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ABC RADIO NETWORKS SIGNS MARK LEVIN TO MULTI-YEAR EXTENSION

Program Will Expand to Three Hours in February With Market Clearance in New York, LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit and Washington, DC

DALLAS (Jan. 5, 2009) - ABC Radio Networks announced today that is has signed Mark Levin, one of the leading talk personalities in the country, to a new multi-year syndication agreement. The Mark Levin Show is approaching its three-year anniversary with the network and in that time has rapidly grown to more than 175 affiliates with millions of listeners and become a recognized ratings leader. The program airs in 9 of the top 10 and 24 of the top 25 markets.

“Mark is one of the most talented and respected broadcasters in our industry and has won over a legion of loyal radio listeners,” said Jim Robinson, President of ABC Radio Networks. “He is an essential driver of our news/talk portfolio and we are proud to remain Mark’s partner in delivering such compelling programming.”

On February 2, The Mark Levin Show will expand from two hours to include an available third hour of content. Affiliates already committed to carrying the additional hour include WABC – New York; KABC – Los Angeles; WLS – Chicago; KSFO – San Francisco; WBAP – Dallas; WJR – Detroit; and WMAL – Washington, DC. More stations are expected to option the third hour once the opportunity is made available.

“Since we launched the show in national syndication, we’ve developed relationships with some truly outstanding stations and advertisers along the way and I’m so grateful to work with all of them,” said Levin. “The next few years could determine what kind of nation America will be for generations to come. I intend to be here defending the Constitution and continuing the dialogue with my wonderful audience.”

Levin is one of the country’s most noted conservative voices and a best-selling author. He served as a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet, including his post as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in Washington, DC and heads the distinguished Landmark Legal Foundation. His radio program consistently offers an entertaining and thought-provoking discussion on the newsmakers of the day.

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Happy Holidays!

Five Radical Islamists Convicted

In Camden, NJ, yesterday, a jury convicted the remaining five defendants in the Fort Dix Six plot. Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Dritan Duka, Shain Duka, Eljvir Duka, and Serdar Tatar were found guilty on charges they plotted to kill members of the U.S. military, Acting United States Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. announced. The five face sentencing of any number of years up to life in prison. A sixth co-defendant, Agron Abdullahu, was previsouly sentenced to 20 months after pleading guilty last year to charges that he aided and abetted the Duka brothers’ illegal possession of weapons.

On May 10, 2007, three days after the six were arrested, Mark Levin pointed out that their defense lawyers and the Leftist media were already implying the Fort Dix Six had been led into the plot by the FBI:

Indeed, the trial defense asserted there would have been no conspiracy without entrapment by two federal informants. Obviously, the jury did not buy their story. After the trial, Prosecutor William Fitzpatrick said, “The FBI investigates crime on the front end. They don’t want to have to do it on the back end.”

This morning, the Wall Street Journal weighed in:

The jury’s verdict is notable because media coverage of the plotters’ arrest and trial traveled a familiar arc: After a round of stories noting that a terrorist plot had been rolled up, the media followed up with skepticism and suggestions that the suspects were small-timers or just messing around. The word even went out that, in effect, the government’s man on the inside had put them up to it. The implication, as with the Lackawanna Six and Jose Padilla, is always the same: The Bush Administration was advertising phantom threats to justify the trampling of civil liberties and to create a “climate of fear.”

Lest we forget, the Fort Dix plotters were finally arrested last year after they moved to buy AK-47s and fully automatic M-16s — not exactly the stuff of innocent imaginings and idle chatter. Every plotter is an amateur until he pulls off a spectacular attack. This has created a permanent PR problem for the fight against domestic terror plots: If you move too soon, the conventional wisdom comes to doubt that anything serious was averted. But of course, waiting too long means running the risk of another attack on American soil, something we have avoided since 9/11.

One final point. Who can forget the shortcomings of Keith Olbermann, last year (or ever), when he had this to say:
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Elections have consequences.

Come January 20, Democrats will control all three branches of our government yet with liberals already controlling majorities on the Supreme Court and in Congress, the ill effects of past Election Days are already being felt. While their June 2008 Boumediene v Bush decision was limited in scope to the “judicial review of the military’s determination of the status” of currently held enemy combatants, yesterday the Supremes cited that ruling when it ordered an Appeals Court to reconsider a civil suit brought by former detainees. (Mark Levin and Andrew McCarthy discussed this last night.)

Not to be outdone by five Supreme Court Justices conjuring justification from unwritten precedent, Members of Congress have come up with a torture narrative at odds with the facts and not within the Geneva Conventions they cite:

According to the [Senator Carl] Levin report, the Bush administration reacted to 9/11 by “redefining” the law to permit aggressive interrogation tactics. Thus, the fable goes, in early 2002 the president determined that neither al-Qaeda nor Taliban fighters were entitled to prisoner-of-war treatment, in effect blocking application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and the “well established military doctrine” of “legal compliance with the Geneva Conventions.” The administration then covertly set about having its Justice Department alter the legal definition of torture, the story goes, while its interrogators were schooled in illegal tactics by experts at the Defense Department. These techniques were employed by the CIA on important captives and became elements of a new warfare culture that spread to military interrogators at Gitmo and led, eventually, to the Abu Ghraib scandal.

That narrative is flawed in its fundamental assumptions and fictional in its sweeping conclusions. The Bush administration did not “redefine” detainee treatment law; it undertook to determine what the law says and whom it covers. The intent of the Geneva Conventions, the principal law on the subject, is to civilize warfare by affording benefits, including an absolute bar against abusive treatment, to eligible prisoners of war — i.e., to captured soldiers who adhere to the laws of armed conflict, meaning, among other things, that they forgo intentionally endangering civilians. By definition, al-Qaeda is not qualified for Geneva protections because it is a terrorist organization: It is not one of the sovereign nations that signed the 1949 pacts, and it specifically targets civilians. Though the Taliban was the de facto government of Afghanistan, its fighters also target civilians and hide among them, and consequently they do not qualify for Geneva protections. … MORE.

Once Barack Obama is sworn in as President, it will be interesting to hear what his presumptive nominee for Attorney General has to say on the subject, considering this:

One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people.

It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohammed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not. — Eric Holder, to CNN’s Paula Zahn in 2002

Monday, Mark spoke about the incident where an Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Iraq.

It’s very strange what these Iraqi thugs find offensive and what they don’t. Mark revealed that this so-called reporter was sympathetic to Saddam’s Baathist Party. I found Saddam Hussein’s tactics to be far more offensive. Don’t you?

The Personal History of Saddam Hussein

On July 16, 1979, President Bakr resigned, officially due to health problems, but in reality a victim of Hussein’s political in-fighting. Moving quickly to consolidate his power, he called a major Baathist meeting on July 22, 1979. During the meeting, various family members and other Hussein devotees urged that the party be “cleansed”. Hussein then read a list of names and asked that they step outside. Once there, they are taken into custody.

A high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Command, the head of the labor unions, the leading Shiite member of the Command, and twenty (20) others are then systematically and personally killed by Hussein and his top party officials. During the next few days, reports indicate that as many as 450 other military officers, deputy prime ministers, and “non-party faithful” were rounded up and killed. This purge insured Hussein’s consolidation of power in Iraq.

Mark Levin and Andy McCarthy discussed today’s Supreme Court decision to direct the Appeals Court to reconsider a civil suit claiming torture by four Brits who are former Guantanamo detainees. McCarthy summed it up perfectly, “It used to be … that when the United States went to war, the whole government went to war and the courts were deemed to be part of that government.”

From AFP this afternoon:

The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by four former British detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, ordering a lower court to reconsider their claims of torture and religious bias.

The justices ordered a Washington DC appeals court to review its January 2008 ruling quashing the lawsuit against former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and 10 senior US military officers.

The high court said the case should be reconsidered in light of its June 12 ruling that prisoners held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had a right to challenge their detention in civilian courts.

In their suit, the Britons claimed they were protected against torture by a US constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. They also argued that their rights to practice their religion under the US Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated at Guantanamo.

Andrew McCarthy: This is a very bad development. Even if you accept the premise that detainee treatment policy needs to be reworked, it does not follow that we want the courts to do the reworking — much less do so in the context of an action for civil damages in our courts by our enemies. Moreover, the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling in Boumediene held strictly that detainees were entitled to judicial review of the military’s determination of their status as enemy combatants; neither it nor the Court’s 2006 Hamdan decision (giving the detainees at least some rights under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions) held that the detainees had a right to bring a suit in federal court against the government officials responsible for prosecuting against them a war that was approved overwhelmingly by Congress and is supported overwhelmingly by the American people… MORE

In her syndicated column today, Michelle Malkin wrote of Carol Browner, the head of the EPA during the Clinton administration and the likely choice for “energy czar” for Barack Obama.

On her last day in office, nearly eight years ago, Browner oversaw the destruction of agency computer files in brazen violation of a federal judge’s order requiring the agency to preserve its records. This from a public official who bragged about her tenure: “One of the things I’m the proudest of at EPA is the work we’ve done to expand the public’s right to know.”

Asked to explain her track-covering actions, the savvy career lawyer Browner played dumb. Figuratively batting her eyelashes, she claimed she had no clue about a court injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on the same day she commanded an underling to wipe her hard drives clean. Golly gee willikers, how could that have slipped by her?

According to testimony in a freedom of information lawsuit filed against EPA by the Landmark Legal Foundation, a Virginia-based conservative legal watchdog group, Browner commanded a computer technician on Jan. 19, 2001: “‘I would like my files deleted. I want you to delete my files.” Not coincidentally, the Landmark Legal Foundation had been pressing Browner to fully and publicly disclose the names of any special interest groups that may have influenced her wave of last-minute regulatory actions. Two days before she told her technician to purge all her records, EPA had gone to court to file a motion opposing the federal court injunction protecting those government documents.

His fans already know that Mark Levin is the President of the Landmark Legal Foundation. Mark spoke Wednesday evening of his legal battle with the EPA and the disingenuous “czarina” Carol Browner, who is a close ally of Al Gore:

Related:

Former EPA Chief Browner Set to Be Obama’s Energy Coordinator

Landmark Legal Foundation: Environmental Accountability

AP: EPA Head Browner Asked for Computer Files to Be Deleted

Browner and Greener

Monday, Mark laid it all out and discussed all the damage Obama will inflict on our Country.

Let’s hope Obama’s America is ready for some more change in 2012.

Mark Levin has higher ratings than Michael “Savage” Weiner in New York City, once again!

Month of October - Official PPM ratings NEW YORK - 6 - 8 pm LIVE

12+
Levin 6.5 (# 2 in the market — AM & FM)
Savage 2.8

24-54
Levin 3.8
Savage 1.8

ALSO: 18+ … Levin 6.6 # 1 overall in the market

Men 18+ … Levin 6.6 # 1 overall in the market

Tuesday, a caller asked Mark about Hillary’s eligibility to become Secretary of State after having voted for a pay raise.

I hope you payed attention to Mark’s answer. There will be a quiz later. Thank me.

Mark Levin interviewed William Bennett about ‘The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America’ (Hardcover), his latest book.

Tuesday, Mark spoke with a caller who asked what can citizens do now that we are being held hostage by our government.

Mark’s 2nd caller was also interesting asking Mark what is the underlying belief that drives Liberalism.

In addition to giving thanks to those who protect our nation and communities, Mark Levin spoke with one of them, as well as the father of a fallen hero:

Happy Thanksgiving.

Mark Levin read of Sierra, a dog Alcestis “Cooky” Oberg rescued, spoke from his own experience, and then made a suggestion:

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While being nice to our children and grandchildren because they will likely choose our nursing homes is worth a snickering consideration, the ignorant choosing a national healthcare system is not funny yet perhaps inevitable. Mark Levin explained last night:

“If half the people don’t know that there’s three branches of government believe me, they’re not going to understand the problems with a socialist healthcare system. They’re going to think they are going to get something for nothing.” — Mark Levin

Take the quiz. If you score less than 50%, please move to Canada or stop voting. (For the record, I scored an 85%.)

Thursday, Mark spoke with a Lib who claimed to work as a financial planner of some sort.

Let’s see a show of hands. How many of you would take financial advice from Jack?

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Would you like it if you were indicted for merely owning a mutual fund or for having a 401(k) plan? District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra has persuaded a Willacy County, Texas grand jury to indict Vice President Richard Cheney for that dastardly crime. Mark Levin explained Guerra’s abuse of power, spoke with VP Cheney’s former Counsel, and asked listeners to contact Guerra with your thoughts on the matter:

Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

From this video, you get a sense of why Guerra’s constituents voted against his reelection during this year’s primary. Here is how to contact DA Guerra. In the spirit of adding insult to injury — politely and civilly, of course — let him know what you think of his parting shot.

Last night, Mark Levin reported a strange Sunday Night Football sighting, NBC’s Today Show journalists searching the world and sounding off about global warming. Mark offered why their snapshot-in-time reporting on our planet’s condition failed to mention the time-warped, false alarm report by NASA scientist and Al Gore ally, James Hansen.

On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies … one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record. … This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month … The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

I spent eighteen months back in the 1990s driving by this place on my way to work. Back then, I often laughed at the thought of what their readings would show if they pointed them things towards Washington, D.C., in search of signs of intelligent life. Now I wonder if they had wanted to make that attempt, what map they would have used.

Mark Levin provided an American history lesson to dispel the myth of what started out as a recession and was turned into a Great Depression by government over-regulation. As you listen, compare what our government has done recently, as well as the proposals you hear politicians discussing to what they did back then.

Scary.

Mark Levin said last night:

“You cannot win over the public; your views cannot resonate with the public if you’re talking like a Leftist. That doesn’t mean the policy proposals you have are Leftist. It means you are boxing yourself in rhetorically and policy wise to some extent, if that’s your focus, if you are focusing on pandering to a certain group that you are imagining exists, because that group does not exist.”

Mark then offered what conservatives should talk about:

Like Wilson redrawing the map of Europe, Leftists create imaginary divides and coalitions. Leave them to piece together a puzzle that does not exist. Let us talk to Americans about common cause, the free market, and liberty.

Seven noted authors have stepped up to support Project Valour-IT by donating autographed books for auction, and more are anticipated to join them. The books are being auctioned on eBay to help raise money to help Soldier’s Angels provide adaptive laptops to wounded or disabled service members. … The list of authors and books is here.

MarkLevinFan.com has joined the Army team at Soldier’s Angels, along with 60 other web sites and Milblogs, in support of Project Valour-IT. This project helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries.
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On its web site, Westchester County (New York) has this advice for drivers:

Don’t idle your car for too long a time. Don’t waste fuel by sitting in that drive-thru lane at McDonald’s or Taco Bell. Park and go inside instead. Don’t let your vehicle idle as you wait outside the elementary school to pick up your children. Idling uses more fuel than turning the engine off, waiting for your youngsters and then restarting the engine. When you’re in slow city traffic, keep the air conditioner off, if possible. That air conditioner is a burden that uses fuel.

Yet on Tuesday, Westchester County made it illegal for people to run their cars at idle for three minutes or longer. Mark Levin called the bill’s sponsor, Westchester legislator Thomas Abinanti (he represents Greenburgh). Apparently, Mr. Abinanti believes that a main element of the air we breathe and what plants need to produce oxygen is a pollutant.

The science challenged Abinanti is also disingenuous about the facts. According to the American Lung Association, Westchester has trended below the national average on emissions for more than a decade.

I have been to Greenburgh many times over the years, including two visits there this year. It has long been considered the armpit of Westchester County, despite property taxes there averaging more than $8,000 per home and median home prices above $500,000. The streets are filthy, many yards are full of trash, and it is overrun with illegal aliens. This three-minute idle ordinance is another politician producing an issue out of thin air, then announcing he did something about a “major” problem that does not exist. Meanwhile, he ignores the real problems in plain view.

What Westchester County needs is a law that says its legislature cannot meet for more than three minutes each year.

Update: Via a forum poster, we’ve learned that jet-setter Thomas Abinanti is the top contributor to greenhouse emissions, at taxpayers’ expense, among Westchester’s legislators: