "every 13 seconds another American family loses its home."

Curious about how that figure was calculated, I called the contact person on the release, Austin King, director of the ACORN Financial Justice Center. "Oh, we got that figure from the Center for Responsible Lending," he said. "We have been using that figure for about five months now."

When asked if he had double-checked the accuracy of the figure, King said "we've ball-parked it, but I didn't do the numbers. They maybe [CRL] did some different benchmarks."

So, I pointed out to King that if a home is lost every 13 seconds, there would have to be at least 2.42 million homes lost in a year. But, according to Business Week, only about one million homes were lost in 2008.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ACORN-claims-a-home-is-lost-every-13-seconds-49628217.html

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Barney Frank, the Wonderful Public Servant

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:59:31 AM

Barney Frank: Let's spend TARP profits before taxpayers can get them

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
07/01/09 9:19 PM EDT

When President Obama announced on June 9 that some financial institutions would be allowed to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program dollars, he said the massively expensive TARP bailout had made money for the federal government.  "It is worth noting that in the first round of repayments from these [TARP recipients], the government has actually turned a profit," the president said.  Indeed, TARP supporters have long held out the hope that the program might be profitable.

But now Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come up with a proposal to spend any TARP profits before they can be returned to the taxpayers.  Last Friday, Frank introduced the "TARP for Main Street Act of 2009," a bill that would take profits from the program and immediately redirect them toward housing proposals favored by Frank and some fellow Democrats.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Barney-Frank--49649362.html
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The Global Warming Skeptic Whose Report was Suppressed by the EPA Talks About His Findings

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:56:35 AM
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Helen Thomas Criticizes Obama?

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:51:45 AM
This came at a White House Press Conference, where she questioned the transparency of the government. She couldn't believe that the could be transparent if they stage the questioners.

Here is the video:



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Daniel Inouye and His Ties to a Bank Receiving Money

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:42:41 AM

After Call From Senator's Office, Small Hawaii Bank Got U.S. Aid

By Paul Kiel and Binyamin Appelbaum ProPublica and Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

 Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth.

The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate for a program designed by the Treasury Department to bolster healthy banks. The firm's losses were depleting its capital reserves. Its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., already had decided that it didn't meet the criteria for receiving a favorable recommendation and had forwarded the application to a council that reviewed marginal cases, according to agency documents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063004229.html?hpid=topnews
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Dialogue and Diplomacy Continues to Work Beautifully

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:11:59 AM

  • North Korea Fires Missiles

    URGENT: North Korea test-fires a pair of what appear to be short-range missiles off its east coast, official says

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