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IL Property Taxes Frozen/Internet Taxes Raised?
– By Warner Todd Huston

I am sure that seeing the words “taxes” and “raised” in the same title raises the hackles of every good, tax loathing citizen. But, Illinois State Senator, Chris Lauzen (R., 25th Dist.), not known as a taxaholic himself, has proposed just that. But don’t let those hackles quiver just yet for what he is proposing makes quite a bit of sense.

Lauzen contends that constantly raising property taxes is an unfair procedure and wonders why “we tolerate such a system?” His central point, a good one, is that property taxes are raised nearly every year yet homeowners are not getting any benefit at all from the fact the their houses are worth more unless they sell the place. “I know of no other place in the Tax Code, other than property taxes, where unrealized capital gains are taxed”, Lauzen has said in a press release.

Senator Lauzen makes an excellent point. Why do we have to pay ever rising taxes on a paper assessment of what our home is worth when we are not in any way benefiting from that supposed value? Naturally, paying when the home is sold is sensible, but why are we forever asked to fork over more money to the state every year when the supposed value of our home is a meaningless factor in our yearly income? It doesn’t raise our income and it doesn’t detract from our income. Constant raises in our property taxes is patently unfair, it’s just that simple………..
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Simpsons On Gay Marriage Not An Outrage
– By Frederick Meekins

Simpsons Episode On Gay Marriage Not As A Flaming An Outrage As It Could Have Been

Regardless of one’s opinion of “The Simpsons”, one has to admit the show has no problem tackling controversial material most would rather sweep under the rug. And even though it would have been better had producers left the issue of gay marriage alone, the show was able to inject a degree of its classic subversive wit into what could have been an approach characterized by nothing but a doctrinaire political correctness.

When most heard sodomite matrimony was coming to the quintessential American town of Springfield, most assumed the abomination would be heralded with typical Hollywood applause and accolades. And though I would be uncomfortable with letting younger children view the episode, it was not without humorous aspects exposing the hypocrisy inherent to this social outrage.

For gay nuptials were not ultimately sanctioned in this fictional municipality out of a warped interpretation of love or equity but rather in an attempt to bring back lost tourist dollars after Bart and Milhaus create a bad impression of the town in the mind of a roving travel correspondent. Homer gets into the money making racket by getting ordained and opening a wedding chapel in his garage.

“The Simpsons” is often characterized by a degree of philosophical reflection beneath all of its silliness uncommon to television sitcoms. This episode also sparked additional thought by touching on the point that, if same sex marriage is allowed, on what grounds do we continue to forbid other reprehensible couplings? This point was comically made when brother and sister hillbillies wanted to get married and Homer fantasized about marrying himself (“Homersexual” marriage, eh) with a house full of little Homers.

The most penetrating point of the show centered around the ambivalence exhibited by Marge Simpson. Throughout the early part of the episode, Marge is an enthusiastic supporter of this social perversion.

However, overthrowing the established moral order loses a bit of its appeal when she learns one of her own sisters is a lesbian. Reminds one of the adage that a liberal is a conservative that has not been mugged yet, her revulsion at the prospects of her sister falling into this lifestyle serving as a testament to the disgust many experience to the practice despite their best efforts at being good little radicals and harping the party line.

Though most would be reluctant to admit it, the world depicted on “The Simpsons” is probably one of the most realistic reflections of the American moral climate on television today. If the episode meant to proclaim the joys and beauty of gay marriage to the nation is wracked by as much reluctance to the practice as was able to wiggle its way into the plot, it means — though tottering on the edge of the abyss — there is still a sliver of hope provided Americans of principle don’t cower before these boisterous libertines.

Copyright 2005 by Frederick Meekins

Hillary needs more, you know, reinvention
– By Michael M. Bates

It seems like only yesterday that many Americans were introduced to Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was before we learned she’s the world’s smartest woman.

It was 1992. Another of those malicious bimbo eruptions was plaguing her husband’s presidential campaign. Damage control was required, so the Clintons showed up on 60 Minutes to exchange adoring glances and chat about how much they love, honor and respect one another. At least during elections years.

Mz Clinton said: “You know, I’m not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette… And, you know, if that’s not enough for people, then heck, don’t vote for him.”

Here was a highly educated woman with degrees from prestigious universities, the chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, a high-powered attorney. Yet she used the grating -at least to me – “you know” as a conversation filler twice in only three sentences………….
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Bush gave a transformational speech Tuesday at the National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC. I am sure we will see the Europeans and their like minded US compatriots in the Democratic Party and the Main Stream Media claim what he said there was just blather and nothing new if they comment on it at all. But this speech was quite a thing, really.

Along with affirming that the USA has entered into a new century with a new foreign policy direction that Bush is not going to waver from, he also aimed a shot across the bow of the US State Department. I hope they were listening.

He started off the segment of his speech aimed at the Dept. of State with this excellent line:

“This status quo of despotism and anger cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or bought off.”

He is telling the Brent Scowcrofts and Colin Powells of the world that the stabilizing, Real politick ideas they learned from Henry Kissinger and others who postulated similar old style machinations of pre 1950s Europe are not going to be acceptable to Americans any more. I say hallelujah. That one line describes the principles free actions of the US State Dept. for the last 60 years. It is about time we stopped giving our enemies the ammunition to tear the USA down that the State Dept. has provided for so long with their many missteps, bad decisions and advice.

“The advance of hope in the Middle East requires new thinking in the region.” Continued Bush with his admonition. Darn right. This is one of the reasons that Colin Powell leaving the State Dept. is 4 years late.

Bush then said, “By now it should be clear that authoritarian rule is not the wave of the future, it is the last gasp of a discredited past.” Are you listening, gentlemen? Condi Rice should be given the free hand to whip her charge into shape to fall in line with Bush’s more principled foreign policy line of thinking.

And if the State boys didn’t get it by that point in the speech, Bush clarified it with, “The advance of hope in the Middle East also requires new thinking in the capitals of great democracies, including Washington, D.C.”

Were you listening, State Dept.? Bush may as well have said, “Can you hear me now?” New thinking, boys. That means throw out the dogeared play-book written by the moribund denizens of the Truman and Eisenhower State Departments and get with the new program.

Still not clear, Foggy Bottom? Well then, carefully listen to this from the President’s address: “By now it should be clear that decades of excusing and accommodating tyranny in the pursuit of stability have only led to injustice and instability and tragedy.”

And Bush nailed it with these last three segments:

“It should be clear that the advance of democracy leads to peace because governments that respect the rights of their people also respect the rights of their neighbors.

It should be clear that the best antidote to radicalism and terror is the tolerance and hope kindled in free societies.

And our duty is now clear: For the sake of our long-term security, all free nations must stand with the forces of democracy and justice that have begun to transform the Middle East.”

Appeasement and accepting the rule of dictators in other countries to sponsor hoped for “stability” is the game of last century. No longer will America avert its eyes as despots murder, imprison and abuse their own peoples so that our nation’s business interests can continue without molestation. We will do as we always SHOULD have done. Support democracy and freedom throughout the world. After all, that is the only avenue to REAL stability anyway.

Let us hope that Bush uses one of the largest brooms ever wielded in Washington to sweep Foggy Bottom clear of the dregs of old European foreign policy lovers and the failed policies, both morally and in outcome, of the last 60 years.

Life, Liberals and the Pursuit of Judicial Tyranny
– By Christian Hartsock

Michael Schiavo seems awfully eager to have his wife starved to death. Fifteen years following her “accidental” collapse which left her with severe brain damage and mysterious bone fractures not yet accounted for by her husband even to this day, Terri Schiavo’s death sentence has been set for March 18 by Florida Circuit Judge George Greer.

While he wasn’t meeting, impregnating and getting engaged to other women, Mr. Schiavo has spent the past decade-and-a-half endeavoring to deprive Terri of the nutrition and hydration supply that is keeping her alive. Admittedly, throughout his lovely legacy of feverishly pushing to have his wife disposed of like yesterday’s garbage, Mr. Schiavo has come up with at least one slam-dunk rationalization: her inferior ability to swallow properly………..
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Why Europe is Soft on Terror
– By Justin Darr

The current negotiations between France, Germany, England and Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear power, and probably nuclear weapons program can be summarized into one sentence: Nothing short of war is going to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. If Europe wants to pay the Iranians to lie to them about it, then the Iranians will be more than happy to oblige.

To Americans, the actions of the Europeans seem to defy logic. How can they entertain the notion Iran is not trying to build a bomb in light of its history, stated ambitions, refusal to allow full, unfettered, inspections, and the little fact that they are trying to bury their program in bomb hardened shelters under civilian areas? It is childishly obvious that the only reason the Iranians are even participating in talks is to buy the time necessary for them to complete their nuclear weapons program. However, Europe still seems to be doggedly determined to be led around by the nose by the Iranians, even to the point of jeopardizing their own safety…………
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– By Vince Johnson

These thoughts were made about the time our original 13 states adopted the Constitution. There is some dispute about who authored the above. Some believe these were the observations of a Scottish History Professor named Alexander Tytler. Various scholars suggest that Benjamin Disraeli, and/or others made these comments.

In my view, the source doesn’t matter. What matters is that it makes me uncomfortable when I read it. The “sequence” is very logical, and closely matches my understanding of the history of the United States: Follow along and see if you agree………..
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Social Security Reform Dead Already?
– By Warner Todd Huston

The President’s detractors on Social Security reform are claiming that the issue is already dead. But how could that possibly be a reasoned determination of the issue? There hasn’t really even been any debate about the issue as of yet. All we have been treated to thus far is out of school polemics.

President Bush was reelected In November, last. His newest term began on January, last. That was five months and three months ago respectively. The new legislative session has barely begun. When have we yet had the time to discuss in the halls of Congress this incredibly culturally touchy and complicated issue? When, exactly, has Congress discussed the issue that Bush made one of the central goals in his State of the Union speech of only 32 days ago, an idea for which he has only just begun to campaign for amongst the US people?

Can we legitimately claim that this issue is failed after so little time between Bush’s formal announcement of his intent to pursue the program and now, barely a single month later? It certainly seems preposterous to make such an illogical assumption………..
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Writer Thompson didn’t die “like a champion”
– By Michael M. Bates

Writer Hunter S. Thompson was on the phone with his wife last month when he decided to terminate more than the call. He ate the .45 caliber pistol he’d been fondling.

I was no fan of Thompson’s literary contributions. The truth is I never read any of them. And not just because this highly acclaimed author’s best work, such as it is, came over three decades …………
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Utah is debating whether or not they will forego $116 million in Federal funds for their schools. Utah politicos are claiming that the Federal government has too many stringent requirements attached to the program and that they want more control over their own schools.

The Utah House of Reps has unanimously passed a bill that would use state money only for education authored by a Mother of 12, Rep. Margaret Dayton. In this manner the state could control the standards for its children. “This is not a partisan issue; this is a states’ rights issue,”
Dayton said.

The Utah Senate anticipates quick passage, which the Republican governor is expected to sign.

Let us hope that Utah passes this legislation and does ignore the Federal government’s “help” with education. The Constitution does not say anywhere in it that the Federal government should be allowed to spend Federal money on education in the states. Rep. Dayton is wholly correct, it IS a state issue.

Colorado, Idaho, North Dakota, and Virginia and soon several other states, are all considering opting out of the No-child-left-behind act.

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) has reintroduced the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (HR800), protecting firearm manufacturers and dealers from frivolous lawsuits.

Reps. Tom Tancredo and Mark Souder are seeking broader sponsorship on a bill that would formally recognize Taiwan and essentially scrap our “One China” policy in favor of a “One China, One Taiwan” policy.

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) introduced the Financial Customer Identification Verification Improvement Act (HR815), which would prohibit the use of identification cards issued by foreign governments, including matricula consular cards, for purposes of verifying the identity of a person who wants to open an account at a U.S. financial institution.

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett reintroduced HR43, to restore the celebration of George Washington’s birthday to a federal holiday and effectively end “President’s Day”- which the federal government never officially recognized, it should be noted.

Call your representatives and senators and let them know what YOU think.

Here is a GREAT article by a Lt. Col. in our armed forces that is saying what I have been saying for over a year; the “free” press seems to be interested in defeating the USA in Iraq.

Here are a few excerpts (CLICK ON THE TITLE TO SEE ENTIRE ARTICLE)…

World’s view of Iraqi reality is distorted
By LTC Tim Ryan – Guest Columnist

All right, I’ve had enough.

I am tired of reading distorted and grossly exaggerated stories from major news organizations about the “failures” in the war in Iraq. “The most trusted name in news” and a long list of others continue to misrepresent the scale of events in Iraq. Print and video journalists are covering only a fraction of the events in Iraq and, more often than not, the events they cover are only negative.

The inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the world view of the daily realities in Iraq. The result is a further erosion of international support for the United States’ efforts there, and a strengthening of the insurgents’ resolve and recruiting efforts while weakening our own. Through their incomplete, uninformed and unbalanced reporting, many members of the media covering the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy.

Ironically, the press freedom that we have brought to this part of the world is providing support for the enemy we fight.

Senator Harry Reid is trying to make a big name for himself where it concerns President Bush’s judicial nominations that the Senate has been snarled with since Bush’s election in 2000. Reid is just the latest in a line of Senate obstructionists who have done their level best to thwart the will of the majority of the American people. When I think of this Reid another Reed comes to mind. Speaker of the House Tom Reed from the 1880s, to be specific, who once said “We live in a world of sin and sorrow. Otherwise there would be no Democratic Party.”

The current Reid is just the latest example of the left using tactics now that they decried when they were a nascent ideology at the dawn of the 20th century. The Progressives of the late 1800s and early 1900s created a novel way to look at the creation of the Constitution and, therefore, this country. It was a conspiracy theory to beat all conspiracy theories.

The biggest proponent of it was a writer (some call him an historian, but he was no such thing, in reality) named Charles Beard. The novel idea that he proposed in 1912 was that the Founding Fathers hated Democracy and had no interest in philosophy, but were just money grubbing, selfish creeps who wanted to keep the vaunted “people” in misery and poverty. He basically called all the Founders liars. He further went on to state that the Founders used the courts to force their ideas on an unwilling populace, thereby bypassing legislature and democracy. By the way, according to a Beard friend, Matthew Josephson, Charles Beard once described himself as “almost a socialist” in the early 1900s. Shocking, I know.

From that point on leftist intelligensia became fond of claiming that the establishment, the government and the country itself was illegitimate because democracy was thwarted and so it all must be destroyed because of that early deception. They patted themselves on the back that THEY were more “democratic” than Republicans at the turn of the century or any American politician since the founding.

But, do we see what Democrats and Leftist’s are now doing and have been doing since FDR’s days in office? That’s right, hypocritically thwarting democracy by using the courts to go around the legislature as they castigated the Founders for doing. So, now we get back to why Harry Reid is obstructing Bush’s judicial nominations. Now we must consider why, for the first time in US Senate history, that filibusters are being used against even lower court nominations. Now we can realize why Harry Reid and his un-democratic Democrats are so intent on trying to “screw things up” in the Senate (Reid’s very words Last week). They wish to be LESS democratic. THEY wish to be sure that judges who do not toe the line of their social agenda are to be denied a place in the courts of this country.

At issue is their impotency at the ballot box. They are losing more and more offices as each decade has passed since the Reagan revolution in 1980. But, even before that they realized that their socialist leaning agenda was not something the average American would agree to. So, the courts was the balm they could spread upon their bleeding hearts. If the American people aren’t smart enough to agree with the social liberals, then go around them, was and is their cry. Why not? The Founders did it, after all. And FDR did, too. And they were all successful, right?

Only the godfather of this idea that the Founders were anti-democratic created his new polemic on faulty historical analysis. His was an historical fraud of finding “proof” to fit his preconceived “almost a socialist” agenda. Nearly everything the Founder’s did in the Constitutional convention was based on the voluminous reading of philosophy and history that the Founders immersed themselves in. The ideas of democracy from the classical histories to that of recent times was the Mother’s milk of the Founder’s creation of the Constitution as the Federalists Papers makes abundantly clear. Further more, many of the Founders had quite a few run ins with the Supreme Court and other courts themselves and they, too, grumbled about “activist judges”. That very fact alone makes the lie to the very basis of the Left’s reasoning for court packing.

So, there we have it. Harry Reid is just another “almost a socialist” who is trying his level best to defeat the kind of democracy that the Founders AND the American people want.

I have one request of Harry’s constituents. Daschle this guy, will ya?

By Warner Todd Huston

William Rehnquist: The Lone Ranger no more
– By Michael M. Bates

Members of the Supreme Court traditionally toil in relative obscurity. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is no exception.

In the early 70s President Richard Nixon mistakenly called him “Renchburg” in a conversation. Only a few months later, Mr. Nixon, presumably now knowing the man’s actual name, nominated him to the Supreme Court.

William Rehnquist has served on the court for over 30 years. More than half that time, he’s been the chief justice. Still, most Americans don’t know who he is, despite the substantial influence he’s had on the United States and its people…………
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Well, the EeeeEwww (that’s European Union, or EU, to the uninitiated) has fooled another nation into its foolishness. Spain has voted and approved further investigation into belonging to the EU.

But to show the false facade that these pernicious thieves hide behind, look at how they phrased the question put before Spanish voters:

“Do you approve the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe?”

Yeah, right. Seemingly innocent enough. Notice how this bland question doesn’t inform the voters what they are in for, eh? The EU will rob all its member states to fund an unwieldy monster of a nanny state that will give free rides to france and Germany, whilst everyone else will be expected to foot the bill. So far that is its history and I don’t see any reason why that should change.

But, the Spaniards have been easy to fool before, now haven’t they?

Two Decades
– By Hans Zeiger

It is my twentieth birthday. When I became an American two decades ago at 9:33 in the evening, Tacoma General Hospital, I was a survivor of abortion. Every child born in those days, and in the twelve years prior and in all the years since, has been a survivor. If ever birth cries were justified, mine were. I had much to mourn………
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After Fundraising Scandal, College Republicans Brace for Contested Election
– By John T. Plecnik

Regardless of age, we have all heard the phrase, “First Amendment Rights,” bandied about. Free speech has been the rallying cry of the liberal elite since the 60s, and every time violent protesters are beaten back by police or cordoned off from a rally, the ACLU comes a calling. However, the same team of trial lawyers, rebel billionaires and Deaniacs turn a blind eye toward the abuses of their academic brethren. America’s colleges and universities are anything but free speech zones. Contrary to their mantra of universal tolerance, Stalinist professors and administrators see intellectual diversity as a disease. Unpopular viewpoints, like a belief in absolute truth or the Republican Party, are actively discouraged ………
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Keeping the Faith… At Arm’s Length
– By Justin Darr

When television personality Bill Maher stated on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” that the religious suffer from a neurological disorder that “stops people from thinking,” he committed a grievous sin. Not against the Christian Community that he was mocking, but against his fellow liberals. You see, the Left as their own set of “10 Commandments,” and like our own, they do not want anyone seeing them in public. And, Bill Maher has broken one of the most sacred of these Commandments by being honest and articulating what he, and many other liberals think about America’s Christians…………
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The latest information on the September 11th hijackers reveals that Florida police stopped ringleader Mohamed Atta not once, but twice, in the two months prior to the attacks. But because Atta was able to produce a Florida state driver’s license, he was not detained. This is because Florida is one of 11 states that issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, allowing them free travel — in Atta’s case, air travel — throughout the country. Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s HR418, the “Real ID Act,” aims to prohibit the issuance to illegal aliens of any form of identification usable for a federal purpose — such as boarding a commercial aircraft.

Call your representatives and let them know how you feel!

It’s time to discourage the scoundrels
– By Michael M. Bates

Jack Paar told the joke about asking an old lady why she never voted. “It only encourages them,” she explained.

During the tax season, it’s a good time to point out that we have another opportunity to dishearten the scoundrels. Once you get past the personal identification information on Form 1040, the first question asked is if you want to give $3 to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund………..
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Recently, in a Wall Street Opinion Journal Op Ed the Eason Jordon story ceased to be about Eason Jordon and became an attack on the Bloggers who revealed it to the public.

Wow, was this Op Ed abrupt and petulant! In the piece, they claimed they make “grown-up decisions about what is newsworthy, and what isn’t” but shouldn’t it go without saying that the Journal does so? I think we all realize that the journal has every right to decide what they wish to write about, don’t we?

However, this piece reeks of backtracking and apologizing for their missing a huge story. It also reeks of arrogance, reading as if to say “WE know BETTER than YOU lowly readers what is news.”

Apparently whomever wrote this piece does not know what is news as not only did the Journal pass this story up until AFTER it was all said and done, but quite a lot of things transpired during the Blog minted “Easongate” that the Journal totally missed.

For instance, the writer of this piece acted as if Mr. Jordon just somehow accidentally said this outrage agaisnt the military in a sort of slip of the tongue only at the Davros conference. But Jordon has been reported (and NOT by Bloggers alone) saying similar things to other foreign gatherings.

This Op Ed denouncing the Bloggers reeks of another thing. Shooting the messenger. Bloggers reveald the story, they did not create it. Eason Jordon did so with his loose talk, inability to prove his allegations, and initial desire to whistle as he walked through the graveyard hoping the ghosties wouldn’t notice him!

Sorry, but the Journal is all wet on this one.

Now here is the fun of blogging. One can offer an opinion and within minutes one can find a refutation of that opinion somewhere on the web. It is quite fun, really. I have been alerted that a fellow Blogger has picked me as his latest target. Therefore, in the spirit of open debate, I enjoin the fray. Yep, this is gonna be fun.

That fellow Blogger, Kurt Nimmo, has taken exception to my latest titled “Leftist’s Tacit Support of Terrorism” , in which I warn our home grown anti-Americans that they should think harder about what they say in public in this new age of a general war on terrorism.

With the title he gave his critique, right off the bat you can tell that Mr. Nimmo wants to imagine that I said something that I did not say and that I mean something which I do not mean. He called his piece “Warner Todd Huston Wants You Locked Away”. What is it they say? As long as they spelled your name correctly?

In his fist paragraph, Mr. Nimmo is upset at me over what he thinks is my unexamined fealty to President George W. Bush and his “phony baloney war on terrorism.” Curiously, I never mentioned the President at all so he starts out his attack with a strawman he delights in knocking down. He also makes a similar leap in logic to proclaim that I feel any lawyer that represents an accused terror suspect must, therefore, be a confidante of terrorists and must be punished. Once again, I said no such thing. I did, however, mention a lawyer who it has been proven was a participant in her client’s terror activities and has now been punished and rightfully so. All quite in accordance to our laws both morally and legally.

But, I never mentioned the President, nor did I condemn all defending lawyers in such a blanket way as Mr. Nimmo submits that I did. I can see that emotionalism is going to be the order of the day. But wait, all this wailing and gnashing of teeth is just Nimmo warming to his game.

In his next paragraph, Nimmo claims that I feel that racism and sexism are the American way of life, when he notices that I use disparagingly a quote attributed to the convicted Lynne Stewart. Yet he emphasizes the wrong aspect of the quote in the context in which I was using it. Nimmo utterly ignores the section where Stewart advocates violence to achieve the ending of “sexism and racism” in the USA that Nimmo imagines I somehow want continued. Regardless of the fact that “racism and sexism” was not in any way a subject of the piece I wrote, Nimmo imagines that his capability to read my mind is complete. He conveniently ignores the fact that my Op Ed was about terrorism and that Stewart ADVOCATED terrorism within her OWN country to rid us of “racism and sexism”. It is an astonishing thing for him to ignore as it would be assumed that Nimmo would excoriate me if I were to say that liberals should have violence perpetrated against them to rid us of leftism. It can only be assumed that Nimmo is FOR terrorism, if only when it is leveled against the “right” enemy.

Tsk, tsk, Mr. Nimmo. You should be warned that advocating terrorism might get you thrown out of the Liberal Clubhouse. Then again, maybe it won’t.

Next up, I was accused of saying that people such as Noam Chomsky and this silly Ward Churchill fellow should stop speaking their minds for fear of being condemned to death because the convicted Stewart could possibly face such a fate in the upcoming penalty phase of her trial. But, there is no such law on the books that might condemn people to death for political tract writings of a Chomsky or the banal uttering of a Churchill nor am I suggesting we institute one.

The amusing thing he wrote in this part, though, was this: “… I said death sentence, because that is essentially what Lynne Stewart may receive. She is 65 years old and could face as much as 45 years in prison at her July 15 sentencing.” To me this is curious, as it seems to assume that no one who is so decrepit and old as 65 years of age should have their crimes receive a befitting penalty just because they are that old and decrepit! One could imagine that in Mr. Nimmo’s world one should wait until that untouchable age of 65 to go on that killing spree they have always dreamed of launching. After all, they are OLD, man. You can’t properly punish an old person, can you?

He also quotes another attorney who is worried that the eavesdropping that the Federal government did to amass the evidence against Stewart destroys the lawyer/client relationship and will make future defense attorneys afraid to represent their client properly. This is a farce. No attorney is being told not to represent their client, but what they are being told is that they should not ASSIST their client with terrorist operations which is exactly what Stewart did. There is no serious threat to representation with the conviction of Stewart at all.

Next, I am being accused of desiring to stop anyone who is against current US policy from saying his piece. But I clearly said supporting terrorism against the USA (ala a Ward Churchill for instance) was the type of inciting to terrorism I was against. After all, I was quite against most of what Bill Clinton did in the 1990’s with his foreign policy and it proves that I was right since what he did contributed to the disaster of 9/11. But, I certainly wouldn’t have wanted Clinton’s leftist goon squad coming down on me in the 1990’s. Nor do I want to squelch leftist dissent today in a like manner.

Amusingly he casts about that discredited 100,000 Iraqi casualty figure to bolster his thin argument. Along the lines of telling the lie loud enough and long enough and it will become truth, I suppose. He also proves he has no real knowledge of what America’s Founding Fathers imagined “free speech” was with this: “It is sincerely interesting how these guys turn the constitutional right to engage in free speech into fascism”.

The Founders did not imagine that they were opening the door to every last citizen the “right to free speech” when they were creating the Constitutional Union. “Free speech” was a political right, not a public one as I clearly define in the original Op Ed, which he conveniently ignores. Then they defined that political right as the right of politicians to enter into debate on the issues of the day without the fear of the National Government shutting them down. We based much of our political terminology and law structures on the English Common Law with the most famous interpretation of that being written by Sir William Blackstone. Blackstone defined “free speech” to be a Parliamentary right and did not extend it to the citizenry at large. He and the Founding Fathers thought that government had every right to curtail speech for the “good of the common weal”. So, Nimmo is wholly wrong to say that we have a nation based on the type of “free speech” that he imagines the Founders understood. Further, the Supreme Court has repeatedly shown that Government does reserve the right to quell certain kinds of “free speech”.

Now, I feel comfortable ignoring his racist remarks after that and will go on to more substantive points … well, as substantive as Nimmo gets, anyway.

His next criticism is rather convoluted and hard to follow but I will make an attempt to do so here. Nimmo somehow mistakes my admonition to home grown anti-Americans to be more careful of what they say in public to my desire to put down any manner of criticism against US foreign policy. He then makes some kind of fantastic leap that I would imagine that what a Chomsky or Churchill says might directly incite Iraqis to attack Americans to “violently resist the illegal occupation of their country.” I really don’t imagine that most Iraqis would or even could easily discover what Chomsky or Churchill is saying, but it doesn’t take every common Iraqi dissenter against American policy to have done so for an adverse effect to occur none-the-less. Only the ideological leaders need pay attention to a Chomsky or Churchill to imagine they have the USA on the ropes, so-to-speak, and take the supporting blather of Chomsky and Churchill to heart. Chomsky and Churchill give succor to the ideological leaders of anti-Americanism and that is quite sufficient to filter down to the terrorists in the “Arab street” to assist them in their aims.

To go on, Nimmo challenges me to find where Chomsky or Churchill did give support to terrorism. Churchill’s comments were widely reported, after which he upheld them instead of repudiating them. So, his perfidy is widely dispersed and I don’t have to go on about it here as it is easily found. Chomsky is, of course, quite a bit more careful of what he does say in his anti-American tirades, but people like David Horowitz have amply delineated Chomsky’s tacit support of anti-American activities, so my efforts would be rather unnecessary to say the least.

But, and here Nimmo goes off the deep end once again, I did say TACIT approval of terrorism. Such as when Churchill said that innocent men and women deserved what they got on 9/11. Of course one can be intellectually dishonest and claim that he didn’t directly call for them to be blown up on that terrible day, but his tacit approval is no better than a direct call for such. It should be remembered, though, the very title of my original piece had the word “tacit” included right in it upfront.

By the way, Nimmo teases us with a “lastly” just before the last section above, yet drones on for another two paragraphs. The left ain’t much for “truth in advertising”, are they?

So, he goes on to say that he is “afraid” of the “kind of terrorists who sit in the White House and the Pentagon” in a typical placard waving, left speak for “I have nothing terribly insightful to say”. But he gets right to the kind of hate speak that I was talking about in my entire Op Ed when he goes on with:

“In fact, I hope for a day when sane people in other countries-most of whom declare emphatically in polls, over and over, that they are afraid of the sociopaths in the White House, the Pentagon and Congress-put an end to the murderous madness you support.”

Amazing. The left really must be terror ism supporters, then. I mean, this polemic isn’t even “tacit” approval but outright advocacy of violence against our own country. This is exactly what I was talking about. The self hating desire to see some foreign country come down and destroy this evil United States of America. What a horrible wish.

His last (and this REALLY a proper “lastly” this time) outrageous paragraph is priceless, so I will dissect it section by section.

“As for the resultant economic misery and privation that will result, you can only blame yourself, Warner Todd Huston…”

Ah, you mean the kind of economic “privation” that the USA is responsible for that has raised the standard of living upon every continent of the globe? THAT economic “privation”?

“… I will not be calling for you to receive a life sentence for engaging in free speech. As scurrilous and hurtful as your speech is – as you demand imprisonment for those who dare disagree with you…”

Where did I do that again? Oh, yeah, when I gloried in the disgraced lawyer’s conviction for aiding and abetting the operations of a convicted terrorist, that’s where. Funny how he extends my glee at a criminal correctly punished as my desire to attack everyone who doesn’t agree with me.

“…and your heroes, Bush and the Strausscons – it is protected by the Constitution, that is for as long as we cherish that document, as you obviously do not.”

Ha, ha. Yeah, we evil “Strausscons”. First of all I am sure that Nimmo never heard of Leo Strauss until he got his leftist talking points email and I’d guess he still doesn’t know who he was or what he taught to this very day. Secondly, I have already proven he doesn’t know a thing about the Constitution nor the Founders who created it. But it is highly doubtful that he does cherish the document as he claims in any case. But that is just my guess.

Lastly (and I REALLY mean it, unlike Mr. Nimmo), His Blog ends with the typical spot where readers are invited to offer their comments to what he has written. With his much ballyhooed claim that he is a great advocate of free speech, one would imagine that Mr. Nimmo is eagerly awaiting your comments. Yet this is the last segment of his entry on my piece…

“Leave a comment … Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.”

Priceless, just priceless!!

Yep, this REALLY was fun!

By Warner Todd Huston

The War Within the War
– By Justin Darr

On March 5th, 2002, long before there was a Camp X-Ray, American Petty Officer Neil Roberts fell out of his helicopter while on an operation in Afghanistan and was promptly bludgeoned, had his throat slit from ear to ear, and was shot in the back of the head by his terrorist captors. International human rights organizations were united in one voice expressing their outrage at this flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war. Oh, wait, did I accidentally say “expressed outrage?” No, I meant to say “expressed serious concern.” No, that is not right either. Perhaps a better term would be “noticed that it happened.” Actually, that is incorrect as well. The reality of the matter is that the only thing the international human rights community has been united in expressing about the wonton slaughter and torture of not just American POW’s, but civilian reporters, contractors, school children and pretty much anyone else who has the misfortune of being in their general vicinity, has been nothing…………
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Representative Jeff Flake (R, Arizona) has introduced the United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act. This act would withhold U.S. contributions to the UN until the President certifies that the UN is cooperating in the investigation of the “Oil-for-Food” Program.

Also California Representative Duncan Hunter has introduced the Right to Life Act. This act seeks to extend the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to include the right to life of each born and pre-born individual.

Contact your Federal Representative’s office and urge them to favor these bills.

After taking down CBS and Dan Rather in the Bush National Guard document fiasco the Bloggers have won another round with the Main Stream Media. Several weeks ago it was reported that CNN’s chief news executive, Eason Jordon, claimed that US forces were hunting down and assassinating journalists in Iraq. He claimed at a conference in Davros, Switzerland that he knew of 12 journalists killed by US soldiers. And Davros wasn’t the only place Mr. Jordon has said such outrageous things.

Bloggers called for his proof. They said he simply cannot be allowed to gallivant across the Globe, harming the USA’s reputation as he travels, offering no proof what so ever for his comments yet being considered an upstanding representative of CNN, and by extension, the country.

We in the Blogosphere clamored for the video tape of the conference at which Jordon gave his unsolicited comments. Curiously, the people at the World Trade Conference refused to reveal it. Bloggers speculated on how bad this looked for Jordon. We all wondered aloud, and quite loudly at that, if the tape was so damning in evidence against Mr. Jordon that they didn’t want to get involved. And, save some weak disclaimers from CNN, Jordon did not respond publicly on the controversy.

Jordon did pass a memo to his coworkers at CNN trying to explain away his comments which said, in part “I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise.” But this seems a rather weak protest since he said the very same things he is attempting to distance himself from at other times and in other places as reported by The Guardian Newspapers in England, just for one.

In his resignation announcement, Jordon said “I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq.”

However, it would seem to many that his desire to prevent the tarnishing of CNN is a day late and a dollar short. CNN is fast losing an audience as the recent numbers showed. For example, viewership of Fox News was at a 5 to 1 ratio to that of CNN’s audience during President Bush’s recent State of the Union speech showing CNN’s weakness. It is fast becoming the CutRate News Network.

Now Eason Jordon has been toppled. A man who is responsible for passing wild eyed, anti-American conspiracy theories in foreign lands is not the kind of person who should have such a high standing position at a world wide and highly visible news network such as CNN.

So, mark another victory for the Bloggers. Well fought for a noble end.

By Warner Todd Huston

Leftist’s Tacit Support of Terrorism
– By Warner Todd Huston

February 10, was a banner day in the fight against terrorism domestically. A shot was fired over the bow of all those on the American left who support terrorism against the USA, either outright or in their secret inner souls. Liberals have been shown that at long last the courts will no longer be automatically expected to turn a deaf ear to assisting terrorists in word or deed. Lynne Stewart, attorney for WTC bombing suspect Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, has been convicted of aiding terrorists through her role as a privileged confidante of the convicted terrorist…………
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Finally, a modest step toward fiscal sanity
– By Michael M. Bates

On Monday President Bush unveiled his proposed budget for next year. Amid the howling, shrieking, whining, wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects, it may be tempting to overlook the question of how draconian the recommended cuts really are. The answer: Not very…………
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“It’s the Values, Stupid!”
– By Christian Hartsock

It seems Republicans have been taking their recent landslide victory for granted both too much and too little. After winning 19 senate seats and reclaiming the presidency by a whopping 3.5 million margin in the largest popular vote in history, Republicans are apparently losing sight of those particular aspects of their social agenda which specifically accounted for this monumental success. Worse: the Democrats have been taking notes.

Ironically, after months of incessant weeping and gnashing of teeth, the left may have ultimately learned more from the sobering election results than the GOP even has – so much that they have begun taking noticeable steps towards reforming their image. Most recently, Hillary Clinton has been gushing over her religious faith; at least four CBS employees have either resigned or been fired; and most astonishingly, Michael Moore was last seen clean-shaven………..
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Scoll down for our Eason Jpordon Reports…

After Fundraising Scandal, College Republicans Brace for Contested Election
– By John T. Plecnik

As our nation gets used to the idea of Howard Dean serving as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, another national, political organization is looking for leadership. The College Republican National Committee (CRNC) is preparing to host elections during its 56th biennial convention in Arlington, V.A. From June 24-26, the most influential members of the College Republicans will join their elder cousins in the GOP for a massive rally and election. Every national office, from Chairman to Treasurer, is up for grabs.

For anyone foolish enough to write off the CRNC as child’s play, consider the millions of dollars they’ve raised, their paid staff and army of volunteers. Even the White House keeps an eye on their favorite students. The elections for national office are no game, and some candidates are expected to raise thousands of dollars for their campaigns.

Ironically, all this money might be our biggest problem. While various factions jockey for position, the infamous fundraising scandal of last fall remains, pardon the pun, the elephant in the room. ………
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Well, I have waited a bit to make this update on the CNN Eason Jordon story to see what CNN and the main stream media would do with it. It has been three days so far and the MSM (main stream media) seems to be struck dumb over it as barely a mention has been made of the story.

I feel we are seeing the stark limitations of the MSM here. Since the video or taped sounds of this comment from Eason Jordon is not being revealed by the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, the MSM is unable to make sense of the story, apparently. If no one can hear it, I suppose they imagine it was not said.

Now, we in the blogosphere can be imagined to be taking Mr. Jordon’s comments out of context like the CNN email reply claims. After all, we have only one confirmation of the original report by Rony Abovitz, that being a confirmation of the report by a person who is friendly in ideology to Eason Jordon, reporter Rebecca McKinnon, who was also at the conference. We also must admit that the Bloggers can be susceptible to a certain level of “group think” (all feeding off each other and no one actually able to confirm this report) or a propensity to be over active in their own reports. This is a danger as Bloggers we must admit to and work hard to avoid.

However, that being said, there seems to be enough confirmations that this story has some validity. We also have begun to find past instances where Mr. Jordon has acted the lose cannon. He said, for instance, that US forces have been torturing journalists in Iraq. According to The Guardian newspaper from the UK, Jordon said “The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces.” Apparently Jordan told this to an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal.

So now we are at a crossroads as to what we should believe in this case. Do we go down the road that believes that this story got overblown by the Blogosphere? Or do we go down the one that leads to the Bloggers being right? The one where Eason Jordon is the kind of person who is unable to keep an even temper in front of foreign audiences, the one where he lapses into denunciations of his own country with absolutely no proof what so ever for his claims? I have waited a prudent time, I believe, to arrive at the later since my first report on Wednesday, Feb. 2nd .

So where are we? We have CNN making a half hearted disclaimer after which they have left the story uninvestigated to date. We have seen several other stories proving Mr. Jordon’s tendency to go off at the mouth. We have seen a lack of proof for his claims. And, more importantly, we are beginning to find out that the original report is most likely correct in its facts through a confirmation by a source also at the conference and agreeing with the tenor of Mr. Abovitz’ report.

Now, I believe it is time for Eason Jordon to be called on the carpet. Mr. Jordon, we call on you to either prove your claims or resign the important position you have as CNN “news” chief. After all, the news is the job of an investigator and reporter, not a place for the next Steven King to hone his fictional prose style nor is it the place for a wile eyed conspiracy theorist or polemicist.

You have placed yourself in front of foreign audiences and claimed that the US Forces have hunted down and killed journalists. You have also claimed that US forces have kidnapped journalists and tortured them. These claims, said before foreign audiences, harm the reputation of the United States of America. But we Americans are seriously interested in justice. If you have proof that US forces have done these vile things and as many as 12 times at that, then you are under a moral obligation to reveal this truth to the US people. We WILL, as a nation, have the heads of those who ordered such horrors.

However, chances are that you are just another loud mouthed US hater that is more interested in hurting the USA and it’s reputation than in finding any truth or reporting any true story. If THIS turns out to be the case, I demand, as a US citizen, that CNN fire this ignorant, destructive and borderline treasonous man.

Eason Jordon must be fired unless he can prove his allegations.

It’s just that simple.

By Warner Todd Huston