tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60530232012-02-16T17:01:55.189-06:00Informed observations on the news. Right of Center. Mostly rational... with a touch of semi-hysterical.Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.comBlogger3591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-53583584636125286072011-06-10T20:11:00.000-05:002011-06-10T20:11:51.296-05:00

I am realizing of late that I am spread to thin, over too many social media sites and blogs, and much less effective with my voice than I could be. I'm going to reflect on that, and remedy it, likely with a new more focused blog  elsewhere on Blogger. Since you are here, stay a while and prowl through my archives of 300+ plus posts on my very first, and in some ways favorite blog. Start at

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Ah, the "Birther" issue. The Obama conspiracy issue that will not, and perhaps cannot, go away. I've studied it at length, and it took me a while to puzzle it all out. But I have. And, if you'll grab an Hawaiin Ice and buckle in, I can guide you to a unique insight as to why you're wrong about what you think that you know about Birther lore. It takes a while to to unravel this story, but it's

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This week, in the course of pandering to and appeasing his White House guest - Mexico's President Calderon - President Obama sequentially undermined Arizona's new immigration law and then expressed sympathy for it. It's a misdirected expression of frustration, he said, at America's broken immigration system. He shares that frustration, he assures us, because he wants "Comprehensive Immigration

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I have opined on Twitter that, in my opinion, President Obama's nominee for the SCOTUS vacancy - Elena Kagan - is disqualified for the position by virtue of the reports of her banning military recruiters from campus when she served as Dean of the Harvard Law School. My opinion is my own, and is not formed from Newt Gingrich's similar pronouncements yesterday, or from any partisan website.A

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It's heating up!The issue of the 5 kids who wore American flat t-shirts to a California public schools on Cinco de Mayo is more than a one day news story. It has become emblematic of the general tensions on the border - played out in the tensions in the public schools.The battle is engaged on Twitter and in the blogosphere, with Roger Ebert leading the team critical of the kids wearing the

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"Obama Kills at White House Dinner" was the headline I saw this morning. Making jokes at the expense of his fellow citizens in Arizona:"We know what happens in Arizona when you don't have an ID...Adios Amigos."Funny. A knee-slapper. Yucking it up - not like he had to be at an oil spill or anything.Nice, to have the President of the United States undermining federal immigration law - which the

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The American political left is outraged - outraged I tell you! - regarding the newly signed Arizona immigration law. But, as usual, they are outraged over the wrong things.The good people of Arizona, in a reasonable attempt to protect themselves against an ongoing criminal invasion of their state that sees 650,000 (probably more) people trespassing there and border chaos and violence that

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Folks. Friends. Let's keep a level head here.There is no more rapidly overheating issue, in an already overheated political season, than that of the recently passed Arizona state law addressing law enforcement responsibilities regarding immigration status. A law which codifies at the state level what already exists at the federal level.Arizona's new law is a reasonable response to an emergency.

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Wow. I see that I haven't posted here in almost a year...It's not that I haven't had anything political to say in that time. I've said plenty! I've just said it elsewhere, becoming addicted to posting on Roger Ebert's Journal. Commenting on a range of political, scientific, and religion issues with an international cast of characters. Holding my own, as the often lone conservative on a

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Elections have consequences.One of the very serious consequences is that the President - possibly one that you never agree with ideologically - gets to select Supreme Court nominees. If you want SCOTUS justices that vote the way you would like them too, then get your candidate elected President. It's as simple as that.Obama won. He has selected Judge Sonia Sotamayor for the first vacancy.I'm a

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The media's leftist double-standard in the coverage of Dr. Tiller's murder and in the non-coverage of the Marine recruiter's murder is blatant, but not surprising.Dr. George Tiller was murdered by a single shooter as he attended church Sunday in Kansas. Dr. Tiller is the most notorious abortionist in the country. He performs late-term abortions for cash, some 60,000 viable babies terminated in

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I was looking for a fight as I was flipping around on the channels tonight. I was thinking UFC, and I was headed for Spike TV. But I found a fight on C-Span that was better.The Congress critters had a table full of witnesses discussing the disolution of dealerships by GM and Chrysler as they go through bailouts and bankruptcy. The CEOs who had announced the closure of dealerships were at the

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Unlike most of the mainstream media, I am not swooning about President Obama's choices for his cabinet. Several seem to me to be remarkably poor choices.Some examples:- Timothy Geithner: a Treasury Secretary who is a tax cheat- Hillary Clinton: a Secretary of State who is indebted to many of the world leaders that she will try to influence, via cash deposits in the Clinton Library Foundation-

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There is anger in the land. Oh, yes.And right now it is directed at the $1 Billion "Porkulus" bill, masquerading as a stimulus bill. Pelosi crafted it. President Obama owns it. And the majority of Americans are angry about it.Make no mistake, Americans know when they are being lied to and are being taken advantage of - and we don't like it.It's like the old story of having your car break down on

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As expected, Barack Obama began his presidency last week with a flurry of Executive Orders, most to reverse Bush policies. Two notable ones:1. E.O.'s to ratchet back the government's aggressive policies against terrorism since 9/11. An order to close the detainee detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prohibiting aggressive interrogation techniques by the CIA, requiring the use of the Army Field

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So, I'm sitting in the cafeteria at work having lunch. The TV overhead is tuned to Headline News and, inevitably, Barack Obama.Our new President is, on his first day in office, signing Executive Orders to frame out his rules of the road for his Executive Branch. First up: ethics reform. He's bringing change to ethics and transparency, he's saying, so that America can trust it's government

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Have you ever known a teenager, or been one, who not only believed that all of the adults who came before him were irrelevant and stupid and who not only believed that they knew everything but that they invented everything? That they were the first person in the world to ever have experiences?That's the general feeling that I came away from yesterday's inauguration with. President Obama is one of

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In the last few minutes before President Obama takes the oath of office as the 44th president, let me just say:Thank you, President George W. Bush, for keeping our country and my family safe for the last seven years. No one expected, after the horror of 9-11, that we would not be attacked again on U.S. soil during your presidency. No one. And it was not an accident. You were, by necessity, the

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Which Democrat is behaving most egregiously in the last two months:-Rod Blagojevich – Illinois Governor. Caught by U.S. Attorney in a pay-for-play bid to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by PEBO. (President Elect Barack Obama).-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Announced that Obama is not implicated in the Blago scandal – even though he’s been taking testimony for years from Tony Rezko, who was

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Do you need any further evidence that journalism is dead in 2008 - totally in the tank for Obama and not doing their jobs - than the coverage today of the Obama Transition Team's meager 5 page report on Obama's dealings with Rod Blagojevich?Have we fallen into a strange parallel universe? On what planet do politicians get to investigate and clear themselves?When Obama has his own lawyer Greg

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Those of you not from Illinois are not prepared for the fallout of today's bombshell news of the FBI arrest of the Govenor of Illinois - Rod Blagojevich.But I am from Illinois, and I know how deep this is going to go. Today is just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are going down, including - I predict (and you heard it here first) the highest profile product of Crook County Illinois -

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As I've said, I've seen this movie before. And I don't want to sit through it again, so I'm tuning out as best I can.The eight years of the Clinton Administration were tough on me, mentally. (As, apparently, the eight years of the Bush Administration were on lefties). I got myself twisted in knots learning all about their misdeeds and trying to convince other people that they were doing bad

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I read today that President-Elect is bent on closing Gitmo when he takes office. Hmmmm. Is that wise?Let me digress a moment.Have you ever watched an old favorite movie and caught something that you had missed before?I had that experience this week. "Saving Private Ryan" - one of my favorites. If you can watch that movie and not get choked up when Tom Hanks - the hero Capt. Miller - is dying on

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It's fairly easy, if you've been watching his campaign for the last two years, to predict President Obama's action once he takes office.Those pundits who are all offering up their insights that Obama will have to "govern from the center" are fooling themselves. He will pay back the Democrat interests groups right away with a flood of Executive Orders, as all presidents do. The point this time is

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Where's John McCain?It's been more than a week since Govenor Sarah Palin, his chosen running mate, came under withering and remorseless fire - from his very own campaign staffers. Anonymous cowardly fire.My expectation would have been that he would publicly defend her, and insist that his former staffers stop it instantly.Isn't he the guy with self-proclaimed righteousness? The guy who would name

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First, the thank yous:1. Thank you, President Bush. You made the hard choices and kept us safe for 7 years after the biggest terrorist attack on our country. You brought us out of the economic and psychological hit that our nation took on that day. You changed our stance from defense to offense in this war that was thrust on us, and took down many of our enemy and reduced the threat to our very

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It's clear to me: John McCain lost because of John McCain.He had a chance to win, amazingly. Many pundits of pointed out the strong Democrat headwind this year. He should have been 20 points down. Yet Obama had so many weaknesses that McCain was competitive. He could have won, but didn't. Here's why:1. "Me too"-ism.I like Ann Coulter's theory that any time you give voters a choice between a

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First, let me just say that the trashing of Govenor Sarah Palin in the aftermath of the election by insiders of the McCain campaign is absolutely disgraceful. She was a net lift to the ticket, without doubt. McCain would have lost by a much bigger margin without her. She energized millions like me.Second, let me ask - where is John McCain defending her? It's Friday already and not a peep out of

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I guess it's becoming our national habit to trade nightmares every eight years.The Clinton years were a nightmare for me. Eight years of saying "Are you kidding me?" and "Can you not see how bad this guy is?". Apparently eight years of George W. Bush was a similar nightmare for some of you.Now we're switching again, and I'm headed for a long eight years of deep depression.Let me just say that

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I'm predicting a narrow McCain victory for tomorrow.I don't think McCain has run a good campaign. I think he completely wasted Sarah Palin's skills by keeping her off of the Sunday shows. McCain doesn't particularly deserve to win.The bottom line though: I just can't believe that America would elect a socialist radical like Obama for President. I just can't believe that it can happen.WAKE UP

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I was listening to WLS radio out of Chicago tonight on my drive home from work.They were commenting on the sheerly incredible logistics of the giant Obama election party in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. At least one million people headed downtown for a party. 200 port-a-potties. Their advice?:"If you live in Chicago, begin panicing now!"If McCain pulls out an upset tomorrow, it's going to get

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I hereby apologize to Sen. Obama.I was saying a lot last week that I didn't believe that Senator Obama's trip to Hawaii was for the stated purpose of visiting a sick and dying grandmother. I believed that it was to talk with Hawii officials to have them lock up his fraudulent birth certificate until after the election at least.His grandmother died today.I was wrong.He went for both reasons.My

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I was doing some browsing at the local gun and military surplus store this week.This place is an impressively masculine place, if you haven't been to one. Wall to wall machismo.They have guns - hundreds of them. Pick your projectile dispenser: handguns, rifles of every imaginable caliber, shotguns for hunting or home defense, assault rifles of various national origin.They have knives - cases of

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Is there a liberal bias in the media?If you have to ask that question in 2008, you are really not paying attention. Really. Because if you are paying attention, the degree that the media is either completely in the tank for one candidate (Yes, "the one"), or incompetent, or both is nauseatingly blatant.If you only read the mainstream sources of media, then you probably have a hard time picking up

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Honestly, I couldn't have lower expectations for tonight's 3rd Presidential debate.Moderator Bob Schiefer is not going to ask any interesting questions.Barack Obama is sitting on a lead and will play it extremely safe.The wildcard is McCain. Will he merely disappoint me, or will he - as is his habit - wildly infuriate me? Oh, the tension.....McCain could take Obama to task on a multitude of

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As wild as this whole presidential election ride has been for the past 20 months, I think there are plenty of surprises possible in the last 3 weeks.October surprises that could help Obama:- stock market completely tanks, public blames Bush- Nancy Pelosi leads impeachment of Bush- Dick Cheney has a heart attack- Colin Powell endorses ObamaOctober surprises that help McCain- terrorist attack

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As wild as this whole presidential election ride has been for the past 20 months, I think there are plenty of surprises possible in the last 3 weeks.October surprises that could help Obama:- stock market completely tanks, public blames Bush- Nancy Pelosi leads impeachment of Bush- Dick Cheney has a heart attack- Colin Powell endorses ObamaOctober surprises that help McCain- terrorist attack

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I'm always amazed at the ability of people to twist and distort an obvious fact in the political arena.Rep. John Lewis gave us an excellent example this week, by comparing the McCain campaign with George Wallace (in other words, calling them racists) of Alabama for calling Barack Obama a socialist.Now, I happen to be old enough to remember George Wallace. He was truly a racist. What does that

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So where does the truth lie in the re-emergence of the story of Barack Obama and his relationship with William Ayers?Is it, as Obama and his enablers in the media say, that it's irrelevant guilt by association?- That what Ayers did in bombing federal targets in the 60's in the Weatherman when Obama was 8 has nothing to do with Obama.- That Obama barely knows Ayers, "just a guy that lives in his

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I watched the snore-fest called a debate last night between John McCain and Barack Obama. Some thoughts:1. Two words: President Obama.2. I've seen this debate before: Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton in 1996, and we all know how that turned out. I was waiting for McCain to say, as Dole did, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy!"3. Does John McCain want to win this thing? Or is he in the tank for

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I have no doubt that Sarah Palin is going to do just fine tonight in the Vice Presidential debate.Especially is she is just herself and does not toe the wimpy McCain line.Let Sarah be Sarah!Her main message tonight has to be: Washington caused this economic mess with meddling in the markets. I'm not part of Washington.Nail that and she wins.I'm popping a big bowl of popcorn early for this one.I'm

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So, the U.S. Senate passed the Lurching-into-Socialism emergency bailout bill last night. Yipee.Here's why many Americans hate Congress: instead of passing this toxic bill straight-up, because it's an emergency and we need to save the country, they had to first add 300 PAGES of tax giveaways. Why? Because they know this bill had to pass and so they sneaked in all of the goodies and earmarks.

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John McCain's team will ruin Sarah Palin. I have no doubt.I also have no doubt that Palin would not be supporting this massive socialism-tinged bailout bill if she was not having to parrot John McCain.McCain is not a conservative. Said it many times. What he cares most about is bi-partisanship, which generally means Republicans selling out to appease Democrats. So, he's supporting this atrocious

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1. I couldn't disagree more with the "bipartisan" congressmen and pundits who keep saying that we shouldn't be talking about who is at fault for this economic meltdown, but should just proceed with the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout. If you don't correctly identify the cause, how can you be sure that you are not feeding $700 Billion Dollars right into the same mechanism?2. Make no mistake about it,

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The euphoria of John McCain naming Sarah Palin as his Vice President nominee is wearing off, and reality is setting in for me.Yes, it was the right choice. Brilliant, in fact. Yes, she's qualified. Yes, she's awesome.But.........two things threaten to take her down:1. The media hates her. Absolutely. She is a threat to them, not only because they were caught off guard having no idea who she was,

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Did I suddenly wake up in a socialist country this morning? Did we vote on that while we were sleeping?I've been worried for a while now about socialism lurking in the background, waiting to wreak itself on our country if the unimaginable happens and Barack Obama is elected. How could it not? Barack Obama has been steeped in Marxist associates and mentors since back in high school. Frank Marshall

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I have to admit, I am laughing myself silly at the incredible cluelessness of the mainstream media journalists (so called) and pundits on the topic of Sarah Palin. Really, how did these people get their jobs?Here are the two most glaring areas in which they are demonstrating less-than-competence:1. Who is Sarah Palin?Almost the entire media herd completely missed Sarah as a possible running mate

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My apologies to John McCain for my last post. He got it right!Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was my first choice of all of the short and long lists. It's an inspired pick and I give John McCain enormous credit for making it.Barack Obama last night: great speech - Check.John McCain today: inspired choice - Checkmate!

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I never underestimate the ability of John McCain to do something stupid. In fact, he revels in being the "maverick" and going against the Republican base.He needs the base in this election to beat Barack Obama.That does not mean that he will make a smart selection tomorrow as he announces his pick. I'm steeling myself for him to make a stupid pick.Picking a pro-choice politician would, for

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Really, Democrats have been propagating many big lies over the last few years in their desperation to win back power. I could give so many examples: "Bush lied, kids died". Bush was responsible for Katrina. The U.S. military has murdered millions in an illegal war in Iraq. It goes on and on.Now they've gone for broke in the Democratic National Convention. The new big lie is this:"The Bush-McCain

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History was made in America last night. It was the first time in our history that a black man was nominated to be the candidate for President by a major party. An African-American, no less - truly for once: the son of a Kenyan father of an American mother.I want to share the excitement of this historic moment. It does say something about America that this is possible. It's not possible in most of

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It's the ad that has made the presumptive presidential coronation of Barack Obama into a horse race again.I'm talking about John McCain's new ad featuring Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and the media's annointed one himself Senator Barack Obama?What do these three have in common?The answer to that question is kind of a Rohrshach test for journalists, and they are failing it badly. It's been

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What is John McCain doing campaigning in Mexico City today?Or Columbia yesterday?Is he trying to shore up the Bogata and Mexico City vote? Here's a hint to his campaign managers - they don't get to vote in our elections. (At least, not yet until McCain gets his way with comprehensive immigration reform and throws open our citizenship to everyone who can scramble over our borders.)Is he harboring

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As if you need further proof of the sad state of American journalism, this is the story over which journalists have most embarrased themselves in the last 9 months:'Pregnant Man' Gives Birth to GirlNo, using the quote marks around 'pregnant man' does not get them off of the hook.ABC News, in this case, and others continue to report this fake story as if they want you to believe that this is a man

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So, tell me:- if Barack Hussein Obama is the winner of the Democrat primary, why can't he win? Why did Hillary beat him in 2 of the last 3 primaries?- if Hillary is beaten, why didn't she concede and congratulate Obama last night in her speech after the primaries closed?The most explanative answer, I firmly believe, is that she must have seen the video.If you're politcally and internet savvy, you

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Surfing through political blogs today, on Easter Sunday, I was struck by how deeply unhinged the political left in this country has become - as evidenced by their hyperbolic vocabulary.Two articles on DemocraticUnderground.com in particular caught my eye:1. First an article about the sermon preached at Obama's church today about how to survive a "lynching". About how Rev. Wright has been "lynched

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Weren't we all taught in elementary school not to use double-negatives?Me, I don't never use them if I don't have to.Given that, I'm bugged by one particular clause in Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia on race. It's this clause, regarding his relationship with his race-baiting America-hating pastor:" I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."No dis-owning. A double

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Have you ever had an acquaintance who was a pathological liar? How did you distinguish them from the run-of-the-mill fibber?One sign, I'm sure you will agree, is when you catch them in a little lie that is so insignificant that there was no reason for them to have had to lie about it.I detected one of those senseless little lies in the Democrat talking points in the last couple of weeks, that

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So, by now I've read and listened to and re-read again Barack Obama's milestone speech on race relations in America - given in the context of needing to answer for his close association with his pastor, a racist America-hater. (It reads much better than it was delivered.)So, did I think it was a brilliantly written and totally unique speech addressing such a serious topic as the perfecting of the

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Thank you Democrats, for re-introducing the phrase "let's just move on" back into the political lexicon. (/sacrcsm off)For those of you younguns out there who don't remember the juicy scandal-filled Clinton years, this was a common phrase back in the 90's. In fact, so many Clinton surrogates who were trotted out to defend Slick Willie tried to change the subject by saying "There is nothing to see

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Does Presidential candidate Barack Whose-middle-name-cannot-be-spoken Obama, and his pride-deficient wife Michelle, like America?It's a reasonable question. Color me jingoistic, but I actually consider it a core qualification for running for the office of President of the United States of America that you actually like America. It may not be worded that literally in the Constitution - right there

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You know of course, that I was an avid conspiracy theorist in the Clinton years of the 90's. Loved 'em. Followed 'em. Ate 'em up.One of my favorite players in the various Clinton scandals was an extemely shadowy character named Bruce Lindsey. A longtime Clinton friend and advisor. Always there with Bubba, but just out of sight of the cameras. His ever present card playing partner on Air Force One

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The press reported today that President George W. Bush has vetoed Congressional legislation outlawing, among other things, the use of waterboarding by the CIA as an interrogation technique.Democrats in Congress have argued that the CIA should be limited to the interrogation techniques that the military is limited to in the Army Field Manual, that "torture is a black mark against the United States

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In the wake of the eggregious bombing of the military recruitment center in Times Square in New York this week, Democrats should pause and consider their complicity.The Democrat leadership and their allies in the media and blogosphere, in their blind hatred of all things George W. Bush and their quest to regain the power of the presidency, have been effectively trashing the military for going on

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This has, without doubt, been the most interesting presidential election cycle of my lifetime. Wow. Absolutely nothing is going as predicted by the pundits or pollsters. Bad for them. Good for us.One of the most interesting aspects has been the seminar being put on by the Democratic Party on how to screw up a nomination process. It's a total mess on that side of the nominating aisle - not that I

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A year ago most Democrats, by all accounts, thought that two things were inevitable:1. Hillary Clinton will be the party nominee.2. Any Democrat will win the White House because of how much the country hates George W. Bush.It should be clear to everyone by now that Hillary's inevitability has gone down the drain.What is clear to me is that the inevitability of the second probability is gone as

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You know, faithful readers, that I've wanted to post something every day during this totally fascinating election season of 2008. Alas, time does not permit. So, to catch up, here are some tidbits:- I'm of a split mind what I want to have happen in tomorrow's Super Tuesday 2 elections in Texas and Ohio. Do I want Hillary to get the crushing defeat that she so soundly deserves, and for the

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Okay, since I did so well with the Iowa Caucus predictions - Not! - I'll try again with New Hampshire:Dems:1. Obama2. Clinton3. Edwards4. RichardsonRepublicans:1. McCain2. Romney3. Giuliani4. Huckabee5. ThompsonAlthough, I think there is a strong chance that Mitt Romney might take it over McCain tomorrow. McCain has a history with New Hampshire from the races against Bush that give him an

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In a feat of New Year's foolhardiness, I'll go ahead and publish my predictions for the impending Iowa Caucus elections. (Or, as talk radio likes to call it - the "Hawkeye Cauceye".)My predictions are based on:- closely following the election for a year- studiously ignoring all polls- knowing one person who lives in Iowa- spending one fascinating road warrior day listening to left-wing radio for

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As I've said here before, Mitt Romney is my candidate in the Republican presidential primary. I like him. He's run a business, he's run an Olympics, and he's governed a state. He's got the right experience, and he's a winner.He was my candidate before today's speech that he gave on the role of religion in America. The speech sealed the deal. It's brilliantly written, capably delivered, and should

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Every once in a while, I hear a news story that is so jarring, so out-of-sync with my body of knowledge, that it stops me in my tracks and I think - that can't be right! It will be a story that I can't believe people would take at face value.The story that stopped me this week - that made me say That Can't be Right! - was the story, all over the media, the a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)

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The funniest story in the media this week, and only the latest of many that demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the Mainstream Media is in lockstep with the Democrat party, is this widely reported story:"Kerry vows to disprove Swiftboat Claims"A brief recap: When John F. Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts) decided to run for President in 2004 and highlighted his service in Vietnam as a reason

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Honestly, I've come to believe - from news stories and current events - that today's liberals or progressives or whatever they want to call themselves - have become deranged. (Derange - defined by Webster as "to disturb the operation of" or "to become insane". Either works for me.) They're lost. Misguided. Their moral and intellectual compass completely skewed. Let's look at three quick examples:

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One of my saddest current political observations is that there is a sizable portion of America, lead by the elite in the media and in Hollywood, who do not understand that we are in an war of civilizations against a jihadist Islam that is bent on our destruction.I give you the latest slew of entertainment offerings as evidence.Take first, for example, the slew of anti-war polemics streaming out

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This week, for the second time this year, I was within 10 miles of all of the Republican presidential candidates all at once. (Republican debate on MSNBC, Dearborn Michigan) Would someone ask them to stop stalking me?I watched the debate from my hotel room on the road. Not the best debate so far this season, but good enough. The debates and the campaign are doing what they need to do for me,

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I'm entering serious tin-foil hat territory with this post, but I'm charging on in.I've been interested in end-times studies for a long time. Prophecies. Book of Revelations. Armegeddon and all that. The end of humankind.I've done considerable studying on the topic over the years. Collecting bits and pieces in my mind.I remember one pivotal day on this topic clearly. I was a Freshman at a Big Ten

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I haven't posted for a while now. So, to catch up, here are some quick takes on the news:1. It was exciting to watch the Space Shuttle Endeavor take off for a mission. It's too bad that space flight has reached the ho-hum state for so long and that we barely notice an event like yesterday, even as masterful a technological event as that was. We'd rather read about a psycho astronaut in a vengeful

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I had a rare treat this week - I had a rental car on my business trip that had XM Radio in it!That means that I got to listen to radio stations that I don't otherwise get to hear. And for a news junkie that means talk radio. So, guess where I tuned - Air America!Oh yeah, I listen to crazy leftwing media any chance I get. That might surprise you, but it shouldn't. Conservatives are newsjunkies and

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John McCain is toast as a presidential candidate. Ive know that for a long time. The only ones who don't know that yet are McCain himself and the mainstream media who love him and are scratching-their-hair puzzled as to why the rest of America doesn't love him as much as they do.We're at the point in this never-ending primary season where second tier candidates start falling away because of lack

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In case you are not a 16 to 22 year old male and have missed it, there is a whole new genre of movies coming out of Hollywood in the last few years. The genre is affectionately referred to by it's young fans as "torture porn".Think about that for a minute. Torture porn. Is that a positive sign for the culture of a civilization? That it has invented and embraced "torture porn" as a form of matinee

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Tonight, I'm less than 10 miles from the next President of the United States. I know that for sure.How do I know that? Well, I'm in a hotel on the road tonight on a business trip to Manchester, NH. Coincidentally, the location of tonight's Republican Debate, sponsored by CNN.Surely, the next President of the United States was there. I just don't know which one of the 10 candidates it is.Rudy,

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It's bad enough that the open borders crowd on the left want to surrender on the question of illegal immigration by waving a wand an declaring them all legal. They have a self-interest objective of increasing their voter base. Deplorable, but inderstandable.What's not understandable is why Republican leaders in the White House and Congress are eager to join in the surrender and therby ensure

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It seems that our new Speaker of the House, Madame Pelosi, has priorities for Memorial Day travel that do not include honoring our fallen troops. Rather, she's off to kiss up to Europeans on the topic of her real priority - Global Warming.Nice. Real nice.Thanks, everyone for voting to give us leaders with screwed up priorities. Thanks.

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An open letter to President Bush and the Congress of the United States regarding the proposed "comprehensive immigration reform" bill, crafted in secret in a back-room collaboration of U.S. Senators and immigration proponents:Fool me once, shame on youFool me twice, shame on meFool me 12 million times, and I will openly mock and ridicule your pretense of seriousness and your ability to draft and

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I see on Yahoo news today - next to a news button listing Lindsay Lohan as the "hottest woman" - that Jerry Falwell died today at age 73. One of those news stories was consequential, the other not so much.Sadly, Jerry Falwell was most well known as the hated man of the liberal left, caricatured relentlessy in the media as a right-wing religious crazy.In truth, I think the final judgement was that

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I see on Yahoo news today - next to a news button listing Lindsay Lohan as the "hottest woman" - that Jerry Falwell died today at age 73. One of those news stories was consequential, the other not so much.Sadly, Jerry Falwell was most well known as the hated man of the liberal left, caricatured relentlessy in the media as a right-wing religious crazy.In truth, I think the final judgement was that

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I'm a conspiracy theory fan. Have been for at least 20 years. The impetus for that being the mother of all conspiracy theory cases: the assasination of John F. Kennedy.I've read all the books. Watched all the renactments and computer simulations. Walked Dealy Plaza and stood on the Grassy Knoll. I'm invested, baby.So, when I saw a new book on the topic in the non-fiction section of my library

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George Tenet, former Director of the CIA under Bill Clinton and George Bush, has released his long-awaited tell all book about his tenure. Included is his version of the events of 9/11, with a fair amount - if reviews are right - of blame shifting and Bush administration bashing.Just goes to prove: Bush made a huge mistake holding over some cabinet members from the Clinton administration!All of

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One of the major stories in the last two weeks, somewhat lost in the coverage of the major story of the shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech - was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on Partial Birth Abortion in the case of Carhart vs. Gonzales. It was the first time the court had allowed a prosciption on a method of abortion post-Roe.Congress had earlier voted to ban the procedure

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I got a little ahead of myself earlier today with a post about the murder spree at the campus of Virginia Tech. I was probably jumping to some conclusions not yet justified by the evidence.I did get to hear some of the afternoon's proceedings on the radio as I drove. One segment I heard was an interview with the Governor of Virginia, who said this: "For those of you who are making this political,

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What to say after an all day news cycle covering the shooting spree on the campus of Virginia Tech? It is a sad, sad tragedy. Unfathomable. But I will share thoughts.First, sadness for the family and friends of the deceased, who will never be the same. Ruined by this homicidal madman. I've watched - and more importantly listened to - the cell phone video that captured the sound of some of the

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It's almost getting depressing reading the news lately. There are so many crazy stories, all treated by the media the exact opposite as they should be. The world has turned upside down.Some quick takes on last weeks stories:1. Nancy Pelosi's trip to visit the President of Syria was disgraceful, pure and simple. Syria is a sponsor of terrorists, flat out. To give them a photo op PR victory, as

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You can't help but conclude, if you're paying attention to the news from Washington D.C. lately, that we are now governed by the un-serious. Cases in point:1. The Democrats in both bodies of Congress have passed, with the slimmest of majorities, bills effectively surrendering in the War in Iraq. They can dress it up in whatever language they want, but when you publicly state your purpose to

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Hypocrite! It's the preferred invective that liberals love to throw at conservatives. Seemingly the highest sin in their pantheon is hypocrisy. Let some conservative be found to have transgressed moral standards, as say the Reverend Ted Haggard and Congressman Mark Foley did during the last election cycle, and the liberals commence to howling. Hypocrites!So, it is some substantial irony that one

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In the wake of the Academy Awards' coronation of Al Gore last night, putatively over his documentary win for "An Inconvenient Truth", let me give you my off-the-cuff take on Global Warming. (Or is it now more politically correctly "Global Climate Change", given the inconvenient truth that we're being hammered with snowstorm after snowstorm in the last two months? )I saw the movie as a DVD rental.

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I love movies. I have since I was a kid, and more so since I worked at a theater in high school. DVD's and big TVs are fine, but no substitute for the Big Screen Experience.I was reminded of that this evening, when I took the opportunity to visit a small non-chain theater in an even smaller town. So small that the guy selling tickets also manned the concession stand and probably started the movie

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Finally, an election watcher is saying what I've been saying for weeks - months - now: Newt Gingrich will be the surprise in the Republican field for the 2008 presidential election. Dick Morris has an article up this week making that case.It's pretty simpleto figure out, really. Newt has been making many, many trips to New Hampshire in the last year. Now, I like New Hampshire. Been there a lot

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I listened intently to President Bush's speech tonight on his new strategy for Iraq. It's important - we are at war with troops in the field. There is very little that is more important right now, and he deserves our attention.As Anderson Cooper said after the speech on CNN "it's not an academic debate, there are people dying".And, as Rudy Guiliani said on Fox News after the speech, this is not

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Yes, I've watched the crude videos online of Sadaam Hussein's execution by hanging. (I won't post the links here. You can find them if you want them.) His death marks the final end of his brutal Baathist regime. True, he's been out of power since he was dragged ignominously from his spider hole by courageous and effective U.S. troops. But, as long as he was alive he was still able to inspire fear

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My wife and I have a recurring scenario, which happened again this morning. It always starts with her question "Have you seen the story about.....". Fill in the blank with whatever "news" story she's seeing on the network news. My answer is always the same. "Yes, I saw it several days ago in my news sources."Today's story happened to be about our military in Iraq using "silly string" to detect

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