http://www.sector404.org The utterly bland, daily roundup of what interests a conservative from Canada. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:03:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yet Rockefeller's highly partisan report does not substantiate its most explosive claims. Rockefeller, for instance, charges that "top administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and Al Qaeda as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11." Yet what did his report actually find? ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/06/18/james-kirchick-bush-never-lied-to-us-about-iraq/ Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/06/09/bush-lied-if-only-it-were-that-simple/ Obama cited Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as presidents who met with enemies. Does he know no history? Neither Roosevelt nor Truman ever met with any of the leaders of the Axis powers. Obama must be referring to the pictures he's seen of Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, and Truman ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/06/05/charles-krauthammer-a-gaffe-an-absurdity-and-a-policy/ Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/06/05/john-r-bolton-obama-the-naive/ It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America's ironclad support of Israel's survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don't agree with it, this has been the policy of the ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/05/29/orson-scott-card-what-obama-should-have-said/ http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/04/13/mark-steyn-on-multiculturaism/ The long-suffering Tibetans have been in the news. This happens perhaps once or twice a decade. In a more moral world, however, public opinion would be far more preoccupied with Tibetans than with Palestinians, would be as harsh on China as it is on Israel, and would be as fawning ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/03/30/dennis-prager-why-do-palestinians-get-much-more-attention-than-tibetans/ When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before. No longer would scientists have to rely on measurements mostly at the surface from older ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/03/25/perhaps-the-climate-change-models-are-wrong/ Touché! http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/03/10/appeasing-islam/ And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past. The ... http://www.sector404.org/archives/2008/02/27/forget-global-warming-welcome-to-the-new-ice-age/