The Chicago Tribune concludes: We Don’t See The Iraq Conspiracy
The Bear on Dec 30 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
The 2nd rewrite of History has started.
Archive for December, 2005
Liberals and privacy
The Bear on Dec 30 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
We all know what the NSA surveillance case is about. It is about liberals living in a bubble. Liberals think that the issue is government spying and the Bush administration’s overall hostility towards civil liberties, but they are wrong.
Anyway, everyone does it. Thanks to the conservative blogosphere we know that it isn’t [...]
WAR BY LAWYERS Mark R. Levin
The Bear on Dec 30 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
There has never been a time when lawyers and courts have had so much influence over the conduct of war. This is where the Supreme Court’s decisions in Hamdi and Rasul have taken us, as many of us predicted. And now, when the president exercises his legitimate and traditional constitutional authority during war-time, including ordering [...]
The President’s “Inherent” Power
The Bear on Dec 30 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Inherent Power will drive the Dimocrats over the edge.
Political Quote of the Day….
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Political Quote of the Day
Amid the political rancor about justifications for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, it is worth remembering the words of Admiral Jeremiah Denton: “It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the [...]
The Iraqi Election’s Effects, from Washington to Tehran By George Friedman
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report
Let’s begin with two facts. First, the Iraqi elections were held Dec. 15. That is the important news: They were held. The Sunni population, along with Shia and Kurds, participated. Second, U.S. President George W. Bush did not break below 37 percent popularity. In fact, he bounced to about 47 percent.
The first [...]
Leak double-standards by Linda Chavez
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Within days of the leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity, Sen. Chuck Schumer was demanding a full-scale investigation into the incident, and others soon followed suit. So where are Sen. Schumer and his fellow Democrats in demanding a similar investigation and prosecution of a far more egregious leak of classified material involving the [...]
Former Clinton Official Contradicts Leahy on Spying By Jeff Johnson
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
(CNSNews.com) - Claims by a top Senate Democrat that the Clinton administration’s warrantless surveillance of suspected spies and terrorists was different from what the Bush administration has employed are being contradicted by a former Justice Department official who served under President Bill Clinton.
John Schmidt, who served as associate attorney general between 1994 and 1997, argues [...]
Hillary covers for Bill: Persuades Senate to censor investigative report
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has persuaded most of the Senate to censor a potentially devastating report of an investigation into her husband’s presidential administration during the mid-1990s, congressional sources told Insight. “This report has enough material to keep the Democrats on the defensive for the next two years,” a congressional aide familiar with the report [...]
The most controversial book you never heard of
The Bear on Dec 29 2005 | Filed under: Need to Know
Can you name the book which has the Islamic world in an uproar, and caused the United States government to deny any involvement with it? The book banned in the world’s most populous democracy? No, not Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, a cause celebre among the literati. The book in question is published by evangelical [...]
