Has William F. Buckley Chosen Romney for ‘08?
May 17, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Elections, GOP, President, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
William F. Buckley once said something to the effect that he didn’t want the most conservative nominee as presidential candidate for the GOP, he wanted the most conservative candidate that could win the election as the GOP’s nominee. In light of this sentiment, I am wondering if the lion of old line conservatism has decided that Mitt Romney just might be the “conservative enough” candidate for the GOP in 2008?
Last week, Buckley offered for our consideration a column mentioning Mitt Romney’s conversion from abortion advocate to his new found status of anti-abortion believer — a stance that puts him just in time to offer himself as the GOP candidate for the 2008 GOP nomination — and how so many are rightfully skeptical of this new stance.
In Romney’s Moral Thought Buckley mentions that Romney’s sudden conversion is acclaimed as that born of “studied reflection” on the issue, just as Romney claims. Of course, Buckley seems to conveniently ignore the fact that Romney was still advocating his pro-abortion ideas not too long ago as Governor of Massachusetts making it a bit hard to believe that Mitt spent much time agonizing over this change.
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Tommy Thompson tries some bathroom humor
May 17, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Elections, GOP, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off
-By Michael M. Bates
If you don’t know who Tommy Thompson is, don’t feel uninformed. He doesn’t rate the media coverage of really important people like Paris Hilton.
Like many others, Mr. Thompson is running for president. His background is not unimpressive. He served as Wisconsin’s governor for an unprecedented four terms. He also ran, with a budget of over half a trillion dollars, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Gov. Thompson’s race for the Republican nomination hasn’t caught fire. Fundraising is a problem. Still, in a season where even unannounced candidates qualify as first-tier, his candidacy, theoretically at least, could yet gain traction.
The odds of that have diminished in recent days. It all began with the Republican presidential candidates’ debate aired earlier this month on MSNBC. It’s true that at this stage the only folks watching these events are hardcore political junkies. It’s also true, though, that candidates in them can step on a landmine from which they may never recover.
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“Historian” Says Jamestown Celebration ‘Risky’ Because US Founding Responsible For Slavery
May 16, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, History, Media Bias, Race, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
In another sad example of self flagellation by western elitists, the Guardian Newspaper in England published a column on how we Americans (and our English cousins) should not celebrate the founding of Jamestown, the first Virginia colony, 400 years ago because of… you guessed it… slavery.
Here we have another elitist congratulating himself that he is “informed” enough to know that slavery makes the founding of the USA a blight on humanity instead of the great event it truly is. Another leftist who cannot bring himself to be proud of anything the west has been responsible for because there were some bad things mixed in with the good. In fact, the bad things make us such hypocrites, goes this type of thinking, that all the good should be discounted over it. (It is always in fashion for Europeans to look down on the US, isn’t it?)
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How “Journalism” is Rapidly Destroying the Credibility of Highly Regarded Credentials
May 16, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Vince Johnson | Comments Off
-By Vince Johnson
What happens when mainstream America notices that many PhD’s, educators, and noted scientists, which according to the media, are in resolute disagreement with each other?
The answers are obvious and frightening:
- Students, educators, and ordinary citizens do not know what to believe.\
- Severe damage is foisted upon the credentials of respected and highly regarded individuals.
Proof that this is happening right now can be verified and analyzed by observing how journalists cover the “Global Warming” issue.
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Denver Post Columnist: Christians Could Be Suspect Over McVeigh’s OK City Bombing
May 15, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
Dick Kreck of the Denver Post seems to think there is a good “point” to a suggestion that Christians should be suspected bombers because Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh was supposedly a Christian. In a column about local radio talk show host “Gunny Bob” of KOA, Kreck comments that a radio station detractor has “got a point” when he satirically said that, since McVeigh and Nichols were Christians, all Christians should be placed under surveillance because of the actions of the two bombers. The detractor was responding to talker “Gunny Bob’s” idea that all Muslims in the USA should be forced to wear GPS tracking bracelets so the government could keep track of them all.
Apparently talker Bob is a fiery one against Muslims in this era of the war on terror and his loose talk has stirred Colorado Media Matters, a local branch of the leftist Media Matters organization, to begin targeting the Clear Channel radio host for his opinions.
The reply that Kreck is talking about was posted on the CMM website.
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Father of One of Fort Dix Six Losing Business
May 15, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Should we feel sorry for this? The father of one of the six would be Jihadi murderers in New Jersey is losing his pizza business because people who live in and near Fort Dix will no longer patronize his restaurant.
Muslim Tatar, who has owned Super Mario’s Pizza for five years, says that his lunchtime crowd from nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix has largely disappeared, replaced by empty tables and nasty words from passing motorists.
“Now I am a target,” the 52-year-old Tatar told The New York Times for Saturday newspapers, adding that his business is “99 percent dead.”
I have to say, I cannot get too worked up over the supposed “injustice” of this guy finding that no one will spend their money in his pizza shop anymore. Especially when his solution to the failing business is to lie to his customers…
After receiving death threats, Tatar decided he had to take some sort of action to protect his business. Outside the restaurant, he hung a sign reading: “Under New Management.”
The Real Immigration Threat
May 15, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Immigration/Immigrants, Security/Safety, Selwyn Duke, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized | Comments Off
By Selwyn Duke
Most of us will publicly lament our immigration woes, but not without a disclaimer. “Look, I have no problem with immigration,” say we, “I just want people to come here legally.” This, after all, is supposed to be the sober, sane, American point of view, as we “know” that immigration is the lifeblood of the U.S.A. Personally, I can sympathize with this perspective. Western civilization has become old, tired and decrepit; it’s a mere shadow of its former self, running on fumes and on empty. Perhaps its time for it to be euthanized.
I just want it done legally.
Now I’ll transition from a wise-guy to a guy who waxes wise. You should be outraged by the pandering to the illegal alien lobby, and I’ll unabashedly say that the three most important factors in immigration policy are deportation, deportation and deportation. Still, to focus our eyes narrowly on just illegal immigration is to lament only the salt thrown into the wound while accepting the wound itself. Illegal immigration is not the problem.
It’s an exacerbation of the problem.
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In Electronic Age, Americans Getting Less Educated
May 14, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Education, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
A few weeks ago the Pew Research Center released their newest Political Knowledge Survey, a report that tracked the general political knowledge of responding Americans, and compared it to similar survey results from 1989. The results show that, as Pew reports, “public knowledge of current affairs is little changed by news and the information revolutions.” It seems somewhat reassuring for Pew to say we really haven’t gotten any dumber on politics. But a closer look at the results not only shows we are getting dumber, but that the internet and cable news “revolutions” really haven’t made us a whole lot smarter on politics, when you’d think that they would have. In fact, it seems more like these wonderful new sources of information we have at our fingertips have helped us but tread water in the hunt for a more informed public… even losing some ground.
Pew puts a rosy face on this news, but it certainly seems less optimistic when one takes a bit of time to think about the results. Saying that “On average, today’s citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as aware of major news events, as was the public nearly 20 years ago”, Pew makes it seem as if nothing has really changed in the level of correct knowledge that Americans have about politics. But, there are some hints, even in their report, that things have actually deteriorated.
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Wisconsin Columnist: We Just Need to ‘Understand’, ‘Educate’ These ‘So-Called Terrorists’
May 14, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
It is no wonder that jihadists everywhere imagine we can so easily be beaten when western MSM outlets are often filled with capitulators and defeatists. The Wisconsin State Journal has just such a foolish, western dupe in it’s May 10th issue in a column by Kevin J. Mack who is scolding us all that these “so-called terrorists” just need a little understanding… as if they are merely errant teenagers who need a stern talking to and a little parental lovin’. And, Mack’s sentiment that it is really all our fault is all too common in the media today.
In a column titled “Let’s try educating ‘terrorists’ [We're not all like Bush/Gingrich so leave us alone!]“, Mack claims that Newt Gingrich helped lead him to his conclusion that we just don’t “understand” those poor Islamofascists.
I heard Newt Gingrich say, on “Face the Nation” Sunday morning, that “…we’re up against a savagery and a ferocity that we don’t understand…” and I wanted to say, stop right there. Don’t speak for me. Don’t think you speak for all of us. We don’t understand? You don’t understand.
After scolding Newt (and those of us who support him by extension), Mack proves it is he, rather, who doesn’t understand…
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A Happy Mother’s Day To All
May 13, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
From Publius’ Forum to all our Moms, happy Mother’s day.
WashPost: Advertising Anti-War Website, Uses Obscene Graphic for GOP
May 13, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, Media Bias, Military, President, Security/Safety, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
In a commencement address to New England College, Democrat Party presidential candidate John Edwards has issued a call to turn Memorial Day from a day to celebrate our troops to a day pushing a political message that attacks them. He has also created a new website to further that goal and the Washington Post is helping him advertise it breaking their more common practice of not posting links taking the reader outside their own website.
How often do you see MSM sources giving direct links to websites outside their own site? How many times have you seen a story mentioning a website, maybe even including the name of the website somewhere within the story, yet the story won’t give the full address? Also, how many times do you see a web posting that actually includes a hypertext link to any website outside any paper’s site? Not very often. But today the Washington Post has given John Edward’s anti-war website a big boost by not only writing a story about it, but creating a direct link to it at the end of their story.
I wonder how many conservative or pro-war websites they have helped advertise in the past with a direct link?
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The Clinton ‘Wall’ at the Justice Department
May 13, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Media Bias, President, Security/Safety, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Frank Salvato
“After a thorough reading of the report it would not be unreasonable to conclude as I have that there was a cover-up at high levels of our government and, it appears to have been substantial and coordinated…The question is why? And that question regrettably will go unanswered. Unlike some other cover-ups, this one succeeded.” – Independent Counsel David M. Barrett on the censoring of The Barrett Report.
If you have been experiencing a sneaking suspicion that there is a lot of one-sided interest where investigations into political malfeasance are concerned at the US Justice Department, you’re not alone. From the aggressive prosecution of ‘Scooter’ Libby for having a bad memory to the powder-puff prosecution of Sandy Berger for stealing and then destroying unique documents related to terrorism and 9/11 from the National Archive, it seems that the catalyst for a thorough investigation – at least where politicians are concerned – is directly influenced by which political party the alleged offender belongs to.
Much to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dismay, the “culture of corruption” is an equal opportunity enticement. For every Duke Cunningham there is a William Jefferson and for every one Tom Delay who resigns from office there are two Diane Feinsteins who refuse to do so. Point being, a good many politicians walk a fine line between pushing the ethical envelope and crossing the line into illegal activity.
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CNN Photo Caption Under Tony Blair Video: ‘Bush Resigns’
May 12, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Media Bias, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
Looks like the folks at the much maligned CNN indulged in a little bit of wishful thinking on Friday during a report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s resignation announcement.
In a video caption of Blair, CNN plastered the words “Bush Resigns” across the screen when it SHOULD have been Blair Resigns.
Media Bistro got the first capture of this absurdly Freudian slip.
“CNN International’s CNN Today program, airing at midnight Eastern, led with the graphic ‘Bush Resigns.’ Of course, they meant ‘Blair Resigns.’ Freudian slip on the part of a network accused of anti-Americanism?”
Yep, our pals at the ClintonNewsNetwork definitely suffer from a bit o’ the parapraxis, indeed.
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Con(gress) Air — Where the Tax Payers Get taken for a Ride
May 11, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
Nancy Pelosi, in the run up to the 2006 midterms, decried the Republican Congress’ “culture of corruption” and triumphantly claimed she was going to bring back an “ethical” Congress upon the close of the elections. The Democrat Party delighted in the real ills of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the fictional ills of the evil genius Karl Rove and spared no expense to tout their warnings to the electorate. Their efforts seemed to succeed in gaining them a majority. So, what are the reforms this new, glorious era has produced now that the Democrat Party has retaken Congress?
For one thing, instead of decreasing junkets by Congressmen such trips have not abated at all in this new “ethical” Congress. As Examiner correspondent, Charles Hurt, reports, “Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense.”
All told, the military flew at least 13 congressional delegations to various destinations during the Easter recess — at an estimated rate of $10,000 or more per flying hour.
The Anti-Climax of a Van Halen Song
May 11, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Lee Culpepper, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Lee Culpepper
Every time a female-teacher-sex scandal breaks, I wonder if I’m the only person curious to see what the teacher looks like. These ravaging women often evoke references to Van Halen’s song “Hot for Teacher.” The story is not that attractive-female deviants are less guilty than the unattractive-female weirdos molesting schoolboys; it’s just that attractive female perverts ignite more debate whether their schoolboy targets have suffered any harm. Apparently, discussing ugly-female molesters traumatizes the debaters.
Despite these disturbed-female teachers being socially retarded, convincing an average adolescent boy to have sex with a pretty and older woman requires minimal social dexterity. Whether you think it’s the female teachers or their schoolboy lovers who have “scored,” the debate centers over the effects on the boys. Are the boys left psychologically devastated? Hopefully not, but lustful encounters in general leave reasonably moral people feeling emotionally empty. But that’s a topic for another day.
What doesn’t receive enough attention is the effect these teachers have on how the boys view women. Neither is much attention given to the effect these tutoring tarts have on how the boys view daughters — whose fathers might initially find the raunchy details of these classroom floozies’ tantalizing (until Dad remembers how such boys will view Dad’s daughter). Why wouldn’t these sexual experiences tarnish young males’ respect for women? These lecherous-female teachers certainly taint the boys’ perception of other women in society — particularly females with leadership responsibilities.
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Why Did Dental Students Cheat on Exam? It’s All Bush’s Fault!
May 10, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Health, Media Bias, Science, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Bush derangement syndrome strikes again, this time in Indianapolis, Indiana where the Indianapolis Star reports that students of the U of Indiana’s Dentistry class have been caught in a massive cheating scandal. Naturally, it’s all Bush’s fault according to one of the so-called experts the paper interviewed for their article.
Apparently 16 students were suspended because they hacked their school computer system to get passwords that would open electronic teaching materials that contained the answers to upcoming tests. An additional 21 were given letters of reprimand for knowing of the cheating and not saying anything to school officials, a breach of the school’s code of professional conduct.
So how is this all Bush’s fault?
Because there are no WMDs in Iraq says Dr. Anne Koerber, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Rumi Islam: A TRULY Moderate Form of Islam
May 10, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Education, Islam, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
I finally found a moderate Islamic culture in that inspired by Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi. It is a form of Sufism that is practiced heavily in Bosnia and is so far from the traditionally oppressive Islam that it is hard to believe that it even IS an Islamic tradition.
I’ve been reading a bit about it and I find it worthy of interest. I have to say, I was beginning to despair that there WAS such a thing as a moderate Islamic tradition. But, I have found one at last. Though, unfortunately for Islam, it seems nearly tangential to Islam as it drifts so far from the rest of even traditional Islam that it almost seems disqualified as an Islamic tradition.
Still, I am gratified that there is at least one Islamic tradition of some tenure (an 800 years’ tradition) that we can safely say this is a truly moderate one.
Do read up a bit on this man of faith and love for an inspiring story.
It also helps explain why so many Bosnians have sided with the USA and why Wahhabism has been thus far minimized there. Unfortunately, that minimization is threatened as the evil of Wahhabism is being heavily financed by rich Saudi hatemongers and is increasingly invading the area.
In any case, I am as vigilant against Islam as anyone, but I wanted to be sure and set the record straight that there is a real moderate Islam out there.
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Gore As Religious Figure
May 9, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Global Warming, Media Bias, Religion, Science, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
I can understand the appeal of the global Warming religion, I really can. For those who have disavowed conventional religion and have decided that man is the ultimate power — by which they mean themselves in particular, not just humanity in general — the thought that they alone can save the planet is heady stuff, indeed.
Who needs a god when they have placed themselves at that pinnacle? But merely accepting the fact and moving on with life is a dull proposition. There is no fun in that, for sure. It’s a dull, boring existence without some transcendent thing in which to believe, without some crusade to which they can flock to satisfy the need to congregate, proselytize for, and sacrifice for.
Enviroists have been gestating their religious fervor for a decade or more but it lacked a central, savior-like figure who they could all worship together. I think it is safe to say, though, that they have found their Christ redux.
For Al Gore has come.
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Welfare Queen Welcomed at the White House
May 9, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Foreign Policy, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off
-By Michael M. Bates
Pomp and pageantry were the order of the day at the White House Monday. In honor of Queen Elizabeth’s journey to the Colonies, President and Mrs. Bush hosted their first, and perhaps only, white-tie dinner of his presidency.
Maybe it’s because of my Irish heritage. Maybe it’s because of my republican nature. Maybe it’s because I don’t like spring pea soup with fern leaf lavender. There’s just something about bending over backwards, with U.S. tax dollars, to impress possibly the world’s richest welfare recipient that annoys me.
The reason “possibly” appears in the previous sentence is because many of the finances of the British Royal Family are secret. What we do know with certainty is they live lavishly at public expense.
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Falling Home Construction Market in USA Hurts Mexico?
May 8, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Immigration/Immigrants, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
In Sunday’s paper, the L.A.Times has a piece that mourns a downturn of a portion of Mexico’s economy and, naturally, the Times blames the USA for it. How is it that the USA is responsible for this downturn? New home construction is down in California and illegal Mexicans have found themselves out of work because of it. This means that these out of work Mexicans cannot send US dollars to Mexico and, therefore, Mexican families back home are finding less money in their family incomes.
So, according to the L.A.Times, the US is unfairly hurting Mexican families because of a downturn in new home building in the USA. Why are we Americans so darn mean to those innocent illegals, anyway? For shame you selfish Americans!
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Great Mimes Move Together (When People Actually Vote)
May 8, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Media Bias, Military, President, R. A. Hawkins, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror | Comments Off
By R. A. Hawkins
I always enjoy watching the French. They are always going back and forth as the people either go to or don’t go to the polls. In this last election it was more like 85% voter turnout. I hate to say it but it is a little like watching us. America soon will have a chance to act European and toss a bunch of socialists out just like the French did. Although our media and theirs have been silent on the rioting Moslem youths it is obvious that even the French can be awakened. But seeing a recent article in the Timesonline UK I can see that the UK Media is now falling into stupid mode. I don’t mean to say the people in the UK are falling into stupid mode but like our press, their press has also become stupid. But that is what the media has always been like and I don’t care where it is.
I also read another article that demonstrated UK ignorance that had to do with a massive defection of Bush supporters to the Obama camp, and even to the Clinton camp. Between the two of them they have sucked up a whole $750,000 in donations. That’s a stellar haul ain’t it? All that showed me was the reason why Bush has been so darn liberal about some things. He shouldn’t be taking donations from flip floppers; I hear it can make you go blind. And it has too. But somebody escaping from the Bush camp isn’t really something that matters at this juncture. I guess the writer has forgotten that Bush won’t be running for office again. I wonder if the writer has noticed how much Bush has managed to collect for the Republican Party. One of the donors switched because his son is about to be deployed for active service in Afghanistan. Yup it’s all in fun until someone loses an eye. Grow up! But this same donor likes the fact that Obama wants to take action in Darfur.
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New York Times: Already Sniping New ‘Conservative’ French President
May 7, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, Media Bias, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
The New York Times didn’t even wait for the French election results to become general knowledge before they began their sniping of the new “Conservative” French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. In what is supposed to represent an analysis of his election, the Times spends more time in naked name calling than substance.
Let’s review some of the harsh words, slights and names the Greylady hurls at the new president elect.
- Arrogant, brutal, an authoritarian demagogue…
- …one of the most polarizing figures to move into Élysée Palace in the postwar era…
- He has always been nakedly ambitious, pragmatic and calculating and not beyond betrayal to reach his goals.
- Mr. Sarkozy is a tad shorter than Napoleon was. His profile is remarkably similar to that of Louis XIV.
- Mr. Sarkozy’s brash manner and strong oratory style…
- Many people regarded the anticrime campaign as a calculated effort to win support from France’s far right in anticipation of his presidential bid.
- Mr. Sarkozy’s personal life has been less successful than his public one…
Man, it seems impossible that such an ogre could have anyone who would like him enough to vote for him… well, if you’d listen to the New York Times, anyway.
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Nevada Group Urges John Ensign to Oppose Harry Reid
May 6, 2007 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Americans to Oppose Reid Leaps Into Action!
Carson City, Nevada – May 6, 2007 – A new Nevada based group of activists are organizing a political action committee with the intent of officially opposing Senator Harry Reid. The group, naming itself “Americans to Oppose Harry Reid”, is kicking off its campaign by urging Senator John Ensign to end his silence in regards to Harry Reid and formally oppose his recent comments on the war in Iraq.
The Oppose Reid project (www.opposereid.com) is gearing up for an aggressive campaign to put pressure on Harry Reid. The group is planning protests in both Nevada and Washington, DC, wide scale petitions, internet activism campaigns, and is offering a plethora of bumper stickers and other products aimed at generating awareness regarding the disdain for Harry Reid in Nevada.
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Illinois County Says NO To Gun Control
May 6, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, 2nd Amendment, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Media was all a frenzy on the debate about gun control right after the VT killings cynically attempting to push their Constitutionally illegal gun banning ideas on a grieving public. But one Illinois County has bravely decided to make moves to protect their 2nd Amendment rights with action by the County Board.
The Pike County Board has adopted a resolution that will oppose any sort of gun control measures that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms adopted by the state of Illinois. A brave move in a state controlled by a gun grabbing, extreme left leaning Democrat Party orchestrated by a Mafia infested Chicago mayor who lately moves the State legislature around like a chess player.
Mayor Daley has been trying to manufacture gun banning laws for decades, but had been stymied by a state legislature with enough Republicans in it to throw a monkey wrench into his anti-Constitutional plans. But, since the 2006 election, the state has fallen under the spell of the Democrat Party which easily controls all aspects of the state. And Daley controls the Democrat Party, for the most part, as nearly all the members of state government in key positions are from Daley’s old Chicago cabal.
Pike County is apparently afraid of what this Democrat controlled government will try to do now that the state GOP has made themselves utterly ineffective. In a 7 to 2 vote, the County Board passed the resolution which is to be forwarded onto the state government in Springfield and the rest of Illinois’ County governments.
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Exclusive Breitbart Interview with Fred Thompson
May 6, 2007 | Filed Under Elections, GOP, President, Uncategorized | Comments Off
The new BreitbartTV has an exclusive Interview with Fred Thompson that is a must see.
We can’t post the video itself here but you can go to BreitbartTV with the link below to see it…
Oprah Invites Accused Rapist to Show Premier, Media Celebrates
May 6, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Family, Media Bias, Race, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
But one “celebrity” that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite.
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Edwards Panders For Hypocrite Ballot
May 6, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Frederick Meekins, President, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
-By Frederick Meekins
Since we are all individuals marred by the stain of sin, at one time or another all of us eventually fail to practice what we preach. Normally, this isn’t too big of a problem as most of us don’t have that much influence beyond that of our own friends and families. However, when this tendency endemic to the species manifests itself among the ostentatiously affluent craving power, it can become a social danger as these elites attempt to assuage their consciences by extracting penance from the masses that the well-to-do are not willing to subject themselves to.
In an interview posted at Beliefnet.com titled “John Edwards: My Faith Came Roaring Back” by David Kuo, the former vice presidential nominee turned presidential-hopeful discusses the role his faith has played in his public life. When asked what aspects of American life he thought Jesus would be disappointed with, Edwards did not respond about the 4 million unborn children butchered each year through abortion (an issue predictably ignored by a Democrat despite thou shalt not kill [especially innocent noncombatants] being a major theme of the Good Book) but rather with “our selfishness”, our “resorting to war when it’s not necessary” and our “ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish-short term needs”.
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Education or Robbery
May 5, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Lee Culpepper, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Lee Culpepper
At this time last year, many illegal aliens across America were rallying (like this year) in organized amnesty marches. Meanwhile, my Texas students and I were finishing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. News headlines swirled about the amnesty marches, and my students’ curiosity swirled about the marches, too. During one of my academically stronger classes, several students (Hispanic students) asked me what I thought about these demonstrations. Considering their question related, somewhat, to the American Dream (a topic we were discussing from the novel) I decided to entertain their question.
I answered their inquisitiveness lightheartedly by asking students what they would think if one day my wife and I were to show up at their homes demanding — not asking — that they allow us to move in because their homes were more comfortable than our own. They all laughed as they had grown accustom to my political incorrectness after completing nearly a year in my English class. Anyway, I explained that on an emotional level I empathized with someone wanting to come to America, but I stated that illegal immigration is a complex problem that requires objective, not subjective, solutions. I then asked the students what they thought would happen to me if I were to break the law in another country and then were to demand the country change its laws. They all laughed again at my playful sarcasm.
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‘Hate Crimes’ Bill Gives Sexual Orientation Coverage
May 5, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Gays, Religion, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
Make no mistake about it, the Democrat House is trying to make thought a crime. In the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, they try to give it innocuous cover by claiming that the legislation is only meant to:
To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other purposes.
This is an insidious bit of legislation meant to create special laws to legitimize homosexuality and make a crime anyone attempting to advocate for a Christian worldview. This bill makes activism against the homosexual agenda, among other things, subject to prosecution as a “hate crime” because the definition of “hate crime” is being expanded to include sexual orientation.
The bill lies right from the beginning with its opening remark that, “The incidence of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim poses a serious national problem.”
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Senator Thompson’s Address At Lincoln Club Dinner
May 5, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Elections, GOP, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments
Here is the entry Senator Thompson made at Townhall.com with the speech he made yesterday. This is why Senator Thompson is the perfect candidate for our times.
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Excerpt: Prepared Remarks for Speech to Lincoln Club Annual Dinner
By Senator Fred D. Thompson
So we meet again, and I’m honored, because I know we’re here for the same reasons: Love of our country and concern for our future.
A lot of Americans have these concerns tonight. They are concerned about the way things are going in our country right now. Some fear we may be in the first stages of decline. We’ve heard this malaise talk before.
Of course Iraq is a large part of it. Not only is it tough going, but the effort is besieged on all sides. From those playing the most crass kind of politics with it at home to criticism from around the world.
Even at home, as we enjoy the benefits from one of the best economies we’ve ever had, people seem uncertain; they raise concerns about global competition or a growing economic disparity among our citizens.
These are challenges. But how we react to them is more important than the challenges themselves. Some want us, to the extent possible, to withdraw from the world that presents us with so many problems, in the hope they will go away. Some would push us towards protectionist trade policies. Others see a solution in raising taxes and redistributing the income among our citizens.
Wrong on all counts. These are defensive, defeatist policies that have consistently been proven wrong. They are not what America is all about.
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