Taft Signs Voter ID Into Law (Ohio Gets an ATTABOY!)

January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

This is certainly good news. Ohio’s Gov. Taft has signed a law that will require voters to present a driver’s license or other specific identification before they will be allowed to vote in Ohio elections. Until today, an Ohioan could just walk up to a polling place and claim verbally who they were and where they lived, without registration or any real proof.

I am a bit surprised that the leftward leaning Taft made this conciliatory gesture to conservative Ohioans, to tell the truth. Taft must be sensing how tenuous his position is at long last.

Here are a few segments from a recent report on the signing of this bill.

Democrats argued that the ID requirements will make it harder for seniors, the poor and disabled to vote.

Obviously poor people and old folk are just too stupid to understand that they must prove that they actually qualify to vote, I suppose. Is there no end to Democrat condescension?

DeWine and Speaker Jon Husted, also from suburban Dayton, said they expect voters won’t experience problems at the polls but will instead have more confidence in election security.

Dewine trying to regain so much lost credibility. It’s doubtful it will work for him this late in the game.

A union steward who votes Democratic, she said she was glad the ID requirement would increase security.

“It’s not a burden,” she said. “You could be anybody that’s walking in to vote for somebody else.”

Now there is a smart woman!

But Julie Batey, 39, a Democratic Party volunteer from Wadsworth in northeast Ohio, said she used to work in personnel and found that many low-income people don’t have a valid ID.

“I think it’s kind of a Republican ploy to kind of affect the voters out there who would possibly vote Democratic,” she said.

Oh, please. They have to find someone touting the blind, leftist talking points. It’s just more Democratic fear mongering. Just like the lies that blacks were kept from voting in florida, believed as gospel even though there is not a shred of proof to the allegations.

Anyway, good going Ohio. Let’s hope this will spread to other states.

WCPO.COM, News

Uh, oh.! They mentioned me on the DailyKos

January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Looks like I am OFFICIALLY a part of the eeeeevil right wing conspiracy. I have been referenced on the DailyKos

I will post it here so you won’t be caught having to go to the DailyKos yourself. (Do you see how I take care of you people? Willing to sear my eyeballs at the DailyKos for your edification, so you don’t have to!)

This one goes along the line of “You can tell a man by his enemies”. If the Kozers are mad at me, I must be doin’ sumpthin right!

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It’s about listening to the roots, not the

unhealthy growth, the parasite, on the trunk of the tree. That is, after all, what democracy is all about. And any tree without healthy roots risks toppling in wind. When one big DeLay sized tree falls, it can start a fir-wave, toppling all the trees below it.

The importance of listening to the roots is demonstrated by Warner Todd Huston, “Leftist Blogs indicate Intraparty Rift? Well, Duh.” In this piece, a response to a WaPo editorial, “Blogs attack from left,” Huston takes the WaPo to task for saying the liberal blogosphere is a new phenomena. He says the liberal blogosphere — he calls it the extreme liberal left — has been active since 2001. Least he got something right.

But more telling is this:

We are not seeing a Democratic Party only lately coming to extreme leftism because of the efforts of “liberal Web logs”. It is the Bloggers who are only lately come to the game of extremism. Hard left Democrats are happy to use these Bloggers and their rhetoric to shore up their already blatant leftist tilt.

It is the right’s view of power structure, a view of it coming from the top down. And we see it over and over and over; in trickle-down economics, in the assumptions of tax-cuts for the rich stimulating the economy, in no-bid defense contracts.

This assumption that power rests in the mighty few at the top ignores the roots. They’re ignoring the Repubicans who believe in fiscal control, limited government, privacy, responsibility. The roots, built on the religious right and corporate elite, are rotting.

It’s a lesson Democrats need to take to heart, rinse, and repeat. When you forget you’re roots, you grow top heavy and risk toppling in the next wind to whip through Washington.

by zic on Sat Jan 28, 2006 at 09:31:20 AM PDT
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Wow, what a misconstruction of what I was trying to say!

I had no intention of saying that power must rest at the “top” and the the “down” should dutifully shut up and follow along like puppies. After all, I am myself a conservative activist on the grass-roots level and, if I really believed as this fellow on DailyKos claims I do, I would be making useless my own attempts to guide my own side. I mean, I ain’t no highly placed insider. Bush may have sent me a Christmas card, but he sure as heck isn’t calling me on the phone to ask my advice! — And no one has caught ME in conference calls with the vast right wig conspiracy planning sessions.

My point was that the DailyKos is not guiding debate but merely reacting to the predetermined leftward tilt the Democrats had undertaken decades ago. They aren’t the “new grass-roots” powerhouses they think they are, but simply the absurdist end of a movement created when most of them weren’t even alive.

And that is the problem. Most of the youngsters at the DailyKos (and that goes for the chief wing-nut, Kos himself) are too young to realize that they aren’t being “new” in their reactions and policy ideas. They really are out of touch with the long, leftist, road trod by the failed dreamers who brought them here on their backs so that Kozers today would have the ideological base from which to scream like petulant children when Democrats don’t go far enough loony left for them.

Not only is reasoned debate out of their ken, but they aren’t even aware how they got to this point in the first place. This means that they have no sense of history or philosophy. They only react within their enclosed world with no touch-stone to reality.

The proof of this is how far from the idea of American exceptionalism that they have drifted. To them, we are no longer the country representing “that shining city on a hill” that is the light unto the world for freedom and liberty. To them we are “just another country”, no better or worse than the rest.

Still, the poster on the Kos went far afield from where I was going with my Op Ed and imparted ideas to the piece that I neither broached nor intended while ignoring the points actually presented.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Warner Todd Huston

BrokeWhatsis Mountain?

January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Overheard on the Range…

Johnny–”Hey, Bo. Seen that Brokebusiness Mountin’ yesterdee.”

Bo–”Howdija like it, Johnny?”

Johnny–”So, turns out it ain’t much of a cowboy movie.”

Bo–”How’s that, pard?”

Johnny–”Well, there’s these here fellers that take a fancy ta each other and they get all squishy and meely mouthed. They go a rompin’ all over the range together like calicos.”

Bo–”Ya sayin they’s like them Gay fellers? Yer, right, that ain’t much of a cowboy movie.”

Johnny–”Well, it ain’t the fag part that is so ridiculous. See, I was told these here fellers was cowboys.”

Bo–”Yeah?”

Johnny–”Turns out they’re SHEEP HERDERS!”

Congratulations, Samual Alito!

January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Today, the Senate confiirmed Judge Samuel Alito as the 110th Supreme Court Justice in a 58 to 42 vote.

This is a great day for the Court, I certainly hope. Let us hope that we now have another justice who will adjudicate by reading law and not writing it from the bench.

Let us all pray that Bush does, indeed, get one more chance to place a Justice on the Court before his last term is over.

One thing about this, though. This vote preves that the Dems have little power over this country. They tried their best to stop this nomination and failed miserably.

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January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

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by Laura Adelmann

Cops to President Bush: Stop the Invasion!
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Right Brain + Left Brain = No Brain
by Jonathan David Morris

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January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Illinois Wants To Ban Squirt Guns?
- By Warner Todd Huston

Representatives Daniel J. Burke and Edward J. Acevedo (both Democrats from Chicago, of course) have decided that squirt guns are dangerous, apparently. Last year, Burke sponsored HB4132 in the Capital, Springfield, IL, which will make “replica” guns illegal in the state.(Introduced 10/20/05)

Here is the synopsis of the bill:

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to purchase, possess, use, sell, give away, or otherwise transfer, or to engage in the business of selling, or to exhibit for sale, any replica rocket propelled grenade launcher, bazooka, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, or items similar to weapons designed and manufactured for military purposes or replicas of those items. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor.

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Mr. President, Let Military Chaplains Pray in Jesus’ Name

January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Dear Mr. President:

We are disappointed and gravely concerned to learn that the right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith is in jeopardy. As you may know, the Air Force leadership recently released proposed guidelines that will restrict how Air Force chaplains can pray, and if approved, those guidelines may well be implemented throughout the entire DoD. We believe that the Air Force’s suppression of religious freedom is a pervasive problem throughout our nation’s Armed Forces, and it has come to our attention that in all branches of the military it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christian chaplains to use the name of Jesus when praying. There are currently no laws or regulations that prohibit chaplains from praying according to their respective denominations or different faiths, and we are deeply concerned that chaplains are now being instructed on what to say when they pray.

Throughout our nation’s history, chaplains not only have remained an integral part of our military, but they also have always prayed according to their faith tradition. We believe that if chaplains are chosen to pray before a professional setting, they have a constitutional right to adhere to the religious expressions of their faith. For Christian chaplains, praying in the name of Jesus is a fundamental part of their belief and to suppress this form of expression would be a violation of religious freedom.

The current demand in the guidelines for so-called “no-sectarian” prayers is merely a euphemism declaring that prayers will be acceptable only so long as they censor Christian beliefs. Current surveys in the military indicate that upwards of 80 percent of soldiers identify themselves as Christians, and such censorship of Christian beliefs is a disservice not only to Christian chaplains, but also to the hundreds of thousands of Christian soldiers in the military who look to their chaplains for comfort, inspiration, and support, just as our military soldiers of other faiths look to their chaplains.

While some military members may find certain prayers to be offensive and wrongly claim that they are not non-pluralistic, we believe these restrictions raise constitutional issues involving the Establishment, Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment (There are numerous other offensive provisions throughout the proposed guidelines, including the onerous provision that chaplains can only speak of their faith with officers–the “peer to peer” provision). Officially inhibiting or defining what chaplains can and cannot say in effect establishes an official religion and burdens our military’s chaplains’ right of free speech.

We are requesting that you, as Commander and Chief, protect by Executive Order the constitutional right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith.

With deep concern,

Walter B. Jones (R., No Carolina)
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The well-known disease, PCism, appears everywhere you turn. Sadly, the U.S. military is no exception.

Representative Jones is trying to alert us all to this oppression of our armed forces personnel to exercise their freedom of religion. To stop this absurd quashing of their religious faith to please the jealous gods of PCism.

Let’s help him do so.

Contact your Congressman!

Mr. President, heed the words of the original President George…

“[E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” —George Washington

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Politicians: Abuse Your Power - Lose Your Pension

January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

– Republican Rep. Lee Terry is seeking co-sponsors for his Public Trust and Accountability Act (HR 4548), denying retirement benefits to any federal employee, including judges and elected officials, convicted of abuse of power in their position.

Please contact your congressman to help get this measure passed. Why should we, the People, pay these louts’ benefits in-perpetuity if they have been convicted of abusing their position?

The pensions these people get are a sweet deal, but it should be EARNED, not assumed.

WTH
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January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

US Should Cut Off Aid to Palestinian Thieves
by Jim Kouri, CPP

Other Gods
by Erik Rush

Hammas – New Democracy Or Old Terrorism?

January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Well, the Blogosphere has been abuzz with this Hammas supremacy at the polls in the Palestinian elections last week and there is good reason for it.

We have two competing ideas where it concerns Hammas’ future.

1)- Hammas actually running for election will eventually bring them into the real world of politics and distance them from terror as it did the IRA in Ireland. Because democracy tends to ameliorate extremism they will find their terrorism a thing of the past.

2)- This is a failure of democracy and Hammas will never be anything other than a murderous band of criminals.

Truthfully, there is no way to tell. Both points have their merit and logic and choosing one or the other is just guesswork this early in history. Yes, guesswork even with the fact that Hammas is claiming they have no intention of changing their tact and direction.

But, there is a long-range problem for the Palestinian Authority that tends to prevent it from coming into Democracy. The lies that form the basis of how Arabs think about their central problem, Israel, prevents them from being able to even make sense on the issue. They are so filled with lies, myths and garbage that they just cannot sensibly address their issues with the Jewish state.

Here are some of the fictions that seem to be widely believed by Palestinians (and the Arab middle East in general):

-The Jews on 9/11 warned their fellows not to go to work and no Jews died on 9/11. (Untrue. Somewhere around 500 Jews died that horrible day)

-The two blue stripes on the Israeli flag stand for the Nile and Euphrates rivers. The Jewish state intends to forcefully conquer all the land between those two rivers and incorporate that land into the Jewish state. (The two blue stripes represent the prayer shawl worn by Jews, the Tallit)

-There is a plaque or sign in the Knesset (The Israeli government’s building) that claims the Jewish state will spread between the Nile and Euphrates. (this is just idiotic)

-The Holocaust did not happen (What can one say about such stupidity?)

-Jewish scholars use the blood of young Arab boys (sometimes Christians) in their food for ceremonial purposes (ditto)

-Jews are pigs and dogs (ugh)

These idiotic, racist and childish claims go on and on, but these are some of the worst. They form the very basis underlying how Arabs think about Jews. With ideas like this infecting the thought process of how Arabs deal with Jews and the state of Israel it’s no wonder that no logic seems to ever be forthcoming in their conflict. And, until such ridiculousness is refuted, Arabs just will not be able to have enough respect for Jews or be able to treat them as human.

It’s also no wonder that Americans cannot understand the situation because we just have no frame of reference to be able to do so. The closest ideologies we ever had were the ways many whites felt about the American Indians or Negroes, both racist ideas that have been defeated soundly among the bulk of Americans.

It is almost beyond the average American’s ability to realize how racist Arabs are towards Jews.

By Warner Todd Huston

Our Newest Op Ed

January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Multiculturalists Refuse To Feed Homeless
- By Frederick Meekins

Normally, liberals and other assorted leftists love to make a display about how much they care for the indigent; however, it seems now in France such gestures of goodwill are only acceptable if the meals appeal to the dietary peculiarities of every immigrant falling off the boat.

Groups linked to the “extreme right” in France are offering pork soup to their countrymen needing a helping hand. Since certain religious groups don’t consume pig products — particularly Muslims — the eleemosynary is being denounced as “racist”.
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January 29, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

NSA Spying: Why Is There Confusion?
by Jim Kouri, CPP

Tired of War? Better Get Used To It
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Education’s Iron Curtain
by Nancy Salvato

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January 29, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Handwringing over government intrusion rings false
- By Michael M. Bates

The debate over wiretapping U.S. citizens has joined critics from both the Left and the Right. There are not yet many details known about the surveillance and until there are I think reserving judgment is prudent. What I wonder is where some of these commentators who now seem so troubled about encroachments on citizens’ liberties have been the last several decades.

In ways large and small, government at every level has been curbing our freedoms for a long time.

We aren’t free to decide our own retirement plans. Government mandates participation in the actuarially unsound Social Security system.

We aren’t free to protect the most vulnerable among us, unborn children. Government has decided the Constitution protects the taking of innocent human life.

We aren’t free to do with our own property as we see fit. Government sets up zoning laws dictating what we can do and, if government deems it necessary for any reason, our property can be seized.
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A Delagte From Chappaquiddick…

January 28, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I just couldn’t resist this one. It’s just too funny…

Our Newest Op Ed

January 28, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

What A Daughter Learned — What A Father Taught
- By Resa LaRu Kirkland

As I sit here, January 22, 2006 is fading into history. It is doing so in the normal manner; light begins to dwindle, cool air replaces warm, the sun slips behind a mountain cuing stars to twinkle and the moon to take over. A night like so many others.

Yet it is one I have dreaded to see come and now dolefully bid farewell. It isn’t the day itself that has caused such emotional duality, but what it represents.

It is the one year anniversary of the day we buried my dad, the last of those first anniversary dates that all mourners mark the year after losing a loved one. After tonight, I will no longer lament “A year ago at this time…” Instead I will fall into the verbiage of those long gone: “Back when dad was alive…”………
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January 27, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

If They Don’t Write About It, It Didn’t Happen?
by Randall H. Nunn

Jimmy Carter: At Least Hamas Isn’t Corrupt
by Jim Kouri, CPP

Dem Mice Continue to Fight for Cheese and Other Odd Realities
by Sher Zieve

“Truthiness” and Secular Education
by Thomas E. Brewton

Our Newest Op Ed

January 27, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

America Versus Mexico’s Ponzi Pyramid Scheme
- By Justin Darr

If there is anything people hate more than buying a used car, filling out tax forms, or visiting their attorney’s office it is meeting the glassy eyed enthusiasm of some acquaintance who wants to recruit you into a multi-level-marketing scheme. You know the ones. If you can make a list of everyone you know, and they can make a list of everyone they know, and each of you spend a few hundred dollars a month on some assorted widget or another, in three to five years you could be living on your own Caribbean island.

Fortunately, in the United States, the worse of these Ponzi pyramid schemes are illegal. But, imagine for a moment if they were not. Imagine also if, rather than toothpaste, insurance, and Saint John’s Wort, the product you were purchasing was the right to build a shed in your back yard, open a business, or avoid police harassment? And, what if this extortion was institutionalized to the point that it became the price of trying to live a normal life?………….
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Update on Sen. Byrd’s Comments…

January 26, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Here is the link for the full text. It is on Byrd’s website and he just posted it…

TEXT OF SPEECH
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Sen. Byrd Votes in Favor of Alito!

January 26, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Senator Robert Byrd, former Klansman from West Virginia, just came out in favor of Judge Samuel Alito to amazed Americans of all stripes.

In his speech on the floor of the Senate today he also decried the partisan bickering that bedeviled the confirmation hearings. I only heard some of his points, but I find it interesting that, if he was so incensed, that he didn’t name names and point out specifics.

In any case, it would seem odd that one of the extreme left’s prime attack dogs would turn against them to vote in favor of this nomination. But, when looking at his situation back home, we can hazard a guess why he did this. And it certainly wasn’t for reasons of “conscience” or “principle”.

Byrd is headed for an election fight for the first time a many, many decades. A Republican has announced that he will face Byrd in the up coming elections. Further, the state of West virginia has begun to lean Conservative and Byrd knows it.

So, he is attempting to gain himself a campaign talking point. Positioning himself as a “conservative” where it concerns judicial nominations. And, since Alito is going to win anyway, this is a painless way for Byrd to make some points along those lines.

In other words, it is a mere campaign ploy. Byrd doesn’t believe a WORD of what he is saying.

After all, it must be remembered that he was beating the drum of filibustering the Roberts hearings and Roberts is considerd FAR less “conservative” than Alito by the extreme left to which Byrd generally holds fealty.

Lastly, I would like to say that it is obvious that these Democrats really don’t believe the tripe they are dishing out about Alito. If he really was the “danger to the constitution” they claim he is they would make every attempt to filibuster his nomination. But they are not. they lack the courage of their claimed convictions.

Today’s New Media Alliance Articles

January 26, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Bin Laden/DNC Deliver Joint „State of The Jihad‰ Message
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Alito Hearings Bring Fathers Back into the Abortion Debate
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Chutzpah: Clinton Cabinet Members Say US Military Broken
by Jim Kouri, CPP

An Unhealthy Obsession
by Thomas Lindaman

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