Bush Vows to Keep U.S. Troops in Iraq to Support Iraqi PM Al-Maliki

AMMAN, Jordan — President Bush said Thursday the United States will speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces but assured Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that Washington is not looking for a “graceful exit” from a war well into its fourth violent year.
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Iraq Study Group to Recommend Pullback of Troops

WASHINGTON — A “bipartisan” commission next week will unveil long-awaited recommendations for a new U.S. policy in Iraq that a published report said would call for a gradual pullback of U.S. troops there — without a timetable — and direct diplomacy with Iran and Syria.
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Idiots.
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Dems Break Pledge… Already!

It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Democrat threatens ‘criminal charges’ if company checks for ID Theft

A Mississippi Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation’s largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched Social Security numbers and fire those who cannot resolve the discrepancy in 60 days.
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Iran tells Iraq ‘U.S. Troops Must Leave’

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that US-led forces had to leave Iraq if security was to be restored in the violence-riven country.
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Pelosi defends al Qaeda, chastises Bush

House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters on Wednesday that she feels it is “sad” that President Bush continues to blame Iraqi insurgent violence on al Qaeda.
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What? I think my head is about to explode.
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The Flying Imams

Imams are terrorizing airliners by staging “pray-ins”! The media calls them moderate religious leaders when they actually have close ties with terrorism!
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Hastings, Harman Rejected for Chairmanship

The fight over the top spot on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has exposed the kind of factional politics that bedeviled House Democrats before they were swept from control in 1994. Harman, a moderate, strong-on-defense “Blue Dog” Democrat, had angered liberals with her reluctance to challenge the Bush administration’s use …
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Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily

WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and [...]

Iran Vows to Help “Brother” Iraq

TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would do whatever it could to help provide security to Iraq amid warnings the country was on the brink of civil war.
Mr. Ahmadinejad made the pledge at the start of a visit to Iran by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, whose trip was delayed for two days because [...]

‘Nativity’ Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair

CHICAGO (AP) – A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film “The Nativity Story” might offend non-Christians.
“Free Country”?
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Audio: Glenn Beck interviews Mohammad from the Islamic Thinkers Society

You’ve got to hear Glenn’s interview with Mohammad from the Islamic Thinkers Society – as heard on the 11/15 show!!
Eye opening and outstanding!
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VIDEO: Obsession

From the Obsession website:
Almost 70 years ago, Europe found itself at war with one of the most sinister figures in modern history: Adolf Hitler. When the last bullet of World War II was fired, over 50 million people were dead, and countless countries were both physically and economically devastated. Hitler’s bloody struggle [...]

VIDEO: Exposed: The Extremist Agenda

Video clips from Glenn Beck’s “Exposed: The Extremist Agenda” a CNN Headline News Special
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Please watch these clips! This is an absolute must see!
Update: YouTube has removed the above links because the person who posted them did not have the rights to post them. Sorry! [...]

Ahmadinejad: Iran Ready for ‘Final Step’ on Nukes

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran was about to take the “final step” in a nuclear program which the U.N. has called on it to curtail and which the West fears may be used to make atomic bombs.
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Election was ‘Last Gasp of Liberals’

“I don’t even consider the election a setback,” Matalin told me, “because it’s not just the House Democrats that won as conservatives. Joe Lieberman won, and a number of Senate candidates won who are conservatives. So I see it as more of a last gasp for what we’ve come to call liberals. It is a [...]

Bush’s Budget Chief Rejects Democrats’ Tax Idea

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s budget chief on Thursday rejected plans by Democrats in Congress to impose tough controls that would only allow tax cuts if they are offset by increases in other taxes or by spending reductions.
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Pelosi: Her Own Worst Enemy

If Speaker-to-be Pelosi is going to succeed as Speaker of the House, she had better learn
—fast—from the fiasco known as the Hoyer-Murtha Race. She violated every conceivable rule of Boss-like behavior: she lost, she lost publicly, she lost after issuing useless and unenforceable threats to people she barely had met, and she lost big: by [...]

Democrats: Family Feud or Civil War?

WASHINGTON — The intraparty battle had preoccupied Democrats, overshadowing Pelosi’s promotion to speaker – a position that is second in line of succession to the presidency.
Many Democrats were dismayed that the family feud had broken out in the first place and objected to heavy pressure placed on longstanding Hoyer supporters.
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Israel developing anti-militant “bionic hornet”

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
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