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Just like Daschle began running tv ads in July 2003 long before his November 2004 election, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota is doing the same thing this time around. From the great blog Taking Back North Dakota:Senator Conrad...

The U.N.'s terrorism gap

The feckless usefulness of the UN once again is apparent as it failed agin to come to any agreement on condemning terrorism. The opposition came primarily from the 56 OIC (Organization of Isalmic Countries)members...surprise, surprise, surprise! Who woulda ever thunk it!

A proposed U.N. convention against terrorism has been stalled since 1997. The holdup? How to define terrorism. But this is nothing more than a semantic trick. The Islamic states insist that terrorism must be defined not by the nature of the act but by its purpose. Putting a bomb in a market or train or bus is not an act of terrorism, they say, if it is done for a righteous purpose; namely national liberation or resistance to occupation. To say there is a problem of definition is to focus on a word. The real question is whether it is ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants. For the Islamic states, the answer is yes.(Emphasis added)

Not only did the OIC oppose any meaningful definition of terrorism, it proposed changing the resolution to approve attacks, but it sought a refaffirmation of language in a 1970 resolution: "reaffirm[ing] ? the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise their right to self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal."

The final phrase is euphemistic language included to implicitly approve terrorism. In the current action, the US claimed a partial victory by stopping such a reaffirmation.

If this is the best that can be hoped for from the UN, then we would be well served to bail out, and then to send them all packing off to Geneva or somewhere, anywhere away from the U.S.

North Platte Telegraph:However, the best spot to hunt pheasant in 2005 will be in South Dakota. I thought my hunting trips to South Dakota were great last year, but 2006 looks phenomenal! The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and...

South Dakota requires voters to show an ID before voting, but Tom Daschle is against it and compares it to the days of segregation, according to a story on a voting commission's suggestions in today's Washington Post:The most controversial recommendation...

Yahoo News reports this on the upcoming Roberts nomination vote:Since Democrats don't plan to filibuster, they must decide if it's worth casting a symbolic vote against the 50-year-old Roberts, knowing they can't stop his confirmation and that Bush will soon...

Lou Dolinar on what went right in Katrina relief....

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON - Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D, is returning to political life with a new political action committee and an upcoming appearance in Iowa. Daschle has quietly eschewed most publicity since his defeat to...

From NewsMax: Former CBS anchor Dan Rather said there is a climate of fear in newsrooms that is worse than he?s ever seen in his four-decade career. Rather declared that in the years since the then-White House correspondent tangled with...

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