Tonight at 8pm EST of Pundit Review Radio we will talking about the two hotttest issues in America: The Iraq War and Immigration.
You can stream the show live at WRKO and participate by calling 877-469-4322.
In the first hour, our guest will be Thomas Joscelyn, reporter for The Weekly Standard. Thomas has been all over the Pentagon to declassify the hundreds of thousands of documents seized from Saddam’s regime. Here is a sample of his excellent work,
“Blessed July”
One of the Saddam documents details orders for an extensive terrorist operation.
by Thomas Joscelyn
03/24/2006
SADDAM’S ULTRA-LOYAL Fedayeen martyrs were ordered to carry out bombings and assassinations in London, Iran, and “self ruled areas” of Iraq in May 1999, according to a newly released Iraqi intelligence document. One such operation, codenamed “Tamooz Mubarak” or “Blessed July,” was apparently intended to hunt down Iraqi dissidents and bomb other unspecified locations.
Although a copy of the original document was not released, an English translation was published on the Foreign Military Studies Office’s Joint Reserve Intelligence Center website yesterday.
Read the whole article.
Among the often repeated myths (aka lies) of the left that we will be debunking tonight,
1. Saddam had no connection to Al Qaeda
2. Saddam had no connection to global terrorism
3. Saddam had no WMDs.
The second hour will feature a discussion on the immigration debate which is heating up right now. We will look at the proposals for reform, and the politics behind them.
For an excellent round-up of new and traditional media commentary on the Immigration issue, check out Real Clear Politics.
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This Sunday evening at 8pm, Iraq will be front and center once again on Pundit Review Radio. Our guest will be Thomas Joscelyn, a New York based economist and contributing writer to The Weekly Standard.
Along with Stephen F. Hayes, Thomas Joscelyn has been leading The Weekly Standard’s efforts to gain access to documents siezed by coalition forces in Iraq. He has written excellent essays about many aspects of the Iraq war.
To read Thomas’ Weekly Standard archive, click here
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About Pundit Review Radio
Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin & Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. This unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening at 8pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Bostonâ??s Talk Leader.
Michael Yon and Hugh Hewitt were interviewed by Anderson Cooper on CNN. They debate the media coverage of the war with Time’s Baghdad bureau chief Nick Ware and CNN’s Nick Robertson.
A great 10 minute discussion. Check it out.
To listen to Hugh Hewitt and Michael Yon on Pundit Review Radio, click here.
How many times have you heard a Democrat politician, or a Bush basher, tell you that there was absolutely, positively no connection between Iraq and AlQaeda? A hundred? A thousand? Here’s more evidence. Sigh.
Osama Bin Laden Contact With Iraq
Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit’s summaries of five documents from Saddam Hussein’s government, which have been released by the U.S. government.
The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more.
A sample from one of the summaries,
Although contacts between bin Laden and the Iraqis have been reported in the 9/11 Commission report and elsewhere, (e.g. the 9/11 report states “Bin Ladn himself met with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or early 1995) this document indicates the contacts were approved personally by Saddam Hussein.
It also indicates the discussions were substantive, in particular that bin Laden was proposing an operational relationship, and that the Iraqis were, at a minimum, interested in exploring a potential relationship and prepared to show good faith by broadcasting the speeches of al Ouda, the radical cleric who was also a bin Laden mentor.
The document does not establish that the two parties did in fact enter into an operational relationship. Given that the document claims bin Laden was proposing to the Iraqis that they conduct “joint operations against foreign forces” in Saudi Arabia, it is interesting to note that eight months after the meeting â?? on November 13, 1995 â?? terrorists attacked Saudi National Guard Headquarters in Riyadh, killing 5 U.S. military advisors. The militants later confessed on Saudi TV to having been trained by Osama bin Laden.)
One of the true gentlemen of the blogosphere, Mark Tapscott, has just announced that he has a new job back in the newpspaper business, where he spent more than 25 years as a reporter and editor.
Halleluyah! I am Headed Back to the Newsroom!!
I have never been so excited about a job in my entire career as I am about becoming Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Examiner and a member of Clarity Media Group’s National Editorial Board.
In addition to overseeing the editorial pages of the three Washington-area editions of the Examiner, I will also have a role in The Baltimore Examiner, which begins publication in a few days.
Well, if this isn’t about the best news I’ve heard all week. Congratulations to Mark, this is very, very good news and I cannot wait to read the product he puts out.
To hear Mark’s visit with Pundit Review Radio, click here.
This is starting to get like Groundhog Day. The New York Times has another sloppy, poorly researched editorial today. This time, they take on the Bush administration on the issue of coal mines,
The Bush administration’s accommodation of the mining industry â?? notably by packing the mine safety agencies with pro-management appointees â?? has produced a marked decline in major fines for negligent companies. A recent data analysis by The Times documented a risky, business-friendly downturn in penalties since 2001.
As Winds of Change noted this morning,
These guys do what for a living?
Sadly, the professional journalists at the Times couldn’t so the five minutes of research that would have told them that – with the exception of an outlier to date this year – deaths under the Bush Administration are significantly lower than those under pro-labor Clinton.
As I noted in my post when the WV accident first occurred, the left would not be able to resist the compulsion to run with this,George W. Bush Caused The Mine Collapse. This was as predictable as it was laughable.
This is a symptom of Bush Derangement Syndrome, the inability to take a breath, do an ounce of research, or give an ioda of thought before taking any opportunity to attack George Bush. The results for the attackers…embarrassment at being wrong as rain once again.
Here is a portion of my earlier post,
Coal mine production reached the highest levels in history in recent years. In 2004 coal mining fatalities were near the lowest level in history with 28. Even with the recent high production, MSHAâ??s accident reduction efforts helped to keep the annual fatality totals nearly 50% lower in recent years compared with totals recorded in the early 1990s.
1. Clintonâ??s last year in office, 2000, there were 48 deaths in coal mines. In 2004, there were 28
2. The injury rate in 2000 was 6.64, in 2004 it was 5.00
3. Citations for safety violations in 2000: 58,285; Citations for violations in 2004: 64,635 (this would indicate to me more rigorous enforcement under Bush, especially after having cut back on coal industry enforcement jobs as the Democrats claim. Sounds to me like the Clinton administration was asleep at the switch)
The Times editors really need to start reading blogs! And we don’t even charge them for the privilege! If they did, they might have read Winds of Change, BizzyBlog or Pundit Review and realized, ahead of time for once, what a bunch of pathetic, agenda driven hacks they look like when they publish poorly researched editorials simply for the sake of Bush bashing.
Here is an amusing, yet depressing, Gallup headline,
Republicans All Alone in Viewing the Economy as in Good Shape
Independents and Democrats are quite negative
PRINCETON, NJ — Americans continue to resist giving the nation’s economy positive ratings, regardless of what so-called “hard” economic indicators may show. Only about a third of Americans rate the current economy as excellent or good and 6 out of 10 say the economy is getting worse, not better.
Democrats will tell you that Republicans are happy with the economy because they have all the money, because tax cuts are for the rich, etc. These are tried and true political talking points, but they don’t mesh with reality.
Most people are employed by small businesses, which are the true engine of the economy. The signs of continued expansion are strong and getting stronger, as noted today by Tom Blumer at BizzBlog,
Venture Capital Money Is Flowing Like Waterâ?¦. In Silicon Valley, and Entrepreneurs Arenâ??t Even Asking for It! It will be interesting to see whether news of this outpouring of venture money, which as you will see is truly remarkable, gets out of the financial pages in The So-Called Mainstream Media.
Remember the gloom and doom several years ago as punditeers said that Silicon Valley would never be the same again? Somebody forgot to tell the investing community.
While this is good news for continued economic expansion, what about the issue of Democrats and their dissatisfaction with the economy? Is the Democrats core constituency really left behind by the Bush economy?
Census Bureau Finds Number of Hispanic-Owned Businesses Growing Fast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Hispanic-owned businesses grew at three times the national rate for all companies from 1997 to 2002, the government said Tuesday. Hispanics owned nearly 1.6 million businesses in 2002, a 31 percent increase from five years earlier, according to the Census Bureau report.
Last year SBA business loans for minorities increased by 40% and for African-Americans by 75%.
Minority Home Ownership Initiative: Minority homeownership is at an all-time high
In June 2002, the President announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. The Census estimates an increase of 1.54 million minority homeowners since the President launched his initiative.
Real disposable incomes have risen 2.2 percent over the past 12 months. Since January 2001, real after-tax income per person has risen 8.2 percent.
Could it be as simple as the difference in their outlook on life? Sounds crazy. Maybe not,
Some 45% of all Republicans report being very happy, compared with just 30% of Democrats and 29% of independents. This finding has also been around a long time; Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the General Social Survey began taking its measurements in 1972.
Or is the media’s relentlessly negative spin on good economic news the real culprit behind the disconnect between the numbers and the perception?
I say it is a combination of both.