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Insider Report: Howard Dean, Giuliani, Iran War, More Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. In D.C., There's 'War' Talk with Iran The "totalitarian ideology" of Iran is at war with the U.S., "and if we wish to survive, we have no choice but to wage total war against it," the highly respected Center for Security Policy warns. On October 26, the new president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the same speech in which he declared that "Israel must be wiped off the map," said:
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"Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? ... You had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved." The CSP's Decision Brief states: "In other words, Tehran's Islamofascists like Ahmadinejad are as focused today as they were at the time 26 years ago when, in the midst of the Iranian revolution, they sacked our embassy and seized our diplomats. "The main enemy - the 'Great Satan' -- for Iran's regime remains the United States. Unless prevented from doing so, it will persist, both on its own and in league with others, to bring about our destruction, as well as that of other freedom-loving people." Due to higher oil prices, Iran is now earning $125 million a day more in oil revenue that previously, and some of this "found money" is being used to support terrorists and accelerate Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction programs, according to the CSP, a nonpartisan organization "dedicated to promoting international peace through American strength." Even worse, Tehran has advertised its willingness to share the country's nuclear technology with other Islamic nations Also, Iran has diversified its customer base with increased sales to oil-thirsty China and India, in the process obtaining political protection and sources of advanced technology. "The menace arising from the Iranian regime can no longer be ignored," the CSP says. "The Shiite Islamofascists in Tehran, like their Sunni counterparts supported by Saudi Arabia, mean what they say about imposing an international Caliphate under a Taliban-style Shari'a law. And they are deadly serious about the fact that countries like ours that stand in the way will have to be wiped from the map, too." Fortunately, in the case of Iran we have natural allies in the Iranian people, who are as eager to depose the despotic mullahs who repress them as we are, the CSP says, adding: "For this reason among others, we should resist as long as possible resorting to military means against the Iranian regime, lest we drive even a public who hates the radical, politicized mullahs into their arms." Instead, the CSP says the U.S. should lead the Free World in a three-pronged nonmilitary attack on Iran:
2. Film: AIDS Scandal in Clinton's Arkansas A shocking new documentary shows how inmates at an Arkansas prison were paid to donate blood even though authorities knew they had AIDS and hepatitis. The movie "Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal" by filmmaker Kelly Duda discloses that Arkansas, then under the leadership of Gov. Bill Clinton, allowed the contaminated blood from prisoners to be exported during the 1980s and 1990s to be used in the making of clotting agents for hemophiliacs. As a result, thousands of people in the United Kingdom and other countries contracted AIDS or potentially fatal hepatitis, according to the UK's Sunday Herald. Duda's film will premiere at the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles on November 8. It reveals for the first time how officials at Cummins Penitentiary doctored inmates' medical records to hide the fact that they were carrying the diseases, the Herald reports. In the movie, former inmate and hepatitis sufferer Bill Douglas, who regularly donated plasma, said: "They didn't care if you had to crawl to get there as long as you were able to give blood. You were never checked." Dr. Edwin Barron, a medical administrator at Cummins who resigned after about a year, told the filmmaker: "They did little or no screening of anybody." And Randal Morgan, who was deputy director of the department of corrections in Arkansas from 1981 to 1996, declared: "It would be ludicrous that Bill Clinton did not know that the plasma program was experiencing problems."
3. Giuliani Backing Weld for N.Y. Governor Rudy Giuliani is reportedly set to back William Weld in his run for the Republican nomination for New York governor next year - but some pundits say the former New York City mayor's endorsement won't carry much weight. Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, worked with Giuliani as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, and announced his interest in the 2006 governor's race at Giuliani's New York office. Giuliani is the chairman of the board at Weld's private equity firm, and he will be the featured guest at a major fund-raising event for Weld in Manhattan on November 30, the New York Sun reported. An endorsement from the popular Giuliani could strip GOP voters away from likely candidate Thomas Golisano, a three-time Independence Party candidate who switched party affiliation last month.
But pollsters and other Republican candidates believe Giuliani's endorsement would be of limited value to Weld, saying that one politician's popularity is not automatically transferable to another. Veteran pollster Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Polling Institute, agreed, telling the Sun: "It's good to have endorsements, and it's good to generate buzz. But popularity doesn't transfer automatically. If the candidate doesn't have it, it doesn't help." Faso's conservative record makes him a favorite among many upstate Republicans, while Weld comes with baggage that could turn off conservative voters. As the Insider Report revealed earlier, Weld once described himself as "culturally, more like an urban Democrat than a suburban Republican." And during his 1996 race against Sen. John Kerry, Weld said he would have voted - as Kerry had - to uphold President Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. A poll by the Siena Research Institute last month showed Weld and Faso lagging far behind likely Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. Both received about 20 percent of the vote versus 63 percent for Spitzer in a head-to-head race. In August, a Siena poll had Golisano winning 28 percent of the vote against Spitzer. New York Secretary of State Randy Daniels is also considering a run for the GOP nomination for governor. "Like Faso, Daniels is close with Conservative Party leaders and has been actively courting their support," the Sun reported. Since 1974, no Republican candidate has won statewide office in New York without an endorsement from the Conservative Party.
4. "Millionaire Republican" Book in Fifth Printing Just three weeks after publication, Wayne Allyn Root's book "Millionaire Republican" went into its fifth as sales remained solid. The book - previewed earlier by NewsMax - quickly became the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon.com's list of books on personal finance, No. 4 on the list of all business books, and No. 20 on all books on Amazon. The premise of "Millionaire Republican: Why Rich Republicans Get Rich - and How You Can Too!" is that the nation belongs to Republicans, now and in the future, and in order to thrive in such a world, Americans should climb aboard the bandwagon and start the journey toward riches and success. OK, where do we get our copy!
5. Dean Draws Praise from Capitol Hill Dems After some early missteps, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is gaining the confidence of Congressional Democrats now that he's been on the job for 10 months. Many in Congress were wary of Dean when he took over the post earlier this year, fearing his politics were too far left for Democrats trying to make inroads in conservative "red" states, according to the publication Roll Call. They also saw the former Vermont governor as somewhat of a loose cannon, as when he commented that the Republican Party is made up of white Christian conservatives. But now Dean has been toning down his sometimes incendiary remarks and "he's gotten pretty smart," one high-level Democratic House staffer told Roll Call. "People are cautiously optimistic [that] Howard Dean has gotten smarter and more strategic about what it means to be a DNC chairman. "In the last several months, he's doing a much better job." Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), who supported another candidate for DNC chairman, said he has been "pleasantly surprised" by what he's hearing about Dean's work. Roll Call reported: "Hoyer said he has been getting positive feedback from party officials across the country who credit Dean with giving them needed campaign resources and working to develop relationships between the national and state parties." Hoyer said he has spoken with the party chairmen in several states and has been "impressed with how positive their feeling is vis-à-vis Howard Dean. I congratulate him for that." Some party insiders remain uneasy about the DNC's finances. At the end of September the committee had a cash balance of $6.8 million, while the Republican National Committee had $34 million in the bank. The DNC has hired organizers in 38 states and paid out most of the $39.2 million collected so far this year. .
But DNC spokesman Josh Earnest said: "We are going to have the resources we need to support Democratic candidates all across the country in 2006. "The way Gov. Dean is going to build the party for the long term is at the grass-roots level and we want to do that in every community in America."
6. Identity Theft Going Hi-Tech Identity theft continues to ensnare Americans as thieves turn to increasingly sophisticated means of obtaining victims' personal information. Last year 9.3 million American adults became victims of identity fraud, according to a survey by the Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy & Research. Overall, the fraud cost $52.6 billion last year, the survey estimated. Crafty thieves are combining technology, such as computers that print bogus checks, with low-tech foraging through garbage for personal information they can use to steal money or fraudulently open accounts. Perpetrators sometimes use "skimming" devices they install on ATMs to read information from the magnetic stripe when a card is swiped, then transmit it to the thieves. At the same time, a small hidden camera installed near the ATM can record a victim's PIN number. Other thieves send e-mails that, when opened, embed "spyware" that can capture keystrokes and obtain information on online purchases, according to a report in The Tennessean. But the majority of identity theft cases still result from a victim losing a wallet or checkbook or having it stolen. The good news is that the time taken to resolve identity-theft crime is down to 28 hours last year compared to 33 hours the previous year. Don Phan, an analyst at Javelin, said financial institutions are setting up assistance centers and identity theft resolution teams to help victims resolve their cases. Editor's Note: Check out this new service that helps your protect your identify better than just a credit check Go Here Now
7. Democrat Mum on Iran Threat Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) did not vote on a resolution to condemn the president of Iran for stating that "Israel must be wiped off the map," which passed unanimously. McKinney was recorded as "not present." But just moments earlier, she was on the House floor to vote on an Agriculture appropriations bill, the publication Roll Call reports. McKinney has been accused of making anti-Semitic comments in the past, and her father Billy McKinney assigned blame for her 2002 re-election defeat by spelling out the word "J-E-W-S." Editor's Notes:
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