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The 9th Circus Court of Appeals Screws Up Again



Once again, the 9th circus court of appeals has re-affirmed its name….



A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Bush administration’s request to reconsider its decision that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion when recited in public classrooms, setting up a showdown at the Supreme Court.



The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not accept any other petitions to reconsider last year’s ruling by a three-judge panel that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public classrooms.



In Washington, a Justice Department spokesman said the department’s only recourse is to appeal to the Supreme Court.



Ruling last June on a lawsuit brought by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, the court panel decided 2-1 that Newdow’s daughter should not be subjected to the words “under God” at her public school.



The court said the phrase was an endorsement of God, and the Constitution forbids public schools or other governmental entities from endorsing religion.




What the hell! Who are the clowns on this court!?!?!? Mr. President, let us take this to the Supreme Court NOW!!!!!
Who appointed these idiots? From an old news article, I’ve found out that the chief justice of this court was a Carter appointee (groan)…and that the breakdown is: 17 Democratic and seven Republican appointees. That’s too many idiotarians on one court……



(From Drudge and the Washington Post)

Further Proof taking out Saddam is moral

From Ellie Weisel, a nobel lauriate, who actudally DESERVED the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (unlike others such as Terrorfat, Jimmy “The Dhimmi” carter, the UN…)

WASHINGTON - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel said Thursday that while he abhors war, he believes the world community must confront Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps and won the Nobel in 1986, urged Europe to put pressure on Saddam.

“I believe it is the moral duty to intervene when evil has power and uses it,” Wiesel said. “If Europe were to apply as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as [it] does on the United States and Britain, I think we could prevent war.”
He said the Holocaust could have been avoided if the world had intervened in 1939, a time he compared to the current crisis with Iraq.

“He cannot have weapons, I think he has these weapons, because he would use them,” Wiesel said, stopping short of comparing Saddam to Hitler.

U.S. President George W. Bush dropped in briefly on Wiesel’s meeting Thursday afternoon with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Saying, “I am not a man of war,” Wiesel said military conflict still must be considered as a last resort. Wiesel is chairman of The President’s Commission on the Holocaust and behind the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

Wiesel and his family were forced to leave Romania in 1944.

The family was sent to Auschwitz, where Wiesel’s mother and youngest sister were killed. In 1945, Wiesel and his father were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where his father died.

More hate at Columbia

Well, it looks like more anti-Israel garbage is being spewed from Beir-Zeit U. on the Hudson:

Calling Israel a “racist Jewish state”, a Columbia University professor has proposed replacing it with a bi-national entity as a means of ensuring that “the colonial Zionist project will come to an end.”

International Affairs Correspondent Michael Freund reports that in an article appearing in the February 26 issue of the Egyptian English-language newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly, Joseph Massad, an Assistant Professor of Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia, argues that there is an “immediate necessity for a unified Palestinian leadership to lead the struggle against Zionism.”

Massad blasts PA Chairman Yasser Arafat for his “concessions” to Israel, and accuses him of having undermined international support for “the right of the Palestinians to resist the occupation.”

“Arafat and the PLO,” says Massad, “dropped their opposition to a racist Israel and transformed themselves, under the guise of the PA, into enforcers of the occupation.”

Declaring Israel to be “the last remaining racist colonial state”, Massad also voices irritation that the United Nations voted in 1991 to repeal its infamous 1975 resolution which equated Zionism with racism.

“Zionism has remained as racist in its ideology and practices as it has always been,” he asserts.

From IsraelNN

WMD? What WMD?

Yeah, so remember how Saddam and fools claim that they’ve destroyed all their WMD (and the “protesters” who vouch for them)
and/or that Iraq doesn’t have any WMD?

From the NY Post: IRAQ: OOPS! WE HAVE A BIO BOMB

Iraq yesterday claimed it suddenly found a biogerm bomb. U.N. weapons inspectors hailed that as “cooperation,” but President Bush said Saddam Hussein is just trying “to fool the world one more time.”

Is it just me, or does anyone else see a smoking gun???

It’s a Sad Day in the Neighborhood

In a turn of very sad news…Sad day in neighborhood: Beloved Mister Rogers dies

I was a huge Mr. Rogers fan as a little kid, and his passing away is truly a loss to society….

It’s THURSDAY

It’s Thursday! You know what that means? Besides the fact that it’s only 1 more day ’till Friday….
It’s the day when Ann Coulter’s column comes out!

(Jeff Jacoby’s column isn’t out this thursday, so those reading the Globe will have to deal with the usual crud).

Instead of Jacoby’s column, I hereby announce that everyone who didn’t hear it, must read the speech delivered
tonight by PRESIDENT BUSH

That is all…off to finish my neuroscience paper, once and for all…..

UPDATE: Turns out the Globe’s website didn’t update earlier, and Jacoby wrote a beautiful Daniel Pipes style op-ed in today’s Globe entitled:
The Islamist connection

Hit the road JackAl-Arian

Univ. of Southern Florida has finally given Sami Al-Arian the axe….it’s about time they did so….
And to those who are defending this terrorist….you sicken me…

Refuting The Top Ten Most Annoying Anti-War Cliches:

Over at Right Wing News John Hawkins has come up with a beautiful compilation
Refuting The Top Ten Most Annoying Anti-War Cliches

This is a must read!

Happy Birthday

Happy 75th Birthday to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon! Best wishes for many more!
In celebration of your birthday, can you tighten the screws on the terrorists?