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Extricate by 2008-Politcal Poker

February 13, 2007 by

-By Chuck Busch

Hillary may not be so smart after all or else she is betting that the rest of us are stupid. Her long anticipated announcement as a serious presidential contender was followed quickly by this revealing bombast against President George Bush and Commander in Chief in the war with Islamofacism. “I think it’s the height of irresponsibility and I really resent it – this was his decision to go to war, he went with an ill-conceived plan, an incompetently executed strategy, and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.”

She also admitted to being fooled into voting for the war before she voted against it. “So he took the authority that I and others gave him and he misused it…And if we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote and I never would have voted to give this president that authority.”

She “really resents it!” What she really is unhappy about is the prospect that if she ever achieves the object of her ego-mania, she will inherit a preemptive militaristic foreign policy against terrorist domination of the Middle East.

No doubt she had envisioned for herself another cakewalk administration modeled after the one she had partnered in with her husband where the threat of a brutal warring dictator in Iraq was ignored. For his two terms in office, now remembered as the “holiday from history”, our draft-dodging playboy president office steadfastly and repeatedly chose not to protect this country against terrorist attacks but rather to project the façade of a “peace and prosperity” administration.
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00Publius Contributor - Congress - Elections - Islam - Islamofascism - Media Bias - Military - Patriotism - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Democrats in Aid to Insurgents – It Finally IS Vietnam all Over Again

February 12, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It is a shocker, but the AP actually let loose a kernel of truth about the situation in Iraq in one of their reports for a change. To wit, if Iraqi insurgents wait long enough, the USA will leave and they can come back on the scene with guns blazing and knives sharpened for decapitations.

In the streets of Sadr City, the strategy of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite militia leader, is clear: Lie low, avoid a showdown and hope to emerge even stronger after the Americans leave.

This must have been a mistake. The AP would never knowingly give opponents of a pullout such ammo for discussion.

Naturally, they do not develop the reason that al-Sadr has come to this strategy, but the fact that they revealed that strategy at all is a refreshing change from their steady and nearly unwavering support for the anti-USA crowd on the left that is the usual AP fare.
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The Indians Against ‘The Land’

February 12, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

There is an amusing game to play when watching Tom Cruise’s period piece movie flop, “Far and Away”. Every time you hear anyone one say the word “land” you take a shot of Jack Daniel’s. Few get too far into the movie before they are passed out cold the word is said so often.

But, it does make a point about how important owning property is in the scheme of things. A man who owns his land is a king, as they say. But, it is generally considered a white man’s quest to own that land and the white man’s desire to dig it up, build upon it, and otherwise “rape” it.

American Indians, on the other hand, are stereotyped as those who care about the natural land. It is said they hold that no man can own it, that it is there for all.

Of course, this is mostly a ridiculous myth, because American Indians had been killing each other over territory for hundreds of years before white men came ashore to set up the first real estate office. Some tribes made it a habit to use up and despoil the environment until life became so inhospitable they had to move to a new site to start it all over again.
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Political and Moral Dissolution

February 12, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Liberals’ head-in-the-sand urge to pull troops out of Iraq is nothing new. Western democracies, entranced with liberal Progressivism, have failed repeatedly to preserve social and political stability.

In words that apply to public opinion today, Walter Lippmann, in The Public Philosophy (1954), described his dismay in the summer of 1938, when war in Europe seemed inevitable.

…there was no sure prospect that France and Great Britain would be able to withstand the [German] onslaught that was coming. They were unprepared, their people were divided and demoralized. The Americans were far away, were determined to be neutral, and were unarmed….. I began writing, impelled by the need to make more intelligible to myself the alarming failure of the Western liberal democracies to cope with the realities of [the 20th] century.

Today we are armed, albeit at only about half the strength level prevailing when Bill Clinton slashed defense spending to reap the “peace dividend” for new welfare-state spending programs. But we are again disastrously divided and demoralized, just as were Hitler’s adversaries in 1938.
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Scientist: Global Warming must be challenged

February 11, 2007 by

By Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist

An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change

When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months’ time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.

The small print explains “very likely” as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.

Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases. As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to their research careers. And while the media usually find mavericks at least entertaining, in this case they often imagine that anyone who doubts the hypothesis of man-made global warming must be in the pay of the oil companies. As a result, some key discoveries in climate research go almost unreported.
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For some, Super Bowl ad was nothing to snicker about

February 11, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Commercials are a major reason to watch the Super Bowl for many viewers. Advertisers pay up to $2.6 million for 30 precious seconds and seek the biggest bang for their buck. Having their ads noticed is what it’s all about.

USA Today arranged focus groups Sunday to measure the commercials’ popularity. Beer ads, naturally, ranked very high. Another commercial making the top ten this year was the one for Snickers.

Aired in the first quarter, before Rex Grossman had a chance to really show his stuff, the candy bar ad reminded me of a scene in Walt Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp.” The canine couple is enjoying a spaghetti dinner at Tony’s. Leisurely munching on the same string of pasta leads to a charmingly innocent poochie kiss.

The Snickers’ commercial had two mechanics – neither as attractive as either Lady or the Tramp – working closely together under a car hood. One pops a Snickers bar into his mouth. Then the weirdness begins. The second guy starts munching on the other end. Their lips accidentally meet. Shocked at what’s happened, they decide they need to do something “manly” and commence ripping hair from their chests.

I didn’t find the commercial amusing or offensive, just dumb. I remembered a billboard I saw a few months ago. On it was what appeared to be a picture of a Snickers bar. Rather than the word “Snickers” though, it had “Hungerectomy” shown in the familiar typeface.

At the time I thought that if I were a Snickers executive, I’d look for a better ad agency, one that didn’t associate my product with unpleasant medical procedures. Perhaps the Super Bowl commercial came from the same fertile mind as the billboard.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., On Trial for Being a Communist

February 10, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

What was the first thing that ran through your head when you read that headline?

Did it confuse you? Maybe you were shocked? Perhaps you were even angered? I am sure a few even said something like “At last” or “about time”?

It is well known that MLK hung around Communists, even “card carrying” ones. It is also well known that he had some as his close advisors. It is not completely ascertainable if he, himself, was a believer in Communism.

But, in reality, it doesn’t matter a whit if he did because he did not openly speak out for Communism and did not base his position on the ideology of Communism.
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Statue Of Liberty Should Be A Liberated Woman

February 10, 2007 by

-By Frederick Meekins

One of the most comic irrationalities to come out of the Vietnam War that a village had to be destroyed in order to save it. Half a world away, the comment has become something of a joke ever since epitomizing government stupidity; however, as similar logic begins to be used here all in the name of national security, such an observation won’t seem as amusing anymore.

Most responding to my column about efforts to permanently bar the American people from the upper reaches of the Statue of Liberty agreed with my position. However, one response reflected the kind of thinking that will not only end up getting the remainder of our freedoms taken away from us but also lecture us why it is our civic duty to have a smile across our face while it is happening.

In the response, the government toady writes that, since the Statue of Liberty is a target because of its symbolic value as an artistic representation of America’s values, any and all measures should be taken to protect the landmark.

However, since Lady Liberty’s function is primarily symbolic, by closing her off aren’t we sending the message to the world that liberty is not an inalienable and immutable but rather contingent upon circumstances and the malleable whims of those holding power.
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Chicago Sun-Times: Warning About Christian Fascists

February 9, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times gave nearly an entire page in their “Controversy” Section to a man who feels America is under attack by a radical, religion that is inseparable from Nazi Fascism. He feels it is a hateful religion that is out to destroy America and everything it stands for and it must be stopped at all costs.

No he did not mean Islamism, amazingly enough, but Christianity.
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Contentment: God Will Provide

February 9, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Where socialism fails, the Judeo-Christian tradition succeeds.

Sunday’s sermon at the Long Ridge Congregational Church (a non-UCC congregation in North Stamford, Connecticut) was preached by the Reverend Jason Pankow. His principal text was 1 Timothy 6:3-10.

If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. (1 Timothy 6:3-5)

The inverse relationship between wealth and contentment is a frequent theme in literature and theatre. Likewise the sense of emptiness, the lack of fulfillment that characterize so much of our hectic lives today. Hillary Clinton, in an article published in the New York Times Magazine, noted this early in the first Clinton administration. Despite the sincerity of her concern, she was mocking dubbed ‘St. Hillary’ by liberal intellectuals.
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The Offensiveness of Taking Offense

February 8, 2007 by

By Selwyn Duke

The voicing of the unpopular, being the very soul of free speech, the right to give and take offense shall not be infringed.

Sometimes I think it is time to insert the above into our First Amendment. Whether it’s an off-color joke or colorful commentary, it’s now hard to make anything but the most plain vanilla statements without offending somebody. In fact, so ingrained is the notion of being offended that it has become a topic of satire. Just think about Geico’s famous commercials, wherein stone-age characters take umbrage at the slogan, “So easy a caveman can do it.”

Ironically, associating cavemen with being thin-skinned is quite apropos, since it is a frailty born of the more ignoble aspects of man’s nature. As to this, I think about documentarian Alby Mangels who, while visiting primitives in Papua New Guinea, warned against “knocking back their hospitality.” Prudence dictated he be wary, as those less spiritually and morally evolved are ruled by pride, the worst of the Seven Deadly Sins. And, lest we entertain the fancy that it is the superior person who doesn’t give offense, know that it is actually the superior one who doesn’t take it. It’s hard to offend the humble.

In truth, though, our civilization is not as overcome by pride as by duplicity. And this is what is truly offensive (in the way an odor is so) about this offensiveness business: Screaming “That’s offensive!” is nothing but a ploy. Yes, you heard it here first, few who emit that utterance are actually offended.

They just don’t happen to like what you’re saying.
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The Times Dishes It Out, But Can’t Take It

February 8, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The Sulzbergers, the New York Times controlling stock-holders, are miffed at criticism of their poor business performance.

In a February 3, 2007, article in the New York Times, reporter Katharine Q. Seelye wrote:

The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which controls The New York Times Company, said yesterday that it was withdrawing most of its personal assets, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, from Morgan Stanley.

“Custody of the majority of the assets of the Ochs-Sulzberger family are being moved from Morgan Stanley to another institution,” said Catherine J. Mathis, a spokeswoman for the Times Company.

Through a spokesman, the family also declined to comment.

The withdrawal was apparently first reported online by CNNMoney.com, which suggested that the move was in retaliation against one of Morgan Stanley’s fund managers, who has been critical of the company’s ownership structure and performance.
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The Times Dishes It Out, But Can’t Take It

February 8, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The Sulzbergers, the New York Times controlling stock-holders, are miffed at criticism of their poor business performance.

In a February 3, 2007, article in the New York Times, reporter Katharine Q. Seelye wrote:

The Ochs-Sulzberger family, which controls The New York Times Company, said yesterday that it was withdrawing most of its personal assets, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, from Morgan Stanley.

“Custody of the majority of the assets of the Ochs-Sulzberger family are being moved from Morgan Stanley to another institution,” said Catherine J. Mathis, a spokeswoman for the Times Company.

Through a spokesman, the family also declined to comment.

The withdrawal was apparently first reported online by CNNMoney.com, which suggested that the move was in retaliation against one of Morgan Stanley’s fund managers, who has been critical of the company’s ownership structure and performance.
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Wash Post: Democrats Forgot How to be ‘Ferocious’

February 7, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Dana Milbank is mad at Democrats for somehow letting Former Iraq Chief Paul Bremer off the hook today in the Washington Post’s ”Rusty Democrats Unable to Pin Anything on Bremer”.

I guess to show he is a real meterosexual, Milbank starts his piece off with an observation on Bremer’s choice of footwear and draws the wild conclusion that it must say something about his mental state.

Jerry Bremer wore black dress shoes instead of his trademark combat boots yesterday as he testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. But except for that concession, the former American viceroy of Iraq had lost none of his swagger.

That observation lacks so much on substance that it is laughable. Does wearing combat boots in a desert, while walking around battle-damaged buildings, or in areas where nearly everyone is so shod somehow speak to Bremer’s arrogance, his “swagger”??

If a fan wears gym shoes to a basketball game, would that speak to the fan’s assumptions that he is as good as Michael Jordan or those players on the court?

With that weak attempt to scold Bremer for his arrogant choice of footwear done, Milbank goes on to insinuate that he is guilty of malfeasance during his time in Iraq.
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We’ve Been Here Before (Grow Up Or Get Out of the Way)

February 7, 2007 by

By R. A. Hawkins

In the early part of this nations history we can find the first echoes of what we are currently attempting to grasp and deal with. There we can also find the answers to our current problems. There has been a lot of cheering about inclusiveness from the left lately. It has to do with the swearing in of a certain Islamic Congressman who is unsurprisingly from Minnesota, a state that is not only on the outskirts of the nation but also on the outskirts of reality.

The swearing in of this particular congressman was performed on the copy of the Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Many have questioned why Jefferson would have owned a copy of that book. Well, if the truth be told, he had copies of just about any book on any religion. This was one of the few books that survived the burning of his library. I for one am quite pleased that it did. I’m also quite pleased that someone who is ignorant of history, I assume, suggested that Ellison use that book.

At the very start of this nation we were dealing with the Pirates of Barbary. They were capturing our ships and impeding commerce with other nations. Once the United States was free of Britain we were also free of her protection. The British had been paying the demanded tributes. Tripoli had demanded $225,000 in cash and annual payments of $25,000. Adams was inclined to follow the model of the British but Jefferson wasn’t. Jefferson tried to form an international coalition to fight them but that failed because then, like now, everyone decided it was easier to give the bully their lunch money.
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Internet Tattletales — Is it Right to ‘Spy’ on a Neighbor?

February 7, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

A recent Wallstreet Journal editorial by Jennifer Saranow entitled The Snoop Next Door, highlighted some interesting websites that have been taking their slot on the World Wide Web of late… and, no, it isn’t porn.

Apparently these sites are being used to tattle on other people. One site claims to be ready to reveal bad drivers and people who don’t know how to park well, one to uncover the identity of the person who is stealing newspapers in the wee hours of the morning before the neighborhood is awake to get their morning editions, and one to highlight litterbugs. All supposedly feature video or clear photos of the perpetrators of the ill the website’s creators wish to right.

How should we, as freedom loving Americans, react to websites where people are tattled on, spied upon, or “outed” as the bad guy? The libertarian reaction might be to confront the website’s creator and ask them who the heck they think they are by publicly airing other’s dirty laundry? Still others would applaud the website because they get to jeer the “jerks” of society who cannot seem to abide by the rules.

Which is right? Which is the more “American” reaction to these snoop’s websites? Curiously enough, both are.
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THE NAME “SAPS in the USA” PREVAILS

February 7, 2007 by

-By Vince Johnson

The previous two issues appeared as ads The Mill City Independent Press, a small weekly in Oregon. One was paid for by Students Attending Public Schools in the USA (SAPS in the USA) and the other by Future Voters of America. (FVA) There was a slight uproar over this. Some folks thought such questions were more appropriately asked by “Saps Attending Public Schools in the USA” rather than the “Future Voters of America.” Those who preferred “SAPS in the USA,” said it was easier to recall and it also made sense based on various synonyms of “sap” as listed below:

  • Saps = Exhausts: “Wasteful spending exhausts ones savings.”
  • Saps = Runs down: “Congress always runs down common sense.”
  • Saps = Fools: “Only fools allow politicians to spend their money.”

Each ad asked the President and Congress to answer one question:

Ad #1. What are the ethics of borrowing $8.5 trillion dollars without the permission of those SAPS who will be substantially burdened by this debt as long as they live?

Ad #2. Why are over 3,000 young Americans losing their lives protecting the territorial integrity of the Iraq/Iran border while we are almost totally ignoring the integrity of the border between the USA and Mexico?
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Highlighting Leftist Activism on Web… no Mention of Conservatives

February 5, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ain’t technology wunnerful? I mean, it saves all that wear and tear on the VW Mini-Bus, saves the trees that would otherwise be cut down for anti-war signs, the paint, the tye-dying of shirts, the buying of sandals… heck all sorts of things and time can be saved because the World Wide Web has brought technology to leftist activism!

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

It’s also a great thing that those evil, rotten, Nazi, CONSERVATIVES have not discovered the WWW as a place to gather their forces. It’s so heart warming that the left can, at long last, use technology for good instead of evil.

Or so it seems the Washington Post imagines the world has been set to rights because today a charming article has appeared in their paper letting us know that hey have found the “perfect example of how antiwar is waged in the Internet age.” Or at least so says Jennifer Earl in “Where Have All the Protests Gone? Online”.
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Labor Controls the Liberals

February 5, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

American labor unions are pushing candidates for the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nomination toward expansion of the welfare-state and massive inflation of the sort that the Great Society spawned.

After both World War I and World War II, the British Labour Party led England into its destructive liaison with socialism that destroyed British industry and reduced England to the “sick man of Europe.”

Harold Meyerson’s January 31, 2007, column in the Washington Post describes the behind-the-scenes power exerted by labor unions, especially the government employees unions. Their immediate goal is imposition of universal, socialized medicine, of the sort championed in 1993 by Hillary Clinton.

If labor unions succeed, two results are inevitable.
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Democrats Invite Radical Muslim to Speak at Nat’l Committee Meeting

February 4, 2007 by 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Unbelievably, the Democrats invited a radical Muslim Imam to give an invocation at their Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting today. His name is Husham al-Husainy and he is Imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Foundation in Dearborn, Michigan (a Shi’ite sect). – VIDEO LINK.

During this “prayer”, al-Husainy said:

We thank you, god to send us your messages through our father Abraham, and Jesus and Mohammed, through you, god, we unite, so guide us to the right spot we wish for peace, equality and help us to stop the war and violence, and oppression and occupation.

At first thought and to the western mind, that almost sounds benign. After all, didn’t he invoke Jesus and Abraham there? However, as Robert Spencer notes in Islam ” all of these (Jesus, Mohammed, and Abraham) were prophets who taught Islam, and that the followers of Moses and Jesus corrupted their teachings to create Judaism and Christianity. So what seems to be a gesture of ecumenical generosity is actually a declaration of religious imperialism and the delegitimization of other religions.”

Spencer goes on to say:

Also, imagine if a Christian priest or minister had prayed at a DNC meeting that those attending be guided away from the path of those doomed by God. In this, in any case, the Imam is echoing the Fatiha, the first sura of the Qur’an and most common prayer of Islam. It asks Allah: “Show us the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast favoured; not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.” The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam

Leave it to Democrats to allow what they would term “hate speech” were it a Christian utilizing similarly inspired rhetoric to basically denounce other religions.
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Successes and Setbacks in the “Long War”

February 4, 2007 by

-By David Huntwork

A year ago the Pentagon released its Quadrennial Defense Review. It was essentially a strategy for a 20-year “long war” and a generational battle plan designed to prepare the military for a Cold War type struggle against the forces of militant Islam. According to the official unveiling:
“Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, our nation has fought a global war against violent extremists who use terrorism as their weapon of choice, and who seek to destroy our free way of life. Our enemies seek weapons of mass destruction and, if they are successful, will likely attempt to use them in their conflict with free people everywhere. Currently, the struggle is centered in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we will need to be prepared and arranged to successfully defend our nation and its interests around the globe for years to come.”
It is apparent that the United States and its assorted allies are still seeking to adequately define its enemy, reach a consensus on tactics, and achieve some sort of victory in (or graceful exit from) Iraq. In this age of round the clock news and information it is easy to get caught up in the crisis of the moment. But it is also important that we examine the big picture in the War on Terror and take the time to look back at some of the successes and setbacks experienced since 9-11.
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Bill Clinton: Dead By October 30th 2008

February 3, 2007 by 1 Comment

I just realized how Hillary will win her bid for the presidency.

She’ll get a sympathy vote ala Jean Carnahan of Missouri.

She will have Bill knocked off and the public will be eating out of her cold, Marxist hand. Everyone will feel so bad for her for losing her “husband”.

After all, we all KNOW what an embarrassment Bill will be for her once she is in office. He won’t be able to stay off the stage and he certainly won’t be able to stop his womanizing and rapine.

Hillary will HAVE to get rid of him because he is a complete albatross.

So, there you have it. An “accident” for Bill. Maybe she’ll hire a Kennedy to take Bill on a midnight car ride over a bridge somewhere? Maybe Bill will be found in a local Park having committed “suicide”.

But, poor widdle Billy is TOAST!

The state funeral just before the election will be a massive outpouring of Hollywierd faux love, crocodile tears, and there will be pseudo tributes galore. CNN will have an orgasm of coverage. Visitors and tyrants from other third world countries like Canada and Germany will be lining up for miles to touch his rosacea covered face one last time. The UN will go dark in mourning. Rapists and molesters the world over will be wearing black condoms in memory of their downed hero.

A wave of public sympathy will then sweep the coldest and most unlovable woman ever spawned from the loins of man and the bowels of woman right into the White House.

She will dress in black pant suits for at least a month and the world will look on her with compassion.

Our first female president will take the oath of office with her iron fist on Bill’s favorite Bible… the last one he stole from a road side motel tryst site… and she will wipe a tear from her face as she says “so help me Gaw.. so help me G… so help me God I need a martini”.

And onward the country will march hand in hand with Hillary into a future of doomed economies, strangling regulation, and ever worsening health care.

It will be a bright new day for Stalinists, Marxists, anti-capitalists, and Europeans everywhere.

Hail Hillary, queen of all she lays waste.

Of course, she will usher in decades of Republican rule starting in 2012… if ONLY we can survive that long.

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England: One Law for Muslims, one for the Rest

February 3, 2007 by 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

England is fast becoming but simple a plot of land floating in the sea instead of a nation of culture guided by a rich legal tradition. It is a tale of warning for the USA, the moral of which is don’t allow minorities to set up a parallel culture or you will cease to be a nation of laws. You will, in fact, cease to be a nation at all.

England is on the verge of having a bifurcated legal system, one for their various religious peoples and one for the rest of the native population. Two recent stories show the degradation of the British legal system and the inequities that it creates.

In a BBC story by Innes Bowen,
The end of one law for all?, the question is asked: “Ethnic and religious courts are gaining ground in the UK. Will this lead to different justice for different people?”

How could this be that hard to answer?
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The initial Obama obstacle is relative

February 3, 2007 by

-By Michael M. Bates

Barack, you got some ‘splainin’ to do. Or so it seems as Senator Obama, a leading Democratic candidate, recently devoted time he could have spent on important stuff like fundraising to deny he was educated at an extremist Muslim school.

Maybe Mr. Obama is kicking himself for writing “Dreams from My Father” a dozen years ago. That book provided numerous details that Team Clinton otherwise would have had to hire private detectives to unearth.
Obama reveals in his book that for two years he attended a Muslim school in Indonesia: “In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.”

Young Barack appears to have been an equal opportunity skeptic. He went to a Catholic school for two years and “when it came time to pray, I would pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and thirty brown children, muttering words.”
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Palestinian Family ‘Locked Up’ For Immigration Violations

February 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

WFAA TV in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas market has been touting a story that they obviously think is some sort of tragedy. So bad, in fact, that the first words of their story are, “‘Inhumanity’ and ‘atrocity’ are just two words being used to describe news…”

One would think that the world was ending, wouldn’t one?

The TV station is wracked up in high dudgeon over a family of Palestinians who are in the country illegally and were scooped up by Immigration officials and remanded to a rather posh housing center to await the outcome of the machinations of government officials trying to determine their fate.
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The Importance of Families

February 2, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Why is preservation of traditional marriage, between a man and a woman, vital to preservation of a good political society?

Malachi, a prophet who probably ministered in the 60 years after the first groups of Israelites returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, gives us God’s Word on the subject.

Having endured the Babylonian captivity for 70 sears, few of the returning Israelites had ever experienced the proper religious life of the pre-captivity period. Moreover, the Jerusalem to which they returned was a desolate ruin that had been destroyed and plundered by Judah’s enemies.
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AP: Forgets to Mention Al Franken is Liberal in Senate Run Announcements

February 1, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is amusing for it’s total ridiculousness. In the AP story about upcoming Senate campaign of Al Franken, the soon to be ex-Air America ranter and supposed comedian, AP seems to have forgotten to mention he is a liberal.

The short AP blurb doesn’t mention it at all: Short AP Version.

And the long piece gives no hint of Franken’s leanings until the last line of the report: Long AP Version.

And even the long piece does not state Franken’s leftist positioning as a fact, but couches it as the claim of a political science professor. And they don’t even introduce the label until the very last paragraph of a ten paragraph story.

Franken faces major challenges, said Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota. Besides needing to establish himself as a serious candidate, Franken has staked out left-wing policies that make it questionable whether he can win independent voters, Jacobs said.

Here is how the piece starts (in the short version)

WASHINGTON (AP) – Comedian Al Franken has decided to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2008, challenging incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, a senior Democratic Party official said Wednesday.

No mention of Franken’s leftist proclivities there.
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The Barker and the Shill – The Fraud of the Fairness Doctrine

February 1, 2007 by 1 Comment

By Selwyn Duke

If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very different. The barker – the correct terminology is the “talker” – was a P.T. Barnum-like character, a bold salesman who sang the praises of the exhibits. Although he was given to the hyperbole of marketing, he made no bones about his agenda: He wanted your business.

The shill was a very different animal. His job was to stand amidst the crowd and pose as one of their number; he would then feign awe as he claimed to have seen the show and that it was truly a jaw-dropping experience. He was trading on his illusion of impartiality, knowing it lent him a capacity to convince that eluded the talker with his obvious agenda.

This occurs to me when I ponder the attempt to resurrect the “Fairness Doctrine” by politicians such as Congressman Dennis Kucinich and avowedly socialist senator Bernie Sanders. For those of you not acquainted with this proposal, it harks back to a federal regulation in place from 1949 to 1987. Ostensibly it was designed to ensure “fairness” in broadcasting, mandating that if radio and TV stations air controversial viewpoints, they must provide equal time for the “other side.”
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US Reaction to 9/11 Just a ‘Massive Overreaction’?

January 31, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nearly 3,000 Americans killed in a series of attacks on one single day — the most American civilians ever killed in a single day with coordinated attacks — was no big deal as far as David Bell writing for the L.A. Times is concerned.

The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we’re overreacting.

See, they know this because Russia had a bad time of it during WWII.

…imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism.

Such a ridiculous comparison. WWII, a standard, symmetrical war, bears little resemblance to this threat we face today. The Russians were under arms facing Hitler. It wasn’t a “nice” war, surely, but it was a standard war none-the-less. Hitler invaded and the Russians resisted.

Standard war stuff, really.
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Boson Bozos

January 31, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Scientists seeking ultimate answers to the origin, nature, and future of the cosmos have pursued a long series of mutually exclusive, speculative theories. Liberals embrace these speculations as scientific truth, even though they have less basis in verifiable fact than 5,000 years of faith in God recorded in the Bible.

Every attempt to date to unify cosmological and nuclear particle theories has foundered on newly observed, unreconcilable, opposing sets of facts. Seeking to bridge these gaps, cosmologists, nuclear particle physicists, and mathematicians have drifted far into the realm of abstract speculation.

Science at the outer limits of knowledge, both at the cosmological and sub-atomic levels, has come increasingly to resemble the speculations of medieval scholastic philosophers dealing in doctrinal abstractions.
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