Iran tried to purchase nuke materials through NY banks

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.

Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/07/2009-04-07_iranian_nuke_plot_vaporized_in_the_city_-2.html

Are we going to have to listen to Liberal nitwits  sputtering and stuttering that there is no evidence that Ahmadinejad has or is pursuing wepoans of mass destruction?

Jury rules for Ward Churchill. What?!?

A jury ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado wrongly fired the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi, a verdict that gives the professor $1 and a chance to get his job back.

“What was asked for and what was delivered was justice,” Ward Churchill said outside the courtroom.

Then-Gov. Bill Owens was among the officials who had called on the university to fire Churchill after his essay touched off a national firestorm, but the tenured professor of ethnic studies was ultimately terminated on charges of research misconduct.

Churchill said claims including plagiarism were just a cover and that he never would have been fired if it weren’t for the essay in which he called World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. Jurors agreed.

When the verdict was read, Churchill hugged his attorney, David Lane, and his wife, Natsu Saito.

“I can’t tell you how significant this is,” Lane said. “There are few defining moments that give the First Amendment this kind of light.”

A judge will decide whether Churchill gets his job back. Lane said a reinstatement motion would be filed within 30 days and a hearing would likely be scheduled in June

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512259,00.html

First Amendment? Well, here’s my exercise of my First Amendment rights. The State should appeal this ruling all the way to the Supreme Court. If they lose on every level, they should tell the Courts to take a long walk off a short pier. Ward Churchill should never be allowed anywhere near a classroom, ever again. Well, maybe at Taliban U.

This Left Wing nonsense has to stop.  Using the First Amendment as an excuse to cause such immeasurable pain to the families of those who were killed by sewage calling themselves “martyrs” is about as low as an any nominal American can sink.

But that’s just my opinion and, hey, that’s protected by the First Amendment. Even if I do happen to think people like Ward Churchill are subhuman.

Hillary wants to negotiate with terrorists

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday endorsed Afghan plans to hold reconciliation talks with moderate Taliban members.

“We must support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of al Qaeda and the Taliban from those who joined their ranks, not out of conviction but out of desperation,” Clinton said in an address laying out the new U.S. strategy for the region that President Obama announced last week.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/31/clinton.afghanistan/index.html

The U.S. flip flop in policy regarding negotiations with terrorists will be known – henceforth and forever – as the “Chappaqua Cha-Cha.”

DOJ drops case against Ted Stevens

The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday to drop its case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted of seven counts of corruption last fall.

Justice Department sources told FOX News that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder decided to abandon the case due to prosecutorial misconduct.

The judge in the case has repeatedly delayed sentencing, and at one point held prosecutors in contempt. Justice Department officials later replaced the trial team, but Holder reportedly decided Tuesday to dismiss the original indictment rather than proceed to more hearings that might embarrass the department.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/01/doj-sources-say-case-dropped-ex-sen-ted-stevens/

So, the prosecutors abused their authority, which AG Holder has admitted. Stevens, as a result, lost his re-election because the people of Alaska thought he had done something wrong. Just another example of voter manipulation.

IBM files patent application for offshore jobs program

As IBM was firing thousands of American workers last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Big Blue’s application to copyright a computerized system that calculates how to offshore jobs while maximizing government tax breaks.

In their application to patent a “method and system for strategic global resource sourcing,” five Hudson Valley IBMers describe how it weighs such plans as “50 percent of resources in China by 2010,” against such factors as labor costs, infrastructure and the “minimum head count to qualify for incentives.”

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090330/BIZ/903300315

Are you kidding?!? IBM wants to ship our jobs overseas and use a computer system to make sure they get the maximum possible tax breaks for the act? Now, apparently, IBM is saying they have withdrawn the patent application, that it was a “mistake” to file. That’s not the point! IBM should be apologizing for moving our jobs overseas AT ALL! They should be pledging not to seek tax deductions for overseas employment expenses. They should be assuring us that every byte of this software has been wiped from every computer and storage system they own.

Give me a break.

Go, Jim, go!

Polls open Tuesday in upstate New York for a Congressional special election putting President Barack Obama’s economic recovery policies to their first electoral test.

The candidates battling in the 20th Congressional District in the mostly rural north of the state are almost neck and neck, with Democrat Scott Murphy a fraction ahead of Republican Jim Tedisco, according to one poll.

The result will make no difference to the balance of power in the House of Representatives in Washington, where Democrats enjoy a big majority.

But the race is the focus of national attention as the first voter verdict on Obama’s attempts to pull the country out of financial crisis and recession.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.dd4a1a7822e06c597acb42c882995f1d.1b1&show_article=1

Let’s all keep our fingers crossed for a major Tedisco win. For a Republican to win in a Northeastern blue state in a district in which a Democrat had been re-elected by roughly two-to-one just a few months ago would be an amazing achievment. For that to happen only three months after the Democrat President whose coattails gave his Party such an overwhelming majority in Congress would be nothing short of an unimaginable repudiation of Obama’s policies and performance.

Joe Biden’s daughter in cocaine scandal?!?

A “friend” of Vice President Joseph Biden’s daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware…

The video, which the shooter initially hoped to sell for $2 million before scaling back his price to $400,000, shows a 20-something woman with light skin and long brown hair taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282009/news/nationalnews/friend_of_bidens_daughter_shopping_tape__161772.htm

Holy smoke! If this is true, Joe Biden is going to be humiliated. He is, after all, the man who created the term “drug czar” in 1982 while pushing for a stronger, more effective war on the drug epidemic.

More as this story develops.

New York State Legislature approves income tax hike

From the New York State Legislature:

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said late Saturday that New York’s Legislature has agreed to a state budget that keeps school funding flat, restores aid to New York City, and increases income taxes on wealthier New Yorkers.

The agreement announced just before midnight Saturday also restores some proposed cuts in health care and higher education and expands the state’s bottle law, putting nickel deposits on bottled water under the measure that currently covers only carbonated drinks

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-29-ny-budget_N.htm

New Yorkers pay the highest per capita local and state taxes in the nation. The State Government is endemically self-corrupted. The politicians are incapable of understanding that they past the point of over spending decades ago and need to cut back to spending levels circa 1980.

They are also arrogant enough to think the people of New York will believe this nonsense:

The temporary income tax increase on New Yorkers making more than $300,000 is projected to provide the state $4 billion in revenue and will end after three years, Silver said.

Oh, really? Never have New York Democrats voluntarily rescinded a tax. The only time they did so was when they were forced by NY Republicans in one way or another or were bribed with the promise of political brownie points.

One of the worst things ever to happen to the State of New York is the election of Sheldon Silver to the State Assembly coupled with his ascension to the Speaker’s chair.

He is singularly incapable of understanding the simplest of economic facts: that raising taxes during a recession will always, always, always serve to lengthen and deepen the economic troubles being experienced. The consequences include loss of jobs, growth in inflation rates and a depression in real estate prices.

So, when New Yorkers end up unemployed and living in houses  whose mortgage is greater than their appraisable values, the only ones to blame are Speaker Silver and Gov. Paterson.

Chinese cyberspies attack 103 nations

A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.

In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html

If the Chinese government is behind this operation, it should be treated as an act of war. No Chinese government act should ever again be referred to as an “internal affair.” If it is a non-governmental operation, we should consider it an act of terrorism.

Either way, someone is waging cyberwar against us and our allies. The time to respond with all due stregth is now.

McCain admits Palin drew more votes than he did

Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has no illusions about the 2008 White House race.

“God bless them,” McCain said Thursday at the Heritage Foundation when reminded of the tens of millions of people who voted for him last year.

“Over 50 million people voted for me and Sarah Palin – mostly for Sarah Palin,” McCain said to an eruption of laughter. But “there was a sizable majority of the other party returned to Congress. And, elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. And these consequences we are seeing now in full display.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/26/mccain-people-voted-mostly-for-sarah-palin-last-year/

What could I possibly add to that?