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UPDATE: Just finished up my review on Army of Davids. You'll want to check it out here . *** She is looking for help in writing a review of Army of Davids . I'm soliciting quotes from "“ordinary people"” empowered by technology. I just finished Army of Davids myself--its great. A great example of a David fighting a Goliath is how a handful of bloggers have helped spread the story of a Cuban protestor at the World Baseball classic. Bloggers have been quoted in the media, and have given close-up coverage to the incident . Castro is getting his first taste of the blogsphere, started by one man and some cardboard signs, and spread by hundreds! No dictator can stop it. Also, in Venezuela, bloggers are getting pressure from the Chavez regime for exposing the truth about his propaganda machine . These are regular Davids battling the great evil Goliath--communism. Would the USSR even have happened if there had been bloggers back then? Information cannot be controlled anymore!...

UPDATE: Mary Katharine linked to the story over at Hugh Hewitt . It's good to see proper attention given to this. American's need to hear more of the truth about Castro's regime. Real Cuba has been covering the story . He has some great pictures, and he was quoted in this Fox Sports article. Via "La Ventanita," this quote is from Col. Adalberto Mercado who was explaining to a Cuban official how free speech works in America. ``We explained to him that here the constitutional right to free expression exists and that it is not a crime " You have to read the whole story here . ...the publicity brought on the WBC and Cuba, by a lone Cuban exile at the Hiram Bithorn stadium has been a Godsend. Cuban official Angel Iglesias le salio el tiro por la culata. In what he hoped would be the thwaring of dissent Cuban style, has resulted in the greatest show of the lack of freedom of speech in Cuba. He got exactly the the reverse of what he was looking for, and in the end ...

Great news via Associated Press on fighting the increase of gang crime . WASHINGTON - Some 375 gang members have been arrested in 24 states and the District of Columbia over the past two weeks as part of a yearlong operation targeting gangs with criminal immigrant members, the Homeland Security Department said Friday. The arrests bring to 2,388 the number of gang members apprehended through Operation Community Shield, which combines local law enforcement with federal immigration forces. Of those arrested, 922 were members of Mara Salvatrucha gangs, which have ties to Central America. I'm glad to hear Homeland Security is getting involved, and treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Also good to see law enforcement working together and connecting the dots between immigration enforcement and criminal activity. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that previously local law enforcement might arrest gang members and not be aware they also had immigration violations...

Filipino Baptist Fellowship is another Kelo victim in California . This comes via Baptist Press. LONG BEACH, Calif. (BP)--City leaders in Long Beach, Calif., have classified the Filipino Baptist Fellowship’s building as a blighted area and are forcing the congregation out in order to make way for condominiums. A church member was on Hanity & Colmes: During a segment on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” March 3, church member Sally Derro said when the church building was given to the congregation, it was an answer to many years of prayer. “Every day, the young kids pray that this church would not fall,” church member Jovine Agustine added. Roem Agustine, pastor of the Filipino Baptist Fellowship, said the city has made proposals for an alternative site, but none of them have been acceptable. “Either they are small in area or they are in the redevelopment area of the city, and we don’t want to move to a place where later on we’ll be told to move out again,” the pastor said. One of th...

You don't have to like the man, or even agree with his point of views, but this is to much. This is purely baseless ad-homonym attack. I do not understand how DefCon board and constituents allow this sort of thing to continue. So, in the spirit of transparency, I am providing here links to Dr. Dobson's radio show. Listen to his response, and get the facts. Dr. James Dobson, the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, devotes his national broadcast today to defusing the outrageous claims of the liberal special-interest group Campaign to Defend the Constitution, known as DefCon. DefCon has attempted to discredit Dr. Dobson by running newspaper and TV ads that try to link him with gambling lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- a connection that does not exist. On the broadcast Dr. Dobson explains what the smear campaign targeted at him is really all about. CitizenLink will have a full report in today's Daily Update, including details of a teleconference scheduled for today by DefCon....

Here is a great article on the Castano candidacy in Texas--a must read. This is the future of the Republican party--assimilated, succesfull, hard working Hispanics that are already community and business leaders. We cannot lose sight of this as we continue to address the challenges of illegal immigration. The Castano candidacy is part of a second GOP attempt to win the votes of Hispanics. During the Reagan years, ABC's Cokie Roberts once observed Hispanics exiting a naturalization ceremony and heading straight to a Republican registration table. They were attracted to "the party's emphasis on family, work, and prayer," she said—and President Reagan won 47 percent of the Hispanic vote in 1984. In 1994, though, former California Gov. Pete Wilson's Proposition 187, perceived as anti-Hispanic for its denial of government social services to illegal immigrants, hurt the Republican Party. Even though Hispanics are split ideologically—one survey showed 35 percent apiec...

I read something about the Crunchy Cons book the other day (I can't find the column) and of course, doing a quick Google search, I found the Crunchy Con blog over at NRO, and plenty of mentions all around. It's interesting, because I think my mother is like this. She is big on natural things, organic foods, and living a healthy lifestyle, but she is pro-life (Thank GOD!), deeply committed to our faith, and most definitely not a liberal. Gene Veith has an interesting piece on the various shades of conservatives, and the healthy diversity we have on the right. That's a lot more than you can say about the left. He commented on Crunchy Cons: There are even "granola conservatives," or, in columnist Rod Dreher's memorable phrase, "crunchy conservatives." These folks resolutely oppose mass society, pop culture, cookie-cutter industrialism, big corporations, and the various travesties of both modernism and postmodernism. They can come across as environmenta...

This via Get Liberty News email. "Eminent domain is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. It's an American issue. Rich people should not be allowed to steal poor people’s homes. It’s that simple." State Senator Tom McClintock

Got this in my email box this morning. This morning, GOP.com released a new video, titled “Find the Leader.” The video asks who the leader of the Democrat Party really is. Is it Hillary Clinton, who compared the House of Representatives to a plantation? Or Howard Dean, who likened the United States to Iran? Or John Kerry, who worries about American troops terrorizing children in the dead of night? Check out the “Find the Leader” video here. Don't even doubt that this is and will have an effect on the 2006 elections. They can't decide what direction they are going in, do you think any smart voter is going to follow? I would ad to that, though, that the Republican party needs to watch out for the independents.

I had about 3 posts I wanted to share, but it is now late, and I need some sleep. I have scholarship applications due, deadlines at work, and sleep to catch up. But, here are the links to what I wanted to post about. Post your comments, and I will include them here tomorrow as an update (I'll even link to your blog). First, stop the bleeding. Then, we can sit down and talk about what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants. Border Fence is legitimate self-defense I thought this shows how ridiculous teacher unions can be. I am in favor of removing government involvement in Public education 100%. The teachers unions are mad at me Here is a good update on the Catholic town controversy. Here is a link to the web site for that Hindu town he mentions. There goes those "controversial Catholics" again Even today, other religions have started up communities founded on their beliefs. In southwestern Iowa, some New Age Hindus have created the town of Maharishi Vedic City , a...

The fail because they don't have a message, and what they manage to get out is negative. This is not what America wants. But the Washington Post would not grasp that . News about GOP political corruption, inept hurricane response and chaos in Iraq has lifted Democrats' hopes of winning control of Congress this fall. But seizing the opportunity has not been easy, as they found when they tried to unveil an agenda of their own. Democratic leaders had set a goal of issuing their legislative manifesto by November 2005 to give voters a full year to digest their proposals. But some Democrats protested that the release date was too early, so they put it off until January. The new date slipped twice again, and now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) says the document will be unveiled in "a matter of weeks."

FYI: House Administration Committee will be marking up the Online Freedom of Speech Act this Thursday. Webcast of the mark up is available at cha.house.gov . Once a bill is marked up it can be brought to the floor for a full vote by the House. This could happen as early as next week, but more will be known after the mark up.

Heard from a friend from last week's missile defense system test, but have not heard anything about it in the media. With the growing threat from Iran, this is a very timely and newsworthy and the country deserves to be kept up to date on the progress. It seems that military related achievements are just not newsworthy in today's PC, anti-military culture. Shame. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. "Trey" Obering, Missile Defense Agency director, announced the successful completion of a test today involving the tracking of a target missile with an upgraded early warning radar located at Beale Air Force Base in northern California that is being incorporated into the Ballistic Missile Defense System. A long-range Strategic Targets System (STARS) rocket was launched at 7:09 a.m. Alaska Standard Time (11:09 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) from the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The rocket was successfully tracked by the Beale AFB radar during the exercise, and t...

Check this out! My dear little sister has been doing some writing for her college paper, and I was doing a google, and found her article. She presents a short and to-the-point argument for absolute truth. Check it out. It's a good back-to-the-basics article and very well written, I think (I know, I'm biased...). Absolute truth is a standard for morality

Pejman Yousefzadeh reacted to Andrew Sullivan's post about the controversy regarding Dr. James Dobson , and the thank you note he received from Judge Alito. I really have no brief for James Dobson, but this is absurd. Unless you are the kind of person who sees a wink-wink-nudge-nudge-say-no-more element in just about every bit of human interaction, it's hard to see what the big deal is regarding the fact that Alito was polite. It doesn't signify a desire to engage in any kind of quid pro quo, and if Sullivan actually does think that Alito's letter is enough to demonstrate his supposed lack of independence, well, let's all thank goodness this hanging judge of a blogger isn't a real judge in the court system. And I say this as someone who believes Sullivan to be quite intelligent and eloquent on a number of issues. Noting, perhaps, that he is on thin ice with this kind of innuendo and anxious to shore up a weak position, Sullivan protests that his suspicions are...