Arizona rednecks win a round against the ACLU.

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 5/19/2005 @ 11:28 am

OpinionJournal – Cross Country
Minutemen Are People, Too
Arizona rednecks win a round against the ACLU.

BY LEO W. BANKS
Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

TUCSON, Ariz.–Anybody who appreciates a good yuck was sad to see the Minutemen pack up their pickups and go home. After all, it wasn’t every day that we got to enjoy the spectacle of sunscreen-lathered ACLU observers chasing volunteer border-watchers through the desert. But in the media bonfire accompanying Arizona’s Redneck Revolt, we saw the cultural divide separating media elites from ordinary people–those with BlackBerries and $150 hairdos versus folks with tobacco bulges in their cheeks. more

More on this subject: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona

Zarqawi justifies deaths of fellow muslims, children

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on @ 11:12 am

CAIRO, Egypt (AP)

An Internet audiotape posted Wednesday, purportedly by al-Qaida-in-Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, justifies the deaths of fellow Muslims in attacks against U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies by saying that jihad – or holy war – dwarfs all other concerns. more

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