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Aug 19 2008

The Coming VP Blunder For Obama

This is the week Obama comes crashing back to earth again. Every time he is forced to walk the path of the politician and make political decisions he loses more of his aura. This week – maybe as early as tomorrow – Obama announce his pick for VP, and I am predicting it just might […]

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Aug 18 2008

The Mythical Michelle Obama “Whitey” Video

OK, we are one week away from the Democrat Convention and we will soon learn if there really was a video tape of Michelle Obama saying something akin to “whitey” at some major event a couple of years ago in Chicago. It the tape exists (and all indications are this is a sick rumor started […]

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Aug 18 2008

Pakistan’s Awakening Is Growing As Local Tribes Ally With Government And Hunt Down Militants – Updated!

It does seem that the Pakistan Tribal Awakening is taking root and spreading in the tribal regions of Pakistan known as the FATA and the NWFP. I noted in one post yesterday how tribes in one area of the NWFP province had set up security details and hunted down Taliban militants in their region.   […]

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Aug 18 2008

Obama Thrown From Saddleback Debate

I watched a little of the Q&A at Saddleback with Obama and McCain. My bottom line take is Obama talks like a used car salesman/politician, speaking in Kumbayah tongues, while McCain addresses issues head on. Obama lost me when his reason to become President was to help all the poor people in the world. That […]

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Aug 17 2008

Updates From FATA 08_17_08

Some brief updates in the war raging in Pakistan’s Tribal Regions. It seems the main city of Kahr in the Bajaur Agency has been mostly cleansed of the terrorists since the government is asking people to return and take up residence in their homes so they cannot be used by terrorists: As security forces continued […]

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Aug 16 2008

Another US Strike In South Waziristan?

On July 28th what appears to have been a CIA/Special Forces Predator Strike on a compound in South Waziristan took out 4 key al-Qaeda leaders using 3 missiles. On August 13th another probable Predator strike hit South Waziristan using four missiles. To date no details have ever been reported on who was killed out of […]

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Aug 16 2008

Pakistan Awakening Also Taking Hold In Kurram Agency Of FATA

    In my previous posts this morning I noted how local Pakistan Tribes had taken up arms and started hunting down Taliban and their al-Qaeda cousins in their districts of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). It appears now that the local tribes in the Kurram Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) […]

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Aug 16 2008

Pakistan’s Awakening Is Beginning In The Buner District Of NWFP

Update: It appears there may be an Awakening movement starting in the Kurram Agency of FATA as well. – end update   There has been a very noteworthy event in one of the Districts inside the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan (NWFP). The NWFP is one half of the Tribal Areas of Pakistan that […]

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Aug 16 2008

The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight – The Far Right, Updated

The “true” conservatives, whose invectives against moderate and independent conservatives (e.g., RINOS, Quislings, etc) successfully handed Congress to the liberals in 2006, are again pointing their guns at the kind of non-fringe compromise which America wants on serious issues facing this nation. One of the big ‘failures’ in the eyes of The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight during […]

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Aug 16 2008

Olympic Open Thread III

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The Olympics in Beijing are proving to be quite interesting, with tons of successes for American athletes and more world records than imaginable. Top of the list is of course Michael Phelps who eked out and incredible 1/100th of a second win at the very end of the 200m Butterfly, winning his 7th Gold of the games and […]

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