tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70986622011-12-26T03:20:39.581-06:00What? There's a box?Roger Snowdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672154606856548431noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7098662.post-79851327678458247512009-10-04T00:35:00.009-05:002009-10-04T01:14:24.183-05:00

I am in India as I write this. Business trip, third time here. Used to it by now, and as long as I sanitize fanatically I can get by for the week.Jet lag takes its toll, but I do have lucid moments. Here is one, as I read Peggy Noonan's latest WSJ op-ed piece. I hope you can view it without subscription. My reply to her:Well, Peggy, you have done it again. Confused wishful, wistful thinking with

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How does this happen? You have a kid who is exceptionally bright, nice looking, well educated, yet completely clueless.Obama is so filled with contradictions it is hard to know where to begin.A black man with a white mother, raised by his white grandmother, who identifies with Leftist black radicals.Unlike most American blacks, who often wallow in self-pity over their history of slavery, Obama

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Okay, it's been quite a while since I last wrote. I have been somewhat obsessed with video, lately. One friend asked me how I find the time to do videos.That's the problem. I don't.

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Look at all the people, here and elsewhere, going on about what you are supposed to say, supposed to not say, and how to properly feel about all this.Here is the brief clip:I don’t think I heard Ann call Edwards a faggot at all. She specifically declined to, on the grounds she might be expected to enter rehab for using a naughty word. Of course, the implication is, Edwards might be a faggot, but

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Some problems have no solution.So, like, now what, dude? Some thoughts on the matter...

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I was asked recently to participate in a survey of blogs, for an upcoming book on the subject. The author, David Perlutter, is a professor at the University of Kansas, and naturally has a blog of his own.He also asked if I would encourage my readers to participate, and so I do.The promise is to keep identities confidential and to share general findings later.So, please take a few minutes to

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It's not often the New York Times has good news for the Bush administration. In this case, it was their reaction to Bush's Oval Office speech last night.Here is a video version of my take on the matter...

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We have been waiting months for the Democrats to finally announce The Plan.For years they harshly criticized Republican policies without offering any alternative. Finally, they have spoken.The announcement speaks volumes about the Democrats and their agenda-- mostly by what it does not say. In some later article, maybe I'll take some time dissecting their logic, or lack of it. But for now,

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Jose, I read your recent letter in the Omaha World Herald. [free registration required] For context and clarity, I will post the contents here, before I comment:I am a Mexican who is here legally and is going to college. Being from another country, I've found it is very hard to fit in, because people sometimes look down on you.Many Americans see us as people who take their jobs. But the real

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Well, it's been several years since the 9/11 attack, and perhaps time to finally deal with the issue of border security. The issue finally has "legs", as the pundits love to say.How can you tell the issue has legs? Well, because many Republicans suddenly start acting and thinking like Democrats. A shocking number of ostensibly conservative leaders are suddenly willing to confer citizenship

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I just finished reading a post by George Clooney over at Ariana Huffington's site. He lambastes Democrats in Congress, and finishes by saying "I am a liberal. Fire away."Au contraire, Leftist fool.There was a time when one could be proud to be called "liberal". It meant you actually supported the notion of "liberal democracy". In other words, a constitutional republic where individual rights were

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At the risk of not offending my Muslim friends, upon hearing of the crazies rioting over a Danish cartoon depicting Muhammed as he actually was, I immediately ran to the grocery store and bought the first Danish item I could find: a package of Havarti cheese.Now, cheese is a special thing for sandwich lovers, a group of which I am a proud member. My default sandwich cheese-- only by habit-- is

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A while ago I pre-announced a new blog I was putting together, to absorb my satirical impulses and keep this site... well... less satirical.Okay, so it was a whole year ago. No matter, I gave up procrastinating and did it. Here.I made it a Blogspot site, mostly because I am still too lazy to set up my own server, even though I own the domain name rogerontheright.com. Plus, I don't want to suck up

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The Democrats have gone too far, too long. It's one thing to exercise "free speech" rights and to publicly debate the wisdom of going to war, when lives are sure to be lost. It's quite another to actively work toward the defeat of your nation. Some call it treason.Of course, as soon as you impugn the integrity of a Leftist, they get all up in arms and begin spewing vitriol. And naturally, they

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Let's pretend it is 1942, yet somehow we magically have 2005 technology. We are at war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Well, Italy too, but they don't quite count.Suppose some Nazi in Germany called his secret agent spy contact here in the United States. Through the human miracle of technology, we are able to use speech recognition software, coupled with advanced neural network technology

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Tookie Williams is a cold-blooded killer. He was convicted of capital murder in California, and is scheduled to die a few hours from now. After a full-court Hollywood press, Governor Schwarzenegger decided against granting clemency to Williams.Good enough.Oddly, Rainbow Push Coalition leader Jesse Jackson will be marching in protest. Jackson, of course, is famous for his defence of black "victims

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While on the topic of sucky jobs, I can't decide if Howard Dean has the best job or worst.On the one hand, it must be thrilling to have the full power of the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and most news media behind you as you posit impossibility. Being at the helm of the losing party election after election, you have no real downside left. If things can't get worse, they must be

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Man, there must be no hell like being al Qaeda's number three guy. Seems like every week or so, a new top-level slot is being opened up by either the Marines or Army in Iraq, or an Air Force "Predator" in Pakistan.Can you imagine what it must be like to get the "good news" from one of bin Laden or al Zarqawi's ragged messengers?Dear Achmed-Congratulations! Due to our tremendously successful

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Hiram was born in Mississippi, but was a west Texas boy through-and-through, and enjoyed life immensely. His father, Harvey, had always been a successful businessman, yet had his thriving Chevrolet dealership wiped out after the great crash of ’29. After that, the family was never quite poor but definitely no longer wealthy, and Hiram was not going to college. On April 19, 1939, Hiram enlisted in

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Breaking news banner on the FoxNews site: " Police Say Homicide Bombers Carried Out Jordan Attacks". (link is to associated story)The police really said that? Somehow, the phrasing struck me as... odd. And unlikely.The FoxNews story referenced reports by the Associated Press, so I grabbed the AP story from BreitBart:"There were three terrorist attacks on the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn

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Mom always warned me of having too much of a good thing. I wonder if Bush's Mom offered her son the same words of advice. If so, he clearly was not listening. The Republican Party, I fear, is about to come apart at the seams, fattened by too much of a good thing: electoral success.People who study chaos theory understand what happens when a system grows larger and more complex. At some point

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Recently I posted a mini-rant on demagoguery over the oil industry. In it, I stated the problem we have with gasoline prices is not a shortage of crude oil, but limited refining capacity. Today, the Saudi Arabia oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, announced his country has indeed found more oil, but could not pump more, since customers lack enough refining capacity to use it.Got that? Plenty of oil, not

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Bill O'Reilly is nothing without a bogeyman. A few years ago, it was the American Red Cross, which had been reluctant to commit then-current donations directly to 9/11 victims. Under the withering fire of O'Reilly's flaming dragon, the Red Cross relented. Bill saved America from the big, bad wolf, and his ratings are through the roof. Bill, if you had not noticed, is now very rich."Looking out

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From the bowels of the Mississippi Delta, a howl cuts through the night air. The feverish cry of the bottom-feeding politicus leftus has all the soothing qualities of the beast Nancy Pelosi (remember, "pelosi" is Italian for "hairy") on a media binge.Indeed, it is the ubiquitous congresswoman, whose voice emanates simultaneously from every television set in the nation. She is calling for an

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What ever happened to the Pepsi generation? Did they all join MoveOn.org, or does Pepsi simply imagine so? The President and CFO of Pepsi recently made a commencement address at Columbia Business school. And stirred up a mess that reminds me of when, as kids, we would shake up a warm Pepsi and spray it on each other.She then defended her remarks. And this is when the Pepsi really goes flat. To my

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Reading a WSJ editorial this morning reminded me of this thought that has been bugging me lately. The main thrust of the piece concerned the historical rise of conservative opinion and the efforts of the Left to reinstate the old "Fairness Doctrine".The editorial contains a world of thought, not the least of which is the observable fact that the Left is so devoid of appeal to the "marketplace of

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Suddenly, the left wing of the Democratic Party is yammering about "states' rights". We on the political Right are supposed to feel ashamed for wanting to protect Terri Schiavo's rights, denied by the court system. Those on the Left are so damned dumb they don't even recognize a signature civil rights case when they see it. The truth is, they neither understood nor cared about civil rights in the

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With all the hand-wringing over "due process" for Terry Schiavo, and the sudden, stunning obsession by Leftists with "states' rights", I can't help but feel particularly thirsty today. All I seem to think about is a cool glass of water. I wonder if Terry is feeling something similar.Sure, she has the right to die. So did my dog Spooky some years ago, but we could not stand to see him suffer so we

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In today's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert asked guest Ted Kennedy about a line in a speech Kennedy made last September, in which he said, "I thank God that President Bush was not our President at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis". Of course, Kennedy intended to suggest Bush is a shoot-first "cowboy" president, instigating military aggression that puts this nation in danger. His brother,

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There is a huge difference between simple, and simplistic, as today's Democrats have not learned. As George Bush somehow manages to continue to accrue political capital even as he spends it, his "loyal" opposition keeps grasping for explanations. And they come up short every time. After the election, in which polls suggested Bush was propelled to victory largely by "values voters", the moonbat

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Ted Turner compares Fox News to Hitler. Oh my. This is the guy who founded CNN. CNN, the cable news pioneer who once aired a fabricated report by Peter Arnett, that the United States had used nerve gas in Laos. Peter Arnett, who was on Saddam Hussein's payroll while he was "reporting" from Baghdad prior to the war. Ted Turner, who said the 9/11 hijackers "...were brave at the very least...".

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One interesting aspect of French politics is that, in any election, about 40% of their electorate votes for either a Communist or a Nazi. You can't really blame the voters, both extremes are impossible to distinguish most of the time. On the Nazi side of the house, French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has raised many a hackle for his past Hitler-apologist comments. Most recently, he said the

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Howard Dean, after much pundit speculation, apparently will indeed seek to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. We on the Right could only hope for such luck. The only thing better would be for Dennis Kucinich to grab the job no sane person seems to want, but that would be too good. This news is merely excellent. Sadly, I could see this leading to an eventual split in

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(Warning! Possible satirical elements follow) Just a quick note, to observe the irony of Armstrong Williams-- who has never admitted to being a journalist and whom the Left would never openly call a journalist-- suddenly being promoted to the status of "journalist" and therefore held to correspondingly high ethical standards. Meanwhile,Dan Rather, an self-confessed journalist, is excused from

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A quick note to my vast readership. All four of you. Yes, that includes you, Mom. You may have noticed a lack of postings in recent weeks. Mostly I have been busy with my real job, but I have also been reflecting on the nature of this blog site. I was worried from the outset about mixing the satirical with the serious. One of my first postings touched on the idea that we Americans tend to get

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Most nights, when I tuck my daughter in bed, she asks to hear a story. I have a limited repertoire, so I hold up my left hand with digits extended. It is well established that the fingers stand for, Snow White, Cinderella, Bears, Pigs and Chickens, in that order from pinky to thumb. "Chickens" is really a catch-all, so if she chooses the thumb I then hold up two more fingers, to select from The

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Once again, a pop star has offered her wisdom to those of us who are incapable of independent thought. So, let all of us Red State morons open our minds for a moment and receive wisdom from this shining light with the oxymoronic name. Speaking in her adoptive home country of the United Kingdom, the erstwhile slut-cum-children's book author wonders why we don't just pull our troops out of Iraq

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Holy cripes! In my best non-saline language, this phrase spontaneously burst out after a stunning realization. I just heard "Azzam the American" on radio. Azzam is the voice and face on the video just released, promising attacks that will make the streets of America "run red with blood", as punishment for "Bush and Cheney". Presumably, this is yet another foreign endorsement for John Kerry. But,

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When I started this site some months ago, I promised myself to avoid "salty" language. Brackish maybe, but no brine. Yet, as much as I enjoy politics, this promise is being sorely tested. Watching the World Series doesn't help, either. Every presidential election seems to bring with it an October Surprise. In 1992 it was Lawrence Walsh's indictment of Caspar Weinberger, formerly Secretary of

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It all became clear when I read of Theresa's arthritis remedy. Take some white raisins, soak them in gin for a couple of weeks, and eat them every day. I guess it works for her. During a visit to Nevada, she criticized television advertising of prescription drugs, as it increases consumer demand. Apparently, consumer involvement in healthcare decisions is a bad thing. In her words, as reported

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Kerry supporters are sputtering in disbelief. Immediately following the debate, the weekend "first impression" polls assured them Kerry had won the debate. Of course, Kerry supporters completely ignored the underlying poll questions and responses that suggested Bush easily won on those issues voters would use to actually decide the election. No, Kerry won the glibness contest handily, and that is

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I mentioned the other day how John Kerry has given the Right much ammunition with his glib debate "victory" last week. One such item is the matter of preemption and that mysterious "global test". The concept was introduced when John Kerry was asked by debate moderator Jim Lehrer if there was a situation under which he, as president, might use preemptive military force. Kerry said yes, he might

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At first, I was terribly disappointed with President Bush last night. At times, he had that "deer in the headlights" look as he groped for words. No matter, in the end he held his own, despite the incessant battering from the left. That's "political left" as well as "camera left", of course. Kerry on the other hand, never fails to disappoint, and last night was no exception. While he has a

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USA Today just released results of a new survey that shows, among other things: For the first time in Kerry's candidacy, Kerry no longer enjoys an advantage in economic issues. A majority of voters feel Bush has a plan for Iraq. An even bigger majority feels Kerry does not have a plan for Iraq. For the first time, a majority of voters feel Kerry is not qualified to be Commander in Chief. A

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It is axiomatic in business that you never start a price war with a competitor who has a cost advantage. If you do, and they engage, they will drive prices below your cost, perhaps long enough to run you right out of business. Common sense, eh? You would certainly think so. On the political front, a similar concept applies. Never sling mud if there is a chance it can come back at you and stick

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If you toss a frog into a pan of boiling water, he will immediately jump out. But if you place him in a pan of cool water and slowly increase the heat, he will boil and die. He simply fails to notice the gradually increasing heat until it is too late. Social revolutions of every sort have been typified by established power's failure to notice the heat turning up. One day, Fidel Castro marches

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"Draw the contrast; be crystal clear about it. That's what I've been doing every day." So says John Kerry, in a Time interview dated today. Be crystal clear about it. Every day. Was that before Kerry was the anti-war candidate, or after? Before the $87 billion vote, or after? Before he voted for the war resolution, or after? Before he negotiated treaties with secret foreign allies, or after?

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Regarding the forged documents, that CBS is amazingly insisting are genuine, I did a test. I grabbed the original document from here. I cut the word "from", beginning the second line of the first paragraph. I saved the image as a .jpg image file. You can see how the top of the "f" slightly but noticeably overhangs the part of the "r". If it is not obvious to the eye, save the image, open it

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A flash from Drudge this morning nearly caused me to do a spit take with my coffee, endangering my ergonomic keyboard yet again. I enjoy a good laugh once in a while, but this was almost too much to take. The entire world-- except Dan Rather-- knows CBS News is a left-wing news dinosaur that gladly carries water for the Democrats. The story they did on 60 Minute's Wednesday show, in which they

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As an engineer in the world of complex technology, one learns to distinguish between technical problems and management decisions. When things fall apart and chaos reigns, problems and decisions are easily confused. Often users of large scale systems ask engineers to provide a technical solution to what is in fact a management problem. If the root of some crisis is that the hardware guys are not

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The New York Times reports Bill Clinton gave John Kerry some election advice: stop talking about Vietnam. This would have been great advice some months ago, but it's too late now. Kerry cannot ignore the Swift Boat Vets any longer, he must answer their allegations. It's even worse than that. The first wound, if self-inflicted as his campaign now admits may be the case, should not have resulted

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Now that Kerry's Vietnam bloviations have cost him not only credibility but likely actual votes, we see the entrenchment at the fallback position. Whenever someone brings up the fallacy of his Christmas in Cambodia story, we are now told that Kerry was "very near" Cambodia. He wanted us to think he had been illegally ordered into Cambodia by Richard Nixon over Christmas of 1968, creating a

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Drudge says Kerry called one of the swifties directly, apparently reaching out either for help or mercy. Amazing! I would never have imagined Kerry would take such a risk. What if the candidate gets snubbed? How embarrassing could that get? Well, according to Drudge, the snub is pretty much what happened. After a 10 minute chat with retired Navy Commander Robert Brant, in which Kerry was unable

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Setting all the swift-boat-purple-heart kerfuffle aside, I continue to wonder-- why is John Kerry still fighting the Vietnam War? We all know he served in Vietnam, however honorably. We also know perfectly well what he did after he returned. There is a museum in Ho Chi Minh City with a photo of John Kerry, in appreciation of his assistance of the communist cause, to remind us. So why, after

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The Kerry campaign insists that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is strongly linked to the Bush campaign. A Republican "front". Yet, Kerry's left-wing buddies at MoveOn.org are somehow completely independent from the Democratic Party. Hmm... let's see. A single Republican donor gives the swifties a couple hundred thousand dollars. The rest of their money comes from small, individual donations.

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Just read an article on WorldNetDaily, about a woman in the United Kingdom who, for some presumably good reason, got an abortion. Some time later, something "slipped out", which turned out to be a fragment of the head of her aborted child. She could see a bit of bone, covered by tissue. Eyes, nose and mouth clearly visible on a 4 centimeter face. This blew her mind. "I feel as if I'm going

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Huge Chavez, Venezuela's Marxist president, underwent a referendum last weekend. With poverty rising, along with malnutrition, there seemed to be a chance the Venezuelan people might finally oust him from power. Indeed, exit polls showed he had lost 58% to 41%-- a landslide my most standards. Opposition members were elated. Then shocked, when the officially announced result was exactly the

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Just read the news, that the California Supreme Court ruled all those recent gay marriages "invalid". Oh my! How scandalous! Al those gay people suddenly finding themselves living in sin! Of course, it is quite normal that many married couples have children right away. I wonder how, down the road, these gay couples are going to explain their limbo status to their young chil-- oh wait... they're

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I just heard part of an NPR interview with actress Meryl Streep this morning. She is in a new movie, a politicized remake of The Manchurian Candidate, where some company resembling Halliburton conspires... well, never mind all that. It's political, of course. The interviewer asked about her political "profile". She said she had been reading the New Testament lately and wondered how Jesus would

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So here we are, mid-August already. Kerry has spent an amazing amount of money and energy building a campaign based almost entirely on his 16 weeks in Vietnam. In case you had not heard, John Kerry served in Vietnam. Never mind that most tours of duty in that war were twelve months in duration and Kerry got home in four. The point is, he was there. He served. And he was a hero, in his own mind

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Just returned from an eight day week, traveling the Colorado Rockies, with a quick stopover in South Dakota. Beautiful country, great to drive at 12,000 feet and breathe the cold, thin air. Took the long, scenic route home via Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, the Badlands and the beautiful Niobrara valley. Through brilliant timing, we managed to miss both the annual Sturgis biker fest and the

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Elton John joins the list of mindless celebrities who apparently studied neither economics nor civics. Likening the current "fear factor" in America to "McCarthyism", he says entertainers could be "frightened by the current administration's bullying tactics". The administration? Bullying tactics? He explains, "...the Dixie Chicks got shot down in flames last year for criticizing the president."

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I love these guys. I saw their videos a couple of months ago, meant to write an article on them but I guess I got sidetracked. I was reminded when I saw a blurb on Foxnews this morning, so I mention them now. Anti-anti-war protestors. Conservatives infiltrating those International ANSWER street marches and giving the leftists a dose of their own medicine. Secret taping of planning meetings.

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We know about the web they weave, and how it came to be, but can it be unwoven? Now that the honorable Joe Wilson has been thoroughly debunked by the 911 Commission,  it possible to repair the damage he did to this nation? The famous sixteen words created such a furor, can we ever recover the proper emotional impact they were intended to convey? I've said it before, about truth and its

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As Drudge reported today, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe demanded President Bush "...release the Cliffs Notes version of his intelligence briefing." in order to satisfy McAuliffe's assertion "...despite repeated warnings from the intelligence community, this President stubbornly went forward with his plans for war." I think he thinks someone is hiding something. That

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America slowly woke up from it's nap. After a long stretch and yawn, a furtive glance around the room confirmed this was not just a dream. Still there, Botox stood in the corner, droning lines from that Marxist poet, "The real America..." It was obvious the Botox was wearing thin, you could see it in his Lurch-like furrows. That would turn off some voters, sure. No matter — a newer, prettier

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Tom Daschle denied hugging Michael Moore at the Washington premiere of Fahrenheit 9/11. Apparently this is a campaign issue in South Dakota. You see, it seems South Dakotans are actually fairly conservative. Yet, with the help of the local rag, Daschle has somehow fooled many South Dakotans into believing he is not a left-wing loon at all. "Ignore the man behind the curtain" implores the

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Looks like the Hague-based International Court of Justice is going to rule on Israel's security fence tomorrow. Not surprisingly, they will rule the fence illegal. Their rationale? The court "...is not convinced that the specific course Israel has chosen for the wall was necessary to attain its security objectives." The fence is not necessary? Since construction of the Gaza version of the

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Every time someone on the right criticizes a leftist, we hear cries of "censorship". As though criticism itself was a form of censorship. Recall Tim Robbins, speaking before the Press Club last year: "A chill wind is blowing in this nation." The fact is, the more left-wing politicians speak, the better we understand them. We need to know precisely what is on their minds, the things they say only

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For a fleeting instant, John Kerry seemed to be having a moment of intellectual honesty. He said he believes life begins at conception. Wow! Now this may be obvious to most of us "little people", but for a Democratic presidential candidate such an admission is nothing less than earth-shattering. But — there is always the but — "I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate

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Islamic news agency Aljazeera endorsed the Kerry/Edwards presidential ticket today, Sean Hannity reported on his radio show today. Upon hearing the news, Edwards was overheard saying: "While I don't know Al personally, I certainly welcome his support."

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During the primaries, Democratic party leaders said of John Edwards, "This is not the time for on-the-job training in the White House on national security issues." Today, John Kerry changed all that. Kicking off his plan to create ten million jobs, Kerry announced his intention for John Edwards to be his Vice Presidential running mate. "Senator Edwards will receive extensive training on all the

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I'd use it to smash every racist law in the land. California — notable for its domination of the Left Coast — has a law that prevents black children from taking standard IQ tests. Fox News reports a mother who wanted her six year old child tested to see if he qualifies for special education. Such tests are routinely administered — but not to black children. The tests were thought to be

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Just read Michelle Malkin's bit on pet peeve phrases and it hit a nerve. I have a real bugaboo with service these days anyway, and our plummeting literacy is just making things worse. I went to our local grocery store the other day and passed through the checkout. The clerk did not say "thank you", so I said "thank you" myself. The clerk just blankly responded, "No problem". Oddly enough, this

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Remember at the start of the Bush presidency, gas prices shot up? It was the Bush-Cheney Cabal with their secret conspiracy to use the presidency to enrich their oil buddies. Then, about six months later, gas prices were pretty low again. Not a word from the left. What, the conspiracy failed? Then, just a few months ago, prices were back up. World demand is increasing, and we have not built a

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"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." So sayeth Queen Hillary, as reported by sfgate.com today. Isn't it great to know we have such a benevolent

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Remember the "sixteen words" fiasco from that State of the Union address in 2003? About British intelligence having learned about Iraq trying to get uranium from west Africa? Of course, Joe Wilson sought and got his fifteen minutes of fame for having visited Niger at the behest of the CIA to investigate the matter. Wilson sipped tea with local officials and asked them if they had been approached

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Every time an american soldier is killed— for that matter, every time an Iraqi civilian is killed by a terrorist, we get instant news of the death. What about the insurgents/terrorists/bad guys we grease along the way? Our bodies get counted, theirs are virtually ingored. I was just reading a blurb on the Belmont Club about the fighting in between our First Armored Division and those creeps

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Drudge links an article from the San Jose Mercury News, reporting a San Francisco movement to let non-citizens vote. I read this and nearly went numb. My spine was tingling, fingers trembling. I hardy know where to begin with this. Let’s set the scene: post-911. Amazingly, we still have borders that are virtually unattended. Terrorists can pretty much walk into the United States without

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Recently, Adrianna Huffington was on Hannity's radio show and he was challenging her about her support for television ads connecting SUV drivers and terrorism. You may recall the spot, in the manner of the anti-drug ads that connect drug money to terrorism. Obvious left wing nonsense. So, Hannity called her on it. She scrambled, and said something about "satire". Pretended the whole thing was

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One question keeps bugging me about John Kerry. I tried asking at his blog site, but the very question was considered hostile, so was deleted. Why did he quit the Vietname Veteran's Against the War? Nothing complicated. Not "when" or "where", but why. Anyone have an official answer?

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