Boxer Revealed - CrushKerry

CrushKerry has an educating piece on Barbara Boxer's condescending remarks to Condi Rice....as they put it they "Bust Buffoon Babs Boxer on Her Blatant Iraq Lie" and you need to read it here.

GOPbloggers Launch

GOPBloggers to launch January 20, 2005!

Hey John You Lost

David Limbaugh has the low down about John Kerry still campaigning.

Will someone please tell this narcissist the presidential campaign is over? Oh yes, and please also remind him that he lost. Today I saw him lecturing Condi Rice about nuclear proliferation. Kerry secretly revealed to her (on national TV) that he had a plan. It was actually painful to watch if you have a low tolerance for buffoonery.

Then, after the hearings, I'm sitting at my computer minding my own business and my mail box is assaulted with another e-mail from John Kerry. (You have to read more here)

Boxer vs. Rice

Condoleezza Rice clashed with Senator Boxer among others during her confirmation process.

"You sent them in there because of weapons of mass destruction. Later the mission changed when there were none," Boxer told Rice. "Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon to do that."

Isn't it neat how Senator Boxer casually throws out the us and them card - I don't care how you voted on the resolution, the United States of America sent troops to Iraq and you mama are part of it - if not be my guest, please leave!

"It wasn't just weapons of mass destruction," Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein supported terrorism, attacked Kuwait and Israel and needed to be removed given the new U.S. threat perception after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Well finally, we get this out in public again - that there were more reasons then WMD(s), or a better way to put it WMD(s) were not the only reason given to Congress for their consideration. I really believe the Democrats have forgotten it and the Media sure hasn't help anyone to remember.

You can read a report here.

Heroes Act

Michelle Malkin has information about a bill to "greatly expand death benefits for our military"... I would suggest you read it since she has some great links.

In short, the act would increase the lump-sum "gratuity" paid to the survivors of military personnel killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and future conflicts, from $12,400 to $100,000, retroactive to October 2001. The benefit for deaths not resulting from combat would remain at $12,400. The Act would increase the maximum available SGLI (Servicemember's Group Life Insurance) coverage from $250,000 to $400,000, with the government paying the premiums for the first $150,000 for military personnel in a combat zone, retroactive to October 2001.

Bill Faith at Small Town Veteran has vowed to track the legislation. Bill is a great guy, tireless blogger, defender of veterans' rights, and you should visit his site often.

Healing the Country - Lib Definition

I hope this is not an example of Democratic movements to unify the country!



(Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)

Iran Operations

Seymour Hersh released and article over the weekend that implied that the US was conducting or planning to conduct "secret operations" in Iran. I did not comment on this because Hersh is a ..., and not worth commenting on. However, the Pentagon yesterday released a statement that does a wonderful job of taking Hersh to task. You can read the statement here.

"Rathergate" More Revelations

William Campenni brings to light other information which not only disputes Dan Rather's stubborn refusals to admit the obvious, ""[N]o one had provided persuasive evidence that the documents were not authentic" - but may bring into question the "independent panel" and it's investigation.

So, putting aside the typos, the superscripts, the signatures, the wrong header and address, and all the previously dissected items susceptible to subjective interpretations, how do I prove this memo is a fake? Easy — for the weekend that 1st Lt. Bush was supposedly ordered to report for his physical, May 13-14, 1972, the Ellington Air Guard Base was closed. It was Mother's Day. Except for emergencies, Air Guard units never drilled on Mother's Day; the divorce lawyers would be waiting at the gate.
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While CBS, in its rush to judgment, might have missed this fatal flaw in the Burkett memo, its investigative law firm, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, cannot be excused. Why? Because one of their investigating lawyers was informed of this fact on Nov. 15 and given a list of seven witnesses who worked in the same offices with Jerry Killian every day in 1972. (Disclosure statement: I was the source.) The panel report makes no mention of this, and a canvass of most of the witness list reveals no contact attempt by Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (Read here)

(Hat tip: Betsy's Page)

UPDATE: More questions

Insurgents Just don't Care

Iraqi insurgents simply don't care who they kill in their crusade to insight terror.. Here is a story of their taking a Roman Catholic archbishop in Mosul, Iraq. Don't they know Pope John Paul II and top Vatican officials opposed the war and US presence in Iraq (see story here).

This action along with many others should demonstrate their total lack of respect for life or their caring for any "cause" except terror - what exactly can they say they are for - "American troops leaving", no can't be that since they terrorize their own allies in that cause. No what they are for is terror and anything that goes against freedom for the people...

UPDATE: Vatican Demands Release

Letter to The Depressed Press

William Safire has an interesting take on the status of MSM, and is worth reading.

On resentment of media elitism by awakened cultural and religious voices: They're not crazies. Their opinions on stem cells and same-sex marriage are newsworthy and not an assault on church-state separation. Protests at "wardrobe malfunction" and campaigns against state-sponsored gambling are neither bluenosed nor repressive.

But there is no need for sensible seculars in mainstream media to feel an urgent call to get right with religion. It's O.K. to say "Merry Christmas" at the end of a newscast without worrying about equal greeting for Ramadan and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and all the rest.
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Today that media bias is undeniably liberal. That's natural when conservatives are the Ins; five years ago, the bias often ran the other way. As future elections near, that tilt must disappear from news pages to let the voters do the tilting. Some mainstreamers flopped on necessary election evenhandedness in 2004 and should be grimly thankful for a corrective kick in the teeth from other media, bloggers and righteous right-wingers.

I of course, disagree that "five years ago, the bias often ran the other way" - but then again Mr. Safire probably knew many would disagree and choose the word "often" instead of a more definitive "always", "mostly", or "usually".

Groups go After Faith....

Many groups began an "emergency summit" on January 15th to strategies how to "fight President Bush's faith-based initiatives". Roy Speckhardt, deputy director of the American Humanist Association (AHA) stated "we convened the meeting because of the unprecedented challenges, such as the election results.....", and they accuse conservatives as being fascist!

Challenge the elections results - sounds like they are actually the ones opposing the election and the will of the majority like a fascist, communist, or any other totalitarian state would do.

"There has never been any less respect in Washington for church-state separation, even though church-state separation is on of the things that made our country possible in the first place", Anne Gaylor, founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation said. The issue with this statement is ones interpretation of the first amendment, which was only meant to establish:

1. There would be no "Church of the United States." The government is prohibited from setting up a state religion, such as Britain had.
   
   
2. Expressly that government would not hinder the practice of religion, which is the exact opposite from how "groups" are using it today.

Thomas Jefferson's famous "wall of separation" letter was to a group of clergymen in Danbury, Connecticut, who feared the Congregationalists Church would become the state-sponsored religion. Jefferson assured them that the First Amendment guaranteed that there would be no establishment of any one denomination over another. Jefferson never intended for our governing bodies to be "separated" from Christianity and its principles. The "wall" was to protect the church from the state and meant as "one directional".

The purpose of the first amendment was to protect the Church, not to disestablish it. Read The Washington Times article here.

Gay Lobby Going Strong

If any of you believe that the homosexual movement is reeling after the election, think again! This report from The Washington Post indicates the homosexual movement is just as determined or maybe even more so, to "normalize" or "desensitize us to" homosexuality.

To underscore their determination, 22 LGBT organizations, representing a spectrum of political goals and strategies, have, for the first time, released a joint list of priorities. They include pushing for equal employment opportunities; adding sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate crimes law; fighting for protections for children of LGBT couples; overturning military restrictions on gay soldiers; opposing anti-gay state and federal legislation; and fighting for the freedom to marry.

"We plan on working in a coordinated fashion," said Winnie Stachelberg, political director of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay advocacy organization. "The moment that we're in now in our civil rights movement is acknowledging that we play different instruments and have different strengths, but we want to hear from that orchestra together." (Read more here)

(Hat tip: David Limbaugh)

Newt for President - NO!

I have been thinking how to express my thoughts on this subject, but as usual, La Shawn Barber has proven how eloquent a dissension can be written - so I don't need to write anything and simply say DITTO La Shawn Barber.

Now a different kind of Revolution has taken place, one in which Gingrich would be a liability. Lately there’s been talk in the media about his running for the presidency in 2008. I can’t tell you how cringe-worthy that is. And when I heard about his “Walking Tour of God in Washington, D.C.,” I thought, “That’s just what we need. A Republican philanderer lecturing people about God.” (See a transcript from a recent appearance on FOX.)

Why do I react this way? Because I think Gingrich is a man of low character. He served his first wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital suffering from cancer. During Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal, he’d been cheating on his second wife with one of his staff and told her over the phone while she was attending her mother’s birthday party that he wanted a divorce. I won’t even get into the ethics violations.

You really should read the entire entry here.

Pro-USA Essay - Update

In the interest of being fair - many other bloggers have taken a deeper look at the essay I posted about yesterday, and there is a nice recap at Michelle Malkin. Although most agree, the professor is at best an academia elitist and at worst a Marxist the essay on its merits certainly was not deserving of an "A+". Of course, not being a literary genius or to concerned about grammatical errors, I am not one to grade the young man - in fact I would assume that Michelle Malkin would "wince at (my) bad grammar" also, but such is live - we all try.

Hillary is Liberal - Always Remember

This story reminds us that Hillary Clinton is liberal and we should remember this even though she and your handlers will attempt to change our opinion.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her supporters will no doubt accelerate their efforts to portray the former first lady as a moderate. While it is easy to understand why most left-wing Democrats run from the liberal label as though it were the plague, Mrs. Clinton's pursuit of this strategy will likely run into the same problem that helped to bury Mr. Kerry in November. She can hardly claim to be a responsible moderate if she reflexively votes like a Teddy Kennedy Democrat.
"In the spirit of the New Deal," Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) rightly styles itself as "America's oldest independent liberal lobbying organization." As early as this week, ADA will be reporting that Mrs. Clinton achieved a score of 95 percent for embracing the ADA position on 19 of the organization's 20 most important votes in 2004. (Mr. Kennedy scored 100 percent.) It will be the fourth consecutive time that Mrs. Clinton has received a score of 95 percent since she entered the Senate in 2001. Mrs. Clinton's four-year ADA average score of 95 percent is not much different from Mr. Kennedy's 98.75 percent
In 2004, both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Kennedy received 100 percent scores from the League of Conservation Voters, an unambiguously liberal environmental organization. (Read here)

Kuwaiti Flunked for Pro-USA Essay

The Washington Times, has a story by George Archibald about a seventeen year old Kuwaiti student be flunked after writing a pro-USA essay...

A 17-year-old Kuwaiti student whose uncles were kidnapped and tortured by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's invaders more than a decade ago said his California college political science professor failed him for praising the United States in a final-exam essay last month.
Ahmad Al-Qloushi, a foreign student at Foothill College near San Jose, Calif., said he was told by professor Joseph A. Woolcock to get psychological treatment because of the pro-American views expressed in his essay.
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The topic chosen by Mr. Al-Qloushi stated that some scholars "contend that the Constitution of the United States was not 'ordained and established' by 'the people' as we have often been led to believe. They contend instead that it was written by a small educated and wealthy elite in America who were representative of powerful economic and political interests. Analyze the U.S. Constitution (original document), and show how its formulation excluded the majority of people living in America at that time, and how it was dominated by America's elite interests."
In his essay, Mr. Al-Qloushi said, "I completely disagree. ... The American Constitution worried monarchs in Europe. The right for men to choose their own representatives was unheard-of in the rest of the world. ... The United States Constitution might have excluded the majority of people at the time. But it progressed, and America, like every nation in the world, progressed ...
"Because of America, the world is free. ... America freed Kuwait and is now currently in a fight to free Iraq and its 25 million residents and vanquish the tyranny and monstrosity of Saddam Hussein."

Now could someone explain what they would call this - academia attempting to prove they are elitist and flexing their musles in a "last stand" for the only remaining liberal stronghold. Read the rest of the story here.

Campaign Reform - Hillary?

The federal government revealed last week that the finance director of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate race has been indicted on multiple counts of fraud related to an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raiser, which reportedly raised at least $1 million in hard-money contributions and untold amounts of soft-money donations. It appears that the direct beneficiary of the alleged fraud was Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which at the time was desperate for as much federally restricted, extremely valuable hard money that it could gather.

Do you think Hillary had knowledge of this? I am just curious what she is saying, because had this been a republican the democrats would be calling for the politician's head!

As many as 1,200 people attended the event, which featured Cher, Diana Ross, Michael Bolton, Stevie Wonder, Melissa Etheridge and Patti LaBelle, among others. Attendees paid between $1,000 and $25,000. The first $2,000 of any contribution would have qualified as hard money in 2000.

How do you think these celebrities feel? Read the story here.

North Korea - Not Ready

I warned in North Korea - Ready? they could change their mind tomorrow, and in fact they did "change their story". This USA Today story indicates just that.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after indicating a willingness to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, North Korea returned to its usual anti-American rhetoric Saturday, accusing the United States of being a "nuclear criminal" with double standards.

Is anyone really surprised, we are talking about North Korea.

Michael Moore no Role Model

DAVISON, Mich - Oscar on the shelf or not, Michael Moore is not getting much respect at his old high school. Despite his fame and many honors, the filmmaker has been rejected all four times that he has been nominated for Davison High School's Hall of Fame.

"Would you want him as a role model? Would you want your son or daughter to be like him?" asked Don Hammond, a member of the Hall of Fame selection committee. "I haven't talked to anybody yet who's for him. The word to describe Michael Moore is embarrassing. He embarrasses everybody."

I have newfound respect for Davison High School and would have to surmise Michael Moore was raised better than he demonstrates.

There are some who disagree with the selection committee and are campaigning on Moore's behalf - the outcome could be interesting. How Moore's hometown respond?

Un-American Braclets

Americans are now "branding their bodies" as un-American - folks it is not me drawing this conclusion - read on! Individuals are selling bracelets identifying themselves and those that purchase these bracelets as anti-Bush. On of the young entrepreneur stated "I sort of felt ashamed, and didn't really want to be associated with being an American" - doesn't that sound as if she want to be "branded" un-American or maybe non-American... Just another indication of the lefts willingness to work towards unifications, right! Read the stroy here.