Mar
29
2006
Reality Check- The Foreign Invasion
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Reality Check- The Foreign Invasion
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All the King’s horses, and all of the King’s men can not create enough laws to correct our illegal immigration situation, unless somone has the fortitude to enforce the laws.
Mar
28
2006
Does the Democratic culture of corruption know no bounds? McDermott caught, and fined.
Addendum 3/29/06
Also, Rush couldn’t help but laugh as he recited this story yesterday, and then called for McDermott’s censure. The Senate does have the power to censure its members, and no joke, they should censure this criminal.
Mar
22
2006
Battered Europe Syndrome
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Battered Europe Syndrome
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From yesterday’s Best of the Web:
World War II left Europe owing an incalculable moral debt to both America and the Jews: America because it saved Europe from its own savagery, Jews because they were the primary victims of that savagery. European anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are often hard to tell apart, and it may be because they both reflect a self-loathing aspect of the European psyche–a neurotic need to compensate for an overwhelming sense of historical guilt.Indeed, most Americans’ reaction to European anti-Americanism is the instinctive retort: “Those ungrateful bastards.” Perhaps the European impetus for this state of mind comes from a visceral sense of moral superiority: “Why do they think they deserve gratitude in the first place?”
One can almost hear the self-deceiving follow-up:”Were things really so bad before they invited themselves in?” The last time I heard that, it came from an abused wife on Cops.
Mar
20
2006
If the faithful continue to listen to him, maybe
Update:
Then again, there are a lot of intolerant Muslims who almost certainly are not listening to reason.
Mar
20
2006
That Darn Global Warming
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That Darn Global Warming
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Will winter end anytime soon? Where is spring? Not in Denver
Mar
18
2006
DROOL!
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DROOL!
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I really need to stop Googling the word “Gettysburg”.
The price tag is justifiably hefty at $130. I can’t afford it, but if you’d like to give Stephen Recker a small token of support, help me purchase a copy.
I promise I’ll tease you tell you all about it when it arrives.
For those of you with resources of your own, I’ve added a permanent link to Mr. Recker’s site in the sidebar. (Maybe he’ll take pity on me and give me a discount.) 
Mar
18
2006
Put in the best light, one would assume that the Democrat leaders who plan to campaign on military installations are simply unaware that such activity violates Department of Defense rules. But, given that the Democrats who distributed such instructions to their brethren are our lawmakers, and should know better, they must be reprimanded for their error. Obviously Harry Reid et al must be censured. Sorry guys, but given the circumstances, it is the only right thing to do.
Mar
18
2006
RU-486 Killing Post-Birth Embryos
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RU-486 Killing Post-Birth Embryos
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In a stunning development, the, so-called, “morning after” abortion pill is believed to be rendering unviable some embryos which have survived their gestation period, survived their own birth and have survived enough intervening years so as to allow them to mature to the point at which they themselves have become pregnant. Reporting has it that this pill, intended to kill only people of pre-birth, is being mis-administered and has a potentialy fatal effect upon the pregnant post-birth embryo.
“RU-486 is a deadly drug that is killing pregnant women,… This drug should never have been approved, and it must be suspended immediately.”
-Senator Jim DeMint, South Carolina
Ironically, it is legal to kill pre-birth embryos in this nation, but the unintended death of post-birth, and criminally innocent, embryos still receives special attention and requires corrective measures. Some embryos remain more equal, under the law, than do others.
Update- FDA clears one case, RU-486 not culprit.
Mar
18
2006
Thought of the Day
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Thought of the Day
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“Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.”
Mar
17
2006
The Elephant In The Room
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The Elephant In The Room
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Yes, How many times?
Rhetorical, yet, on point.
Mar
17
2006
Liberal’s Increasing Dementia Explained
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Liberal’s Increasing Dementia Explained
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Ever wonder why it seems that the liberal kooks just keep getting kookier? Tin foil hats amplify the wavelengths. The more they wear their supposed protective garb, the stronger they get the right message. That must be very disconcerting for their tiny little brains.
Mar
16
2006
I heard it said yesterday, the censure measure which Senator Russ Feingold has proposed is not found in the US Constitution. If that is so, then Feingold has done exactly the act for which he accuses the President, making up the law. And, if Feingold has begun an extra-Constitutional measure; shouldn’t he be censured?
Of course, there is no finding of fact that the President has actually violated the Constitution. Feingold is not one of those members of Congress, (the ‘do-nothing’ branch of our government), who has been privy to all of the details of the terrorist surveillance program, (those who have seen the details seem impressed by the program’s virtue). So, he doesn’t know of which he speaks when he claims that the President is out of bounds.
Not that not knowing ever stops a Congressman from reaching a conclusion, they need only know what the poll numbers are, and in this case the poll numbers must indicate that this measure will gain him support for his own Presidential bid. One wonders what he would do as President though, as he and his compadres do everything they can to castrate the Presidency of all power to act. If elected, and if he were to follow the principles the Democrats now espouse, Feingold (or any liberal Democrat) as President would be on a four year paid vacation where he would have a front row seat from which to watch the courts run this country to a halt.
Mar
15
2006
Arrogance
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Arrogance
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A masterful recitation of political arrogance in today’s Wall Street Journal editorial.
Mr. Feingold [has done a] public service in floating his “censure” gambit now. He’s doing voters a favor by telling them before November’s election just how Democrats intend to treat a wartime President if they take power.How self-deluded can the Democrats be, that they give Republicans almost nine months to parade these “charges” in front of the voters who re-elected a president to conduct a war in their defense, so they can know exactly what a Democrat-run House of Representatives will be doing after the American people leave the voting booth?Not only do they want to block his policies, they also plan to rebuke and embarrass him in front of the world and America’s enemies. And they want to do so not because there is a smidgen of evidence that he’s abused his office or lied under oath, but because they think he’s been too energetic in using his powers to defend America. By all means, let’s have this impeachment debate before the election, so voters can know what’s really at stake.
Don’t listen to the mainstream media, and don’t pay any attention to those silly, Democrat-heavy, manufactured poll numbers. The Democrats just lost the 2006 elections in a landslide.
UPDATE: James Taranto has labeled this Dana Milbank column about Democrat consternation, “hilarious”. I don’t think that word does justice to the level of my glee.
Mar
12
2006
The recent Dubai ports deal highlighted a perpetual trait of our Congressmen, they are always thinking first of their safety come November, and only as a corollary to their primary goal, re-election or electoral advancement, do they allow themselves to be distracted by concerns over the general safety of the American people. The demagoguery over the UAE’s involvement in our ports, where they would be performing the same handling operations now handled by another foreign country, has yet to end, And the same operations Congress has permitted the Republic of China, and others, to perform. And, the UAE contract was approved by a US governmental agency which correctly followed the application process in place at the time and still in place today. And, given that the UAE nor the principle of foreign entity operations at our ports were not exacted out of consideration for receipt of these type of contracts, the deal was legal, and by all technicalities proper.
To be sure, it was worth investigation to completely understand if, and in what ways, our security would have been impacted by allowing the UAE to acquire the now British run operations at those ports. But, that answer was never achieved. Today we no more know whether the elements of such an arrangement, where a foreign entity manages the loading/off-loading at our ports, is a security threat than we did before the UAE hysteria. And, we have no new determination as to whether the UAE is to be considered friendly or hostile. Instead what we got from Congress was a reaction to the American public’s legitimate questioning of whether such an arrangement is prudent. The people fairly asked the question as to whether we could trust this Mideast country in the proposed circumstance, and to be fair there were some who reacted unfavorable simply because the proposed tenant is Arab, but nobody actually answered the question. Yet there were plenty of Congressmen willing to ride on the wave of fear, rather than taking the lead in getting to the truth. From Congress we got reinforcement of all manner of rumor and unsubstantiated gloom and doom predictions. Oh, and lest I forget to mention it, we also got a huge load of self-congratulation. The Congress achieved its only goal in the UAE matter, it made itself feel safer.
It has not made us, the American people safer, because nothing has changed. There are no new laws or review directives with regard to the port contract applications. There is no new universal understanding of principle to use in setting future policy. There is no exact determination of whether we accept the UAE, or any Arab nation, as a trusted ally (not that we ever tell any ally everything, or that we ever trust any ally without continued verification). There is no consensus on anything. Some of the same people who now champion their vigilance on this matter obstructed on the Patriot Act, FISA, Guantanamo, and even the war to defeat the terrorists. And nearly all of Congress seems so uninformed about the real particulars of the port dealings that if they were asked to perform in a high school debate on the subject they would be ill-equipped to speak to either side, pro or con, and they should know both sides so well that they can make the case for both their own side and the opponents arguments before they profess to have solved the matter in our best interests.
No, today in Congress we don’t have leaders; we have poll watchers spending every day’s energy on getting past their next election with a job in hand. They do not focus on knowing the facts, and they do not focus on finding lasting principles and repeatable solutions. They play politics. And when they win at that goal, they pat themselves on the back in congratulation and vote themselves a pay raise.
Mar
12
2006
Once again there is controversy between those who are in charge (government) and those who truly understand the purpose for the WTC Memorial (the families). This time it is about the fire codes to be used in the construct of the Memorial. It seems that instead of building it under the stricter NY State and City codes the builders are seeking an exemption which will allow them to cut safety corners and build this shrine in accord with the Port Authority’s less stringent codes.
Given the history of loss of life at this location I am appalled to learn that anyone would be flat out dumb enough to even suggest, much less dumb enough to build it, using anything less than the most comprehensive and effective safety standards.
Please sign the petition to correct this sloppy practice.
Sign the Elimination of Port Authority Exemptions at Ground Zero Petition