Taxes, Taxes, Taxes - the devil is always in the details.

The bottom line:

As I showed in a post last month, the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of federal income taxes. The top 25% of taxpayers pay 86% of income taxes.

A man who's head is about to explode!!!

I have a friendlly back and forth with my kids when they push all the old man's buttons. And with a daughter over 30 and a son pushing 19, believe me they know all my buttons.

And then, of course, the "real world" can find them just as quickly.

And this one take me "RIGHT TO THE EDGE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Obama Eye Wear!!
That's right! The next President of the United States is so cool he deserves his own line of sunglasses. A percentage of the profits will go to the Barrack Obama campaign so besides advertising his name, you are also helping out financially. Also, in keeping with the Obama motto of goodwill, we hire the homeless and residents of a women's shelter to help us with our logo process (and we pay above minimum wage too!)

Right to the edge I tell ya, right to the frigging edge!!!

Obama the Rookie

I think that all the swooning, chanting and adoration are rapidly going to Obama's head. The rate at which he is going through positions on such dramatic issues as gay marriage, abortion and his Christian values is mind-numbing! Now it would seem that Christ condoned same-sex marriage during the Sermon on the Mount, that abortion is tragic but a child born during a botched abortion is not a human. Words actually escape me on this one - read the account for yourself:

Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews.com
Editor in Chief March 03, 2008(CNSNews.com) -

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him "less Christian."

"I don't think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state," said Obama. "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans." (See video here) St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.

Not quite sure America is ready to slide that far left all in one election.

Update: An updated story from WorldNetDaily

Obama ties same-sex issues to Jesus' Sermon on Mount

Democrat maintains famous speech by Christ 'more central than obscure passage in Romans'

Obama the Cult

A number of sites have linked to this video. Seems to creep them all out - me too! These followers have surrendered their reason and intellect to - - - what exactly?? A young man, with little experience that has hope and wants change. Nothing good has ever come from mindless people following a savior without question.

Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama!!

Barak might want to check his numbers.

Obama's latest rant against our involvement in Iraq focused on his claim that we are spending $12 Billion dollars per month - and that, in his view, is unsustainable. There is another set of financials he might want to review as well: the cost of ignoring our enemies.

9/11 by the Numbers

Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics.

The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.

The cost to NYC for ignoring our enemies. This does not include losses to the rest of the country, losses to our industries (think of the losses and additional costs to the airline industry alone!), increased recurring costs of our on-going security efforts. So, before Obama proposes an exit from Iraq to save $12 Billion per month, perhaps he might want to consider the real costs of such an act.

Obama's plan for our military defense.

If this isn't enough to scare the crap outta you, I have no idea what would!

The surrender begins at Harvard

Of course, of course - it's just for the young lady's modesty. Surely we can understand - right??

To accommodate Muslim students, Harvard tries women-only gym hours

Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men. Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan. 28, after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women's Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women.

Nothing to see here - move on, move on.

More evidence of Global Cooling

Imagine, 100 YEARS of Global WARMING eliminated in a SINGLE YEAR!! Why isn't this on the frontpage of the NY Times. Won't the glaciers damage NYC??

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the
list goes on and on.

So, what do you need to be legal in Mexico??

Let's say you wanted to purchase property in Mexico. Let's say you wanted to move there in retirement. Just what would it take? Surely it's as simple as just walking across the border and laying the money down - right? Isn't that what the Mexican government is expecting from the US, can't we all just get along??

Turns out it's just a bit more complicated:

Hi Michelle - I live in Chicago but own a parcel in San Felipe, Mexico (east side of Baja, on the Sea of Cortez) Thought you’d get a kick out of what I need to do if I want to retire there….legally. Here’s the info from the El Dorado Ranch Estates website:

WHAT’S REQUIRED TO OBTAIN AN FM-3 OR FM-2 VISA?

For those of you who either lease lots, rent houses, or have purchased property through a Fideicomiso Irrevocable, you must have an FM-3 Visa to be legal in Mexico. Once you have signed any sort of contract, you are no longer a tourist. I would like to say at the outset, that if you do not have an FM-3 Visa and you find yourself in a property dispute or other entanglement which puts you in the arms of jurisprudence, you literally have no rights as an “illegal alien”. This means your property, bank accounts, vehicles and personal belongings, are in jeopardy. The very minimum you need for owning or leasing property is the FM-3 Visa which is renewable every year for 5 years. The following is a list of items you will need to obtain your FM-3 or FM-2 Visa:

You would think that the Mexican government would certainly grant us the same level of expectation for those wishing to live in the US, wouldn't you??

More on the Global Warming Farce!!

We have had more snow in the Northern Hemisphere this year than at any time since 1966. What's that about global warming again??

Lorne Gunter: Welcome to the new ice age
Posted:
February 25, 2008, 11:01 AM by Marni Soupcoff
Lorne Gunter
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

There is no Hope!

I have been watching Obama over the past few weeks, listening and reading his speeches and, admittedly scratching my head over his obsessive use of the words “hope” and “change”. And wondering - has the average American become so dim-witted that these two words are enough to get a man, with only 2 years of elected experience as a US Senator, elected President of the United States? I suspect that perhaps it is. What do these things mean in the context of our upcoming election?

The easiest to address is “change”. I interpret that as meaning many on the left, and probably some on the right, believe it is time for George Bush to leave. Well, because of the 22nd Amendment to our Constitution, that is guaranteed – George Bush will no longer be our President after this next election.

A “change in direction” is also a guarantee – all candidates running are decidedly more socialist than in years past. We can all look forward to more government intrusion into our lives, and expansion of the nanny state and a continued surrender of our ability to run and direct our lives to a government that seems to be determined to take care of us, whether we want them to or not. I believe these things are certain. “Change” will occur. However, “hope” is another matter all together.

There is no “hope”.

Just what is “hope”. One dictionary defines it as: “A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.”

A “wish”, a “desire” that a person is “confident” will come true. Think how the tenor of Obama’s speeches would change if he replaced the word “hope” with the word “wish”.

“I wish we had affordable healthcare!” “I wish the terrorists would abandon their attacks on the US.” “I wish education was cheaper.” “I wish you could pay lower taxes.” Would that make a difference in how he is viewed by those crowding around him at his rallies, passing out in ecstasy?

There is no “hope”.

Lets look at “hope” on two levels: first at the individual and personal level, the second at the national level as it applies to our national desires, goals and direction.

A high school student can “hope” to get into a good college, yet if they are unwilling to study hard, follow a college prep path, participate in additional activities and maintain good grades, “hope” will not help, they will not be accepted.

An individual that wants to get a “good” job faces the exact same challenges. If they are unwilling to learn the field they want to work in, acquire the necessary education, excel at that education and then diligently search for that job, they will not be helped by “hoping” things will go their way.

An employee who “hopes” to move up will not do so unless they work hard, continue to learn, make themselves indispensable and simply excel at what they do. “Hope” will not move them up the ladder, action will.

A couple can “hope” their relationship will endure and grow, but unless they are willing to love each other, listen to each other, accept each other and support each other, their relationship will stagnate and fade. “Hope” in place of action leads them no where.

How does this desire for “hope” transfer itself to the national scene?

We can “hope” that terrorists will not and are not planning future attacks against the US. In fact, this past week, with the House’s refusal to enact an updated FISA bill that the Senate had already past, and the expiration of the Protect America Act, the Democrat House has relied on “hope” entirely – the hope that our Islamist enemies that destroyed the World Trade Center, bombed our embassies and ships and fought our soldiers throughout the world have had enough and have laid down their arms. However, the constant drumbeat of “death to America” heard throughout the lands of our enemies’ leads me to suspect that their passion for our destruction has not dimmed. We can either confront them or surrender to them.

We can “hope” that our borders are secure. Yet, with an estimated 12-20 million illegals in our country, it appears “hope” is not securing our borders at all. We can either secure our borders, send the lawbreakers home and install a real guest worker program, or we can surrender our sovereignty to criminals.

We can “hope” that the countries of the Mideast, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada and Africa will continue to provide us oil. We can “hope” we can refine enough of those imports into gasoline with 35 year old refineries. We can “hope” we can meet our growing electrical needs without building more coal and nuclear power stations. Or, we can harvest our natural resources, drill for oil, extract and use our coal, build the nuclear plants we badly need and wean ourselves off our foreign dependencies.

We can “hope” that companies do not move their manufacturing capabilities out of our country. Our government can continue to raise their taxes, threaten to take their profits, punish their successes and promise to control their prices. However, target companies will not “hope” the government changes its mind, they will simply leave. Or, we could reduce their taxes (taxes that are passed on to the consumers by the way), encourage them to expand, support their growth (and as a result add new jobs), invite increased investment and encourage foreign companies to relocate in the US instead.

My point is this: while Mr. Obama has soared to the top his party’s ticked by “Wishin’ and Hopin” (lyrics by Ani Difranco), it’s hollow. Without commitment, direction, actions, cooperation, determination and clarity – there is nothing. And, that is exactly what it seems that Mr. Obama is holding in his hand to offer the American people – nothing.

Is this what we have come to as a country – Republican, Democrat, Independent – that we have come to demand so little from our leaders that we would vote for nothing?

There is no “hope”.

Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End

I AM SHOCKED!!! SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!! Surely there is a misunderstanding - the EU and our own intel guys have told us me might be as much as a decade away from a nuclear Iran. So how can this be?? What should be do?? What works will Berry Obama use to stop their program??

Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year's End

By Markus Becker

New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year.

China attacks through Digital Photo Frames!

They are just business partners - nothing to see here, move along, move along.

It's time to fight for free speech!!

It's time to stand up against the government's battle against free speech!!!

Unfettered Speech, Now

By Bradley A. Smith and Steve Simpson
Saturday, February 16, 2008; Page A21

Most Americans probably assume that they can gather with friends and neighbors to say whatever they want about politics to whoever is willing to listen. They presume that the First Amendment protects their right to get together and buy yard signs, publish newsletters or pay for radio or television ads urging people to vote for or against a candidate -- and to do so free of government interference.

Unfortunately, most Americans would be wrong. Today, when Americans band together and spend even small amounts of money to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, they must submit to government regulation and limits on the funds they can raise. Because of these campaign finance laws, the presumption in favor of free speech rooted in the First Amendment has largely given way to a presumption of regulation.

Vote for McCain?

The mistake the Republican establishment made was moving so far “left” since they captured the Congress. And, after loosing the whole shooting-match in 2006, believing that more of the same would help. November will be brutal – and necessary.

Everyone keeps saying McCain will support the troops – as I am sure he will in words and his heart. But, with a House and Senate that will be near veto-proof, just what do you think he will be able to accomplish? We just saw a House willing to let our ability to monitor terrorist communication – months before a presidential election (anyone remember Spain – 3/11???) – a clear indication of the atmosphere McCain will have to work in. Do you really think he will be able to pass budgets to continue the GWOT?? Really?? Remember the ONLY REASON he is a maverick is that he LEAPS across the aisle, hugs Kennedy, Libermann, Finegold and any other Democrat near by. Intentions mean nothing, the ability to pass legislation does and he will have NONE.

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when I expect the intelligence community to use ALL TOOLS NECESSARY to extract information regarding attacks on Americans – including water-boarding!

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when I expect the government to keep dangerous terrorists in a secure area and to try them in a military court. Tell me, when McCain closes Gitmo, transfers these animals to Ft. Levenworth and the legal lefties are finally successful in having them tried is a civil court, will you volunteer to be on the jury? Will you stare down a terrorist, with your family at home, and give him the death penalty knowing he will be coming for you and your kids? Really?? This is a job for the military, let them handle it.

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when it comes to McCain. Excuse me?? I want: Secure Borders, stop paying to educate illegals’s children, stop making their babies citizens, stop giving them healthcare, stop giving them jobs, DO NOT LEGALIZE 12-20 MILLION of them and then invite their immediate family to join them, do not give them driver’s licenses, do not give them credit cards, do not give them home loans, THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when I resist, with all my heart, the stupid idea of man-made global warming, and plans on signing on to koyto to punish us for our successes as an industrialized nation. Anyone read the stories of an equally vocal band of scientists warning we may be on the edge of a mini-ice age because of reduced solar sun spot activity??? We’ve have broken the 1969 snowfall record here in Iowa – hello??? The sun is 333,000 TIMES LARGER than the earth!!!!! It is our thermometer, NOT man.

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when McCain saw fit to take away my First Amendment right to free speech through McCain/Finegold. Anyone notice how nicely the whole “no advertising against a named candidate 30 days before a primary” clause worked after his lies about Rommney in Florida??

I am DAMN TIRED of having everyone call me a right winger when McCain saw fit to take away the vote of my Senator through his little “gang of 14”. Scholar after scholar feels strongly that filibusters of judicial candidates are un-constitutional, we should have settled the matter once and for all.

The Republican Party, at the NATIONAL level, has chosen to move so far left, away from the BASIC principles of a secure nation, free speech, national sovereignty that I am now expected to abandon MY core beliefs – beliefs that have guided my 40 years as a voting Republican. As they ponder their disaster this fall - and make no mistake, it will be a disaster – it will not be because of conservative’s stubbornness, it will be because the Republican Party has abandoned every principle that attracted conservatives and replaced them with those of the liberal left. It has shown me the door, and I have taken the hint.

Obama's Che backer found!

Meet the woman who hung the Che flag in Obama's campaign office!

Does Obama have an understanding of the Constitution?

It would seem that Senator Obama lacks a basic understanding of the President's power under the Constitution. Take a look at his interview with the Boston Globe back in December.

Barack Obama's Q&A
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / December 20, 2007

Global Warming - Really???

Forgive me as I try to wrap my head around the whole idea of global warming as Iowa endures the most snow since 1969. Think I'm kidding??




So pardon me if a scoff at the idea of man-made global warming.

In fact, recent observations of our largest contributor to climate change - the SUN - might imply just the opposite, we might be on the cusp of global COOLING.

Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Age Funding

Every day, scientists hoping to see an increase in solar activity train their instruments at the sun as it crosses the sky. This is no idle academic pursuit: A lull in solar action could potentially drive the planet’s temperature down, or even prompt a mini Ice Age.

No, say it isn't so!!! Not a mini Ice Age!!!!!

The members of the RoP are out in force lately.

For all those Europeans looking to the immigrant population to solve their problems, they might want to listen to what those immigrants are being told by leaders from the old country.

Erdogan cheered by 16,000 Turks in Cologne 10/02/2008

The Turkish prime minister tells crowd to resist assimilation.

Cologne, Germany -- A crowd of 16,000 expatriate Turks cheered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a vast indoor auditorium in Germany on Sunday as he told them to resist assimilation into the West.

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"Assimilation is a crime against humanity," he told the crowd. Many Turks had travelled from France, Belgium and the Netherlands to hear his hour-long address in the shiny venue, the Koelnarena.

A crime against humanity - just take that statement in.

A glimer of awakening in Britain?

Britain is awash in violent Islamists. The solution of the Archbishop of Canterbury? Submit to Sharia law. Me thinks the the lowly citizens might have something to say about it.

Europe in the house of war
By Spengler

Violence is oozing through the cracks of European society like pus out of a broken scab. Just when liberal opinion congratulated itself that Europe had forsaken its violent past, the specter of civil violence has the continent terrified. That is the source of the uproar over a February 7 speech by Archbishop Rowan Williams, predicting the inevitable acceptance of Muslim sharia law in Great Britain.

Not since World War II has British opinion been provoked to the present level of outrage. Writing in the Times of London, the editor of the London Spectator, Matthew d'Ancona, quoted former British Conservative parliamentarian Enoch Powell's warning that concessions to alien cultures would cause "rivers of blood" to flow in the streets of England. Times columnist Minette Marin accuses the archbishop of treason.

Perhaps an awakening is beginning.

The RoP Continues the assult and slaughter of their women.

Why is it when the US waterboards the architect of 9/11, the world howls at our inhumanity. Yet, in Britain alone 17,000 women are assaulted and murdered because they have offended the honor of their family, these same people are silent?

Perhaps it is because fear works. Critise the US, and nothing happens to you. Critise Islam and its practices and you might end up dead. Hummmm - who is civilized again??

A question of honour: Police say 17,000 women are victims every year

Ministers are stepping up the fight against so-called 'honour' crime and forced marriages. Detectives say official statistics are 'merely the tip of the iceberg' of this phenomenon. Brian Brady investigates

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to "honour" related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs.

And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

The tip of the iceberg. The Religion of Peace. Food for thought.

9,125 American deaths per year at the hands of illegals!

Much has been written about the deaths of over 3960 (to date) of our soldiers in the Iraq War. With the 5th Anniversary of the start of the war just around the corner, this will certainly take center stage again next month. And, lest any think that I believe this to be trivial, I do not. The death of any soldier is sad. Yet, they died in a chosen profession, certain of the risks and proud to serve.

During this same time there were the murders of 21,900 American citizens, on American soil. There were involved in daily life. No volunteer state, simply living their lives - only to have them ended by an illegal alien, an unwelcome, unwanted and criminal intruder into our country.

Also during this time there were 23,725 American citizens, on American highways, killed by drunken illegal aliens. Killed by people who care nothing for our rule of law.

From Congressman Peter King (R-Iowa):

What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.

A total of 45,625 Americans dead at the hands of illegal aliens over the past 5 years. Tell me, where is the outcry?

Obama Staff remembers Che.

While celebrating Obama's Super Tuesday's wins, it would seem campaign team members in the Huston area put up a bit of political wall decoration: a Cuban flag with the image of Che on it.

I would like to say that I'm sure the Senator would not approve, I find my fingers can't type those words. Obviously his campaign workers saw fit to celebrate the communist country and one of its most famous murderers with a wall hanging displayed prominently behind the desk. It clearly represents these worker's political leanings. And, I suspect, the leanings of the good Senator as well.

Watch and weep.

Some thoughts on the result of a McCain Presidency

Some thoughts on what a McCain Presidency means:

* Open borders: He will sign the Kennedy bill after "securing the boarder". Yet, the Kennedy bill legalizes the 12-20 million in country and allows immediate family members to join them. This could easily result in 36-60 new citizens virtually over night. How do we support this?

* Once this green light is lit, do you really think they will post the 4th ID on the border to secure it? Our current influx of illegals will look like a trickle.

* Tax Cuts: They will get repealed in a heart beat. With a weak (cooperative) stick like McCain in the driver’s seat there will be no one to stand against the clamoring hordes hungry for your tax dollars. What will this do to business in innovation in the US - review the Carter years for your answer.

* McCain's agreement with Kyoto and his buy-in to the whole man made global warming deal ( by the way - FREEZING MY ASS OFF IN IOWA ) - yet another nail in the coffin of American businesses.

* Judges: McCain cared so little for my constitutional rights that he formed his little gang of 14. The filibuster of Supreme Court Justices is unconstitutional - and it should have been settled before Bush left office because McCain and the Democrats certainly will do nothing but salt the court with socialists and believers in "The Living Constitution".

* McCain/Finegold: Florida was a perfect example of why McCain fought so hard for that legislation. He released a pack of lies and inflammatory robo-calls against Romney. Since it was within 30 days of a Primary (or 60 days of a general election), no private group or citizen could buy air time to help Romney rebut these lies. McCain could simply lie over and over knowing full well no one could mount a rigorous response.

* The War: Tell me, do you really think McCain, regardless of his hawkish stance on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Religion of Peace, do you really think he will have the horse power to rustle up funding for fighting these folks with a Democrat Congress? Once he is POTUS, he will no longer be their friend - he will be their enemy.

* His personality: He is, perhaps the most angry and vindictive member of the Senate today. While these traits may be fine for survival in Vietnam and for getting his way in the Senate, they do not lend themselves to leadership. IF, and this is a BIG IF, between now and November he sees fit to show some contrition for his stupid ideas on immigration, campaign finance, tax cuts, the gang of 14, he might find his footing with the conservatives. He won't do that. Simply because he IS angry and vindictive. I believe the conservative base is going to punish him.

With the election of McCain, I do not believe there would be a dimes worth of difference between him and Hillary. If Obama gets elected, he will be drug around by the nose by every special interest group and the likes of Kennedy. I agree, the results will be brutal. But please don't think that McCain guarantees any level of good treatment for the military and death and destruction to our enemies, it doesn't.

Bill Clinton's role in the Whitehouse - I shudder to think!

So what role doe Bill Clinton believe he will play? Well certainly senior advisor - but he wouldn't want to undermine the Vice President or the Secretary of State. How nice of him.

Clinton said his best use on behalf of his wife, Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, were she president, would be "to try to help her talk through all these problems and then to be available for very specific assignments that would not in any way undermine the authority of the vice president or the
secretary of state."

Please Lord, isn't two terms of Bill Clinton enough?? Does ANYONE HONESTLY BELIEVE HE WILL BE WILLING TO DEFER TO HILLARY, even though his name is not on the ballot?? A nightmare approaches!

Are the American people ready for Marxism a la Clinton?

Hillary seems ready for the government to take over the private sector to put things right in the economy - are we ready for Marxism a al Clinton??

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration.

A state complains about tighter immigration rules for employers!

A state is very angry about the new Arizona law that places more demands on employers to know whether their new employee is in the US legally.

The result of this new law is a flood of Mexican worker - all without money or jobs! The travesty of it all!! Of course, the delicious irony of it all is that it is a . . . . wait for it . . . . . wait for it . . . . . MEXICAN state that is complaining about the return of Mexican citizens from their illegal stint in the US.

"you are entering the twilight zone"

The Mexican delegation, members of Sonora's 58th Legislature, belong to the national Action Party (PAN), the party of Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón. They spoke at the offices of Project PPEP, a nonprofit that provides job retraining for farm workers and other programs.

The lawmakers were to travel to Phoenix for a Wednesday breakfast meeting with Hispanic legislators. They want to tell them how the law will affect Mexican families on both sides of the border.

"How can they pass a law like this?" asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales. "There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona," she said in Spanish.

"Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said.

"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.

You get that?

"We are one family, socially and economically," she said of the people of Sonora
and Arizona.

No mame, we are not. We are two separate, distinct and sovereign countries.

Please Bill - just keep talking!!!

Bill Clinton, the gift that keeps on giving.

Excuse me - health clinics aren't supposed to make a profit???

It seems as thou the Mayor of Boston believes clinics aren't supposed to make a profit. And god forbid that a retailer provide affordable healthcare.

Menino blasted state regulators for paving the way Wednesday for the in-store clinics, which are designed to provide treatment for sore throats, poison ivy, and other minor illnesses.

The decision by the state Public Health Council, "jeopardizes patient safety," Menino said in a written statement. "Limited service medical clinics run by merchants in for-profit corporations will seriously compromise quality of care and hygiene. Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong."

Get that, allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong! This is what the left will bring us if we allow them to.

The Dems want "change" - what the hell does that mean???

If I hear the mantra of “change” one more time, I think my head might explode. Let’s explore some of the things that might change with election of a Democrat President and see if we can see where the Democrat party might take us.

It’s time for someone other than President Bush: well, there is a two term limit for President, he’s gone, so no need to worry about change there, it’s going to happen.

A change in our economy: Well, let’s see. The stock market is up 20% since President Bush was elected. Not bad. Since his tax breaks were enacted the US Treasury is taking in record dollars – unfortunately Congress has seen fit to spend at a record level as well. Much has also been said about the housing market and the number of bad home loans in the market place. Yet, this is the direct result of another “change” demanded by Congress – that banks adjust their lending requirements to make it easier for people to get a home loan. Well, after numerous threats, the banking industry did just that, and, oddly, people who had a hard time qualifying for loans in years gone by are now defaulting. Change indeed. As for our labor market, unemployment is at just under 5 per cent. This has been accepted as full employment for years.

So, stock market up 20%, record money coming into the treasury, a housing market that is simply correcting and a labor market at full employment. Just what would the Democrat party change?

US Security: Since 9/11 there has not been an attack on US soil nor has there been an attack on a US Embassy or other US interest globally (excluding Iraq and Afghanistan). Our meticulous efforts in Iraq are beginning to pay real benefits with the surge drastically reducing attacks within the country and allowing the Iraqi people to begin to return to a normal life. As a result of our direct efforts we have begun the process of creating an independent Iraq that is a true friend of the US. We have freed over 50 million Muslims from the tyrannies of Saddam and the Taliban through these efforts.

No attacks on US interests, real movement in Iraq, freeing of 50 million Muslims. Again, what would the Democrat party change?

Leave Iraq immediately: Not all, but most Democrat candidates have vowed a rapid withdrawal from Iraq. So what would follow our quick exit? No one is saying. Oddly, for as much as President Bush was criticized for his lack of evaluation of the result of our invasion of Iraq, the Democrats are now simply repeating the mantra of exit, exit, exit – all without evaluation of what this result would be. Given that we import around 60% of our oil needs, much of it from the Mideast, is it truly in our best interest to allow a power vacuum to occur in Iraq? Is this a change we want – a Mideast in turmoil?

How about immigration: Across the board, all Democrat candidates are in lock-step – we need to find a way to convert the illegal aliens among us into legal citizens. Not only that, their families and their relatives as well. Not only that, how about in-state tuition for their children when they attend college, not to mention a free education in our local school systems. This is positive change? – Allowing criminals to steal the resources of the US? The only change this brings is the stealing of jobs from US citizens and legal immigrants and the theft of our educational and healthcare resources. It would seem that the only changes any Democrat is recommending would increase the harm done by illegal immigrants while punishing those immigrants willing to play by the rules. Is this the type of change we want?

The US Healthcare System: Again, virtually every Democrat candidate is ready to scrap our current healthcare system in favor of a “universal healthcare system”. Just what does that mean? I would like anyone to name a single social program run by the government that has been successful. Social Securing is quickly coming to an end, Medicare costs are spinning out of control, the healthcare provided to our military veterans is approaching a disgrace – and the Democrat candidates want to now bring this expertise to our healthcare system? This is the change we all want? As for the success of socialized medicine in other western countries – name one, just one country with an acceptable socialized medicine program. Canadians, at least those that can afford it, flock to the US for healthcare, Brits pull their own teeth, Swedes wait weeks for evaluation after heart attacks – is this what we are willing to accept in the US?

So please, change? Not a single Democrat has a policy of change that will benefit the citizens of the US, not a single one.

No woman is illegal!!! - Of course not - - unless . . .

unless they have violated US law and come into this country - - well - - er - - ah - - illegally.

Our favorite open boarders, socialist presidential (small "p") candidate Hillary was busy glad handing in Las Vegas when she met such a lady, her response?

"No woman is illegal," Clinton said, to cheers.

Really? A criminal that has broken US law is not illegal? This should play well on the election trail come the fall.

Just how bad was Saddam?

With the latest estimate of 150,000 civilian deaths since March 2003, once again the critics are raising their voices as to how much better the Iraqi people had it under Saddam. Really?? Better?? Perhaps a closer look at the numbers is in order.

From the Confederate Yankee

Do Decocrat activists within the government realize the damage they are doing??

Do Decocrat activists within the government realize the damage they are doing??

In their hearts, I believe they do. But, their hatred of President Bush is so great, I think they fool themselves that they will be able to "fix" things once they are back in power.

The Flaws In the Iran Report

By John R. Bolton
Thursday, December 6,
2007; Page A29

Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of
intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released
this week. Rarely has an administration been so unprepared for such an event.
And rarely have vehement critics of the "intelligence community" on issues such
as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction reversed themselves so quickly.

The NIE - talking out of both sides of your mouth.

The NIE - talking out of both sides of your mouth.

How can this be? In July the Iranians were developing nukes, now they aren't? Couldn't be politics, could it??

NIE: An Abrupt About-Face

As many recognize, the latest NIE on Iran’s
nuclear weapons program directly contradicts what the U.S. Intelligence
Community was saying just two years previously. And it appears that this
about-face was very recent. How recent?

More UN deceptopn on Global Warming

Still more deception from the UN on global warming.

In recent years, the earth has been COOLING, not warming. Weather patterns have been calmer, the list goes on and on. It's those pesky little facts rather than the heart tugging rethoric.

Christopher Booker: Planet-saving madnessBy Christopher
Booker
Last Updated: 11:39am GMT 27/11/2007


We are set on a course of 'planet saving' madness
The scare over
global warming, and our politicians' response to it, is becoming ever more
bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised
reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have
been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously
recorded.

Driest-ever
autumn to follow wettest summer
Damian
Lanigan: The eco-nihilists
Britain's
worst polluters

This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing
temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not
to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that
the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest
year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

I suspect the UN's promotion of global warming has more to do with the expected taxes they wants to collect for carbon offsets than it has to do with saving the planet.

Is there really a health care access problem??

So when we hear all the hubb-bub about lack of health care availably, what is the real truth??

Beyond Those Health Care Numbers

By N. GREGORY MANKIW
Published: November 4, 2007

WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around. The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them. Rather, the dangerous ones are those that are true but don’t mean what people think they mean.

Imagine that. This is a crisis??

Is there really an oil shortage?

Who own the most oil fields? The answer probably won't surprise you - the world's governments. And they do a lousy job of managing them.

Socialist oil death spiral
Richard W. Rahn
November 6, 2007

Socialism always plants the seeds of its own destruction, and state-owned oil is no exception. Most people do not realize that about 90 percent of the world's liquid oil reserves are controlled by governments or state-owned companies. Exxon Mobil, the world's largest privately owned oil company, owns only 1.08 percent of the world's oil reserves, and the five largest private global oil companies together own only about 4 percent of the world's oil reserves.

There is enough liquid oil in the ground to last generations; and when oil sands and oil shale are included, there is enough oil to last centuries. If there were a truly free market in oil, with both the reserves and production owned and controlled by many competitive companies, the price of oil would be a fraction of today's price.

Imagine that, centuries of oil, a fraction of today's cost. Who would have thought!

Bio fules - more damaging than oil?

Imagine that - bio fuels producing more greenhouse gases than oil. But, but, but . . . .

A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.

Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.

Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report

Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report

How can this be??? What kind of cars did they drive 900,000 years ago???

My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror | Comment | The Observer

My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror | Comment | The Observer

A call for an Islamic Reformation - this is something that MUST happen.

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.

By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

The Anchoress » Blog Archive » Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush

The Anchoress » Blog Archive » Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush: "Let’s do it; let’s Impeach Bush

This sounds like a great idea!

I haven’t read the thing, itself, but I have now read several accounts of Al Gore’s new book, Assault on Reason, wherein he wags fingers at people who watch TV (unless, of course, they’re watching him pimp his book) and the media (particularly those who don’t stick to reporting only his side, of the “manmade” global warming story) and - by all accounts - he trashes the Bush 43 administration from start to finish, enumerating all of Bush’s “lies” and mistakes."

Foreign and Domestic

Foreign and Domestic:

Why have I not seen this on a single MSM news program? Oh, right, it's a request from our troops for Congress to grow a pair, ah, now I understand.

"WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) led U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives in accepting a petition - the Appeal for Courage -- signed by more than 2,800 U.S. service members urging Congress to support the mission in Iraq and end calls for retreat. A full 60 percent of the petition signers have previously served or are now serving in Iraq ."

Know Thy Enemies

Know Thy Enemies:

Now that al Qaeda is on the rise in Iraq and the Iraqi tribes are fighting them, is this really the time we should be telling them to just hang on, we are leaving soon??

"SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and government analysts, but the prevailing attitude was that if the insurgents were fighting each other, at least they weren't fighting us.

It turned out that the group that bore the brunt of this violence would later develop into the Anbar Salvation Front, which has proved to be one of our most important local allies in Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), was trying to wipe out this fledgling movement. If analysts better understood that situation, timely U.S. intervention could have thwarted Zarqawi and allowed the Anbar Salvation Front to make a difference on the ground sooner.

Similarly, today a critically important debate is raging about whether the United States should set a timeframe for troop withdrawal. While most people seemingly have an opinion on the matter, it's difficult to figure out whether the situation is truly futile without understanding the various factions that we're fighting."

Syria Cracking Down on Human Rights Activists -- 05/11/2007

Syria Cracking Down on Human Rights Activists -- 05/11/2007:

How can such behavior be possible?? Madame Speaker Pelosi just assured us all was well with Syria and that we could certainly work things out with them - how can just talking to a US official justify going to prison??

"A Syrian human rights activists was sentenced to 12 years in pri son Thursday for meeting with White House officials two years ago. The move signals that any dissent in the country will not be tolerated.

A Syrian court found Dr. Kamal a-Labwani guilty of 'communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria,' reports said."

China alarms ringing - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

China alarms ringing - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:

These folks have had a very long term plan to become the dominant global player. They continue to make progress in this direction. What is the response of the Democrat party to this threat?

"Fifteen years ago, the U.S. intelligence community judged that the People's Liberation Army of China was more than 20 years behind the West. In January, the PLA brought down a satellite with an ultra-sophisticated 'kinetic kill vehicle' weapon. Today, no one views China's nuclear or missile capabilities as anything other than cutting-edge."

Byron York on Intelligence & Global Warming on National Review Online

Byron York on Intelligence & Global Warming on National Review Online:

Which poses the greater threat - Militant Islam and their terrorist brothers - or - Global warning. It simply boggles the mind!

"What a difference an election makes. Today the House of Representatives will debate whether global warming is so serious a threat to American national security that the Director of National Intelligence, normally busy with issues like al Qaeda, Iranian nuclear research, and North Korean missiles, should be ordered to put aside other projects to create a special National Intelligence Estimate on climate change. So far, majority Democrats have pushed the proposal through the House Intelligence Committee — on a party-line vote — and there is a good chance it will become part of the final intelligence authorization bill passed by Congress."

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Terror Masters' Nuclear Sideshow Continues by Steve Schippert

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Terror Masters' Nuclear Sideshow Continues by Steve Schippert:

You Just have to wonder, what will it take for the EU to recognize the threat knocking on their door and living within their own borders. Honest to God, these folks will lead us to a nuclear morning seen only in horror movies.

"Just recently, on April 30, the European Union began the latest round of nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna, home of Mohamed ElBaredei's IAEA. The pretext for the talks is a 130-nation gathering to discuss the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) which addresses the conduct of nuclear states and the handling of the nuclear technology they master. But make no mistake, any and all nuclear talks begin and end with the Iranian nuclear crisis, and this gathering is no different. The talks are scheduled to last two weeks. Today, reports abound of an Iranian acceptance of a compromise during the talks, a compromise lacking in the Iranian nuclear posture since its clandestine nuclear program was publicly exposed in 2003. On the surface, this is a good development and welcomed news. But beyond the surface, nothing has changed. "

Antiwar Groups Use New Clout to Influence Democrats on Iraq - New York Times

Antiwar Groups Use New Clout to Influence Democrats on Iraq - New York Times:

A telling glimse into who is running the Democrat party, they are not cut from the same cloth as JFK.

Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference call with Democratic leadership staff members in the House and the Senate.

Shortly after, in a cramped meeting room here, they convene for a call with organizers across the country. They hash out plans for rallies. They sketch out talking points for “rapid response” news conferences. They discuss polls they have conducted in several dozen crucial Congressional districts and states across the country."

FrontPage magazine.com :: Che and Cho by Humberto Fontova

FrontPage magazine.com :: Che and Cho by Humberto Fontova:

A bit of history about the real Che.

"His writings revealed a severely troubled young man. 'My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!'"

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Revisiting the Case for Invasion

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Revisiting the Case for Invasion

The real problem for George Tenet is that, while he attempts to rewrite history, and his participation in it, people remember what actually happened. You would think that, with the availability of search engines today, Mr. Tenet would simply assume someone might fact check him. Evidently that didn't occur to him.

"Everyone has the right to renounce past views. But not to make up that past. It is beyond brazen to think that one can get away with inventing not ancient history but what everyone saw and read with their own eyes just a few years ago. And yet sometimes brazenness works."

RealClearPolitics - Articles - A Rising Tide of Fury

RealClearPolitics - Articles - A Rising Tide of Fury:

So just how do those "moderate Muslims" view the US? The signs for a peaceful co-existance with the RPO are not good!

"From a low of 73 percent in Indonesia to a high of 92 percent in Egypt the Muslims believe that America's goal is 'to weaken and divide the Islamic world.' Fairly assuming that these four countries' populations represent worldwide Muslim views in Islamic countries, in other words, about 80 percent of the 1.4 billion Muslims or about a billion souls see America as hostile or an enemy to Islam."

My Granddaughter’s Granddaughter’s world.

My Granddaughter’s Granddaughter’s world.

We have a way of viewing our country’s history through the eyes of our own individual experience. While schools attempt to teach us our nation’s history, it is hard to imagine Jamestown, the Pilgrim’s landing and their struggle, the rise of discontent and the Revolution, the razing of the Whitehouse during the War of 1812, the Gold Rush, discoveries of Lewis and Clark, the Civil War, my Grandmother’s birth, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, Korea, sputnik, polio, Alan Shepard, my Grandmother’ death, the assassination of the Kennedy’s, Munich Olympics, Vietnam, Leon Klinghoffer, Wars against Israel, rise of Islamofacism, Gulf War I, Somalia, The Cole, Gulf War II, the Democrat’s declare defeat and surrender to the terrorists in Iraq, and, finally, today.

My Grandmother way born in 1881. She was a tiny woman, barely reaching 5 feet tall. She seemed small standing next to her husband Bill, 6 feet two in the old family black and white photos. The only images of her with him are from the early 40’s. Both have that tough as nails look of the times - farmers, raising a large family with war about them. Their second war, having lived through the first. Neither was directly involved but their daughters Gerri and Madeline married pilots in WWII, Victor winning the DFC. Bill passed before the war ended, grandma moved into town. Another war – Korea. Big changes – kerosene lamps to electricity, radio to TV, horses to autos, aircraft, spacecraft. She wanted the best for her kids and was willing to do whatever it took to make sure they had their shot. She was firm, direct, tough and loving, kind and cheerful. Everything a grandma should be. My daughter is her great granddaughter. She has seen the advent of the PC, satellite TV and radio, she’s the daughter of a Vietnam Vet, has seen the rise of terrorism, Gulf War I, 9/11 and now Gulf War II. My granddaughter, Adeline was born just a year ago, my Grandmother’s, grandson’s, granddaughter. And so 125 years of history is tied together in my memory, 57 years of which I myself have experienced.

And it happened so fast, those 125 years. Given this timeline, what will Adeline’s granddaughter’s world look like? The year would be around 2075. What would Adeline’s world look like if her great great grandmother’s world would have sat out WWI? What would it look like if D-Day casualties would have prompted the US to decide to let Europe fall to Hitler? What if the battles of Iwo Jima, Corrigadore, Midway, the Philippines would have been too much for them to bear? What if McArthur would have said “To hell with it, I’m not coming back!”? What if they would have abandoned France the way we abandoned Vietnam? There is a price that must be paid by each generation to insure that we stay free. It is not a debt that can be passed to the next generation nor is it an obligation that can be differed. If we are to survive as a free nation, we must be willing to stand against evil, fight and be willing to do so until we win – or all that was brought about on this land that is known as the United States will simply cease.

The question for the Democrat party is this – what legacy are you going to leave Adeline’s granddaughter? Will she be a free woman or a slave of the veil? Will she live in an open and vibrant society or will she be little more than an Islamofacist’s chattel? Will she look back on history and be proud her ancestors stood against an evil enemy at the gate, or will she be subjugated because they opened the gate? Will her country be strong, free and growing, or a heap of nuclear slag?

As the Democrat party marches us gleefully towards defeat, I would ask that they look beyond 2008 to 2075 and into the eyes of my Adeline’s granddaughter. What fate are you bestowing on her in your reckless quest for power?

What drives the Democrats? - The Boston Globe

What drives the Democrats? - The Boston Globe By Jeff Jacoby

Why the Democrats voted to surrender to the Islamofacists in Iraq. Not a pretty picture.

LEGISLATION passed by congressional Democrats last week would force US troops to abandon Iraq beginning Oct. 1. Though a veto was foreordained, the vote was great news for the jihadis in Iraq, their second such morale boost in a week. On April 19, Senate majority leader Harry Reid had run up a white flag, declaring that "this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything" -- music to the ears of Al Qaeda and its allies .

How a British jihadi saw the light-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Book Extracts-TimesOnline

How a British jihadi saw the light-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Book Extracts-TimesOnline

An intimate look at the "Relgion of Peace" as experienced in Saudi Aribia by a former British jihadi. Sometimes you need to be careful what you pray for:

My first clash with Saudi culture came when, being driven around in a bulletproof jeep, I saw African women in black abayas tending to the rubbish bins outside restaurants, residences and other busy places.

“Why are there so many black cleaners on the streets?” I asked the driver. The driver laughed. “They’re not cleaners. They are scavengers; women who collect cardboard from all across Jeddah and then sell it. They also collect bottles, drink cans, bags.”

“You don’t find it objectionable that poor immigrant women work in such undignified and unhygienic conditions on the streets?”

“Believe me, there are worse jobs women can do.”

WorldNetDaily: Democrat debate 'victory for Iraqi insurgents'

WorldNetDaily: Democrat debate 'victory for Iraqi insurgents' By Aaron Klein

Well, the Democrats have the terrorists on their side. How proud of themselves and their party they must be!

TEL AVIV – Democratic presidential hopefuls flashing their anti-war credentials last night at a national debate by stating they would immediately withdraw from Iraq, encouraged Palestinian terrorist leaders here, who labeled the debate a victory for Iraqi insurgents and "resistance movements" throughout the world.

The debate was widely covered today by the Palestinian and pan-Arab media.

"We see Hillary (Clinton) and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion. This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically," said Abu Jihad, one of the overall leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization.

I think democrats will do good if they will withdraw as soon as they are in power," he said.

The fruits of Speaker Pelosi's visit with our enemy - rotten to the core.

A few weeks ago Speaker Pelosi took on the mantel of Prime Minister and decided to show President Bush how real diplomacy worked. She visited one of or enemies in the Mideast - President Assad - to tell him we really, really, really wished he would stop helping kill our troops. So, how did that go?

No Results in Damascus
Having finished hosting U.S. politicians, Syria's dictator has returned to jailing dissidents and sponsoring terrorism.

Friday, April 27, 2007; Page A22 Editorial, Washington Post

THE CONGRESSIONAL leaders who visited Damascus this month to meet Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad gave a practical test to the oft-stated theory that "engaging" his regime is more likely to produce results than the Bush administration's policy of isolating it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was particularly unstinting in her goodwill, declaring that she had come to see Mr. Assad "in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace." In a statement, her delegation reported that it had talked to Mr. Assad about stopping the flow of foreign terrorists to Iraq and about obtaining the release of kidnapped Israeli soldiers. It also said it had "conveyed our strong interest in the cases of [Syrian] democracy activists," such as imprisoned human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni.

Three weeks have passed, so it's fair to ask: Has there been any positive change in Syrian behavior -- any return gesture of goodwill, however slight?

Short answer - nope, things have gotten worse, not better.

How would the Democrats handle attacks on US Soil??

The South Carolina debate last night gave the first insights on just how strong the response would be from a Democrat President from the current field to a direct attack, on US soil, by terrorists. Their response should scare the hell out of you!

The Democratic Debate: What, Us Weak on Defense?
Two of the three frontrunners stumble on a very basic question.

By Byron York

During the debate, moderator Brian Williams of NBC News brought up Giuliani’s comment, and the candidates quickly pronounced it a “myth.” But Williams then turned to Sen. Barack Obama, second in the polls but gaining fast on the frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “If, God forbid, a thousand times, while we were gathered here tonight, we learned that two American cities had been hit simultaneously by terrorists,” Williams said, “and we further learned beyond the shadow of a doubt it had been the work of al Qaeda, how would you change the U.S. military stance overseas as a result?”

The question was specifically focused on a military response, but Obama didn’t talk about the military, or any use of force at all. “Well, first thing we’d have to do is make sure that we’ve got an effective emergency response, something that this administration failed to do when we had a hurricane in New Orleans,” Obama said. “And I think that we have to review how we operate in the event of not only a natural disaster, but also a terrorist attack.”

“The second thing,” Obama continued, “is to make sure that we’ve got good intelligence, A, to find out that we don’t have other threats and attacks potentially out there; and B, to find out do we have any intelligence on who might have carried it out so that we can take potentially some action to dismantle that network.”

It didn't get any better after that.

Thank You Senator Lieberman!

Though I take issue with many - if not most - of Senator Lieberman's domestic positions, he is a blessing to this country when it comes to his clarity of vision regarding our war with Islamofacists.

One Choice in Iraq

By Joe Lieberman
Thursday, April 26, 2007; Page A29

Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians -- innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school.

If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, Europe or Israel, our response would surely have been anger at the fanatics responsible and resolve not to surrender to their barbarism.

Unfortunately, because this slaughter took place in Baghdad, the carnage was seized upon as the latest talking point by advocates of withdrawal here in Washington. Rather than condemning the attacks and the terrorists who committed them, critics trumpeted them as proof that Gen. David Petraeus's security strategy has failed and that the war is "lost."

Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali's visit stirs religious freedom debate - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali's visit stirs religious freedom debate - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

What if a Catholic priest called for the death of a member who either took exception to a specific teaching of the church or if that member left the church? There would be cries of outrage, and rightly so. Why then is it that an Imam, preaching in a Mosque in the United States can call for the death of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and nary a word is heard?

Imam Fouad ElBayly, president of the Johnstown Islamic Center, was among those who objected to Hirsi Ali's appearance.

"She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death," said ElBayly, who came to the U.S. from Egypt in 1976.

Harry's War - Democrats are taking ownership of a defeat in Iraq. WSJ Editorial

Harry Reid continues the mantra of American surrender in Iraq. I find myself so angry I am speechless

We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.

--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, April 12.

Gen. David Petraeus is in Washington this week, where on Monday he briefed President Bush on the progress of the new military strategy in Iraq. Today he will give similar briefings on Capitol Hill, but maybe he should save his breath. As fellow four-star Harry Reid recently informed America, the war Gen. Petraeus is fighting and trying to win is already "lost."

Mr. Reid has since tried to "clarify" that remark, and in a speech Monday he laid out his own strategy for Iraq. But perhaps we ought to be grateful for his earlier candor in laying out the strategic judgment--and nakedly political rationale--that underlies the latest Congressional bid to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq starting this fall. By doing so, he and the Democrats are taking ownership of whatever ugly outcome follows a U.S. defeat in Iraq.

Beating Freedom of Speech by Robert Spencer

Islamofacists are continually attacking the freedoms of the West. Our greatest freedoms are freedom of speech and freedom of the press. What will happen if our journalists, and those willing to take a stand against Islamofacism are afraid to write, afraid to speak? Can our fall be more than a few generations behind??

FrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2007 By Robert Spencer

On Thursday, April 12, a gang of Somali thugs on a downtown Oslo street attacked Kadra, a Somali woman who now lives in Norway, and beat her senseless, breaking several of her ribs. They were enraged at her for her recent statement that the Qur’an’s views of women needed reevaluation. They also might have been angry because of her role in revealing the widespread support among imams in Norway for female genital mutilation; Kadra exposed their support for this horrific procedure using a hidden camera in a 2000 documentary for Norwegian television.

As they beat her, Kadra’s attackers shouted Allahu akbar – Allah is great – and recited verses from the Qur’an. “I was terrified,” she said. “While I lay on the pavement they kicked me and screamed that I had trampled on the Koran.”

The Democratic Party surrenders to the terrorists in Iraq

I keep expecting the Dems will hit bottom - silly me!

Today's editorial from the New York Post

April 20, 2007 -- With enemies like Democratic Senate Majority Harry Reid, the terrorists don't need friends.

Yesterday, all by his lonesome, Reid ran up the white flag in the War on Terror - at least in the Iraqi theater.

"This war is lost," he said. "[The troop] surge is not accomplishing anything."

And in the dark recesses of some damp cave, Osama bin Laden broke into a wide grin - even as Tehran's mullahs swapped high-fives.

‘I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers’ by Melanie Phillips

Could it be?? WMDs were actually found?? What a shock! I wonder why the MSM aren't jumping all over this guy!

It’s a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It’s also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes in Saddam’s Iraq to justify the war ostensibly waged to protect the world from Saddam’s use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

Dave Gaubatz, however, says that you could not be more wrong. Saddam’s WMD did exist. He should know, because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don’t know about this is that the American administration failed to act on his information, ‘lost’ his classified reports and is now doing everything it can to prevent disclosure of the terrible fact that, through its own incompetence, it allowed Saddam’s WMD to end up in the hands of the very terrorist states against whom it is so controversially at war.

Read the whole thing, pretty interesting!

The right decision on Partial Birth Abortion

The SCOTUS, with Justice Kennedy writing the majority decision, delivered the right decision upholding that Partial Birth Abortion is illegal. I hear the cries of the defenders of "womens rights" but I take issue with how they frame the question. It is not a matter of a woman's right to eliminate an unwanted pregnancy. It is a question of whether a woman's rights extend to a woman's right to kill an unborn child.

From Kennedy's opionion - how this procedure is done and its effect on the unborn child:

Kennedy cites a 1992 presentation by a Dr. Martin Haskell describing the method of "intact D&E" ("dilation and evacuation"):

The surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum. Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening.

The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents.


After quoting this clinical description, Justice Kennedy goes on to relate the eyewitness testimony of a nurse who witnessed the same method performed on a 26-and-a-half-week fetus:

The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.


Kennedy notes that Dr. Haskell's approach is not the only method of "killing" (Kennedy's word) the fetus once its head lodges in the cervix. The procedures have evolved. He recites the gruesome litany of alternative ways of accomplishing the same end. Again, relying on Haskell, Kennedy says:

Another doctor, for example, squeezes the skull after it has been pierced "so that enough brain tissue exudes to allow the head to pass through." [citations omitted] Still other physicians reach into the cervix with their forceps and crush the fetus' skull. [citation omitted] Others continue to pull the fetus out of the woman until it disarticulates at the neck, in effect decapitating it. These doctors then grasp the head with forceps, crush it, and remove it. [citations omitted]


Kennedy provides much more detail, but I will spare you, gentle reader, from the gory details. You get the idea.

This is what the women's rights groups are fighting for? This saddens be beyond words.

Can you support the troops and be against the war? No.

I suppose we can all massage our view of Iraq to meet our own individual take on what needs to be done to confront the danger of Islamofacism. We can believe that we are taking the high road, declare our invasion of Iraq as doomed and hide behind our borders, praying that a second or third or fourth 9/11 does not happen all the while patting ourselves on the back for supporting the troops by pulling them out of an unwinnable war.

It should be no secret I choose the opposite argument – unless we take these animals on in their own back yard, they will certainly take us on in ours.

But, in under this all, the ones who bear the brunt of our national debate are our troops. They strap up every day, enter the streets of Iraq and do their best to bring a peaceful life to these people. They don’t kill in anger, they don’t use their military skills to plant bombs to kill women and children, and they don’t load up trucks with chlorine gas and detonate them in public squares. They take up arms to protect the weakest, the most defenseless and they follow the warrior tradition doing so. This has been the tradition of the US military. You can see thousands of photos of children running up to GIs asking for food, water, candy – and see the GIs giving out their last bottle of water, their last c-rat or MRE, or their favorite candy bar.

We have seen photos of GIs protecting women with their own bodies during the invasion, cradling the lifeless body of a dead infant and struggling to save the lives of wounded civilians. This is the American GI.

You can read account after account of GIs volunteering for 2^nd and 3^rd tours because they believe the fight is honorable and worthy of their skill, energy and if need be, their life. Ours is a volunteer military, and no where are re-enlistments greater than within Iraq. Think about that. These are the men and women who face the dangers of Iraq daily and they see the value of re-enlisting while still in Iraq. This is the soul of the American GI.

We took very deliberate steps prior to our invasion of Iraq. At the insistence of a Democrat Congress, in the fall of 2002 President Bush went before the UN and asked for one final resolution giving Saddam one last chance (after no fewer than 17 ignored resolutions over the preceding 10 years) to permit free and unfettered access to all suspected WMD sites – 1441 passed unanimously.

There is the ever-present Democrat mantra – “ there were no WMDs”. However, a cursory reading of the reports to the UN by Hans Blix in December 2002 and March 2003 clearly indicate that substantial stores of various WMDs including VX and assorted biological agents had not been accounted for that were clearly on the inventory of the Iraqi military, easily put this argument to rest. A more appropriate question might be: “Where did Saddam send them?” Additionally, over 500 tons of yellowcake and 2 tons of enriched uranium have also been removed by US troops. Interviews with Iraqi scientists clearly show Saddam had little intent of discarding his goal of becoming a regional nuclear power.

Also in the fall of 2002 the Democrat Congress demanded that the President come before Congress and ask for permission to use any and all means necessary to remove Saddam if he did not submit to the conditions of 1441 – he was granted this power with a healthy margin.

In March 2003, with the conditions of 1441 unmet, we asked our military to do just that. At this point, in my view, we were committed until Iraq can defend itself, govern itself and provide a safe environment for their children to grow up in. We have signed this agreement with the blood of 3,200 GIs. We owe these fallen GIs a blood debt.

In January of this year, President Bush announced a significant change in strategy, developed by General David H. Petraeus, and proceeded to ask that General Petraeus be appointed as the Commanding General in Iraq. The Senate overwhelmingly approved his appointment after he clearly detailed his plan and his needs. His reward? A determined effort by the Democrat party to declare defeat and prevent the funding he needs to carry out his plan.

This approach is not supporting our troops – it is a betrayal. This approach will not make us safer – it will encourage our enemy, prolong the battle and cost more American and Iraqi lives. Speaker Pelosi’s visit to our enemies while refusing to speak to President Bush about troop funding dishonors our troops and the memories those who have given their last full measure. Abandoning the Iraqi people because we are weary shames our military and shames our country. We are a stronger people than that. We have a long road in this fight and our survival and that of western culture depend on our willingness to carry this burden and see the fight through.

There are no half measures – no fall back position. We are either victorious or we are defeated. A person either supports our troops and their efforts in our war against Islamofacism – or they do not.

For those interested in continued discussion of this topic, you can find this post, and others, at my blog: http://conservativeoutlook.blogspot.com. Please, keep the discussion civil.

Bill Keller