Monthly Archives: November 2002

You Go Girl

Andrea Harris has a nice take on feminists and their lack of a constructive response to the current situation in the Mid-East.

“This was going to be headlined “Feminists? Are you listening?” Then I remembered that feminists are currently worried about whether or not women golfers will be allowed to join some tournament somewhere.”

Iranians are Blogging

Apparently blogging is really taking off in Iran. There are estimates of 10,000+ Iranian run blogs out there. I would love to find one (in English) that’s tracking the reform movement. If you can, take some time to try and locate some of these blogs and send me the URLs. One thing we can do to support the reform movement is give them more exposure to the outside world.

Update:
I’m finding a few interesting blogs out there. Send me your selections and I will post all the links later tonight or Thursday.

Tom Daschle Has Lost His Mind

Brit Hume hit the nail on the head on Fox News today when he said (I’m paraphrasing here) that Democrats have a problem recognizing the legitimacy of both their opponents and the voters when they lose.

In other words, they never look in the mirror and ask themselves why they’re losing. They just lash out. That’s why Senator Daschle has the nerve to hold a news conference and claim that it was the Republicans who stalled the Homeland Defense bill, that Rush Limbaugh is creating brainwashed zombie assassins, and that this nation is headed down the same path of religious extremism as some of our foes.

The man is crazy.

The Democrats are resorting to conspiracy theories and scare tactics yet again. Expect it to worsen over the next two years.

The hardcore left still hasn’t learned that Americans are generally reasonable people who don’t scare easily. They haven’t learned that the turmoil they created during the Vietnam War shouldn’t serve as a blueprint for activism in every conflict that follows. They haven’t learned that Americans favor an even playing field but have never equated that with socialism. They haven’t learned anything frankly. Their vision of the future is rooted firmly in 1968.

The left isn’t dead in the water. They’re in reverse. They’re self-destructing with amazing efficiency. Meanwhile, reasonable conservatives and conservative Democrats observe the reality of the world around them, roll up their sleeves, and get to work.

There’s a new Democrat boogeyman looming on the horizon. One I predict they will be talking about within a year. The conservative Blogosphere. We’re gaining more traction in the “real” media daily. We’re exposing the deep-rooted anti-Americanism prevalent in so many of their coalitions. We’re finding the tripe they publish online for the faithful and exposing it to a shocked America.

If they think Rush Limbaugh is a pain in the ass its just because they aren’t yet familiar with Rachel, John, Michele, Charles, Lee, Jay, and countless others.

Cole Mastermind Busted!

It’s breaking now:

Al Qaeda leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the network’s chief of operations in the Persian Gulf, has been captured, senior U.S. government officials said Thursday.

Al-Nashiri, a suspected mastermind of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, was captured in an undisclosed foreign country earlier this month and is in U.S. custody, officials said.

He is the highest-ranking Al Qaeda operative captured since last March, when the CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured Usama bin Laden’s operations chief, Abu Zubaydah, in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Read more.

The State of al-Qaeda

Tom Daschle must be ignoring his intelligence briefings. Terrorists are getting rounded up and blown to smithereens worldwide, Afghanistan has been liberated, and President Bush has put more pressure on terrorist operations worldwide than any leader in history.

Yet Daschle whines on.

The left can preach defeat all they want. The American people know that this war is bigger than one man. We aren’t naive enough to think that killing or capturing Bin Laden alone is enough to make a difference. This tactic is yet another example of the left’s complete lack of vision and integrity. Two traits personified on the conservative side by President Bush.

Killed:
Hamza al-Qatari
Mohammed Atef, military commander (Egyptian)
Mohammad Salah (Egyptian)
Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad (Egyptian)
Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (Mauritanian)
Abu Jafar al-Jaziri
Abu Salah al-Yemeni

Captured:
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Persian Gulf operations chief (Saudi)
Abu Zubaydah (Palestinian-Saudi)
Ahmad Omar Abdel-Rahman (Egyptian)
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi
Abdul Rahim Riyadh
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi (Libyan)

In Hiding:
Abu Musab Zarqawi (Jordanian): fled to Iran from Afghanistan

Unknown:
Osama bin Laden (Saudi-Yemeni)
Ayman al-Zawahri, second-in-command (Egyptian)
Abu Zubair al-Haili
Tawfiq Attash Khallad (Yemeni)
Zaid Khayr
Saif al-Adil (Egyptian)
Amin al-Haq (Afghan)
Abu Basir al-Yemeni (Yemeni)
Abd al-Aziz al-Jamal
Bilal bin Marwan (Saudi)
Saqar al-Jadawi (Yemeni-Saudi)
Mohammad Omar Abdel-Rahman (Egyptian)
Abu Mohammad al-Masri, aka Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (Egyptian)
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (Kuwaiti)
Midhat Mursi (Egyptian)
Ahmad Said al-Kadr (Egyptian-Canadian)
Shaikh Saiid, aka Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi (Saudi)