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Hussein lied, liberals cried

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

reporting on Stephen Hayes’ explosive article in the November 21 issue of the Weekly Standard about Iraqi documents captured by the Iraq Survey Group weapons search team and still being analyzed by our intelligence services. The documents refer to plans made by Hussein’s government to hide weapons of mass destruction before the March ‘03 […]

Happy Birthday, Governor Winfield Dunn

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Born in Meridian, Mississippi on July 1st, 1927, Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II, then returned to graduate from the University of Mississippi with a B.B.A. in 1950, and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis with a D.D.S. in 1955.
Dunn started […]

“Forget president. Report on time machine.”

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

President Bush will deliver a message to the nation tonight from Fort Bragg. The network coverage will begin at 7:00pm central time.
For those who can’t wait, though, Associated Press reporter and Democratic operative Jennifer Loven has already published her report on the speech. With a dateline nearly ten hours before the speech, Loven […]

Pataki tops Rove on Hillary’s enemies list

Friday, June 24th, 2005

New York Governor George Pataki had some choice words for Senator Hillary Clinton (D, NY) on Thursday. She had demanded that he condemn White House advisor Karl Rove for his comments that liberals were–well, liberal. Speaking to reporters, Pataki said:
I think it’s a little hypocritical for Senator Clinton to call on me to […]

Supreme Folly

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

The United States Supreme Court has once again proven why it needs at least one more conservative justice. In their decision handed down today in Kelo v. New London, the court abdicated their duty to enforce the Bill of Rights, especially the Fifth Amendment’s limitation of the states’ power of eminent domain.
Dan Ackman’s salient […]

The Xerox is mightier than the pen

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

We’ve all heard someone spread slander while simultaneously condemning it—something like, “Did you hear the rumor that…? Well, I HATE that rumor!” It’s an old joke, but it still seems that people who haven’t heard it (or think that YOU haven’t heard it) are always trying it.
Howard Dean, the outspoken chairman of the […]

Ten reasons to love Jennifer McBride

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Jennifer McBride is a pre-journalism major at the University of Oregon and a columnist for the Oregon Daily Emerald. If you have a moment, please read her wonderful column “10 reasons not to kill Bush” (also available here and here).
When you’re done, be sure to drop her an email encouraging her to stick to […]

Occam’s Shiv

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

I’ve stood by quietly through the current Newsweek bogus-story scandal and let far better bloggers document this travesty as it progresses. But now the liberal MSM is getting over the shock of their own short-fused agenda blowing up in their face, and the freak show of blame-shifting spinmeisters has shifted into a gear not used since the NBC forged-document debacle.

The pendulum swings… toward Mecca

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

This month’s Commentary includes an incisive and troubling essay by British political analyst and National Review senior editor David Pryce-Jones. “The Islamicization of Europe?” deals head-on with what may be the leading cultural issue of this century. Those who missed Niall Ferguson’s fact-filled essay in the April 4, 2004 New York Times might […]

The high cost of not keeping your head down

Monday, November 29th, 2004

Read Mary Laney’s excellent “How Kerry whistleblower suffered for truth” in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story relates the plight of Steve Gardner, the one crew member from John Kerry’s Swift Boat crew who had the courage to speak out about his Vietnam record. This man should be getting awards for his courageous service […]

Next on 60 Minutes: MoveOn.org reveals that Christian voters unfairly favored Bush

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

The Sunday Times, the New York Daily News and the Washington Times are among many MSM outlets reporting Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview with ex-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer. For those who missed the interview, or have blocked CBS from their Tivo, Scheuer was the quisling whose seditious book was published earlier this year with the […]

The swift, selective sword of justice at CBS

Friday, November 12th, 2004

Broadcasting & Cable reports that CBS has fired a senior news producer who pre-empted Thursday’s prime-time programming for a special report announcing the death of Yasser Arafat. Well, that was quick.
But what about Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes? CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius says that the panel of independent investigators “is still […]

Toxic waste disposal

Friday, November 12th, 2004

Yasser Arafat, “the father of modern terrorism,” was buried today at a repurposed parking lot in Ramallah, with masked members of Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades firing rifles into the air to celebrate the burial of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning mass murderer.

Mister Maher’s misanthropic minions mull mass murder

Friday, November 12th, 2004

Check out this online forum on whether it would be ethical to kill all Republicans. It’s hard to believe how much violence against Americans can be contained in a single discussion thread, and it isn’t even on Al Jazeera — it’s on Bill Maher’s website.
Does Bill encourage this kind of animosity? Read the […]

“I… AM… in a world… of $#!%”

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

No one who has seen the film Full Metal Jacket will ever forget the character of Pvt Leonard Lawrence (a.k.a. Pvt Pyle) and the bone-jarring scene in which those words were uttered. Vincent D’Onofrio brought that disturbing character and many others to life with his haunting, unsettling screen presence.
Well, apparently it was all just […]

Adios, Arafat

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Well, it’s official: World-famous terrorist, murderer and euro-celebrity Yasser Arafat is dead. Where is he now, do you think?

The last acceptable bigotry

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported in today’s morning edition about a politically-motivated assault on a student at a local environmental science magnet school. Several students in the school’s computer room were talking about the presidential candidates they had supported. Some jeered that “only gay people vote for Bush,” and one pro-Bush student […]

“Kerry nuts” may be just that

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

World Net Daily’s commentator David Limbaugh has suggested that Kerry supporters may very well need some serious therapy. Well, it appears that at least some of them agree; The Boca Raton News reports that some liberal voters are claiming they were “traumatized” by the election results and have sought treatment. I wonder how […]

John Wilkes Booth would be proud

Monday, November 8th, 2004

Jim Bell, the anarchist who developed the theory of assassination politics, would be amazed that his ideas are now mainstream–at least to the degree of being wishful thinking on the part of Dean E. Murphy of the New York Times. His Sunday column, “Bolts from the Political Blue: Can History Save the Democrats?” […]

Liberal emigration threat overstated, sadly

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

In the latest spate of idiotic manufactured news, everyone is reporting the incredible interest among liberals in emigrating to Canada. Most of the stories are based on some degree on the fact that the Canadian government’s immigration website, which averages about 20,000 visitors a day, recorded 115,016 U.S. visitors on Wednesday and 65,803 on […]