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Some few mainstream media sources have grudgingly reported the major decline in US military deaths in Iraq. While that seems to be good news for conservatives, there is still much room for caution and concern. The terrorists watch CNN and they are not stupid. It seems more than likely that they are laying low during the current US presidential campaign because they know that any major offensive in Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter, would greatly help John McCain's chances to become president. The extremists don't want John McCain to be the president. He is much less likely than Obama to cut and run in Iraq. They know that if they wait until Obama wins, they can then step up the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama, under extreme pressure from American leftists, would almost certainly withdraw from both countries and thus the terrorists will win the war. It is really their only chance. They know it and they are willing to stop the attacks for now, and wait for Obama to win.

That's one of the major reasons all conservatives need to support McCain in spite of his liberal tendencies. While he might not be our first choice, he is the only person at the moment who can prevent a potentially disastrous Islamic terrorist victory in the Middle East. Freedom loving conservatives must hold our noses and support him. He's our only hope.

Labels: 2008 Elections

Two recent headlines regarding the self-serving testimony by Scott McClellan before John Conyer's congressional committee makes it very clear how low, shallow and mean-spirited the anti-Bush crowd can be. McClellan recently wrote a sensationalist book speculating about all sorts of things he really didn't know anything about and wasn't directly involved in. He wrote the book for one reason only: to make a pile of cash. He knew that writing scurrilous screeds against Bush is always very lucrative, even if nothing in them is true. Bush haters seem to have plenty of money. The headlines, both about the same event, illustrate succinctly how an author can twist and spin facts to match his own point of view.

The first: "McClellan: White House Hiding CIA Leak Info" plainly states as a fact that the "White House" (which most any average person would take to mean President Bush and Vice President Cheney) was "Hiding" the fact that they leaked Plame's name to Robert Novak in a vicious effort to punish Joe Wilson for his opposition to the war against Islamic Terrorism. The second: "Bush didn't know about CIA leak, McClellan says" makes no such assertion. It in fact says quite the opposite.

Both articles go on to say pretty much the same things however in their body. McClellan, who really was in no position to know what Rove or Cheney told Libby since he wasn't there and didn't ever ask, or bring his misgivings up with any senior White House official, nevertheless makes inflammatory assertions that Libby, Rove and Cheney leaked Plame's name to the press for nefarious reasons. Anybody, who doesn't have an axe to grind, has to now admit that Richard Armitage from the State Department was the leaker and the only leaker and that he did it deliberately for political, anti-Bush reasons. Libby was shamefully persecuted for purely political reasons even after that fact became known to the Special Prosecutor . The prosecutor was trying to poke a finger in Bush's eye and he didn't care how he did it. No leaks about Plame were ever given by Cheney, Libby, Rove or Bush! It didn't happen, but the leftists really wanted it to have happened so they just keep asserting that it did happen in a truly "Goebbelian" fashion.

Scooter was convicted of not remembering when he told, or what he told the late Tim Russert about the matter. He was never accused by the prosecutor of actually leaking anything because he didn't leak anything, nor did Cheney, nor did Rove. If they had, they would have been charged in a heartbeat. This whole political witch hunt is a giant embarrassment for all patriotic, clear-thinking Americans. Bush hating congressmen, news reporters and headline writers can make gratuitous assertions all they want that is was really Cheney, Rove or Bush who leaked Plame's name, but it still won't be true. However, the fact that it's not true doesn't seem to matter. They are all about revising history so the perception that it is true is at the forefront. And the saddest thing is that they seem to be able to get away with it.

Let me try my hand at yellow journalism headline writing: Russert Asserts Libby Was Involved in Plame Affair -- Now Dead!

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To listen to the MSM yammer on and on about the state of the economy, one would think we are immeshed in the biggest economic depression in history. What we really have now is an economic downturn. Last quarter's .6% growth came as a great disappointment to those who are counting on a real recession to get Obama in office in November. They, of course, are embarked on all this recession talk to bolster the chances of their chosen candidate Barack Obama who has made talk of a recession a part of his campaign. Of course if these doom sayers can convince enough squishy voters that we are truly in recession, they might just vote for Obama and his tax raising economics. That would really send our economy into a tailspin and result in the very recession they are trying to scare us about. Most certainly they would then blame it all on Bush and Cheney. It's a convenient paradigm: if anything bad happens, blame it on Bush. So far it has worked for them.

Of course, the classic deffinition of recession is two consecutive quarters of decline in the Gross Domestic Product. This hasn't happened since 1990/1991. That was the Bill Clinton recession. Now the left-wingers are trying to claim that a recession doesn't have to have two quarters of negative growth. It seems that a recession is whenever they say there is one and we'd just better trust them. Essentially, a recession is whenever there is a Republican in the White House.

While nobody likes higher gas prices and other economics woes, we need to reign in our fears somewhat. One aspect of the current slow- down in the economy that impacts every consumer is the price of gasoline. There are reports of people canceling their vacations due the high prices. However just a little math can help people keep things in proper perspective. The average price of gasoline in May of 2007 was $3.20. In May of 2008 it rose to $3.90. The $.70 rise seems like a lot, but if you are an average driver getting 25 miles per gallon and driving 15,000 miles per year, your actual out of pocket cost has gone up by about $35 per month, or roughly $1.15 per day. Would an extra dollar and fifteen cents a day dissuade any self-respecting vacationer? Doubtful if they understand the reality, but the insistent, unremitting, negative drum beat from the mainstream media who are trying to elect their guy by scaring everybody, don't care about facts. And that's a shame. because it not only hurts the families who don't get to make memories while vacationing. It also hurts all the businesses who rely on those travelers. Think about that the next time Obama tells you how bad things are.

At some point in this year's presidential campaign, the somewhat timid John McCain is going to be faced with a serious dilemma: He won't be able to disagree with Barack Obama (Or Hilary Clinton should the unexpected happen) at all, ever. As soon as he says anything the least bit confrontational, the mainstream media will immediately pounce on him for being racist. (Or sexist if it's Hilary.) So far, they have been biting their tongue in this regard during the primaries because they can hardly oppose either Obama or Hilary on any such frivolous grounds, but they won't hesitate to attack John McCain. Even though he thinks of himself as a media darling, he won't get any favors once the electoral battle ensues in earnest.

Barack's lack of experience, totally socialist policies, or left wing foreign policy won't likely ever even be brought up. McCain won't dare for fear of being branded racist. He will inevitably try to be the nice guy and that's frightening. The last "nice guy" to run for president on the Republican ticket was Bob Dole -- and he lost big time to a feckless, inexperienced Bill Clinton.

Unless McCain is able to get past this natural reticence to disagree with his opponents, he is doomed to follow Bob Dole and that will presage a bleak eight year for the GOP. John McCain has always gone out of his way to reach "across this aisle" to the Democrats. He has thrown his Republican colleagues under the bus to side with Democrat senators, sided with Tim Russert and George Stephanopolis, allied himself with Ted Kennedy. If he thinks he will get any mileage from any of these, he is most sadly mistaken.

Here's hoping his advisors will make him see that he needs to start disagreeing loudly and often with Obama and Hilary, and he needs to couch each and every point in the fact that their race or sex has nothing at all to do with his disagreement. He needs to disarm the race baiters of this world up front, take away their case that he is somehow racist for daring to disagree with his opponent's left-wing agenda. The future of our country depends on it.

Labels: 2008 Elections

Years ago there was a very large wagon full of big, important, necessary burdens. The wagon needed to be moved from one side of the mountain to the other. The survival of everyone depended on it. It had to be done for the good of all.

Some wise people said: “If we all cooperate, some of us pushing, some of us pulling, we can certainly get this wagon to where it needs to be.” A very few said: “Oh, I can’t push or pull the wagon because I’m sick, I’ve a bad back, or heart, or whatever – won’t you please just let me ride on the wagon.” Since they were relatively few in number compared to the pushers and pullers, these agreed to let the few riders get on the wagon where they could be taken care of. They were very charitable.

Everyone agreed that a job this big required leadership to make sure it was being done in the most efficient way possible. Elections were held among the pushers and pullers and bosses were chosen. The riders didn’t really think it necessary to be involved in the election of bosses since they weren’t doing any of the work. They were content just to ride.

Everything was going well until some of the more selfish workers started to complain that they felt they were doing too much of the work, and the rich bosses were just living off the efforts of the workers. The workers were being exploited! So they promised several of the lazier workers that if they voted for them to be the boss, they could stop pushing and pulling and start riding on the wagon. They soon discovered that the more people they promised a free ride, the more people would vote for them. They also convinced those already riding on the wagon that it wasn’t fair that they couldn’t vote for bosses. The lazy workers and riders now made up a majority. The productive bosses and unselfish workers were voted out of power and made to push and pull the wagon all alone. They had to contribute even more – for the children you understand.

Very soon however, there were far more people riding on the wagon than there were pushing or pulling it. Little by little, the wagon went out of control, eventually careening at a very high rate of speed down the mountain, crushing and killing those productive workers in front and stranding those who were left behind to perish in the wilderness.

The riders were OK for a while. They were very happy to have the wagon and all of the valuables to themselves. However, as the wagon went out of control, faster and faster, it soon was smashed against the boulders and destroyed, killing all. The shortsighted riders didn’t realize that there were no more productive people left to protect and take care of them. They hadn’t noticed that things were out of control. And they had forgotten how to care for themselves.

In the end, all was lost.

The moral: When you have more people riding on the wagon than pushing or pulling it, you are bound for destruction.

Literally within minutes of the breaking news that a nut case was shooting people at Virginia Tech University, the usual suspects were cranking up their usual propaganda talking points about how more gun control would make us all safer. Pavlov would have been impressed.

This crowd doesn't seem able to grasp the concept that the shooter was violating V Tech's gun control rule when he entered the campus heavily armed. In fact he proved conclusively that he was willing to violate any gun law they might pass and was willing to die to carry out his mania to violate gun control.

When will rational people in this country wake up to the fact that disarming people by creating "gun free" zones only serves to point nut cases at locations where they are very unlikely to encounter resistance. The recent shooting at Trolley Square shopping mall in Salt Lake City is perfect example: There a nut case shooter was intent on killing as many as possible and would have most certainly succeeded in killing more that he did but for an armed citizen who chose to ignore the "Gun Free" sign posted on the entrance to the mall. The off-duty policeman did have his weapon and was able to engage the killer before he could kill again, thus ending the threat with undoubtedly fewer casualties that would have otherwise occurred.

The only way to protect yourself against these killers it to arm yourself. The police can't be everywhere, and more gun control laws will only make the next case worse than V Tech.

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Scooter Libby couldn't remember which reporter he didn't tell about Joe Wilson's wife. May go to jail for 20 years. No real crime was ever committed involving the CIA, or leaking anything. Impossible to believe. The jury went in with blinding Bush hatred which allowed them to ignore the lack of criminal intent on the part of Libby. They "got" Bush through Scooter and to heck with justice!

Sandy Berger admits stealing top secret intelligence documents and destroying them. An actual crime was committed. A small fine and he'll get his top security clearance back soon. No jail time for him. That's justice DC left-wing, democrat style. If you want a jury of your peers in DC you better be a very left-wing, liberal, Democrat.

Sometimes it's very hard to live in this country.

What should happen now? Since there is almost a zero chance that there will be any justice done by the appeals courts, (Are you kidding? This is Washington D.C.) all appeals should be dropped.
President Bush should immediately pardon Libby. The underlying principle here is clear: Even if Libby didn't accurately recall the sequence of events surrounding who he told, or who told him where Joe Wilson's wife worked, so what? The telling of that information was not a crime. So he misremembered to protect nobody who committed a crime. This is very evident. The prosecutor knew right from the beginning that no crime had been committed in the leaking of Plame's name, and that Libby, Rove, and the vice president didn't do it anyway. Why did he continue the investigation once he new no crime had been committed? Where is the venality on the part of Libby here? Nobody got hurt in this case except Libby, and he didn't deserve it. Perjury laws are in place to prevent people from obstructing the prosecution of those who have committed a crime. In this case, there was no crime committed!

The only way this political meanness and chicanery can now be brought to a close is for Bush to pardon Libby and put an end to the madness. Justice demands it. This person has done nothing to merit the prosecution he has already endured. Pardon Libby now!

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News Item: Weather Channel maven favors pulling certification from any TV meteorologist who doesn’t adhere to the "approved" global warming dogma.

No doubt about it. The “global warming” true believers have begun to take draconian steps to enforce their notion of climate orthodoxy: If you don’t adhere strictly to their rigid set of dicta sanctorum, you risk excommunication. Weather reporters of America – take note!

They long have been successful in fostering their “we will brook no disagreement” attitude in academia, and in the judicial system. They have owned both for many years and you will find precious few in those arenas who dare to be contrary to the favored “global catastrophe” doctrine. In spite of virtually no real evidence, and almost entirely as a result of extreme political coercion and peer pressure, the majority of scientists today seem ready to check their objectivity at the door, put on their green robes, stand in a nice orderly, straight line and parrot the approved canonical verses: “Global warming is bad. Global warming is caused by evil humans. Humans are bad. Global warming is caused by America. America is bad. Global warming is caused by evil, greedy big oil corporations. Corporations are bad. Global warming is caused by George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Haliburton, Scooter Libby and all other evil neocons. Neocons are bad. We must destroy them… destroy them… destroy them”.

The global warming zealots are now taking their crusade deeper and deeper into all institutions we hold dear in America. They have invaded to a degree unprecedented the halls of congress including seemingly forcing President Bush to at least pay lip service homage to them in his state of the union address. They have long since had the left-leaning foundations on their side. These are the source of most of the grants the scientists are groveling to get. Naturally, many of them are eager to bend over, grab their ankles, and just go along with all of the "Chicken Little" alarmist fiction . Follow the money. The "global warming" vickars are now moving in to strong-arm some major corporations who must have sensed that, in the face of such irrational fanaticism, resistance is futile – resistance is futile – resistance is futile – resistance is futile!

To be sure, there are a still a few intrepid skeptics in the scientific and business community who dare to raise their hands and ask inconvenient questions, such as what about the warming and cooling cycles that have taken place for millennia before human activity became a factor? What caused them? They are usually just ignored or dismissed by the global warming pontiffs as pawns of big oil: “Pity them. Their faith is not strong enough to accept the gospel we know to be correct. They have been corrupted by the evil demon Exxon! They shouldn’t worry about the facts. We have told them that man is the cause of all global warming. That is sufficient.”

The fact is, according to these brave few, nobody knows if the current small global average temperature increase, if it is happening at all, is a good thing or a bad thing for humans. It seems logical that warmer winters in Minnesota is preferable to a mile thick glacier covering most of North America. The fact is, if warming is happening, nobody knows exactly what may be the cause, or the result, or how, or if, there is anything humans can do to enhance or stop it, of if, indeed, they should do anything to stop it. The weather is cyclical. Always has been. We will get warming, then cooling, and then warming again – over and over again. We just need to deal with it like we always have. This irrational fear and trembling about the weather serves no purpose – other than to enhance the political power and standing of the elders of The Church of Global Warming.

Climate science is poorly understood and in continual dispute. What is not in dispute, however, is that this fervent, wild-eyed religious anti-civilization movement already has much of the power they seek to destroy us. The laws and sanctions they advocate will have a real impact on our nation’s economy and future viability. We could wind up on the ash heap of history as the only civilization that chose to commit massive economic suicide for no other reason than an irrational devotion to the false religion of the Great Green Church of Global Warming. And that would be a pity.

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Left-wing Fascist thugs attacked Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, as he attempted to deliver a speech in New York City on Thursday. (Watch the video) He was the invited guest of Columbia University Republicans. The criminals rushed the stage and knocked over tables and chairs, punching and kicking Gilchrist and unfurling banners in English and Arabic. The victim of this violent attack was finally rescued by security and escorted out of auditorium. Neither the police nor security guards made any effort whatsoever to arrest the attackers who assaulted Mr. Gilchrist. This is the latest example in a long list of compelling evidence that the left-wing along with radical Muslims do not believe in free speech unless you agree with them. They feel perfectly free to deny by violence the rights of anyone with an opposing point of view.

This alarming trend is being allowed to happen all over: In Germany, a Mozart opera was canceled for fear of Muslim riots because the opera contains some material which might be offensive to Muslims. An art exhibit in London was scotched for the same reason. Salman Rushdie is forced to hide in fear of his life because he wrote a book critical of Muslim fanatics. Political cartoons were said to be the cause of weeks of riots because they depicted the Muslim founder’s image. The Pope was forced to apologize because he quoted a 14th century author’s opinion that radical Muslims attempted to spread their “faith” at the point of the sword. Everything the Pope said was true.

How long will we continue to endure anti-free speech violence on the part the left-wing Fascists and their counterpart in the radical Muslim community? Do we want to live in a world where only one point of view is allowed?

We must be prepared to enforce freedom of speech. Those who rush the stage during a speech should be arrested and sent to prison. They have no right to assault a person merely because they disagree with what is being said. Muslim radicals who riot because of books or cartoons should be ordered to disperse, and if they fail to do so, they should be shot.

Until we get the resolve to take action to guarantee our freedoms, we most certainly will lose them.

In our search for moderate Islam, we are frequently disappointed. Every time there is a terrorist attack, we wait and hope in vain for influential, moderate, rational Muslims to stand up, speak up, denounce and cast out those who pervert the “peaceful religion of Islam.” But it never happens. Oh to be sure, we hear some token efforts, limited and frankly, quite ineffectual. Most of these go something like this: “We condemn the deaths of innocent civilians…, BUT!…” Unfortunately the “but” is the important thing. It always contains a condemnation of Israel and its efforts to defend itself against terrorism, or of the US efforts in Iraq, etc. This poisoned “but” kills any effect of the challenge to radical Islam by the so-called moderates. It cancels out any good results their disapprobation may have had. And that seems to be the desired effect, sad to say. Even the most moderate Muslim seems to be unwilling, or unable to frankly condemn and reject the terrorists without qualification. And that is a shame because unless, and until “moderates” learn to expel these killers from their midst, the war against terrorism will never end. Maybe they are just deathly afraid for their own lives if they were to really speak out. The Islamofacists would come to their home in the middle of the night and kill them and their whole family for slandering "Islam."

In her excellent piece on Moderate Muslims, Yashiko Sagamori points out that trying to find a “Moderate Muslim” is harder than finding a cure for cancer: "The moderate Muslim, along with the Big Foot, the unicorn, the Loch Ness monster, remains more elusive than a cure for cancer: there is at least a theoretical possibility that a cure for cancer can be found one day, unless of course Islam takes over and drags us all down into its own endless Dark Ages."

Why should this be important to us? The most frightening aspect of our current unconventional war against Islamofacists, is the seemingly impossible task of defining and finding our enemy. America has always been good at defeating any “organized army” we have ever come up against. We can lick ‘em every time in a flat out traditional fight. Our army is better trained and equipped. The enemy doesn't stand a chance in a regular battle. Where we get into trouble is when our foes don’t have the normal goals and asperations of a traditional enemy. Even the most hardened Nazi wanted to preserve his own life and that of his family and comrades. Once defeated in battle, they were willing to negociate. The Islamic Terrorists are different. They are motivated by an irrational belief in paradise and are willing and anxious to go there. And they don’t care a fig if it costs the life of their family either. They care nothing for life and do not fear death. After defeat, they will fight on, --albeit from behind the skirts of their women and children. Glenn Beck made that clear on his radio program today when he interviewed the producer of the movie Obsession, Radical Islam’s War Against the West. According to Glenn, this movie should be required viewing by all Americans who wish to preserve our way of life.

If we fail to take this threat seriously, we will all have to learn to live under Radical Islam. There is no choice… no room to negociate… no getting out of it... The fact is, any Radical Muslim who refuses to dennounce terrorism and mayhem will have to be killed. It is that stark. It is that simple. It is that important.