Apology of Torture

This story by Yahoo News (via GOP Vixen) is, very likely, a fake. If it was true, though, it would be the best news of the year.

"Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being made to watch his appearance in cult cartoon South Park while he is behind bars. The deposed leader on trial in Iraq was featured in the movie spin-off as the lover of the devil. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut featured Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said US Marines guarding the former dictator during his trial for genocide were making him watch the movie 'repeatedly'. 'I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie last year. That's really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy,' Stone said".

As we said, Parker and Stone were probably joking (and the journalists didn't understand the joke). But we'd love to think that it's a true story: it would be the best and effective form of torture ever used in history.

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Weekend (Open) Must-Read List

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► [War on Terror]

► Our Covert Enemies
► Michael Barone, Townhall
► Hezbollah Didn't Win
► Amir Taheri, Wall Street Journal
► The Iraq Solution
► Bill O'Reilly, Townhall
► Mr. Bush’s Communication Problem
► Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
► Why the world hates America
► Michael Medved, Townhall

► [Right]

► A Down-Under Lesson for the GOP?
► E.J. Dionne, Real Clear Politics
► Romney on a Roll
► Hugh Hewitt, World Magazine
► Canada's Conservatives
► Adam Daifallah, New York Sun

► [Left]

► Snootycrats. Anti-Wal-Mart populism
► Rich Lowry, National Review
► The Lieberman Conundrum
► Terence Samuel, The American Prospect
► Liberal Losses
► James J. Cramer, New York Magazine
► The Cult of Soros
► David Horowitz - Richard Poe, Frontpage Magazine
► Wal-Mart Drives Democrats Batty
► Jonah Goldberg, National Review

► [Media]

► Giving the People Their Voice Back
► John Samples, National Review
► The Miracle of Cuban Healthcare?
► Marian L. Tupy, Tech Central Station
► The Tip of the Iceberg
► Tom Hoopes, National Review

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Still Missing - Blogburst

"Fox News Channel reporter Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig are still missing. It has now been more than a week since their kidnapping at gunpoint in Gaza by unknown terrorists". Michelle Malkin tries to break the silence of mainstream media with a blogburst that we heartily join.

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GOP Surges in Polls

According to the last Gallup/USA Today poll, "support for an unnamed Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican one narrowed to 2 percentage points, 47%-45%, among registered voters". Among "regular voters", the two parties are tied at 48%. In late June, Democrats led by 16 points. This is the worst result for Democrats in the whole 2006. At the same time, President Bush's job approval rose from 37% to 42%: the highest approval rating in six months. USA Today explains the Republican growth as a consequence of "the arrest of terror suspects in London", but other polling firms - like Rasmussen Reports - explains that Democrats started loosing ground "since Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate primary". In any case, Democrats' hopes for gaining the control of at least one branch of the Congress, in november mid-term elections, seem much smaller than just a few weeks ago.

p.s. To better understand the methodology behind "generic congressional ballots" polls, you can read this old post at Mystery Pollster.

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Republicans After 9/11

Mark Davis, columnist for the Dallas Morning News and radio talk show host on the ABC Radio Network, explains - on Real Clear Politics - why Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain are the frontrunners for the GOP presidential campaign in 2008. "GOP voters are laser-locked on the war views of the candidates - he writes - and less compelled by the 'God, guns and gays' issues which have lifted some recent candidacies and destroyed others. (...) This is a good thing. Not that conservative voters should stop caring about past core issues, but some of the topics that have taken up an enormous amount of breath and time at GOP conventions of late are things that just don't have a lot to do with the presidency. (...) The bottom line: it used to be a given that candidates deemed too liberal on some social issues could not compete for the Republican nomination. 9/11 truly did change everything".

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All McCain's Men

The New York Times analyzes the network of strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors that John McCain is building up to run for the White House in 2008. It's an impressive team, with advisors like Mark McKinnon, Nicolle Wallace, Gerard L. Parsky, John A. Thain, Terry Nelson, Mike Murphy and many others, from both McCain's presidential bid in 2000 and George W. Bush's campaign in 2000 and 2004. As Gregory Djerejian writes on Belgravia Dispatch, though, some perplexities arise from the field in which McCain is gathering the most known names. It will be hard to elaborate a coherent foreign policy if you have to listen, at the same time, to Colin L. Powell, Brent Scowcroft, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan.

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Weekend (Open) Must-Read List

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► [Sunday Update]

► Moment of Truth
► Ralph Peters, New York Post
► Ned Lamont: Henry Wallace with a Website
► Barry Casselman, Real Clear Politics
► Hillary Gets Ready to Run
► Karen Tumulty, Time
► Suicide of the West
► Melanie Phillips, National Review
► World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle
► Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times
► New York Times: Better Dead than Read
► Ann Coulter, Townhall
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► [Saturday Update]

► 'Cane Mutiny
► Roy Spencer, Tech Central Station
► Hope Amid Despair?
► Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
► Truth, Even If Clandestine, Is Still Truth
► Val Prieto, Townhall
► Senators' Numbers
► Michael Barone, US News & World Report
► Pop Music's Sex Education
► Brent Bozell III, Townhall
► Amateur Hour?
► Bryan Cunningham, National Review
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► 9/11 Myths, Debunked
► Austin Bay, Tech Central Station
► Bush Fobia May Prove Fatal
► Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
► The Rise of the Caliphate
► Oliver North, Townhall
► Can Giuliani Win the Southern GOP?
► Byron York, National Review
► Can Joe Lieberman Really Win?
► Stuart Rothenberg, Political Report
► Terrorism Threat is Here to Stay
► Jonah Goldberg, Townhall
► Alive and Kicking
► Larry Kudlow, National Review
► What Is 'Islamofascism'?
► Stephen Schwartz, Weekly Standard
► Smither, Eh? Ex-cellent!
► Shawn Macomber, Reason
► Useful Idiots: Islam’s Best Soldiers
► Amil Imani, FrontPage Magazine
► What a Farce
► Seth Gitell, New York Sun
► Jimmy Carter: Sympathy for the Devil
► David Limbaugh, NewsMax
► How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy
► Steven Malanga, City Journal

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Lieberman flies (thanks to Republicans)

With a support of 75% among likely Republican voters, Joe Lieberman leads the last Quinnipiac University poll (via Hugh Hewitt) in Connecticut. Lieberman, who runs as Independent after the defeat in the democrat primaries, has a 12% lead (53% versus 41%) over Ned Lamont. He can count on the support of 58% (versus 36%) among Independents and 35% (versus 63%) among Democrats.

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The Right Side of Hollywood?

"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die. We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs". Actors Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis, Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton e William Hurt; directors Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, Tony Scott, Michael Mann e Dick Donner: these are some of the names in a list of 84 Hollywood celebrities who signed a full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper. The ad specifically targets terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine, and it's unusually harsh (at least for Hollywood standards).

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Munich, 2006

"Historians will look back at this weekend's cease-fire agreement in Lebanon as a pivotal moment in the war on terror. It is pivotal in the same sense that the Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain was pivotal in an earlier battle against the enemies of freedom". Arthur Herman, professor at George Mason University and National Review contributor (and author of one of the few balanced biographies about Joe McCarthy), writes an op-ed for the New York Post that you must read today and remember in the future.

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Corruption (and Democrats)

New Jersey State Attorney General, democrat Zulima Farber, stepped down from office after being caught in ethics violation. She is the first New Jersey attorney general in modern history to resign in scandal, but don't expect much exposure on mainstream media: she's not a republican. It's not an isolated case, though, like Gateway Pundit demonstrates in this amazing round-up of previous democratic corruption convictions and scandals (from the past year and a half): from New York to Alabama, from New Mexico to West Virginia.

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Rudy Up, Condi Down

Allapundit, on Hot Air, thinks that Rudolph Giuliani is the perfect republican candidate to avoid the "Iraq Syndrome" in the 2008 presidential elections. His theory is enforced by this Rasmussen Reports poll, which puts Giuliani at the exact middle of the political center. While Tammy Bruce's analysis on Condoleezza Rice's failures at the State Department is really harsh, but on some points we just can't disagree.

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Fight Fire with Fire

Israeli government warned that the IDF will have to resume operations in Lebanon if the expanded United Nations force being assembled does not fulfill its obligation to dismantle Hizbullah. All the details on the Jerusalem Post.

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Lebanon: Winners and Losers

Hizbullah will not hand over its weapons to the Lebanese government but rather refrain from exhibiting them publicly. If this is the compromise reached between Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Seniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Bill Roggio is right to explain - on Counterterrorism Blog - why Hizbullah, Iran and Syria won the war. While Israel, United States and Lebanon lost it.

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Baby-Bomb

They wanted to use their six-month-old baby's bottle to hide a liquid bomb. And they were planning to take the baby with them on the mid-air suicide mission, of course. Ordinary stories of islamic terrorism, from the Daily Telegraph.

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ReutersGate/11

Step 1
A man arrives with suitcase full of American toys
and dismantles a doll in pink dress. (photo AP)

Step 2
After dismatling the doll, the man goes on stage,
with Minnie mouse and Teletubbie. (photo AP)

Step 3
Everything is ready for a tragic picture he can sell
to western mainstream media. (photo Reuters)

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Hezbollywood/5

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. (Mark Twain)

"I have been working in lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the lebanese wire service photographers has been a bit unsettling. While hajj has garnered a lot of attention for his doctoring of images digitally, whether guilty or not, i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. These photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem.".

Freelance Bryan Denton, in a forum dedicated to professional photography (via Hot Air), tells the truth about Hezbollywood. Denton's words, who worked also for New York Times, confirm that "human editing" of pictures used by western mainstream media are not isolated cases, but standard practises used to dramatize the impact of Israeli offensive on civilian population in Lebanon. Little Green Footballs goes deeper. Hot Air adds pictures.

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Weekend (Open) Must-Read List

► [Sunday Update]

► Lebanon photos: Take a closer look
► Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
► Conservative Group Sets Sights on Chafee
► M.L. Johnson, Associated Press
► Surreal Rules
► Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
► The Bugs Bunny Democrats
► William Kristol, Weekly Standard
► The BBC and Home-Grown Terrorists
► James Lewis, Real Clear Politics
► Killing with Care
► Jay Nordlinger, National Review

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► Fog of Reuters
► Philip Klein, The American Spectator
► A McCain-Lieberman Ticket?
► Michael Barone, US News & World Report
► The Only Option Is to Win
► Newt Gingrich, Washington Post
► The One-Percent Problem
► Rich Lowry, National Review
► Where Are the War Movies?
► Richard Corliss, Time
► Dems Move Closer to McGovern's Losing Formula
► John McIntyre, Real Clear Politics
► Lieberman's Loss: Joe Will Rise Again
► Dick Morris, New York Post
► Stop Blaming Ourselves
► Gerard Baker, The Times
► Deconstructing Giuliani
► Tom Bevan, Real Clear Politics
► Radical Ideas for Iraq
► Max Boot, Weekly Standard
► Sloppiness and "Reutergate"
► Brent Bozell III, Townhall
► Hezbollah: The Mainstream Media's New Love
► P. David Hornik, FrontPage Magazine
► Big Foot, Scoop Jackson Democrats and other myths
► Ann Coulter, Townhall

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Rudy '08

"You can not negotiate with [terrorists]. These are not people…they have demonstrated to us that they despise us, they hate us, and they want to kill us. They want to kill us because we’re a modern society. They want to kill us because we give women rights. They want to kill us because we have freedom of religion. They want to kill us because we have elected officials. They want to kill us because we’re moderate. And we can’t give that up. What are we going to negotiate away? The rights of women? Are we going to negotiate…set up an Islamic state to make them happy?"

Rudolph Giuliani, on Hannity&Colmes (Fox News). The video is avalaible at Outside the Beltway.

Inconvenient Truth

"If Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed". An amazing Peter Schweizer (author of "Do As I Say, Not As I Do"), in an op-ed published by USA Today, kills Al Gore's greenish hypocrisy. A must-read.

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