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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Voter Fraud in Wisconsin
Susan Tully, midwestern field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, became alarmed when she realized that the deputy registrar of voters in Racine, Wisconsin, was an illegal alien. To see whether her fears were justified, Tully sent two individuals from other states to Racine to register to vote. Here is what happened: I wanted them to specifically tell this person they were illegal aliens, but that they wanted »
Freedom of Speech, Democrat Style
The Smoking Gun has the story on a Democrat’s attempt to run down Katherine Harris and several other Republicans with his car as they were campaigning in Florida: A Florida man has been charged with attempting to run over controversial Republican congresswoman Katherine Harris with his Cadillac. According to the…Sarasota Police Department report, Barry Seltzer, 46, told cops that he was simply exercising his “political expression” when he drove his »
President Bush on Qaqaagate
President Bush deqonstruqts Qaqaagate today on the stump in Lancaster, Pennsylvania: “After repeatedly calling Iraq the wrong war, and a diversion, Senator Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq is a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons… “If Senator Kerry had his way…Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control those all of those weapons and explosives and could share them with his terrorist friends. Now »
The missing VVAW cache
Here’s the link to Thomas Lipscomb’s page-one New York Sun story on the friendly working relationship between Hanoi and John Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War group: “Hanoi approved of role played by antiwar vets.” In response to our inquiry about the article this morning, Lipscomb writes: [The story] has been zooming around ever since [it was published yesterday] »
It’s Already Underway
The Washington Times reports that the Democrats have already filed nine separate lawsuits in Florida, challenging various aspects of Tuesday’s election procedures: Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush’s brother. The suits »
Haven’t we Heard This Story Before?
Don’t miss Ralph Peters this morning. He describes an old friend who is serving in Iraq: Now he’s working to help Iraq become a democratic model for the Middle East. And he’s worried. Not about terrorists or insurgents. He’s afraid John Kerry will be elected president. “Kerry’s rhetoric is giving the bad guys a thread to hang on,” he wrote. “They’re hoping we lose our nerve. They’re more concerned with »
Deqonstruqting Qaqaagate, take 2
Before declaring that President Bush is somehow responsible for American forces overlooking the munitions in Qaqaaland, did the Times review its archives? Reader Steve Power has kindly forwarded us an image of the April 5, 2003 Times story by Judith Miller and Douglas Jehl that includes the following: Senior American officials have barely mentioned the hunt for Mr. Hussein’s unconventional weapons in recent days. At an industrial site south of »
Invitation to a defrauding, take 2
In today’s Qaqaagate installment, the New York Times mentions that it is “working working with the CBS News program 60 Minutes” on the story: “No check of bunker, unit commander says.” The Times interviews the 101st Airborne Division commander whose unit spent the night at al Qaqaa on April 10, 2003, but (according to the story) failed to search the site. Too bad the Times couldn’t trouble itself to take »
Invitation to a defrauding
This afternoon John Edwards appeared before an audience of 2,000 students at the University of Minnesota. Edwards gave his standard stump speech, modified to strike a note of desperation. In a quote missing from the Star Tribune’s account of his speech, Edwards urged his auditors to “Get your friends and neighbors and take 10 people with you to vote on Election Day.” (Click here for the AP account of the »
Deqonstruqting Qaqaagate
The Third Infantry Division had reached and inspected al Qaqaa by April 3, 2003 — as reported at the time by CBS News in “U.S. searches suspicious Iraqi site.” Our Northern Alliance colleague Captain Ed explicates the story in “CBS reported suspicious powder at al Qaqaa in April 2003.” »
More Tarmac Sports
Today’s tarmac photo-op comes from the airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where John Kerry paused to toss a football around before boarding his plane: Wisconsin’s football fans will be deeply impressed, I’m sure. »
The spirit of Thomas Lipscomb, part 2
We pause briefly to interrupt QaQaagate for this question: What if captured Viet Cong documents revealed close coordination and cooperation between the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Communist Hanoi during the period John Kerry served most actively as VVAW’s national spokesman and a member of its executive committee? Our sources suggest that we’ll find out tomorrow, courtesy of Thomas Lipscomb and the New York Sun. WorldNetDaily posted Art Moore’s »
Consumer Confidence Down
Consumer confidence declined in October for the third straight month. I’m not aware of any economic data that would explain that deterioration, coming on the heels of a steady climb. The most obvious explanation is that the Presidential campaign to responsible: Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers, said that if the report’s results reflect simply a political statement, it is less worrisome for the »
John Edwards weighs (lightly) in
Newsmax reports that John Edwards had the following to say about the Iraqi explosives story at a campaign stop in Wilmington, Ohio: These are exactly the kind of explosives terrorists want. They’re the dangerous weapons we wanted to keep from falling in the hands of terrorists. And now these explosives are out there, and we have no idea who’s got them. So Edwards is now acknowledging that when we invaded »
Latest pro-Kerry spin slanders our troops
NRO’s Kerry spot has more on the missing explosives story. NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski is apparently now spinning the story in a pro-Kerry direction, suggesting that it’s “not clear” that the troops that reached the Al QaQaa facility came “anywhere near” the bunkers that reportedly contained the HMX and RDX. However, Kerry Spot readers who were there as military personnel remember it differently, and one of them questions whether the »
Be prepared
Drudge reports that the Kerry campaign is set to run a 30-second ad on the Iraqi explosives that, he claims, the U.S. military failed to secure. If such an ad appears, I’m not sure that the blogosphere and the pro-Bush media outlets will have had enough time to counteract it. The Bush campaign should consider having ready an ad of its own attacking Kerry for making this apparently phony charge. »
Israel makes its fateful decision and awaits ours
Israel’s Knesset has approved Prime Minister Sharon’s decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. The vote was 67 to 45, with seven abstentions. Sharon obtained his majority with the help of the dovish left. Many members of his center-right coalition, as well as the religious opposition parties, voted against the plan. As I said last night, this issue is an extremely difficult one. When »
