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Murtha: “The Surge is Working”

Cong. John Murtha (D-PA) just returned from Iraq to say “the surge is working.” According to Politico.com Murtha’s about face on the war effort is going to create Democrat repercussions. A top aid is reported to have said “Pelosi is going to be furious.”
The Democrat leadership’s entire strategy for the 2008 elections is built on [...]

Something for the Open-Borders Crowd to Explain

The Washington Times reports that Afghani and Iraqi Islamic jihadists have targeted the largest military intelligence training facility in the U.S. Mexican drug traffickers cooperated with the terrorists to smuggle weapons and operatives across the border. 
Weapons including Milan anti-tank missiles and Soviet made surface-to-air missiles, and grenade launchers, were to be smuggled through the underground [...]

The Plight of Women amid Radical Islam

A 19-year-old woman was kidnapped at knife point by a male companion and gang raped. She was sentenced to six months in jail and beaten severely with a whip. The man who kidnapped her and the others who gang raped her are not charged with any crime. The law in her country dictates that incident [...]

Think About It

Dr. James Thomson was on the team of research scientists at the University of Wisconsin who recently announced breakthrough gene technology that may end the ethical controversy surrounding human embryo research. 
Thomson’s team as well as separate researchers in Tokyo appears to have created the coveted stem cells found in human embryos through gene technology on skin [...]

In Case You Missed It: San Francisco to give illegal aliens ID cards

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco will give resident identification cards to illegal immigrants under a plan approved on Tuesday amid a fierce nationwide debate on granting privileges to undocumented aliens.
In a 10-1 vote, the city’s board of supervisors — the equivalent of a city council — approved giving identification cards to all residents, including [...]

Fitz-Gerald trying to fit in with Pelosi

Joan Fitz-Gerald recently resigned her state Senate seat and her leadership position as Senate President to campaign full time to become the next Member of Congress from the Boulder dominated 2nd Congressional district. It sounds like she’s already adopted Pelosi-speak, and is perfectly willing to ignore the facts as reported from the battlefield and adopt [...]

DeGette Still Wants a Fight

Diana DeGette has become the face of proponents for taxpayer funding of stem cell research on human embryos. A Line of Sight previously exposed the hypocrisy of her argument explaining that it really is a pro-abortion fight. If she were to admit that a fertilized embryo is human life, DeGette’s unfettered pro-abortion argument crumbles – [...]

Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research

The New York Times reported today that teams of scientists from Wisconsin and Japan have turned “human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo.” While work remains to be done, the scientists are quite confident of their work. “By any means we test them [...]

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Sarkozy: “I love America”

Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a joint session of Congress on Nov. 7 during his first visit to America as the President of France.  Not only did he dignify the damaged reputation of his homeland after the embarrassing anti-American era of Jacques Chirac, but he gave a rousing tribute to America that was reminiscent of Ronald Reagan [...]