Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc, July 2005

1. Tancredo. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo (R) got himself in a spot of trouble last week when he opined that the US ought to bomb Mecca immediately following a Islamist nuclear attack on the US. This rhetoric is a bit outside normal discourse, but, why not? Why not hold the followers of Islam to precisely the same standards of conduct and respect that followers of Islam have given the Holy sites of other religions? Why are their Holy Places untouchable, inviolate, and deserving of the utmost respect and deference, yet ours are so much rubble? Bloggers Hugh Hewitt and Dafydd, who writes on Captain’s Qu arters are quite upset with Tancredo. They believe that if we whack Muslim Holy places – for whatever reason, the entire Muslim world will rise up against us forever. I don’t think I agree and believe that their concern is a bit overwrought. Muslims have had no difficulty at all trashing Christian and Jewish Holy sites in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and other places throughout the Holy Lands of Christians and Jews. They have had no problem trashing Buddhist and Hindu Holy sites in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet we are supposed to be concerned with their response to a threat to glass Mecca and Medina? Why is this? One of the great mistakes we in the West have made when dealing with Islamists is to worry about what they think about our actions. When in reality, they ought to be worried about our response to their atrocities. Islamists have no difficulty at all destroying, eliminating, ethnically cleansing other religions from their midst. What if the other religions decide sometime down the road that Islam needs to be given the same treatment? If the Islamists want to play at making total war, let’s play under their rules. Respect goes both ways. Our side ought to at least consider occasionally playing the game under their rules, by taking away the things they love, the things they adore, the things they hold in high regard. If that causes a couple more percent of them to come boiling out of the wilderness with death in their black little he arts, so be it. We will deal with them also. Like I have written before to our Islamist enemies: Be careful what you wish for, for you may end up getting it. If Tancredo introduced a little notion of worry into our enemies, he should be commended. If he was raving, then his constituents will have a say about it in 2006 when he is up for reelection. Anything that makes our Islamist enemies and their supporters sleep a bit less well at night is not necessarily a bad thing.

2. Shuttle. The Space Shuttle is being prepared for a flight scheduled for launch sometime early this week. WH budgetary memos have been floated that suggest future funding ought to support less than 15 future flights before the entire fleet is grounded. Congratulations to the WH for considering this decision. The shuttle as it exists today is an example of a piece of aerospace machinery that has grown, along with its support chain, to be too complex and dangerous to fly regularly. In essence, the less they fly it, the more dangerous each p articular flight gets to perform. You simply can’t take a machine what was designed to fly 50 times per year and fly it less than a tenth of that sortie rate and expect it to remain healthy. The response to each crash has been to cut the flight rates, add yet another layer of review, bureaucracy and complexity to the shuttle, further constraining the ability to easily turn the vehicle from one flight to another. The military has a term for aircraft that don’t fly often. They are called Hangar Queens. For one reason or another, they end up at the bottom of the weekly lists of aircraft to fly so they end up sitting on the ground for a while. Aircraft don’t like to sit idle and react by getting harder to maintain over time. Hydraulic and oil systems are not pressurized and seals st art drying out and causing leaks. Turbines don’t turn, don’t heat up, don’t burn fuel, and end up breaking a bit more often than normal. Electrical systems aren’t heated up. They get moisture and bugs in them, and don’t perform as well as they do when used regularly. The operative term here is “used regularly.” The support bureaucracy within NASA has gotten to the point where it simply cannot fly the birds often enough to figure out how to fly them regularly and safely. As a result, we have a launch system that averages one dead astronaut less than every ten flights – which ought to be an outrage. The WH and NASA plan to move manned spaceflight above e arth orbit to the new manned capsule – the CEV. Manned spaceflight to e arth orbit and below will increasingly become the province of commercial launch companies, which means the marketplace will drive both safety and costs from now on, which is very good news indeed for the future of Americans in space.

3. Santorum. Senator Rick Santorum (R, PA) came under a withering, coordinated media attack over some criticism he wrote in his 2003 book “It Takes a Family.” Santorum is up for reelection next years, holds the number three leadership slot in the Senate, and has become a target for the leftists, the George Soros and Hillary Clinton crowd and their to destroy between now and election day. It appears that Santorum had offended the tender sensibilities of Boston and East Coast denizens by noting that the culture of acceptance, tolerance, sexual libertinism that permeated that p art of the country made it just that much easier for the sexual predators that infested the Catholic Church to commit their evil on young, trusting boys over the years. Indeed, Santorum has echoed the findings of a commission chaired by Bob Bennett that said much the same thing about the Church at the time. The book was published three years ago and nobody gave it much coverage. However, now that his reelection campaign approaches and the George Soros funded PACs are lining him up in their cross hairs, that innocuous statement has become the object of high dudgeon performances by congressional leftists and their media lackeys. Kennedy went to the floor of the Senate with a statement ripping Santorum early last week. In a nicely orchestrated set of supporting articles, a number of papers on the East Coast ran stories about Kennedy’s rant and took the opportunity to blast away at Santorum with mock outrage and crocodile tears – all over something that was written and forgotten three years ago. Limbaugh interviewed Santorum Thursday, giving him about 30 minutes to make his case before the American people. Just for the record, as long as we are dredging up things from the past, last week saw the 29th anniversary of the suffocation of Mary Jo Kopechne in a submerged car that the senior balloon from MA swam away from one dark, drunken night in July 1969.

4. Roberts. President Bush nominated DC Circuit Court Judge John Roberts to replace the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor last Monday. Roberts has a long track record working for Republican presidents, having served in the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations. Roberts’ name has been floating around as one of the 2-3 most conservative picks for the SCOTUS for months. The selection was nicely done, for Monday morning a rumor broke out that Edith Joy Clement, a sitting federal judge from the 5th Circuit in New Orleans had been picked. She was not quite the strong conservative, and ended up not being asked to serve. But the outbreak of media speculation was loud, ran like wildfire, and titillated the media and online community for hours. It also gave the leftists time to put together a days’ worth of attack information against Clement – all of which ended up being irrelevant. This bought Bush and the WH time to properly introduce Roberts to the public while the leftists went off on their wild goose chase while Roberts’ name was a well held secret. Nicely done! Democrats immediately shifted gears and went into their attack mode against Roberts, though it was a bit muted as it took a while to shift targets. As of this writing, it appears their three avenues of attack are going to be to demand more documents than the WH can legally give up (Roberts served as a lawyer for previous administrations); personally attack his wife and children (already taking place on the style sections of the LA Times and Washington Post); and finally assault his Christianity (he and his family are strong, practicing Catholics).

1. Akaka Bill. Warning: Polemic to follow! The US Senate is busily working on a Bill that will create yet another victim class based on race. This time, the leftist Ap artheid fans in the Senate are supporting racialists in Hawaii who want special rights for the over 200,000 people of Polynesian ancestry on the islands. The legislation will treat the Polynesians as yet another tribe of Indians, complete with special lands, their own tribal government, boatloads of free money from the feds, a different set of laws and courts on their lands, and best of all, separation from their neighbors based on percentage of native blood. You see, over the last 112 years since American businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy, set up a government and eventually turned them all into Americans, everyone has been marrying everyone else and making a bunch of babies. The total population of the Hawaiian Islands is now over 1.2 million. So how do you tell who gets to belly up to the trough and p artake of these new, special rights and all the related goodies? Well you do the same thing that the old Afrikaners used to do in South Africa, you st art keeping track of what percentage of Polynesian blood you have ad bring back to the US after a mere 150 years, the notion of quatroons and octoroons. If you are over the magic percentage, you get to belly up to the bar and suckle the federal teat at the expense of your neghbors. If not, well then too bad for you, as you are simply just another foolish little schmuck who believes in equal rights under the law. I can’t think of a more poisonous thing for congress to be doing. As of this writing, it appears the legislation has the support of all 44 democrats in the Senate, along with 6 Republicans. Two of those Republicans are from Alaska, much to our dismay and embarrassment. I believe that Ted Stevens (R, AK), supports the legislation because of his long friendship with his old WWII war buddy Daniel Inoue. He may also support the legislation because he believes in it. This Bill is an awful, awful mistake, for it will racially polarize the Hawaiian Islands like nothing else in history, and that poisoning will take generations to resolve.

2. Short Selling. Jihad for fun and profit? Anyone remember the short-selling on the US stock market in the days leading up to the 9-11 attacks? Nobody was apprehended for having prior knowledge of the event, but somebody certainly profited from the attack. Joseph Farrah of WorldNet Daily last weekend wrote that somebody sold the British Pound short during the 10 days leading up to the bomb attacks in London a couple weeks ago. The Pound fell just over 6% during those days. Profiting from fear is not p articularly illegal, though it is most certainly odious and more than a little immoral. But profiting because of prior knowledge of an event that will crash a currency or drive down a stock market is most certainly illegal. But if you are an Islamist, I suppose anything goes.

3. Shakedown. The NAA(L)CP announced last week that they were going to embark on a new round of corporate fundraising. The campaign will focus on American corporations that were in existence here in the US during the years when slavery was legal. Because of corporate takeovers, buyouts, failures, and overall commerce during the last 150 years, there are very few established corporations, banks, insurance companies that can not be traced back that far – making the pool of potential corporate targets for the NAA(L)CP virtually unlimited. The racialists plan on pursuing reparations for slavery by shaking down these corporations, much like the old Mafiosi used to do against unwilling businessmen who had the nerve to operate in their territory. They plan on lobbying cities, states and locales to not contract or do business with any of the companies under attack (unless of course they pay protection money to the NAA(L)CP). And like all good little liberals, they expect to get away with it completely. Captain’s Qu arters Blog, Tues.

4. Durbin. Richard Durbin (D, IL) has been under attack in his home state. A non-profit named Move America Forward has been running a series of ads demanding Durbin step down for his outrageous accusations against American military last month, comparing their actions to those of the worst mass murders in the 20 th Century. Apparently the ads have hit home, for Durbin has st arted hitting back in true democrat fashion – by asking for an IRS audit of the group. One of his state offices suggested to a local Chicago paper that the IRS audit the group. That suggestion was printed. We will see if the group gets an audit. Powerline, Weds.

5. Wilson. The artificial controversy over Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and Carl Rove continued to bubble and boil last week. As the week progressed and more facts were exposed to the light of day, the more this little dust-up appears to be yet another artificial get-Bush effort by the media. As of this writing, it appears that the CIA itself outed Valerie at least twice before any reporter asked Rove about her. It appears that Plame orchestrated Wilson’s visit to Niger, and has the full support of her superiors in the CIA (which ought to tell you a lot about the internal problems within the CIA). Wilson never even wrote a report. He was interviewed by the CIA afterwards, and the CIA wrote the report of his trip. Yet Wilson went to the NYT and gave an interview contradicting everything he told the CIA about possible business dealings between Saddam and Niger. By weeks end, the new facts seemed to kill the artificial feeding frenzy. However, during the weekend, someone decided that the controversy was not going to be allowed to die – and everything st arted right up again. The media and democrats are hanging their hats on a federal law that makes it a crime to out a CIA operative, blowing their cover and putting them physically at risk. If that is the new standard, there are several US Senators – all democrats, and the NYT itself who have violated that law during their ongoing assault on President Bush. The NYT itself outed a clandestine CIA airline a few months ago, endangering ongoing operations, endangering operatives working outside the country, and endangering lives of CIA operatives and their contractors. Yet we have no outrage – mock or otherwise, no investigations, no threats of jail and no interest from the rest of the (formerly) mainstream media. Senators Wyden (D, OR), Rockefeller (D, WV), Levin (D, MI) and Durbin (D, IL) all blew the cover of a top secret satellite system late last year during a debate over its overall cost. Nobody is in jail for this yet either. John Kerry (D,MA) blew the cover of an undercover operative last April while blasting away at John Bolton during a hearing on his nomination. The (formerly) mainstream media does not seem to care if Kerry himself does the outing. Once again we see that the law only applies to Republicans in office – and never to democrats doing the same thing. If the democrats want to play this game, perhaps we ought to play along and demand the immediate resignation in shame of all 5 democrat senators named above – for Rove didn’t do anything except answer the last minute question from an investigative reporter. The democrats involved did their deed knowingly, willingly, and illegally.

6. Bloggers. The FEC is considering an exception in the Campaign Finance Rules for bloggers that will permit bloggers and Internet news sources to continue reporting and writing commentary during elections. How sweet. Our political masters will deign to allow us to comment on them during the campaign season. My he art is all atwitter with anticipation and gratitude. Currently under the Clintonoid Judge ruling, bloggers are covered by far harsher rules than the (formerly) mainstream media. The lawsuit was brought by two liberal Congressmen who are doing everything possible to shut down political speech that doesn’t agree with them here in the US. They got a Clinton appointed judge and the ruling they wanted. A split in the FEC itself did not allow an appeal, so they are stuck with writing new rules that will further limit free speech. They will try, but I expect they won’t be successful. Captain’s Qu arters Blog, Tues.

1. Deep Impact. The Deep Impact probe put an 800 pound projectile into Comet Tempel I last weekend. The probe was sold as a scientific research mission intended to dig out a crater and sample the interior of a comet. From a strategic standpoint, it was also an operational test of the things necessary to launch a (relatively) quick reaction mission to a comet / asteroid sized body and actually hit it with something. The entire mission from launch until impact took just over 170 days. The impactor appeared to penetrate a distance into the comet, digging out a pretty decent sized crater. Early speculation was that it dug through a layered crust into something pretty soft and structurally unsound in the interior of the comet. A large percentage of the near-e arth asteroids are thought to be old comets, whose orbits have been modified over millions of years by gravitational effects of Jupiter and the inner planets, circularizing the ones that are left and ejecting the rest from the solar system. Over time, the action of the sun on the surface drives out the ices (volatiles) and leaves a black crust over the surface. When the crust gets thick enough to sufficiently insulate the ices from the heat of the sun, the comet stops emitting gasses and st arts looking like a dead, inert asteroid. There is really no way to tell whether something is a dead comet, a chunk of rock or metal, or a pile of rubble unless you go there and sample it or bounce something like radar or laser off of it. The latter two are difficult to get through a cometary coma. Deep Impact was our first such attempt – and another Good Show from JPL. Congratulations.

2. London. Islamists popped four bombs at the height of morning rush hour last Thursday in London. Three of them went off in the subways and one wiped out a bus. There were two more devices that were reported early on that did not function. Over 50 were killed and over 1000 casualties were wounded. Local socialists in charge in London and a number of other British communities have managed to turn their Muslim immigrants into the demographic equivalent of a festering sore. Islamists have figured out how to emigrate into Great Britain, immediately get themselves on welfare, carve out semi-autonomous communities, set up mosques where they preach hatred day and night to their followers – no assimilation, no support for the government or the people that feed and clothe them, no tolerance for anyone who is not Muslim, and busily manufacturing as many hate-filled young men out of their children as humanly possible. The British citizens are st arting to notice and they aren’t impressed very much. London has become a haven for Islamists on the run, much like Paris was 30 years ago. Great Britain has not passed legislation that is allowing them to hunt down the perps who popped the bombs, and as of last weekend, they are asking the FBI for help in tracking the bad guys down. Analysis over here is not all bad news, however. If you track what Al Qaida has been able to do over the last decade, the success of our war effort becomes clear. They spent nearly 30 years ramping up the terror to the point that they murdered nearly 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001. This was their high water mark of murderous effectiveness. Their largest political win was in response to the train bombings in Madrid on March 11, 2004. They killed around 300 three days before a parliamentary election and with the assistance of the incumbent who responded to the attack with no strength, managed to turn over that government in nationwide elections two days later. 16 months later in London, the death toll is 52 at this writing. Leftists, members of the (formerly) mainstream media, and apologists for these murderous goons, have st arted trying to tie the attacks to our actions in Iraq, and crowing about the murderous effectiveness of the bombs. If the number of dead in their major, planned attacks is dropping by a factor of 10 every time they do something, it won’t be long before they are going to be so successful that nobody dies.

3. Contributions. There is a tax revolt under way in Washington State, where backers of a ballot initiative are gathering signatures to roll back a an increase in the gasoline tax levied recently. The corrupt powers that be from King County (where dead people, illegals and felons all voted democrat (like they always seem to do) and elected the current democrat governor) decided that two conservative talk show hosts were actually making in-kind campaign contribution when they blasted away at the tax increase and supported the ballot initiative via on-air comments. They got a state judge to rule that the radio station had made a campaign contribution in excess of what is allowed under the state’s version of Campaign Finance Reform (McCain-Feingold / CFR). The court case brought by the King County lawyers and pro-tax state officials is aimed directly as shutting down political speech in opposition to the tax, and so far the corrupt local courts (as expected) are going along with it. Expect this attack to be extended to bloggers, online articles, and other voices in opposition to whatever the leftists want to do. Expect the technique to be copied and used against local and national conservative talk shows and blogs. This entire thing is typical of the left, for whey they are completely unable to fight you straight up in the arena of ideas, they resort to simply making you shut up. Well, folks, we aren’t going to shut up. Washington State in general and King County in p articular have a problem that We the People are going to have to stand up and solve. I expect the leftists to be surprised at the solution as they continue to overplay the hand they have been dealt.

4. Radiation. Steven Milloy, formerly of Junkscience.com and now with FoxNews wrote late last week about some more idiocy from the National Academy of Sciences. A panel of self-serving NAS scientists overturned over a century of research on the health-safety effects of radiation with the stunning conclusion that there was no level of radiation exposure that was safe for humans. They overturned the scientific principle that it is the dose of anything that makes the poison. They ignored the fact that we all inhabit a moderately radioactive environment and are well adapted to living and thriving in it. Indeed, there is an older, but scientifically based body of data that seems to indicate better health when we are exposed to low levels of radiation than when we are not. The NAS has adopted the precautionary principle and applied it to cancers – literally making it up as they go, with the assumption that any radiation at all causes cancer. Therefore, if you don’t have any radiation, there will be no mutations that cause cancer cells. Of course, there is no data whatsoever to support this sort of conclusion when applied to low levels of radiation. The solution, on the other hand, like Kyoto, may require spending trillions of dollars in mitigation to protect us from low levels of radiation – money all wasted. Milloy points out that a very large amount of money has been spent over the last few decades to mitigate exposure to low level radiation, yet there has been no measurable, verifiable improvement in overall health. And now these so-called scientists want to spend even more money. There is another theory about cancer at the cellular level. That is that cells sometimes don’t divide properly – for whatever reason, and end up with the wrong genetic combination. Some of those “wrong” cells die and some reproduce with the wrong genetic combination and go on to create cancers. This heretical view is not supported by federal research funding, and hasn’t gone very far as yet. Stay tuned.

5. Treason. The Little Green Footballs blog Weds carried a story about five American Muslims captured on the battlefield in Iraq providing aid and comfort to the insurgency. All were naturalized citizens, carrying dual citizenship. Given that they are all citizens, they now can be arraigned by military tribunal and tried for treason, perhaps even being executed. Perhaps that will show some of our Islamist enemies we are really, really serious about winning this war. Perhaps it will show the same thing to our fifth column on the left.

1. Iran. The Mullahs in charge of Iran sufficiently rigged their presidential election to install one of the leaders of the 1979 capture and occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran as their new president. Initially five, and now over 15 of the former hostages who spent 444 days in the tender care of this terrorist during the latter days of Jimmy C arter’s infamous reign as president recognized his face after the election results were announced. The Iranian government instantly denied any connection. However, this guy has a web site, complete with photos, written in Farsi, that takes great credit for his involvement in storming and capturing the embassy. It appears the Mullahs are not going to go down quietly, and have instead decided to fight to the last drop of spilled blood. Too bad for them. Iran has been at the center of world terrorism for 25 years – ever since Jimmy C arter’s CIA helped overthrow the Shah of Iran and install the Ayatollahs. They believe that building nukes will help make them strong in the eyes of the Islamists worldwide. When the bombs are built, I expect them to immediately st art exporting them to every terrorist group that wants one, and shortly thereafter to st art being used against Jews, Christians and Infidels worldwide. They had better be very, very careful about walking down that road (although I believe it is inevitable), for my sense is that the he arts of Americans against Islamists and those that aid and abet them, are getting very hard. 60 years ago, we were the first to use nukes against an enemy. While we may not be the second to use them, we will most certainly be the last to use them. The forces of political correctness supporting Islam and Muslim complaints here in the US haven’t gotten much of a toehold among the general public, and with each vicious, bloody, murderous outrage perpetrated against innocents, filmed and gleefully broadcast by Islamists, that little bit of support and tolerance will continue to wane. The media refuses to show film or photos of the attacks on 9-11, but more of us than they would expect will never forget that murderous attack.

2. Souter’s House. Conservatives st arted their counterattack on the Supreme Court last Monday. A company named Freestar Media announced a plan to build a hotel and museum in Weare, NH. The hotel will be called Hotel Lost Liberty, and will the museum will chronicle the loss of liberty throughout the years. They expect it to be a real money maker, creating far more tax revenues than the home that currently sits on the planned site for the hotel. The land and home they want the city council to grab is located at 34 Cilly Hill Rd., and is owned by Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who interestingly enough, also voted to void the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment. The developer thinks all he has to do is to convince five of the nine selectmen that he will make more money for them than the home does, and according to Souter’s opinion in Kelo v New London, he is correct. Let’s hope for his great success in this exciting opportunity. Perhaps other conservatives who want to make a point can also st art going after the homes, land and personal property of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, John Paul Stevens, Steven Breyer and Anthony Kennedy. Limbaugh, Tues.

3. House Responds. It didn’t take the politicians long to respond to the outrageous Kelo decision. A bip artisan group in the House of Representatives – including the conservative leadership and some liberals like Maxine Waters (D, CA) and John Conyers (D, MI) - drafted legislation to cut federal money from any community that takes advantage of the Kelo decision, and st arts stealing private property via creative use of eminent domain. As I understand the initial legislation, the only money cut off is that directly related to the project or similar projects. The House needs to put some real teeth into this legislation, and cut off every single federal dollar to any community that uses eminent domain to st art stealing homes, businesses and land for commercial ventures. I expect this to pass both Houses of congress and get signed into law. The people and the politicians understand the problem of Kelo implicitly. Unfortunately the media does not choosing not to report anything about this outrageous expansion of legalized theft. Even Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday was railing against the response by the House against the Court as an example of politicians not staying inside the confines of actions the courts have left them. Here in Anchorage, there has been a letter in the letters to the editor section of the local paper responding to Kelo every day since the decision. Most of them have been pretty blunt, the first of which was one that reminded people why there was a Second Amendment. The Anchorage Municipal Assembly and the State Legislature are also considering legislation to nicely limit the use of eminent domain here in Alaska. I expect some pretty harsh anti-takings legislation to pass.

4. Plame. The SCOTUS also decided that the two reporters working for the NYT and Time magazine had to tell the Special Prosecutor about their sources in the Plame investigation. Remember that this investigation st arted when Joe Wilson’s wife was outed as a CIA operative during Wilson’s Bush bashing time in the sun in 2003. The media took the opportunity to gin up a lot of smoke and fire and get a special prosecutor to go after Robert Novak who broke the story. They went after one of their own, hoping to get someone on the WH staff along with Novak. Unfortunately, the Special Prosecutor also went after them for not revealing their sources. The media appealed the case to the SCOTUS and lost, mainly because privilege doesn’t apply in a criminal case. The media companies immediately rolled and gave the prosecutors what they wanted. The prosecutors wanted more, and gave the reporters a period of time to produce the information and notes. As of today, it appears the reporters are going to stonewall and end up in jail. Some of the blogs are st arting to report that Plame’s name did not originate with the White House staff, but was passed along by reporters to the WH. This is rich. The mainstream media stands up their favorite Frankenstein’s monster, a special prosecutor, turns it loose with hopes that it will get Novak and someone high up in the WH. Instead the monster does a 180 degree turn and goes after them.

5. Podcasting. Podcasting is the act of downloading content into IPod and similar media devices. It is also the new medium of transmission for talk shows. Limbaugh led the way a month or so ago when he st arted downloading MP3 files directly to his 24/7 subscribers. The rest of the talk show world responded quickly, and st arted making their shows available for MP3 download. The only difference is that Limbaugh is taking care of paying customers and most everyone else is giving it away. This means that the young, hip people running around listening to their IPods may be listening to new media rather than Gangsta Rap – a very comforting though to those on our side and a very troubling thought to those on the left. New technology is going to be a wonderful tool indeed.

6. Aruba. Aruba is a small tropical island that measures about 184 square miles. At 169,000 square miles, Iraq is slightly more than 1000 times the area. Local officials and the family are unable to find the body of a murdered single white female in Aruba over the course of a five week search. Coalition forces have been unable to find WMD in Iraq over the last three years. Limbaugh adopted the leftist’s arguments last Thursday with the missing girl as an example. Maybe she was never there. Maybe her trip was just a stunt or a setup designed to get the FBI onto the island for some nefarious mission. Or maybe it is simply hard to find hidden things and searching will take a while.

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- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

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