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The day’s top political news:
Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage
Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying on Monday. The three were held after they strayed into Iran from northern Iraq at the end of July.
The three, Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, crossed into Iranian territory nearly two months ago. Their families say they strayed across the border accidentally.
Under Iran's Islamic sharia law, espionage is punishable by death.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110900948.html
ObamaCare legislation in trouble -- GOP calls it DOA
President Obama's victory dance yesterday for the House-passed health-care bill came as Senate foes -- mainly Republicans with one key Democrat moderate -- pronounced the measure mortally wounded, if not outright DOA.
Speaking from the Rose Garden after the squeaker 220-215 Saturday-night vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people." Instead, he met with immediate resistance.
If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome a GOP filibusters, told "Fox News Sunday."
Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists.
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan tried to make contact with people linked to al Qaeda.
On Sunday, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) called for an investigation into whether the Army missed signs as to whether Hasan was an Islamic extremist. Political correctness may have played a central role in failing to prevent the massacre.
Opinion:
Congress comes home – let them feel the heat
The vote on health care moves on to the Senate, but that doesn’t mean its time to let up on pressures against those in Congress who voted for the extremist health care legislation. Quite the contrary. Those who voted to destroy our health care system as we have known it, should be targeted by voters who are moved to show their displeasure.
That’s the way a democracy should work.
Don’t let the media or liberal Democrats distort the facts or continue their betrayal.
In his post vote comments, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine praised
“the role of Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe in rallying supporters with the 13-million-strong e-mail list of the Organizing for America group, which he said rallied ‘the public to see through Republican scare-tactics and lies and energizing them behind the cause of our generation.’”
Two things to grasp from that praise: first, the Obama “Organizing for America” group poses a significant danger for normal America and must be opposed – beginning at the local, grass root level.
Second, I challenge Kaine or any other Democrat to cite “Republican scare-tactics and lies” he mentions. He cant do it. Government-run health care is predictably a health care with diminished quality since government can never provide quality in any thing. The so called public option is a pathway to single payer health care – the sort of socialized medicine Canadians have had to endure.
None other than liberal icon Barney Frank, admitted that fact in an unguarded video that made the rounds on Youtube a few weeks ago.
Democrat lies are abundant, of course. The worst being Pelosi’s allowing the Stupak-Pitts amendment that bans federal funding of abortion. Inclusion of that amendment prompted a host of Democrat Congressmen to vote for Pelosi’s extremist legislation. What the naïve Congressmen don’t yet grasp is Pelosi’s intent to “lose” the abortion funding ban when the House and Senate huddle to compromise the variations between the two bills. In short, constituents of those Democrats who claim to be anti abortion, should understand their congressmen have been rolled big time by a calculating Pelosi and her liberal gang.
Of course its too late to change their vote, but it is not too late to replace those congressmen next year and let them feel the heat in the meantime.
Meanwhile, the actual focus shifts to the Senate. Democrat Joe Lieberman gives us some encouragement with his pledge to join Republicans in an effort to filibuster and prevent the Reid version of health care from passing. Lieberman’s position robs Harry Reid of his ability to impose radical health care on an unwilling American because Democrats in the Senate have dominating numbers. Now those numbers are beginning to collapse.
We must keep up the pressures, make sure the facts are known, and do what is possible to defeat the far left extremism that is empowered by the Obama White House and Democrats in both houses.
Never has the need for grass root activism been more important to this country and its people.
Buddy
The day’s top blogs:
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Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists
Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.
Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas Photo: GETTY Imam Anwar al-Awlaki The radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, accused of supporting attacks on British troops.
Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.
Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.
As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.
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Gen. Casey fears backlash against Muslim soldiers
Eric Zimmermann
Premature speculation about the causes of the Fort Hood shooting could cause a backlash against Muslim soldiers, the top-ranking official in the Army said Sunday.
Appearing on a handful of Sunday morning shows, Gen. George Casey said no one should rush to draw judgments about the shooter's reported anti-American views.
"The speculation could potentially heighten the backlash agains some of our Muslim soldiers," he told ABC's "This Week."
As horrific as the shooting was, "it would be an every greater tragedy if our diversity became a casualty here," he warned.
Casey said investigators believe Major Nidal Malik Hasan was the only shooter involved, despite early reports that there may have been two or three. Casey said those reports mistook soldiers fleeing the scene as suspects.
And while Casey would not rule out terrorism as a motive, he cautioned that it was too early to draw definitive conclusions.
"That's anecdotal evidence," he told "Meet the Press," referring to Hasan's alleged radical views. "I think those things will be confirmed or denied over the course of the investigation."
Casey said the Army will continue to do everything it can do address the mental health problems that arise in soldiers.
"We will take a hard look at ourselves as an army, because we want to make sure nothing like this happens again," he said.
He emphasized the Army's campaign to reduce the stigma associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, which he said had led to a 40 percent increase in soldiers stepping forward to get help.
He also pointed to extended tours of duty that have stretched the armed forces beyond their capacity.
"You've heard me talking about the Army being out of balance for two years," he told "Meet the Press."
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Sarah Palin Compares Elderly Care In Healthcare Bill To Abortion
More details of Sarah Palin's speech to the Wisconsin Right To Life group are coming out - including these excerpts from Jonathan Martin of Politico:
Sarah Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents Friday night with a a stark warning that the same philosophy that allows abortion rights could soon be invoked to allow the government to cut off health care for the elderly or children with special needs.
Speaking to a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee asserted that if policy-makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable, then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to other persons.”
“What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have a whole lot of productive years left,” Palin asked an audience of about 5,000 who paid $30 each to hear her speak in an airplane hangar-like exhibition hall at the Wisconsin state fairgrounds just outside of Milwaukee. “In order to save government money, government health care has to be rationed… [so] than this elderly person that perhaps could be seen as costing taxpayers to pay for a non-productive life? Do you think our elderly will be first in line for limited health care?
“And what about the child who perhaps isn’t deemed normal or perfect per someone’s subjective measure of their use or questionable purpose in the eyes of a panel of bureaucrats making our health care decisions for us,” she continued.
Her warning was couched in repeated rhetorical questions about what might happen when laws are made by those she portrayed as having an insufficient appreciation for the sanctity of all human life.
“We have to think this through,” she said. “We have to get to the truth of this matter, health care reform.”
The fund-raiser was advertised as closed to media coverage, but at least three reporters, including one from POLITICO, attended simply by purchasing a ticket like other members of the public.
The line to get into the venue here stretched over a half-mile outside the building and a local conservative talk radio station even marked the event by printing t-shirts that welcomed her to the city, noted the date of her appearance and deemed her: “America’s Conservative Conscience.” The anti-abortion group that hosted the event sought to raise money by including pledge cards on every chair that included an offer to become part of “Sarah’s Rogues” by giving $1,000 to the group in exchange for an autographed copy of her forthcoming memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.
Palin had remarks prepared but frequently wandered off-script to make a point, offering audience members a casual “awesome” or “bogus” in discussing otherwise weighty topics.
As in: “It is so bogus that society is sending a message right now and has been for probably the last 40 years that a woman isn’t strong enough or smart enough to be able to pursue an education, a career and her rights and still let her baby live.”
Palin also offered flashes of the traits that endear her to many conservatives. Offering great personal detail, she relayed the story of how she came to find out that her infant son, Trigg, had Down Syndrome. She confessed to being scared and said that she and her husband, Todd, turned to God to prepare them.
After years of advocating against abortion in theory – what she called “preaching to the choir” – Palin said she was presented with the stark reality of what to do with a special-needs baby.
“I am thankful to have been asked to walk the walk,” she said.
Palin also included a few less personal, but as compelling, flourishes in her remarks, citing Pope John Paul II (never a bad idea in a heavily-Catholic part of the country), referring to scripture (John 16:13) and noting that such feminist pioneers as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had opposed abortion (she called them “foremothers”).
She also demonstrated a politician’s ability to connect with a local crowd, relating that her grandmother was born in Chippewa Falls, her dad had played high school football with Packers great Jerry Kramer and, with an audience that likely watched a lot of Fox News, noted her relationship with the network’s talk show, Wisconsin native Greta Van Susteren.
Further, Palin talked with ease about the abortion issue, touting polling this year that showed a majority of the country opposing the procedure, recalling successful ad campaigns (“Choose Life”) on the issue and casting her own opposition to it in terms familiar to the movement.
Palin didn’t mention President Obama by name, but did take a shot at him for opposing an abortion-related measure as an Illinois state senator and more than once mocked his catch phrase.
"Let's talk about change we can believe in," Palin said. "Friends, a majority of Americans identify as pro life, and thank God for that."
She reserved her toughest critique for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, eliciting boos from the crowd at the mention of the speaker’s name. Palin urged Pelosi to allow House members to vote on an amendment that would bar any taxpayer funds from being used to fund abortion.
“We need to make sure she hears the message that she will held accountable if she does not let this at least come to a vote of her colleagues so they can have their voice be heard,” Palin said.
In a closing exhortation, she urged the audience, “Don't ever let anyone to tell you to sit down and shut up.”
After she concluded her remarks – and presented the organization with an over-sized, $1,000 check – Palin signed autographs for some of the few hundred people who surged toward the dais.
Alissa Maerzke, 12 and wearing a “Palin 2012” t-shirt, was elated that she got the former governor’s signature.
After collecting a congratulatory hug from her mom, Maerzke recounted that she asked Palin if she was going to run for president. “She just smiled,” said the girl.
In the line on the way into the event, a gentleman wearing a Harley-Davidson fleece pull-over and jeans joked to his friends that he was going to ask Palin to marry him, summing up his devotion this way: “She thinks like I do, she’s absolutely gorgeous and Democrats are afraid of her – what’s not to like?”
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