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Falling Home Construction Market in USA Hurts Mexico?

May 8, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In Sunday’s paper, the L.A.Times has a piece that mourns a downturn of a portion of Mexico’s economy and, naturally, the Times blames the USA for it. How is it that the USA is responsible for this downturn? New home construction is down in California and illegal Mexicans have found themselves out of work because of it. This means that these out of work Mexicans cannot send US dollars to Mexico and, therefore, Mexican families back home are finding less money in their family incomes.

So, according to the L.A.Times, the US is unfairly hurting Mexican families because of a downturn in new home building in the USA. Why are we Americans so darn mean to those innocent illegals, anyway? For shame you selfish Americans!
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Great Mimes Move Together (When People Actually Vote)

May 8, 2007 by

By R. A. Hawkins

I always enjoy watching the French. They are always going back and forth as the people either go to or don’t go to the polls. In this last election it was more like 85% voter turnout. I hate to say it but it is a little like watching us. America soon will have a chance to act European and toss a bunch of socialists out just like the French did. Although our media and theirs have been silent on the rioting Moslem youths it is obvious that even the French can be awakened. But seeing a recent article in the Timesonline UK I can see that the UK Media is now falling into stupid mode. I don’t mean to say the people in the UK are falling into stupid mode but like our press, their press has also become stupid. But that is what the media has always been like and I don’t care where it is.

I also read another article that demonstrated UK ignorance that had to do with a massive defection of Bush supporters to the Obama camp, and even to the Clinton camp. Between the two of them they have sucked up a whole $750,000 in donations. That’s a stellar haul ain’t it? All that showed me was the reason why Bush has been so darn liberal about some things. He shouldn’t be taking donations from flip floppers; I hear it can make you go blind. And it has too. But somebody escaping from the Bush camp isn’t really something that matters at this juncture. I guess the writer has forgotten that Bush won’t be running for office again. I wonder if the writer has noticed how much Bush has managed to collect for the Republican Party. One of the donors switched because his son is about to be deployed for active service in Afghanistan. Yup it’s all in fun until someone loses an eye. Grow up! But this same donor likes the fact that Obama wants to take action in Darfur.
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New York Times: Already Sniping New ‘Conservative’ French President

May 7, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times didn’t even wait for the French election results to become general knowledge before they began their sniping of the new “Conservative” French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. In what is supposed to represent an analysis of his election, the Times spends more time in naked name calling than substance.

Let’s review some of the harsh words, slights and names the Greylady hurls at the new president elect.

  • Arrogant, brutal, an authoritarian demagogue…
  • …one of the most polarizing figures to move into Élysée Palace in the postwar era…
  • He has always been nakedly ambitious, pragmatic and calculating and not beyond betrayal to reach his goals.
  • Mr. Sarkozy is a tad shorter than Napoleon was. His profile is remarkably similar to that of Louis XIV.
  • Mr. Sarkozy’s brash manner and strong oratory style…
  • Many people regarded the anticrime campaign as a calculated effort to win support from France’s far right in anticipation of his presidential bid.
  • Mr. Sarkozy’s personal life has been less successful than his public one…

Man, it seems impossible that such an ogre could have anyone who would like him enough to vote for him… well, if you’d listen to the New York Times, anyway.
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Nevada Group Urges John Ensign to Oppose Harry Reid

May 6, 2007 by

Americans to Oppose Reid Leaps Into Action!

Carson City, Nevada – May 6, 2007 – A new Nevada based group of activists are organizing a political action committee with the intent of officially opposing Senator Harry Reid. The group, naming itself “Americans to Oppose Harry Reid”, is kicking off its campaign by urging Senator John Ensign to end his silence in regards to Harry Reid and formally oppose his recent comments on the war in Iraq.

The Oppose Reid project (www.opposereid.com) is gearing up for an aggressive campaign to put pressure on Harry Reid. The group is planning protests in both Nevada and Washington, DC, wide scale petitions, internet activism campaigns, and is offering a plethora of bumper stickers and other products aimed at generating awareness regarding the disdain for Harry Reid in Nevada.
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Illinois County Says NO To Gun Control

May 6, 2007 by 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Media was all a frenzy on the debate about gun control right after the VT killings cynically attempting to push their Constitutionally illegal gun banning ideas on a grieving public. But one Illinois County has bravely decided to make moves to protect their 2nd Amendment rights with action by the County Board.

The Pike County Board has adopted a resolution that will oppose any sort of gun control measures that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms adopted by the state of Illinois. A brave move in a state controlled by a gun grabbing, extreme left leaning Democrat Party orchestrated by a Mafia infested Chicago mayor who lately moves the State legislature around like a chess player.

Mayor Daley has been trying to manufacture gun banning laws for decades, but had been stymied by a state legislature with enough Republicans in it to throw a monkey wrench into his anti-Constitutional plans. But, since the 2006 election, the state has fallen under the spell of the Democrat Party which easily controls all aspects of the state. And Daley controls the Democrat Party, for the most part, as nearly all the members of state government in key positions are from Daley’s old Chicago cabal.

Pike County is apparently afraid of what this Democrat controlled government will try to do now that the state GOP has made themselves utterly ineffective. In a 7 to 2 vote, the County Board passed the resolution which is to be forwarded onto the state government in Springfield and the rest of Illinois’ County governments.
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Oprah Invites Accused Rapist to Show Premier, Media Celebrates

May 6, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago media were all agush on May 4th over the opening of Oprah Winfrey’s musical treatment of The Color Purple. Breathless were the reports of who was in attendance and star struck was the celeb watching as the limos pulled up in front of the Cadillac Palace Theatre in downtown Chicago.

But one “celebrity” that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite.
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Edwards Panders For Hypocrite Ballot

May 6, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Frederick Meekins

Since we are all individuals marred by the stain of sin, at one time or another all of us eventually fail to practice what we preach. Normally, this isn’t too big of a problem as most of us don’t have that much influence beyond that of our own friends and families. However, when this tendency endemic to the species manifests itself among the ostentatiously affluent craving power, it can become a social danger as these elites attempt to assuage their consciences by extracting penance from the masses that the well-to-do are not willing to subject themselves to.

In an interview posted at Beliefnet.com titled “John Edwards: My Faith Came Roaring Back” by David Kuo, the former vice presidential nominee turned presidential-hopeful discusses the role his faith has played in his public life. When asked what aspects of American life he thought Jesus would be disappointed with, Edwards did not respond about the 4 million unborn children butchered each year through abortion (an issue predictably ignored by a Democrat despite thou shalt not kill [especially innocent noncombatants] being a major theme of the Good Book) but rather with “our selfishness”, our “resorting to war when it’s not necessary” and our “ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish-short term needs”.
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Education or Robbery

May 5, 2007 by

Lee Culpepper

At this time last year, many illegal aliens across America were rallying (like this year) in organized amnesty marches. Meanwhile, my Texas students and I were finishing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. News headlines swirled about the amnesty marches, and my students’ curiosity swirled about the marches, too. During one of my academically stronger classes, several students (Hispanic students) asked me what I thought about these demonstrations. Considering their question related, somewhat, to the American Dream (a topic we were discussing from the novel) I decided to entertain their question.

I answered their inquisitiveness lightheartedly by asking students what they would think if one day my wife and I were to show up at their homes demanding — not asking — that they allow us to move in because their homes were more comfortable than our own. They all laughed as they had grown accustom to my political incorrectness after completing nearly a year in my English class. Anyway, I explained that on an emotional level I empathized with someone wanting to come to America, but I stated that illegal immigration is a complex problem that requires objective, not subjective, solutions. I then asked the students what they thought would happen to me if I were to break the law in another country and then were to demand the country change its laws. They all laughed again at my playful sarcasm.
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‘Hate Crimes’ Bill Gives Sexual Orientation Coverage

May 5, 2007 by

Make no mistake about it, the Democrat House is trying to make thought a crime. In the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, they try to give it innocuous cover by claiming that the legislation is only meant to:

To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes.

This is an insidious bit of legislation meant to create special laws to legitimize homosexuality and make a crime anyone attempting to advocate for a Christian worldview. This bill makes activism against the homosexual agenda, among other things, subject to prosecution as a “hate crime” because the definition of “hate crime” is being expanded to include sexual orientation.

The bill lies right from the beginning with its opening remark that, “The incidence of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim poses a serious national problem.”
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Senator Thompson’s Address At Lincoln Club Dinner

May 5, 2007 by 2 Comments

Here is the entry Senator Thompson made at Townhall.com with the speech he made yesterday. This is why Senator Thompson is the perfect candidate for our times.
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Excerpt: Prepared Remarks for Speech to Lincoln Club Annual Dinner
By Senator Fred D. Thompson

So we meet again, and I’m honored, because I know we’re here for the same reasons: Love of our country and concern for our future.

A lot of Americans have these concerns tonight. They are concerned about the way things are going in our country right now. Some fear we may be in the first stages of decline. We’ve heard this malaise talk before.

Of course Iraq is a large part of it. Not only is it tough going, but the effort is besieged on all sides. From those playing the most crass kind of politics with it at home to criticism from around the world.

Even at home, as we enjoy the benefits from one of the best economies we’ve ever had, people seem uncertain; they raise concerns about global competition or a growing economic disparity among our citizens.

These are challenges. But how we react to them is more important than the challenges themselves. Some want us, to the extent possible, to withdraw from the world that presents us with so many problems, in the hope they will go away. Some would push us towards protectionist trade policies. Others see a solution in raising taxes and redistributing the income among our citizens.

Wrong on all counts. These are defensive, defeatist policies that have consistently been proven wrong. They are not what America is all about.
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Americans are ‘Cheapskates’ over Lack of Foreign Aid Spending?

May 4, 2007 by 8 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Leave it to a liberal to claim that Americans are “cheapskates” because our government does not spend enough money on foreign aid. In the L.A.Times for April 13th, that is just what we are treated to with Rosa Brooks’ screed titled, “To the rest of the world, we’re cheapskates” and subtitled, “The U.S. international affairs budget — which helps fight AIDS, poverty and more — is just 1% of total spending.” But, by attacking our country over its record on charity and foreign aid spending, Brooks proves that she neither understands the nature of American generosity, nor the American character.

So why is it that Brooks contends that we are “cheapskates”? How is it that we supposedly show that we don’t care about the rest of the world? Brooks contends that it is because we don’t have enough government spending on the international affairs budget.
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The “Fifth Columnization” of America

May 4, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

The Progressive-Left’s American Fifth Column is most often epitomized by the militant, bullhorn toting activist who, when not examined thoroughly, seems to be advocating for one “civil right” or another. We see them at the pro-illegal immigration protests, the anti-gun protests, the anti-war protests, anywhere a group of people can lay blame at the feet of government and especially the Bush Administration. But the American Fifth Column’s tentacles spread much wider and delve much deeper into our history and our society and recent events illustrate this as fact, rather than fiction.

The American Fifth Column is born out of Socialist/Communist ideology where the citizenry grows dependent on the government while the government increasingly legislates itself more control over the people.

In the perfect Fifth Column world, everyone is equal and possesses an artificially elevated sense of self-worth, the competitive spirit is equalized through taxes and legislated oversight of private business and societal boundaries including boundaries in speech and action are enforced through a shadow set of laws known as political correctness, a set of laws that undermine the authority of the Constitution.
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If Thompson does enter the race, whom would it hurt?

May 4, 2007 by 2 Comments

Some of you may not know who Charlie Cook is, but he is a long time inside the beltway pollster and political prognosticator who has had his own political newsletter (the Cook Political Report) for years.

He has had a fairly good record of choosing the winner of national contests and he has just released his stats on the race with a Thompson candidate and without.

Cook’s report here is pretty interesting and shows how strong Senator Thompson is for a relative unknown on the national scene (unknown for the average American, I mean. We Pol watchers have known of him for years, of course).

The Thompson Effect

By Charlie Cook, NationalJournal.com

If the ‘inside the Beltway’ conventional wisdom is to be believed, actor and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson will jump into the Republican presidential nomination fight before too long, filling a vacuum that many have long sensed in the GOP race.

So if Thompson does enter the race, whom would it hurt? Two recent polls — one by Peter Hart and Neil Newhouse for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal and the other by RT Strategies for the Cook Political Report — indicate that Thompson’s candidacy would draw most from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, perhaps about 4 points to 6 points. He would draw minimally, if at all, from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Thompson would start out behind Giuliani and McCain and about even with Romney.

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Packing heat can save lives

May 3, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Michael M. Bates

If only Virginia Tech’s mass murderer had read the school’s policy handbook. He would have learned the college was a gun-free zone. So then he wouldn’t have brought any guns on campus and the tragedy could have been averted.

That’s roughly the logic used by many proponents of gun control. Adding more laws, rules and regulations to the thousands already on the books will somehow stop the violence.

A sad irony is a statement made last year when the state legislature let die a bill permitting licensed students and employees to carry handguns at public colleges. A Virginia Tech vice president applauded the development, saying it “will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.” Regrettably, feeling safe isn’t the same as being safe. One must speculate if an armed student or college employee could have ended the murder spree.
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The Post is Confused That Joan Baez Uninvited to Perform For Troops

May 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post is tsk tsking the U.S. Army and Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for their uninviting of aging 60s’ war protester Joan Baez from appearing in a concert for wounded soldiers with John Cougar Mellencamp last Friday. In a sympathetic article the Post can’t seem to understand why the Army wouldn’t want an over the hill, anti-establishment activist to appear before our wounded heroes.

But even a look at just some of the quotes in their article — much less any perusal of all her wild-eyed rants of the last 40 years — seems to explain pretty clearly why a patriotic American soldier would not find her brand of “entertainment” desirable.

It’s hard to believe the Post could be at all confused.
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Trent Lott, STILL a Disaster for the GOP (And RINO Pal Voinovich, too)

May 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

More proof that Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the former Democrat and the one responsible for making all Republicans look like racists — with help from the MSM — is at it again.

Lott is making noise that he would like to compromise with the Democrat Party over the safety of our troops and listen to talk of cutting and running from Iraq since President Bush has vetoed the Democrat’s latest Surrender bill.

Lott has been a capitulator to the Democrats for decades and his disastrous tenure as Majority Leader of the Senate several years ago was a fine example of how bad he is for the GOP. But, now he isn’t just damaging the Party as he usually does. NOW he is floating the possibility that he will allow the Democrat Party (his old home) to engineer an utter defeat in Iraq.
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ABC: From ‘Bush Lied’ To Tenet Was Right – President Given no Credit for Truth

May 1, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It always amazes when the MSM congeals an entire presidential administration into a form that posits that every member of that administration is the president. Like when they claim that “Bush Lied” about the faulty intelligence that led to the presentation to the UN to garner support for the action in Iraq given by then Secretary of State Colin Powell. Yet, when the MSM wants to exonerate a single member of any particular administration, suddenly the President is forgotten as a part of the discussion and the individual administration official the press is currently in love with is held as a man responsible for his own decisions and exonerated on that basis.

This week’s new media darling is former CIA chief George Tenet, one of the worst directors of the CIA we’ve seen in decades. The MSM have suddenly found him to be an honorable and serious man because of his newly published Bush bashing tell-all.

Remember the calls that “Bush lied” about WMDs and that he “embarrassed” Powell by forcing him to present “lies” to the UN? It was all Bush’s fault, of course and the entire administration knew ahead of time that there were no WMDs, according to this line of thinking. Granted, the buck does stop with the president and if any claims were incorrect he bears the ultimate responsibility for that error. But, shouldn’t he ALSO get the credit if it were proven that he was right by all known information at the time?

Not according to ABC, apparently. Only Tenet gets credit for not presenting lies in a recent interview with Charles Gibson. The President is mysteriously not part of the discussion.
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Self Immolation (Dhimmicrats Don’t Get it)

May 1, 2007 by

By R. A. Hawkins

As I watch this nation reap the rewards of another Democrat victory I wonder: What did everyone expect? Who are these people that vote for self destruction? Certainly the liberals represent some strange and demented fraction of our society. I haven’t heard anyone talking about secession lately so maybe my idea of throwing certain states out of the Union might just be catching on. Who knows?

Now that the liberals are on the path that I knew they would pursue I think it’s time to say some of what I’ve wanted to say. Idiots shouldn’t be allowed to vote. There I said it. I feel so much better. But it is interesting in a way to watch events unfold, interesting in a manner that reminds me of Thursday at 4:50 AM three weeks ago. It was foggy and I had gone a whole one mile on the Interstate. I had just gotten on to the highway and looked in my rear view mirror. There was some idiot overtaking me and my Honda Civic at about 85 to 90 miles per hour. I went into evasive action mode and minimized the damage but not enough to save my car, only my life. The driver was drunk and as the incident unfolded I watched in slow motion as my mirror went spinning away and my fender disengaged from the underside of her car. That is how I feel as I watch events unfolding here right now.
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Democrats Play Politics With Troops’ Safety

April 30, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In another case of who-should-be-surprised, the Democrat Party is playing political games with the lives of our troops by tying the military budget to their political goals of forcing the president to agree to a timetable for removing the troops from Iraq.

In recent months a new type of armored vehicle has been introduced to Iraq that has been saving the lives of our troops there.

As the AP reports:Deadlocked Bill May Halt Troop Carriers

The armored carrier has a grim black slash across its side, burn marks on the door and a web of cracks along the window.

Like most of the Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in Anbar province, this one has been hit as many as three times by enemy fire and bomb blasts. Yet, to date, no American troops have died while riding in one.

Yet the troops might find fewer of these MRAPs delivered to them because the Democrat Party has tied the funds allocated to build them to a bill that Bush will veto because there are withdrawal time tables included.
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Imus and Virginia Tech

April 30, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The inconsistency of atheistic materialism. There’s more there than Marx allowed for.

Our thoroughly secularized society explains events and behavior, human nature itself, as the product of the material conditions of living and earning a living, in accord with the Marxian thesis.

In The German Ideology Marx and his colleague Friederick Engels wrote:

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

Present-day liberals therefore deny the concept of a higher law, of timeless moral truths emanating from God the Creator of the universe. They fancy themselves capable of restructuring society, and human nature in the process. Hence the endless stream of new Federal welfare-state programs. In the liberal view, economic and social problems can be cured only by bountiful application of the most materialistic of all things: money.
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Texans for Thompson!

April 30, 2007 by

Well, Thompson has BIG support in the Texas legislature…

GOP lawmakers favor Fred Thompson for president
Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN — Don’t underestimate the political power of stardom, even in the state Capitol.

Fred Thompson, the actor and former U.S. senator from Tennessee, officially is only mulling a race for the White House, but he already has snagged support from at least 58 Texas Republican lawmakers.

No other presidential hopeful from either party is close.
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MSM Lies about Senator Thompson

April 29, 2007 by

MSM making lies about Senator Thompson already. They must REALLY be afraid of him.

IMAGE DEFLATORS (From the American Spectator)

On Saturday, a “Draft Fred Thompson” rally was held in the small, out of the way town of Cooksville, Tennessee. The media is reporting attendance for the get-together at 300.

But the petition that attendees signed had more than 500 names attached.

The media pulled a similar shrinking job on the meeting that Thompson held on Capitol Hill earlier this month with Republican members of Congress. Then, it reported numbers between 35 to 40, when the number was closer to 60.

If there is one downside to Thompson’s process to entering the presidential race, it is that he has limited opportunity to set the record straight on the inaccuracies being generated by the media and the left, if not other GOP presidential campaigns.

For example, the New Republic recently reported that Thompson was a “phony populist” for driving a red truck around the state during his ’94 Senate campaign. But it failed to report that he took to driving the truck after his own campaign managers had attempted to package him as a straight, conventional GOP candidate.

“The truck wasn’t about changing his image, it was about his getting back to who he really was,” says a source who worked for Thompson back in ’94. “It wasn’t spin, just Fred wanting to be Fred.”

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University Memorialized Suicide Bomber

April 29, 2007 by

Here is another example of why our Universities are so antithetical to American values that they are dangerous to society…

Apparently, the University of Oklahoma is putting up a memorial to a fool who blew himself up when a homemade bomb he assembled went off while he held it as he attended a football game in the University stadium. Fortunately, he only killed himself and not anyone around him.

To this kid we should be saying good riddance and he should be quickly forgotten. But here is the U of O mourning this idiot’s death as if he were some kind of hero.

In fact, the only good thing he did was kill himself before he planted the bomb closer to other football fans in the stadium in which he died. But, that was a mere accident, NOT a planned, heroic deed.
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Reagan’s Michael Deavers Endorses Thompson

April 29, 2007 by 1 Comment

One of Ronald Reagan’s key advisers, Michael Deavers, has endorsed Senator Thompson. This is a great feather in Thompson’s cap. It is looking more and more like Thompson is a serious candidate.
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By Tim Shipman in Washington, Sunday Telegraph, UK

Ronald Reagan’s closest allies are throwing their weight behind the White House bid by the late president’s fellow actor, Fred Thompson.

The film star and former Republican senator from Tennessee will this week use a speech in the heart of Reagan country, in southern California, to woo party bigwigs in what insiders say is the next step in his coming out as a candidate.

Fred Thompson, Reagan’s men are backing – an actor

A key figure in the Reagan inner circle has now given his seal of approval to Mr Thompson, best known as a star of the television crime drama Law and Order.
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Krugman and Friedman – Part Three

April 29, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Krugman is tarred with his own brush.

Earlier postings on this topic were Part One and Part Two.

In Paul Krugman’s New York Review of Books article (Who Was Milton Friedman?), he wrote:

But there’s an important difference between the rigor of [Milton Friedman’s] work as a professional economist and the looser, sometimes questionable logic of his pronouncements as a public intellectual…. And is must be said that there were some serious questions about his intellectual honesty when he was speaking to the mass public.

That assessment applies with equal, if not greater, force to Mr. Krugman himself.
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Toledo Blade Columnist: ‘Special Squads of Police’ Should Disarm Americans

April 28, 2007 by 9 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to confiscate their Constitutionally legal firearms is a step I haven’t seen in a purportedly responsible newspaper. That is, until the Toledo Blade published a proposal for taking away our right to self-protection that included "Special squads of police" with unlimited powers to confiscate all guns. A hit squad that would traipse about the country invading homes at will and accosting peaceful citizens everywhere.

The author of this tyrannical proposal is Dan Simpson, who is described as "a retired Ambassador" and a "member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. " He is a former US Ambassador to various African states… which can easily be read to mean one who thinks government knows best, darn the citizen’s rights, apparently.
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Hillary, aka Senator Clinton, plays the name game

April 28, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Kissing up to the Most Reverend Al Sharpton and his associates last week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reverted to the singsong Southern drawl she employs before selected audiences:

“When Ah walk into the Oval Office in 2009, Ah’m afraid Ah’m going to lift up the rug and Ah’m going to see so much stuff under there,” declared the demurely coquettish belle of Park Ridge, Illinois. She better hope that the Bushes have thoroughly sanitized the White House since their arrival. Heaven knows what sort of devices the irrepressible Billy Boy may have left behind.

Some people would prefer Mrs. Clinton focus on what really matters. You know, burning issues like what to call her. No, no, I’m not writing here of boorish comments from those few detractors she’s attracted, but rather to how she is referred to in the press.

Is identifying her by only her first name disrespectful? To the politically correct types who anguish over such questions, the answer is apparent.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews addressed a “Hardball” panel in January: “The Democrats go with their heart, they go with either Obama or Hillary. Does everyone accept that?” Time Magazine Mike Allen may have, but he had bigger fish to fry first: “Why do you call her Hillary? She’s Senator Clinton.”

Matthews answered feebly, as befits a former Jimmy Carter staffer, that Mrs. Clinton is the only Hillary in the country.
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Will Conservatives Shun 2008 Elections? Should we Care?

April 27, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Remember that one kid you used to know that always got so mad that he would quit whatever game was being played because no one was doing what he wanted to do? Oh, he was an OK guy, but at least one time in every play session he would skulk off to the corner and pout. His pouting didn’t alter anyone else’s behavior, of course, and it certainly didn’t cause anyone to run after him to cajole him to return, but he went off in a snit just the same. Remember how the response to his pouting was merely a collective shrug of everyone’s shoulders with the game continuing without the pouter in attendance? And remember how he just came back the next day as if nothing happened anyway?

It makes you wonder; what did all the pouting achieve? Nothing changed, so why did he do it? He didn’t get his way, so what was the point? Yet, there is seemingly always one in the bunch who will act this way whether on the playground, in business, or in politics, whether among a bunch of kids or we adults.

In politics today, we see a small core of Conservatives on the right who have become the pouters, the ones threatening to go off in the corner refusing to play with the rest of us.

The question is, why would they do this and if they do, so what?

My question came to mind after I saw a new petition on the Internet pledging that “unless a suitable candidate is selected for the GOP 2008 presidential nomination” the signatories will “stay home or vote third party”. This is no sudden sentiment but representative of the feelings of many Conservatives, one that is gaining adherents of late. At the very least, the din is getting louder.
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What Do They Know and Why Don’t They Know It

April 27, 2007 by

-By Frank Salvato

Recent actions and statements by those who exist on the left side of the aisle have served as proof for any reasonable American that congressional Democrats, especially their leadership, are invested in – and in fact insist upon – placing politics before government. Their blatant disregard for the well-being of our nation leads me to ask, how well do the Progressive-Left and the Democrats who appease them understand the duties associated with being an elected member of the United States government?

One of the last true statesmen to have graced the halls of Congress, Henry Hyde (R-IL), was often heard to say that those elected to office are the stewards to the US Constitution. By this he meant that they were beholden to the principles, ideals, tenets and procedural boundaries held within the document itself. My belief goes a bit further to include the idea that all Americans are vested with this commitment and that in addition to the principles, ideals and tenets of our founding documents each and every one of us is obligated to at least understanding the philosophy that influenced our Founders and Framers to compose such a revolutionary form of self-governance.

That said, and current events taken into consideration, I am led to believe that many in Congress from both sides of the aisle – and perhaps most people elected to office – are sadly devoid of a proper understanding of the Constitution and just exactly what it is they are required to do for their constituencies.

Two instances, appalling in nature to those of us who embrace the idea of good government, took place this week at the hands of Democrat leadership.
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