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That’s an interesting battle in any case but it’s actually an important battle in light of Bill Clinton saying that we should engage Hamas in dialogue and Morris’ saying that we should take a hardline approach towards Hamas. Let the battle begin:

Ex-president Bill Clinton is urging the U.S. to establish a dialogue with Hamas in the wake of its upset victory in last week’s Palestinian parliamentary elections, saying it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people “in a way that we hate.”

“You’ve got to find a way to at least open doors,” Clinton told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday. “And I don’t see how we can do it without more contact.”

In quotes picked up by the Associated Press, Clinton said Hamas might “acquire a greater sense of responsibility, and as they do we have to be willing to act on that.”

This is understandable considering the intifadah that his policies started by cramming one PLO demand down Israel’s throat after another. By taking a biased position mostly against Israel, they made it clear that Hamas operated without consequence.

It wasn’t until President Bush made Yassir Arafat a persona non grata at the White House that the tide turned and Israel got our from under the White House’s foot. It wasn’t until President told the world that Israel had the right to defend themselves did the intifadah lose its steam.

Frankly, Bill Clinton’s idea of progress is talking endlessly about a problem rather than taking a moral stand and achieving victory. It’s all about being long-winded, not about achievement. And that’s the difference between Clinton and Bush.

Now, let’s see Dick Morris’ solution to the Hamas problem:
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AP reports:

(01-31) 05:04 PST GOLETA, Calif. — A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people before committing suicide, authorities said early Tuesday.

One other person was listed in critical condition, authorities said.

Deputies responding to a call of shots fired late Monday initially found two people dead outside the plant.

Two wounded women were located inside and were taken to a hospital. One died and the other was listed in critical condition early Tuesday with a gunshot wound to the head.

Developing…

UPDATE: (2/1) It gets worse…
Sixth Shot Postal Worker Dies of Injuries

Not that Commander-in-Chief’s cancellation by the network is a big shock, but it’s worth noting in light of Hillary’s assertion that she “detected ‘a certain impatience’” to see a female president following the election of women to similar roles in other countries.

Here’s what Newsmax said about Commander in Chief:

NewsMax columnist James Hirsen has called “Commander in Chief” a “series-style Hillary campaign commercial.” ABC insiders denied there’s any connection between Hillary and “Commander.” But the show’s lead writer, Steve Cohen, served as the then-first lady’s deputy communications director in the 1990s. In October, NewsMax reported that disgraced former national security adviser Sandy Berger had signed on as an adviser to the show, joining fellow Clintonistas Cohen and Capricia Marshall, the former social secretary for the Clinton White House. “Hillary operatives” were monitoring the show “as a barometer of how she might fare in ’08,” the New York Daily News reported at the time.

ABC’s insiders protestations notwithstanding, this was a vehicle for Hillary. And it crashed. Though I didn’t see any of the episodes, I’m told that Geena Davis’ character was a hard-nosed woman making one difficult decision after another. I’ve also been told that she didn’t have much of a personality. That doesn’t sound like a liberal’s perspective of Hillary, does it?

In the end, people didn’t tune into this show because they perceived that this was a televised push-poll for Hillary.

RELATED:
Is Hillary Clinton The Next Geena Davis?
NBC Cancels ‘West Wing’ After 7 Seasons
(they’re falling like flies)

Cross-post at LetFreedomRing

Newsmax reports: “Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged activists around the world on Sunday to protest against U.S. dominance and the war in Iraq, saying: ‘Down with the U.S. empire!‘”

And guess who was in attendance?

“Enough already with the imperialist aggression!” Chavez said, referring to U.S. military involvement in places from Iraq to Panama. “Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”

“In this century, we have to bury the empire, and may there never again be empires in the world,” he said to rousing applause from an audience of supporters and international activists.

And Cindy Sheehan was there to show her support.

Maybe she’ll adopt that slogan for her senate campaign. Amongst her supporters, it would really resonate.

UPDATE: (7/7)
HotAir: “Send Sheehan Home”

UPDATE: (7/5)
Asked if she would “rather live under Hugo Chavez than George W. Bush,” Sheehan answers: um, “Yes!” Make it so, Cindy.
Hotair: Cindy Loves Hugo

RELATED:
Gateway Pundit has more

Everything you need to know about Cindy Sheehan

Today the Senate took up the question of the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to become the 105th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court replacing Justice Sandra Day-O’Connor. The Senate voted to approve the nomination by a vote of 58-42.

Democrats voting in the majority were, Senators Byrd, Conrad, Johnson, and Nelson (NE). Republican voting in the minority - Chafee. And the Senate’s only Independent, Spineless Jeffords voted in the minority.

Michelle Malkin writes: “Yesterday, I mentioned the Washington Post’s smelly little article on an unpublished study purporting to associate conservative support for President Bush with bias against blacks.”

It’s the perpetuation of stereotype. And liberal Democrats are all to eager to promote it.

Newsbusters’ Tim Graham noted that the reporter who penned the piece had also mentioned the same researchers and the same study in a Washington Post magazine piece (titled, ironically enough, “See No Bias”) almost exactly a year ago–leading up to the State of Union address. What a coincidence.

Indeed.

Unfortunately, even conservatives don’t give each other the benefit of doubt.

UPDATE:
Mark Tapscott explores correlation between roosters and sunrise

Showing that she’s an equal opportunity politician basher, “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan is thinking about running for the Senate…against Dianne Feinstein. (I know. It took me a moment to realize it was real and not some Bizarro World creation made real.) Sheehan says Feinstein is out of touch with Californians and that she is wrong for voting for the war in Iraq.

To Feinstein’s credit, her staff is defending the Senator, saying she was “misled” by the Bush Administration. (Gee, where have I heard that before?) Regardless, it sets up an interesting Senate race in California for a change.

At the same time as Sheehan’s political ponderings, another group of Democrats has started to shake things up. A group of Senators, including John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, has said that they would attempt to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, another group of Democrats, including the aforementioned Dianne Feinstein, has criticized the notion of filibustering Alito’s nomination.

And thanks to another recent even, we’ve hit the “Democrats are in big trouble” trifecta. DNC Chair Howard Dean angering Democrat leaders because it looks like he’s spent the money he’s raised for the party. What that means is that the Democrats have less money now to run an effective campaign to take back Congress in 2006, so they’ll have to do more fundraising and less spending, and more importantly, less campaigning. Yeah, like we can tell…

Taken separately, these events are entertaining, if not downright funny. Taken as a whole, though…okay, it’s still funny, but it’s also indicative of a much larger problem. The Democratic Party today is starting to show cracks in the base. It’s easy to understand why, too. They are in the unenviable position of trying to juggle keeping their base happy, keeping the fringe players like Sheehan happy, and keeping the more conservative members of the party like Joe Lieberman happy, while at the same time courting independent voters if they want any reasonable chance of taking back the Congress in 2006. And instead of being able to do all of this, they’re starting to look and sound politically schizophrenic.
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As I write this, I am watching Flight 93 on A&E. Lord, how I hate our enemy. I know it clouds my judgment, and I will not let the beast of hatred have me for long. But for these few short moments I need to remember.

In the anger born of hatred is the energy that will see me and all of us through.

For you Lefties out there, you friends of the Islamo-fascists, watch this movie. Watch and remember. And then tell me you think it wrong to hunt them all down and kill them. Tell me there is another way to deal with these people.

The hatred and anger brings back the clarity.

I doubted the war in Iraq was the way to go. Hell, I still doubt it. But the war has brought our enemy to that place like cockroaches to a dirty kitchen. If nothing else, we are going to kill a hell of a lot of them. Maybe some other good will come of it, like deposing that, in the words of Patton, “paper hanging son of bitch,” but for me I see it as the chance to destroy the enemy, and destroy them we must.

I hate them. They have earned that hatred. I will support this president until he has hunted them all down and killed them.

And anyone who gets in the way of that great cause, and yes I mean you Teddy, Durbin, Reid, Kos and your ilk, you will be but a greasespot on the highway of history.

I needed this reminder.

“Let’s roll!”

Post by John Wilson

Debra Burlingame, “the sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001″, has written a stirring op-ed titled “Our Right to Security” to remind us of all that’s at stake when we debate the NSA intercepts and renewing the Patriot Act. Here’s some key parts of that op-ed:

What’s caused the Democrats to crow about killing the Patriot Act? Did they forget the horrific pictures of that bright blue September morning? Did they forget that the ‘Gorelick Wall’ had prevented us from passing vital information between the CIA and the FBI, information that might’ve prevented the attacks?
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Michelle Malkin writes: “I wholeheartedly endorse the Cindy Sheehan for Senate campaign.

Conservative bloggers are standing enthusiastically with moonbats in support of Cindy’s potential challenge to Sen. Dianne Feinstein.”

CaliforniaConservative.org throws its full support in her favor. We’ll be looking for ways to promote her valiant efforts. (If only she were running against Boxer, we would fund it personally)

Jim Hoft announces the un-official “Cindy for Senate” blog.