The always provocative John Hawkins of Right Wing News dishes out another beauty to stir the pot......
Shattering 3 Myths About Liberals
Friday, March 9, 2007
Under Cover of Dissent
This is a very well written article by Phil Harris about how Teddy Roosevelt might have judged today's political climate and the numerous lies told unflinchingly about President Bush, not only by moonbat protesters, but also (sadly) by opportunistic elected officials. An excerpt:
To argue that dissent is important and critical to the American Political process is entirely correct. We must guard against damage to our freedoms, and we must protect ourselves from government, which naturally strives to usurp power from the citizen. I would argue; however, that what has been going on these past five years does not rise to such lofty ideals.
Read the whole thing.
To argue that dissent is important and critical to the American Political process is entirely correct. We must guard against damage to our freedoms, and we must protect ourselves from government, which naturally strives to usurp power from the citizen. I would argue; however, that what has been going on these past five years does not rise to such lofty ideals.
Read the whole thing.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
I'm not a Niggard!
Sorry for the provocative headline, but I'm not. I like to think of myself as a pretty generous person, and everyone knows that all niggards are cheapskates, right? If you don't know that, look it up.
I write this to poke fun at our politically correct world where David Howard was forced to resign his position as an aide to D.C. mayor Anthony A. Williams because he used the word. Some ignoramous (by the name of Marshall Brown) assumed that it was a racial epithet and lodged a complaint, forcing his resignation. Eventually an investigation showed that the term comes from the old Norse word nigla and has absolutely nothing to do with the very familiar racial slur and he was offered his job back. Doesn't anyone in the mayor's office own a dictionary for heaven's sake???
Here's a great article by Bruce Thornton about how our culture is losing control of itself by making it a god-given right (oops, apologies to all atheists who might have been offended by that term) to never be offended our have our feelings hurt. Read this:
The Word Police
I write this to poke fun at our politically correct world where David Howard was forced to resign his position as an aide to D.C. mayor Anthony A. Williams because he used the word. Some ignoramous (by the name of Marshall Brown) assumed that it was a racial epithet and lodged a complaint, forcing his resignation. Eventually an investigation showed that the term comes from the old Norse word nigla and has absolutely nothing to do with the very familiar racial slur and he was offered his job back. Doesn't anyone in the mayor's office own a dictionary for heaven's sake???
Here's a great article by Bruce Thornton about how our culture is losing control of itself by making it a god-given right (oops, apologies to all atheists who might have been offended by that term) to never be offended our have our feelings hurt. Read this:
The Word Police
Leaving the Left Behind
Here's a great article from Richard King about the how many people on the left have lost their way. Money quote:
Hopefully, the dissident voices of the Left are evidence of a different mood emerging, one that regards the fight against tyranny not as a distraction from liberal values, but rather as the arena in which those values find their most profound expression.
Read the whole thing.
Hopefully, the dissident voices of the Left are evidence of a different mood emerging, one that regards the fight against tyranny not as a distraction from liberal values, but rather as the arena in which those values find their most profound expression.
Read the whole thing.
Monday, March 5, 2007
More on the Hypocritical Goracle
I always anxiously wait for Mark Steyn's weekend gems. I'm rarely disappointed. A quote:
"Are eco-celebrities buying ridiculousness-emissions credits from exhausted run-of-the-mill celebrities like Paris, Britney and Anna Nicole?"
God I love this guy......
Read the whole thing.
"Are eco-celebrities buying ridiculousness-emissions credits from exhausted run-of-the-mill celebrities like Paris, Britney and Anna Nicole?"
God I love this guy......
Read the whole thing.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Iraq War Recalls Past U.S. Conflicts, Controversies
I am constantly sparring with people who think that conducting a war is so simple that only someone as stupid as George W. Bush could screw it up.
Most people are so focused on the "here and now" that they have absolutely no historical perspective by which to judge the challenges of our times.
Fortunately, Prof. Victor Davis Hanson has ample historical perpective to share with all of us:
Nothing in Iraq comes close to the furor over Korea, either. Again, suppose the following: President Bush conducts an ongoing public fight with the new commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, who in turn serially whines to the press that he is being backstabbed by an unsupportive administration. Bush then fires Petraeus. The general returns to the United States to tickertape parades, while the president becomes even more detested as thousands more Americans are killed.
That scenario sums up the Truman-MacArthur row over the stalemate in Korea. During that conflict, President Truman fired Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his senior military commander in the theater; and faced calls for impeachment from U.S. senators, including the venerable Robert Taft. By February 1952, Truman's approval ratings had hit 22 percent - the lowest-known polls of any sitting U.S. president, George W. Bush and Richard Nixon included.
Read the whole thing.
Most people are so focused on the "here and now" that they have absolutely no historical perspective by which to judge the challenges of our times.
Fortunately, Prof. Victor Davis Hanson has ample historical perpective to share with all of us:
Nothing in Iraq comes close to the furor over Korea, either. Again, suppose the following: President Bush conducts an ongoing public fight with the new commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, who in turn serially whines to the press that he is being backstabbed by an unsupportive administration. Bush then fires Petraeus. The general returns to the United States to tickertape parades, while the president becomes even more detested as thousands more Americans are killed.
That scenario sums up the Truman-MacArthur row over the stalemate in Korea. During that conflict, President Truman fired Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his senior military commander in the theater; and faced calls for impeachment from U.S. senators, including the venerable Robert Taft. By February 1952, Truman's approval ratings had hit 22 percent - the lowest-known polls of any sitting U.S. president, George W. Bush and Richard Nixon included.
Read the whole thing.
I Love Ann Coulter....
I know, I know.... Her prose is always over-the-top (especially on abortion), but I just love her "in your face" way of beating down the idiotarians. Since I am officially a global warming skeptic, I particularly enjoyed this week's column. A quote:
"They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton -- with no Trentons or Detroits."
Read the whole thing.
"They think they can live in a world of only Malibu and East Hampton -- with no Trentons or Detroits."
Read the whole thing.
Lies and Damn Lies....
I'm going to print this post by Cal Thomas in its entirety because these episodes are so maddening. It's so frustrating to hear Democrats like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry lie through their teeth that Bush "mislead" us into war. They know it's not true, but who cares about the truth when scoring cheap political points, eh? Bad enough that middle-class class warriors in Che Guevara t-shirts say it, but Democratic presidential candidates intentionally lying?
Madness.......
Cal's column hits the nail on the head:
Lies and Damn Lies
By Cal Thomas
Thursday, March 1, 2007
In the words of Hollywood mogul David Geffen, "Everybody in politics liesŠ" But when some politicians tell lies that damage a person's character in the eyes of voters and ultimately lead to his defeat, those are damnable lies that need to be corrected.
Last fall, about a month before the November election, the Associated Press ran a story that claimed Sen. George Allen, Virginia Republican, had failed to disclose stock options he had earned while serving as a director of Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc. (CBI). The story suggested Allen might have violated ethics rules because the company, which is based in Richmond, had conducted business with the state when Allen was governor. Allen had served on CBI's board between his departure as governor and his election to the Senate.
Allen reported the stock options in 2000, but he did not file subsequent reports because the price of CBI stock plunged, making the options worth less than he paid for them, denying him a profit.
Last October, the Associated Press ran a story that said Allen had failed to report his CBI stock options and hinted at possible wrongdoing by Allen when he was governor because the company had done business with the state. This was all that Allen's challenger, now Sen. James Webb, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headed by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer needed. They prepared an attack ad, alleging that Allen's stock options were worth $1.1 million and were not worthless, as he had claimed. The ad also made the connection between CBI and the state, charging Allen tried to "steer government contracts to a company that paid him in stock options." AP did not report anything about Allen trying to steer government contracts to the state, but Jim Webb "approved this message" anyway.
An analysis of the negative ad by AP political writer Bob Lewis revealed its inaccuracies. One must conclude that, since the information was available to Webb and Schumer, the two deliberately used factual inaccuracies in the negative ad. But why let truth get in the way of an effective election strategy? The damage was done and since the ad fit nicely into the Democrats' theme of "the culture of corruption" in the Republican majority, the desired result was achieved. Allen lost the election by 9,000 votes.
The Allen camp asked for a formal ruling by the Senate Ethics Committee and on Feb. 16, it came. In a letter to Allen, signed by committee chairman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat and committee vice chair John Cornyn, Texas Republican, Allen was exonerated of any wrongdoing: "The committee has determined that your ownership of CBI stock options did not constitute deferred compensation during the relevant reporting periods." Therefore, they said, Allen was not required to amend the reports.
Allen made his share of mistakes during his re-election campaign, but this was not one of them. His opponent and Sen. Schumer, neither of whom has apologized or retracted their accusations, unfairly smeared him.
In commenting on the Senate Ethics Committee letter and the incorrect negative ad that contributed to Allen's defeat, a Richmond Times Dispatch editorial asked a question familiar to many public figures who have been unfairly slimed, "So where does George Allen go to get his reputation back, never mind his job in the Senate?"
Where, indeed? The AP printed a story on Feb. 21 correcting the errors in its earlier story that were used in the Allen attack ad, but it came nearly four months too late.
This saga is important for a number of reasons. First, it cost a good man an important job. Second, it significantly contributed to a change in the balance of power in the Senate. Third, it again exposed an unholy alliance between liberal politicians and the leftist big media who are quick to attack someone whose policies and party they don't like, but rarely correct errors of their own making, or investigate bogus charges when they help the policies and party the media prefer.
Madness.......
Cal's column hits the nail on the head:
Lies and Damn Lies
By Cal Thomas
Thursday, March 1, 2007
In the words of Hollywood mogul David Geffen, "Everybody in politics liesŠ" But when some politicians tell lies that damage a person's character in the eyes of voters and ultimately lead to his defeat, those are damnable lies that need to be corrected.
Last fall, about a month before the November election, the Associated Press ran a story that claimed Sen. George Allen, Virginia Republican, had failed to disclose stock options he had earned while serving as a director of Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc. (CBI). The story suggested Allen might have violated ethics rules because the company, which is based in Richmond, had conducted business with the state when Allen was governor. Allen had served on CBI's board between his departure as governor and his election to the Senate.
Allen reported the stock options in 2000, but he did not file subsequent reports because the price of CBI stock plunged, making the options worth less than he paid for them, denying him a profit.
Last October, the Associated Press ran a story that said Allen had failed to report his CBI stock options and hinted at possible wrongdoing by Allen when he was governor because the company had done business with the state. This was all that Allen's challenger, now Sen. James Webb, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headed by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer needed. They prepared an attack ad, alleging that Allen's stock options were worth $1.1 million and were not worthless, as he had claimed. The ad also made the connection between CBI and the state, charging Allen tried to "steer government contracts to a company that paid him in stock options." AP did not report anything about Allen trying to steer government contracts to the state, but Jim Webb "approved this message" anyway.
An analysis of the negative ad by AP political writer Bob Lewis revealed its inaccuracies. One must conclude that, since the information was available to Webb and Schumer, the two deliberately used factual inaccuracies in the negative ad. But why let truth get in the way of an effective election strategy? The damage was done and since the ad fit nicely into the Democrats' theme of "the culture of corruption" in the Republican majority, the desired result was achieved. Allen lost the election by 9,000 votes.
The Allen camp asked for a formal ruling by the Senate Ethics Committee and on Feb. 16, it came. In a letter to Allen, signed by committee chairman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat and committee vice chair John Cornyn, Texas Republican, Allen was exonerated of any wrongdoing: "The committee has determined that your ownership of CBI stock options did not constitute deferred compensation during the relevant reporting periods." Therefore, they said, Allen was not required to amend the reports.
Allen made his share of mistakes during his re-election campaign, but this was not one of them. His opponent and Sen. Schumer, neither of whom has apologized or retracted their accusations, unfairly smeared him.
In commenting on the Senate Ethics Committee letter and the incorrect negative ad that contributed to Allen's defeat, a Richmond Times Dispatch editorial asked a question familiar to many public figures who have been unfairly slimed, "So where does George Allen go to get his reputation back, never mind his job in the Senate?"
Where, indeed? The AP printed a story on Feb. 21 correcting the errors in its earlier story that were used in the Allen attack ad, but it came nearly four months too late.
This saga is important for a number of reasons. First, it cost a good man an important job. Second, it significantly contributed to a change in the balance of power in the Senate. Third, it again exposed an unholy alliance between liberal politicians and the leftist big media who are quick to attack someone whose policies and party they don't like, but rarely correct errors of their own making, or investigate bogus charges when they help the policies and party the media prefer.
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