Below The Beltway

Ladies and gentlemen, the General Election campaign has officially started:
WATERTOWN, S.D. — Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for “dishonest and divisive” attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign.
Obama responded Friday to Bush’s speech to the […]

Hamas presents it’s theory on the events of 1939-1945:
Jewish leaders concocted the mass murder of handicapped Jews in order to keep from having to support them, and this murder is what the Jews term “the Holocaust,” according to a documentary special that aired on April 18 on Hamas’s Al Aqsa television station.
Palestinian Media Watch located […]

Use this handy little calculator to figure it out.
We own a 2007 Honda Accord, which averages about 20-22 miles per gallon in the rush hour traffic that my wife faces getting to work. For that car, we’d “save” about $ 32.86 over the entire summer.
We spent more than that filling the tank of that car […]

There’s a pretty good argument that his recent adventures in the Middle East violated the Logan Act:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with […]

ABC News’s Jake Tapper brings to light some rather aggressive comments from Hillary Clinton about Iran:
Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on “Good Morning America” Tuesday. ABC News’ Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the […]

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is refuting a statement by former President Carter about his trip to the Middle East:
KUWAIT CITY, April 22– Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday refuted a statement by former president Jimmy Carter that no one in the U.S. government told him not to go on a trip to the […]

From ka1igu1a at Freedom Democrats, a little-noticed new policy proposal from the Junior Senator from the Empire State:
What perked my antennae was Clinton’s proposal of extending a Nato-like security umbrella to the Middle East, Persian Gulf, North African, Near East Asia theatre. What the fuck…Clinton is out-NeoConing John Mccain here. Her claim of immediate withdrawal […]

Given the propaganda that comes out of the supporters of Hamas, it’s no wonder that peace in the Middle East is more an idea than a reality:
GAZA — In the Katib Wilayat mosque one recent Friday, the imam was discussing the wiliness of the Jew.
“Jews are a people who cannot be trusted,” Imam Yousif al-Zahar […]

I don’t usually agree with Dennis Prager but he hits the nail on the head when he asks the question — Why Do Palestinians Get More Attention Than Tibetans ?
Money quote:
Tibet, at least 1,400 years old, is one of the world’s oldest nations, has its own language, its own religion and even its own ethnicity. […]

Well, not really, because it doesn’t really exist:
CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity and then took the unprecedented step of seeking official recognition for the change said he has gone into hiding following death threats.
Mohammed Hegazy, who sparked controversy when pictures of him posing with a poster of the Virgin Mary […]