.. and about damn time. If you will remember late last month someone leaked rather specific sections of the National Intelligence Estimate, a classified document, to the New York Times. This obvious break of federal law resulted in more of the NIE being declassified to address the controversy the original leak started.

Well, they may have found the leak. This, with typical left spin, from Reuters:

The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has suspended a Democratic staff member over a possible leak of a politically explosive intelligence report involving Iraq, officials said on Friday.

The action, taken three weeks before the November election battle for control of Congress, brought a protest from the committee’s leading Democrat who accused Republicans of political retaliation.

The staff member, who was not identified, has not been accused of any wrongdoing, officials said.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the panel chairman, ordered his security clearance suspended after another Republican lawmaker raised suspicions about the staffer’s handling of an April national intelligence estimate on global terrorism.

Fox news provides a bit more balanced view:

Democrats are upset that the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee suspended a Democratic staff member over questions about the leak of a secret intelligence assessment.

The unidentified staff member is Larry Hanauer, FOX News learned Friday. Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., suspended Hanauer earlier this week and won’t allow him access to classified information until a review can be completed, said Jamal Ware, Hoekstra’s spokesman.

The Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was “appalled” by his action, which was “without basis.”

Harman also demanded that Hoekstra “immediately reinstate the staffer’s access to classified information.”

The leak to The New York Times of a National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends caused a political uproar last month. In the assessment, completed in April, analysts from the government’s 16 spy agencies concluded that the Iraq war has become a “cause celebre” for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that probably will get worse before it gets better.

All I can say is that I hope they properly nail the creep. Anyone who puts political gain above national security needs to be shot. If this where a GOP member it would be front page news.

The following is a new add put out by the RNC. In a time when the terrorsts themselves are rooting for the democrats, it is aptly put. Worth a view.

Lieberman, the only (used to be) Democrat who I could have voted for, has pull well ahead of his Democratic rival, Ned Lemont. I can’t help but think the Dems are smacking themselves for the foolishness they showed during the primary.

From the AP:

Sen. Joe Lieberman has built a 17-point lead over Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, according to the first Quinnipiac University poll since the two faced off in a debate this week.

Lieberman, running as an independent after losing the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Lamont, leads the Greenwich businessman 52 percent to 35 percent among Connecticut likely voters in the poll released Friday. Republican Alan Schlesinger trailed with 6 percent, and 7 percent were undecided.

A similar poll released on September 28 showed Lieberman with a 10-point lead.

And to think Rosie maxed out her contributions to Lamont. To bad she didn’t take Bill O’Reilly up his bet.

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Liberal newspapers see falling revenue

I read the following during my daily troll through the NY Times:

Advertising sales continues to sag at major newspaper publishers, judging by the quarterly results reported today by The New York Times Company and the Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday.

For the third quarter, The Times Company’s overall revenue declined to $739,6 million, 2.4 percent less than the comparable quarter last year, mainly because of a 4.2 percent fall in advertising revenue, the company reported. At Tribune, revenue fell to $1.35 billion, a 2.5 percent decline from a year earlier; revenue from print advertising fell 2.2 percent, mostly because of weak sales at Newsday.

Add this bit of news to the bankruptcy filing of liberal radio “Air America” and this may well indicate that the masses are turning away from the super liberal media outlets. This may especially be true as more and more moderate and conservative outlets continue to appear on an almost daily bases.

The picture here is not clear, however, so we conservatives should not claim victory yet. At the very least we need to see if a similar slump is seen in conservative outlets, or if this is a more general trend in repositioning limited advertising budgets into newer avenues such as online.

Birthdays, for most of us, are a time to reflect on what we have accomplished, what we can be proud of, and the difference we may have made. In celebration of this auspicious occasion, I thought it worth a review of what Planned Parenthood has accomplished in their 90 years. The attached is a short list:

• An estimated 43 Million children where murdered before they could celebrate their birthday.
• PP has become the nations largest operator of abortion clinics, and the Wolds largest provider of abortions.
• PP has promoted rampant promiscuity without even token commentary to abstinence or restraint.
• PP has fought against virtually all limits to abortion, including: parental consent laws, informed consent laws, waiting period laws, and laws limiting abortion by term or age of the unborn.
• PP is funded, largely, by our tax dollars. In 2004 $265.2M in tax funding went to Planned Parenthood.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Planned Parenthood has been accused of not reporting cases or rape to appropriate authorities, withholding court subpoenaed medical records, and has violated parental notification laws where they have been enacted. Planned Parenthood has often been accused of pressuring young women to have abortions and has even been accused of protecting Child Predators.

I hope Planned Parenthood takes a moment to reflect on their “accomplishments” over the past 90 years. They are practitioners in murder, nothing more.

Support the following pro-life organizations, and lets stop Planned Parenthood before another 90 years and 43 Million deaths go by.

Organizations Opposing Planned Parenthood:
Life Decisions International
American Life League
Americans United for Life