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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51132632011-04-21T14:39:33.810-05:00Red's RantsRants about Practically Everything: If It Bugs Me, I'll Write about ItRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08631832274649993081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5113263.post-1158031811102926712006-09-11T22:18:00.000-05:002006-09-11T22:30:11.166-05:00

9-11Once more it's September 11.I live in Oklahoma City. I was here when the Murrah Federal Building was destroyed by a truck bomb. I remember.Today Chesapeake Energy's president gave a lot of money (matched by employees) to build an "education center" at the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. Former Governor Frank Keating explained that children will learn that hatred because of race, religion, etc

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"I See London, I See France ..."Any knowledgable four-year-old knows the next line of that children's verse: "I see X's underpants." It is incredible to me that Muslim "sensibilities" are so churlish as to be offended at pictures of a man who murdered countless thousands of their coreligionists. Did we hear a hue and cry when mass graves of what were surely Iraqi Mulsims were uncovered? Certainly

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Imagine an Extreme Leftist Court Nominee!Edward Whelan on NRO suggests an exercise in contemplation of the opposite situation the Democrats face with President Bush's judicial nominees:"Imagine, if you will, that a Democrat President nominated a judge whose constitutional and policy views were, by any measure, on the extreme left fringes of American society."Let's assume, for example, that this

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Forget the Patriot Act--How about a New Alien and Sedition Acts?In 1798, facing possible war with France and the presence of 25,000 French citizens who had fled the reign of terror following the French Revolution, Congress passed a series of laws called the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Naturalization Act required aliens to be fourteen years of age instead of five before becoming US citizens. The

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Balance of Power?The checks and balances in the Constitution are checks and balances between the branches of government, not political parties. I have just finished reading an editorial opinion on Chattanooga.com, the website of the Chattanooga News. The Chairman of the county's Democratic Party, Stuart James wrote, "Our great republic is based upon the conservative principles of balance of power

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Clintonsista CYAFormer Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, blamed the current administration for North Korea's nuclear weapons tonight on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "If I were Kim Jong Il, I would read the message of the invasion of Iraq." She said the message was, "'If I don't have nuclear weapons, I get invaded. If I do, I don't get invaded'--because we didn't invade the Soviet

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Ten YearsTen years ago this morning, I was working in my office at my desk when everything shook. I rushed to the outer office and asked my secretary, "What was that?!" I thought the hot water heater in the building, located in a mechanical room over my office, had exploded. I went outside to the gym. People were outside, looking around, wondering. The walls of the steel building shook, they said

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Time to Sue the Indians, er Native AmericansYahoo News is reporting that the Squaxin tribe, south of Seattle, is branding and selling its own cigarettes, "Complete," made by their "Skookum Creek Tobacco Company." The cigarettes sell for about $16/cartoon, well below the normal $35-$70 price for cigarettes nationally. One reason the tribe can sell its smokes (why don't they call them "Smoke

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DeadTerri Schiavo is dead. All arguments as to whether or not she was in a PVS (persistent vegetative state) are moot. This will not end here, though. There is a move underway to impeach George Greer, the Florida Circuit Court judge, for disregarding the clear directives of Florida state law that when in doubt life takes precedence. It's sad that Terri and the Schiavo family had to endure this,

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The Resurrection?Today an e-mail acquaintance asked me if I celebrate Easter. My answer was, "Not liturgically." What did I mean? I meant that for me "Easter" is not that special an event in the calendar. The date of Jesus' resurrection from the dead is not a matter of concern with me. The fact of the resurrection, however, is a present reality. Do you mean to say you believe Jesus actually rose

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What's the Big Deal with Terri Schiavo?The MSM(mainstream media) don't seem to care that Terri Schiavo is being tortured. Oh, the New York Times has trotted out some "experts" who claim that removing her feeding tube (cutting off food and water) is painless. Let them be imprisoned and denied food and water, however, and we might see how painless it isn't. Grasp the incongruity here. People who

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Media Bias? Duh!The Columbia School of Journalism (no bastion of right-wing conservatism) has just released it's "Project for Excellence in Journalism's" analysis of the 2004 presidential election coverage. The results? Thirty-six percent of reports on President Bush portrayed him in a negative light, while only 12 percent did the same to challenge John Kerry. Kerry also received 50 percent more

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The Patriotic United Auto Workers UnionThe Detroit News reported on Sunday that the United Auto Workers Union in Detroit will not longer allow the 1st Battallion 24th Marines to park at the UAW's Solidarity House "if they are driving foreign cars or displaying pro-President Bush bumper stickers." The Marine reserve unit works out of a base nearby and had been parking their vehicles in the

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Bass AckwardsTwo recent legislative proposals in Oklahoma seem a little odd. First, a bill working its way through the legislature mandates prepaying at all Oklahoma gas stations—whether cash or credit. The rationale is that the police have to answer calls for "drive-offs," the jerks who fill up with gas and don't pay. That supposedly takes away their ability to respond to other crimes. Several

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A Little Odd?I've been watching a lot of "Gunsmoke" reruns on the Westerns Channel lately. Maybe that's why this story about the suicide of the former Interior Minister of the Ukraine seemed so odd. Tonight's episode of "Gunsmoke" involved Marshall Dillon traveling with a bounty hunter to identify a wanted killer. When they arrived at the location, the murder was already dead (a fact the bounty

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"The corporatization of the media has taken away some of the muckraking."Anybody care to guess who made this less-than-comprehensible-but-tortured statement?Think for a minute. Think "politician." Think "Massachusetts." Think "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." None other than John Forbes Kerry uttered that sentence. Sounds like him, doesn't it. "Corporatization"?

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Deconstructing Hillary Rodham Clinton's Morality of the Poor Hillary Rodham Clinton, junior Senator from New York, finds herself in the situation in which she must furiously redefine herself. That's what the pundits call it when a politician realizes the positions he or she had advocated over a lifetime have been rejected by the overwhelming majority of the voters. Analysts of polls after the

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Explain the Logic of This Nineteen-year-old Jeffrey Parson was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for a variant of the Blaster worm that was used to attack 48,000 computers. He was also sentenced to community service and supervision for three years. The kicker is that he was also ordered to pay restitution. To whom, you ask, was he ordered to pay restitution? Reuters reported a hearing

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"I Like Really Like This Country" OK. Pop quiz time. What mindless resident alien uttered these words on Michael Feldman's "What Do You Know" on NPR Saturday, December 18? It was not a resident alien. It was New York Times columnist and Associate Editor, Frank Rich. He didn't say, "I really love this country." That would make sense (but not coming from Frank Rich). He said, "I really like this

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The "Weak" Dollar? The economic news being touted of late is how "weak" the dollar is against the Euro. Check Google for it, and you'll see numerous stories over the past couple of weeks. Stories lament the trade deficit and the budget deficit, but everyone seems to have forgotten the pronouncements of George Soros. In May of last year, Soros said in a television interview that he was selling

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A Thanksgiving Giving Thanks Victor Davis Hanson concluded his piece on NRO today with this paragraph that every American should read and take to heart: "Finally, on this Thanksgiving let us remember that, for all their snarls and snipes, the now-freed peoples of France, Germany, Japan, Eastern Europe, Korea, the Balkans, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, and Iraq owe a great deal to thousands of

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The Heart of It Victor Davis Hanson wrote a great piece on NRO on America as a force for change. "In September and early October 2001 we were warned that an invasion of Afghanistan was impossible — peaks too high, winter and Ramadan on the way, weak and perfidious allies as bad as the Islamists — and thus that the invasion would result in tens of thousands killed and millions of refugees. Where

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Been Here Before--the Double Standard OK, so yesterday the networks were dying to show the video of a US Marine killing an apparently wounded Iraqi insurgent in Fallujah. It's ironic considering they weren't so interested in exploring the claims of one of John Kerry's shipmates that he did the same thing. Imagine if this Marine some thirty years hence wanted to run for President. Oops, you're

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A Head Rolled Broadcastingcable.com reported today that CBS "has axed the news producer who cut into prime-time programming Wednesday night to report the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat." "The staffer, a female senior producer for CBS’s overnight newscast Up to the Minute, broke in to CSI: N.Y. shortly before 11 p.m. with the report, outraging viewers who missed the end of the crime

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CBS Responds to Complaints This morning, the local CBS affiliate sent me this response to my complaint: "Thanks for e-mailing News 9. I will share your comments with others in the newsroom. You can also voice your complaints to CBS at 212-975-3247. Thanks for watching, Ashley Fuller" This afternoon, after FoxNews reported CBS apologized I received this response from CBS: "Thank you for

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So What? CBS News will go down in television history for this one. "The Jets and Raiders squared off in a classic AFL shootout tinged by hard feelings. Fights, flags and big hits dominated a first half that ended with Oakland leading 14-12. In the third quarter, Jets safety Jim Hudson became so enraged that he was ejected. The teams traded scores until New York took a 32-29 lead on Jim

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Moral Values? Pollsters, pundits, and politicians proclaim that the unseen "moral values" platform pounded the Democrats' hopes in the presidential election. They point to Bill Clinton's advice to Kerry to endorse state bans on gay marriages (a result of the Masschusetts Supreme Court's decree by fiat that the prohibition of gay marriages in Massashusetts violated the state's constitution), the

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Adam and Steve: Follow-up Well, Oklahoma's State Question 711, which stated that marriage is between only a man and a woman, passed overwhelmingly Tuesday. Voters for the question statewide totaled 1,075,079, or 75.59% of the ballots cast. Voters against totaled 347,246, or 24.41% of the votes cast. The sign in front of our church building, which said, "God did not create Adam and Steve," was

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Is This a Hate Crime? The marquee on the south side of the sign in front of our church has a message on it: "God did not create Adam and Steve." Beneath it is the number "711." Oklahomans are voting on a State Question (711) to amend the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriages. The religious group to the south of us (we call it "the church of what's happening now" but it's really a

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Small-Town Nostalgia I’m in Alva, Oklahoma, today for a concert by the Singing Churchwomen of Oklahoma. We left Oklahoma City this morning around 8:30 AM or so and got here around 11. A ghostly, invasive fog pervade the landscape the whole way, occasionally giving glimpses of rolling Oklahoma countryside—which means I saw a lot of low grasses with occasional shadowy trees. We ate at Pizza Hut

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It's President Bush's Fault That appears to have become John Kerry's campaign platform. Whatever the problem, "It's the President's fault." Whatever the issue, John Kerry says, "I have a plan." The latest thing that is President Bush's fault is the flu vaccine shortage, fueled by media hysteria. I've never had a flu shot in my life. Of course, I'm only 55, not quite the "older adult" whom

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Mammy, How I Love Ya, How I Love Ya Watching the final debate between the presidential candidates, I was mildly amused by Bob Schieffer's final question about learning from the strong women in their lives. I thought President Bush's response was candid and honest, typical George W. Bush when he's being most relaxed and real. When John Kerry's turn came to answer, he never mentioned his wife's

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Viet Cong for Kerry Ok. That's an inflammatory title. I admit it. But last night ABC News' "Nightline" broadcast a program pondering just that issue. They interviewed supposed eyewitnesses to the event surrounding the incident for which John Kerry received a Silver Star. I'm actually surprised it took them this long considering they have yet to interview the Swiftvets. Do a search on the ABC

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WFB I've just finished William F. Buckley's "autobiography, Miles Gone By (Regnery). The opus is typically Buckley, carefully constructed sentences, logically organized thoughts, and a vocabulary that would choke a lexicographer. The book is not an "autobiography" in the normal sense, hence the subtitle, "a literary biography," because it consists of selections from previously published material

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A River in Egypt? We all know the line: "Denial is not just a river in Egypt." There is a subtle attempt underway on the part of Democrats to remind voters that President Bush is a former (I know, they say you should say, "recovering") alcoholic. By his own admission, President Bush had substance abuse problems when he was younger. When he was young and foolish, he was young and foolish. John

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Did Cheney "Meet" Edwards? ABC New is reporting on their web site that Vice-President Cheney met John Edwards on three separate occasions. Once the two sat beside each other at the National Prayer Breakfast, once when another senator was sworn in, and once backstage at "Meet the Press." OK. So now the Dems and the lefty bloggers are saying, "See, this administration lied." Let's consider that

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VP Debate? If you saw the debate, you know. If you didn't see the debate, read the words of Jim Geraghty of the Kerry Spot: "If I ever need to sue somebody, I’ll call John Edwards. If I ever need somebody killed - like, you know, terrorists trying to kill me or my family - I’ll call Dick Cheney." Polipundit put it even more picturesquely: "Will the family of a Veep wannabe, dark suit, dark hair

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Turn Off the Water, Stupid! The Democrats want universal healthcare because, they say, the cost of healthcare is so high that the average American can't afford it. Healthcare is very expensive. I haven't receive the bill for my recent trip to the ER with my kidney stone, but I had a C.A.T. scan; so it won't be cheap. I did see that my balance at the urologist was almost $900 on my last visit.

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Cheat Sheets at the Debate If you saw the debate, you probably didn't see this moment, caught on film. The debate after the debate centers on exactly what John Kerry removed from his inside coat pocket during a commercial while his back was to the audience. Note cards, which some assert Kerry removed, would violate the terms of the agreement. Even taking a pen from his pocket would have violated

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Crawford, TX, Paper Endorses Kerry The Lonestar Iconoclast, the local weekly paper in Crawford, TX, has made headline news by endorsing John Kerry for President. Stories highlight the fact that the paper endorsed President Bush in 2000. I decided to do some digging about the paper and its editor. The editor started the paper shortly before the election in 2000 (a handy circulation-building time

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An Apple Ad You Ought to See but Won't This, too, is from Karl Zinsmeister's Boots on the Ground You won't see it because Steve Jobs support John Kerry. Pity. The poor guy knows computers but not politicians. "Okay: I'm ready to make a commercial for Apple's iBook computer. For free. "As I sit on an Army cot in a small concrete building I'm occupying with five soldiers, writ- late in the

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The Cost of the War in Iraq? You hear the Democrats complain about the cost of the war in Iraq. Know how much it is costing? Karl Zinsmeister penned this passage last year in Boots on the Ground: "And we need to give our existing troops better tools. That's why three-quarters of the President's 2004 spending request is dedicated to new Humvees, better body armor, and other equipment and

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Why Dogs Sniff If you've ever had a dog, you've had the experience of taking your dog for a walk or letting him or her run free somewhere. You've seen what I've seen. Dogs have a strange fixation (almost an obsession) on the urine of other canines. You'll be walking along with your fifteen-foot web mesh lead and Fido suddenly brings the parade to a screeching halt while he sniffs and snuffs at a

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So What Do Iraqis Think? In Dawn Over Baghdad Karl Zinsmeister explained that the American Enterprise Institute commissioned the first public opinion poll in Iraq (free Iraq, not the country that gave 100% of its vote to SoDamn Insane). What were the results? "When we asked directly whether they would like to have an Islamic government, only a third of Iraqis (33 percent) said 'yes.' A solid 60

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So Why Do Reporters in Iraq Not Tell Us the Whole Story? Today Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi spoke to Congress and gave his impressions of the progress in Iraq. Among other things, he said, "First, we are succeeding in Iraq." Allawi said that 14 or 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces "are completely safe." Allawi said Iraq was "a country emerging finally from dark ages of tyranny, aggression and

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Update on Guard Documents: Kerry Did It? Bill Burkett revealed in an August 21 e-mail to a Democrat Yahoo list group in Texas that after getting through "seven layers of bureaucratic kids" in Kerry's campaign, he talked with former Georgia Senator Max Cleland about information to counter Kerry's war record service in Vietnam. "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and

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Rather an Exception When It Comes to the Standards of CBS News (Before you read this, you might want to check out some funny editorial cartoons. Scroll down in the link for more.) Dan Rather gets exceptions made for him at CBS News. Recall that in 2003 Rather spoke at a Travis County, Texas, (Austin) Democrat Party fund-raiser? Movers and shakers of the party include Robin Rather (Dan's

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NPR: National Public Rather? NPR featured John Ridley, one of their commentators, in an interview with an "undecided" voter. Ridley did a screenplay for "Beverly Hills Cop 4" (which was rejected) and has been a writer and producer for various television and series, including "Third Watch," "The John Larroquette Show" "Martin," and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." The problem is, as Jim

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Whose Records Haven't Been Released? The latest liberal brouhaha is that a federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to release all of President Bush's service records. (US District Judge Harold Baer, Jr., is most notorious for his ruling in 1996 that released four men with 80 pounds of cocaine in a car trunk. Police observed the men loading the cocaine in the trunk and fled the police. Baer

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Kofi Annan, King of the World? Kofi Annan told the BBC that failure to get a second UN Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing military action meant that "from the (UN) charter point of view it was illegal." Iin an interview Wednesday with the BBC, Annan said, "it was up to the Security Council to approve or determine what those consequences should be". In other words, unless you do

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Compassionate Liberalism, or Teresa Does It Again Billionaire Teresa (always say, "tay-ray-suh") Heinz Kerry, wife of Democrat presidential candidate, John Kerry has done it again. The "shove-it" lady who thinks people who don't like her husband's health care plan are "idiots," spoke to hurricane aid workers in New York who were preparing supplies for victims in Florida and along the Gulf Coast,

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Rather Redux I mentioned last week that Dan Rather has been here before. Now Anne Morse on NRO online has detailed some of the egregiously bogus material in Dan Rather's "The Wall Within." Check it out here for the details. Rather is not new at this. Stonewall, Dan. (And remember, there's still Clinton's "out"--you could have emergency bypass surgery and retire.)

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Seriously, Who Would Believe It? I love mysteries, spy novels, detective stories and that whole genre. I started thinking tonight, What would happen if one were to craft a story of political intrigue with the plot of the CBS "60 Minutes II" National Guard memos at the heart? No editor would find the story credible. Not, not the memos, the story. No editor would believe the Columbia Broadcasting

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Dan Rat What Did Dan Rat Know and When Did He Know It? Sam Houston State University, the alma mater of CBS's premier newscaster, has a beautiful J-school building. Until sometime today, the building was named the "Dan Rather Communications Building." The building houses the J-school. radio and television department, photography, and various related departments. Early today someone removed or

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60 MINUTES TO INVESTIGATE 60 MINUTES II (PARODY) (This parody brought to you by the Kerry Spot on NRO.com) NEW YORK — In a stunning development, the flagship news program of CBS, 60 Minutes, has decided to investigate its Wednesday night counterpart, ‘60 Minutes II.’ 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt came out of retirement in order to investigate the spinoff program, which, he pointed out,

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Rather Questionable? For the latest on the National Guard brouhaha and what appear to be definitive indicators that the memos are bogus, you might check out the Kerry Spot on NRO. Meanwhile, the Dallas Morning News interviewed Major General Hodges, Lieutenant Colonel Killian's immediate supervisor during the period the memos are purported to have been written, and he claims CBS misled him into

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The Good Samaritan's Deep Pockets Yesterday John Kerry spoke to the National Baptist Convention (NBC) meeting in New Orleans. The NBC is the largest black denomination in America. He played on the story of the good Samaritan in the New Testament, comparing the president to those who ignored the plight of a badly injured robbery victim as they passed by the man lying at the side of the road. "

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Rather Not I'd rather not apologize. Apparently Dan Rather, in one of those famous Rather moments of pique, has decided (ex nihilo) that the documents CBS' "60 Minutes II" produced asserting President Bush's failure to complete his National Guard service were genuine. Follow his reasoning from this transcript of an interview with CNN: DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: "I know that this story is true

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The Impartiality of CBS' "60 Minutes" Tonight on "60 Minutes," George Bush's National Guard record was again the subject of questions and investigation. CBS intervewed former Texas legislator and former Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a Democrat who claims he helped get George W. Bush into the National Guard. Did you know this is the fourth time "60 Minutes" has delved into this subject? You'd

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Who's on Drugs? James Carville this morning on the Don Imus show accused Republican Party officials of drugging Sen. Zell Miller for media appearances after his speech to the GOP convention last week. "They probably shot him up with something," Carville insisted Wednesday during an interview with Don Imus. (Carville knows Miller quite well and had used him in several campaigns.Miller

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Blogger Stupidity Last night and this morning, I attempted to post an entry numerous times to Blogger, using different browsers and different operating systems. Each time, the window froze and I got a Java error. Imagine my surprise tonight to notice that the particular post had been, in fact, posted seven or eight times. Ain't Blogger wonderful! :)

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"The Republican Convention Broke My Heart"—Bill Clinton I confess: I don't go to the doctor. I'm 55 and though my father died at 56 from a heart condition, I've never had an EEG or an EKG or a stress test or visited a proctologist. That will probably change because of Sunday evening. I spent Sunday evening in the local emergency room, having a kidney stone diagnosed (and hopefully treated).

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Kerry in Two Sentences (Courtesy of the Kerry Spot Kerry, today: "Today marks a tragic mile there is stone [sic, may be a transcription error on Lexis-Nexis] in the war in Iraq. More than 1,000 of America's sons and daughters have now given their lives on behalf of their country, on behalf of freedom in the war on terror. I think that the first thing that every American wants to say today is

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What US Mainstream Media Don't Want Us to Know about Iraq: It's Working! Last week, I was channel surfing and came across CSPAN's coverage of a presentation on Iraq by an embedded reporter. The report, Karl Zinsmeister, was arguing that people in the United States were getting a false picture of what our forces are doing in Iraq and the general situation of things in Iraq. Zinsmeister has

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Kerry's Answer? According to USA Today, John Kerry's answer to the critics is: "For the past week, they attacked my patriotism and my fitness to serve as commander in chief," Kerry said. "We'll, here's my answer. I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq." So anyone

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Random Stupidity not mine, silly! A year or so ago, a local television station featured a "story" on a lost tombstone. I don't recall the name on the tombstone right now, but the Norman, Oklahoma, ("Norman Nobody") police department had found a tombstone and had no clue as to where it belonged; so the station ran a feature by Quin Tran, hoping readers could help. It took me less than a minute

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Medal Update Now the United States Navy is challenging John Kerry's medals. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a Navy spokesman said Kerry's website, which claims a Silver Star with a Combat V is "incorrect." The Navy has never issued a Combat V at any time for the Silver Star. Furthermore, Kerry's claim to four bronze campaign stars cannot be justified either. A campaign star is issued for

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What Kerry Requires John Kerry has said the President was wrong to "go it alone" in Iraq, and that's why he opposed the war. Yet when the first President Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, sought Congressional approval to go to war against Saddam Hussein, John Kerry voted against that war. That war had almost universal worldwide support. SDI had invaded Kuwait, a sovereign nation, and ignored

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Kerry's Positions John Kerry clarified his position on Iraq today at the American Legion's annual meeting in Nashville. What is his position? Kerry said, "When it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would have done one thing differently, I would have done almost everything differently." Well, that's clear, isn't it. No mention was made of Kerry's statements in the 1970s: "We will not quickly join

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Two Taboos We all know the two things you're not supposed to talk about in polite company. No, it's not those two things; it's politics and religion. I don't think I have a religion; I have faith. But I do have political views. I watched portions of the Democrat Party's convention in Boston when I was visiting in Florida at the end of July and I read news reports. I've watched two nights of

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Kerry Medals Melting? Now former Navy Secretary John Lehman, whose signature appears on one of Kerry's three citations for the same Silver Star (each signed by a different individual, which according to military sources is unheard of--the usual result when one loses or misplaces a Silver Star citation is for a copy from the archives to be sent), claims he never saw the citation, never wrote the

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Curiouser and curious Alice's exclamation in Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice in Wonderland," fits the John Kerry Vietnam situation more and more as time goes by. The most recent illogical insanity, however, comes from none other than Theresa (say, "Tuh-ray-suh") Heinz (oh yes, it's election year) Kerry. She told the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) that "I believe that discussions or attack on [my

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Birthday Book: "Assassin" by Ted Bell A good friend gave me Ted Bell's latest book, "Assassin," for my Arrive Alive birthday this past week. (If you don't know what "Arrive Alive" means, you're not a Floridian.) In any case, I finished the book tonight. My friend bought the book on the basis of the great review Glenn Beck gave it. I enjoy Beck. He's kind of over the top at times, but at times he

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It's Only Lying about Cambodia Remember when the defenders of Bill Clinton dismissed the former president's impeachment proceedings with the statement that it was only lying about sex? John Kerry's credibility defenders need to adopt that approach to Kerry's statement about being in Cambodia in Christmas 1968 when Nixon was president. He said over fifty times that that memory was "seared, seared

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Ouch! John Kerry has been wounded once more. This time, the aggressor was none other than Bob Dole (remember him, the politician who always referred to himself as "Bob Dole"?). Dole told CNN's Late Edition, "I respect his record--but three Purple Hearts, he never bled that I know of. They were all superficial wounds." "As far as I know he never spent one day in the hospital, I don't think he

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(For Sareth) European Hatred for the United States Why, people wonder, does what Secretary Rumsfeld called "old Europe" so hate and disdain the United States? The ancient roots of that hatred sink deep into the soil of feudalism, which, despite the Reformation, still nourishes the poisonous vituperation European leftists and centrists cultivate. The history of Europe is a small but long history

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Liberals Have Wimps for Kids Yes, it's true. Political liberals have wimps for kids. How do I know? Every time one of those leftwing fruitcakes talks about why "under God" ought to be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, they say, "Some children will be forced into this against their will." When informed that they have the option to opt out of the Pledge (like Jehovah's Witnesses), they

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Why the Urge to Blame Rumsfeld by Kerry? John Kerry is blaming Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for the abuse Iraqi prisoners have endured at the hands of seven American solders. Why is there this almost pathological desire to shift the blame from the perpetrators to someone removed thousands of miles from these events? During the Winter Soldier event (I refuse to say "investigation"),

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Nosotros No Somos Espana (Apologies that Blogger can't handle the tilde character) Those words, uttered in English, of course, by Indiana Democrat Senator Evan Bayh (son of Birch Bayh) summed up American response to the beheading of Nicholas Berg by al-Qaeda or whoever in Iraq. The words say, "We are not Spain." I only know one Spaniard personally, and I haven't actually talked to him in years,

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Kerry's Double Standard? Kerry has a lot of double standards. His Catholic faith, which according to his interpretation allows him to favor abortion, which the Catholic Church condemns, but still take communion. His environmentalism which allows him to ride around in multiple SUVs but claim they belong to "the family," not him. His medals, ribbons, medals, ribbons, whatever. Kerry's wife,

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Reflections on Torture Less than two months after September 11, the mood of the United States was vastly different. Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, a radical civil libertarian, penned an op-ed piece for the LA Times, "Is There a Torturous Road To Justice?" In that piece, Dershowitz asked, "When, if ever, is it justified to resort to unconventional techniques such as truth serum, moderate

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Prisoner Abuse Perspective OK, I admit I've not read everything or seen the pictures. I've read some things. I've seen some pictures. It's aberrant behavior with little socially redeeming value, but consider that these prisoners were targeting American soldiers (and Iraqi and Coalition civilians as well as Iraqis) with rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, and improvised explosive devices and they

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Conversation at Dinner Tonight, sitting in Nino's Mexican restaurant while finishing up a delicious Jalisco (the place names their special dinners after cities in Mexico), I overhead a World War II veteran telling his a man I presume was his son, obviously not a veteran of any war, "You don't know what it's like in a war zone. Life is cheap." Last Friday, coincidentally during sweeps week (the

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Prisoner Abuse in Iraq OK, so some Iraqi prisoners were humiliated during interrogation. They were strip-searched, something that happens with some regularity in domestic law-enforcement situations. In this case, some sources have suggested that the humiliation was part of a softening-up process in an attempt to locate SDI and WMDs. All the news outlets, which were never able to find any abuse

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Stolen Valor There were true heroes in the war in Vietnam, but pretenders and the media presented a patently false picture of so much of the war that today's generation, and even those who watched the war on the nightly news at the time, have such a skewed and distorted view of the war and its combatants that their valor has been stolen. Stolen Valor is the title of the most-recent book I've

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Implosion on the Horizon Faithful readers, whoever you are, will recall that the last post, "Not His," proclaimed a Kerry implosion in the works. Hillary is putting more heat into her hate rhetoric toward President Bush, as witnessed by a recent interview in an Arab-language newspaper (which, the far-left wing of the Democrat Party would not call by its right name, treason). The Village Voice,

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Kerry's Paradigm of Life "Not His." That's it. That's the paradigm by which John Kerry lives life. Yesterday, which for you aficianados of trivia, was "Earth Day" (started over thirty years ago in large part by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson as a result of reading Paul Ehrlich's woefully mistaken Population Bomb), Kerry was confronted about owning an SUV. His answer? It was "not his"—it

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Full Disclosure—well, almost, kind of, sort of On Sunday's "Meet the Depressed," presumptive Democrat nominee John Kerry was asked by Tim Russert if he would follow President Bush's example and release all his medical records. "I have," Kerry said. "I've shown them -- they're available for you to come and look at." He added that "people can come and see them at headquarters." Yesterday, however,

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"No War" for Oil You probably have read or heard the antiwar protesters' motto, "No War for Oil." It turns out they were right— if you put the pause in the right place. Kenneth Timmerman has just written a book, The French Betrayal of America, which tracks the French deception of both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell by both President Chirac and Foreign Minister de Villepin in the

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Turnabout is Personal? Recall back in January and February when DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe and the Kerry surrogates were hitting all the media with the claims that President Bush was AWOL while on National Guard service during the Vietnam War? It took about a week to thoroughly discredit the bogus assertions, but even Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" got into the fray, repeatedly badgering the

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Ketching Up on Kerry Bill Clinton had a difficult time getting elected and serving as governor of Arkansas because Hillary Clinton, born and raised in Illinois (but loving the New York Yankees her whole life, yeah, right), hated Arkansas. I mean, that makes it kind of bad, what with Bill being the state's chief executive and Hill hating it (and not being discrete about her hatred). It was not a

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Huh? Anti "Gay Discrimination"? "Equal rights. We just want equal rights." You've heard gays proclaim that, right? Well, in Key West (a homosexual haven, just in case you didn't know), six heterosexuals were denied lodging at Big Ruby's because of their sexual orientation. According to an AP report, Jim Pirih, who was vacationing with some straight friends, said, "The manager literally said, 'We

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CYA (part 2) Jamie Gorelick, former deputy assistant attorney general under Janet Reno, has been once more pinpointed as being involved in a case of CYA. John Ashcroft on Tuesday declassified a 1995 Gorelick memo that prevented communication between the FBI and CIA beyond the legal strictures of the law. Gorelick's boss, Janet Reno, when asked by former Congressman (D., Indiana) Roemer about the

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CYA We've all read those initials or heard someone say them about a particular situation. "CYA," "Cover your *ss." One of the 9/11 Commissioners, former Deputy Attorney General turned investigator Jamie Gorelick, was apparently pleaded with by former FBI Director Louis Freeh back in September 1994 to tighten the borders against "suspected 'undesirable aliens,' accelerating deporation proceedings

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Disconnect Almost two hours ago, I heard a FoxNews newsreader read the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) for August 6, 2001—the one Richard Ben-Veniste was so anxious to get declassified when he attempted to browbeat Condaleeza Rice. It was (to my hearing) exactly as Dr. Rice had portrayed it before the 9/11 Commission—an historical account of al-Qaeda strategies and attempts at terrorism in the

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John Kerry, the Good Catholic I'm not a Catholic. Some of my forebears were Catholics, coming to Maryland in the 1600s under Lord Baltimore, but they soon became Baptists. The other side of that part of my family emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, in the late 1700s because as free-churchmen they were persecuted. I know very little about the Catholic Church, but I do remember who the pope is. John

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Fools and Damn Fools Hans Blix is out of a job. The former UN weapons inspector, whose only gainful employment has been government work, lost his job when we invaded Iraq and captured SDI (so-damn insane, in case you've forgotten). Blix misses the good old days of playing hide-and-seek with SDI, though, at least that's the logical conclusion you can draw from his interview yesterday in the

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Word to Remember Fallujah Delenda Est.

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The Unemployment Rate Boy, that doesn't sound like a "sexy" topic, does it? Lately, President Bush has been getting a lot of bad press from Democrats and media pundits on American job loss. I'm not a professional economist by any means, though I do have a degree in economics, but my impression is of a tempest in a teapot. The unemployment rate in February of this year was 5.6%. The jobless rate

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