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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

L.A.Times: Opinion Should Be ‘Elite Enterprise’, Bloggers Just ‘Yammering’, ‘Like Finger-Painting’

May 23, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Sometimes you read something by a member of the MSM that is just so elitist, someone whose arrogance is so amazing, that it is hard to believe it was written by a member of a democratic society.

We MSM watchdogs love to poke our fingers in the eyes of the homogeneously leftist, elitists in the media establishment assailing them for their pervasive assumptions of their own superiority. We don’t often, however, get to see them come right out and say that they truly do think they are better and smarter then the rest of us mere commoners. Usually they are sly enough not to show their arrogance so obviously, leaving it unsaid but broadly hinted at. But, once in a while their egos get the better of them and they let that upturned nose snort just enough at the rest of us to let us know where our “place” in life is.

This is one of those times.
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00Publius Contributor - Religion - Thomas Brewton - Uncategorized

Misguided Christians and Liberals

May 23, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Some individual Christians, within Evangelicalism and within Catholicism, believe that society should be channeled into “correct” behavioral patterns by political edict.

Pope Benedict confronted this materialistic doctrine in his recent journey to Brazil. Variously known as liberation theology or the social gospel, the belief that the political state has the capacity, as well as the duty, to compel its citizens to follow certain ways of thinking and behavior, is not Christianity, but socialism.

Father Robert A. Sirico deals with the Pope’s endeavor in his May 18th article in the Wall Street Journal titled Liberating Christianity.

The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
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00Publius Contributor - Family - Frederick Meekins - Religion - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

Nephilim Army This Year’s Smallville Finale McGuffian

May 22, 2007 by

-By Frederick Meekins

Many works of speculative fiction employ a story element known as a MacGuffin device around which the plot develops. Usually this happens to be some kind of weapon of mass destruction.

However, the 2007 season finale of Smallville decided to take the concept in a decidedly different direction with interesting parallels to current biotechnical developments.

In the episode, Lex Luthor is bent on creating an army of enhanced soldiers to combat the growing menace of superpowered humans (as well as to no doubt line his own pockets and enhance his own political status).

Yet what makes this episode stand out is that it is revealed that the success of these experiments is linked to capturing a disembodied entity (a demon if you will) that escaped from the Phantom Zone, the netherworld utilized by the people of Krypton as a workaround of their stance against the death penalty for the planet’s worst criminals. For you see, the entity alters the genetic code of the human host it possesses and Luthor believes the alterations can be mass produced.
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00Publius Contributor - Uncategorized - Vince Johnson

Valentine Letter From Ebenezer

May 22, 2007 by

-By Vince Johnson

The letter arrived a month late, and of course, I had to pay thirty-eight cents “Postage Due” in order to get it. Here it is, word for word:

Dear Vince:
My name is Ebenezer Scrooge and most people think I’m a fictional character in a Christmas story dreamed up by Charles Dickens back in 1843. According to the story, I was a miserly, penny pinching grump. That part is true. It is also true that I was mean and stingy with my employee, Bob Cratchit who had a crippled son named Tiny Tim.

For some strange reason, Mr. Dickens decided that I changed from my natural mean spirited ways into a kindly and benevolent soul. This transformation supposedly happened when the ghost of Jacob Marley appeared in one of my dreams. Jacob was my partner who died in 1836. He was just as miserly as me and according to the story he came back to warn me to change my ways or suffer greatly in the afterlife.

Nothing could be further from the truth. I’m still as stingy as I ever was and I can prove it by telling you the undeniable facts. According to the story, I gave Cratchit a raise in pay along with a Christmas turkey and some toys for Tiny Tim. That part is true, but I did not become a good and kindly person. I only appeared to be good and kindly. I never changed. I’m as mean as ever and that’s that.
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00Publius Contributor - Elections - President - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Thompson Goes After Dictators in the UN over Slave Trafficking

May 21, 2007 by

Want more proof that Thompson is our man? Here is his latest ABC radio report where he takes after the fetid UN.

Go Fred, go!

Tolerating Trafficking

I’m never particularly surprised when the United Nations seems to oppose human freedom rather than promote it. At least a third of its member nations aren’t democratic themselves. Many that claim to be, are only barely so.

An organization that treats democracies and dictators equally cannot be expected to be a pure force for good. When Fidel Castro and Kim Jong Il have as much say in U.N. matters as the entire populations of Poland and New Zealand, you’re going to have problems.

One was the Oil-for-Food scandal. We ought to remember that the U.N. let Saddam steal tens of billions of dollars — money meant to be spent on food and medicine for his own people. Much of that money was used to pay off U.N. officials and buy support for Saddam’s regime.

Still, people keep telling me that the U.N. is a force for good — and I’d like to believe it. The world could use an organization capable of dealing with international problems like slavery. According to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people are sold across national borders annually. More are enslaved within nations. Most are women; about half are children, and the majority are sexually abused.
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00Publius Contributor - 2nd Amendment - Constitution - Crime - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Another Anti-Gun Column Filled With Lies

May 21, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

What is it about anti-gunners that they just have to lie in their advocacy against guns? Do they lie because the facts make them look so bad? This time it’s the Washington Times’ turn to publish an anti 2nd Amendment piece based on several lies. This one, penned by an Alex Gerber, worries that gun control will “apparently be glossed over again” and claims that the evil “American gun culture” is so insensitive to have tolerated “some 14,000 firearm murders” in 2005.

Only there weren’t 14,000 “firearm murders” in 2005. According to FBI statistics, there were 10,100 gun murders in 2005 instead of the 14,000 cited by Gerber. In fact, the whole of the 2005 murder rate of all causes was 15,517, not much more than just the gun deaths claimed by Gerber.

Conveniently ignoring all the evidence that says more armed people in a given area actually lowers gun violence, Gerber goes on to claim that the idea that if the students at Virginia Tech were armed, maybe so many would not have died before the killer was taken down is “a joke”. Absurdly, he makes his claim as if he knows beyond doubt that it could not be true that others being armed could have lowered the VT kill ratio.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Education - Family - Frederick Meekins - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

Middle Class An Endangered Species In Maryland

May 21, 2007 by

-By Frederick Meekins

With the reassertion of the monopoly of the Democratic Party over Maryland politics which for the previous four years had been what amounted to a party-and-a-half system, the jurisdiction jokingly referred to as “the Free State” is well on its way to becoming a socialist nightmare where only the hyper-rich or the fashionably impoverished having suppressed their own dignity to enjoy a life of entitlement program luxury will be able to eke out an existence there.

In my column “People’s Republic Of Maryland Taxing Its Subjects Into Submission”, I wrote about plans to enact legislation that will end up costing motorists about $2000 more just to purchase an automobile so that new vehicles in the state will be in compliance with California emission standards Now plans are being announced to sock residents even harder in the gut all in the name of protecting the environment.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - GOP - History - Media Bias - Patriotism - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Left Just Likes To Be Mad, No Reason Needed

May 19, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

This story proves once again that the left doesn’t need justification, logic or reality to get a good mad on. They don’t need anything real or important to swarm upon like a hive of unthinking insects, infesting and killing a host, they just need one of their own to head off in that direction so that they can all follow, lemming-like, over that cliff.

The latest cause celebre erupted when Congressman Ted Poe (R, Texas) used a quote from a one time Confederate General in a speech on the floor of Congress. It wasn’t just any Confederate General, though, it was a quote from founder of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, CS Cavalry General in the war’s western theater.

Ooooo. The KKK founder, huh? Sounds ominous. So, what was the quote? Was it one calling blacks a bad name? Was it one dealing with race relations? Was it anything like that?

No. It was a military quote.
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00Publius Contributor - Education - Family - Lee Culpepper - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

Taking the “Bull” out of Bullying

May 19, 2007 by

Lee Culpepper

Two years ago during a teachers’ staff meeting, the speaker caught my attention revealing that bullying causes over 150,000 student absences every day. She also reported the obvious as if it were profound — most kids eventually experience some form of bulling. When she stated bullying had become an epidemic in America, I started sensing the force behind this seminar.

Finally, the speaker described an incident that she witnessed at another school. Apparently, a teacher had been reprimanding a student in the hallway. She said this teacher had hovered too closely to the student while pointing his finger at the student’s chest. She accused the teacher of bullying – describing the actions as intimidating. Having no clue what this student had done, she claimed such reprimands are unacceptable.

Today, it takes guts to disregard political correctness. Teachers and administrators who dare to discipline firmly can face hysteria from hopeless supervisors, touchy-feely colleagues, permissive parents, and melodramatic headlines. The criticism seems more about appearing compassionate and understanding than actually confronting and correcting a child’s issues. Advocating friendship skills and nurturing skills makes such critics feel sophisticated, but pampering words alone don’t solve low self-esteem or behavior problems – two traits that some bullies and their victims often share. Even teenagers resent obvious con-jobs meant to manipulate better behavior. However, teaching self-discipline and how to overcome challenges does help.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Elections - GOP - President - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Dems Positioned to Create Permanent Underclass — From Illegal to Legal With the Stroke of a Pen … GOP Buckles Under

May 18, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Democrat Party is angling to destroy the economic and societal balance of the United States by creating a permanent lower class that it can exploit for votes … and the Republicans are helping them.

Now, before you go off castigating me for going off into tin-foil hat territory, I am not saying that this is their stated goal. I do not believe that the Democrats think they are creating a permanent lower, slave class. But, they are looking to create a permanent class of voters who will keep them in power because those voters would ostensibly be forever dependent upon Democrats’ control of government handouts. And that, when all is said and done, is just the same as intending to keep lower class, uneducated (currently) illegal aliens in thrall and enslaved to Democrat Party operatives and in a permanent status as lower class citizens unable to rise from their downtrodden position on the lowest rungs of the ladder of success.

An unregulated flow of immigrants across our southern border has opened the door to the least educated members of the nations south to come here and exploit the opportunities open to them in the USA. They come here to better their lives, and who could blame them? The hellholes they are coming from would cause any sane man to risk all to leave there and come to the USA. Americans who get upset over this law breaking, wondering what kind of scum-bag would purposefully break the law like that, are righteously angry, but that anger is based on a serious misunderstanding of the world these people are leaving.
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00Publius Contributor - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Frank Salvato - History - Islam - Islamofascism - Media Bias - Patriotism - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

Understanding the Worth of Our Nation

May 18, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

It is difficult to value something when its worth is unknown. The adage of one child being given a toy only to leave it out in the rain to rust, never understanding the toys worth, while another child made to earn the same toy is found to take care of it, valuing its worth, is a fitting analogy. This basic truth applies to our American heritage and the continued welfare of our nation.

Most of us have never had to take up arms to protect our freedoms, our liberties, our rights as guaranteed under The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, our Charters of Freedom. In most cases these gifts have been bequeathed to us from those of generations past who did have to serve, to protect and defend our nation and by those who valiantly volunteer to serve today. What is asked of us in return for this legacy of freedom is loyalty to the covenant between citizen and government, loyalty to our nation.

Today, our country faces both a threat from abroad and a threat, in the form of ideological conflict, from within. Some among us choose to accentuate the imperfections of our nation. Some condemn our culture. And still others literally champion our nation’s defeat and demise. Those who choose to diminish the significance of the United States’ contributions to the world, do so in ignorance of the intent of the documents that charted the course for this great nation and the ideologies and principles that provided the foundation for the creation of our governmental covenant.
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00Publius Contributor - Elections - GOP - President - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Has William F. Buckley Chosen Romney for ‘08?

May 17, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

William F. Buckley once said something to the effect that he didn’t want the most conservative nominee as presidential candidate for the GOP, he wanted the most conservative candidate that could win the election as the GOP’s nominee. In light of this sentiment, I am wondering if the lion of old line conservatism has decided that Mitt Romney just might be the “conservative enough” candidate for the GOP in 2008?

Last week, Buckley offered for our consideration a column mentioning Mitt Romney’s conversion from abortion advocate to his new found status of anti-abortion believer — a stance that puts him just in time to offer himself as the GOP candidate for the 2008 GOP nomination — and how so many are rightfully skeptical of this new stance.

In Romney’s Moral Thought Buckley mentions that Romney’s sudden conversion is acclaimed as that born of “studied reflection” on the issue, just as Romney claims. Of course, Buckley seems to conveniently ignore the fact that Romney was still advocating his pro-abortion ideas not too long ago as Governor of Massachusetts making it a bit hard to believe that Mitt spent much time agonizing over this change.
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Tommy Thompson tries some bathroom humor

May 17, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

If you don’t know who Tommy Thompson is, don’t feel uninformed. He doesn’t rate the media coverage of really important people like Paris Hilton.

Like many others, Mr. Thompson is running for president. His background is not unimpressive. He served as Wisconsin’s governor for an unprecedented four terms. He also ran, with a budget of over half a trillion dollars, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Gov. Thompson’s race for the Republican nomination hasn’t caught fire. Fundraising is a problem. Still, in a season where even unannounced candidates qualify as first-tier, his candidacy, theoretically at least, could yet gain traction.

The odds of that have diminished in recent days. It all began with the Republican presidential candidates’ debate aired earlier this month on MSNBC. It’s true that at this stage the only folks watching these events are hardcore political junkies. It’s also true, though, that candidates in them can step on a landmine from which they may never recover.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - History - Media Bias - Race - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

“Historian” Says Jamestown Celebration ‘Risky’ Because US Founding Responsible For Slavery

May 16, 2007 by 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

In another sad example of self flagellation by western elitists, the Guardian Newspaper in England published a column on how we Americans (and our English cousins) should not celebrate the founding of Jamestown, the first Virginia colony, 400 years ago because of… you guessed it… slavery.

Here we have another elitist congratulating himself that he is “informed” enough to know that slavery makes the founding of the USA a blight on humanity instead of the great event it truly is. Another leftist who cannot bring himself to be proud of anything the west has been responsible for because there were some bad things mixed in with the good. In fact, the bad things make us such hypocrites, goes this type of thinking, that all the good should be discounted over it. (It is always in fashion for Europeans to look down on the US, isn’t it?)
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Vince Johnson

How “Journalism” is Rapidly Destroying the Credibility of Highly Regarded Credentials

May 16, 2007 by

-By Vince Johnson

What happens when mainstream America notices that many PhD’s, educators, and noted scientists, which according to the media, are in resolute disagreement with each other?

The answers are obvious and frightening:

  • Students, educators, and ordinary citizens do not know what to believe.\
  • Severe damage is foisted upon the credentials of respected and highly regarded individuals.

Proof that this is happening right now can be verified and analyzed by observing how journalists cover the “Global Warming” issue.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Islam - Islamofascism - Media Bias - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Denver Post Columnist: Christians Could Be Suspect Over McVeigh’s OK City Bombing

May 15, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Dick Kreck of the Denver Post seems to think there is a good “point” to a suggestion that Christians should be suspected bombers because Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh was supposedly a Christian. In a column about local radio talk show host “Gunny Bob” of KOA, Kreck comments that a radio station detractor has “got a point” when he satirically said that, since McVeigh and Nichols were Christians, all Christians should be placed under surveillance because of the actions of the two bombers. The detractor was responding to talker “Gunny Bob’s” idea that all Muslims in the USA should be forced to wear GPS tracking bracelets so the government could keep track of them all.

Apparently talker Bob is a fiery one against Muslims in this era of the war on terror and his loose talk has stirred Colorado Media Matters, a local branch of the leftist Media Matters organization, to begin targeting the Clear Channel radio host for his opinions.

The reply that Kreck is talking about was posted on the CMM website.
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00Publius Contributor - Islam - Islamofascism - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Father of One of Fort Dix Six Losing Business

May 15, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Should we feel sorry for this? The father of one of the six would be Jihadi murderers in New Jersey is losing his pizza business because people who live in and near Fort Dix will no longer patronize his restaurant.

Muslim Tatar, who has owned Super Mario’s Pizza for five years, says that his lunchtime crowd from nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix has largely disappeared, replaced by empty tables and nasty words from passing motorists.

“Now I am a target,” the 52-year-old Tatar told The New York Times for Saturday newspapers, adding that his business is “99 percent dead.”

I have to say, I cannot get too worked up over the supposed “injustice” of this guy finding that no one will spend their money in his pizza shop anymore. Especially when his solution to the failing business is to lie to his customers…

After receiving death threats, Tatar decided he had to take some sort of action to protect his business. Outside the restaurant, he hung a sign reading: “Under New Management.”

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Immigration/Immigrants - Security/Safety - Selwyn Duke - Society/Culture - The Law - Uncategorized

The Real Immigration Threat

May 15, 2007 by

By Selwyn Duke

Most of us will publicly lament our immigration woes, but not without a disclaimer. “Look, I have no problem with immigration,” say we, “I just want people to come here legally.” This, after all, is supposed to be the sober, sane, American point of view, as we “know” that immigration is the lifeblood of the U.S.A. Personally, I can sympathize with this perspective. Western civilization has become old, tired and decrepit; it’s a mere shadow of its former self, running on fumes and on empty. Perhaps its time for it to be euthanized.

I just want it done legally.

Now I’ll transition from a wise-guy to a guy who waxes wise. You should be outraged by the pandering to the illegal alien lobby, and I’ll unabashedly say that the three most important factors in immigration policy are deportation, deportation and deportation. Still, to focus our eyes narrowly on just illegal immigration is to lament only the salt thrown into the wound while accepting the wound itself. Illegal immigration is not the problem.

It’s an exacerbation of the problem.
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00Publius Contributor - Education - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

In Electronic Age, Americans Getting Less Educated

May 14, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago the Pew Research Center released their newest Political Knowledge Survey, a report that tracked the general political knowledge of responding Americans, and compared it to similar survey results from 1989. The results show that, as Pew reports, “public knowledge of current affairs is little changed by news and the information revolutions.” It seems somewhat reassuring for Pew to say we really haven’t gotten any dumber on politics. But a closer look at the results not only shows we are getting dumber, but that the internet and cable news “revolutions” really haven’t made us a whole lot smarter on politics, when you’d think that they would have. In fact, it seems more like these wonderful new sources of information we have at our fingertips have helped us but tread water in the hunt for a more informed public… even losing some ground.

Pew puts a rosy face on this news, but it certainly seems less optimistic when one takes a bit of time to think about the results. Saying that “On average, today’s citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as aware of major news events, as was the public nearly 20 years ago”, Pew makes it seem as if nothing has really changed in the level of correct knowledge that Americans have about politics. But, there are some hints, even in their report, that things have actually deteriorated.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Islam - Islamofascism - Media Bias - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Wisconsin Columnist: We Just Need to ‘Understand’, ‘Educate’ These ‘So-Called Terrorists’

May 14, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It is no wonder that jihadists everywhere imagine we can so easily be beaten when western MSM outlets are often filled with capitulators and defeatists. The Wisconsin State Journal has just such a foolish, western dupe in it’s May 10th issue in a column by Kevin J. Mack who is scolding us all that these “so-called terrorists” just need a little understanding… as if they are merely errant teenagers who need a stern talking to and a little parental lovin’. And, Mack’s sentiment that it is really all our fault is all too common in the media today.

In a column titled “Let’s try educating ‘terrorists’ [We’re not all like Bush/Gingrich so leave us alone!]”, Mack claims that Newt Gingrich helped lead him to his conclusion that we just don’t “understand” those poor Islamofascists.

I heard Newt Gingrich say, on “Face the Nation” Sunday morning, that “…we’re up against a savagery and a ferocity that we don’t understand…” and I wanted to say, stop right there. Don’t speak for me. Don’t think you speak for all of us. We don’t understand? You don’t understand.

After scolding Newt (and those of us who support him by extension), Mack proves it is he, rather, who doesn’t understand…
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Media Bias - Military - President - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

WashPost: Advertising Anti-War Website, Uses Obscene Graphic for GOP

May 13, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a commencement address to New England College, Democrat Party presidential candidate John Edwards has issued a call to turn Memorial Day from a day to celebrate our troops to a day pushing a political message that attacks them. He has also created a new website to further that goal and the Washington Post is helping him advertise it breaking their more common practice of not posting links taking the reader outside their own website.

How often do you see MSM sources giving direct links to websites outside their own site? How many times have you seen a story mentioning a website, maybe even including the name of the website somewhere within the story, yet the story won’t give the full address? Also, how many times do you see a web posting that actually includes a hypertext link to any website outside any paper’s site? Not very often. But today the Washington Post has given John Edward’s anti-war website a big boost by not only writing a story about it, but creating a direct link to it at the end of their story.

I wonder how many conservative or pro-war websites they have helped advertise in the past with a direct link?
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00Publius Contributor - Constitution - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - President - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

The Clinton ‘Wall’ at the Justice Department

May 13, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

“After a thorough reading of the report it would not be unreasonable to conclude as I have that there was a cover-up at high levels of our government and, it appears to have been substantial and coordinated…The question is why? And that question regrettably will go unanswered. Unlike some other cover-ups, this one succeeded.” – Independent Counsel David M. Barrett on the censoring of The Barrett Report.

If you have been experiencing a sneaking suspicion that there is a lot of one-sided interest where investigations into political malfeasance are concerned at the US Justice Department, you’re not alone. From the aggressive prosecution of ‘Scooter’ Libby for having a bad memory to the powder-puff prosecution of Sandy Berger for stealing and then destroying unique documents related to terrorism and 9/11 from the National Archive, it seems that the catalyst for a thorough investigation – at least where politicians are concerned – is directly influenced by which political party the alleged offender belongs to.

Much to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dismay, the “culture of corruption” is an equal opportunity enticement. For every Duke Cunningham there is a William Jefferson and for every one Tom Delay who resigns from office there are two Diane Feinsteins who refuse to do so. Point being, a good many politicians walk a fine line between pushing the ethical envelope and crossing the line into illegal activity.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

CNN Photo Caption Under Tony Blair Video: ‘Bush Resigns’

May 12, 2007 by

Looks like the folks at the much maligned CNN indulged in a little bit of wishful thinking on Friday during a report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s resignation announcement.

In a video caption of Blair, CNN plastered the words “Bush Resigns” across the screen when it SHOULD have been Blair Resigns.

Media Bistro got the first capture of this absurdly Freudian slip.

“CNN International’s CNN Today program, airing at midnight Eastern, led with the graphic ‘Bush Resigns.’ Of course, they meant ‘Blair Resigns.’ Freudian slip on the part of a network accused of anti-Americanism?”

Yep, our pals at the ClintonNewsNetwork definitely suffer from a bit o’ the parapraxis, indeed.
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00Publius Contributor - Budget - Congress - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Media Bias - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Con(gress) Air — Where the Tax Payers Get taken for a Ride

May 11, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nancy Pelosi, in the run up to the 2006 midterms, decried the Republican Congress’ “culture of corruption” and triumphantly claimed she was going to bring back an “ethical” Congress upon the close of the elections. The Democrat Party delighted in the real ills of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the fictional ills of the evil genius Karl Rove and spared no expense to tout their warnings to the electorate. Their efforts seemed to succeed in gaining them a majority. So, what are the reforms this new, glorious era has produced now that the Democrat Party has retaken Congress?

For one thing, instead of decreasing junkets by Congressmen such trips have not abated at all in this new “ethical” Congress. As Examiner correspondent, Charles Hurt, reports, “Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense.”

All told, the military flew at least 13 congressional delegations to various destinations during the Easter recess — at an estimated rate of $10,000 or more per flying hour.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Lee Culpepper - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

The Anti-Climax of a Van Halen Song

May 11, 2007 by

Lee Culpepper

Every time a female-teacher-sex scandal breaks, I wonder if I’m the only person curious to see what the teacher looks like. These ravaging women often evoke references to Van Halen’s song “Hot for Teacher.” The story is not that attractive-female deviants are less guilty than the unattractive-female weirdos molesting schoolboys; it’s just that attractive female perverts ignite more debate whether their schoolboy targets have suffered any harm. Apparently, discussing ugly-female molesters traumatizes the debaters.

Despite these disturbed-female teachers being socially retarded, convincing an average adolescent boy to have sex with a pretty and older woman requires minimal social dexterity. Whether you think it’s the female teachers or their schoolboy lovers who have “scored,” the debate centers over the effects on the boys. Are the boys left psychologically devastated? Hopefully not, but lustful encounters in general leave reasonably moral people feeling emotionally empty. But that’s a topic for another day.

What doesn’t receive enough attention is the effect these teachers have on how the boys view women. Neither is much attention given to the effect these tutoring tarts have on how the boys view daughters — whose fathers might initially find the raunchy details of these classroom floozies’ tantalizing (until Dad remembers how such boys will view Dad’s daughter). Why wouldn’t these sexual experiences tarnish young males’ respect for women? These lecherous-female teachers certainly taint the boys’ perception of other women in society — particularly females with leadership responsibilities.
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Why Did Dental Students Cheat on Exam? It’s All Bush’s Fault!

May 10, 2007 by 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Bush derangement syndrome strikes again, this time in Indianapolis, Indiana where the Indianapolis Star reports that students of the U of Indiana’s Dentistry class have been caught in a massive cheating scandal. Naturally, it’s all Bush’s fault according to one of the so-called experts the paper interviewed for their article.

Apparently 16 students were suspended because they hacked their school computer system to get passwords that would open electronic teaching materials that contained the answers to upcoming tests. An additional 21 were given letters of reprimand for knowing of the cheating and not saying anything to school officials, a breach of the school’s code of professional conduct.

So how is this all Bush’s fault?

Because there are no WMDs in Iraq says Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Rumi Islam: A TRULY Moderate Form of Islam

May 10, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

I finally found a moderate Islamic culture in that inspired by Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi. It is a form of Sufism that is practiced heavily in Bosnia and is so far from the traditionally oppressive Islam that it is hard to believe that it even IS an Islamic tradition.

I’ve been reading a bit about it and I find it worthy of interest. I have to say, I was beginning to despair that there WAS such a thing as a moderate Islamic tradition. But, I have found one at last. Though, unfortunately for Islam, it seems nearly tangential to Islam as it drifts so far from the rest of even traditional Islam that it almost seems disqualified as an Islamic tradition.

Still, I am gratified that there is at least one Islamic tradition of some tenure (an 800 years’ tradition) that we can safely say this is a truly moderate one.

Do read up a bit on this man of faith and love for an inspiring story.

It also helps explain why so many Bosnians have sided with the USA and why Wahhabism has been thus far minimized there. Unfortunately, that minimization is threatened as the evil of Wahhabism is being heavily financed by rich Saudi hatemongers and is increasingly invading the area.

In any case, I am as vigilant against Islam as anyone, but I wanted to be sure and set the record straight that there is a real moderate Islam out there.
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Gore As Religious Figure

May 9, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

I can understand the appeal of the global Warming religion, I really can. For those who have disavowed conventional religion and have decided that man is the ultimate power — by which they mean themselves in particular, not just humanity in general — the thought that they alone can save the planet is heady stuff, indeed.

Who needs a god when they have placed themselves at that pinnacle? But merely accepting the fact and moving on with life is a dull proposition. There is no fun in that, for sure. It’s a dull, boring existence without some transcendent thing in which to believe, without some crusade to which they can flock to satisfy the need to congregate, proselytize for, and sacrifice for.

Enviroists have been gestating their religious fervor for a decade or more but it lacked a central, savior-like figure who they could all worship together. I think it is safe to say, though, that they have found their Christ redux.

For Al Gore has come.
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Welfare Queen Welcomed at the White House

May 9, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Pomp and pageantry were the order of the day at the White House Monday. In honor of Queen Elizabeth’s journey to the Colonies, President and Mrs. Bush hosted their first, and perhaps only, white-tie dinner of his presidency.

Maybe it’s because of my Irish heritage. Maybe it’s because of my republican nature. Maybe it’s because I don’t like spring pea soup with fern leaf lavender. There’s just something about bending over backwards, with U.S. tax dollars, to impress possibly the world’s richest welfare recipient that annoys me.

The reason “possibly” appears in the previous sentence is because many of the finances of the British Royal Family are secret. What we do know with certainty is they live lavishly at public expense.
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